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Owners of mid-range graphics cards saw an interesting turn of events at the beginning of 2020. A somewhat normal business strategy for products that have been in the market for a while is to lower their price. It is also common for manufacturers to lower prices after a competing card is released. NVIDIA did such a thing in January with its GeForce RTX 2060 line of cards. Depending on the sellers would be buyers could find the RTX 2060 discounted by up to $50. Shortly after this AMD fired back by releasing a vBIOS update for their 5600 XT series cards. With increasing the 5600 XT’s memory speed by 15% they narrowed the performance between the two cards. At the time there was roughly only about $30 price difference between...
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