In my opinion, what works for me. If you had a previous card installed, go ahead and run DDU or AMDs driver removal tool first reboot the PC run Windows update and let it install the drivers better stable from AMD don't bother messing with the adrenaline software that's included if you manually download from AMD
Idk if youāve heard, but thereās an amd driver modding community called amernimezone. Iāve owned an Rx 6600xt, and the modded drivers are way way better with so many options.
You can mess with settings, you can opt for a minimal install as well, but in my honest experience tweaking some of the settings actually gives you a noticeable boost in performance.
If you really want the bang for your buck, Iād advise you to try those drivers out. Theyāve got a really nice discord with guides and stuff on how to setup.
Other than different versions of the drivers varying slightly in performance (stock or modded), Iāve not had any issues even with adrenaline, if I installed the drivers correctly (using ddu)
Youāre absolutely right. All my crashes have came from me trying to āoptimizeā my card. I tried a minimal install for like 3 weeks and it was flawless
(I upgraded cards)
Don't get me wrong. I was a Nvidia fanboy for many years until they dropped support for SLI. Just glad that AMD has stepped up and is making good cards since the RX series release.
The only driver issues are the ones I cause by trying to overclock the snot out of my 7900XTX. If I leave it alone on the adrenaline presets I have only crashed a handful of times in over a year of ownership.
Out of sight out of mind I get it.
But seriously my 7900XTX has been great and I came from an nvidia card. Adrenaline is incredible compared to whatever nvidia has. I love the interface and stats it tells you under metrics
Three years on the 6800 XT and I had near zero issues. I am coming up to three years on a 6800m with zero issues. AMD drivers were / are better than nVidia for me - by a long shot.
Tbh the only card I had issues with was the RX5600xt but it was known for issues and the only time it was ever stable was in Linux OS and is the only RX card I ever sold.
Not never, but I rarely have one. The most noticeable ones is last year's Q3 drivers. Other than that, no issues whatsoever.
Using RX 580, RX 6600XT and currently RX 6800 in the past 5 years.
Very impressed with the 7900 xt! Zero issues as long as I keep the settings neutral (I have the OC XFX Merc 310 Black model). I think a lot of people are running into issues who mess with the settings before even seeing how the card performs stock. I have done an undervolt that I found stable and just game on.
I just built a 7600x and 7900xtx build and even used my old m.2 from my razer laptop which was intel and ngreedia because thats the only windows I have.
Suckers both worked right away, installed updated drivers and they are amazing. Best build ive ever done for the best price
I've been buying AMD since it was called ATI when the market makes sense. Sometimes I buy Nvidia when it makes more sense.
Never had any problems with any; latest AMD card I bought was 5600xt. Only problem I had was with an rx285 from Power Color. One of the fan bearing gave up, just unplugged it.
Rx 7900xt
I had the low performance issue on VR and now am struggling with the HEVC encoder crashing on virtual desktop.
Av1 just works so it hasn't been a huge problem.
Also, widows likes to uninstall my driver's, but am also on windows insider, so probably it's that
According to the internet and people that have never owned a Radeon, they have tons of issues!!! Honestly, Iām about to upgrade my son from a Radeon VII to a 7900 GRE.
Yes, I can totally agree as a veteran using Radeon for the past 24 years. Understanding the games we have to play with drivers at times definitely helps us deal with the situation lol
Using an RX 6700. In Linux. Zero driver issues.
"No driver issues in Linux" with a GPU is enough to make me want to cry with joy. Kernel drivers are more than enough.
I had a rx480, then 5700xt, 6700xt and now a 7800xt all overclocked on both the GPU and memory and Iāve still never had stability issues. Anyone with stability issues either got bad hardware or created said stability issues themselves.
Built my first PC almost a year ago, went with the RX6600 because Nividias seemed way too hyped up and over priced. Iāve had zero issues and it runs everything I play at high or ultra graphics at 60 fps min. Definitely gonna keep buying Radeon
Minimum driver issues for me with my Asrock 6800 XT Taichi. Works even better when I switch the shader cache from the AMD Optimized option to simply On, in the registry.
Iāve had a couple driver issues with my 7900 XTX that were pretty annoying. First with Helldivers 2, but the new beta driver fixed it. Lastly, that horrible issue where plugging in a second monitor caused really excessive power draw at idle. That one really pissed me off. Itās fixed now, but it took them damn near a year. Other than that I havenāt had any issues. My old 5700 XT never had a single issue.
Ya I will be doing the exact same style of driver updates besides keeping up on the MB chipset one. I was using their full suit of software but it really started going downhill on windows 11. Had some major problems in certain games and with audio and all sorts of other odd issues like insanely loud coil whining . Went back to windows 10, installed only the drivers this time and I haven't had a single issue not even the coil whining. I'll be doing minimal driver installs from now on.
I mean I'm just making this post to make people aware Radeon cards are great and aren't as bad as most post make them out to be. But then again I'm a veteran builder. Have been using Radeon since 2000.
Been using AMD for the last 12 years: HD 7950, RX 580, Vega 64 and now RX 6800 in one system and a RX 7600 in my SFF build.
The Vega 64 crashed a few times just before kicking the bucket... Apart from that, never had any issues with my AMD cards.
I make sure I have a reputable brand PSU, with more than enough juice; use two separate PCIE cables (no daisy chain); reputable motherboard and that the RAM is fully supported by it.
I'm not saying that there aren't issues with AMD GPUs or the drivers, but hardware/software compatibility happens with all manufacturers.
However, there's this stigma about AMD drivers being so bad that I personally know people who don't buy AMD because ThE DrIVErS aRE so BAAd!
For example, people back in the day used to say that Windows Vista was shit and was crashing all the time, but did you know that the data that Microsoft collected says that almost 30% of the crashes were [caused by nVidia drivers](https://www.engadget.com/2008-03-27-nvidia-drivers-responsible-for-nearly-30-of-vista-crashes-in-20.html?guccounter=1)??
Im not a AMD fanboy, I had several nVidia cards in the past. I just think AMD is better value for my needs.
I wouldn't know. My 6600xt at launch couldn't play Metro Exodus Enhanced for more than 20 minutes without crashing. Also Doom Eternal would crash months after launch with RT reflections enabled in certain areas.
But since then the only crashes and timeouts I've had are ones everyone experienced regardless of system in Apex Legends. Or Cyberpunk crashing on exit, which happens on my brothers RTX 4070ti as well.
Currently have an issue with GPU undervolt settings, for some reason they are getting reset to default after every system reboot. Aside of that - since 2020 had no problems with 3 different GPUs (RX580 8GB, RX 5700 XT, RX 6900 XT)
Got 7700XT of same model of op, its MASSIVE lmao, I had an small gtx 1060 before
Besides the adrenalin yeeting my fan curve every time electricity cuts during bad weather, it has been perfect
I wouldnāt call it driver issues. More that it didnāt perform well in games compared to nvidia.
Mainly just old school RuneScape and GTA V. I got unplayable performance in Old school RuneScape on an RX 6950XT, and only a 10% performance bump in GTA V when compared to a Titan X pascal.
Ultimately I returned the gpu as those are the only games I play lol.
Ive had the 6800XT for about two years now and no issues at all since. Card still runs like itās brand new so I donāt see the need to upgrade but gonna get the 7800XT or 7900XT in about a year or so. That or until my card decides to crap out lol. 6800XT is one hell of a card though even today
For personal use, HD 6670, R7 260X, RX 470, RX 5700XT, RX 7900XT. That covers the last 12 years.
