Wednesday, May 7th 2025
AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE Gets Reviewed - Gaming Perf. Comparable to RX 7900 GRE
AMD and a select bunch of its board partners are set to launch Radeon RX 9070 GRE 12 GB graphics card models tomorrow; starting as exclusives for China's PC gaming hardware market. Just before an unleashing of retail stock, local media outlets have published reviews—mostly covering brand-new ASUS, Sapphire, and XFX products. The RDNA 4 generation's first "Great Radeon Edition" (GRE) is positioned as a slightly cheaper alternative to Team Red's Radeon RX 9070 (non-XT) 16 GB model; 4199 RMB versus 4499 RMB (respectively, including VAT). In general, Chinese evaluators seem to express lukewarm opinions about the Radeon RX 9070 GRE's value-to-performance ratio. After all, this is a cut-down design—a "reduced" Navi 48 chip makes do with 3072 Stream Processors. The card's 12 GB of GDDR6 VRAM configuration is paired up with a 192-bit memory interface.
Carbon Based Technology's video review presented benchmark results that placed AMD's new contender on par with a previous-gen card: Radeon RX 7900 GRE 16 GB. Considering that this RDNA 3 era Golden Rabbit Edition (GRE) model launched globally with an MSRP of $549, its Navi 48 XL GPU-based descendant's ~$580 (USD) guide price appears to be mildly nonsensical. GamerSky pitched their ASUS ATS RX 9070 GRE MEGALODON OC sample against mid-range and lower level current-gen NVIDIA gaming products: ""through testing, we can find that at 4K resolution, the GeForce RTX 5070 12 GB performs the best, 5% higher than the ASUS RX 9070 GRE Megalodon. As the resolution decreases, its lead also decreases, and at 2K resolution it is only 2% higher. At 1080p resolution, the difference is only 1%. At the same time, compared with RTX 5060 Ti 16G, ASUS RX 9070 GRE Megalodon has a greater advantage. The performance of its competitor's RTX 5060 Ti 16G is only 77% of that of RX 9070 GRE at 4K and 2K resolutions. At 1080p, its performance increased slightly to 79%." AMD and involved AIBs could be testing the waters with an initial Chinese market exclusive release, but Western news outlets reckon that a more aggressive pricing strategy is needed for a (potential) proper global rollout of Radeon RX 9070 GRE cards.
Sources:
Uniko's Hardware, Bilibili Video #1, Bilibili Video #2, VideoCardz, Wccftech, EXP Review, GamerSky
Carbon Based Technology's video review presented benchmark results that placed AMD's new contender on par with a previous-gen card: Radeon RX 7900 GRE 16 GB. Considering that this RDNA 3 era Golden Rabbit Edition (GRE) model launched globally with an MSRP of $549, its Navi 48 XL GPU-based descendant's ~$580 (USD) guide price appears to be mildly nonsensical. GamerSky pitched their ASUS ATS RX 9070 GRE MEGALODON OC sample against mid-range and lower level current-gen NVIDIA gaming products: ""through testing, we can find that at 4K resolution, the GeForce RTX 5070 12 GB performs the best, 5% higher than the ASUS RX 9070 GRE Megalodon. As the resolution decreases, its lead also decreases, and at 2K resolution it is only 2% higher. At 1080p resolution, the difference is only 1%. At the same time, compared with RTX 5060 Ti 16G, ASUS RX 9070 GRE Megalodon has a greater advantage. The performance of its competitor's RTX 5060 Ti 16G is only 77% of that of RX 9070 GRE at 4K and 2K resolutions. At 1080p, its performance increased slightly to 79%." AMD and involved AIBs could be testing the waters with an initial Chinese market exclusive release, but Western news outlets reckon that a more aggressive pricing strategy is needed for a (potential) proper global rollout of Radeon RX 9070 GRE cards.
29 Comments on AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE Gets Reviewed - Gaming Perf. Comparable to RX 7900 GRE
The 9070 GRE may follow suit, but emphasis on may.
Amazon: No
ALi Express: Yes
I live in Canada and there are cards available but look where they are shipped from. There were some but it was never a card that was promoted heavily in the NA market.
After all, 2025 is year of the snake...
If it's somehow $500, AMD might as well sell it in a miniature casket instead of a cardboard box.
Anyway to put it at $500 is an incredibly risky gamble for AMD, as it would represent a double upsell.
First to upsell the 9070, people would say: oh but for only $50 more I get more performance and more VRAM.
And the second to upsell the 9070 XT: oh but for another $50 more I get the full Navi die and I get within spitting distance of that evil, greedy 5070 Ti.
That would appear like "just" $100 more, but that is comparing MSRPs, when comparing actual market prices the differences in absolute terms would be more than "just" $100.
People need to get their pitchforks ready and dismiss this card value-wise if AMD gets their greed-game on.
9070 should be priced max 500$ even 450$ if they wanted to make and impact or should have called this card the 9060XT @ 400$
All that said, the 9070's seem to stay in stock for just minutes to hours even at/over $700 while the $850+ 9070XT's have been in stock for weeks (as there's no good value at that pricing). The performance is close enough between those two that people seem to just immediately buy anything that hits shelves at $700 or less and most of the higher priced stuff sits there.
Previous card was obviously named after the year of the rabbit and instead of capitalising on the year of the snake someone decided it was better to rebrand to "Great Radeon Edition"...on a China-only card. Marketing would have been so much better.
sure does look awful familiar...
The market eventually adjusted the two 9070 cards higher, probably to where AMD originally intended, but performance was the primary factor (which then influenced demand), if the 9070 XT were significantly weaker than the 5070 Ti then it probably wouldn't have seen the current prices.
But prices for all cards were inflated, we need to look at the percentage over MSRP, if it's clearly higher than for other cards it would point to a higher, unofficial MSRP.
I'm not expecting the GRE to be actually available for $500 or whatever the baseline is (hopefully lower) but higher instead, increased by the same percent as the other cards. If the performance is lower vs the 5070 (in a similar way as 9070 XT vs 5070 Ti) then the market price will reflect that as it will be lower. How much lower remains to be seen.If the 5070 is $550 MSRP = 4700 rmb, then 5060 Ti comes out at $430 which is correct for the 16GB version, and the GRE at $490 which apparently confirms the $500 MSRP.
Unfortunate if AMD will pull that move for the worldwide release. But that would require them to have significant amounts of defective dies otherwise it would be a paper launch.
because those 12GB are what makes this card way less valuable than previous gen GRE
As-announced,
I'd say the RX 9070 GRE 12GB is to the RX 7900 GRE 16GB
as
the B570 10GB is to the A770 16GB
Very similar or superior performance on the newer offering, but less (better utilized) VRAM.