Today, we've got something new for you. Well, AMD is pretending it's new, but it's really just a product they released about a year ago as a China-exclusive. We guess they weren't able to sell enough of them there, so now they're gifting the entire world their worst-binned Navi 48 silicon. Yippie. PC gaming hardware is so epic right now.
So what are we talking about? AMD has just lifted the review embargo on the new Radeon RX 9070 GRE. Because apparently the "Golden Rabbit Edition" naming scheme is here to stay, even though we're now a couple of years removed from the Year of the Rabbit. GRE also has to be one of the least cool arrangements of letters you could possibly come up with for a graphics card designed for PC gaming.
Anyway, positioned just below the standard RX 9070, it's supposed to be AMD's highly competitive answer to Nvidia's RTX 5070, as well as the now heavily overpriced RTX 5060 Ti 16GB. AMD is pitching it as the new mid-range value champion for 1440p gamers.
Of course, it's not technically a new product, but it is new to the global retail market. That means if you live outside China, it will become a new GPU option. So for those unaware, let's go over what the 9070 GRE actually is.
