I Switched from NVIDIA to AMD for the First Time in 10 years - My Experience With Radeon

Can I keep using a Radeon GPU without the need of switching back?
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
2:24 - The Design
2:47 - Performance
4:13 - Temperatures
4:28 - Features
5:17 - My Adrenalin Settings
5:42 - Issues
8:30 - Conclusion (Advantages & Disadvantages of Radeon)

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[@adi6293]

I will be joining this 😁😁

[@boneman1210]

Dude, your reviews are something else, I hope you keep uploading. You delve into the user experience which is a very hard thing to do or explain on a video. These are all present from your previous videos as well. I really wish you keep uploading and maintaining that or at least touching on the topic. I did a i5 4590 16gb 1600mhz rx 550 4gb build and was surprised to see how it performed at 1080p (makes me question my build) which is a ryzen 5 5600x rtx 3070 32gb 3200mhz I did that build for my brother the i5 one, thing is no one will know the user experience side. and to me it felt a slight difference and it ddnt bother me at all, sure some graphic settings were lowered down but user experience wise, it was good. I had no complaints.

[@RATechYT]

@@boneman1210 Thank you!

[@craiglortie8483]

Apex is an Nvidia title, that means that they don't worry about and cards anymore than basics. Check out any Russian free to play game and you get the same thing or worse. I've had to roll back driver's for weeks until game updates fixed the problems.

[@rickyxdsmoura106]

​@@RATechYT Let me help you with your Radeon GPU, the best option to you enable is "Radeon™ Enhanced Sync" and "Radeon™ Anti-Lag". Just enable this two options and everything will be Ok

[@Tubes78]

The first AMD GPU I've even bought was the 6800 XT. Since then I'm convinced that they can make good cards

[@androidgamerz6506]

hows the performance? i am thinking of getting it , currently using rtx 2070 super

[@Tubes78]

@androidgamerz6506 it's on par with an RTX 3080. I've owned both but favor the 6800 xt because of the lower price and more VRAM.

[@chriswright8074]

@@Tubes78 actually on 1080/1440 it's ahead regular 3080

[@bestopinion9257]

The disease of an Nvidia fanboy. Never buys AMD but talks like he knows both when makes a choose.

[@sulev111]

My first AMD/Ati was HD4670. Never looked back.

[@catsspat]

I love how I can configure fan curve and power limits WITHOUT needing to use a 3rd party software. It's all part of the AMD's Adrenaline package.

[@bluej511]

And if you notice it resets, turn fast boot and/or disable hibernation. Even doing a new driver install with full uninstall it works perfect.

[@benni16it]

you can install the driver without wattman... so its just the same. and the options in wattman for the fan curve are just bad. higher min rpm then other apps, only 5 point to move and need to have a gap of 5°c... and then the reset thing.. good that there is a solution, but man... you have to figure it out first why it happenes.. it annoyed me a lot till i found the fix.

[@computermedics8119]

This.

[@GoonyMclinux]

I like how I bought my AMD card almost 7 years ago and it still works, plays every new AAA title and gets more fps and open source support every adrenaline update.

[@alexanderstults8484]

I switched from a gtx 970 to a rx6750 xt and have very little to complain about. Performance has been stellar and I won't be upgrading for a long while. The few problems I did have was with drivers uninstalling themselves due to windows update for some reason. I turned that off and now it's been flawless.

[@LeonPapa9966]

Lol.

[@X_irtz]

I remember having something similar with my old RX 480 lol

[@halo_origins8080]

How did you disable the drivers uninstalling from a windows update? I just got an AMD GPU and am having the same issue.

[@summushieremiasclarkson4700]

You have an AMD GPU, switch to linux and enjoy driver bliss. No more nvidia proprietary nonsense.

[@HaplessIdiot]

me and my wife have the same driver issue gamepass is retarded and it force installs drivers per game thanks to goofiness from microsoft it can replace your driver with a 3 month old version or if you are on a laptop it only gets gpu driver for the integrated gpu its SO obnoxious and i cancelled gamepass this month over it for humble choice

[@adamp9011]

I used to have Nvidia, went for a 6800xt due to it being a bit cheaper than the 3080. I ve had mine for about 5 months now and I m really happy with it

[@typmitderplaylist]

same here won’t regret

[@PyroBlonde7777]

Same here! Still in love with my Red Devil. It consistently beats the 3080 at 2k too! DLSS is nice but I like the fact that the 6800XT doesn't require it to compete.

[@adamp9011]

@@PyroBlonde7777 we have FSR, ideally you dont want to use it.

[@GamerdaXtremz]

I went from GTX 1060 6GB PC to RTX 3070 PC (I still have both BTW) 2 years ago and works gr8. But i'm still amazed on how good the GTX 1060 still running games. The GTX 1060 can even run games 2k and 4k 60fps.

[@folksp6532]

doest it crash? no headache using it?

[@nicholaslemire7515]

I switched from a 1060 3gb --> rx 6800 and let me tell you I do not look back. The adrenaline software is awesome for over clocking and I love the ui! Never had a problem with performance and I love playing single player games in 4K on my 55inch tv. It is truly been worth the money!

[@thingythingy9507]

Which Rx 6800 do you have

[@nicholaslemire7515]

@@thingythingy9507 founders edition! Waited 24 hours outside of microcenter when it dropped!

[@thingythingy9507]

@@nicholaslemire7515 oh wow props to you

[@Dan-kz9xu]

I have a 1060 3gb, what's your current build? Did you have to upgrade your PSU before upgrading?

[@thingythingy9507]

@@Dan-kz9xu I had a Rx 570 4gb and a 500w power when I connected my Rx 6800 to it, my build still worked however I believe when I pushed the card I had crashes and when I upgraded to 700 w power supply it was gone , 6800 is soo efficient you can get away with 600w PSU or even 500w silver or gold

[@MirceaPrunaru]

I have been using AMD gpu's for the past 10 years and they were good for my needs but to be honest Nvidia's support for the content creation tools like 3d modeling, texturing , rendering even video encoding is by far superior to what AMD has.

