Thursday, December 19th 2019
GIGABYTE Readies EAGLE Graphics Card Brand Extension, includes RX 5600 XT
GIGABYTE is readying a new brand-extension for its graphics cards lineup, called EAGLE. It will join the company's existing brand extensions, namely Aorus Gaming and WindForce series. Regulatory filings by GIGABYTE with the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) sees the company launching as many as 30 individual SKUs, spanning nearly every current-generation GPU. On the AMD front, we have cards based on the RX 5700 XT, RX 5700, RX 5500 XT, and the yet-unannounced RX 5600 XT, with its 6 GB of memory.
The NVIDIA lineup includes all its GTX 16-series and RTX 20-series SKUs, with the exception of the RTX 2080 Ti. The inclusion of RTX 2070 and RTX 2080, SKUs believed to have been passively retired with the advent of the RTX 2070 Super and RTX 2080 Super, is interesting. It shows that NVIDIA hasn't given up on the two. The RTX 2070's second-coming in particular, was reportedly triggered by supply shortages in the RX 5700 series, giving NVIDIA room to sell something around the $400-450 mark, bang in the middle of the RTX 2060 Super and RTX 2070 Super.
Sources:
VideoCardz, Komachi_Ensaka (Twitter), Eurasian Economic Commission
The NVIDIA lineup includes all its GTX 16-series and RTX 20-series SKUs, with the exception of the RTX 2080 Ti. The inclusion of RTX 2070 and RTX 2080, SKUs believed to have been passively retired with the advent of the RTX 2070 Super and RTX 2080 Super, is interesting. It shows that NVIDIA hasn't given up on the two. The RTX 2070's second-coming in particular, was reportedly triggered by supply shortages in the RX 5700 series, giving NVIDIA room to sell something around the $400-450 mark, bang in the middle of the RTX 2060 Super and RTX 2070 Super.
29 Comments on GIGABYTE Readies EAGLE Graphics Card Brand Extension, includes RX 5600 XT
Falcon is also a type of bird Gigabyte uses in their Aorus branding. I don't get the choice.
But the real question is, how badly will they redesign it again. This looks a lot like EVGA"s recent shenanigans, releasing new design style shrouds one after another to make us forget what went wrong with the ones before it.
thankfully that was uncovered and gigabyte and asus again owns their own brands.
:ohwell:
You do find hit and misses everywhere. Its just that GB seems to stack them more easily than others lately. They also had a batch of crappy motherboard VRMs not too long ago... and one gen later they fixed that. Its like... you never really know what'll happen next with them. Consistency is zero
I mean compare it with MSI. When you buy a Gaming X, you know you've got a quality card throughout, its not a shitty bin, and it'll work as advertised. When you buy an Armor, you know its a Gaming X with a little bit less of everything, but still solid enough to not throttle like a madman and with a similar noise profile.
And for boards, compare it to Asrock... GB quickly becomes a joke.
With Gigabyte, you could have any amount of luck whether you buy a top end model or a budget one.
I'm more interested in their other products in AORUS brandstack. Though all their AORUS monitors are north of $500, they're not absurdly expensive like ASUS's ROG monitors. Also their AMP500 mousepad (hybrid silicon) is kinda cheap for its supposed prowess. For example it's cheaper than Razer or Steelseries QCK pads.
Will they jack up the price of AORUS and sit EAGLE in between?