Just got a 7900xtx (mercury speedster blah blah) and it was spiking causing crashes, strange artifacting, etc. All this rigmarole to lower the mhz to compensate, drivers supposedly didn’t fix things; people throwing their card against the wall basically. DDU in safe mode, current and clean chipset/gpu drivers, update bios and wouldn’t you know it, the thing runs great at its stock 3100mhz now. User error on my end. Point being this was the first AMD card out of a few now that had “issues” and all it required was not being lazy and just shoving a new card in there and expecting the drivers to magically work. Which is a testament to the previous AMD cards working flawlessly under such neglected conditions.

KIDS think theyre better than other because they use nike. Its the same with KIDS Using Nvidia. I know, its dumb as hell, likely Unbelievable Dumb but thats how many people work. I want the RDNA4 so bad but i dont know if amd will launch it on time (january vacation and the low tier series might come march).

Not sure where this info comes from; I have two amd cards in my PC's ( a workstation and a gaming pc) a.nd the drivers are rock solid -- have been for several years ????

Got a second-hand msi suprim x 3080 £420 with a 5 year warranty. From a reputable company

Ive had an 67000xt for a while now, and use on it both Windows and Linux... I have no issues with it what so ever

when i got amd card i had drivers issues all the time maybe i was unlucky

I'm a developer who works on a custom game engine, and I can tell you where the real issues with AMD drivers are: there is little support for anything that isn't used by mainstream games / engines and benchmarks. As soon as you're off the most beaten path, the drivers are riddled with very serious bugs and horrible performance. As a developer working around AMD driver issues is a total nightmare (nvidia drivers work flawlessly no matter what you do), and many professional applications run into serious problems too. If you're a gamer who wants to play a more niche title from time to time, you're in big trouble with AMD.

Game launches are an issue, though. No reason to skim over that. When a new AAA game launches Nvidia already has optimised drivers ready, AMD and Intel launch theirs a few days late.

I had that model. It was trash. Fried itself very quickly

I have been using an XTX card since day one, and although I haven't been testing driver reliability, I have not encountered any difficulty in all that time.

No one really needs the latest and greatest computer hardware anymore. CPU performance has really peaked out and gaming is just a hobby for any computer enthusiast! As long as a computer can do everything reasonably well then there is no real need for faster and better hardware.... as nearly all computer reviewers will tell their viewers! Everyone knows that most hardware reviews are very rarely legit today so every review has to be taken pretty much with a grain of salt. Do your own research and decide for yourself....! I'm really very happy with my FX8350, GTX 1060 (6GB version), and 32 GB ram computer system! The entire setup cost me less than $120 used and can run pretty much most games quite decently even today in 2024! For a 12 year old CPU, the AMD 8350 was very likely way too good for 2012! This is why the FX line of AMD CPUs was quickly terminated in favour of the Ryzen line of CPUs. AMD finally got something right that could finally outperform Intel CPUs, This is why people who have an FX8350 are still running that same exact FX8350 in 2024. Back in 2012, software and games only had just begun to tap into the potential to use multi-core CPUs in games/software but as soon as software developers learned how to incorporate multiple core processing the FX8350 exhibited its real raw power over Intel processors....!

Great video! This must have taken MONTHS to research. I have used AMD and nVidia GPUs since the early 2000s. I had VERY FEW issues with either. This is because my habit is, when I find a stable driver, I LEAVE IT ALONE. It it's not broken, I don't mess with it. This has proven VERY effective at minimizing problems.

I switched from NVIDIA to AMD when the 7900xtx released it was a real upgrade from my gtx 1080 and the transition was simless, I ofcourse used DDU to delete all the nvidia drivers from my system and then downloaded AMD drivers and didn't get any problem out of the ordinary and none coming explicitely from my GPU

I've used it, and it was terascale. Of course, the drivers sucked but that's to be expected. Those drivers are older than Windows 8.1 i used GCN 1, so r7 240 it ran fine no issues until the gpu itself died, but i digress it had no fan it was a passively cooled pile of garbage that usually went over 100 degrees. i swear nvidia sucked for me their drivers sucked so fucking bad I've used a few of their cards and it sucked, balls.

