Statements taken from MSI Insider, The official source of the product has just made all the wings jump, something we have already warned in our accompanying review and, of course, the company may be facing some types of graphics cards that are a demanding and unreasonable problem.
And to what extent would the problems come about, that MSI would introduce the third RX 5600 XT within a new variant EDITING Z which, now yes, would come with guaranteed memory at 14 Gbps, but what really happened with such a move?
The provided memory was validated at 12 Gbps, not 14 Gbps
Although we've already warned Micron's VRAM GDDR6 model (MT61K256M32) Up to three different details that can be verified at a reasonable three-speed speed (12 Gbps, 14 Gbps and 16 Gbps), it was up to the manufacturer and AMD to do the proper checks and checks to confirm one speed or another.
But if this is possible, why is there such a debate? Why were BIOS updates posted late and why were the first units like 12 Gbps coming to market? According to MSI itself, they do not directly buy GDDR6 chips, but AMD already offers them, so they are told that they will work at low serial speed.
Apparently, internal tests are performed by MSI at 12 Gbps and not at 14 Gbps of stock, which in certain cases with low quality chips can affect, quickly or in time, at the RMA that the manufacturer produces I didn't think of at first.
Versions with serial numbers in question
If MSI did not confirm the speed of VRAMs, then why did it issue updates? As usual, not to be left in the market in front of your competitors. Some AIBs (minus ASUS) guarantee the speed of its models, but GPUs of IMSI GAMING X and MeCH OC It will not, forcing the company to submit tokens and fix them eventually, only increasing the card's TGP and the frequency of deaths, but not what is remembered.
Therefore, users who update their graphics cards are in a difficult position, since MSI chooses not to increase the speed of its VRAM, but at the same time it has stopped working on its competitors.
The answer, as is usual for the product, comes with the new GAMING Z card model, which gets the GAMING X speed, but with GDDR6 at 14 Gbps of series, now yes, MSI-certified. The movements we saw have AMD boards and power issues on their BIOS chips.
Therefore, it will fit the MSI model solely with this new VRAM memory system due to the fear of the company's RMA, while its competitors offer refurbished models from 12 Gbps to 14 Gbps without price increases and confirming the change. Does MSI do the right thing knowing that AMD approves the upgrade? Or does the company not trust its Hardware and consequently cannot choose to match the competition?