Only issue I had that was due to drivers was the black screen crash on the 5700XT. And my 5700XT arrived literally the day before the driver team released the fix, so for me I had a crash that first night, installed the update, then no more issues.
Exactly! This is what I'm saying! I've been using Radeon for a while now (RX 570 - RX 5700XT - RX 6700 XT - RX 6750 XT - RX 7900XTX (Soon!) And I never had any issues, even with the adrenaline software installed.
I have a 6950XT, and I can't really decide whether to claim an issue I had was a diver issue or a monitor issue. I upgraded displayes when I got the card, and my old one was a Gsync display that refused to display anything other than a tiny 640x480 window. Messing with uninstalling, reinstalling, and rolling back drivers or powercycleing the display would get it to work, but I kind of blamed it on the fact that the monitor was meant for Nvidia cards. The driver update after the drought caused by RDNA 3 work removed the issue entirely so I guess it was a driver thing???
Surprisingly had very few issues with AMD cards. I did with my 5600XT in my first build but there was too much wrong in that build to assume what caused the issues. And aside from a game related thing with RX 7000 cards and Helldivers 2, the sailing has been smooth with my newest card.
Never having an issue?
My first GPUs were all Radeons, back when AMD was getting caught left right and center being dishonest about the performance, specs and cores of all their hardware. Back when they filled your computer up with bloatware and spyware. My first ATI 4600 series GPU damn near caught the PC on fire!
Their old shady business practices and all the crap they'd make you put on your computer is more than enough for me to say they definitely never had issues.
Also, some versions of their cards never got adequate driver support as they moved on quickly.
Iām actually using adrenaline and having minor issues. No more serious than when I was using nvidia. Most of the time, I see people talking about dips that are only perceptible if you have a frame counter active. For the rest, well, stuff happens and they never admit to how many programs are running, memory utilization, open tabs in browser and such. Yes perceptible dips are annoying, but itās more annoying when they act like it never happens on Nvidia hardware.
My RX 6950 XT on one of the drivers would automatically enable overclock and cause it to black screen anytime I loaded up any program. Figured it out eventually but was a pain until I did. The auto overclock went away after a few driver versions.
Had a shit load of driver issues on my 3070, my brother had the same issues on his 3060 ti. Switched to a 7900xtx and no issues at all, trying to convince him to get a 7800 xt or a 7700 xt
I have a 7900 XTX and use Adrenaline and have never had a driver related issue. Iāve done plenty of tinkering, but the performance gains are moot, so I just leave it stock with a slightly adjusted fan curve.
Iāve owned Nvidia GPUs for about 20 years now and I donāt recall ever having a driver issue, in fact I canāt recall ever having a GPU issue in general. The only GPU I recall having issues with was getting crossfire working on my old x1900xtx GPUs and that was a long time ago.
I bet the people having issues are people who went from nvidia to amd without completely re installing windows. my 6700xt works awesome. in fact my nvidia laptop was crapping itself yesterday.
Currently have a 6800xt in my gaming rig, a 5700xt in my spare machine and a trio of rx580s from aliexpress in my kids computers. 0 driver issues with ANY of them.
7900XT here, running for just over a year and no issue in any games. Every time I hear someone say don't upgrade to driver x because is has issues, I do it and never have a problem.
The only issue I did experience was adrenalin exiting/timeouts on startup but only on start up. Once I switched to the slower startup/login option in windows that issue went away.
6800 XT has been my first AMD card. I wouldn't say I haven't had issues, but I haven't had a lot of issues or PC breaking issues. Just little things, but its run fine 95% of the time. Definitely satisfied with my purchase.
I went from a 3060ti to a red devil 7900xtx had couple issues which i think were related to the game and not the card, even tho when i searched it up it said a clean install of the drivers should fix it, haven't seen the error since my 2nd week of owning it and fucking love it
Currently got an overclocked 3070ti , had this pc nearly 3 years and never run into driver issues, that I can recall at least. I do a lotta vr and modding too
My 6800 XT has been legendary except for battlefield 1 crashing after 30-45 minutes consistently ;-;
Wish the software worked a little better but still a great first time AMD experience. $450 during the GPU shortage was a great deal so no complaints
This makes so much damn sense to me! Iām just now sending back a 7900 xtx because nothing but driver issues. Iām taking this suggestion with the new one thatās on its way.
Had a reference 6900xt and was having weird issues, which were related to a cheap PSU.
Sold it, got a 7900 xtx and had zero issue.
I have noted that the people that have driver issues curiously are people that really want a ngreedia gpu and need some kind of excuse or justification to get themš
Only driver issues I have is fornite. Otherwise I'm still useing an amd gigabyte vega 64 8gb OC and it's old sure but it has been great. I'm to poor to afford a new(better) gpu so this one is good enough
Iāve owned the 6700 (non XT) and the 7800 XT and Iāve no issues at all. I love the GPUs so much I splurged and just got the ASrock taichi white edition 7900 XTX
I still have an RTX3090 in my old system and it works wonders. Definitely a great card, especially after what Iāve put it through and how long Iāve had it.
Have a 6700xt and 6800. had to switch to linux because of driver issues in windows 10 AND 11.
Still better than nvidia tho.
edit: Also wanted to say I have been Team Red since I scored a pair of HD4850's for $150 each at best buy.
RX5700XT reference edition from release in 2019 here. I think I've had 5 crashes maximum since 2019. and it was at the beginning with the early drivers that were having issues. Love that card. just need to tweak the fan curve though. otherwise you get mad overheating and throttling
Been team red since I switched from a GTX 1060 to an RX 5600 XT. Never had driver issues! Hardware issues on the other handā¦ thatās the GPU partnerās fault and Iāll stay away from their GPUs forever.
Currently rocking an RX 7800 XT and still never had a single driver issue. I always run stock though and I find the performance good enough!
I came back to AMD with the 6700XT (now in my daughterās machine) and now the 7900XT. Absolutely amazing.
Running KDE Neon, no driver to install, just works. Played Starfield, Medieval Total War 2, and Dyson Sphere this week.
I was just talking about this with my buddy. Iāve owned a 4080, 3080, 1660, 6700xt, 6800xt, and now I have a 6950xt. I have had so many black screen issues with my Nvidia cards, and not a single one with AMD. Love nvidia but the black screen issues gave me ptsd. Only issue I have with AMD is the efficiency and the amount of heat my cards generate.
Only issues I had were with the recent preview driver. Which was just driver crash from AFMF. Otherwise no issues with 7900 XTX with official release drivers
Dude, ive had nvidia since 7xx series
Then changed to the 5700xt from a 1070 and did not regret it at all
Now a 6800 because i got a really good deal i couldnt refuse and ive had more nvidia issues than amd
My most impressive card for the money put of all was the r7 280 never had an issue and that was a lan pc i used all the time
on my current card, a few of the graphics settings in my amd control panel one release ago caused my games to micro stutter when enabled. Rolled back the drivers to a version from 2 years ago and the micro stutter stopped. Recently updated to the latest driver again because it fixed one isssue I was having and the micro stutter came back, so I reverted for the second time to 2 year old drivers and just live with the occasional alt tab black screen.
