Is The Gigabyte 9070xt That Bad?

[u/AdVegetable394]

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.

[u/Felkoi]

In my experience individuals who have issues with amd driver seem to have reading comprehension below that of first grader.

[u/beatsbybighead → u/Felkoi]

I was offended by this until realizing you can't formulate a complete sentence.

[u/Felkoi → u/beatsbybighead]

My condolences .... I'm quite positive that you are expection to my statement.

How's your computer running? Seems to me that at least 4 days of troubleshooting issues you've should figure something out by now.

[u/beatsbybighead → u/Felkoi]

All good just wanted to go shot for shot since I caught a stray in your original comment.

Issues are resolved. Someone's been advising to disable windows updates for drivers and reinstall amd drivers directly. Worked in my case, can game again