The most puzzling part of that table is probably the launch MSRP. We admit that the $599/$549 launch prices of the RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 were something of a joke – though it’s possible that AMD offered incentives to get retailers to honor them sometimes. Maybe.
This new GRE variant is being offered at the same $549 USD launch MSRP as the faster RX 9070’s launch MSRP. Make sense? Ok, so the lowest actual price for the non-GRE RX 9070 is $599 right now, making this RX 9070 GRE $50 below the RX 9070 in the real world, rather than the same price. Let this sink in for a moment.
For a savings of a whole $50 (half a tank of gas, essentially), we endure moving down to 18 Gbps (effective) GDDR6 from 20 Gbps, drop to a 192-bit memory interface, lose 8 CUs, and lose 16MB of Infinity Cache. Oh, and it’s a 12GB card, rather than 16GB. Have I convinced to buy the RX 9070, instead? Well, we should see the results first. Maybe the faster clocks will help.