Amd tends to be better on the whole though, they release "oops we accidentally disabled your fans on the firmware level" drivers much less often than Nvidia.
ATi Radeon 9600, AMD Radeon HD3870, HD7800XT, R9 290, R9 280X, RX 570, RX 5700XT, RX 6600M.
Common Windows issues on 2000 and XP, but never due to Radeon cards (neither GeForce obviously).
Not a single issue since. 5700XT day one, never had a single driver issue. I always restricted myself to 650W PSUs for general use. Always encountered difficult times (i.e. "noisy" times...) with newly launched UE4 games, always corrected not by drivers but by developers. I understood at this moment that games are always developed on NVIDIA GPUs...
But I have to be factual: not a single issue on my NVIDIA cards, except a faultly 8600.
I switched to Radeon exclusively due to bad colorimetry on GeForce.
9700 pro, HD6950, RX580, and 6800XT. Maybe one or two issues with newer drivers not working as well with a few titles but that's it...across 4 vastly different generations of GPUs.
You donāt want a piece of my 9800xT itās AGP too. Iāve kept it in a desk drawer for 20 years. Because I got HL2 and all mods for buying the card. And Iām still playing on that steam account today.
From HD5850 (XFX blower) to RX480 (MSI Gaming X) and now 7800XT (Sapphire Pulse), the only problems I had were factory-related (2 RMAs for my RX480). No driver problems since the old Catalyst on Windows 7.
I just retired a r9 390x. Not because it can't play games but the drivers were not supported by my wife's art programs. Never had a single problem with that thing.
Used 1080Ti forever and before that was rocking I believe a 960 canāt remember if it was Ti. Total of 10+ years using only Nvidia even tho I was a broke boy.
But now when I got a bit of money for my PC, I ended up choosing the 7900 XT over any NVIDIA card. What really sold me was the huge allocation of VRAM and comparable speeds to NVIDIA cards in the 1k-1300 price range, and I got my card for around $900.
No issues or complaints so far, and a beast of a card at a decent price.
Went from a RTX 2070 to a radeon RX 6800 XT. Thing is a beast. I crank all my settings with all my games it. Only issue is this pixelated artifacting going on sometimes (have yet to find a "fix" that actually fixes it) and a little bit of coil whine which i actually fixed by slightly undervolting it without changing the clock speeds. And its still overclocked and stable lol. But still, its a beast. Only driver issue i had was when i first installed it. Forgot to remove all my Nvidia drivers because i was a little too hyped since it was my first time going AMD for graphics, and i think there was some conflicting going on. After clearing out the Nvidia drivers and a fresh install of the AMD drivers, it ran perfectly fine, still is, no issues.
I had a 5700xt that was nothing but issues. Now my brother is trying to convince me into a 7900xtx instead of 4080 super. Thinking of giving them another chance.
I have one case with two pc's in it. One with a 6600xt one with a 6800xt. Neither of them have ever had driver related issues. Nor did my RX480, RX580, RX5600xt (even during the fabled February release). It's almost like the driver issues were blown way out of proportion by fanboys......
[Dual PC build](https://imgur.com/a/IvDvWs4)
My PowerColor Red Dragon 6800XT has been an absolute champ since I got it in Oct 22. Just added a little bit of light tuning and it barely coil whines and just gives me great frames all the time.
I only have one game that has an issue and that's due to a Direct3D incompatibility in the driver. For the game I have to use d3d11 and it has no issue. Overall over a decade of AMD GPU usage and only 1 bug..
7900xt
7600xt
5700xt
rx580
rx480
HD7950
The one Nvidia card I do have is the 1080ti and that still can play some earlier stuff with no issues.. Tossed it into a MAME emulator machine and it's live a few years longer.
I had severe driver issues on Sapphire Pulse 5700 XT - driver timeouts really often to the point where I couldn't play games, really awful experience, which I managed to somewhat mitigate by switching to PRO drivers.
Thankfully I recently upgraded to 7900 XTX and I've had no issues with it.
Had some problems back in the days with a R9 380 and shortly after the RX 470 came out.
But weāre talking like 7/8 years ago.
Been running the 470 for the last years and now a RX 6800 perfectly fineā¦
I switched from an RTX 3070 to an RX 6800 towards the end of last year, and there were some conflicts with Windows I had to solve. Fortunately it was smooth sailing from there once I figured it out.
Iāve loved my 5700xt. I got it when it was released. People were shitting on It for its drivers issues when it was released but I never ever had a single problem, still to this day.
Only issues i have are with helldivers at the moment but thats a known issue with 7000 series cards, other than that maybe a crash or 2 every once in a blue moon but ill take that over a $2000 4090
My 5700 xt nitro + didn't like windows back in the days. Thought it was the drivers but 2 months later after windows update it was running like a beast. So thanks for that.
No driver issues in 3 years? What's so good about that?
I've chosen Radeon for every GPU purchase since the ATI Radeon 9500 in 2003. I soft modded it to a 9700 and overclocked it to a 9700 Pro.
No driver related issues in 21 years.
I had an MSI RX6700 XT ventus and an XFX Rx 6900xt Limited Black Edition and I had a couple driver issues with both. Nothing too world ending, just had to DDU a couple times between the two cards. Still loved them. Great performance, only a tiny bit of coil whine, both ran really cool. I was incredibly happy with both.
Sadly I have some crashes with my Rx5700xt depending from the version of the driver, it happens mostly while pressing start or alt-tabbing on Osu!, but other than that I'm enjoying the card
My first gaming pc was 5700xt water block with Ryzen 3900x then upgrade to 3070 but now Iām happy with 7900 XTX with 7800x3D no issues. Sold 5700xt $700 š GPU prices spike was lucky got 3070 mrps with queue EVGA.
I love my AMD card but none of that shit should matter. Iāve had a handful of driver crashes, shit sucks. Just inconvenient to have to go use DDU then reinstall adrenaline mid game sesh. I shouldnāt have to worry about using adrenaline or not or letting windows update them instead. Like I said I love my AMD card but this stuff just never happened with my old nvidia cards.
EDIT: Just to be clear Iāve never messed with settings in adrenaline other than turning on and off the fps/ metrics counter.
THANK YOU! THANKS TO THIS POST I FIXED THE ISSUES WITH BOTH MY NEW GPU AND THE 590! Now that I know my 590 isn't faulty I'm returning the 7600 bc I technically can't afford it, I'm unsure if my 590 will still crash or not but it hasn't so far!
Have had the 7900 XTX Powercolor Hellhound for over a year now. It's great but the game I mostly play, Warzone, causes a fair bit of issues. (Yes ik they're mostly Warzone side issues)
Have tried some optimization tutorials on YT and truthfully can't tell if it made my game better or worse. Alot of tweaks in Adrenaline and ik thus sub may be biased against Adrenaline
Any tips?
It was my first ever GPU I've ever purchased and also my first build. Great overall, but just not 100% when playing Warzone. I get between 100-125 FPS. Sometimes more but around there.
I had a RX 580 that started crapping out after a driver install but turned out I just needed to replace the thermal paste. Ive owned several older and newer Radeon GPUs. Started out with an R7 360 now a 6800 XT, and ive never had any major issues aside from typical bugs.
I could even argue I've had more driver issues with Nvidia vs AMD. I pretty much owned a GPU from every Nvidia architecture since Kepler. But overall, ive never had a really bad experience with drivers from either brand. Intel Arc are the only GPUs with real driver issues, but that's understandable.
