AMD Launches Radeon RX 9070 GRE Graphics Card for 1440p Gaming
Alright, PC gamers, AMD has just dropped a brand new graphics card worth your consideration if you're targeting sweet spot 1440p resolution. Meet the Radeon RX 9070 GRE, which has gone live officially in China. While preorders are already up for grabs, it will hit store shelves officially on May 8th.
What's Under the Hood
Cutting to the techy part, the RX 9070 GRE is built around a variant of the Navi 48 GPU, which we would expect from this generation. It comes with 12 GB of VRAM, which is pretty standard and enough for modern gaming needs.
Performance Claims and Real-World Possibilities
So, how does it actually perform According to AMD's own numbers, the RX 9070 GRE is slightly faster than last-generation RX 7900 GRE, with a "single-digit margin" advantage in 1440p resolution performance for a variety of games. They've given some specific examples:
- God of War: Ragnarok registering a reported 140 FPS
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard at 91 FPS
- Assassin's Creed: Mirage at 127 FPS
- Resident Evil 4 Remake at 107 FPS
- Monster Hunter: Wilds at approximately 80 FPS
- Even Doom Eternal with ray tracing reaches a whopping 182 FPS
Now, let's look where the magic takes place. While AMD's average brag is approximately 6% quicker than the RX 7900 GRE, some early independent testing quoted in reports shows a *much* larger gap in some titles – perhaps even more than 40% quicker in some tests compared to our own results for the RX 7900 GRE. This huge discrepancy can be due to naming optimizations or differences in test methods, but it definitely shows the potential for this new card.
Compared to its non-GRE sibling, the RX 9070, this new GRE version will naturally be a dip in performance, but likely not by a staggering amount based on early comparisons.
And what about the green team Looking at potential competition like the rumored RTX 5070, NVIDIA's card supposedly could be some 10% faster than the decidedly older RX 7900 GRE at 1440p. This puts the RX 9070 GRE quite potentially very similar to the RTX 5070 in raw speed, based on AMD's own spec.
Price and Potential Value
This is where the RX 9070 GRE would really shine. In China, it's listing for approximately $450 USD. If it were to release over seas at about the same cost, and AMD's performance gains hold (or even the slightly higher independent stats are closer to reality), it could have much superior price-to-performance than direct competition like potentially more expensive RTX 5070.
At a Glance Key Specifications
| Component | Detail |
|---|---|
| GPU | Truncated Navi 48 |
| Compute Units | 48 |
| Stream Processors | 3072 |
| Ray Tracing Accelerators | 48 |
| AI Accelerators | 96 |
| Boost Frequency | Up to 2790 MHz |
| Game Frequency | 2220 MHz |
| VRAM | 12 GB GDDR6 |
| Memory Interface | 192-bit |
| Memory Bandwidth | Up to 432 GB/s |
| Infinity Cache | 48 MB |
| Typical Board Power | 220W |
| Recommended PSU | 650W |
| Display Ports | DisplayPort 2.1a, HDMI 2.1b |
It's always exciting to learn about new hardware releases, especially at potentially competitive prices. But as always with new launches, the final word on value and performance will be after third-party reviewers get their hands on the RX 9070 GRE and put it through actual real-world testing.
Source: Information based on official announcement (AMD China)