[@EDARDO112]

I agree, im using a RX 6800 after a 1080ti but I really think Nvidia offers better stability and has better features

[@ivankovachev8835]

When AMD was competitive and at times better for productivity, people still bought Nvidia

[@craiglortie8483]

That's because Nvidia made it that way and Intel helped them out along the way. With amd shooting itself in the foot when it really couldn't afford to.

[@neirad537]

Far superior? Which card and which software. I used premiere in both AMD and Nvidia cards and I'm not seen superiority at all or stability they both crash a lot because of Adobe not the Card. It depends on which card and which software people use for creating content. The blanket statement comes decades ago when CUDA was more mature or the only game in town than OpenCl

[@Nemesis1ism]

i was ati fan i wouldn't touch an amd product

[@1gatomon]

I swapped over to all AMD including the GPU's. In a nutshell they were available over Nvidia at that time and Light years cheaper. Never had any issues at all with games. I have even picked up and used the 6600XT and 6650XT and used them in systems I later sold. The 6700 and 6750XT give a huge boost over the 6600's and I am currently running the 6800XT in my gaming rig.

[@davesparks-zv4nk]

Just switched from a GeForce rtx 3060 to a amd 7900 xt. And I was blown away.

[@cheesecurdinator4010]

Absolutely massive upgrade wow

[@Theworthsearcher]

Well, about double the VRAM (depends on the 3060 - 8 Gb, or 12 Gb) - 7900 XT has 20 GB. ;) An double the performance. ;)

[@davesparks-zv4nk]

@@Theworthsearcher Really pleased with the performance of the 7900xt. Hitting between 160-220 fps on mw2 at 1440p

[@ReaperX7]

I switched from Nvidia to AMD back with a GTX 460 to an HD 5770. Nvidia's drivers just had too many problems with games I played and AMD's drivers just worked without any issues. When I built my new system back in 2020, I got a Red Devil 5700XT and it's been a gem.

[@davidmacfarlane4761]

Ha! So you're telling us that from a certain point of view, you upgraded from an AMD 57x0 card to another AMD 57x0 card! ;-)

[@ReaperX7]

@@davidmacfarlane4761 did you even read the part about "building a new system"? That's not upgrading. Upgrading would be replacing one part with a newer one in the same system. Glasses and contact lenses are thing these days, as is eye surgery.

[@davidmacfarlane4761]

@@ReaperX7 I see where you're coming from, but I also frequently see entire system replacements also referred to as an "upgrade" (albeit a more comprehensive one) by those who perform them. Semantics aside, I was just making the observation that the newer card (in your newer system) coincidentally has a similar sounding name to your older one from your previous system despite actually being many generations apart.

[@ReaperX7]

@@davidmacfarlane4761 well it was 2080 level performance at half the cost without unnecessary features I would never use... So... It made more sense. Plus one game I play religiously still has a nasty issue with Nvidia drivers even after 7 years. 😐

[@Rhoberly]

The problems with crashes that you mentioned referring to the most current drivers, happen due to a Windows function that tries to interfere with the power control of the GPU in some circumstances, the name of this function is Windows MPO, when deactivated everything works perfectly without crashes, I used it for almost 2 months the 22.11.2 without any problem, and the same with the 23.2.1 kzbin.info/www/bejne/hIGoXnqLesx-rNk

[@ruperterskin2117]

Thanks..!

[@X_irtz]

The funny thing is, i found the solution for this same problem in an Nvidia forum.

[@JesusChristIsTheOnlyWay]

I’ll have to look up a step by step guide for my GPU crashes. Thank you for the tip!

[@bluej511]

Windows is utter garbage when it comes to GPU drivers, on both sides. Ive had my W10 and 11 install always try to install junk drivers even though i have the driver install function disabled. Ive also turned off hibernation and it fixes SO many issues. Don't forget that a shut down isn't a shut down anymore, its a soft shutdown. And btw always unplug your ethernet when installing AMD drivers, saves from windows f ing it up.

[@gozutheDJ]

if you need to disable MPO you got some other problems with your PC lol

[@AlexandruT1987]

This is agood example of a guy who appreciates his hardware. When all the hype is on the new 13th gen Intel or 7000 Series cpus you rock a gen 2 ryzen still. Thumbs up my friend.

[@reubenhalsey9054]

built my first gaming pc last year with a 12100f and a rx6600 great low cost pairing, have had no problems whatsoever, very happy with the performance

[@ShockingPikachu]

As an owner of an rx 6600 (non XT), the card is insanely efficient especially with the amount of GPUs with massive TDPs. It's nice

[@iikatinggangsengii2471]

yeah 6600 and 6800 are the most efficient cards for the moment

[@akhilb9876]

Can you tell me which processor are you using?..

[@ShockingPikachu]

@@akhilb9876 Oh, it's bottlenecked for sure but it's a ryzen 7 5700X.

[@soulhazetv]

@@ShockingPikachu I got same setup... well not exactly but close RX 6600 + 5700G (it was cheaper than the X version + i was waiting for gpu price drop to buy gpu so i went from 3400G to 5700G and then just added in RX 6600 - $240 new)

[@ShockingPikachu]

@@soulhazetv the 5700G was more expensive here and I was originally going to get the 5600X... but the 5700X was... 30 bucks more 😂

[@crobar1]

Try AMD with pro drivers, improves the experience, but to make it fair use Nvidia with studio drivers. Those drivers fix a lot of issues on both platforms when it comes to productivity. Gaming drivers are not the only ones that exist

[@celdur4635]

This could be interesting.

[@alrizo1115]

I tried pro drivers with AMD and they rarely update it compared to the Adrenaline. All my professional apps don't really work well. Crashes a lot

[@takeoffwithjakesoft]

I made a few videos about this topic chronicling my switch from a then life-long nVidia user over to my first Radeon. My experience was pretty similar to yours; I don't regret the switch at all and will consider both AMD and nVidia options for my next upgrade.

