Radeon RX 9070 GRE confirmed thanks to GPU-Z, launch expected soon

About a week ago, we reported on a new rumor that AMD was planning to launch a Radeon RX 9070 GRE GPU in the Asian market. The GPU would feature 12GB of GDDR6 memory on a 192-bit bus with a cutdown version of the Navi 48 die found in the Radeon RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT. According to the initial report, AMD was already working with its partners to create cards for a third RDNA 4 GPU using the flagship Navi 48 die.

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Well, thanks to GPU-Z's latest update, v2.65.0, which dropped over the weekend, the Radeon RX 9070 GRE is real and will soon hit shelves across Asia. GPU-Z GPU support typically arrives before a product launch or in line with a release. As the latest update also adds support for NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5060 Ti and other RTX Blackwell laptop GPUs out shortly, it seems that the Radeon RX 9070 GRE will arrive before the Radeon RX 9060 XT.

This brings up the question of why. With the Radeon RX 9060 XT set to compete with the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti, recent specs and leaks suggest that the mainstream RDNA 4 GPU will feature half the GPU hardware as the Radeon RX 9070 XT. AMD may feel that the performance might not be there, and the Radeon RX 9070 GRE will be a better GeForce RTX 5060 Ti competitor.

This means that the Radeon RX 9070 GRE, like the Radeon RX 7900 GRE, could soon be available in the US. With 12GB of memory on a faster 192-bit bus, the additional bandwidth would better match the RTX 5060 Ti's move to GDDR7. Of course, this is all speculation, but with the most recent leaks and rumors surrounding the Radeon RX 9060 XT pointing to a Computex 2025 launch window alongside the baseline GeForce RTX 5060, AMD's first proper mainstream RDNA 4 GPU could arrive up to a month after NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5060 Ti.