{"id":235,"date":"2020-01-21T12:25:56","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T18:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.proliphus.com\/?p=235"},"modified":"2020-01-21T12:26:06","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T18:26:06","slug":"amd-makes-saving-throw-with-pre-launch-5600-xt-bios-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.proliphus.com\/?p=235","title":{"rendered":"AMD Makes Saving Throw With Pre-Launch 5600 XT BIOS Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Faced with the prospect of its just released Radeon RX 5600 XT being a worse value proposition than NVIDIA&#8217;s RTX 2060, AMD rolled out a BIOS update for the GPU to increase performance. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.proliphus.com\/?p=204\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"NVIDIA recently lowered the price of the RTX 2060 to $299 (opens in a new tab)\">NVIDIA recently lowered the price of the RTX 2060 to $299<\/a> which while about $20 more expensive than the 5600 XT had a performance advantage that more than made up for the increased cost. AMD&#8217;s BIOS update resulted in double digit performance gains to match or exceed that of the RTX 2060. <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/qcAwR49zRCg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Hardware Unboxed benchmarks the 5600 XT before and after the BIOS update against the RTX 2060 (opens in a new tab)\">Hardware Unboxed benchmarks the 5600 XT before and after the BIOS update against the RTX 2060<\/a> and other cards in the video below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1140\" height=\"642\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qcAwR49zRCg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faced with the prospect of its just released Radeon RX 5600 XT being a worse value proposition than NVIDIA&#8217;s RTX 2060, AMD rolled out a BIOS update for the GPU to increase performance. NVIDIA recently lowered the price of the RTX 2060 to $299 which while about $20 more expensive than the 5600 XT had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[67],"tags":[68,74,71,72,73],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-amd","tag-gpu","tag-nvidia","tag-rtx-2060","tag-rx-5600-xt","czr-hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.proliphus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/AMDRadeon5600xt.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1sx6s-3N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proliphus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proliphus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proliphus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proliphus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proliphus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.proliphus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237,"href":"https:\/\/www.proliphus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions\/237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proliphus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proliphus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proliphus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proliphus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}