[@rensonnicor1225]

I am now rocking a Gigabyte RX 6600XT Eagle and I am happy with it, although I experienced some bad drivers due to overwriting drivers and bad PSU but now it performs amazing by clean installing drivers. Also, I noticed that as AMD later updates gets better and better in terms of performance.

[@kungfuotta]

Started from a gtx 980 ti, to a side grade of a 1080, then recently upgraded to an rx 6800 xt. Couldn't care about RT and only really wanted rasterization performance. I do miss some of the Nvidia features but can't say I used them enough to make me want to go back.

[@raevod6361]

What about dlss? that's my deal breaker.

[@82_930]

@@raevod6361FSR 2 is almost as good and it doesn’t introduce input lag as much as DLSS does, I have a 3090 and 6950XT in separate rigs and I love them both though

[@poligrant5152]

​@@raevod6361no need to use dlss fsr unless you buy weaker card, aint there? also 1440p dlss or fsr maybe dlss looks a little bit better, both great though

[@andrejey9980]

nice refresh to watch this than some bar and numbers, thanks for sharing

[@HankBaxter]

6800xt owner here, and it's my favorite card so far. One thing I have noticed, however, is that video playback can glitch for a second when going from normal view to full screen on youtube.

[@bugzycapone]

My last AMD card was a Vega 56. I honestly had constant small issues for the whole 3 years I owned it. Now I did have it watercooled, and it was an absolute beast with water. Never broke 50c on a full load. My last Nvidia card was a PNY 9800gts and it barely lasted 6 months. I have been on AMD since the 4850. Last year I moved up to a 3070. I haven't had a more stable system in years.

[@DragonProtector]

thing is vega had issues and was known. Definitely give rx6800xt a try.

[@reaveralpha7692]

I had very few issues running 22.11.2 on my rx 6700 XT but they were minor with a screen flicker once in a few days or a quick black screen that instantly recovered. Drivers 23.2.2 just launched so I'll install that and see how it goes. Overall, I've been very happy with radeon cards and enjoy the extra cash in my pocket at the end of the day :)

[@muki_x]

try disabling windows MPO

[@drakata27]

I never had any of those issues on my 6650XT

[@X_irtz]

No such issues on my 6700XT, MPO might be the issue, i had a video playback flicker, but after disabling it, i haven't encountered anything like that

[@stuartedwards6996]

If all else fails, buy a good quality DisplayPort or HDMI cable, that usually resolves those issues. Club3D cables are very good.

[@hartmutdietz1228]

the new driver version seems to be very stable

[@mikfhan]

Remember also to export "Snap Settings" before you use DDU to fully remove old driver and install new one fresh - then you can just import the Snap Settings again to restore all your tweaks on completely fresh Adrenalin install, no trace of old driver version. And if you only need one profile for all games and no streaming, you can choose "Minimal" when installing Adrenalin.

[@jaimelubrani4435]

This video just popped up hours after I bought my first AMD card ever, the Msi 6750xt. Appreciate your video I have a lot to look for when my card gets here.

[@sensfreak09]

I have an 6800xt and really love it it has amazing performance. Great video

[@Vr6Zecke]

Switched from a 1080Ti to a 7900xtx xfx merc 310 black... looking at the size of the xfx u could say it was a "big" upgrade. I have no issues with it , the Games run smooth , no crashes, no heat etc. im happy with it !

[@snflas]

How did u find the amd colours snd the image quality vs nvidia ? I find that even after turning the full colour gamut for nvidia plus 10 bit it still looks better on amd

[@lamontsmith8728]

I've been running ATI/AMD GPU's for nearly 25 years, starting with my Rage Fury 128 MB Pro on an overclocked 400 (o.c. 450) MHz AMD processor in my first build. Even then it had people impressed that it could do nearly everything a Voodoo 3 GPU (for those old enough to remember them) could do except use 'Glide'. ATI/AMD cards have always been good to me, and always performed best with AMD processors, so it's not a surprise that after the acquisition they've been working hard on making the CPU and GPU be a matched pair. I've had Intel/Nvidia combos over the years, but they've literally died repeatedly over time due to just normal gaming. But for some reason those AMD's just keep chugging along like the little engine that could. I've been running an 8 core AMD FX processor with an RX 570 for the last six years and it's still running AAA games in 1080 on high settings at 60+ FPS without trying too hard, occasionally a really demanding game comes along and bogs it down with Ultra settings, but there's very little difference between them besides water reflection and shadow details. My latest build is a Ryzen 7 with a 6600 XT, and i can already see the upgrade in speed and quality before I actually install a collection of games on it. I can't wait to see what the frame rates jump to now as games have become more demanding than ever in some respects. I don't have the need to spend literally a mortgage payment, car payment, and insurance on both for a high end graphics card, that's a poor investment for the only person who can see it has to be in a room with me. Give me something under $300 (and God that's still so expensive for them), that let's me play what i like, and isn't hot enough to bake cookies on while playing Fallout or Call of Duty. But hey, I'm just an old guy now. 'Mortal Kombat' for the SNES and Genesis, and 'Goldeneye' on the N64 were literally earth shattering graphics at one point in my lifetime. So what do I know. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

[@NostalgicMem0ries]

since you are super old amd user, can you elaborate about amd driver isues over years and high temps on their gpus? just dont say you had none :D drivers are amd weak point and temps during my time with amd in 2010 has terible, now new 7000 series suffers like 5000 series, looks like 6000 series are better with temps

[@rooster1553]

I switch from Nvidia in Dec 2022 with a RX6700XT and was so impressed with that card and software that I bought a XFX RX6800XT today for my sim racing rig. AMD has come a long way ;-)

[@thelizard109]

I got the xfx rx6650xt and i just love the radeon software i didnt have any issues so far and i was even surprised that i could play with ray tracing at all,i played doom eternal at 100fps with rtx and everything on very high 1080p

[@johnsouthern6089]

I built a new PC with the i5-13600K and was waiting for a good deal on a 3060,. But a used RX 6600 XT popped up for $150. First Radeon card I've had sense the early 2000s and zero problems beyond one indie game not working.

