AMD is now launching the Radeon RX 9070 GRE graphics card, which has been sold in Asia for a long time, in Germany. It is intended to close the big gap between the slower Radeon RX 9060 XT and the faster Radeon RX 9070. There is a performance difference of around 50 percent between the two known ones, but not even a 40 percent difference in price with the same memory expansion of 16 GB.
The Radeon RX 9070 GRE gets the larger Navi48 graphics chip from AMD from the 9070 and also its thermal design power, so it can also burn 220 watts. Compared to the Radeon RX 9060 XT, it offers a broader memory connection. However, AMD only configures the chip with 12 GB of graphics memory – the next larger expansion level would be 24 GB, which would dwarf the two more expensive 9070 variants.
We were able to examine the GRE variant from the manufacturer XFX in advance in the test laboratory and show you where its strengths and weaknesses lie. Fortunately, AMD and XFX can still mitigate one of the most serious problems even after the market launch.
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