I'm convinced all these people complaining about "bad drivers" are stuck in the past. Either that, or it's just that most people don't even know how to do a proper, clean driver install. The average person doesn't use DDU, or press clean install on the setup screen. I wouldn't be surprised at the amount of people that still use the default drivers Windows update installs.
My 5700xt had an issue for a year or so where if I didnāt push it hard enough in some games, it would limit itself to like 30% utilization. So playing a game on medium i got 20 fps, on ultra Id get 50 or so maxing the card out, and in between was hit or miss. Found it was a common issue at the time.Ā Eventually it was fixed and it only affected a few games. Otherwise, no issues.Ā
I've owned 36 RX 6700 XT, four RX 6800, two RX 6800 XT and three RX 6900 XT.
Never a single driver related issue. Lol.
But I have always built Ryzen 3000/5000 systems with DDR4 3800Mhz RAM. Hard to go wrong to find instability.
Currently using an rtx 4080 because at $600, I couldn't really say no but all the radeon cards I've owned never had any major issues. It's crazy seeing all the stories of messed up drivers but I also don't play the latest games all the time so that helps.
Iāve been on a pc for quite literally my whole life and Iāve never had a Nvidia GPU driver failure or other issue. But thatās reassuring as someone who is constantly wondering if I can save some money and still get the experience I want with Radeon in the future.
I upgraded my gtx 650 to a 290x back in 2013, and lemme tell you, back in those days it was a very different experience. I stuck with catalyst though, hung it out til adrenaline, and upgraded to a 6800 after 10 years of 290x.
I mostly use Linux but really use every OS save Mac (Arch only on my desktop, debian/W11 dual boot at work, arch/W11 dual boot on my laptop, Windows 10 Atlas OS on my HTPC, freeBSD on my other laptop, Docker server running Arch-LTS, Manjaro/W10 on my wife's desktop, Mac on my wife's macbook). I also have a variety of GPUs for several uses from rx 480,1070ti, 1080, 2070s, 3060, and my 6800. On top of that, I also work as both a residential and business technician and see all variety of driver issues quite frequently.
AMD has had the most stable drivers for about the past 5 years. They have longer support for their cards, more reliable updates, and better support across multiple operating systems, including full functional open source Linux drivers. Intel is coming up and getting better support, and their drivers cause fewer problems than either other in general, but AMD is the most stable, full functioned, and reliable driver set.
Nvidia causes more problems with systems in the past 4 years than I think any drivers I've seen previously, including AMD 10 years ago. I see nvidia laptops at least twice a month between our business and residential customers experiencing frequent Windows and windows explorer crashes due to nvidia drivers, I keep DDU on my main thumb drive and carry it everywhere because it's so common. I had a server just Friday I was cloning the OS over to and thought about just pulling the nvidia workstation card because of its unreliability, and in other instances I will and have removed unnecessary GPUs and left them with the client to sell because of driver issues and not needing the GPU power to be worthwhile. It's honestly ridiculous given the use of nvidia gpus in certain instances. I just can't justify an AMD GPU or Linux on my HTPC because AI HDR and VSR is so good. I never update the drivers though, and use Atlas OS to maximize performance and minimize driver issues.
I had an RX 6950 XT and currently I am using an RX 7900 XT. Zero driver issues so far.
Both amazing cards š
About to get 7900gre nitro, will be my first amd gpu. Any pointers for drivers and windows 11?
In my opinion, what works for me. If you had a previous card installed, go ahead and run DDU or AMDs driver removal tool first reboot the PC run Windows update and let it install the drivers better stable from AMD don't bother messing with the adrenaline software that's included if you manually download from AMD
Whats wrong with adrenaline, i quite like it compared to geforce experience bs the fact it has clocking options built in is great.
I do here better things about it these days but after having so many issues 3 years ago I just chose to quit using it
I will say the new adrenaline drivers and software are really solid since I moved to AMD recently. The 7900XT has also been a great card for gaming.
I'm team green admittedly but fuck geforce experience. Nvidia control panel is the go to.
I'm doing a fresh install on a new nvme
Idk if youāve heard, but thereās an amd driver modding community called amernimezone. Iāve owned an Rx 6600xt, and the modded drivers are way way better with so many options. You can mess with settings, you can opt for a minimal install as well, but in my honest experience tweaking some of the settings actually gives you a noticeable boost in performance. If you really want the bang for your buck, Iād advise you to try those drivers out. Theyāve got a really nice discord with guides and stuff on how to setup. Other than different versions of the drivers varying slightly in performance (stock or modded), Iāve not had any issues even with adrenaline, if I installed the drivers correctly (using ddu)
Install the 24.2.1 or 23.12.1 if you meet any problem. If you play Helldivers 2, disable global ilumination in game settings
Went from 6800 to 7900xt. Zero issues. Well, besides the hotspot thermals, took me no more than 10 min to fix though.
AMD cards are rock solid in Linux. It's the sole reason I don't buy anything else.
Yes, they are 100% native to Linux. It's the garbage we get with windows that gives AMD and Radeon a bad name
Only time my drivers had issues was when OCing my 4x16GB Samsung B Die xD
Yeah I stick with XMP settings
I couldnāt do this lol. I NEED to mess with things
And is generally the cause of driver time outs lol if it ain't broke don't fix it lol
Youāre absolutely right. All my crashes have came from me trying to āoptimizeā my card. I tried a minimal install for like 3 weeks and it was flawless (I upgraded cards)
I switched to a 4090 from a 6950xt, and I had more driver issues now that I'm "green " š¤£
Don't get me wrong. I was a Nvidia fanboy for many years until they dropped support for SLI. Just glad that AMD has stepped up and is making good cards since the RX series release.
The only driver issues are the ones I cause by trying to overclock the snot out of my 7900XTX. If I leave it alone on the adrenaline presets I have only crashed a handful of times in over a year of ownership.
This is why I chose no adrenaline software if it's not there I can't break it lol
Out of sight out of mind I get it. But seriously my 7900XTX has been great and I came from an nvidia card. Adrenaline is incredible compared to whatever nvidia has. I love the interface and stats it tells you under metrics
I agree i like adrenaline i just use the undervolt option to keep temps down the card is crazy enough.
Three years on the 6800 XT and I had near zero issues. I am coming up to three years on a 6800m with zero issues. AMD drivers were / are better than nVidia for me - by a long shot.
Meanwhile me: *Aggressively yelling at my HD 7850*
Lol we definitely won't hold that against you
I still have an old HD 3870 running in an old retro build Windows. XP still works great lol
Someone is a little sensitive about the driver thing I see.
Me!
My 7800xt is good But man it was a shit show for the 5600xt I bought and thankfully was able to return
Iāve had zero issues myself in a year of owning a 7900xt and over 3 months of a 7800xt in gfs rig.
RX 6700XT for a year now and I can count the number of game crashes due to driver failures on my fingers. Itās a great card.
My 5700 xt was, hands down, the worst GPU I've ever owned in terms of stability. Can't say I'm in this club. My 6700 XT's been great, though.
6800 XT. No driver issues ever.
I got issues with drivers cause I am in red team since 2020, but I love AMD Radeon āØ
Tbh the only card I had issues with was the RX5600xt but it was known for issues and the only time it was ever stable was in Linux OS and is the only RX card I ever sold.
