Introduction
On this AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE review, we’ll dive into the typical and 1% Low gaming performance of this 12GB video card at 1440p on the PC. At launch, on June 1st, 2026, we reviewed the XFX Swift Radeon RX 9070 GRE Triple Fan Gaming Edition video card and the SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 9070 GRE GAMING OC video card. In those two reviews, we tested the typical framerate, but didn’t cover the 1% Lows. Now it’s time to dive deep into performance and have a look at each the typical framerates, 1% Lows, in addition to adding a fourth GPU for comparison, which is able to help flesh out the performance of the Radeon RX 9070 GRE at native resolution, upscaling, and ray tracing.
The AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE was launched within the US and global markets on June 1st, 2026, and was announced at Computex 2026. The Radeon RX 9070 GRE was technically released before this; nonetheless, because it was a China-exclusive launch back in May, 2025. While it ‘could’ be acquired within the US, it definitely wasn’t easy, supported, or prevalent. Now, AMD has made the Radeon RX 9070 GRE accessible globally, and with that, announced the MSRP as $549. In light of this, it has had a “re-launch”, so to talk, but is definitely a brand new launch for the US and global markets.
The AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE is geared for 1440p gaming, nevertheless it is a 12GB VRAM video card. This brings up questions regarding performance in modern games in 2026. With a purpose to evaluate this, we’re going to have a look at each the typical and 1% Low performance, which should tell us how well it may deal with modern games at 1440p with that framebuffer configuration. We’ll test at 1440p in each native resolution at high or ultra game settings, after which we may even enable FSR upscaling at 1440p, and we’ll also toggle ray tracing features on to see how that impacts the 1% Low performance.
Along with that, we’ve got 4 GPUs for comparison: the GeForce RTX 5070 12GB, the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB, the Radeon RX 9070 16GB, and the Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB. It will provide an excellent stack to see where the Radeon RX 9070 GRE falls by way of performance between these video cards.
AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE
The AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE is predicated on the RDNA 4 architecture and shares more in common with the Radeon RX 9070 than it does with the Radeon RX 9060 XT. The Radeon RX 9070 GRE utilizes the identical NAVI 48 GPU because the Radeon RX 9070, but is cut down in specifications. The Radeon RX 9070 GRE is made up of 48 Compute Units, 3,072 Shading Units, 48 RT Accelerators, 96 HW AI Accelerators, 96 ROPS, and 192 TMUS. It has a Game Clock of 2220MHz and a Boost Clock of as much as 2.79GHz. It has 12GB of GDDR6 on a 192-bit memory bus, at 18Gbps, providing 432GB/s of memory bandwidth. The Total Board Power is 220W, and it does support PCI-Express 5.0 x16 full bandwidth.
It also needs to be noted that the Radeon RX 9070 launched at $549 in March of 2025, however the Radeon RX 9070 GRE is launching now at the identical price point because the Radeon RX 9070 must have been, but hasn’t been due to price inflations as a consequence of the market. Due to this fact, the Radeon RX 9070 GRE takes the worth point that the intended pricing was meant for the Radeon RX 9070, but now with a lower performance specification. You’ll be able to read more in regards to the Radeon RX 9070 GRE specifications and overview in our launch review here.