AMD Formally announces Radeon RX 5600 XT Graphics Card with 14Gbps GDDR6 with 19 models

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 05/05/2020 07:39 AM | source: | 20 comment(s)

It was a last-minute change during the announcement, revision power states, and a bump from 12 towards 14 Gbps on the GDDR6 memory for the Radeon RX 5600 XT. However, the company never made that announcement officially. Until now.

AMD announced on May 4, 2020 (local time), a graphics card, the "Radeon RX 5600 XT" in a version compatible with a memory data-rate of 14 Gbps. That doesn't mean there won't be 12 Gbps SKUs, just a number of cards support 14 Gbps by BIOS update or can be purchased like that (no BIOS upgrade as it is a new SKU). Listed on the currently released list are 7 manufacturers such as ASUS "ROG-STRIX-RX5600XT-O6G-GAMING" that has been subjected to detailed verification and ASRock "Radeon RX 5600 XT Phantom Gaming D2 6G OC". There are 19 models listed in total, out of them 10 can be upgraded with a new BIOS. The list will be updated as soon as compatibility with other models is confirmed.

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Loobyluggs
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#5785423 Posted on: 05/05/2020 07:56 AM

19 models???

WHY???

Anyone remember the days when a new product came onto the market and there was just one model, sometimes three; 'like high medium and low? 19...that's just killing the market.

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/220604

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"Unable to explain why so many products were necessary, Jobs asked his team of top managers, "Which ones do I tell my friends to buy?" When he didn't get a simple answer, Jobs got to work reducing the number of Apple products by 70 percent. Among the casualties was the Newton digital personal assistant."

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#5785430 Posted on: 05/05/2020 08:26 AM

I would just rather buy a blower rx5700 at that price.

darkpolo5
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#5785454 Posted on: 05/05/2020 10:14 AM

If you have 10 manufacturers and if every one of them has 2 models... That is like, mmm, 20 models? They are all different with their heatsinks and so

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#5785468 Posted on: 05/05/2020 11:20 AM

I would just rather buy a blower rx5700 at that price.

Here, for little more, you can buy a decent cooled 5700. Both 5500 and 5600 are the worst value propositions, ever.
*Looks at 5 months old RX580 inside PC case*

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#5785488 Posted on: 05/05/2020 12:25 PM

I had a original release Powercolor Red Devil 5600 XT. It will not run correctly with the updated bios (lockups, video tdr failures etc) . Card is very unstable with the memory clocked at 1750. I am not alone as I've seen other posts by users with other brands of 5600 XT that are having similar issues when they update the cards bios. I returned mine to Powercolor and they sent me a new one and the new one still didn't have the new bios. It is running prefect like it is and I'm afraid to flash it.

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