AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE Gets Reviewed - Gaming Perf. Comparable to RX 7900 GRE

[T0@st]

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.



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[dir_d]

Typo, previous gen card was the 7900 GRE

 

[kumoiwa]

9070 is already selling worse than 9070 XT and they plan to release an even more cutdown version at basically the same price, not even undercutting Nvidia... AMD moment right here

 

[blinnbanir]

Since when have GRE cards been meant for World Wide sales?

 

[Macro Device]

AMD moment right here

They clown around like that for decades, not unexpected.

 

[Onasi]

Since when have GRE cards been meant for World Wide sales?

…since the moment they actually decided to sell the 7900GRE worldwide? What an odd question.

 

[blinnbanir]

9070 is already selling worse than 9070 XT and they plan to release an even more cutdown version at basically the same price, not even undercutting Nvidia... AMD moment right here

When the price difference is that small what do you expect? Nvidia is still about $200 more where I live.

…since the moment they actually decided to sell the 7900GRE worldwide? What an odd question.

What stores listed the GRE Worldwide?

 

[T0@st]

What stores listed the GRE Worldwide?

TPU news team covered its gradual international release, back in 2024.

 

[wNotyarD]

What stores listed the GRE Worldwide?

The 7900 GRE is found from the US to Brazil, so quite worldwide. It was however China-only at first.

The 9070 GRE may follow suit, but emphasis on may.

 

[blinnbanir]

TPU news team covered its gradual international release, back in 2024.

Newegg: Yes
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.

 

[Bloste]

Shouldn't it be 9070 GSE?

After all, 2025 is year of the snake...

 

[wNotyarD]

Shouldn't it be 9070 GSE?

After all, 2025 is year of the snake...

Somehow now it means "Great Radeon Edition". Go figure...

 

[Sol_Badguy]

The maximum reasonable MSRP for this, in this current context, is $450.
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.

 

[GenericUsername2001]

This card is a dustbin SKU, intended to use up any chip that isn't good enough for the regular 9070. AMD doesn't need to be super competitive on price with these, as they will only be making as many of these cards as they have partially defective chips - with how well the 9070 XT & 9070 are selling there is no way AMD would cut down working chips. So AMD will set their price at the highest point that still results in all the GRE chips they have left over selling.

 

[Quicks]

AMD just can't help shooting themselves in the foot, is second nature now.

9070 should be priced max 500$ even 450$ if they wanted to make and impact or should have called this card the 9060XT @ 400$

 

[Bobaganoosh]

The maximum reasonable MSRP for this, in this current context, is $450.
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.

There is no actual MSRP for the 9070 and 9070XT, just the rebate prices that were for launch day. Those cards all went up by quite a bit as soon as the rebates were gone. AMD said there were no rebates, but the AIBs and retailers said there were...and what we're seeing all over the world is not lining up with AMD's claims. So if these have a $500 MSRP that isn't a rebate-price, that would make it roughly $100-$150 less than the actual MSRP of the 9070 and $220+ less than the actual MSRP of the 9070XT. Though I have seen one $699 9070XT after launch day, the ones available now are ~$850-1000 and that's not even from 3rd party sellers.

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.

 

[NSR]

Somehow now it means "Great Radeon Edition". Go figure...

This to me is the biggest opportunity AMD missed.

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.

 

[T0@st]

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.

Stock conditions could've been better closer to launch time. Some insiders think that AMD stopped production of certain last-gen Navi dies, late last year.

 

[Marcus L]

£400 at best, I'm buying an Intel b770/80 card when they release both AMD and NV can go and fornicate theirselves for the shit they and continue to pull for the last 5 years

 

[LabRat 891]

This to me is the biggest opportunity AMD missed.

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.

sure does look awful familiar...

 

[blinnbanir]

There is no actual MSRP for the 9070 and 9070XT, just the rebate prices that were for launch day. Those cards all went up by quite a bit as soon as the rebates were gone. AMD said there were no rebates, but the AIBs and retailers said there were...and what we're seeing all over the world is not lining up with AMD's claims. So if these have a $500 MSRP that isn't a rebate-price, that would make it roughly $100-$150 less than the actual MSRP of the 9070 and $220+ less than the actual MSRP of the 9070XT. Though I have seen one $699 9070XT after launch day, the ones available now are ~$850-1000 and that's not even from 3rd party sellers.

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.

The only issue with this is the cost of other GPUs in the performance of this tier.

 

[breakfromyou]

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sure does look awful familiar...
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man, don't remind me of the good days. A couple of those GTO cards were quite good. I'd say it's what led me to TPU, but that'd be a lie.

 

[Luisds]

The maximum reasonable MSRP for this, in this current context, is $450.
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.

9070gre rmb4199，5070 rmb4699 ，5060ti rmb3699

 

[Sol_Badguy]

There is no actual MSRP for the 9070 and 9070XT, just the rebate prices that were for launch day.

Yes AMD pulled a fast one, but I was referring to the official reveal, and the "prices starting at $xxx" part.
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.

Spoiler

All I can say that in my country the 5070 is the closest to the MSRP. The low-tier "MSRP" cards have been discounted (for brief intervals) to 600 euros, the 9070 always higher by at least 50 euros, and 9070 XT never under 750 euros (I'm talking about these last few weeks). Which would point to at least 20% increase (over MSRP), maybe towards 25% for the AMD cards.
The 5070 Ti did get down to almost 850 euros, that is for the crap cooling SFF models, but some of the ones with good cooling can be snagged for under 25% markup.
About the same for the 5080, it generally has a minimum markup of about 23% also for models with undersized cooling. Still, the ones with good cooling can be snagged for under 30% markup.
The 5060 Ti 8GB starts at 420 euros and the 16GB at 490 euros.

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.

9070gre rmb4199，5070 rmb4699 ，5060ti rmb3699

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.

 

[Dwarden]

going to repeat that if any OEM manages to put 16GB VRAM on RX 9070 GRE then he obliterates competition ...
because those 12GB are what makes this card way less valuable than previous gen GRE