NVIDIA lowers RTX 2060 Pricing - AMD reconfigures Radeon RX 5600 XT (Updated)

There is an interesting series of news items around the web today, two of them in particular. First off, the RTX 2060 price reduction towards 299 USD, is a real thing, we've confirmed this with NVIDIA. A secondary chatter on the web is that AMD might be reconfiguring the Radeon RX 5600 XT. I can clear up info on that, it is partly correct. 

Media worldwide is hard at with their 5600 XT reviews, and yes yesterday the media samples required a new firmware, I can confirm this personally. While we cannot confirm or say what triggered AMD to do that, we can confirm that there are significant changes in firmware configuration. We're not allowed to disclose performance numbers just yet, but specs have already been announced and as such, I see no reason to share what the new configuration will become. 

The biggest thing you need to realize is that reference MSRP products will remain in spec as announced. Then there are the OC models, the factory tweaked ones, here's where the reconfiguration is taking place. AMD has been increasing the TGP value allowing a higher boost/turbo clock. On the 'old' firmware the memory clocks have been the same 12 Gbps as well, AMD seems to have given some freedom to AIBs there as well. The new OC models will get a power allowance of up-to 180 Watts in total, the TGP (GPU power) has definitely increased from 150 towards 160 Watts. Accumulated all together, that's a valid tweak as the boost clock just jumped from 1560 MHz advertised, towards wait for it ... ~1700 MHz. 

In the end, the consumer wins here, for AMD I am not sure how this will pan out, they are now actively cannibalizing their own Radeon RX 5700 (non-XT). Next week you can expect some reviews. But currently, we have to re-do all reviews from scratch as this reconfiguration changes everything from power measurements, thermals, and performance.

Update: the latest news is that memory configurations now also may be bumped from 12 Gbps towards 14 Gbps.

	RX 5700 XT	RX 5700	RX 5600 XT	RX 5500 XT
GPU	Navi 10 XT	Navi 10 XL	Navi 10 Pro	Navi 14 XTX
Cores	2560	2304	2304	1408
Basic clock	1605 MHz	1465 MHz	1130 MHz	1607 MHz
Game clock	1755 MHz	1625 MHz	1375 MHz	1717 MHz
Boost clock	1905 MHz	1725 MHz	1560 MHz	1845 MHz
Memory	8GB GDDR6	8GB GDDR6	6GB GDDR6	4GB / 8GB GDDR6
Memory bus	256 bit	256 bit	192 bit	128 bit
Memory clock speed	14 Gbps	14 Gbps	12 Gbps	14 Gbps
Bandwidth	448 GB/s	448 GB/s	288 GB/s	224 GB/s
Recommended retail price	USD 449	USD 379	279 USD	199 USD