AMD's drivers suck bawz.
People say they like the design and ease of use of the driver panel, yes I agree, but practicality.. AMD's drivers are way more finnicky than Nvidia's regardless of Nvidia's driver panel looking like something from a 1995 computer commercial.
My Gigabyte Aorus 5700-XT was terrible, yes I had to manually set a fan curve or the card would overheat and throttle it's self, this would reset every time I reset the PC.
But the major issue was black screens of death.
I have never had much trouble with Radeon GPU's until I owned that one, though I remember some games running like butt even if they were showing higher FPS numbers than a slower GPU (HD 4870 vs 9800 GTX+)
I went Team green and will not be looking back for the forseeable future.
The thing is, I spent 1 year trying everything with the 5700-XT, rabid fanboys and defenders of their purchase telling me how I don't know how to run a PC and if they are not having the problem, it is a you problem. Drove me up the wall until I sold it and went Nvidia.
The RTX 3070 stomps all over the 5700-XT in every shape and form, the 3080 makes it look like a GT 210.
OpenGL< forget it even exists, Radeon cards are utter tosh at OpenGL due to such an outdated driver.
"AMD's openGL performance is great on Linux using the open source drivers. On Windows they never invested in the openGL performance sadly. Would be great if they can port the Linux openGL layer into to the windows driver package somehow."
From the owners thread.
I spoke too soon^
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/cttvhh/5700_xt_users_are_the_drivers_really_that_bad/
Are drivers really that bad? No as long as you don't use your cards full functionality that you paid for!
And for a lot of us, that don't mean it will work if you follow advice!
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Are there driver issues?
r/AMD be like: no driver issues at all, as long as you disable this, don’t use that, disable this in BIOS, and be sure you don’t turn this higher than this.
Yeah that counts as driver issues.
"
"nah i literally went back to my r9 390 because im so fed up with the garbage drivers, and if you mention it in these forums you get yelled at and downvoted to oblivion, by people who probly dont even own the card. Because that REALLY helps us get a fix guys. This sub reddit is full of the most toxic, blind fanboys ive ever seen."
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The card is unusable for me. I tried every fix, followed every piece of advice. Anyone making blanket claims that the drivers are fine are lying. For some they are fine, for others not.
Every game i played would cause my PC to crash, attempt to restart and then freeze, so I'd have to hard-reset.
I DDU'd drivers in safe mode. I disabled Enhanced sync etc. My mobo is PCIe3 so that's not the issue. I played 1080 60 so freesync wasn't the issue.
Getting a refund and going with a different card.
"
Here is one of the dumbass comments.
"I would say that 99% of people having issues have unstable computers from the get go (mainly due to unstable memory which will throw the entire system off causing blue screens), usual these are new builds where the memory can't handle their xmp profile etc etc. People always assume its the GPU which is laughable, never seen issues like this is my life. People just love the blame AMD for everything that goes wrong (its this Myth from Trolls on the internet love to spread about AMD drivers) Been buying AMD GPU's for over 25 years and never had an issue with graphics cards causing bluescreens. You will be perfectly fine. If something goes wrong always make sure to stablily test the CPU and Memory to make sure they are not the culprit. Most of the idiot reddit users never do that and just RMA the card get a new one and the same thing happens again lol. The world is full of stupid people that it is just absolutely nuts."
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/dtfuef/my_rx_5700_xt_crashes_a_lot_tried_most_of_the/
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Man don't blame the PSU it's fine for what you've got, you probably don't even exceed 400 W under load. AMD need to admit that the 5700 series have problems, I had a totally **** time with my sapphire pulse 5700 xt and returned it. Now I'm using a 2070S and it just works in every game, no more troubleshooting or bs problems. It sucks your can't return it, these things are seriously half baked. I've used AMD in the past and never had problems, but I'm not going to pretend that navi isn't that bad, it's ridiculous how many people are having issues, it's a bloody joke.
9 upvotes "
Reply to this post.
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All of this is BS. lots of people have fixed their random crashed of a 5700 with a new PSU or by just using 2 connectors instead of one's.
So absolutely try a different (high quality) PSU.
The 5700 seems to put more strain on the PSU then other cards, and while that's not a good thing, it doesn't make the 5700 'half baked' in the slightest.
0 upvotes"
In a year people went from flat out denial with votes to downvoting naysayers, but it depends on the time of day with Reddit.
https://www.techspot.com/news/84005-gamers-ditching-radeon-graphics-cards-over-driver-issues.html
"Gamers are ditching Radeon graphics cards over driver issues"
People say they like the design and ease of use of the driver panel, yes I agree, but practicality.. AMD's drivers are way more finnicky than Nvidia's regardless of Nvidia's driver panel looking like something from a 1995 computer commercial.
