AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE Is Dead on Arrival for a German Retailer Who Reports Consumers Opt for the Lower-Cost and More Powerful RX 9070

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By Peter Brosdahl

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AMD’s newly launched Radeon RX 9070 GRE is not hopping off to a good start, according to German retailer Mindfactory. Per 3DCenter (via VideoCardz), consumers are opting to buy last year’s Radeon RX 9070, which features higher specs and costs slightly less. AMD, which has long had brand-loyal customers thanks to its support of Linux and other open-source software features, is getting backlash over the pricing for the Radeon RX 9070 GRE. Meanwhile, the numbers speak for themselves as Mindfactory has reported that it has moved almost zero units of the GRE at launch due to its pricing.

While the MSRP for the Radeon RX 9070 GRE is $549 intial listings for it started at around $10 higher than that, placing it roughly $10-$20 higher than the pre-existing Radeon RX 9070. There is technically nothing wrong with the Radeon 9070 GRE, but the pricing is an issue for a product aimed at the budget-minded sector. According to posts on Reddit, it’s roughly only $50 lesser than the RX 9070XT in Australia, further making it a tough decision for anyone to buy vs a flagship model for a bit more.

However, while it is easy to point fingers at the CPU and GPU manufacturer, there is a giant elephant in the room that most media outlets are forgetting about. Namely, the ongoing DRAM/NAND shortage caused by the growth of AI datacenters. It’s been commonly known that DRAM prices have skyrocketed, and this has affected the PC industry to disastrous effect. It’s quite probable that AMD had to price the Radeon RX 9070 GRE based on the increased costs of memory. Sadly, the GRE still has only 12 GB of VRAM vs 16 GB of the RX 9070. One can only hope that AMD is able to lower the price somehow to make it a more attractive option for gamers looking for a lower-cost graphics card. If not, this is a troubling sign of things to come for the gaming industry.

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Peter Brosdahl
As a child of the 70’s I was part of the many who became enthralled by the video arcade invasion of the 1980’s. Saving money from various odd jobs I purchased my first computer from a friend of my dad, a used Atari 400, around 1982. Eventually it would end up being a lifelong passion of upgrading and modifying equipment that, of course, led into a career in IT support.

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