AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE benchmarks show strong 1440p performance

While AMD’s Radeon RX 9070 GRE was officially launched back in May as a China-exclusive card, we’ve been left wondering how this cut-down GPU performs. Now, thanks to the team at ComputerBase, who managed to import a Sapphire Pulse model, we have our answer. The verdict? It’s a sound 1440p gaming card that carves out an interesting spot in the market.

Under the hood, the RX 9070 GRE is built on the same 4nm “Navi 48” silicon that powers the rest of the RX 9070 series. However, AMD has made some significant cuts to create this SKU. The compute unit count is reduced to 48, giving it 3,072 stream processors. Moreover, the memory configuration has been trimmed to 12GB of GDDR6 running across a 192-bit bus, with the Infinity Cache also reduced to 48MB. Despite these reductions, the card maintains the same 220W Total Board Power as the RX 9070.

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In a suite of 13 game tests at 1440p resolution run by Computer Base, the RX 9070 GRE proves to be a potent performer. On average, it delivers a 28.4% performance uplift over AMD’s own RX 9060 XT 16GB and comfortably beats out Nvidia’s RTX 5060 Ti 16GB by 22%. It even manages to pull ahead of the last-gen RX 7800 XT by 11% and the RTX 4070 by 5%. However, it doesn’t quite catch its more powerful siblings. The standard RX 9070 remains 14% faster, while the flagship RX 9070 XT is a further 29% ahead. Nvidia’s RTX 5070 also holds a 9% lead over the new GRE card.

This performance places the RX 9070 GRE in a unique position, slotting perfectly into the performance gap between the market’s key mid-range players. Unfortunately, it still isn’t available in other regions besides China. Whether we will ever see this card officially released worldwide remains to be seen, but for now, it stands as a strong and compelling mid-range option for the region it serves.

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