My Gigabyte Aorus 5700-XT was terrible, yes I had to manually set a fan curve or the card would overheat and throttle it's self, this would reset every time I reset the PC.
But the major issue was black screens of death.
I have never had much trouble with Radeon GPU's until I owned that one, though I remember some games running like butt even if they were showing higher FPS numbers than a slower GPU (HD 4870 vs 9800 GTX+)
I went Team green and will not be looking back for the forseeable future.
The thing is, I spent 1 year trying everything with the 5700-XT, rabid fanboys and defenders of their purchase telling me how I don't know how to run a PC and if they are not having the problem, it is a you problem. Drove me up the wall until I sold it and went Nvidia.
The RTX 3070 stomps all over the 5700-XT in every shape and form, the 3080 makes it look like a GT 210.
OpenGL< forget it even exists, Radeon cards are utter tosh at OpenGL due to such an outdated driver.
"AMD's openGL performance is great on Linux using the open source drivers. On Windows they never invested in the openGL performance sadly. Would be great if they can port the Linux openGL layer into to the windows driver package somehow."
From the owners thread.
Well it's been a while, finally got to a point that i am happy with my card.
I never did take an image.
Images.
I spoke too soon^
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/cttvhh/5700_xt_users_are_the_drivers_really_that_bad/
Are drivers really that bad? No as long as you don't use your cards full functionality that you paid for!
And for a lot of us, that don't mean it will work if you follow advice!
"
Are there driver issues?
r/AMD be like: no driver issues at all, as long as you disable this, don’t use that, disable this in BIOS, and be sure you don’t turn this higher than this.
Yeah that counts as driver issues.
"
"nah i literally went back to my r9 390 because im so fed up with the garbage drivers, and if you mention it in these forums you get yelled at and downvoted to oblivion, by people who probly dont even own the card. Because that REALLY helps us get a fix guys. This sub reddit is full of the most toxic, blind fanboys ive ever seen."
"
The card is unusable for me. I tried every fix, followed every piece of advice. Anyone making blanket claims that the drivers are fine are lying. For some they are fine, for others not.
Every game i played would cause my PC to crash, attempt to restart and then freeze, so I'd have to hard-reset.
I DDU'd drivers in safe mode. I disabled Enhanced sync etc. My mobo is PCIe3 so that's not the issue. I played 1080 60 so freesync wasn't the issue.
Getting a refund and going with a different card.
"
Here is one of the dumbass comments.
"I would say that 99% of people having issues have unstable computers from the get go (mainly due to unstable memory which will throw the entire system off causing blue screens), usual these are new builds where the memory can't handle their xmp profile etc etc. People always assume its the GPU which is laughable, never seen issues like this is my life. People just love the blame AMD for everything that goes wrong (its this Myth from Trolls on the internet love to spread about AMD drivers) Been buying AMD GPU's for over 25 years and never had an issue with graphics cards causing bluescreens. You will be perfectly fine. If something goes wrong always make sure to stablily test the CPU and Memory to make sure they are not the culprit. Most of the idiot reddit users never do that and just RMA the card get a new one and the same thing happens again lol. The world is full of stupid people that it is just absolutely nuts."
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/dtfuef/my_rx_5700_xt_crashes_a_lot_tried_most_of_the/
"
Man don't blame the PSU it's fine for what you've got, you probably don't even exceed 400 W under load. AMD need to admit that the 5700 series have problems, I had a totally **** time with my sapphire pulse 5700 xt and returned it. Now I'm using a 2070S and it just works in every game, no more troubleshooting or bs problems. It sucks your can't return it, these things are seriously half baked. I've used AMD in the past and never had problems, but I'm not going to pretend that navi isn't that bad, it's ridiculous how many people are having issues, it's a bloody joke.
9 upvotes "
Reply to this post.
"
All of this is BS. lots of people have fixed their random crashed of a 5700 with a new PSU or by just using 2 connectors instead of one's.
So absolutely try a different (high quality) PSU.
The 5700 seems to put more strain on the PSU then other cards, and while that's not a good thing, it doesn't make the 5700 'half baked' in the slightest.
0 upvotes"
In a year people went from flat out denial with votes to downvoting naysayers, but it depends on the time of day with Reddit.
https://www.techspot.com/news/84005-gamers-ditching-radeon-graphics-cards-over-driver-issues.html
"Gamers are ditching Radeon graphics cards over driver issues"
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