99% of people ormmore are never going t9 do a rational analisys and troubleshooting like you did here. They just blame whatever they think it's the responsible of their problems. And as Internet is filled with the AMD d4ivers suck trend since forever, they just follow that herd mentality and feel great with themselves to have sorted out their problems (sic). And the same happens with whatever any other computer component, people just mindlessly follow the herd.

Anybody want mine 12gb for 400? Video of it in action on my page

i personally find control panel so much worse.

I ve been using amd cards since 2019 never had a driver s problem

You don't always have to use a ddu, most of the time if your pc is having trouble with specific drivers you can roll back to working ones in the device manager until a more stable one for your system comes out. 🤘 never once used a ddu and I honestly have like 15 bad drivers on my pc rn 😝

I game on an RX6800. 1440p flat screen and Steam VR, this GPU has not let me down, runs everything you throw at it, it's great value.

Nvidia driver broken ((((

Always had Amd cards, never had problems with drivers. I think that most misinformation and chaos comes from people that did not own them.

I am usually the guy my friends go to when they have issues, that plus also helping people in the tech support subreddit. My personal experience has been this: Almost every time someone complains about having unstability with AMD cards (also Nvidia, but we are going with AMD for this) the issue isn't the card itself but another component or bad installation from the user: -Using crappy HDMI or Displayport cables that are giving some feedback to the graphics card that heats it up quite a bit or causing crashes (I was surprised to find out that was possible). -Daisy chaining power cables when it was not convenient (e.g. using a single daisy chained power cable for a card requiring more than 300W, causing it to be power starved and crashing the PSU during power spikes since a single cable doesn't support more than 300W). -Bad mouting on the PCIe port. -Poor case airflow, heating up all components. -Bad or underpowered power supplies. -People installing wrong OS drivers. I have had 4 Nvidia and 5 AMD graphics cards in the last 17 years. I haven't seen any difference in stability in regular gaming. For Nvidia I have seen more unstability when using extra features of the platform, at least until 2019, which was the last time I used an Nvidia card. For the last 5 years I have used exclusively AMD cards, and the only issue I have had was during February of 2024 with a driver that caused Fluid Motion Frames to work worse than in the previous driver. Then again, that was a feature that had been just released.

Right before the 7000 series was released, my GTX 1070 died. I replaced it was a sapphire RX 6900 XT Toxic. The ONLY issue i had was since I couldn't uninstall the nvidia drivers first, my monitors flicked on and off until I managed a complete uninstall, reboot, and full install of radeon drivers. After that, no issues. Games have run flawless at 1440p, it handles dual monitors without issue, and I love the control panel. It's definitely easier to navigate and turn features on and off where I felt like I had to dig around to find and turn on features (like adaptive sync) with the Nvidia drivers. Now I love both, rarely had in game or desktop issues with either.

I play a lot of monster hunter world, and lately it has been unplayable on my 5700xt; constant crashing on the newest drivers, with no fix in sight

AMD drivers are trash I have a AMD rx6800xt it's keep crashing in battlefield 1 . I did everything but nothing worked.

ik geforce experience automatically deletes old driver and reinstalls the new one maybe people with amd cards just arent deleting old drivers when switching to new ones

I too left Nvidia for AMD and I don't want to go back. AMD is cheaper, less intrusive, has more features in their software, and they give more VRAM.

the funny thing is. if you had told people in 2012, that you will still play the latest games with an fx 8350 in 2024, 12 years later, but only with avg 60 fps with 1% lows of 30, everyone would have been amazed how future proof the CPU is. and you would have confused almost everyone with the term "1% lows"

Building a 950/gigabyte system right now out of nostaligia and the fact that I got all the parts for basically free. No one wants that "old junk".

the drivers are good

I had the pleasure to fight with bad nvidia driver the other day, the latest driver wouldn't launch steam for some unknown reason, and the 1st time i tried installing it the PC blue screened mid install (never seen that before nor since, running on a 750Ti). I also had to deal with them randomly crashing ~3 years ago with a gtx 960. I also have had issues with AMD drivers. Minecraft with forge on particular versions wouldn't launch properly (there were workarounds) among other smaller glitches. There is 1 game that is broken on RDNA based cards, I fault the game devs actually, since it seems to have been broken since launch.

