AMD launches Radeon RX 9070 GRE globally at $549

AMD has launched its Radeon RX 9070 GRE graphics card globally, expanding availability of a model first released in China last year. The card is now available from board partners with a suggested retail price of $549.

The GRE, which stands for Golden Rabbit Edition, is designed as a budget-friendly option for 1440p gaming. It is based on AMD's RDNA 4 architecture, which includes enhanced AI compute acceleration and next-generation ray tracing capabilities. The card features 12GB of GDDR6 memory and supports AMD's Fidelity FX Super Resolution 4.1 upscaling technology.

Technically, the RX 9070 GRE is derived from the same 4nm "Navi 48" silicon used in the more powerful RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT models. It is configured with 48 compute units, 3,072 stream processors, 48 ray accelerators, and 96 AI accelerators. This represents a reduction from the standard RX 9070, which has 56 compute units. The memory subsystem also differs, using a 192-bit bus compared to a wider interface on its siblings, resulting in a listed memory bandwidth of 432 GB/s. The card has a typical board power of 220W.

AMD positions the card against Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB, which carries a higher price...