I Switched from Nvidia to AMD - 2 Weeks Later

[@DAN007thefoxx1]

I switched from an RTX 4060Ti to an RX 7800 XT and had the latter for.....about 3 to 4 months now? I had some crashing and display issues at first then they mostly ironed themselves out (its worth mentioning that I DID use the DDU BEFORE even starting the hardware swap). I also got a new CPU and power supply to alleviate some of the hardware bottlenecks. Was it all worth it in the end? I will say yes overall. I wanted to future proof my PC, and I also wanted more VRAM and the 7800 XT got me double the VRAM the old card had. Giving up DLSS turned out to not be that big a deal and NOW team red has frame generation too. I never cared about ray tracing I just have it off in most games. I HAD recently been thinking about buying a 1440P monitor since the 7800XT is arguably overkill for 1080P and would bottleneck your CPU. BTW, I plucked out the 5600X my prebuilt came with and put in a 5800X3D. I also went from a 600W power brick to an 850W one because my GPU needed at least 700 and I wanted more than that for the sake of future proofing.

[@Babasrian]

I love the price to performance of Amd, but when I got a good deal on a new 6800xt it bugged a lot of my game to the point where my old 1660 super actually ran those games better.

[@argamer6830]

did you do a driver DDU properly (google it)

[@richardofvirginia]

@@Babasrian For me I am 100% NVIDIA for GPUS hands down. I had a lot of fun with my old 1660 Super as well for a few years anyway when the thermal pads finally wore out. I discontinued using it because it started getting 107c hotspot with paste and the pads required to be 3 different sizes so now I'm running a single 3070TI secondhand and 100% revived it pads and all. It does everything I need for my setup and with ray tracing off too! 😀

[@Babasrian]

@@richardofvirginia That is pretty cool a bit sad about the old gpu. going though

[@barrygriffies459]

5600xt running strong. Zero issues. Upgrading to the 7900xt/7800X3D and giving my 10 year old my 5600xt/3700x set up

[@ShadowOfNexxus]

Am I the only person who has had more issues with NVIDIA drivers than AMD using 3 AMD Cards and 1 Nvidia card

[@oimazzo2537]

I had like zero driver issues in a long time. Meaning 8ish years. I dont get how or why people think it is a drivers hell at this point. I don't see most creators trying out having issues as well foer what matters, apart from nvidia being somewhat better suited for work stuff

[@sigmachud9092]

3 Nvidia cards zero issues, 1 AMD i had multiple issues. as shitty a company as they are, their cards have been issue-free in my experience. just curious what was the problem with your Nvidia card?

[@hoffyc.h393]

AMD both for GPUs and CPUs is very great nowdays, I rocking Ryzen 7 5700g and 6700XT Right now and love it in 1440p Gaming 😊

[@bignspicy984]

Amd used to be known for its "fine wine" technology with its 7000 series all the to the rx580 where the cards were already great value in the mid range compared to nividia and ended up crushing them through great optimization and drivers. For example, the rx480 beating the 1060 easily for much less money after drivers matured. The whole idea that AMD drivers are bad is just green team propaganda if you ask me. This is coming from a current rtx 3080 owner (with a criminally low 10gb of memory) something AMD would never do for a card so powerful.

[@bartaricsi]

i have a 2070 super, and early i had a rx 5500xt 8gb and it was perfect

[@Drebin2293]

The drivers on AMD are really hit and miss. Either they're great and you have no issues, or they're not and you sell the card. I picked up a 7900XTX when my 2070 super died in April of last year. Fresh install of windows. Installed the card and what did I find? Driver issues. Every time my computer would go to sleep, the driver would corrupt somehow and it would take a reinstall of the software to bring it back. I don't know whether it was the hardware config or a software conflict, but between that and other issues, I sold the card after two months. I didn't want to deal with the nonsense anymore. I recently built a HTPC with leftover parts after a platform upgrade and decided to try AMD again. I picked up a 7800XT on sale that came with four games. I wanted a 16gb card with decent performance, so I didn't want a 4060 ti. I also wasn't willing to spend the extra 330 for a 4070 ti super. I've been extremely happy with it. No driver issues at all. Software isn't buggy and doesn't crash. And before anyone asks, the XTX was fine. I had no issues with the same card in linux in the same system. Personally, I put the issues down to teething issues in the chiplet design, but that's just a guess with no evidence.

[@smakfu1375]

Look, if all you care about is raster and raw FPS, fine, go with AMD. But I've been there with Radeon products, and I don't think it's worth the hassle. On the gaming side, the feature set still lags far behind Nvidia and, where they could have played towards a value position, they didn't, especially with the 7900XT and XTX. For those of us who also use the cards for GGPU development, ROCM is still a hot mess compared to CUDA (both in terms of device support and documentation / usability). The reason AMD has a serious problem competing with Nvidia is that they just are not actually competitive. AMD's Radeon Group continues to under-perform compared to the rest of the company, and I think this creates a challenge for justifying investment, especially on the consumer side of the business. Finally, AMD's Radeon Group has a bad habit of early abandonment of hardware, compared to Nvidia, which really irks me. My decade old GTX 980 Maxwell GPU still receives lockstep current driver updates, whereas AMD shoved Polaris in Vega into a legacy bucket.

