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The AMD Driver Thread

As would I (it's been a while since I made that change, nVidia 5800 > 9800SE was the last time I changed colours) however I stayed with Team Red for this change.

Before the reinstall of Win 10 I have now undervolted the 5600 using the Radeon Software and I'm now running a Furmark stress test @ 1080p to see if it falls over and, so far after 55mins, it hasn't frozen once.
 
I'm planning on building a new pc for my kid soon, and radeon looks to best bang for buck.

I moved away from radeon years ago because the state of the drivers was always utterly rubbish... Spent just as much time trying to find working drivers as playing games. Has it changed, or should I stick with nvidia?
 
Hellsmk2 said:
I'm planning on building a new pc for my kid soon, and radeon looks to best bang for buck.

I moved away from radeon years ago because the state of the drivers was always utterly rubbish... Spent just as much time trying to find working drivers as playing games. Has it changed, or should I stick with nvidia?
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The truth is that AMD drivers are at least on par with Nvidia, some people would say better. If you're the in the majority, you won't have any issues. Some people have corner cases with their setup/hardware that gives them issues, but that's the same for both Nvidia and AMD. I've had hardly any issues in the last five years, and the ones I did have were traced to Windows oddities peculiar to my setup.

Despite the complaints you'll see in both AMD and Nvidia driver threads, the majority of people generally have a good, hassle-free experience with either company.
 
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I tend to get a few strange issues that most don't get as I have Hyper-V and visual studio installed but overall I have not had many issues over the last 10+years using AMD GPU's. Most have been installer issues. The only bug I can remember is the snow/mud bug in RDR2 but that's fixed now and it was just a visual bug so could still play it.
 
Hellsmk2 said:
I'm planning on building a new pc for my kid soon, and radeon looks to best bang for buck.

I moved away from radeon years ago because the state of the drivers was always utterly rubbish... Spent just as much time trying to find working drivers as playing games. Has it changed, or should I stick with nvidia?
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I wouldn't know about the early driver issues with the 5700 XT as I've only been using one since last week, but it's been absolutely rock solid for me. No crashes, no weird behaviour, nothing. It's no different an experience to the 2070 Super I sold last month in terms of driver stability. AMD's software included with the driver plops on Nvidia's from a great height right now though (something Nvidia know and plan to address for Ampere's launch driver, or say rumours say). It's not without issue - the fan control settings are craaaaaaaaap - but it's very good.
 
every thing has been brilliant for me so far on the latest drivers after i narrowed down the freesync been on ultimate as my problem, i just run my monitor on the standard freesync engine now and so far all is good, i was getting some random black screens on the last ones but the latest ones seem to of fixed it.

running the sapphire pulse 5700 :)
 
Thanks for the advice. Another noddy question then... What's the flagship amd model right now (5700?), and when is the next generation likely to drop?

Sons birthday is the end of July, so quietly hoping new generations will drop along with prices of the current ones.
 
Hellsmk2 said:
Thanks for the advice. Another noddy question then... What's the flagship amd model right now (5700?), and when is the next generation likely to drop?

Sons birthday is the end of July, so quietly hoping new generations will drop along with prices of the current ones.
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No new gen by then unfortunately. Flagship currently is 5700XT.
 
Hellsmk2 said:
Thanks for the advice. Another noddy question then... What's the flagship amd model right now (5700?), and when is the next generation likely to drop?
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5700XT, though the one down (5700) will be the sweet spot in price/performance at the top end.

Hellsmk2 said:
Sons birthday is the end of July, so quietly hoping new generations will drop along with prices of the current ones.
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Everything's up in the air due to covid-19, though we might see announcements or leaks by then, but unlikely to see products until Autumn or the end of the year.
 
There should be big-navi out at some point where we are waiting to see how it fares. It should be way better than the 5700XT and more of a flagship. Hopefully not a bank buster but if it does mix it up with nvidia's best its going to be around a grand.
 
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There should be big-navi out at some point where we are waiting to see how it fares. It should be way better than the 5700XT and more of a flagship. Hopefully not a bank buster but if it does mix it up with nvidia's best its going to be around a grand.
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Considering I didn't sell my kidney when RTX launched, I still have 1 to spare for Big Navi :).
 
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Considering I didn't sell my kidney when RTX launched, I still have 1 to spare for Big Navi :).
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I know mate. Looks like from the high end pricing I will settle for a cut down flavour of the top tier ala vega56 instead of the 64 or the 5600xt was to the 5700xt.
 
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