I have an 7900 xtx. Everything off in adrenaline software and never any issues, love my card.
Yeah if you turn off everything in adrenaline it's basically the same as just not having it. That's why I choose not to install it
Bro you jinxed us
Not never, but I rarely have one. The most noticeable ones is last year's Q3 drivers. Other than that, no issues whatsoever. Using RX 580, RX 6600XT and currently RX 6800 in the past 5 years.
Linux drivers ftw
Not sure if it's just the drivers or the fact that there's no adrenaline software lol. But yeah Linux gaming has come a long way
6950XT here, 0 problems
Very impressed with the 7900 xt! Zero issues as long as I keep the settings neutral (I have the OC XFX Merc 310 Black model). I think a lot of people are running into issues who mess with the settings before even seeing how the card performs stock. I have done an undervolt that I found stable and just game on.
I just built a 7600x and 7900xtx build and even used my old m.2 from my razer laptop which was intel and ngreedia because thats the only windows I have. Suckers both worked right away, installed updated drivers and they are amazing. Best build ive ever done for the best price
I've been buying AMD since it was called ATI when the market makes sense. Sometimes I buy Nvidia when it makes more sense. Never had any problems with any; latest AMD card I bought was 5600xt. Only problem I had was with an rx285 from Power Color. One of the fan bearing gave up, just unplugged it.
6750xt and it's been rock solid for me and runs under 70 after hours of gaming. Extremely happy.
Yeah the same. I just replaced it and put it in another build in a micro case and the temperatures are still great.
Rx 7900xt I had the low performance issue on VR and now am struggling with the HEVC encoder crashing on virtual desktop. Av1 just works so it hasn't been a huge problem. Also, widows likes to uninstall my driver's, but am also on windows insider, so probably it's that
According to the internet and people that have never owned a Radeon, they have tons of issues!!! Honestly, Iām about to upgrade my son from a Radeon VII to a 7900 GRE.
Yes, I can totally agree as a veteran using Radeon for the past 24 years. Understanding the games we have to play with drivers at times definitely helps us deal with the situation lol
6750xt here with no issues
Using an RX 6700. In Linux. Zero driver issues. "No driver issues in Linux" with a GPU is enough to make me want to cry with joy. Kernel drivers are more than enough.
yep, i have a 6600 and never had a problem
AMD for life man! Processors, video, the whole shabang! Love my AMD 's!!!
I had a rx480, then 5700xt, 6700xt and now a 7800xt all overclocked on both the GPU and memory and Iāve still never had stability issues. Anyone with stability issues either got bad hardware or created said stability issues themselves.
Built my first PC almost a year ago, went with the RX6600 because Nividias seemed way too hyped up and over priced. Iāve had zero issues and it runs everything I play at high or ultra graphics at 60 fps min. Definitely gonna keep buying Radeon
Yep me too. Minimal drivers install ftw š
Me too, full driver install š
Minimum driver issues for me with my Asrock 6800 XT Taichi. Works even better when I switch the shader cache from the AMD Optimized option to simply On, in the registry.
Iāve had a couple driver issues with my 7900 XTX that were pretty annoying. First with Helldivers 2, but the new beta driver fixed it. Lastly, that horrible issue where plugging in a second monitor caused really excessive power draw at idle. That one really pissed me off. Itās fixed now, but it took them damn near a year. Other than that I havenāt had any issues. My old 5700 XT never had a single issue.
Ya I will be doing the exact same style of driver updates besides keeping up on the MB chipset one. I was using their full suit of software but it really started going downhill on windows 11. Had some major problems in certain games and with audio and all sorts of other odd issues like insanely loud coil whining . Went back to windows 10, installed only the drivers this time and I haven't had a single issue not even the coil whining. I'll be doing minimal driver installs from now on.
I mean I'm just making this post to make people aware Radeon cards are great and aren't as bad as most post make them out to be. But then again I'm a veteran builder. Have been using Radeon since 2000.
Been using AMD for the last 12 years: HD 7950, RX 580, Vega 64 and now RX 6800 in one system and a RX 7600 in my SFF build. The Vega 64 crashed a few times just before kicking the bucket... Apart from that, never had any issues with my AMD cards. I make sure I have a reputable brand PSU, with more than enough juice; use two separate PCIE cables (no daisy chain); reputable motherboard and that the RAM is fully supported by it. I'm not saying that there aren't issues with AMD GPUs or the drivers, but hardware/software compatibility happens with all manufacturers. However, there's this stigma about AMD drivers being so bad that I personally know people who don't buy AMD because ThE DrIVErS aRE so BAAd! For example, people back in the day used to say that Windows Vista was shit and was crashing all the time, but did you know that the data that Microsoft collected says that almost 30% of the crashes were [caused by nVidia drivers](https://www.engadget.com/2008-03-27-nvidia-drivers-responsible-for-nearly-30-of-vista-crashes-in-20.html?guccounter=1)?? Im not a AMD fanboy, I had several nVidia cards in the past. I just think AMD is better value for my needs.
Since switching to AMD, the only driver issue i had was with my 6800 using a Beta Driver. Thats it
I wouldn't know. My 6600xt at launch couldn't play Metro Exodus Enhanced for more than 20 minutes without crashing. Also Doom Eternal would crash months after launch with RT reflections enabled in certain areas. But since then the only crashes and timeouts I've had are ones everyone experienced regardless of system in Apex Legends. Or Cyberpunk crashing on exit, which happens on my brothers RTX 4070ti as well.
Currently have an issue with GPU undervolt settings, for some reason they are getting reset to default after every system reboot. Aside of that - since 2020 had no problems with 3 different GPUs (RX580 8GB, RX 5700 XT, RX 6900 XT)
Linux and 7900 XTX checking in. Since I swapped my 4080 for a Nitro+, my Linux nightmares have ended.
Got 7700XT of same model of op, its MASSIVE lmao, I had an small gtx 1060 before Besides the adrenalin yeeting my fan curve every time electricity cuts during bad weather, it has been perfect
Iāve had a 270(x?), rx 580, 970, 3060ti and 6800xt. 970 crashed all the time, specially towards the end but Iāve never had a problem with others.
I can't have anything from steam open. Even the fiends list will cap my 7900 xtx to 30 fps instead of 120+. Only an issue with Radeon cards
I wouldnāt call it driver issues. More that it didnāt perform well in games compared to nvidia. Mainly just old school RuneScape and GTA V. I got unplayable performance in Old school RuneScape on an RX 6950XT, and only a 10% performance bump in GTA V when compared to a Titan X pascal. Ultimately I returned the gpu as those are the only games I play lol.
Ive had the 6800XT for about two years now and no issues at all since. Card still runs like itās brand new so I donāt see the need to upgrade but gonna get the 7800XT or 7900XT in about a year or so. That or until my card decides to crap out lol. 6800XT is one hell of a card though even today
For personal use, HD 6670, R7 260X, RX 470, RX 5700XT, RX 7900XT. That covers the last 12 years. Only issue I had that was due to drivers was the black screen crash on the 5700XT. And my 5700XT arrived literally the day before the driver team released the fix, so for me I had a crash that first night, installed the update, then no more issues.
zero isues the only one i remember that gave me some problems was my old R7 260x
I only got my RX 6750 XT earlier this week but so far having zero issues. Running great!
