In response to NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 2060 price cut, AMD has allegedly changed the specifications of its Radeon RX 5600 XT a few days before hitting the shelves. According to the report by HKEPC, AMD is already on the move with a new BIOS update being pushed to its board partners.

The newly revised specifications and the new BIOS update is confirmed by Videocardz with leaked specifications of the SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 5600 XT 6GB, where the GPU base clock has been increased to 1560 MHz and the boost clock to 1750 MHz. The memory clock has also been increased from 12 Gbps to 14 Gbps, matching the rest of the RX 5000 series graphics cards in terms of memory clock speed.

Sapphire Radeon RX 5600 XT PULSE Specs Change

Other than having lesser VRAM and lower bandwidth, the RX 5600 XT seems to be getting closer to the RX 5700 after the specifications update. The surprise specifications update is definitely good news for the end-users, but this also means that reviewers who already got their hands on the RX 5600 XT will have to redo all the test that has been completed previously in order to get the new numbers for performance comparison.

The newly updated specifications and comparison with the rest of the already released Radeon RX 5000 series graphics cards can be found in the table below:

RX 5700 XTRX 5700RX 5600 XTRX 5500 XT
GPUNavi 10 XTNavi 10 XLNavi 10Navi 14 XTX
Cores2560230423041408
Base Clock1605 MHz1465 MHz1560 MHz1607 MHz
Boost Clock1905 MHz1725 MHz1750 MHz1845 MHz
Memory8GB GDDR68GB GDDR66GB GDDR64GB/8GB GDDR6
Memory Bus256-bit256-it192-bit128-bit
Memory Clock14 Gbps14 Gbps14 Gbps14 Gbps
Bandwidth448 GB/s448 GB/s288 GB/s224 GB/s
MSRP$399$349$279$169

It’s unsure how much of a performance gain will the RX 5600 XT get from the update, but it’s definitely going to push it even closer to the RTX 2060 in terms of raw performance. As for the lack of RTX features still, the wait will continue but it won’t take long before we see a functional ray tracing feature on AMD Radeon GPU.

In the recent “The Bring Up” series by AMD, Dr. Lisa Su reaffirms that a stronger Radeon graphics card is already in the work, dubbed “Big Navi”, which we can expect to see in 2020.

Source: HKEPC, Videocardz

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