[Hardware Unboxed] AMD's New GPU Makes No Sense | Radeon RX 9070 GRE vs. GeForce RTX 5070

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GenZia@reddit

The GPU makes perfect sense.

Silicon binning isn't exactly a hot new concept AMD just stumbled upon, contrary to YouTube wisdom.

It's the pricing that doesn't make any freakin' sense.

AMD should've simply scrapped these chips instead of shoving them in these "Golden Rabbit" editions or whatever.

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TophxSmash@reddit

i wonder if there are even bad chips.

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Responsible_Stage336@reddit

I think the pricing is likely shit because the yields on 9070's have been so good that if they had the GRE at a lower price it'd sell out quickly and kill the SKU

Meanwhile if they only have a few; makes sense to price it in a way where few would buy to maximize profit

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detectiveDollar@reddit

Yeah, it's also why it's been China-only for so long

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Jeep-Eep@reddit

I will say it again, it makes more sense then the client 5070. This is a dustbin SKU, abiet a badly priced one. The Blackwell is a waste of process time and VRAM.

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Noreng@reddit

I wouldn't be surprised if the memory controllers are all fine, and they are disabled for BOM reasons.

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theholylancer@reddit

i would not be surprised if the 9070 is discontinued or effectively by little allocation if they had just the 9070 xt with 16 gb of vram and this gre with 12

the 9070 dies are stacked somewhere (or even cut down but probs not), to be used in the future when vram is less fucked.

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Jeep-Eep@reddit

Gets killed the same way as the 5070; at least it's a dustbin SKU and not a waste of node and components like the blackwell mind.

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imKaku@reddit

Wild GPU. Especially from a European context. I can get 9070 XT from MSRP without a issue. Sometimes on sale, i can get 9070 XT below MSRP.

The GPUs just don't sell compared to their supply. They are a however a great deal with the 5070 ti Prices being sky high (about 320 USD over the 9070 XT).

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Sensitive_Whale1754@reddit

5070ti is sky high because the demand is high unlike the 9070xt

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I think supply for 5070 Ti is really low compared tot the 9070xt. Here in Germany Radeon cards are the top sellers at pretty much every vendor. I think AMD went overboard with production and it's now biting them in the ass because they can't hike prices like Nvidia does.

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thunder6776@reddit

Nobody is buying amd except redditors lol

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sunkenwhalebones@reddit

Obviously we're talking about dGPUs for building PCs. Prebuilts and Laptops use Nvidia pretty much exclusively. And guess what, most people aren't building their own PC. But if we're purely talking about selfmade PCs, AMD is currently outselling Nvidia (according to Galaxus and Mindfactory).

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Sensitive_Whale1754@reddit

Nope, we have ample data showing otherwise. I hope you are not referencing stupid mindfactory for your data. Nvidia has more than 90% of the market, it's leading in Germany too

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imKaku@reddit

I mean yes, but we also know 5070 ti production have been significantly lowered. Two things can be true at hte same time. 5070 ti production is low, 9070 xt demand is low.

5070 ti cores can just be sold as 5080s given the binning process gets yielded higher results.

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SoTOP@reddit

The pricing will self regulate. If this thing will be barely cheaper than 5070 or 9070 they won't sell and will have to drop in price despite whatever MSRP is said to be.

That will not happen only if other cards increase in price, or stock will be so low that enough people can be scammed into buying this for similar price to faster cards.

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imKaku@reddit

Price can only self regulate in a health market that much. What have typically happen to AMD GPUs is that they price crash when supply vastly outdo demand. The 6750 XT was a great example of this after the covid times.

Don't get me wrong. This is great for consumers, but it's not something that makes AMD or the Retailers money. What i assume is that they are expecting other cards to go up in price (quick look on NewEgg, 9070 XTs are vastly more expensive in US then EU). And this will stay in the void that they leave.

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KARMAAACS@reddit

Can't spell "GREED" without "GRE".

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work-school-account@reddit

Greedy Radeon Extortion

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Flaimbot@reddit

so where's all the

aMd UnBoXeD
shouting kiddos at?

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ResponsibleJudge3172@reddit

It is and has always been about proportion. 1 does not make a trend

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constantlymat@reddit

I mean Steve makes it easy for his haters. He is still busy making feature videos in 2026 that accuse nvidia of fraud because the lowest entry-level RTX card of the very first generation was not capable enough to raytrace even though RTX 2070 or the refreshed 2060S met that threshold.

If I listened to his advise to buy the 5700XT instead of the RTX 2070S back in the day I would have made a horrible mistake but does he critically reflect any of this? No.

He produces nvidia rage content while the people who bought his recommended AMD cards like the 6700XT, 6800XT have aged horribly due to drastically inferior software support.

That's something worth making a video about, but instead he makes content because of the 6GB RTX 2060 almost a decade after it was launched.

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