[@kellywest8168]

I made the switch to AMD after yrs of being loyal to Nvidia. Only reason being is Nvidias latest drama with customer care and sales tactics. Bought a ASROCK OC Formula 6900XT and I am very happy with it!

[@fuckyea6790]

Good video, by the way, I wanted to know which graphics card would you recommend me with a budget of 650 dollars, amd or nvidia? thanks.

[@purpasmart_4831]

I have been using a 6800XT for almost a year and it has been awesome, but I use Linux instead of Windows, so it's pretty much a entirely different experience since the drivers are baked into the kernel.

[@briansnediker9101]

While I've used dozens of Radeon GPUs over the years, I've never had one in my main machine. Snagging a 7900 XTX to replace my 3060 Ti soon and I'm very excited! Great, honest video. AMD makes solid cards

[@poligrant5152]

update after 9 months ?

[@johnpaulbacon8320]

Nice review - thanks for this Honest review and video. It's a refreshing experience to come across a video like this.

[@Sinbad1999]

Still rocking my RX 5700 XT 3 years later. Although at launch in 2019 the drivers made me heavily regret purchasing the card, now i'm happy i got the gpu and i do not regret it ever since!

[@daneelaart]

i bought the stigmatized 6500xt for my fresh build and expected to be let down, but i was actually surprised with how well it ran everything i could want, despite all the ways they cut costs with this gpu they still managed to make it a budget king in the middle of a tech supply crisis

[@UTFapollomarine7409]

yep still 40% faster than a 1060 so yep good gpu

[@umamifan]

@@UTFapollomarine7409It's not that the gpu isn't good, it's that it's not worth the price when there's cheaper more powerful GPUs already out on the market. Like, there's barely any improvement despite being a new gen over the 5500 xt

[@umamifan]

It's stigmatized because it's only 1% faster than an rx 5500 xt for nearly $50 more, not even joking. And the RX 5500 XT also shipped out with 8GB variants, at a cheaper price.

[@daneelaart]

@@umamifan you're thinking of the western market, here it's take this or pay triple for anything better

[@Teapose]

6600xt, great card. I'd even take 6500xt (current) over 1660 Super just based on price, and understanding I'd have to stick to more 1080p than 1440p. And I did! 6700XT, personally, over 3070 for bang for buck (Raytracing blows, DLSS/FSR both blow) not even a hard choice honestly. Once you pick up a 5th gen Ryzen, unless you're going 6850XT or better for rasterized performance on either side of the GPU aisle you'll get identical performance, whether you're using 5500 or 5800X3D. Drivers are so much better now than they used to be, with a few exceptions!

[@JKLauderdale]

Been using ATI/AMD cards for decades, NEVER had a problem. Just had to upgrade from ye olde Vega64, I ended up with a 6700XT due to my ITX case (Elite 130). It was the best 2slot card I could fit and I'm hoping next gen sees some cooler slimming due to better efficiency

[@DevilbyMoonlight]

shader cache generation happens on nvidia cards too, Star Citizen is one title that chugs along until the shader cache is populated

[@Donivar]

Regarding the stuttering when opening the game: I think it's related to the CPU (or the PCIe bandwidth since it's on x8) for reading all the data and storing shaders. May be specifically when combining the GPU with an older AMD CPU, no idea. Why do I think this? Well, I have a Ryzen 5 5600 and until a couple months ago I was using a RX 6600 XT. I got a 6700 XT pretty cheap and gave the 6600 XT to a friend as a gift. I never had that stuttering, but he has it when playing Overwatch 2 or World of Warcraft, and he is using a Ryzen 5 2600. In the same games I never had this issue when using the same card. Something is going on there software wise making that combination to perform poorly when saving cache/shaders at the beginning.

[@pottingsoil723]

It may be architecture difference frankly. Comparing Turing & RDNA1, Turing SMs handle 32 concurrent warps with each warp consisting of 32 threads. RDNA1 CUs handle 16 waves per ALU with each wave being 32 threads. Both have 40,960 threads across the chip with identical memory bandwidth but arrive in different ways. It should also be noted that Navi uses Vector Units while Turing uses Scalar Units. Any number of these differences could cause the issue. Typically, RDNA cards will need to allocate SPs to perform additional functions while Turing/Ampere/Ada is able to perform multiple functions on the same cuda core. I'm guessing, anyway. Don't take my words as proof.

[@Donivar]

@@pottingsoil723 But as mentioned before, the only difference between the two computers I used for testing were the PCIe version and the CPU. You know? I'll check with my friend. I know he recently got a Ryzen 5 5600. I'll ask him if it solved the issue.

[@pottingsoil723]

@@Donivar Yea it's a really interesting observation of behavior. The only thing I can think of why a faster CPU would benefit is that the compilation has a translation step before it's stored on the C:/ but I can't be certain.

[@alanaeichsteadt]

Shader cache compilation is the same on nvidia Radeon or intel gpus. It’s not a hardware or driver issue, it’s a game engine issue most common in ue4

[@RATechYT]

I switched to the RTX 2070 after the recording to check, the game had no stutters on launch. Added that info in post at 7:10.

[@alanaeichsteadt]

@@RATechYT then it’s not shader cache comp stutter

[@Earthau]

I had a GTX1080 which worked flawlessly for 4 years, purchased a 6900XT in December 2022, used DDU to uninstall Nvidia Drivers in preparation and had continual hard crashes generally when gaming, I changed the power leads from the Card to power supply and the hard crashes stopped but then I started having black screens that would recover after 1 - 2 mins, I changed the Display Port cable from the card to the monitor to the best i could find and the black screens (driver crash) kept coming, finally I discovered that if I disabled hardware acceleration in Chrome settings the black screens stopped. The only other issue has been a couple of times when i have turned on the PC the monitor displays a Black & White Test Pattern, the PC appears to be running but i do not get the Post Beep code from the motherboard speaker but a push on the reset button and it starts up normally, I am not sure if this is GPU card related though yet. Other than those few trials and tribulations the card has performed amazingly, mainly playing PUBG at 1440p with higher settings and great frame rates. The only other thing I had to do was tweak the fan setting to make it run cooler.

