Introduction
The Sapphire Radeon RX 9070 GRE Pulse is based on AMD’s RDNA 4 architecture, targeting the mainstream gaming segment. Sapphire is an exclusive AMD partner with a long track record of well-designed Radeon graphics cards. Initially launched as China only, around May 2025, the RX 9070 GRE fits between the RX 9060 XT and RX 9070, offering a Navi 48 GPU configuration.
The RX 9070 GRE uses AMD’s Navi 48 XL GPU with 3,072 streaming processors across 48 RDNA 4 computing units, paired with 12 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 192-bit bus, providing 432 GB/s of bandwidth. The “GRE” suffix stands for “Golden Rabbit Edition,” a naming convention AMD introduced with the RX 7900 GRE. RDNA 4 brings significant improvements in ray tracing performance—AMD claims up to twice the RT performance per compute unit compared to RDNA 3—and dedicated AI accelerators built into compute units for the first time. These AI accelerators are at the heart of AMD’s card: they power FSR 4, the first version of AMD’s overclocking technology that uses on-chip machine learning hardware instead of shader-based algorithms. Previous versions of FSR ran on any GPU but were limited in image quality; FSR 4 is designed to bridge the gap with NVIDIA’s DLSS. FSR 4 and frame generation are supported in more than 300 games. Priced at “starting at $550,” AMD positions the RX 9070 GRE as filling the gap between the RTX 5060 Ti and RTX 5070. The card connects via PCI-Express 5.0 x16 and supports DisplayPort 2.1a UHBR13.5 for a display result with a high refresh rate. AMD’s dual VCN media engine provides hardware acceleration for AV1, H.265, and H.264 encoding and decoding.
Sapphire’s Pulse implementation features a dual-fan cooler with a compact PCB design, powered by two 8-pin PCIe connectors.
| Price | The cores | ROPs | Total A clock |
Improve A clock |
Memory A clock |
The GPU | Transistors | Memory | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arc B580 | $280 | 2560 | 80 | 2670 MHz | N/A | 2375 MHz | BMG-G21 | 19600M | 12 GB, GDDR6, 192-bit |
| RTX 4060 Ti | $300 | 4352 | 48 | 2310 MHz | 2535 MHz | 2250 MHz | AD106 | 22900M | 8 GB, GDDR6, 128-bit |
| RTX 5060 | $300 | 3840 | 48 | 2280 MHz | 2497 MHz | 1750 MHz | GB206 | 21900M | 8 GB, GDDR7, 128-bit |
| RX 7700 XT | $410 | 3456 | 96 | 2171 MHz | 2544 MHz | 2250 MHz | Navi 32 | 26500M | 12 GB, GDDR6, 192-bit |
| RX 9060 XT | $390 | 2048 | 64 | 2530 MHz | 3130 MHz | 2518 MHz | Navi 44 | 29700M | 16 GB, GDDR6, 128-bit |
| RTX 5060 Ti | $380 | 4608 | 48 | 2407 MHz | 2572 MHz | 1750 MHz | GB206 | 21900M | 8 GB, GDDR7, 128-bit |
| RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB | $520 | 4608 | 48 | 2407 MHz | 2572 MHz | 1750 MHz | GB206 | 21900M | 16 GB, GDDR7, 128-bit |
| RTX 4070 | $500 | 5888 | 64 | 1920 MHz | 2475 MHz | 1313 MHz | AD104 | 35800M | 12 GB, GDDR6X, 192-bit |
| RX 7800 XT | $450 | 3840 | 96 | 2124 MHz | 2430 MHz | 2425 MHz | Navi 32 | 28100M | 16 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit |
| RTX 4070 Super | $600 | 7168 | 80 | 1980 MHz | 2475 MHz | 1313 MHz | AD104 | 35800M | 12 GB, GDDR6X, 192-bit |
| RX 7900 GRE | $630 | 5120 | 160 | 1880 MHz | 2245 MHz | 2250 MHz | Navi 31 | 57700M | 16 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit |
| RTX 4070 Ti | $700 | 7680 | 80 | 2310 MHz | 2610 MHz | 1313 MHz | AD104 | 35800M | 12 GB, GDDR6X, 192-bit |
| RX 9070 GRE | $550 | 3072 | 96 | 1420 MHz | 2790 MHz | 2250 MHz | Navi 48 | 53900M | 12 GB, GDDR6, 192-bit |
| RTX 5070 | $560 | 6144 | 80 | 2325 MHz | 2512 MHz | 1750 MHz | GB205 | 31100M | 12 GB, GDDR7, 192-bit |
| RTX 4070 Ti Super | $900 | 8448 | 96 | 2340 MHz | 2610 MHz | 1313 MHz | AD103 | 45900M | 16 GB, GDDR6X, 256-bit |
| RX 7900 XT | $680 | 5376 | 192 | 2000 MHz | 2400 MHz | 2500 MHz | Navi 31 | 57700M | 20 GB, GDDR6, 320-bit |
| RX 9070 | $580 | 3584 | 128 | 2070 MHz | 2520 MHz | 2518 MHz | Navi 48 | 53900M | 16 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit |
| RX 9070 XT | $630 | 4096 | 128 | 2400 MHz | 2970 MHz | 2518 MHz | Navi 48 | 53900M | 16 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit |
| RTX 5070 Ti | $860 | 8960 | 96 | 2295 MHz | 2452 MHz | 1750 MHz | GB203 | 45600M | 16 GB, GDDR7, 256-bit |
| RX 7900 XTX | $800 | 6144 | 192 | 2300 MHz | 2500 MHz | 2500 MHz | Navi 31 | 57700M | 24 GB, GDDR6, 384-bit |
| RTX 4080 | $1200 | 9728 | 112 | 2205 MHz | 2505 MHz | 1400 MHz | AD103 | 45900M | 16 GB, GDDR6X, 256-bit |
| RTX 4080 Super | $1300 | 10240 | 112 | 2295 MHz | 2550 MHz | 1438 MHz | AD103 | 45900M | 16 GB, GDDR6X, 256-bit |
| RTX 5080 | $1150 | 10752 | 112 | 2295 MHz | 2617 MHz | 1875 MHz | GB203 | 45600M | 16 GB, GDDR7, 256-bit |