Any moron could've anticipated that NVIDIA would cut RTX 2060 prices to hamstring 5600 XT.... except, apparently, the morons in charge of RTG. They aren't willing to drop their price to compete, so the only option is a new VBIOS to increase performance.
Except, in a second colossal blunder, they decided to launch the 5600 XT at the beginning of Chinese New Year... in other words, when everyone at AIB companies who could be flashing those new BIOSes onto the cards, is on holiday. RTG can't afford to have 5600 XT stock sitting in warehouses until CNY is over, so they decide to ship the cards anyway and pass the burden of BIOS updates down to consumers.
Which actually means they've passed that burden down to their AIBs, because it's the AIBs who will have to deal with the RMAs from BIOS flashes gone wrong, and the returns from people who don't receive the performance they expected and aren't able or willing to do a BIOS flash. Imagine how thrilled the AIBs are at this prospect.
The AIBs are also likely to be thrilled that they designed and built 5600 XT boards with coolers for the original TDP, that now have to deal with the increased TDP of the new VBIOS. Now their cards' temperature and noise readings will be worse compared to the competition.
All in all, a giant clusterf**k of a way for RTG to kick off 2020. They've managed to piss of AIBs, they're going to piss off consumers, and meanwhile NVIDIA is sitting in the corner on a pile of TU104 dies earmarked for RTX 2060s and laughing.
cards like this and the 2060 shouldn't be more than 250$
According to who? You and every other armchair "expert" who thinks they should be entitled to set GPU prices because reasons?
this really explains the rushed existence of the KO. both overpriced. cards like this and the 2060 shouldn't be more than 250$
