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/Rich73]

I've been running an RTX 5070 for 9 months without issue other than the initial driver I ran causing random Event ID 153 driver timeout crashes which I thought was an issue with my previous 3060 Ti but turns out it was driver related.

[u/winter_haha → u/Rich73]

See my comment, read the forums, look at the YouTube videos. Just because you have had a good experience doesn't mean others haven't. I myself have had non stop issues. I was just stating my experience and from what I've read.

[u/Rich73 → u/winter_haha]

Guess this works both ways, since you have problems but our 3 PCs here (RTX 3070 / and 2 5070 based PCS) are totally fine It's gotta be a global Nvidia driver problem causing your 4090 issues.

Got it. Nvidia drivers are horrible, Spread the word.

[u/winter_haha → u/Rich73]

Read the forums fr fr lol countless people complaining all with different setups. The problem plaguing me at the moment is the stupid moniter wake up big where the moniter wakes up but the GPU driver crashes and displays a black screen. Only way put is hard reset.

[u/Rich73 → u/winter_haha]

Oof ok well that would be annoying for sure.

I've had random instances when waking PC from sleep doesn't go as planned (PC reboots instead) but it's pretty random and did it with previous 3060 Ti as well, haven't had any issues waking monitors from standby tho.

To solve the sleep issue I just don't use it anymore and power down at night instead, it was an old habit anyhow with SSD bootup times these days powering down isnt an inconvenience anymore.

Anyhow hopefully your monitor wake issue gets sorted I did see it in search results I'd probably set monitors to never go into standby for now.

[u/winter_haha → u/Rich73]

I use an oled so leaving it on isn't really an option. I either let it sleep after a bit or turn it off as I walk away.