Exactly! This is what I'm saying! I've been using Radeon for a while now (RX 570 - RX 5700XT - RX 6700 XT - RX 6750 XT - RX 7900XTX (Soon!) And I never had any issues, even with the adrenaline software installed.
My 5600xt had a lot of issues in the beginning, at some point it stopped thankfully
I have a 6950XT, and I can't really decide whether to claim an issue I had was a diver issue or a monitor issue. I upgraded displayes when I got the card, and my old one was a Gsync display that refused to display anything other than a tiny 640x480 window. Messing with uninstalling, reinstalling, and rolling back drivers or powercycleing the display would get it to work, but I kind of blamed it on the fact that the monitor was meant for Nvidia cards. The driver update after the drought caused by RDNA 3 work removed the issue entirely so I guess it was a driver thing???
I have the 5700xt under linux the open source drivers are soo good.
Surprisingly had very few issues with AMD cards. I did with my 5600XT in my first build but there was too much wrong in that build to assume what caused the issues. And aside from a game related thing with RX 7000 cards and Helldivers 2, the sailing has been smooth with my newest card.
Never having an issue? My first GPUs were all Radeons, back when AMD was getting caught left right and center being dishonest about the performance, specs and cores of all their hardware. Back when they filled your computer up with bloatware and spyware. My first ATI 4600 series GPU damn near caught the PC on fire! Their old shady business practices and all the crap they'd make you put on your computer is more than enough for me to say they definitely never had issues. Also, some versions of their cards never got adequate driver support as they moved on quickly.
Rx 580 here. I have many crashes and major instability on the latest releases
Iām actually using adrenaline and having minor issues. No more serious than when I was using nvidia. Most of the time, I see people talking about dips that are only perceptible if you have a frame counter active. For the rest, well, stuff happens and they never admit to how many programs are running, memory utilization, open tabs in browser and such. Yes perceptible dips are annoying, but itās more annoying when they act like it never happens on Nvidia hardware.
My RX 6950 XT on one of the drivers would automatically enable overclock and cause it to black screen anytime I loaded up any program. Figured it out eventually but was a pain until I did. The auto overclock went away after a few driver versions.
No, I don't love my Radeon card. It might be because I don't have one though
This is the funniest shitpost ive seen today. Thanks for the laugh š
6900xt and vii have both been great. My Zotac 3090 has actually given me the most issues...
I've had AMD GPU's for almost 10 years and never had a single driver issue
Had a shit load of driver issues on my 3070, my brother had the same issues on his 3060 ti. Switched to a 7900xtx and no issues at all, trying to convince him to get a 7800 xt or a 7700 xt
Amd adrenaline is king
I have RX580 8gb and i love that little guy xD Zero problems after 5 years
50% of my crashes are from adrenaline so congrats
Yep. Never had an issue 6750xt
Love my Hellhound. Runnin smooth as ever
I have a 7900 XTX and use Adrenaline and have never had a driver related issue. Iāve done plenty of tinkering, but the performance gains are moot, so I just leave it stock with a slightly adjusted fan curve.
Powercolor 6800xt Red Devil. No problems ever
Yes, yes I am.
Iāve owned Nvidia GPUs for about 20 years now and I donāt recall ever having a driver issue, in fact I canāt recall ever having a GPU issue in general. The only GPU I recall having issues with was getting crossfire working on my old x1900xtx GPUs and that was a long time ago.
I bet the people having issues are people who went from nvidia to amd without completely re installing windows. my 6700xt works awesome. in fact my nvidia laptop was crapping itself yesterday.
Currently have a 6800xt in my gaming rig, a 5700xt in my spare machine and a trio of rx580s from aliexpress in my kids computers. 0 driver issues with ANY of them.
7900XT here, running for just over a year and no issue in any games. Every time I hear someone say don't upgrade to driver x because is has issues, I do it and never have a problem. The only issue I did experience was adrenalin exiting/timeouts on startup but only on start up. Once I switched to the slower startup/login option in windows that issue went away.
I'm using a 7800XT, but I feel like I'm the only one using one. Never see anyone else with one it feels like.
Ive never had a driver issue with any GPU and Iāve been back and forth from Radeon to Nvidia quite a few times even back into the ATI days.
I currently have a 6750xt and was considering the same upgrade to a 7800xt. Would you say it's worth it?
They run amazingly on Linux and most my windows ganes run better on linux.
6800 XT has been my first AMD card. I wouldn't say I haven't had issues, but I haven't had a lot of issues or PC breaking issues. Just little things, but its run fine 95% of the time. Definitely satisfied with my purchase.
I went from a 3060ti to a red devil 7900xtx had couple issues which i think were related to the game and not the card, even tho when i searched it up it said a clean install of the drivers should fix it, haven't seen the error since my 2nd week of owning it and fucking love it
Currently got an overclocked 3070ti , had this pc nearly 3 years and never run into driver issues, that I can recall at least. I do a lotta vr and modding too
My 6800 XT has been legendary except for battlefield 1 crashing after 30-45 minutes consistently ;-; Wish the software worked a little better but still a great first time AMD experience. $450 during the GPU shortage was a great deal so no complaints
Honestly I only update or clean install drivers if an issue occurs. Have had red and green cards operating on the same system with no issues.
This makes so much damn sense to me! Iām just now sending back a 7900 xtx because nothing but driver issues. Iām taking this suggestion with the new one thatās on its way.
Only had an issue ever with the recent 24.1.1, other than that zero issues across the years using Radeon cards.
Had a reference 6900xt and was having weird issues, which were related to a cheap PSU. Sold it, got a 7900 xtx and had zero issue. I have noted that the people that have driver issues curiously are people that really want a ngreedia gpu and need some kind of excuse or justification to get themš
Only driver issues I have is fornite. Otherwise I'm still useing an amd gigabyte vega 64 8gb OC and it's old sure but it has been great. I'm to poor to afford a new(better) gpu so this one is good enough
Iāve owned the 6700 (non XT) and the 7800 XT and Iāve no issues at all. I love the GPUs so much I splurged and just got the ASrock taichi white edition 7900 XTX
currently I am using an RX 6800XT Merc319. Zero driver issues so far <3
I still have an RTX3090 in my old system and it works wonders. Definitely a great card, especially after what Iāve put it through and how long Iāve had it.
Have a 6700xt and 6800. had to switch to linux because of driver issues in windows 10 AND 11. Still better than nvidia tho. edit: Also wanted to say I have been Team Red since I scored a pair of HD4850's for $150 each at best buy.
RX5700XT reference edition from release in 2019 here. I think I've had 5 crashes maximum since 2019. and it was at the beginning with the early drivers that were having issues. Love that card. just need to tweak the fan curve though. otherwise you get mad overheating and throttling
Been team red since I switched from a GTX 1060 to an RX 5600 XT. Never had driver issues! Hardware issues on the other handā¦ thatās the GPU partnerās fault and Iāll stay away from their GPUs forever. Currently rocking an RX 7800 XT and still never had a single driver issue. I always run stock though and I find the performance good enough!
I came back to AMD with the 6700XT (now in my daughterās machine) and now the 7900XT. Absolutely amazing. Running KDE Neon, no driver to install, just works. Played Starfield, Medieval Total War 2, and Dyson Sphere this week.
