Suddenly much cheaper and still much faster than an RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB, the RX 9070 GRE is the only sub-MSRP graphics card around today

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It's $500 today, but even at full price it would be cheaper than the top five tiers of Nvidia GPUs.

Gigabyte RX 9070 GRE graphics card on an abstract background
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September 18, 2026: This article was originally written for a Gigabyte version of the RX 9070 GRE, however that deal isn't live anymore. There is a deal on an Asus version, however, for the same $500 price at Newegg. We've replaced the deal below with that new one.

Asus RX 9070 GRE | 12 GB
RX 9070 GRE MSRP: $549
Save $80
Asus RX 9070 GRE | 12 GB: was $579.99 now $499.99 at Newegg

The RX 9070 GRE is the latest entry in AMD's RX 9000-series, and for the money, you're getting a great mid-range graphics card. If it stays at this price, then it will be the sensible choice over the 16 GB RTX 5060 Ti. Let's hope that there's enough supply, as stocks are already looking a bit thin. Sign into a free Newegg account to see the full discount.

Key specs: 3072 shaders | 2880 MHz boost | 12 GB GDDR6

RX 9070 GRE price check: Amazon $549.99 | Best Buy $549.99 | Walmart $569.99

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I highlighted this deal as one of the best value graphics card deals on the block last week and, inconceivably, it's become even cheaper now I've checked through all the GPU deals today. That's thanks to the Newegg discount giving you $70 off the listing price. That means it's even more true today that, for PC gamers looking to get the most frame rate bang for their buck, an AMD GPU is the only silicon worth the money right now. And the Radeon RX 9000-series family is also the only one of the current generation to be able to offer a pretty high-end graphics card for under its MSRP.

I give you, once more, the Radeon RX 9070 GRE, a 12 GB card you can pick up today for just $500 at Newegg. The one minor caveat is that you will need to have a Newegg account to be able to see the full discount—just enter the email address you use to create the free account and you'll see an extra $70 lopped off the original $570 price tag.

The most obvious Nvidia-shaped competition for AMD's most recent RDNA 4 GPU is the RTX 5070 12 GB and the RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB. And the absolute cheapest (and trustworthy) prices I've found for those two GeForce cards are $779 and $780 respectively. The RTX 5070 is generally the more performant card, offering slightly higher frame rates. But that's the key here; the frame rate delta is pretty small, especially when you start to bring in upscaled 1440p performance into the picture.

Upscaled gaming performance

Avg FPS
1% Low FPS
RX 9070 GRE | 12 GB
95
82
RX 9070 | 16 GB
111
96
RTX 5070 | 12 GB
107
81
RTX 5060 Ti | 16 GB
86
72
RX 9060 XT | 16 GB
78
69
Black Myth Wukong (1440p High + Upscaling (quality)) Data
ProductValue
RX 9070 GRE | 12 GB95 Avg FPS, 82 1% Low FPS
RX 9070 | 16 GB111 Avg FPS, 96 1% Low FPS
RTX 5070 | 12 GB107 Avg FPS, 81 1% Low FPS
RTX 5060 Ti | 16 GB86 Avg FPS, 72 1% Low FPS
RX 9060 XT | 16 GB78 Avg FPS, 69 1% Low FPS
There are a couple of instances where, when using upscaling, the RX 9070 GRE takes a healthy lead in terms of frame rates over the RTX 5070.

You can also see in those benchmarks the level of gaming performance you can get out of an RX 9070 GRE compared with the RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB card, too. And this is before we get into one of the very neatest tricks of the latest Radeon architecture: its undervolting performance.

Pare back the amount of voltage given to the GPU and it will run cooler. Perhaps counterintuitively, providing lower voltage directly to the Navi 48 chip actually results in higher performance because the card is running cooler and therefore the dynamic nature of current day clock speeds means that they are able to push further. On a pretty standard RX 9070 GRE I was easily topping 3 GHz as standard, delivering another 10% higher frame rates with an overclocked card that's only marginally warmer and a little more power hungry.

Undervolting performance

Avg FPS
1% Low FPS
RX 9070 GRE | Undervolted | -130mV | 2700 Mem
69
42
RX 9070 GRE | Stock
62
55
RX 9070 | Stock
73
64
RTX 5070 | Stock
68
60
Black Myth Wukong (1440p High) Data
ProductValue
RX 9070 GRE | Undervolted | -130mV | 2700 Mem69 Avg FPS, 42 1% Low FPS
RX 9070 GRE | Stock62 Avg FPS, 55 1% Low FPS
RX 9070 | Stock73 Avg FPS, 64 1% Low FPS
RTX 5070 | Stock68 Avg FPS, 60 1% Low FPS
With a super-easy undervolt, the RX 9070 GRE is able to post performance on par or beyond the RTX 5070, and alongside the straight RX 9070.

I feel it's also worth noting at this point that both the prices I've noted for the RTX 5070 and RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB are absolute best case prices, with those $779 and $780 figures being very much the outliers when it comes to general pricing for those GPUs. Most listings you'll find for the pair will have them both beyond the $800 mark.

Which is frankly offensive.

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1. Best overall: AMD Radeon RX 9070

2. Best value: AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB

3. Best budget: Nvidia RTX 5050

4. Best mid-range: AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

5. Best high-end: Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090


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Dave James
Dave James
Editor-in-Chief, Hardware

Dave has been gaming since the days of Zaxxon and Lady Bug on the Colecovision, and code books for the Commodore Vic 20 (Death Race 2000!). He built his first gaming PC at the tender age of 16, and finally finished bug-fixing the Cyrix-based system around a year later. When he dropped it out of the window. He first started writing for Official PlayStation Magazine and Xbox World many decades ago, then moved onto PC Format full-time, then PC Gamer, TechRadar, and T3 among others. Now he's back, writing about the nightmarish graphics card market, CPUs with more cores than sense, gaming laptops hotter than the sun, and SSDs more capacious than a Cybertruck.

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