AMD and NVIDIA get into mid-range GPU Price War

AMD Announced the RX5600 XT for $279 at CES, a card with the same number of shaders as the RX 5700, but lower clocks and a 192-bit bus. It's due to be released this Tuesday, the 21st.

Nvidia fired back yesterday with an official price cut on he RTX 2060 6GB to $300:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/15412/nvidia-cuts-price-of-geforce-rtx-2060-to-299

Now AMD is returning fire, officially upping the specs of the cards prior to launch:

https://www.techpowerup.com/263059/...-rx-5600-xt-in-response-to-rtx-2060-price-cut

Looks like the existing RX 5700 has become less relevant overnight, and they haven't even released this new card yet!

Unexpected, this is.

Great for GPU buyers though, this is the competition many hoped for.

Even if AMD doesn't offer something to compete with the higher end it will still help. If they have to lower the mid range prices, they'll be forced to lower the higher end prices a bit to. Otherwise less people will be less inclined to buy a $500-550 GPU when the dollar to performance jump ratio starts to look unfavorable when you move up in product segments. Obviously, if AMD can compete with the higher end that would be even better. I am hoping they can get out something that can trade blows with the "RTX 3070" whenever that comes.

defaultluser said:

AMD Announced the RX5600 XT for $279 at CES, a card with the same number of shaders as the RX 5700, but lower clocks and a 192-bit bus. It's due to be released this Tuesday, the 21st.

Nvidia fired back yesterday with an official price cut on he RTX 2060 6GB to $300:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/15412/nvidia-cuts-price-of-geforce-rtx-2060-to-299

Now AMD is returning fire, officially upping the specs of the cards prior to launch:

https://www.techpowerup.com/263059/...-rx-5600-xt-in-response-to-rtx-2060-price-cut

Looks like the existing RX 5700 has become less relevant overnight, and they haven't even released this new card yet!

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Whoops, didn't see this before I posted mine. Feels like AMD baited Nvidia to cut prices before showing their real hand. Show it a bit slower to get Nvidia to bring prices lower but not down to the same price point, then give it more power so Nvidia is kind of stuck. I doubt they'll re-announce a second price cut, but with more power the 5600xt will look like an even better deal.