AMD has officially launched the Radeon RX 9070 GRE worldwide, bringing the previously China-exclusive graphics card to global markets. The new GPU is designed to sit between the Radeon RX 9060 XT and the RX 9070, targeting 1440p gaming and directly against Nvidia’s RTX 5060 Ti.
The Radeon RX 9070 GRE is based on a cut-down version of the 4nm Navi 48 GPU, the same one used in the RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT. AMD has cut-down the Navi 48 from 64 compute units and a 256-bit memory bus to 48 compute units and a 192-bit memory interface, leaving the RX 9700 GRE with 3,072 stream processors, 48 RT accelerators, 96 AI accelerators, 192 texture units, and 96 ROPs. The AMD Infinity Cache is also cut down to 48MB.
Due to a cut-down memory interface, the RX 9700 GRE ends up with 12GB of GDDR6 memory running at 18 Gbps, which leaves it with 437GB/s of memory bandwidth. The RX 9070 GRE works at a 2.20GHz game clock with boost speeds reaching up to 2.79GHz.
The company positions the card directly against NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB, which currently sells for around $570. According to AMD’s own benchmarks, the RX 9070 GRE delivers up to 22 percent better gaming performance and up to 26 percent better performance-per-dollar compared to NVIDIA’s competing card. Unlike the RTX 5060 Ti, which Nvidia aims at 1080p gaming, AMD says that the RX 9070 GRE is built for 1440p gaming.
The Radeon RX 9070 GRE is available starting today through board partners including Sapphire Technology, PowerColor, ASRock, XFX, Gigabyte, Acer, and ASUS. As said, the MSRP is set at $549.99 and €559 in Europe, but currently, even some Radeon RX 9700 (non-XT) cards are cheaper in Europe at €549, leaving the RX 9700 GRE in a tough position, at least until the RX 9700 non-XT stock clears or AMD adjusts pricing accordingly.
