AMD has officially announced the AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE, the China-exclusive high-end RDNA 4 gaming GPU, along with a May 8 pre-order date. As with previous iterations of AMD's GRE GPUs, the RX 9070 GRE is a trimmed-back version of the higher-tier models, with both less VRAM and fewer compute units ...
  • Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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    11 days ago

    I never understood how the China-exclusive GRE fits into AMD’s overall product segmentation strategy. A SKU in-between the regular 9070 and 9070 XT just for the Chinese market?

    • MHLoppy@fedia.io
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      11 days ago

      It’s a hot-clocked 9070 with less CUs, so maybe it’s mostly for salvaging slightly-bad dies? I naively assume that the average buyer/user in China trends slightly towards the “esports”-like titles and/or is more price-sensitive than western buyers/users so the lower VRAM also kinda fits the market.