Videocardz obtained information on a third GPU variant under AMD’s Radeon RX 9070 series, specifically the Radeon RX 9070 GRE. Based on the report, this “Great Radeon Edition” GPU will be slotting below the standard RX 9070 and above the RX 9060 XT (if the specs leak are to be believed).
RX 9070 GRE Specs Leak
This GPU will be using the cut-down Navi 48 XL die, featuring 3,072 stream processors (SPs) forming 48 compute units (CUs) – for reference, the 9070 XT has 4096 SPs / 64 CUs, while the 9070 has 3584 SPs / 56 CUs. It reportedly has a clock speed of 2.79GHz, higher than that of the vanilla 9070 (2.52GHz), which means the theoretical performance should be fairly close.
There is a major difference in RX 9070 GRE’s specs, however – the VRAM will adopt a 192-bit memory bus forming 12GB of video memory size, and that comes with associated bandwidth penalties owing to narrower bus. Specifically, the 9070 GRE will deliver 432GB/s with 18Gbps GDDR6 modules, slower than the other two with 640GB/s peak via 20Gbps modules.
As such, the gaming performance of 9070 GRE is likely to be noticeably slower due to worse memory specs despite a reasonably close theoretical performance. Still, the exact power draw figures is still unknown at this point, and this may also affect the card’s maximum performance.
Keep in mind that GRE cards are not always guaranteed to launch globally, as models with this name are usually reserved to Chinese markets, at least several months ahead of global launch.
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