AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE Review: Great 1440p Gaming, With Caveats
Homeworld 3 Benchmarks
Homeworld 3
The Powercolor Radeon RX 9070 GRE slots in just behind the Radeon RX 9070 and GeForce RTX 5070 at both resolutions and pulls away from the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti at 1440p.
Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered Benchmarks
Next up, we’ve got some benchmarks from Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered. The original Horizon Zero Dawn was initially released as an exclusive on the PlayStation 4, but was ported to the PC a couple of years back. A few months ago, however, a remastered version of the game was released, with upgraded visuals and support for more advanced graphics technologies. For those unfamiliar with the game, it follows a character named Aloy, who is on a quest to unravel mysteries of a future Earth ruled by machines. She is outcast from her tribe and fights to uncover her past and stop an impending threat.
Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered
The same is true with DLSS or FSR enabled. The Powercolor Radeon RX 9070 GRE performs particularly well in this game and achieving super-high framerates to saturate a high-speed monitor is absolutely possible at 1440p.
The Talos Principle II Testing
Croteam’s The Talos Principle II is a sequel to the original first-person, puzzle-based adventure game that features philosophical themes and expansive environments with increasingly more difficult challenges as the game progresses. It was originally released for multiple platforms, but has been continually updated on the PC.
The Talos Principle II
The Powercolor Radeon RX 9070 GRE finishes right between the Radeon RX 9070 and GeForce RTX 5070 at 1440p, but well ahead of the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti once again.
With DLSS or FSR enabled, the Powercolor Radeon RX 9070 GRE's performance is very good. With resolution scaling alone, it's not able to overtake the RTX 5070, but with frame generation in the mix, the Powercolor Radeon RX 9070 GRE's effective frame rate edges out the more expensive RTX 5070.
Black Myth: Wukong Benchmarks
Black Myth: Wukong is a title with a storied history. It began development way back in 2018, and was first showed to the public with an incredible trailer in 2020, but the pandemic and other internal struggles delayed the game's development and it wasn't released until last year. Black Myth: Wukong supports a variety of upscalers, including NVIDIA's DLSS, AMD's FSR3, Intel's XeSS, and Epic's own TSR. Using DLSS, FSR3, or TSR gives you the option of enabling frame generation too, which you'll need if you want to crank up the visuals in this stunning title to maintain smooth animation.
Black Myth: Wukong
Black Myth: Wukong is absolutely punishing at the Cinematic image quality preset with full ray tracing enabled (medium quality). In this game, the Powercolor Radeon RX 9070 GRE takes a beating and actually falls victim to the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti at 1440p, let alone the GeForce RTX 50 series cards.
Resolution scaling with DLSS or FSR is practically a must if you want to play Black Myth: Wukong with these cards. The Powercolor Radeon RX 9070 GRE nearly hits the 70 FPS mark with FSR and frame gen enabled, but relative to the GeForces it's not pretty.
Black Myth: Wukong
Resolution scaling with DLSS or FSR is practically a must if you want to play Black Myth: Wukong with these cards. The Powercolor Radeon RX 9070 GRE nearly hits the 70 FPS mark with FSR and frame gen enabled, but relative to the GeForces it's not pretty.
F1 24 Racing Sim Benchmarks
F1 24 is Codemaster’s latest Formula One racing simulation, and like previous version of the game, it sports impressive visuals. This latest addition to the franchise supports DirectX 12 with ray tracing, and it incorporates support for a number of AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) features and NVIDIA technologies, like DLSS with frame generation. We tested the games with its Ultra High graphics preset, with ray tracing and TAA enabled at a couple of resolutions to see what these graphics cards could do.
F1 24
With DLSS or FSR 2 (Balanced) enabled in F1 24, the new Powercolor Radeon RX 9070 GRE continues to perform well. With just resolution scaling, it trades blows with the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti, but pulls ahead of the pack once frame gen is enabled.
Cyberpunk 2077 Benchmarks
Cyberpunk 2077 is based on the Cyberpunk tabletop role-playing game franchise. The tabletop game was published for the first time all the way back in 1988, and the intervening 30-odd years has not changed the game world all that much. As a result, Cyberpunk 2077 looks somewhat retro-futuristic, as this is how people in the '80s imagined what the future would look like.The PC game make use of virtually every advanced DirectX graphics technology and features support for DLSS, FSR and XeSS, and after a somewhat rocky release, it has been significantly updated and optimized for a multitude of hardware configurations. Although it is no longer considered a new title, Cyberpunk 2077 remains a showcase for many advanced graphics technologies.
We tested a pre-release version of Cyberpunk 2077 that's been updated with support for DLSS 4's transformer model and multi-frame generation. This is an important note because Cyberpunk foreshadows how future games that are optimized for the Blackwell GPU architecture and the RTX 50 series, may perform relative to other GPUs.
Cyberpunk 2077
With FSR enabled, the Powercolor Radeon RX 9070 GRE's effective framerate jumps up considerably, and it edges past the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti. No matter what settings we tried, however, we couldn't get frame generation working in this game with the Powercolor Radeon RX 9070 GRE. Whether we tried FSR 3 or 4, enabling frame generation in the game's menu, didn't actually enable frame generation. We're not clear if it's an issue with Cyberpunk or the drivers we were provided to pull together this review.
