AMD 9070xt....from an NVIDIA "fan".

[LawshadowZ]

Hi all,

So first up i won't lie i was a NVIDIA fan but seeing how NVIDIA doesn't give a damn about their loyal gamers who made NGREEDIA huge as it is now and now starting to backstab
their loyal fan base so screw them! 10.000 dollar pc are you kiddin me....Right there they want gamers with a mediocore income gone!

Now i DID try AMD cards in the past however i was greeted with pop ups ie driver issues, black screen. Friends of mine refusal to boot, stutters in games and BSOD or crashes due to the gpu and not memory, cpu etc.
Please we all had our preferences but im willing to give AMD a chance again and thus i would like to have objective feedback from those who actually experienced both nvidia and amd gpu's and compared them.

Some concerns i have regarding AMD cards:

- Driver subpar quality results: stutters, BSOD, black screen, crashes.

How are they in current time or the last 5 years or so are my worries legit or are they for the most part solved and gone? I know it's a "meme" of shorts in my days of using NVIDIA gpu's 98% of the time they just work!
Im not here to "NVIDIA vs AMD" i really want to give AMD a fair try. One thing is for sure for those AMD "fans" i respect your decision going along with AMD please return the favor for people who went with NVIDIA for a long time but are now contemplating the switch to AMD. Also some of the 9070xt are also using this problematic 12pin power cable is this a concern?

Please be gentle with me. I saved up money i just want to make a good decision before purchasing a new gpu for my new build a Intel 285k (workstation + secondary gaming at 1440p + 4k at times)

Thanks in advance

 

[hornetstinger]

Zero complaints with AMD GPUS I've had a couple, I think 1900XT, and AMD 480. APart from a noisy blower on the 1900XT (sorted with a antec upgrade kit) no issues with drivers or crashes.

 

[Gray2233]

Both companies have released good and bad products, and I've owned equal numbers of both in the 20 + years I've been partaking with the PC hardware hobby. I've had great experiences with both Nvidia and AMD/ATI, and I've also had some really poor ones from both also.

Some generations of their cards had issues like you describe, sometimes that's more a case of poor luck, or in some cases simply a specifically bad product from a certain board partner. People tend to fall into the idea that Nvidia can do no wrong, yet they've released more than one driver over the years that has managed to brick their cards, among a host of other problems.

I'd say give it a shot, if you've concerns or aren't particularly tech savvy for troubleshooting go in with a new Windows installation just to be 100% sure from the get go. A lot of people switch vendors but don't clean out the prior drivers, among many other mistakes, PEBCAK is the most common problem in my experience. Worst comes to worst you lose a little time and can send the card back, it's valid to have concerns but in the current market it's more important than ever to show a certain level of brand agnosticism.

 

[morguk]

I've had tons of AMD GPUs over 20 years all with no issues at all. I have had 1 Nvidia card, a 2080 Ti, and it dies on me. Apparently due to a design flaw in the memory chips or something.

What I'm saying is it's all perception, we have 1 bad experience and assume a brand is terrible - that's not the case and it works on both sides.

 

[COYS]

Has Anyone Moved From Nvidia To Amd And Not Regretted It

I have been on Nvidia since well basically since they come out, but noticing the 7900xt and 7900xtx getting great reviews. So fancy a change as either of them cards are great by looking at the reviews so was wondering if anyone has made the change and if so was it worth it or did you change back...

forums.overclockers.co.uk

This will be a good read of people who have gone to AMD from Nvidia

 

[nlyh]

The last Nvidia card I owned was the Ti 4200 (I seem to recall the box or something else having the picture of a woman in lab coat holding beaker of urine - "Golden Sample").

Been using all ATI/AMD since and never had an issue.

The one thing I would say for people moving from Nvidia to AMD is just to reinstall windows when you change the cards, it resolves a lot of issues in my opinion. I've helped out a few friends who have changed over and encountered issues, even after using DDU. Once they reinstalled windows, it was fine.

I realise that may be an inconvenience for some, as you shouldn't have to do that in an ideal world.

 

[Gray2233]

The last Nvidia card I owned was the Ti 4200 (I seem to recall the box or something else having the picture of a woman in lab coat holding beaker of urine - "Golden Sample").

That would have been a Gainward model, one of the oldest GPU partners still in the game last I checked, although whether they're now owned by another company or not (likely) is beyond me.

As an aside, I actually bought a Geforce 4 ti4200 back in the day and by some miracle ended up with a ti4400, fond memories!

 

[fs123]

I currently have a 3080FE but previously had a 5700XT and older AMD cards. Never had any major problems with AMD. I prefer the Adrenalin software suite and will hopefully be getting a 9070XT tomorrow. FSR4 looks great and it should be easily modded into any game that has DLSS with Optiscaler.

Also watch Jayz2cents video where he has found frametime issues with the 5070Ti but the 9070XT is much smoother.

 

[humbug]

GTX 970
GTX 1070
RTX 2070 Super

RX 7800 XT, like you i have had AMD GPU's in the past and yes they have been a little finicky, but that was a long time ago and AMD have come a long way since then.

I've had the RX 7800 XT a little over a year now and its never put a foot wrong, never had a single issue with it, it just works, it also plays all my games very smoothly, honestly its a great card.

These days i'm happy to buy either AMD or Nvidia without a moments hesitation, they make equally great products.

 

[iamtheoneneo]

Never had any issues with AMD cards over the years infact iv probably had more problems with Nvidia cards. But again I see problem as something very very minor but talk on the Internet sometimes makes out that one crash in a game is some life changing event.

Why is it that AMD get all the historical flack for bad product launches yet Nvidia have also been equally bad but somehow get let off?
Crazy mindset.

 

[Harlequin]

Last AMD card i had was a 6900XT, was rock stable with good drivers , now using a 3090 as i have a need for CUDA where the software isnt using ROCm (yet)

 

[Bidley]

Some concerns i have regarding AMD cards:

- Driver subpar quality results: stutters, BSOD, black screen, crashes.

These are issues with current Nvidia drivers, not so with AMD. The AMD driver thing is years out of date. Although nobody knows yet how the release drivers will be for the 9070 series.

The Adrenalin software is far better than the Nvidia App.

I had driver issues with an RX580 I had yonks ago. My 6700xt was solid.

I wouldn't worry so much about the 12 pin power connector at the wattages the 9070xt is drawing, Sapphire seem to have designed theirs far better than Nvidia anyway. Besides, plenty use 8 pins so those are an option.

FSR4 looks good, so I would go with the price/perf that appeals to you most and not worry about whether it's AMD or Nvidia.