AMD is targeting the esports market with their new graphics card aimed to take on the the sub-$300 market currently occupied by the GeForce GTX 1660 series from NVIDIA. Based on the 7nm Navi GPU silicon, the RX 5600XT features 2304 stream processors across 36 RDNA compute units, similar to the RX 5700 with some spec reduction to reduce price. The card features 6GB of GDDR6 memory wired to a 192-bit wide memory interface capable of 12Gbps bandwidth. The GPU also features a clock speed of 1500Mhz.
The card is designed with a 150W board power target, and requires a single 8-pin PCIe power connector on reference designed cards. The RX 5600 XT is mainly aimed at 1080p esports gamers that require the power of a 1080p card but need the games to run a more fluid 144hz or higher but is equally capable at pushing a lighter 1440p title.
AMD showed off performance numbers of the RX 5600 XT beating the GTX 1660 Ti which currently tops the 16-series cards.
AMD has a $279 SEP pricing for the RX 5600 XT, competing directly with the GTX 1660 Ti.
The Radeon RX 5600 XT will be available on January 21, 2020.