[@Adam-he5bs]

would like to see if there is any diff on the gaming experience for gsync and free sync, again not a tech detailed one but overall in terms of user experience

[@RegazozoGaming]

Went 1080 ti to 6900 xt about a year and a half ago. Nvidia plug n play experience is hands down way better, took me hours to tweak my settings but gained 12% performance and lowered power draw from 330 to about 250-270 watts. If you don’t mind putting in the extra work AMD cards are generally cheaper and have massive rasterization potential. Have been sucked into Cyberpunk recently and Ultra settings 1440p 90+ FPS makes the game a crazy immersive experience.

[@Theworthsearcher]

Did you remove all the nvidia drivers and things before installing MAD? Nvidia leaves a lot of things on your PC, even though you uninstall the drivers. 😞 I love to undervolt AMD cards because then they run faster because of the TDP headroom. I could run an RX 570 easily at 1,300 MHz and with some work at about 1,340 MHz. The RX 580 could run at about 1,400 MHz. So those cards are really good, especially the Sapphire ones. ;) So AMD is always better, than people think.

[@RegazozoGaming]

@@Theworthsearcher When I got the Card I also bought a new CPU cooler and more ram and did a full cleaning and rebuild. During the rebuild I decided to completely refresh the system with a fresh install of windows. Over the years you end up with registry errors, old drivers, and old unused files, figured if I was going through all this trouble might as well start fresh.

[@WyattOShea]

90 fps seems a very low for a 6900xt on Cyberpunk at 1440p unless you meant ultrawide 1440p?. What cpu are you using as my 7600x and 6900xt get well above 100 fps at all times when not using digital foundry optimized settings (I use them so I can use ray tracing).

[@RegazozoGaming]

@@WyattOShea it depends what part of the game you are roaming around, if you are on Jig Jig street Ill dip down into the 60s, if I am away from the city center its jumps up into the 120+ area, I am using an 11700k currently.

[@WyattOShea]

@@RegazozoGaming Fair enough man. I have 100% the game and it's uninstalled now so I can't do a direct comparison to yours though but yeah my performance was around 100-130 ish in almost all areas of the game when not using rt but I did use rt for my entire playthrough.

[@Keullo-eFIN]

Went from 1080 Ti to 6700 XT, absolutely nothing to complain. More like I was surprised that 6700 XT is better than I excepted.

[@CalanReichel]

I jumped from a 2080 to a 6700xt and even that was a fairly big jump at 1440p ultrawide

[@Keullo-eFIN]

@@CalanReichel I play at 4K60, this is fine if I turn the graphics down a little with newest titles

[@JeZZGro]

Turn on SAM, and you will get even better boost.

[@Keullo-eFIN]

@@JeZZGro OFC I had BAR enabled

[@WyattOShea]

@@Keullo-eFIN If you haven't already watch a video on how to undervolt on amd and then you could gain even more performance :). It's not worth it though if you don't want to troubleshoot for stability (ie using different games and software like 3dmark for testing stability) but yeah it can give a nice performance boost.

[@sikzu8019]

Cool and good video, thumbs up.

[@hzti]

On my rx5700xt, driver 22.1.2 didn't cause any issues. You can read the notes before the installation of the newer driver.

[@Stormygewehr]

6900XT owner here, upgraded from a Titan X. The new Radeon card is rediculously fast, but the coil whine is very noticable. My Titan was VERY silent coilwhine wise except for the jet engine blower fan. I also have flickering in chrome with adaptive sync turned on.

[@choongkeat]

Coil whine can be reduced by getting a better or different PSU. For myself, I changed from a 750W bronze to a 850W gold PSU and the whine disappeared on my 6900XT.

[@choongkeat]

On the flickering issue, might want to explore disabling MPO. I'm guessing you're on multiple displays?

[@Stormygewehr]

@@choongkeat Yessir, two displays. My main display is 4K 60hz and to the left of it is a smaller 1080p 60hz display.

[@denniskarlsson6173]

Amd is aware of the adaptive sync flickering issue

[@X_irtz]

Coil whine to some degree is on all GPU's and is an issue present in both Nvidia and AMD GPU's, all depends on what board partner you choose, higher end partners are less likely to run into noticeable coil whine.

[@10WA]

I really enjoyed my RX 6600XT it even overclocked well. The AMD software is nice with good overclocking and monitoring features. I switched to a RTX 3070 but only because I got it for a great deal. Otherwise I planned on waiting for the 7600XT later this year. And still may switch back if it beats the 3070.

[@tadsnyder2756]

Well considering a 6800xt absolutely crushes a 3070 w/o even trying I’m sure the 7600xt will destroy it also you can have a 6800xt for the same price as a 3070 which out rasterizes the 3080 in many cases you shouldn’t have any problem making that decision.

[@letssayhypothetically]

I have the non xt version of the card and it performs nicely. Only thing ive noticed with amd is that sometimes they botch up the drivers but i am fully content as i was able to get a really good deal on the card.

[@Ohmnity]

I went from a 1080 Ti to a 6800XT Red Devil back when it was the newest GPU and honestly other than Vsync implementation on some older games I had no complaints. I really liked how Adrenalin had everything you needed to modify fan curves and UV / OC your GPU. I since switched to a 4090 because I'm more used to NVIDIA and I like Freesync (or GSync, to be precise) implementation more on NVIDIA cards and because of how messy the 7900 XTX's launch was, but I can honestly say that it wasn't due to lousy performance.

