Four AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT Partner Models to Come with Fast BIOSes, Rest Will be ~5% Slower

AMD’s Radeon RX 5600 XT is all set for launch tonight, with about two dozen board partner models prepped and raring to go. These include GPUs from PowerColor, ASUS, Sapphire, Gigabyte, ASRock, XFX and MSI. We’ve checked with AMD and it appears that four out of these 18 models will support the faster vBIOS out of the box. These are:

There are other AIC cards that will get a performance boost of sorts but they’ll mostly sit in the 1600MHz range, and as such, these five models will be the highest performing ones. Gigabyte’s Windforce is set to get a BIOS update increasing the memory clock from 12Gbps to 14, but the core clocks will be limited to 1620MHz (boost). The complete list of board partner Radeon RX 5600 XTs is as follows:

XFX seems to have boost almost the entire lineup with faster core clocks and an increase in memory speed to 14Gbps. The rest of the OEMs have mainly just increased the boost clock to 16xxMHz.

From what we’ve heard, the Sapphire Pulse and the Thicc III models will retail for $10 more at $289 while the rest of the board parter cards will cost $279. The “OC” models will probably cost more.

Furthermore, AMD has confirmed that the Radeon RX 5600 XT won’t replace the RX 5700, regardless of how close the two cards may perform. As per the PR team, the higher VRAM size on the 5700 will ensure a better experience at 1440p while the 5600 XT is ideal for 1080p ultra.

Our review is set to go live very soon. Stay Tuned!