Radeon RX 9070 GRE benchmarked, close to 30% faster than the Radeon RX 9060 XT

The new Radeon RX 9070 GRE or Golden Radeon Edition is currently exclusive to the Asian market, specifically China, as the fourth RDNA 4 offering from AMD. Spec-wise, it sits in between the new mainstream Radeon RX 9060 XT and the baseline Radeon RX 9070, with the 9070 GRE shipping with 48 Compute Units, a Boost Clock speed of 2790 MHz, and 12GB of GDDR6 memory on a 192-bit bus.

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Currently, there's no official confirmation that the Radeon RX 9070 GRE will make its way to more global markets, but this has happened with prior GRE releases, where AMD releases them first in China before rolling them out to western markets months later.

That hasn't stopped German outlet Computer Base from getting their hands on a Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 9070 GRE and benchmarking its performance against the latest generation of mainstream GPUs, and more, from NVIDIA and AMD. With 20+ games tested, it's a comprehensive look at the new GPU's performance, which just so happens to present a massive improvement over the Radeon RX 9060 XT.

Looking at the average 1440p gaming performance (without FSR or DLSS), the Radeon RX 9070 GRE is 28.4% faster than the Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB and 22.4% faster than the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB. This also makes it a whopping 36% faster than the GeForce RTX 5060 8GB GPU.

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When it comes to ray-tracing, the Radeon RX 9070 GRE's performance shrinks, with it only being 16.7% faster than the Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB and 9.6% faster than the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB. Ray-tracing performance also falls short of the GeForce RTX 4070.

With or without ray-tracing, the data shows that there's definite room for AMD to release a new GPU that sits between the Radeon RX 9060 XT and the Radeon RX 9070. Looking at the mid-range stack, performance is within 10% of the GeForce RTX 5070 and 15% of the Radeon RX 9070. With this new benchmark data, a Radeon RX 9070 GRE for around $399-449 would make it a great deal for those looking for a 1440p gaming GPU.