[@Atigeve]

Hello! So I figured I would share my experience as well. I changed to AMD GPU in October of 2020 (Right before the prices started to soar) and I changed from an nvidia 970 that got replaced by a 1060 3gb to this new pc I built and an RX 5700 XT. The difference here was vast, obviously, and I fell in love. Had a few bad drivers here and there but was easily fixed by reverting to the previous working version, I do stream (very very small time only) and do some recording and videos, and was always able to adjust settings and it looked good. Then November of 2022 it was time for an upgrade, my 5700 xt started showing some signs of age, several things were learned from that original pc build and the 5700 xt went through them all including power issues. With everything going on with nvidia and after watching the RX 7900xt/x get announced, I made the choice to grab an XFX 6950 xt. I do love this card, but it is not all sunshine and roses. Drivers dont always like certain games, specifically fortnite, while not my main game to play, i do enjoy it from time to time and fortnite does not get along with the newest AMD drivers.... However the card is a brute, it powers through everything i throw at it and almost always begs for more. I cant complain about my change of brands, I enjoy AMD (morally and otherwise although no company is perfect), drivers arent horrible, i can stream and play games, I may choose to use software encoding though as it looks a bit better and the 5900x can handle it.

[@pekopan00]

If a game requires building shaders, you will be forced to wait if you 1.) changed the graphics card 2.)update the graphics drivers. Usually there is a setting to stop pre caching on initial load but you will get shuttering if shaders are not completely compiled. This is your issue with APEX when you changed your graphics card and the game had to dump the old cache

[@KitsuneVoss]

In my recent upgrade, when I upgraded from an FX 8350 to a Ryzen 7 5800x, I later upgraded from a GTX 980 to a rx 6800. I have not had any real stability issues. It was performance per dollar the best choice when I did it and had double the v ram. I use it at 1440 although my monitor is only 60 Hz. It is 32 inch however so size makes up for refresh rate.

[@lucamartorana5934]

Btw you can use the amd driver to display fps/frequences/utilization etc by clicking ctrl+shift+o

[@Fenrirsleash]

The 6600xt pairs well with the 5600x it rocks 1440p really well also

[@MrMeanh]

Have both a 3080 and a 6800xt that I've used for the past ~2 years or so now. In that time I have to say that AMD has been more stable when it comes to drivers. With my 3080 I've had issues with so many drivers, black screens, flickering, broken textures in games, crashes, etc. With AMD I've only had issues with one driver to the point of using DDU (used it countless times for my 3080), and I also had a few drivers that didn't play nice with my a bit "too optimistic" OC. Should also say that before the 3080 I also had a 970 and a 2070s that worked well, before that I was mostly playing on consoles for 10 years, I left PC gaming when my 9700 Pro from ATI got too slow for gaming. My experience with the 3080 is actually the worst in terms of drivers I had with any GPU, but that could be something in my specific system that doesn't play nice with Nvidia but is just fine with AMD.

[@homer1991]

I had 2 beasts of Amd cards. A sapphire Vega 56 and a Red Devil 5700 XT. Great when they worked which they did for the most part but I got sick and tired of the random Black screens and the very fact despite years of owning both cards and numerous driver updates, the memory clock would always run at full speed due to the fact I ran dual monitors.

[@bornagainpagan8095]

Recently got a ASRock 6700XT with a AMD 5900XT and love it. The 22.11.2 drivers work great for me, no problems at all.

[@J0derVIVIVI]

I am a user of both NVIDA and AMD gpus, AMD gpu drivers issues get too much "hype" for some reason. Sure there was a time long ego when they were still called "ATI" and a while after AMD bought them, when their drivers were gabage no question about it, though that has not being the case for years. NVIDIA drivers have as many issues as AMD, and that should be something that never happens since NVIDIA has way deeper pockets than AMD. The main issue AMD drivers have is that they do have more regresions and that they drop support for their GPUs way sooner than NVIDIA.

[@starshepherd11]

my experience with rx 6000 is great in gaming, but productivity wise... lets say that in arnold renderer for 3ds max, it doesnt even appear as a rendering device option.

[@RudeBoyReal1]

Radeon 9500 pro was my first AMD GPU, since then, I had the 5670 and a 6870 and they all have been great. I remember upgrading from a 4400ti to the 9500 pro and it was such a big jump in performance. Great card! I wanted to buy the 6800XT so bad but it was impossible to buy one for a decent price back then. But the day will come when Radeon finds it's way back to my home.

[@JosePineda-jn8jk]

I used to use a 660ti and then upgraded to a 1660s. During the pandemic and subsequent gpu shortage I decided to sell the card for $20 more than I paid for it and used the 660ti until I was able to get an RX6600. Really pleased with the performance and cost but, also no bugs or stutters that I am experiencing in any game so far.

[@raresmacovei8382]

9:14: Nvidia had better encoding*. For recording, AMD uses HEVC. Recorded video quality always was top notch. Streaming on RDNA2-3 using OBS with B-Frames now put's AMD's H.264 video quality pretty much on par, if only slightly bellow.

[@iikatinggangsengii2471]

the hevc/x265 is a little too taxing for most, 264 will be more efficient for the gpu wo much fps loss, not sure abt av1 since its sort of intels

[@danielbarnes3406]

with what CPU though? Bottleneck calculators say my Ryzen 5500 is well paired with my 6650XT but doesn't have much left over. I've yet to assemble it all so I don't know if there is enough CPU left for OBS.

[@benedictjajo]

The argument against AMD's GPU that their drivers are bad and cause black screens, crashes, etc is nothing but a myth. I used to think the same too when my brand new pc got no signal issues and had random crashes . Then I decided to dig into the problem, read hundreds of forums, and kept tinkering with my PC. Turns out, enabling xmp was the issue. Ever since I ran the stock frequency (2666mhz) from 3200mhz, I have stopped having any problems. My point is, stop saying AMD drivers are bad every time your pc has crashes, bsod or black screen. It's more likely to be the PSU, ram, mb, cpu, Overclocking, bios or wiring problem.

