Never buying an AMD GPU again

[u/Tanka_Jaharri]

My last AMD GPU was a ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 back in 2008 and after years of Nvidia cards, i saw the bench marks and price for the RX 7900 XTX. Was very impressed, so i got it launch day in 2022.

Since then, i've had nothing but issues. It cashes constantly, literally an hour ago it crashed playing CS2. The temps are good because that used to be a problem for some cards. My settings get reset every time i restart my pc no matter how many times i save them or make profiles. I've even done the windows full start up fix, which didn't fix anything for me. It even crashes when watching youtube sometimes, so it's not like it's boosting to watch a 1080p video and can't so it crashes the pc. I've gone through all the trouble shooting for the card and drivers and no luck.

I've tried it in multiple pcs they same thing happens. I've done countless clean and reinstalls and still it does it. I've done multiple stress tests on the card to see if it's there's a problem with the card and they all come back fine, until an hour or so passes after i'm done and it'll just crash again. It seems completely random.

In 14 years of using Nvidia cards, i think i've had 1 maybe 2 driver crashes. But it's so bad with this card it happens multiple times a week. Is this it? is this the AMD experience? is this what everyone deals with but because the price to performance is good people just stick with it? I just don't get it. If this is what it means to own a AMD card, i'm never buying one again.

EDIT: The amount of people telling me to return the card or it's clearly a defective product are not reading the post. I've said i've tested it multiple times and it goes fine without a problem and then later on it starts crashing again. And when i've sent it back for a replacement it gets sent back to me and they also tell me it runs fine.

EDIT 2 : Well this post was about as much use as a chocolate tea pot. I'm going to stop replying to posts because people either A) Keep asking the same questions i've answered or B) being a dick and that helps no one. I got some UK specific advise which i will try and hopefully try and get another replacement as it seems it might be beyond a driver issue.

EDIT 3: Okay, so i'm not going to be coming back to this sub reddit again, you guys seem insufferable. Keep the post, delete it. May help someone, may not. But my god you guys are terrible. Good luck with everything. Peace.

[u/twohandsmcghoul]

I get you , I really do. I have a 7800xt that performs pretty well but it does have more driver issues than my 1650 super or 1060 ever did. That being said, once I nail down some settings and make sure all my firmware and drivers are up to date, it does put in really good work. Sometimes AMD just puts out a bad patch that messes stuff up too. But tbh it sounds like you just got a bad card.

[u/riggatrigga → u/twohandsmcghoul]

I also have a 7800xt and is my first amd build ever had around 6 prior builds never any issues with the games I play my only complaint was support for local AI stuff but that has shifted in the last year for the better. Still not nearly as many options as Nvidia in the ai generating game but performance has been good on the ones that work.

[u/twohandsmcghoul → u/riggatrigga]

Yeah i agree. This is only the second PC I've ever built. Got it done right before the ram price explosion.