Review: AMD's Radeon RX 9070 GRE is a disappointing way to spend $549
Summary
Ars Technica reviews AMD’s Radeon RX 9070 GRE, highlighting shrinkflation in the GPU space: a 12GB 192-bit memory configuration with 3,072 shader cores and the same Navi 48 silicon yields notably lower performance than the standard RX 9070. At 1440p it’s typically 10–20% slower than the non-GRE, and at 4K it struggles more with ray tracing, making the memory and bandwidth limitations more painful. The piece concludes that paying $549 for the GRE is hard to justify, recommending the vanilla RX 9070 for better value, or spending a bit more for 16GB RAM and higher performance.