AMD Launches $549 Radeon RX 9070 GRE With 25% Less Memory as GPU Shrinkflation Bites
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Updated · Ars Technica · Jun 5
AMD Launches $549 Radeon RX 9070 GRE With 25% Less Memory as GPU Shrinkflation Bites
1 articles · Updated · Ars Technica · Jun 5
Summary
$549 buys AMD’s new Radeon RX 9070 GRE, a cut-down card that matches the RX 9070’s launch price despite weaker hardware.
The GRE carries 3,072 shader cores versus 3,584 on the RX 9070, 12GB instead of 16GB of GDDR6 memory, and 432GB/s of bandwidth versus 650GB/s—about 85%, 75% and 66% of the standard card’s levels.
AMD is bringing the model to the U.S. after it had already been sold in China for about a year, using the same Navi 48 silicon as the rest of the 9070 lineup.
The pricing lands in a GPU market already under pressure from AI-driven RAM shortages and higher memory costs, which have pushed PC-building prices upward and made the same-dollar downgrade more conspicuous.