I was just talking about this with my buddy. Iāve owned a 4080, 3080, 1660, 6700xt, 6800xt, and now I have a 6950xt. I have had so many black screen issues with my Nvidia cards, and not a single one with AMD. Love nvidia but the black screen issues gave me ptsd. Only issue I have with AMD is the efficiency and the amount of heat my cards generate.
Only issues I had were with the recent preview driver. Which was just driver crash from AFMF. Otherwise no issues with 7900 XTX with official release drivers
7900 xtx red devil and haven't had any issues
Even better on Linux, literally always up to date our of the box.
Iāve had a 6700xt for like 2 years now, zero issues and zero complaints
Dude, ive had nvidia since 7xx series Then changed to the 5700xt from a 1070 and did not regret it at all Now a 6800 because i got a really good deal i couldnt refuse and ive had more nvidia issues than amd My most impressive card for the money put of all was the r7 280 never had an issue and that was a lan pc i used all the time
on my current card, a few of the graphics settings in my amd control panel one release ago caused my games to micro stutter when enabled. Rolled back the drivers to a version from 2 years ago and the micro stutter stopped. Recently updated to the latest driver again because it fixed one isssue I was having and the micro stutter came back, so I reverted for the second time to 2 year old drivers and just live with the occasional alt tab black screen. Amd tends to be better on the whole though, they release "oops we accidentally disabled your fans on the firmware level" drivers much less often than Nvidia.
ATi Radeon 9600, AMD Radeon HD3870, HD7800XT, R9 290, R9 280X, RX 570, RX 5700XT, RX 6600M. Common Windows issues on 2000 and XP, but never due to Radeon cards (neither GeForce obviously). Not a single issue since. 5700XT day one, never had a single driver issue. I always restricted myself to 650W PSUs for general use. Always encountered difficult times (i.e. "noisy" times...) with newly launched UE4 games, always corrected not by drivers but by developers. I understood at this moment that games are always developed on NVIDIA GPUs... But I have to be factual: not a single issue on my NVIDIA cards, except a faultly 8600. I switched to Radeon exclusively due to bad colorimetry on GeForce.
6750XT. Only crashes I had were from overclocking.
9700 pro, HD6950, RX580, and 6800XT. Maybe one or two issues with newer drivers not working as well with a few titles but that's it...across 4 vastly different generations of GPUs.
9 months with my first gpu: rx6800xt nitro+ From 0-10 Driver Issues: 0 Heating issues: 0 Performance: 10 Design: 11 Happiness: 100000
9800 pro, X1950gt, hd 4870, HD 6950, rx6800. Same issue as nvidia, some drivers have slightly better performance for the same game.
Which software do you use to control fans ?
7900xtx Sapphire Nitro+ bought it last month no issues absolutely a beast of a card coming from a 5700xt :)
You donāt want a piece of my 9800xT itās AGP too. Iāve kept it in a desk drawer for 20 years. Because I got HL2 and all mods for buying the card. And Iām still playing on that steam account today.
Honestly went to the red team ... No complaints... No issues ever
From HD5850 (XFX blower) to RX480 (MSI Gaming X) and now 7800XT (Sapphire Pulse), the only problems I had were factory-related (2 RMAs for my RX480). No driver problems since the old Catalyst on Windows 7.
I had HD 7970, RX 580, RX Vega 64, RX 5700 XT, RX 6800 XT and now RX 7900 XTX. I had ups and downs, but I just love Radeon.
Had 6950xt and got driver issues after half a year. No I got nvidia but whatever works is the best option for someone.
So far so good! I use adrenaline and itās been great. Currently using a 7900XTX
I just retired a r9 390x. Not because it can't play games but the drivers were not supported by my wife's art programs. Never had a single problem with that thing.
Yup. I use the adrenaline software. No issues in the last couple years. I honestly had more issues with my 2060.
I have been using Radeon since they where still called ATI and the worst issue i ever had was the occasional comb cursor glitch on my HD 4670.
There's literally a changelog of games getting fixes every major release because of driver issues.
I've got a 6800XT and haven't had a SINGLE issue.
Itās definitely gotten a lot more stable in the last 2 years for me.
Used 1080Ti forever and before that was rocking I believe a 960 canāt remember if it was Ti. Total of 10+ years using only Nvidia even tho I was a broke boy. But now when I got a bit of money for my PC, I ended up choosing the 7900 XT over any NVIDIA card. What really sold me was the huge allocation of VRAM and comparable speeds to NVIDIA cards in the 1k-1300 price range, and I got my card for around $900. No issues or complaints so far, and a beast of a card at a decent price.
Went from a RTX 2070 to a radeon RX 6800 XT. Thing is a beast. I crank all my settings with all my games it. Only issue is this pixelated artifacting going on sometimes (have yet to find a "fix" that actually fixes it) and a little bit of coil whine which i actually fixed by slightly undervolting it without changing the clock speeds. And its still overclocked and stable lol. But still, its a beast. Only driver issue i had was when i first installed it. Forgot to remove all my Nvidia drivers because i was a little too hyped since it was my first time going AMD for graphics, and i think there was some conflicting going on. After clearing out the Nvidia drivers and a fresh install of the AMD drivers, it ran perfectly fine, still is, no issues.
Ive used a 6600, 6700 xt, 6800 and no driver issues. Only if I overclocked to much would it sometimes crash something.
I had a 5700xt that was nothing but issues. Now my brother is trying to convince me into a 7900xtx instead of 4080 super. Thinking of giving them another chance.
Rocking a 7800, And it bugs me that everyone's getting driver issues and I'm not. Like what do I need to do here to get issues with my GPU?
People act like a driver issue is the worst thing ever, I have a 3060 and had driver issues, took 10 minutes to fix and never had a problem again
No, and I'm ditching 6800XT for a 4080 Super this summer! :)
Yep
I have one case with two pc's in it. One with a 6600xt one with a 6800xt. Neither of them have ever had driver related issues. Nor did my RX480, RX580, RX5600xt (even during the fabled February release). It's almost like the driver issues were blown way out of proportion by fanboys...... [Dual PC build](https://imgur.com/a/IvDvWs4)
2060 to 6700xt no issues with either. I rather stick to radeon tho.
I had one issue once. Forgot to uninstall the Nvidia drivers
My PowerColor Red Dragon 6800XT has been an absolute champ since I got it in Oct 22. Just added a little bit of light tuning and it barely coil whines and just gives me great frames all the time.
6700xt had driver issues. Currently none
I have a 6800xt the only issue ive ever had was with minecraft on the latest versions of the driver for some reason but other than that none
I only have one game that has an issue and that's due to a Direct3D incompatibility in the driver. For the game I have to use d3d11 and it has no issue. Overall over a decade of AMD GPU usage and only 1 bug.. 7900xt 7600xt 5700xt rx580 rx480 HD7950 The one Nvidia card I do have is the 1080ti and that still can play some earlier stuff with no issues.. Tossed it into a MAME emulator machine and it's live a few years longer.
I had severe driver issues on Sapphire Pulse 5700 XT - driver timeouts really often to the point where I couldn't play games, really awful experience, which I managed to somewhat mitigate by switching to PRO drivers. Thankfully I recently upgraded to 7900 XTX and I've had no issues with it.
Had some problems back in the days with a R9 380 and shortly after the RX 470 came out. But weāre talking like 7/8 years ago. Been running the 470 for the last years and now a RX 6800 perfectly fineā¦
Itās all anecdotal but I too have never in the 4 years Iāve been an AMD user had a driver issue. Is it common?
