ASRock Radeon RX 9070 GRE Steel Legend Review 16

ASRock Radeon RX 9070 GRE Steel Legend Review

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Test System

Test System - GPU 2026
Processor:AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
Zen 5, 5.2 GHz, 8 cores/16 threads
Motherboard:MSI X870E Carbon Wi-Fi
BIOS 7E49v1A95
Resizable BAR:Enabled on all tested cards
Memory:Thermaltake TOUGHRAM XG
2× 16 GB DDR5-6200 28-36-36-76 UCLK 1:1
Cooling:Arctic Liquid Freezer III
280 mm AIO
Thermal Paste:Arctic MX-6
Storage:4 TB M.2 NVMe SSD
Power Supply:Seasonic Prime TX 1600 W
ATX 3.1 / 2x 16-pin 12VHPWR
Case:darkFlash DY470
Operating System:Windows 11 Professional 64-bit 25H2
VBS enabled (Windows 11 default)
Drivers: RX 9070 GRE: 26.5.2 Press Driver
NVIDIA: 596.49 WHQL
AMD cards: 26.5.2 WHQL
Intel: 101.8801 WHQL
Date of Retest
Benchmark scores in other reviews are only comparable when this exact same configuration is used.



Methodology

  • All games and cards are tested with the drivers listed above—no performance results were recycled between test systems. Only this exact system with exactly the same configuration is used for all results in this review.
  • All graphics cards are tested using the same game version.
  • All games are set to their highest quality setting unless indicated otherwise.
  • All games are running at their native resolution without upscaling (no DLSS or FSR), except for the results on the "Upscaling" page where we specifically look into that.
  • All games have ray tracing disabled, except for testing on the "Ray Tracing" and "Path Tracing" pages.
  • AA and AF are applied via in-game settings, not via the driver's control panel.
  • Before starting measurements, we heat up the card for each test to ensure a steady state is tested. This ensures that the card won't boost to unrealistically high clocks for only a few seconds until it heats up, as that doesn't represent prolonged gameplay.
  • For better real-life applicability, all game tests use custom in-game test scenes, not the integrated benchmarks.
  • All cards used for comparison are reference designs. When a reference design does not exist, we go the extra mile and buy the closest possible match, which has reference clocks and default power limit.

Date of Retest

We retest all our comparison cards every few months, with the latest drivers, new games, patches and OS updates.
  • 2026-05-27: Arc A770 16 GB
  • 2026-05-27: Arc B580 12 GB
  • 2026-05-26: RTX 3060 12 GB
  • 2026-05-26: RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB
  • 2026-05-26: RTX 3070 8 GB
  • 2026-05-27: RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB
  • 2026-05-27: RTX 3080 10 GB
  • 2026-05-27: RTX 3090 Ti 24 GB
  • 2026-05-20: RTX 4060 8 GB
  • 2026-05-20: RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB
  • 2026-05-20: RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB
  • 2026-05-20: RTX 4070 12 GB
  • 2026-05-21: RTX 4070 Ti 12 GB
  • 2026-05-21: RTX 4080 16 GB
  • 2026-05-21: RTX 4090 24 GB
  • 2026-05-18: RTX 5060 8 GB
  • 2026-05-18: RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB
  • 2026-05-18: RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB
  • 2026-05-18: RTX 5070 12 GB
  • 2026-05-19: RTX 5070 Ti 16 GB
  • 2026-05-19: RTX 5080 16 GB
  • 2026-05-19: RTX 5090 32 GB
  • 2026-05-23: RX 6900 XT 16 GB
  • 2026-05-23: RX 7600 8 GB
  • 2026-05-23: RX 7600 XT 16 GB
  • 2026-05-24: RX 7700 XT 12 GB
  • 2026-05-24: RX 7800 XT 16 GB
  • 2026-05-24: RX 7900 GRE 16 GB
  • 2026-05-25: RX 7900 XT 20 GB
  • 2026-05-25: RX 7900 XTX 24 GB
  • 2026-05-22: RX 9060 XT 8 GB
  • 2026-05-22: RX 9060 XT 16 GB
  • 2026-05-22: RX 9070 16 GB
  • 2026-05-22: RX 9070 XT 16 GB
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