[@K31TH3R]

I've had a 5700 XT since it launched in July 2019. And no, the driver problems were not a myth. The card was a complete disaster on launch, and was borderline unusable for the first 2 months. Black screens, BSOD's, screen flickering etc. etc. Had them all. It wasn't until 2 months later when the 19.9.3 drivers released that the card was finally mostly stable. But I will say at this point that the card is 100% rock solid. I often don't reboot my machine unless there's a Windows update that forces me, and I can have month long up times with heavy usage and won't have a problem. So, yeah, AMD drivers can be pretty awful, but they do usually sort all of the problems out, it's just that their comparatively smaller driver team takes a bit longer than it might on the nVidia side. All that being said, I have used Radeon GPU's exclusively for 13 years, and will continue to do so, as it means I don't have to give money to a corporation which I consider the scummiest in the industry (nVidia).

[@mattk6827]

Crashes from xmp sounds like a different issue not related to the gpu. If it were there's no way you'd convince me a gpu is good if it in fact forced me to use jedec speeds on my ram. Not when other gpu's run just great with xmp enabled.

[@benedictjajo]

@@mattk6827 you missed the point. It had nothing to do with the GPU because I tried my old GTX 1060 and had the same problem.

[@kokumosu]

ive gone with AMD until the GTX 970 came out then i had a 2070 . i went back to AMD and i love how everything i need is available straight from Adrenaline. no need for 3rd party tools to control fan speed, tdp, OC settings and i can even control my CPU all one from place. The only issue i have since going back to amd is that my portrait monitor doesnt recognize its in portrait mode (Cursor still acts in landscape when scrolled over to it) but that fixable by having windows magnifier auto start

[@MezzaVita]

I love the look of your fps overlay. It’s afterburner with a different font or is it something else?

[@RATechYT]

Yup, it is Afterburner. There are plenty of things that I've changed so I don't remember how exactly I got it to look this way unfortunately.

[@MezzaVita]

@@RATechYT no problem, I will try by myself 😉

[@cocosloan3748]

AMD cards are amazing ! Period !

[@hitbm4755]

The stuttering is very likely due to AMDs DirectX11 improvements somewhere in last year, and APEX Legends is a DirectX11 title. The way it works has something to do with real-time shader compilation on the first run of DirectX11 games. I am looking to buy a RX 6600XT somewhere during the following year, but I would go for Sapphire or MSI, I have not had a good experience with XFX HD7970. The problem with Radeon comes with pairing it with something like a FX 8350 on Windows 10, you need Ryzen 3rd or 5th Gen to break through single threaded problems. You will be able to notice it in Assassin's Creed Origins if you had a pre-Navi Radeon GPU and say a FX 8350 or Ryzen 5 1600.

[@brianwong6562]

I am going to get a RX6750XT and wondering if the anti-lag feature should be turned on for competitive gaming? Is it comparable to Nvidia low latency feature?

[@dancingtriangle2814]

In regards to the studdering, I have experienced similar problems with nvidia cards after a driver update. The main example is when I play fortnite the game would have massive frame drops for the first match or two untill all of the different shaders are cashed. After the shaders are cashed the game would run smoothly (aside from the fact that I have some settings a little too high but that has more to do with my slightly outdated card than shaders being cashed).

[@ZeR0goth]

I have an rx 580 going on 5 years. Just recently switched to a rx 6750xt definitely satisfied. I don't hate nvidia (had a 1050ti before the rx 580) I just prefer amd. I feel my 580 will continue to be useful in a secondary machine for years

[@josephnorris4095]

I know the FX Series of processors are now dead and buried. It would still be cool to see how the 6600XT would do with them, as well as a 2600K, just saying.

[@MirceaPrunaru]

Those cpu's are old but not obsolete. 32bit Cpu's are the once that are truly dead though.

[@Rolatnor]

Fx8350 user here, as well as the Opteron 3365

[@PhaedrusAK]

Yes, and also waiting for the FX Overclocking in 2023 video ;)

[@Pieteros21]

i tried fx8320@4.2ghz with gtx1080 and it did better than expected , you can still play many new titles if you don't expect perfect 60fps all the time

[@Rolatnor]

@@Pieteros21 I'm more of a 30fps gamer

[@George_K.]

"Fine wine" was a driver strategy from 10 years ago and it came to an end about 5 years ago. I know, because I've used AMD for 10 years - R9 280 and a 390 both on GCN

[@GODLIKE99KINGZ]

You didn't mentioned if AMD has anything like Geforec Experience "Game Filter". I use GameFilter in many games to customise the look. Does AMD has anything like it?

[@motozappa225]

You forgot to add that AMD and their open approach with software made Radeon cards the go to on Linux and BSD thanks to the MESA project and AMDs implementation of Vulkan and with Proton and DXVK, using Radeon cards for gaming in Linux is a no brainer (not to mention further improvement to GPU-related software) unlike Nvidia, that is a pain to deal with with their subpar drivers,l for users and devs alike

[@FellTheSky]

Thats nice for of you, in my case: Random crashes with 3 4k displays connected. No good moonlight alternative Very low rendering and modeling support. I don't really notice my games running 10% faster or slower. But I do notice all the above. What I do like about AMD is the gpus having more ram. The thing is, since you don't usually have good support on apps you would need it, usually doesn't matter.

[@murdergorilla4087]

I did the same went from 770sc to a 2070super to a reddevil 6750xt no complaints.

[@thepcenthusiastchannel2300]

GeForce Experience sealed the deal for me. I haven't bought an nVIDIA card for my main system ever since that application launched.

[@MDFGamingVideo]

nVidia lost my business when (1) They started requiring an ACCOUNT to use GeForce Experience... and (2) They NEVER paid me my $30 settlement for the 3.5gb -vs- 4gb RAM scandal.

[@RavenValkyrie]

For Recording, that Radeon software is absolutely a great software, records really well compared to OBS on low-end hardware and automatically organizes the recording.