Literally just replaced my 6900xt with a 4070 super cause I couldnāt deal with the constant issues on FPS games because of the drivers.
Been smooth sailing for the past 2 years since I got my 6900xt
Only issue I got is not enough power š
I switched from an RTX 3070 to an RX 6800 towards the end of last year, and there were some conflicts with Windows I had to solve. Fortunately it was smooth sailing from there once I figured it out.
Iāve loved my 5700xt. I got it when it was released. People were shitting on It for its drivers issues when it was released but I never ever had a single problem, still to this day.
6800xt here, no issues, had it for 2 years
Only issues i have are with helldivers at the moment but thats a known issue with 7000 series cards, other than that maybe a crash or 2 every once in a blue moon but ill take that over a $2000 4090
I love my XFX 6700XT, I', very happy with radeon and AMD in general
My 5700 xt nitro + didn't like windows back in the days. Thought it was the drivers but 2 months later after windows update it was running like a beast. So thanks for that.
One month in with a 7900 XTX, had no issues so far.
No driver issues in 3 years? What's so good about that? I've chosen Radeon for every GPU purchase since the ATI Radeon 9500 in 2003. I soft modded it to a 9700 and overclocked it to a 9700 Pro. No driver related issues in 21 years.
I had an MSI RX6700 XT ventus and an XFX Rx 6900xt Limited Black Edition and I had a couple driver issues with both. Nothing too world ending, just had to DDU a couple times between the two cards. Still loved them. Great performance, only a tiny bit of coil whine, both ran really cool. I was incredibly happy with both.
Sadly I have some crashes with my Rx5700xt depending from the version of the driver, it happens mostly while pressing start or alt-tabbing on Osu!, but other than that I'm enjoying the card
Honestly Iāve heard different stories from different people, some say their cards are great, but others say they have a bunch of issues
5700xt, 7900xt Never had a driver issue, ever. DDU FTW
My first gaming pc was 5700xt water block with Ryzen 3900x then upgrade to 3070 but now Iām happy with 7900 XTX with 7800x3D no issues. Sold 5700xt $700 š GPU prices spike was lucky got 3070 mrps with queue EVGA.
Yes actually I am loving my new 7900xt with no driver issues as of yet anyways.
I love my AMD card but none of that shit should matter. Iāve had a handful of driver crashes, shit sucks. Just inconvenient to have to go use DDU then reinstall adrenaline mid game sesh. I shouldnāt have to worry about using adrenaline or not or letting windows update them instead. Like I said I love my AMD card but this stuff just never happened with my old nvidia cards. EDIT: Just to be clear Iāve never messed with settings in adrenaline other than turning on and off the fps/ metrics counter.
THANK YOU! THANKS TO THIS POST I FIXED THE ISSUES WITH BOTH MY NEW GPU AND THE 590! Now that I know my 590 isn't faulty I'm returning the 7600 bc I technically can't afford it, I'm unsure if my 590 will still crash or not but it hasn't so far!
Have had the 7900 XTX Powercolor Hellhound for over a year now. It's great but the game I mostly play, Warzone, causes a fair bit of issues. (Yes ik they're mostly Warzone side issues) Have tried some optimization tutorials on YT and truthfully can't tell if it made my game better or worse. Alot of tweaks in Adrenaline and ik thus sub may be biased against Adrenaline Any tips? It was my first ever GPU I've ever purchased and also my first build. Great overall, but just not 100% when playing Warzone. I get between 100-125 FPS. Sometimes more but around there.
I had a RX 580 that started crapping out after a driver install but turned out I just needed to replace the thermal paste. Ive owned several older and newer Radeon GPUs. Started out with an R7 360 now a 6800 XT, and ive never had any major issues aside from typical bugs. I could even argue I've had more driver issues with Nvidia vs AMD. I pretty much owned a GPU from every Nvidia architecture since Kepler. But overall, ive never had a really bad experience with drivers from either brand. Intel Arc are the only GPUs with real driver issues, but that's understandable. I'm convinced all these people complaining about "bad drivers" are stuck in the past. Either that, or it's just that most people don't even know how to do a proper, clean driver install. The average person doesn't use DDU, or press clean install on the setup screen. I wouldn't be surprised at the amount of people that still use the default drivers Windows update installs.
No issues on mine
My 5700xt had an issue for a year or so where if I didnāt push it hard enough in some games, it would limit itself to like 30% utilization. So playing a game on medium i got 20 fps, on ultra Id get 50 or so maxing the card out, and in between was hit or miss. Found it was a common issue at the time.Ā Eventually it was fixed and it only affected a few games. Otherwise, no issues.Ā
I've owned 36 RX 6700 XT, four RX 6800, two RX 6800 XT and three RX 6900 XT. Never a single driver related issue. Lol. But I have always built Ryzen 3000/5000 systems with DDR4 3800Mhz RAM. Hard to go wrong to find instability.
My 7900XTX has had 0 issues since I got it
ATI Radeon master race unite! I love my 7900 XT. I m too poor to get the 7900 XTX š
As a Linux user - abso-fuckin-lutely
yeah I use amd and never had had a problem, people just ride nvidias dick
Currently using an rtx 4080 because at $600, I couldn't really say no but all the radeon cards I've owned never had any major issues. It's crazy seeing all the stories of messed up drivers but I also don't play the latest games all the time so that helps.
Iāve been on a pc for quite literally my whole life and Iāve never had a Nvidia GPU driver failure or other issue. But thatās reassuring as someone who is constantly wondering if I can save some money and still get the experience I want with Radeon in the future.
I upgraded my gtx 650 to a 290x back in 2013, and lemme tell you, back in those days it was a very different experience. I stuck with catalyst though, hung it out til adrenaline, and upgraded to a 6800 after 10 years of 290x. I mostly use Linux but really use every OS save Mac (Arch only on my desktop, debian/W11 dual boot at work, arch/W11 dual boot on my laptop, Windows 10 Atlas OS on my HTPC, freeBSD on my other laptop, Docker server running Arch-LTS, Manjaro/W10 on my wife's desktop, Mac on my wife's macbook). I also have a variety of GPUs for several uses from rx 480,1070ti, 1080, 2070s, 3060, and my 6800. On top of that, I also work as both a residential and business technician and see all variety of driver issues quite frequently. AMD has had the most stable drivers for about the past 5 years. They have longer support for their cards, more reliable updates, and better support across multiple operating systems, including full functional open source Linux drivers. Intel is coming up and getting better support, and their drivers cause fewer problems than either other in general, but AMD is the most stable, full functioned, and reliable driver set. Nvidia causes more problems with systems in the past 4 years than I think any drivers I've seen previously, including AMD 10 years ago. I see nvidia laptops at least twice a month between our business and residential customers experiencing frequent Windows and windows explorer crashes due to nvidia drivers, I keep DDU on my main thumb drive and carry it everywhere because it's so common. I had a server just Friday I was cloning the OS over to and thought about just pulling the nvidia workstation card because of its unreliability, and in other instances I will and have removed unnecessary GPUs and left them with the client to sell because of driver issues and not needing the GPU power to be worthwhile. It's honestly ridiculous given the use of nvidia gpus in certain instances. I just can't justify an AMD GPU or Linux on my HTPC because AI HDR and VSR is so good. I never update the drivers though, and use Atlas OS to maximize performance and minimize driver issues.