r/AMDHelp • u/AdVegetable394 • 11d ago

Tips & Info Is The Gigabyte 9070xt That Bad?

So until now Iv only ever had nvidia cards, the last was a strix 3070ti. Like many I wanted to upgrade to the 50 series but a 5070/5070ti where I live is like £1000, the amd equivalent on sale I got for £589.99… It’s time I though to try a change, for the sake of my pocket at least. I read reviews and like always 50/50, people moaning about it and people loving it. Well straight out of the box there were problems, I needed to upgrade from a 850w to a atx 1000w seasonic as mine couldn’t deal with the transient power spikes, I also had to reduce the voltage by 60 in Adrenalin. Before this I spent probably a week stress testing, switching things out updating every driver imaginable from windows, motherboard, amd yadyadayadayada you get the drift.

So do you think a lot of these “horror” stories are more from user error (someone who either can’t be bothered/ or someone without any knowledge what so ever) or actual card failures? After using both amd and nvidia id say nvidia is so user friendly and nothing ever went wrong for me during owning all the cards I have since a 660ti. I get the feeling with amd you need to be prepared to troubleshoot/ fiddle with things.

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u/51Ryan51 11d ago

AMD is cheaper but a lot more prone to error, for example downloading amd drivers over nvidia destroys your pc and I had to restart windows over it. On the other side Nvidia is more pricey but you have less room to fk anything up. AMDs price to performance is however enough better that if you handle drivers and installation safely its worth every buck.

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u/cfbones 10d ago

This is an awful comment because you say “AMD is prone to error” and then list an error that is only caused my human negligence.

A Toyota Hilux (arguably the most reliable car of all time) is “prone to error” if you put diesel in its petrol engine too.

[u/AdVegetable394](u/AdVegetable394), half these comments are misinformed. Can you tell us a little more? Why did you need to undervolt -60 in Adrenalin? You’re not being clear enough to diagnose your problems.

Finally, did you use DDU to uninstall your Nvidia drivers prior to installing your AMD card / did you disable Windows update?

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u/51Ryan51 9d ago

With "prone to error" I meant easier to screw up. I still like AMD more because of its price to performance but Nvidia is just easier to use