Introduction
The AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE was launched globally on June 1st, of 2026. Previously, the Radeon RX 9070 GRE was a China-exclusive video card that debuted in May of 2025. At Computex 2026, AMD announced that the Radeon RX 9070 GRE would now be available in the US and global markets. As such, a sort of re-launch of the video card occurred, with many AIBs offering samples in the US and global regions. The official MSRP for the AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE US launch will start at $549.
We recently reviewed two AIB custom video cards at launch: the XFX Swift Radeon RX 9070 GRE Triple Fan Gaming Edition and the SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 9070 GRE GAMING OC. The XFX Swift Radeon RX 9070 GRE Triple Fan Gaming Edition has an AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE reference specification in terms of Game Clock and Boost Clock. The SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 9070 GRE GAMING OC has an increased Total Board Power and Factory Overclocked Game Clock and Boost Clock.
Why Compare Radeon RX 9070 GRE vs GeForce RTX 5070
In today’s review, we are going to cover a comparison we did not make in our initial reviews. In our launch reviews, we covered comparisons with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB, AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB, and AMD Radeon RX 9070. We did this to look at current online price comparable video cards, and to see where in the product stack the Radeon RX 9070 GRE fits in AMD’s own lineup. One video card we did not cover, that we are going to specifically compare today, is the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070.
Now, the reason we did not include it initially is the pricing difference. The MSRP of the Radeon RX 9070 GRE is $549. This is more in line with the current online pricing of the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB, which, at the time of our review, was the cheapest RTX 5060 Ti 16GB and was $559, making the two video cards directly price comparable. At the time of this writing, the cheapest RTX 5060 Ti 16GB is currently $569 on Newegg, so this still holds true.
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070’s official launch MSRP is $549. However, the current online pricing puts it at the lowest price we can find at Newegg, which is $609, but mostly around $630+. Therefore, the GeForce RTX 5070 is at least $60 more expensive than the Radeon RX 9070 GRE at best, and closer to around a $80+ difference for factory overclocked models. The Radeon RX 9070 GRE is available right now for $549 on Newegg.
That pricing aside, it is still a good idea to compare performance between the two and just see where they line up on performance. Therefore, in our Radeon RX 9070 GRE versus GeForce RTX 5070 review today, we are going to do just that. We will utilize the XFX Swift Radeon RX 9070 GRE Triple Fan Gaming Edition since it has an AMD reference Game Clock and Boost Clock, and compare it with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Founders Edition video card directly. We will test at 1440p, Native Resolution, Upscaling, and Ray Tracing in 14 games.
Radeon RX 9070 GRE & GeForce RTX 5070 Specs
The Radeon RX 9070 GRE is based on the RDNA 4 architecture, using the NAVI 48 GPU die. The Radeon RX 9070 GRE is made up of 48 Compute Units, 3,072 Shading Units, 48 RT Accelerators, 96 HW AI Accelerators, 96 ROPS, and 192 TMUS. It has a Game Clock of 2220MHz and a Boost Clock of up to 2.79GHz. It has 12GB of GDDR6 on a 192-bit memory bus, at 18Gbps, providing 432GB/s of memory bandwidth. The Total Board Power is 220W, and it does support PCI-Express 5.0 x16 full bandwidth.
The GeForce RTX 5070 is based on the Blackwell architecture, using the GB205 die. The GeForce RTX 5070 is made up of 48 SM’s, 6,144 CUDA Cores, 48 RT Cores, 192 Tensor Cores, 80 ROPs, and 192 TMUs. It has a Boost Clock of 2512MHz. It has 12GB of GDDR7 on a 192-bit memory bus at 28Gbps, providing 672GB/s of memory bandwidth. The Total Board Power is 250, and it supports PCI-Express 5.0 x16 full bandwidth.
Therefore, in comparison, both video cards utilize a 12GB VRAM memory capacity. However, due to the GeForce RTX 5070 utilizing GDDR7 and running at a much faster memory clock, on the same 192-bit wide memory bus, the GeForce RTX 5070 has much more memory bandwidth. The GeForce RTX 5070 has 56% more memory bandwidth than the Radeon RX 9070 GRE. Both have access to a full PCIe 5.0 x16 bus.
Technically, the GeForce RTX 5070 has a higher Total Board Power at 250W compared to 220W on the Radeon RX 9070 GRE, a 14% difference. The GeForce RTX 5070 also uses the 16-pin 12VHPWR connector, while the Radeon RX 9070 GRE uses two standard 8-pin PCIe power connectors.