AMD's Radeon RX 9070 GRE graphics card returns to its lowest-ever price of $499 — rare deal places this current-generation 12GB GPU below its MSRP launch price
The only current-generation graphics card available for less than its launch price
It's back: one of the best deals on a brand-new, current-generation, mid-range graphics card that packs 12GB of VRAM. There is a little hoop to jump through via Newegg to receive the discount, but it's more than worth it to slash $70 off the card and bring the price back down to its all-time low. AMD's Gigabyte Gaming Radeon RX 9070 GRE GPU is available at Newegg for $499. All you need to do is click on the "Extra Discount Available" link and enter your email address to receive the promotional code. Once you do that, you bring the price of this graphics card all the way down from its $569.99 list price. It's a very grim time for shopping for PC component upgrades, so to see an actual deal on a GPU that takes it below its MSRP in today's inflated market is a rare sight indeed.
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The RX 9070 GRE was initially made available to the Chinese GPU market and received a few changes from the original RX 9070 XT. The available VRAM was cut from 16GB to just 12GB of GDDR6, but it still sports bandwidth speeds of 18 Gbps on a 192-bit bus, producing 432 GB/s of memory bandwidth in gaming and applications. The Radeon RX 9070 GRE is still built on AMD’s RDNA 4 graphics architecture and uses the same Navi 48 GPU as the Radeon RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT. The RX 9070 GRE features a cut-down version of the Navi 48 chip with 48 compute units compared to the RX 9070's 56. Using just 220W total power draw, the RX 9070 GRE has an Identical power footprint to the standard Radeon RX 9070 GPU, making it quite power efficient and not needing a huge power supply to run.
A great graphics card for 1080p and 1440p gaming, the RX 9070 GRE sports 12GB of VRAM and boost clock speeds of 2920 MHz.
We benchmarked the Radeon RX 9070 GRE in our extensive review, putting it through its paces in our suite of games. We found the card averages a cool 120 FPS at 1080p settings and 86.6 FPS at 1440p across our 11-game raster-only test suite. This is a good GPU choice for 1080p and 1440p gaming, with the RX 9070 GRE packing ample VRAM for high settings at 1080p, but pushing ultra settings at 1440p may use up the 12GB of VRAM. AMD's Radeon RX 9070 GRE sits just behind Nvidia's RTX 5070 in our results chart that you can view below.
If you're actively looking for a new GPU in the current PC component market, you're more than aware of the considerable price hikes across the GPU lineups from both AMD and Nvidia. To see a graphics card on sale for under its launch MSRP is a very rare sight, and I personally did not expect to see this kind of deal again outside of a large sale event like Prime Day or Black Friday. So if you're looking for a competent card for 1080p and 1440p gaming, then jump on the Gigabyte Gaming RX 9070 GRE for just $499.99.
Stewart Bendle is a deals and coupon writer at Tom's Hardware. A firm believer in “Bang for the buck” Stewart likes to research the best prices and coupon codes for hardware and build PCs that have a great price for performance ratio.
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GenericUser2001 The original launch price on this made no sense in the first place. Now, at $499, it is a good deal in the context of other available options; going by PC PartPicker, the cheapest in stock 16 GB 9060XT (which is a fair bit slower) $460, and the cheapest vanilla 9070 is $650; over on the Nvidia side the cheapest 8 GB 5060 TI is $499 and the cheapest 5070 is $799.Reply -
artk2219 Reply
$499 makes it probably the best deal around, the next best is probably the B580 at $329, not that either one would be considered a great deal if we take historical pricing into account. The B580 also doesnt come out great in a head to head, the 9070 GRE has almost double the performance, for a little over 50% more. But in the current landscape, they're probably the least bad. It is still insane to me that RTX 5060 Ti's and above are selling at such stupid prices. Sadly its just another reminder that people are bad at doing research before buying something.GenericUser2001 said:The original launch price on this made no sense in the first place. Now, at $499, it is a good deal in the context of other available options; going by PC PartPicker, the cheapest in stock 16 GB 9060XT (which is a fair bit slower) $460, and the cheapest vanilla 9070 is $650; over on the Nvidia side the cheapest 8 GB 5060 TI is $499 and the cheapest 5070 is $799.
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Vicecrow AMD graphics in general is bad. Tested from rdna2 to rdna4.Reply
Same problems. NVidia graphics has better solid overall in the machine. Its why they have solid 90% of market. -
Cooe Reply
I have had JUST as many problems (if not more, tbh) with Nvidia cards as AMD ones and I am FAAAAAR from the only one. Pretending only AMD cards get driver problems is absolutely asinine. 🤷.Vicecrow said:AMD graphics in general is bad. Tested from rdna2 to rdna4.
Same problems. NVidia graphics has better solid overall in the machine. Its why they have solid 90% of market.
🤦 And this has literally NOTHING to do with the marketshare figures. The answer to that is laptops, aka most of the market, where AMD has almost no market presence. In the ala-carte graphics card market AMD's marketshare is around ~35-45% currently depending on when you look, and is rising RAPIDLY (because of Nvidia's pricing, and even in "normal times" it's around ~25-35%)
At many retailers like Amazon, Mindfactory, etc... AMD REGULARLY outsells Nvidia.
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beyondlogic ReplyVicecrow said:AMD graphics in general is bad. Tested from rdna2 to rdna4.
Same problems. NVidia graphics has better solid overall in the machine. Its why they have solid 90% of market.
the issue with rdna 1/2/3 was more or less hardware related stuff which rdna 4 fixed basicly it got over the finishing line just took 3 generations to get there.
intel i find has better image quality then amd though just my opinion using them. -
beyondlogic Reply
amd tends to better in laptop market then intel for graphics there bad habit is they like to shove there foot in there mouth occasionally.Cooe said:I have had JUST as many problems (if not more, tbh) with Nvidia cards as AMD ones and I am FAAAAAR from the only one. Pretending only AMD cards get driver problems is absolutely asinine. 🤷.
🤦 And this has literally NOTHING to do with the marketshare figures. The answer to that is laptops, aka most of the market, where AMD has almost no market presence. In the ala-carte graphics card market AMD's marketshare is around ~35-45% currently depending on when you look, and is rising RAPIDLY (because of Nvidia's pricing, and even in "normal times" it's around ~25-35%)
At many retailers like Amazon, Mindfactory, etc... AMD REGULARLY outsells Nvidia.
You really can't fix stupid I guess. 🤷
rdna 1 2 3 were basic prototypes of rdna 4 thats my opinion. vega was great i didnt have nearly as many visual issues that rdna 2 had.
as for nvidia you are true that nvidia gets bad drivers but no were near amd and they dont take nearly as long to fix them. in most cases its actually a microsoft bug for me. does that mean i love nvidia hell no they can keep the flame connector.
considering this is sapphire the value could be good or really bad i have had swings and round abouts with sapphire cards.