With its price falling to about $500, AMD’s cut-down Radeon RX 9070 GRE is challenging the RTX 5070 with competitive 1440p performance and stronger rasterisation in some games.
When Nvidia launched the GeForce RTX 5070 in March 2025, the card was meant to sit at the centre of the mainstream gaming market, offering Blackwell architecture, DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation and a $549 starting price. AMD answered with the Radeon RX 9070 family at the same price point, setting up a direct contest for buyers looking for strong 1440p performance without moving into far more expensive hardware.
In practice, the two cards have proved closely matched in raster performance, with AMD holding a narrow edge in several tests. GamersNexus found the RX 9070 ahead of the RTX 5070 in Dragon’s Dogma 2 at 4K, where it averaged 64.1 frames per second to Nvidia’s 56.4, although both cards are more naturally suited to 1440p play than native 4K rendering. At that resolution, the same outlet recorded 106.1fps for the RX 9070 and 95.8fps for the RTX 5070. Hardware Unboxed reached a similarly even result in Dragon Age: Veilguard, where both cards delivered 79fps at 1440p with Ultra Quality settings.
That balance is why AMD’s later Radeon RX 9070 GRE has attracted attention. TechSpot reports that the card launched in May 2025 with 12GB of GDDR6 memory, a 192-bit bus and 3,072 shader cores, placing it below the standard RX 9070 but above the RX 9060 XT in AMD’s stack. Although it was introduced at $570, later reports from Tom’s Hardware and PC Gamer said the card slipped to about $499.99, improving its value proposition in the crowded mid-range segment.
The GRE is also notable because it trims specifications rather than trying to win on sheer hardware scale. PC Gamer described it as a version built from slightly imperfect silicon, with fewer shaders and less memory bandwidth than the regular RX 9070, yet still capable of matching or sometimes surpassing the RTX 5070 under certain conditions. That makes the comparison less about absolute leadership and more about which card offers the better mix of price, raster performance and feature set for a typical 1440p system.
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