Price drop of the AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 to face the NVIDIA GTX 1660 Ti

Price reduction of the AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 graphics card, in order to face the NVIDIA GTX 1660 Ti.

Theoretically during this day the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti graphics cards will be launched, a mid-range gaming solution is RayTracing. It seems that AMD wants to fight and have decided to lower the price of the Radeon RX Vega 56. The reference model in Germany is priced at 269, which means that it would be about 20 euros cheaper than the GTX 1660 Ti Custom. It should be noted that the problem with the Vega architecture is that it is highly inefficient.

AMD downgrades the Radeon RX Vega 56

The performance of the RX Vega 56 graphics card is between the GTX 1060 and the GTX 1070, always depending on the game. AMD's solution also has the problem of consumption, being superior to the GTX 1070. According to the leaks, the GTX 1660 Ti is more efficient and powerful than the GTX 1070 (a bit), in addition to being based on a new architecture. Additionally, the Turing architecture with new drivers should offer better performance, since it has a lot of room for improvement.

Lowering the price is a positive thing, although it is true that AMD knows of Radeon's weaknesses compared to NVIDIA solutions. This Radeon RX Vega 56 also has the problem that it is the reference model, with a blower type fan. Heatsink format abandoned by NVIDIA and characterized by being inefficient.

Possibly this RX Vega 56 is sold a little more with this reduction or maybe not, since the GTX 1660 Ti will all be assembler model without reference models (from what we have seen). We'll see if AMD manages to sell them, even if it's to clean up a bit of stock.

Source: TPU