Trimmed-down cores and memory cuts, but pushes clocks hard
Specs for AMD’s upcoming Radeon RX 9070 GRE—short for “Great Radeon Edition,” —have slipped out ahead of its official reveal, and it’s shaping up to fill the void between the RX 9070 and the RX 9060 XT.
According to Videocardz the chip is built on the Navi 48 GPU and has 3,072 Stream Processors, meaning AMD has lopped off a quarter of its cores. Despite the chop, the GRE reportedly boosts up to a decent 2.79 GHz, translating into 17.1 TFLOPS—just shy of the RX 9070’s 18 TFLOPS. Close, but not quite top-tier.
On the memory front, the GRE steps down further. It will feature 12GB of GDDR6 on a 192-bit bus, clocked at 18 Gbps—well below the 20 Gbps found on the RX 9070 XT and RX 9060 XT. That cuts memory bandwidth down to 432 GB/s, about one-third lower than the higher-end cards.
While it might sound like AMD’s Frankensteined a compromise, the GRE could make sense in markets where the RX 9070 non-XT is vanishing from shelves. It’s got enough grunt to play in the upper midrange, and some custom board partners are already prepping variants that boost close to 3 GHz, hinting at overclocking potential despite the cutbacks.
It’s still unclear whether AMD will launch this model globally or stick to selective markets. There’s also no reference design in sight for any RX 9000-series GPU so far—including this one—so all current renders are just marketing filler.
With the launch expected this quarter, gamers and system builders should soon see how this GRE edition slots into AMD’s increasingly murky lineup.
| Radeon RX 9000 Series Specifications | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VideoCardz.com | AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT | AMD Radeon RX 9070 | AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE ? | AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT ? |
| Picture |  |  | | |
| GPU | Navi 48 XTX | Navi 48 XT | Navi 48 XL | Navi 44 XT |
| Cores | ||||
| Boost Clock | ||||
| Memory | ||||
| Memory Bus | ||||
| Memory Speed | ||||
| Memory Bandwidth | ||||
| Max Board Power | TBC | TBC | ||
| PCIe Interface | PCIe 5.0×16 | PCIe 5.0×16 | PCIe 5.0×16 | PCIe 5.0×8 |
| MSRP | $599 | $549 | TBC | TBC |
| Release Date | March 2025 | March 2025 | Q2 2025 | June 2025 |
Source: VideoCardz
