AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE Review

AMD recently launched the Radeon RX 9070 GRE exclusively in China in May. ComputerBase.de got their hands on a Sapphire Pulse branded RX 9070 GRE card for testing. While the RX 9060 XT has specs that are half of the RX 9070 XT, the RX 9070 GRE is configured to be three quarters of it. It is based on the same 4 nm "Navi 48" silicon as the rest of the RX 9070 series, but with 48 compute units out of the 64 present, and comes with 12 GB of memory across a 192-bit wide GDDR6 memory bus, instead of the 256-bit wide one that the RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT have. The RX 9070 GRE has 3,072 stream processors, 96 AI accelerators, 48 RT accelerators, 192 TMUs, and 96 ROPs, with an Infinity Cache size of 48 MB. The card has a 220 W TBP, same as the RX 9070.

Tests conducted by ComputerBase.de show that despite the reduction in compute units and memory, the RX 9070 GRE is still a solid 1440p-class GPU, offering a significant performance boost over the RX 9060 XT 16 GB and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB. Across 13 game tests at 1440p, the RX 9070 GRE performs 28.4% faster than the RX 9060 XT 16 GB, 22% faster than the RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB, 11% faster than the previous-gen RX 7800 XT, and 5% faster than the RTX 4070. The current-gen RTX 5070 is 9% faster, RX 9070 is 14% faster, and the RX 9070 XT is 29% faster. This positions the RX 9070 GRE as a compelling option within the 1440p class, offering a good balance of price and performance. In the Chinese market, the RX 9070 GRE is priced slightly higher than the RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB, but lower than the RTX 5070, making it a value proposition. For more detailed test results and insights, check out the source link below.