Strawman much. At no point did I say nVidia had 'no issues', I quite clearly stated that nVidia drivers 'aren't perfect'.
I have been around long enough also, and used a hell of a lot of GPU's to know their quirks. But all that is irrelevant as we're discussing cards out today, not AMD's 8500 LE not rendering half the surfaces in C&C Renegade in 2002. Right now there is no question that AMD's drivers aren't up to scratch compared to nVidia.
As you say, the bugs you've listed for nVidia drivers tend to be specific repeatable use cases. The black screen issue for AMD, not so, it's a systematic issue that seems to affect pretty much their whole current GPU range from Polaris to Navi, and there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason as to if you'll be affected or not.
The black screen issue on AMD drivers is a big deal and does impact many users, and has been (and still is) a consistent issue with AMD GPU drivers over recent years. You say you have friends who don't have any major issues, that's great, I'm glad they don't have problems. On the other hand I have first hand experience of the black screen issue on my own PC using a Vega 64, on my wife's PC using a Vega 56, several of my friends had issues with 290's and 390's (though I never had a problem on those cards), on Polaris GPU's, and recently on 5700's. The issue is the same regardless of GPU, you'll be playing perfectly fine, then out of nowhere, black screen requiring a system restart to fix. Doesn't matter if you are running stock, overclocked, underclocked, it'll happen, and it makes playing any game impossible as you never know when it's going to kill your system. It's infuriating.
What I can also say is every single one of those black screen issues vanished the second the GPU was swapped to an nVidia alternative.
It's very hard to recommend AMD GPU's at the moment, even with their great price performance, when its a crap shoot as to whether or not you're going to be hit by black screen issues.
So again you start with another attack on AMD - 8500 rendering this and that. So what about the FX GPUs being so crap at DX9(drivers being part of the problem) that Gabe Newell said people to buy ATI cards instead?? He literally showed how poor they were - you obviously don't know better.
I know about 20 people personally in real life and online and they have mates too. To say it affects their whole GPU line-up and then ignore Turing had a big issue at launch is a bit disgenuous.
RTX Black screen threads:
https://www.google.com/search?q=rtx...hXHMMAKHY3YDWAQ8NMDegQICxA_&biw=2048&bih=1016
No one buy a Turing card because all of them have black screens,right??
I know a few who jumped on the Vega56 and GTX1070 cards when they were cheaper,and they didn't have all those problems. Polaris GPUs - no problems. I had an RX470,and it never happened once,in a small form factor rig,with limited cooling running off a 450W PSU. I actually reviewed and overclocked it when I upgraded to a GTX1080 and I sold it to someone who mined with it. Another mate has had a few Polaris cards,and not had any issues with any of them. He is the one who got a RX5700XT for £320 close to launch,and also a GTX1070. A few others with Polaris too.
One of my close mates has had an R9 390 since launch so nearly 5 years now,and a few others I game online with had R9 290/R9 390 cards and didn't have those issues you have.
I might have believed you, before you started mentioning cards like the Polaris ones and even cards like the R9 390. These people just not only play newer games,but plenty of older ones too,which you could argue if there are problems,there will be less fixes for.
You are just on purpose bigging up problems which apparently don't affect lots of people owning AMD cards,and on purpose trying to say Nvidia has zero problems or not important problems.
You are literally saying no one even should buy an RX570 8GB over a GTX1650 which costs more due to "driver problems" since it first started with the RX5700, and now seems to be affected cards even made years ago.
I think you are coming across as the grass is greener on the other side,since you bought an RTX2060 and are coming into an AMD RX5600XT thread since you feel the value of your RTX2060 is affected,especially with the RX5700 dropping in price too.
LMAO,apparently Polaris is not worth it now.
I think we need to agree to disagree on this. Polaris has crap drivers,the same Polaris used in all the consoles and has very mature drivers. Must be those consoles,I think!
The card is far from pointless. However... AMD are again fighting with themselves rather than the competition.
As has been mentioned before, they may be trying to prop up the prices of the other cards, by trying to force prices higher. However, the 5600xt is now sooo close to the 5700.
I said that ages ago,as I felt that what was going to happen. Its why anything over £250ish is AMD taking the mickey.