AMD today announced a global launch of the Radeon RX 9070 GRE graphics card. The card was debuted as a China-exclusive, and is seeing a wider launch to fill a key price-performance gap that exists between the RX 9060 XT 16 GB and the RX 9070. The new RX 9070 GRE carved out from the same 4 nm "Navi 48" silicon as the RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT. While the silicon physically has 64 compute units and a 256-bit wide memory bus, the RX 9070 GRE is configured with three quarters of it, featuring 48 compute units, and a 192-bit memory bus. In comparison, the RX 9060 XT and the "Navi 44" silicon it's based on, has exactly half the CU count and memory bus width.

The Radeon RX 9070 GRE hence has 3,072 stream processors, 48 RT accelerators, 96 AI accelerators, 192 TMUs, and 96 ROPs. The card gets 12 GB of 18 Gbps GDDR6 memory across its 192-bit wide memory bus, for 437 GB/s of memory bandwidth. It's also configured with 48 MB of Infinity Cache memory, three quarters of the 64 MB physically present on "Navi 48." The card is configured with 2.20 GHz of Game clock, and 2.79 GHz of maximum boost frequency for the GPU engine clock domain, while the memory ticks at 18 Gbps (GDDR6-effective). The main competition for this card is NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB, which is priced at $570. AMD, in its first-party performance tests claims a significant 22% performance gain over the RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB, and a 26% performance-price gain. While NVIDIA recommends the RTX 5060 Ti for 1080p gaming, AMD is confident in the RX 9070 GRE being a 1440p-class gaming GPU. The card will be available from today, June 1st, through AMD's various add-in board (AIB) partners, including Sapphire, PowerColor, ASRock, XFX, GIGABYTE, Acer, and ASUS.