AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE will reportedly pack 3072 cores and 12GB of memory

AMD is reportedly preparing to unveil two new Radeon RX 9000 series graphics cards in the coming weeks: the RX 9060 XT and the unexpected Radeon RX 9070 GRE. Some people suggested the latter may replace the RX 9070 non-XT in some regions. However, based on the newly reported specs, that might not be the case.

According to VideoCardz, the Navi 48-based RX 9070 GRE will feature 3,072 Stream Processors (48 CUs), indicating that a portion of the GPU's cores will be disabled, as Navi 48 has 64 CUs. To compensate for this, the RX 9070 GRE is expected to boast higher clock speeds than the RX 9070, potentially reaching a boost clock of 2.79GHz. This configuration yields an estimated 17.1 TFLOPS of compute performance, which is slightly lower than the RX 9070's 18 TFLOPS.

Further differentiating the RX 9070 GRE is its memory configuration. The GRE variant is rumoured to utilise 12GB of GDDR6 memory across a 192-bit memory bus. This is a step down from the RX 9070 (and XT) and RX 9060 XT 16GB, which employ 16GB of memory running at 20Gbps. Consequently, the memory bandwidth of the RX 9070 GRE will be 432GB/s.

Based on these specs, it appears that AMD is aiming to introduce a product that effectively bridges the performance gap between the RX 9070 and the RX 9060 XT, even if it may have less memory. The international availability of this new Navi 48-based graphics card remains uncertain. However, the rollout in China is said to be planned for this quarter.

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