{"id":716888,"date":"2026-06-05T13:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T13:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/716888\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T13:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T13:49:08","slug":"review-amds-radeon-rx-9070-gre-is-a-disappointing-way-to-spend-549","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/716888\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: AMD’s Radeon RX 9070 GRE is a disappointing way to spend $549"},"content":{"rendered":"

At some point during the fog of 2021 or 2022, I noticed that my son\u2019s preferred brand of fruit snacks had switched from including 0.9 ounces per pouch to 0.8 ounces per pouch. Most shrinkflation<\/a> is meant to fly under the radar, but in this case, I just happened to notice it. It felt bad! It\u2019s tangible evidence that your money is not going as far as it did in the very recent past.<\/p>\n

A little over a year ago, AMD launched the Radeon RX 9070<\/a> for a suggested retail price of $549. This month, it\u2019s launching the similarly named Radeon RX 9070 GRE for a suggested retail price of $549. This new card (actually the US launch of a GPU that\u2019s been available in China for a year or so) has 85 percent as many GPU cores, 75 percent as much memory, and 66 percent as much memory bandwidth as the regular RX 9070.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll evaluate the RX 9070 GRE in the context of the current GPU market, where prices have been edging upward due to the same AI-driven RAM shortages and price hikes that have made PC building and buying such a miserable experience for the last few months. But it\u2019s hard not to be a little upset about such a clear example of GPU shrinkflation\u2014the same money for a markedly inferior product.<\/p>\n

RX 9070 GRE specs and speeds<\/p>\n

RX 9070 XT
\nRX 9070
\nRX 9070 GRE
\nRX 9060 XT
\nRX 7800 XT
\nRX 7700 XT<\/p>\n

Compute units (Stream processors)
\n64 RDNA4 (4,096)
\n56 RDNA4 (3,584)
\n48 RDNA4 (3,072)
\n32 RDNA4 (2,048)
\n60 RDNA3 (3,840)
\n54 RDNA3 (3,456)<\/p>\n

Boost Clock
\n2,970 MHz
\n2,520 MHz
\n2,790 MHz
\n3,130 MHz
\n2,430 MHz
\n2,544 MHz<\/p>\n

Memory Bus Width
\n256-bit
\n256-bit
\n192-bit
\n128-bit
\n256-bit
\n192-bit<\/p>\n

Memory Bandwidth
\n650GB\/s
\n650GB\/s
\n432GB\/s
\n320GB\/s
\n624GB\/s
\n432GB\/s<\/p>\n

Memory size
\n16GB GDDR6
\n16GB GDDR6
\n12GB GDDR6
\n8 or 16GB GDDR6
\n16GB GDDR6
\n12GB GDDR6<\/p>\n

Total board power (TBP)
\n304 W
\n220 W
\n220 W
\n150 (8GB) or 160 W (16GB), up to 182 W
\n263 W
\n245 W<\/p>\n

I find AMD\u2019s \u201cGRE\u201d label more confusing than helpful. \u201cExtra letters\u201d usually means \u201cbetter,\u201d across both AMD and Nvidia\u2019s GPU lineups (see XT, Ti, XTX, Super, etc), but in this case, it means \u201cworse.\u201d<\/p>\n

The RX 9070 GRE does use the same Navi 48 GPU silicon as the rest of the 9070 series, but is significantly cut down: 3,072 shader cores instead of 3,584 for the 9070 or 4,096 for the 9070 XT; a 192-bit memory interface instead of 256-bit; and 12GB of memory rather than 16GB. It\u2019s not a clear successor to any particular past Radeon card, but its hardware is most similar to the old RX 7700 XT<\/a>, which launched at $449 in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At some point during the fog of 2021 or 2022, I noticed that my son\u2019s preferred brand of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,61],"class_list":["post-716888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}