AMD RX 9070 GRE Review ft. Sapphire

1. Introduction2. Meet the Sapphire RX 9070 GRE Pulse3. Testing Methodology4. Alan Wake II5. Assassin's Creed Shadows6. Clair Obscur: Expedition 337. Cyberpunk 20778. Death Stranding 2: On the Beach9. Final Fantasy XVI10. Forza Horizon 611. Horizon Forbidden West12. Kingdom Come: Deliverance II13. A Plague Tale: Requiem14. Resident Evil Requiem15. Starfield16. Performance Summary (12-Game Average)17. Cost Per Frame Analysis18. Ray Tracing: Alan Wake II19. Ray Tracing: Assassin's Creed Shadows20. Ray Tracing: Black Myth: Wukong21. Ray Tracing: Cyberpunk 207722. Ray Tracing: Doom: The Dark Ages23. Ray Tracing: Forza Horizon 624. Ray Tracing: Resident Evil Requiem25. Ray Tracing: Star Wars Outlaws26. Ray Tracing Performance Summary27. GPU Temperatures28. Memory Temperatures29. Acoustics30. Power Draw: 1080p31. Power Draw: 1440p32. Power Draw: 2160p (4K)33. Performance per Watt: 1080p34. Performance per Watt: 1440p35. Performance per Watt: 2160p (4K)36. Closing Thoughts37. View All Pages

Today, as part of its Computex 2026 programme, AMD has announced worldwide availability for the RX 9070 GRE. Technically, this GPU launched over a year ago as a Chinese exclusive, but it is now rolling out globally. Offering what is essentially a cut-down RX 9070 die, the 9070 GRE features fewer cores, 4GB less memory and a narrower memory interface. But what does that mean for performance, and is it still worth buying? We find out today.

The RX 9070 GRE launched to little fanfare back in April 2025, given it was only on sale in China, but today AMD has announced global availability, with a $549 price tag. In the UK we're told to expect pricing in the £469-479 region, so it's a similar ballpark to the RTX 5070 that can be regularly found at £500.

Like the rest of the RDNA 4 family, there's no reference model, and instead we have tested the Sapphire Pulse edition. This card does come factory overclocked, but as regular readers will know, we manually test all GPUs at reference specifications for these day one reviews, so we can ensure that all testing is ‘apples to apples.'

	RX 9070 XT	RX 9070	RX 9070 GRE	RX 9060 XT
Architecture	RDNA 4	RDNA 4	RDNA 4	RDNA 4
Manufacturing Process	TSMC N4	TSMC N4	TSMC N4	TSMC N4
Transistor Count	53.9 billion	53.9 billion	53.9 billion	29.7 billion
Die Size	357 mm²	357 mm²	357 mm²	199 mm²
Compute Units	64	56	48	32
Ray Accelerators	64	56	48	32
Stream Processors	4096	3584	3072	2048
Game GPU Clock	2400 MHz	2070 MHz	2220 MHz	2530 MHz
Boost GPU Clock	Up to 2970 MHz	Up to 2520 MHz	Up to 2790 MHz	Up to 3130 MHz
ROPs	128	128	96	64
AMD Infinity Cache	64MB	64MB	48MB	32MB
Memory	16GB GDDR6	16GB GDDR6	12GB GDDR6	8/16GB GDDR6
Memory Data Rate	20 Gbps	20 Gbps	18 Gbps	20 Gbps
Memory Bandwidth	645 GB/s	645 GB/s	432 GB/s	322 GB/s
Memory Interface	256-bit	256-bit	192-bit	128-bit
Board Power	304W	220W	220W	160W

First, let's take a quick look at the specs. The RX 9070 GRE is built on the same Navi 48 die as the RX 9070 and 9070 XT. It measures 357mm², and it's worth pointing out this is a monolithic chip, so AMD is not using a chiplet-based design as per RDNA 3. In total, Navi 48 silicon packs in 53.9 billion transistors.

While a full Navi 48 GPU packs in 64 Compute Units, the 9070 GRE is cut down to 48 CUs, and each CU houses 64 Stream Processors, for a total of 3072 shaders. There's also 48 Ray Accelerators – one per CU – and 96 ROPs.

As for clock speed, the RX 9070 GRE runs faster than the regular 9070, sporting a rated game clock of 2220MHz and a boost clock of up to 2790MHz.

The memory configuration is cut down however, with 12GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 18Gbps, operating over a 192-bit memory interface, for total memory bandwidth of 432 GB/s. 48MB of Infinity Cache is also present.

Power draw for the RX 9070 GRE is rated at 220W Total Board Power (TBP), but we are using our updated GPU power testing methodology in this review, so read on for our most detailed power and efficiency testing yet.

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