AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE vs RX 9070
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AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE
Navi 48
AMD Radeon RX 9070
Navi 48
We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 9070 GRE 12 GB with 48 pipelines and 3072 shaders against the 8 months older RX 9070 16 GB that utilizes 56 pipelines and 3584 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
- Includes 4 GB more video memory
- Has 49% higher memory bandwidth: 644.6 vs 432 GB/s
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | - | 229 156 137 102 |
| The Witcher 3 | - | 240 216 159 84 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | - | 307 215 158 84 |
| Far Cry 6 | - | 192 163 148 95 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | - | 146 119 97 52 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | - | 219 212 157 107 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | - | 146 122 105 65 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | - | 174 149 102 47 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | - | 262 248 188 99 |
| 1080p High | - | 213 |
| 1080p Ultra | - | 178 |
| 1440p Ultra | - | 139 |
| 4K Ultra | - | 82 |
| Margin of Error | High | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | - | 26693 |
| Solar Bay | - | 106118 |
| Port Royal | - | 15939 |
| Fire Strike | - | 60053 |
| Wild Life Extreme | - | 48323 |
| Night Raid | - | 177554 |
GeekBench 6 GPU Compute
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | - | 377.5 img/sec |
| Face Detection | - | 221.3 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | - | 6.4 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | - | 8.99 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | - | 8.52 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | - | 1.36 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | - | 606 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | - | 8521.2 FPS |
| API | - | OpenCL |
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 1261 | 1262 |
| DirectX 11 | 254 FPS | 280 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 56 FPS | 73 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 14796 Ops/s | 14799 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) | - | 15375 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | - | 37834 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | - | 43910 |
| Face Detection (HP) | - | 67858 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | - | 172939 |
| Text Classification (SP) | - | 4469 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | - | 8499 |
| Object Detection (SP) | - | 15393 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | - | 66890 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | - | 365633 |
| Framework | - | ONNX |
| Backend | - | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon RX 9070 GRE and RX 9070General
| Vendor | Amd | Amd |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | August 27, 2025 | January 7, 2025 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $549 | $549 |
| Case | Desktop | Desktop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | High-end | High-end |
| Architecture | RDNA 4.0 | RDNA 4.0 |
| GPU Codename | Navi 48 | Navi 48 |
| Rival Equivalent | - GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (8GB) | - GeForce RTX 5070 |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core Ultra 5 245K or above | - Intel Core Ultra 5 245K or above |
Desktop GPU rating (25th and 16th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1420 MHz | 1330 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2790 MHz | 2520 MHz |
| Shading Units | 3072 | 3584 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 192 | 224 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 96 | 128 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 48 | 56 |
| Tensor Cores | 96 | 112 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 48 | 56 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 8MB shared | 8MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 4 IPC | 4 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 268 GPixel/s | 323 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 536 GTexel/s | 564 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x16 | PCIe 5.0 x16 |
| TGP | 220 W | 220 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 4 nm | 4 nm |
| Die Size | 357 mm² | 357 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 53.9 billion | 53.9 billion |
| Transistor Density | 150.98 MTr/mm² | 150.98 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size | 12 GB | 16 GB |
| Memory Clock | 2250 MHz | 2518 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 18000 Mbps | 20100 Mbps |
| Bus | 192-bit | 256-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | 12.2 |
| Vulkan | 1.4 | 1.4 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.2 | 2.2 |
| CUDA | No | No |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | No | No |
| DisplayPort | 2.1a | 2.1a |
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