Introduction

The ASRock Radeon RX 9070 GRE Steel Legend is based on AMD's RDNA 4 architecture, targeting the mainstream gaming segment. ASRock is well known for its motherboards and has been a steady presence in the graphics card market for years. Launched originally as a China-exclusive, around May 2025, the RX 9070 GRE slots in between the RX 9060 XT and the RX 9070, offering a cut-down Navi 48 GPU configuration.



The RX 9070 GRE uses AMD's Navi 48 XL GPU with 3,072 stream processors across 48 RDNA 4 compute units, paired with 12 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 192-bit bus, providing 432 GB/s of bandwidth. The "GRE" suffix stands for "Golden Rabbit Edition," a naming convention AMD introduced with the RX 7900 GRE. RDNA 4 brings significant improvements to ray tracing performance—AMD claims up to twice the RT performance per compute unit compared to RDNA 3—along with dedicated AI accelerators built into the compute units for the first time. These AI accelerators are central to AMD's pitch for the card: they power FSR 4, the first version of AMD's upscaling technology that uses on-chip machine learning hardware instead of shader-based algorithms. Previous FSR versions worked on any GPU but were limited in image quality; FSR 4 is designed to close the gap with NVIDIA's DLSS. FSR 4 and frame generation are supported in over 300 games. Priced at "starting at $550," AMD positions the RX 9070 GRE as filling the gap between the RTX 5060 Ti and RTX 5070. The card connects via PCI-Express 5.0 x16 and supports DisplayPort 2.1a UHBR13.5 for high-refresh-rate display output. AMD's dual VCN media engine provides hardware acceleration for AV1, H.265, and H.264 encoding and decoding.

ASRock's Steel Legend implementation features a triple-fan cooler with a robust PCB design, powered by two 8-pin PCIe connectors.