[@gigaspike6484]

Amd is Def better then Nvidia in regards to gaming and streaming. Higher amount of vram on graphics cards and faster access to the ram means faster processing. They don't usualy have the same amount of Cuda cores or advertise the raytracing bs but honestly if your buying for those 2 things specicifly your probably looking more towards studio stuff for creation. I rock a 3080 ti atm but plan to upgrade to amd with next build.

[@Captainball439]

2080 wasn't ever high end, it was a 1080ti in a dress

[@richardofvirginia]

Battlemage is going to be a game changer for budget performance next year. Drivers were always a big issue with AMD and for a card to use for multiple years NVIDIA is worth the extra cost always. For processors sometimes AMD is a better choice but not Graphics.

[@DAN007thefoxx1]

I personally had more overall driver bugs on Nvidia. And GeForce experience sucks compared to AMD Adrenaline. I kept that in mind (and other factors) when I considered my options. A 7600 XT, 4070Ti (super), A 7700XT, Arc series etc. I really wanted 16GB of VRAM but the 7600XT would have been no more powerful than the 4060Ti. The 16GB version of the 4060Ti is just NOT worth 500 bucks. It's not. Intel cards have had catastrophic driver issues in the not so distant past and still routinely under perform (but hey at least they're dirt cheap). Soooo I ended up going with a Gigabyte RX 7800 XT. The problem is I also had to upgrade my PSU, and later CPU for it. And yet I was still able to get all those things for about the price of a 4080 Super. Where just the 4070Ti Super alone would have been 800 dollars. Compared to my old 4060Ti (8GB) more power, more VRAM, better software suite, I didn't care about giving up ray tracing performance AND AMD has frame gen now. The 7800XT is a much better buy than the 4060Ti 16GB for that 500 dollars. And apart from WH40K Darktide crashing on me in loading screens I didn't have any serious issues with the AMD drivers..

[@TheKims82]

Haven't had a single issue with my 6950XT for the last two years i've had it. No crashes, no driver issues or anything. I had a lot more issues with my old Intel and Nvidia rig. I remember especially Unreal 4 games having issues with my old system where games would either freeze up or suddenly crash to desktop.

[@richardofvirginia]

@@TheKims82 Of course, 🤣 for AMD flagship cards those will last a bit longer but overall AMD is a bad choice even with raytracing off on NVIDIA as an alternative. As for NVIDIA, GeForce experience is bad and messes up the drivers worse and more quickly. But with Nvidia you can always DDU and install a known good driver that still works very easily. The problem with AMD is that they make good hardware but their drivers get less updates / support , especially moving forward to new operating systems and get less definitions to fix game related bugs that make some games totally unplayable for 5 minutes or so with out of support drivers much quicker than NVIDIA. When NVIDIA fails it's when the hardware breaks outside of keeping the best drivers installed in a clean fashion and maintaining the thermal compound. NVIDIA cards are better for streaming and gaming simultaneously with the lowest latency for fps as-well. AMD cards are really good for how the image looks, that's for sure, but NVIDIA has the best response time and driver level graphics memory optimization with only the drivers. The NVENC codec is specifically designed to send a consistent stream signal without wasting VRAM while gaming, but of course a card such as the 6950XT wouldn't notice much of a performance hit from that due to the 16GB VRAM on that specific card!

[@yellowflash511]

@@richardofvirginia all of nonsence rumours or just lies spread by Nvidia simps to justify their bias

[@jodok1088]

Nice clickbait

[@tech4u2022]

Try a higher tier AMD GPU, like a RX6750 XT or RX7600XT. You won'ts regret it. The display issue you had is related to the smartbios in the gpu. When a voltage peak/drop happens the bios is triggered into factory settings so only a single displayport signal is used after re-boot due to powerfailures. However, windows tend to be playing bad boy in these situations and keeps using HDMI ports resulting in no signal at all because the gpu is protecting itself from a possible catastrofic failure, so from that viewpoint the AMD gpu's reign supreme. They are truly sturdy as i have tested it myself by accident when i blew up a powersupply ;) So don't be alarmed if your AMD gpu suddenly does not seem to work. Most likely it's a windows related problem that AMD has to solve which they did. AMD however tend not to do this publicly and we all have to work those things out for ourselves but in the end i can tell you that AMD makes a much better rasterized performance chip then NVIDIA ever did so in the long term, after raytracing/pathtracing support ends the AMD ones will have no problems at all where every NVIDIA one lacks the power to perform. (Even the 4090 will then only be capable of rendering at 1080p in most workloads)