AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE vs 7900 GRE
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AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE
Navi 48
AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE
Navi 31
We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 9070 GRE 12 GB with 48 pipelines and 3072 shaders against the 7900 GRE 16 GB that utilizes 5120 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
Review
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score
Scores marked with a red asterisk (**) represent initial estimates from early testing.
Value for money (Beta)
Key differences
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 9070 GRE
- Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 7900 GRE
- 34% higher maximum theoretical performance (46 vs 34.3 TFLOPS)
- Includes 4 GB more video memory
- Has 33% higher memory bandwidth: 576 vs 432 GB/s
- Has 67% more shading units (5120 vs 3072)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | - | 212 144 126 91 |
| The Witcher 3 | - | 220 201 145 76 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | - | 304 212 152 81 |
| Far Cry 6 | - | 180 155 138 88 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | - | 137 108 87 50 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | - | 199 187 138 92 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | - | 139 119 98 59 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | - | 154 133 95 44 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | - | 233 225 171 88 |
| 1080p High | - | 198 |
| 1080p Ultra | - | 165 |
| 1440p Ultra | - | 128 |
| 4K Ultra | - | 74 |
| Margin of Error | High | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | - | 22544 |
| Solar Bay | - | 90933 |
| Port Royal | - | 12467 |
| Fire Strike | - | 56225 |
| Wild Life Extreme | - | 41755 |
| Night Raid | - | 169714 |
GeekBench 6 GPU Compute
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | - | 352.4 img/sec |
| Face Detection | - | 229 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | - | 6.42 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | - | 8.86 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | - | 7.89 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | - | 1.5 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | - | 662.8 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | - | 24012 FPS |
| API | - | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 1261 | 1212 |
| DirectX 11 | 254 FPS | 300 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 56 FPS | 111 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 14796 Ops/s | 15210 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | - | 15095 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | - | 21206 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | - | 33962 |
| Face Detection (HP) | - | 57614 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | - | 214748 |
| Text Classification (SP) | - | 4325 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | - | 6598 |
| Object Detection (SP) | - | 16608 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | - | 57731 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | - | 394987 |
| Framework | - | ONNX |
| Backend | - | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon RX 9070 GRE and 7900 GREGeneral
| Vendor | Amd | Amd |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | August 27, 2025 | - |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $549 | $649 |
| Case | Desktop | Desktop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | High-end | High-end |
| Architecture | RDNA 4.0 | RDNA 3.0 |
| GPU Codename | Navi 48 | Navi 31 |
| Rival Equivalent | - GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (8GB) | - |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core Ultra 5 245K or above | - |
Desktop GPU rating (25th and 18th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1420 MHz | 1287 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2790 MHz | 2245 MHz |
| Shading Units | 3072 | 5120 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 192 | 320 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 96 | 160 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 48 | - |
| Tensor Cores | 96 | - |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 48 | 80 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 256KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 8MB shared | 6MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 4 IPC | 4 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 268 GPixel/s | 359 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 536 GTexel/s | 718 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| TGP | 220 W | 260 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 4 nm | 5 nm |
| Die Size | 357 mm² | 529 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 53.9 billion | 57 billion |
| Transistor Density | 150.98 MTr/mm² | 107.75 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size | 12 GB | 16 GB |
| Memory Clock | 2250 MHz | 2250 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 18000 Mbps | 18000 Mbps |
| Bus | 192-bit | 256-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.4 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.2 | 2.2 |
| CUDA | No | - |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | No | No |
| DisplayPort | 2.1a | 2.1 |
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