AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE reviewed by German media: solid RDNA4 midrange card held back by 12GB VRAM

The Radeon RX 9070 GRE is a graphics card by AMD, launched on May 8th, 2025. Built on the 4 nm process, and based on the Navi 48 graphics processor, in its Navi 48 XL variant, the card supports DirectX 12 Ultimate. This ensures that all modern games will run on Radeon RX 9070 GRE. Additionally, the DirectX 12 Ultimate capability guarantees support for hardware-raytracing, variable-rate shading and more, in upcoming video games. The Navi 48 graphics processor is a large chip with a die area of 357 mm² and 53,900 million transistors. Unlike the fully unlocked Radeon RX 9070 XT, which uses the same GPU but has all 4096 shaders enabled, AMD has disabled some shading units on the Radeon RX 9070 GRE to reach the product's target shader count. It features 3072 shading units, 192 texture mapping units, and 96 ROPs. Also included are 96 tensor cores which help improve the speed of machine learning applications. The card also has 48 raytracing acceleration cores. AMD has paired 12 GB GDDR6 memory with the Radeon RX 9070 GRE, which are connected using a 192-bit memory interface. The GPU is operating at a frequency of 1420 MHz, which can be boosted up to 2790 MHz, memory is running at 2250 MHz (18 Gbps effective).Being a dual-slot card, the AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE draws power from 2x 8-pin power connectors, with power draw rated at 220 W maximum. Display outputs include: 1x HDMI 2.1b, 3x DisplayPort 2.1a. Radeon RX 9070 GRE is connected to the rest of the system using a PCI-Express 5.0 x16 interface.