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

Driver Notes

• All AMD GPUs (except RX 9070 GRE) were benchmarked with the 26.5.2 driver.
• All Nvidia GPUs were benchmarked with the 596.49 driver.
• AMD RX 9070 GRE was benchmarked with the 26.5.2-Win11-C driver supplied to press.

Results are only directly comparable where this exact configuration has been used.

Test System:

We test using a custom built system powered by MSI, based on AMD's Zen 5 platform. You can view the Powered by MSI store on AWD-IT's website HERE.

CPU	AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
Motherboard	MSI MPG X870E Carbon WiFi
Memory	64GB (2x32GB) Kingston Fury Beast DDR5 6000MT/s CL30
Graphics Card	Varies
SSD	4TB Kingston NV3 Gen 4 PCIe NVMe
Chassis	MSI MPG Gungnir 300R Airflow
CPU Cooler	MSI MAG CoreLiquid i360
Power Supply	MSI MPG Ai1600TS
Operating System	Windows 11 25H2
Monitor	MSI MPG 321URX QD-OLED
Resizable BAR	Enabled for all supported GPUs

Comparison Graphics Cards List

• PowerColor RX 9060 XT Hellhound 16GB
• Sapphire RX 9070 Pulse 16GB
• Sapphire RX 9070 XT Pulse 16GB
• Palit RTX 5060 Ti Infinity 3 16GB
• Nvidia RTX 5070 FE 12GB
• MSI RTX 5070 Ti Ventus 3X 16GB

All cards were tested at reference specifications. For factory overclocked cards, this means we manually ‘undo' the overclock via MSI Afterburner or AMD/Intel's built-in tuning tools. Or, for cards like the Sapphire RX 7900 GRE Nitro+, we enable the reference-clocked BIOS instead of the default OC BIOS.

Software and Games List

• Alan Wake II (DX12)
• Assassin's Creed Shadows (DX12)
• Black Myth: Wukong (DX12)
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (DX12)
• Cyberpunk 2077 (DX12)
• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach (DX12)
• Doom: The Dark Ages (Vulkan)
• Final Fantasy XVI (DX12)
• Forza Horizon 6 (DX12)
• Horizon Forbidden West (DX12)
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance II (DX12)
• A Plague Tale: Requiem (DX12)
• Resident Evil Requiem (DX12)
• Starfield (DX12)
• Star Wars Outlaws (DX12)

We run each benchmark/game three times, and present mean averages in our graphs. We use FrameView to measure average frame rates as well as 1% low values (99th percentile) across our three runs.

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