Mod orginzer also recommends turning of riva tuner as it can cause crashes or some other bullshit.

Another comment said this already but the bad driver stuff is almost definitely a smear campaign that has been extremely successful. Let's be real for a second here, the average user is terrible at troubleshooting issues and likely has no clue why they're having a specific problem. These (often self inflicted) problems then get blamed on bad AMD drivers by default even though they have nothing to do with it, because people are generally lazy and fall back on easy explanations for their problems. The same users then go to nvidia, and instead of blaming drivers when they have problems, blame the game devs, 'bad optimization', windows, etc. It's really just a mindworm that's taken control of too many people's brains.

great video, my only problems with my AMD GPU is the league of legends replay system crashing, since it's the only thing borked I can safely assume the fault lies with Riot Games instead of AMD and Ready or Not being laggy as fuck, which the whole community complains about, other than that my ride with my RX 6700 XT is smooth sailing ever since I got it

The amd issue was legacy stuff with the old catalyst drivers...and especially on linux amd is very solid...if you are primarily a linux user, amd is the only way to go...this is easy to verify...but for most irrelevant.

I've been rocking a rx6700 zt red devil for the last year I have zero issues and is a good 1440p gpu even under heavy load never goes over 50c looking at upgrading now to the 7900gre

Bro ma xfx 7800xt si brand new and in apex crushes 2 to 3 times in 45/50 min, do you guys thinc that is a game problem? I have the layest driver btw

Ive been using primarily AMD gpus in my personal computer for the last 20 years. On the rare occasion there is a problem with a driver release, for a specific aplication. To contrast that however, I put an Nvidia 2080 in our VR computer when i built it a few years ago and regularly have issues with the drivers. To the point where it becomes useless and I end up rolling back the drivers, some times multiple releases.

7:55 OH MY GOD SO THATS WHAT IT WAS, I WAS HAVING THE SAME ISSUE FOR THE LONGEST TIME AND I DIDNT EVEN REALIZE IT UGHHHHHH

I just wish it was better at productivity tasks because it sucks being stuck with Nvidia

Radeon hardware is great, but their software isn't up to par with nVidia. E.g. DLSS completely trashed FSR, nVidia drivers are still better in quality, their CUDA api is better than ROCm etc.

Lol been using ati since before the hd series very rarely have I ever had problems in 40 years no Nvidia never got one dime from me so the green monster is your faults 😆

Yes so people really need to Quit the propaganda about AMD Drivers! I myself have RX 6700XT working Rock solid and Ryzen 7 5700g.

I am sorry to tell you that 7000 series GPU have a problem with all 24.x.x drivers. Mainly in idle or low power tasks due to the agressive power saving that has the GPU run around 60mV. There are a ton of complains about this on the forums and AMD does not care.

I never had issues with the drivers per se, but the Adrenalin Edition Application was problematic for me more than I would have liked. I did eventually pull my 7900XTX and switch back to NV after two years.

never had driver related problems with my 5700 xt in 5 years

…… bought an AMD prebuilt system (intel cpu) in December 2020. 6 months later I built my own pc with a 5900x and 6900xt. No issues the entire time EXCEPT for my gpu, it’s an ASUS oc tuf model and required a vbios update from ASUS- took me a while to figure that one out. Aside from that? I’ve had no issues with drivers or stability. As a matter of fact, I’m using AFMF2 with fsr2.1 in cyberpunk 2077 with all ray tracing turned on (excluding path tracing) I’m getting 60-90 fps- dlc dogtown area tanks it to 50 on occasion. LOVE THIS THING and the product.

As someone who has always had Nvidia , I want to move to a Radeon merely because my PC isn’t super high end. If you have infinite budget, NVIDIA wins on the high end… for everything else , Radeon.

My first PC with a dedicated graphics card was an MSI 1050 TI and I had all sorts of driver problems up to needing to reinstall windows on my primary drive and needing to reinstall Linux on my secondary drive. In 2019 I picked up a Sapphire 5700 XT and I’ve had no problems running it with a 3800X or 5950X while having everything including the RAM overclocked to unreasonably barely safe system. Unlike the Nvidia instructions, the option to do things manually works just as well as the more automated version when it comes to AMD.