AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE tested by German Reviewer
European reviewer imports AMD’s RX 9070 GRE to test it ahead of worldwide launch
The German PC reviewer ComputerBase has imported AMD’s 12GB Radeon RX 9070 GRE for early testing. The website believes that it is only a matter of time before AMD launches this GPU globally, like their RX 7900 GRE, giving them plenty of reasons to get ahead of the curve.
For their analysis, ComputerBase tested Sapphire’s Radeon RX 9070 GRE Pulse graphics card. This GPU has 48 CUs and 12GB of GDDR6 memory. While it has fewer Compute Units than AMD’s Radeon RX 9070, it features higher clock speeds. That said, this GPU remains much slower than AMD’s Radeon RX 9070 (non-XT).
Overall, AMD’s RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 are 29% faster and 14% faster than their RX 9070 GRE, respectively. The RX 9060 XT is 22% slower than AMD’s RX 9070 GRE. These results only consider games that do not utilise ray tracing.
(Radeon RX 9070 GRE Rasterisation Performance – via ComputerBase.de)
AMD’s RX 9070 GRE is a great filler between its RX 9070 and RX 9060 XT
When ray tracing is used, AMD’s RX 9070 GRE falls down Computerbase’s performance charts. AMD’s RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT achieve larger performance advantages, with AMD’s RX 9060 XT 16GB achieving closer performance levels.
AMD’s new GRE GPU is likely bandwidth-limited. After all, it has 12GB of GDDR6 VRAM over a 192-bit memory bus. Additionally, the GRE also uses slower 18 Gbps GDDR6 memory. All other Radeon RX 9000 series GPUs use faster 20 Gbps GDDR6 memory. This gives the GRE just 67.5% of the memory bandwidth of its RDNA 4 flagships. That said, memory capacity is also a limiting factor.
(Radeon RX 9070 GRE Ray Tracing Performance – via ComputerBase.de)
Will this GPU be released in the West?
Overall, AMD’s new RDNA 4 GRE GPU performs very similarly to its RX 7900 GRE. The RX 7900 GRE achieves 96% of the performance of its replacement. Overall, this GPU outperforms Nvidia’s RTX 5060 Ti 16GB but falls short of their RTX 5070.
AMD should release its China-only RX 9070 model in the West. If nothing else, it will fill the gap between its Radeon RX 9060 XT and RX 9070. Furthermore, it could act as another strong value option within AMD’s RDNA 4 lineup, placing more pressure on Nvidia.
Computerbase notes that this GPU’s 12GB frame buffer can be a limiting factor in some games. This is especially true when using ray tracing. With this in mind, 16GB GPUs can be considered more “future-proof”.
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