[@dannyrikkers383]

Hi! i got the 6650 xt on jan 1st this year and couldn't be happier (1080p). Got it for 239 EUROS. Right now it's used for playing Cod MW2019 and it's super fluent at 168 fps average. (normal settings with high particles and near texture streaming) FreeSync is fenomenal, no tearing whatsoever and walls and buildings look like nothing else compared to the rtx 2070 i had. Note that I will probably replace it for a higher tier AMD card soon! My pc is also going to be used for creating video's and maybe streaming gameplay down the road.

[@MrTravisEngland]

I bought my first Nvidia GPU back around 2002/2003, and used them exclusively until last year, when I decided to buy an RX 6800 XT. The low availability and insanely high price markups on Nvidia GPUs drove me to AMD. I had occasional black screen/reboot issues with the AMD GPU at first, due to a driver issue, but it was fixed shortly thereafter. I haven't had any issues since. I like the software way better than anything Nvidia had offered for the twenty years I used them. Nvidia GPUs aren't immune to driver bugs, neither. Not too many computer hardware items are. I can't say that I'll never buy an Nvidia GPU again, but I can say AMD will have equal weight when deciding going forward.

[@X_irtz]

I have had AMD GPU's for about 4 years now. Personally i've seen a noticeable improvement in driver stability, my old R9 270X had way more issues with stability than my current RX 6700XT, with which the video flickering issue was the only thing that i encountered and was easily fixable by disabling MPO (it's literally just a single string in Registry Editor). I did originally intended to go with a 3060, but for the same price got a GPU that is more comparable to a 3070, so i just couldn't say no. It runs great, no crashes as others complain about them, at least ones that are the result of the GPU, so no driver timeouting. Runs cool, about 60-63 degrees full load and pretty quiet too, it's an XFX SWFT 309 version of the card. There is a bit of coil whine though, but it is considered normal, you will find plenty of videos of people having this issue on both sides of the platform, so no biggie here.

[@YetMoreCupsOfTea]

My current build is an all AMD build for the first time since the Phenom days. It's an overclocked 5600 and an RX 6800 that I picked up second hand for a song which is also overclocked. The machine is a monster. Drives my 1440p ultrawide at great frames all day long. The 6800 is giving me 3080-like performance but cost me less than half as much.

[@rotorglow6110]

I had a Vega 64 first which I experienced black screens etc which was bad for an "out of box" experience. I then had a 5700xt which was a great card! Not flawless but out of box was good. I then went to an RTX 3060 12GB and I didn't like that I had to create an account just to use the geforce software like you had mentioned, but I also wasn't WOW'd with it's performance. It was a performance regression which I learned later is true, which I'm shocked about. Now I have a 6800xt which is the most stable AMD experience I've had since the start, very pleased with at the 1440p resolution; my mind is also at ease with the 16gb Vram headroom with new title releases 😎

[@rubsfern]

A few months ago I bought my first PC, went full AMD (5800x3d + 6900xt) and I'm really happy with the results. Temperature is amazing tbh, I'm using an asrock phantom gaming model and I undervolted the GPU, while at a full load it is always around 70ºC and junction temperature 80º. 4 months using and no driver problems btw

[@rickysreviewsandhowtos]

I went from originally using a pair of GT 660’s years ago to a 5500xt and recently put a 7900xt in, I’ve had no issues with either and card, remove old drivers before installing new drivers and good to go.

[@Pixel_FX]

Ive been using both for last 10-15 years. Latest upgrade was from 3 year old 5700xt to a 3080. I miss radeon software, nvidia control panel and geforece experience are horrible. I have to use three more 3rd party programs just to get the same functionality that i got from radeon software. Tuning/profiles, Overlay/monitoring/phone sync, Region capture/streaming. Radeon could do all that, now i use MSI afterburner+RTSS, OBS and Aida64.

[@conkerman01]

I have been mostly using nvidia since my 6870 was gerring a bit slow. I bought a RX6640XT for my son, and was pretty impressed. One theing to be aware of is windows update nuking your GPU driver. Not too hard to remedy, but its a hassle and switching off driver updates means it wont happen agin, but the rest of the drivers need to be updated manually.

[@jazazzaza]

7:42 been all amd for over 10 years now and I can say that, at least in my experience, driver issues like that basically never happen. you'll get some games doing some weird stuff sometimes but usually it's just a case of waiting for a specific game to be optimized.

[@matthewbrown1849]

I made the switch recently. Had a i7 4790k with gtx 1080 and switched to Ryzen 9 7950x with rx 7900 xtx. I even got the ram designed for the AMD chipset. Full AMD PC and loving it.

[@ronhaworth5808]

I'm a proud owner of a XFX Merc 6700XT and on the latest drivers with no issues but I'll note that my system is all team red with a B550F motherboard and 5700XT CPU. They all play well together.

[@chicagochris1988]

I had an AMD Vega 56 in my last build. Then i got a gaming laptop with a 2070 in it and just built my 2023 Gaming pc with an I5 3600KF and I ended up going with the 4070ti. I never had any issues out of the amd cards over the years, Just wanted to switch it up this build. If it gets me by 4-5 years ill be happy

[@rRe1d]

Wich ones are the best driver version? recently the launch the 23.2.2 but idk wich one is better i have the rx 6650xt xfx version!

[@m4rcin847]

Ive switched to AMD first time ever GTX 1060 - > 6600XT new. Had some problems throuought those 8 months like reseting driver, green screens. Upgraded to 6800XT used - absolute zero problems for half a year so far.

[@sethdunn96]

I did a similar transition....I had a MSI 2070 Duke, when I bought it years ago, I got it for around $400. I just recently bought a Radeon 6800 (not XT) used for $398. Video card is definitely better than the 2070, sadly I need to upgrade my CPU, sys board and memory to get the full performance benefit. So that will be what I save for next. I have an EVGA RTX 3060 in another system and that does perform on par w/ the 2070

[@abritabroadinthephilippines]

Question. What is the driver 26 in optional updates in windows update please? For AMD.

[@liamsgamingpcs7473]

I think the XFX cards are the best looking ones on the market And a plus is they are one of the cheaper models typically. An RX 6700 XT can be found for under $400 USD used on eBay most days.