Having only just finished my testing and review of the Radeon RX 9070 GRE before I flew out to Taipei for Computex 2026, I wanted to take the opportunity when I sat down with AMD's David McAfee to talk about one of the most impressive things I've seen in all the Navi 48 GPUs I've played with: the overclocking headroom.
More specifically, the performance headroom you can squeeze out of the GPU when you undervolt it. David McAfee runs AMD's Ryzen and Radeon business, so I was keen to find out how that came about given that for generations of GPU that hasn't been the case.
"It was certainly not accidental," says McAfee. "I think that we understand that, both for CPUs and GPUs, overclockability is a core part of what many of our buyers, our gamers and enthusiasts, are looking for. I think that in years past, you know, the product definition would squeeze every bit of overclocking headroom out of the product and productise it just as a stock SKU, a pre-configured SKU. And that left the community with really no room to have have fun with the product and experiment and see...
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