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 |
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So it might be true what I expected: the RX 5600 XT would be a card with OC capabilities much higher than we are used to when speaking about AMD cards.
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Begun, the GPU wars, have !
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Give us the 250€ GPU AMD that we want
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5600xt 2ghz and 13gbps memory overclock would be stock 5700 performance for 280$. Cant wait for the review.
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Interesting times for the consumer.