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

The Sapphire RX 9070 GRE Pulse ships in a colour box, with the Pulse logo taking centre stage on the front. On the back, Sapphire highlights key features of the GPU and RDNA 4 architecture.

In terms of design, it's very similar overall to the RX 9070 Pulse that we reviewed last year – but that's no bad thing. It features a black plastic shroud with some red accents, while the cooling setup incorporates two 100mm fans.

It's also pretty compact by modern standards, given Sapphire lists the dimensions at measuring 280 x 120.25 x 51.5mm. It's nice to know it should fit in pretty much all but the smallest cases on the market!

We find a metal backplate, too, with some more red accenting, an EKG graph, plus a moderately sized flow-through area.

Power is delivered by 2x 8-pin PCIe connectors – no 12VHPWR here! – while display outputs consist of 2x HDMI 2.1 and 2x DisplayPort 2.1 (UHBR13.5).

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