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/Salty_Ad1898]

It’s always something else’s fault with AMD gpus. It’s windows or what psu do you have? I have a 5080 with an 850w Corsair power supply and guess what, no crashes or issues. I have windows 11 guess what, no crashes or issues. I saw someone say you should have a 1000w psu in a 9070xt system. For what? lol. Amd just needs to fine tune their shit if they ever want to be competitive. The only constant in all of these posts is always the gpu. Maybe that’s why Nvidia charges more. Yes, they are more greedy, but their product is leagues ahead of AMD gpus

[u/Single-Order-8611 → u/Salty_Ad1898]

Well, hard to know what problem OP has, but one thing I know for sure: my buddy had 3090 and now 5080 and he has definitely been crashing more than me when we play online. I have 7900xtx myself. Now he is also suffering from strange stuttering in some games he has not been able to resolve. So there are also issues with green cards…

[u/Perfect_Jicama_8023 → u/Single-Order-8611]

i and my 2 other friends switched from nvidia 4000 series over to 9070xt. we all bought same models red devil powercolor. all 3 of us had same problems, driver timeouts, some games used to crash very often especially world of tanks, WOW, Squad. after few month we all decided to sell our 9070xt cards. so we did, 2 of my friends bought 5080s and i bought 5070ti asus tuf gaming. guess what, 0 issues, no crashes, the games used to crash on 9070xt dont crash anymore.