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Guydodge 15 Sep @ 11:37am

AMD gpu's good ?

so just wanted to get some insight on AMD gpu and cpu's.my buddy went full AMD after being
a long time intel nvidia user.has had nothing but issues since,dx11 games being the worst offender but not limited to it.some games run great with others having massive fps drops.

i have tried to help him to repair these problems.tried everything we could find to
no avail.leaving a portion of his over 1000 games unplayable new and old.noticing
that these problems are flooded all over the internet.which unfortunately he did not
see until after the fact.

i also bought a AMD card for the wifes pc and was blown away with the incompatibility
of it own software and drivers.would not allow me to use the software without it crashing
the drivers if i used the app at all games would crash.could not touch anything had to leave
all settings on default.sold it after 3 months and put the 3090 back in have had zero issues
since then.

so my question has anyone gotten these gpu to work in all games.he is very disappointed
and considering replacing his card after just a couple of months.he had zero issues running
all these games with a AMD nvidia setup so dont think its the cpu (aside from the know internet
issues) and the fact his 2070 would not run gpu intense games.is there a fix for this ?
we have exhausted all leads.as far as i can tell this has been going on for years with
AMD gpu's.

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Beardface31 15 Sep @ 11:43am

AMD is the better option for CPUs and the graphics cards are good.

Your PCs must not be setup correctly. Maybe have someone more qualified to look at them..

Can you post complete system specs?

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Liquid Inc 15 Sep @ 11:57am

I've had my amd GPU for just over 2 years now, and the only issue is the "hit N miss" situation with drivers.
Incompatibility? Games being unplayable? I've never seen that, and some of my games are 20 years old at this point.
Things like Fallout 4 run perfectly fine.

You had a 3090 in one of your PC's, but you did make sure to use DDU to remove the Nvidia components, right? Because those would be source No. 1 of many of these issues.

You'd also need to delete any cache for those games that was made by the Nvidia card. So games that build shaders (Like Starfield, for instance) need that manually deleted with Nvidia, and that would cause issues if you didn't.

The 2070 should have been able to run almost anything at 1920x1080. Even Cyberpunk on max (Without Ray/Path for obvious reasons) should be doable at 60fps. Obviously if you want 144 or higher then reducing graphics settings is a must, but, im sure your friend knows that.

As beardface said, without specs, no one can point you in the right direction, and honestly, it sounds like these machines have some big issues that need sorting.

Monk 15 Sep @ 12:54pm

They are good, just, not AS GOOD as nvidias options and as you have experienced, can have some 'quirks', which fanboys never 3xperience some how but are widely criticised by everyone neutral to them.

xSOSxHawkens 15 Sep @ 1:11pm

I have had great experiences with AMD GPU's in multiple personal rigs, as well as multiple friends/family (HD3850 AGP through RX6900). I have also helped a few people I know IRL troubleshoot their own systems with issues running AMD gpu's. It typically comes down to either an PSU issue, a software/OS issue, a driver conflict issue (with other drivers if switching), or a faulty card. All of which are things seen on the NV side too, just often less talked about.

As for your friend, what GPU and what game? I have a decent library of older titles and can try and do some testing, I run an RX-6900xt, and have the little brother 6500xt for testing too.

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Monk 15 Sep @ 1:21pm

Originally posted by xSOSxHawkens:
I have had great experiences with AMD GPU's in multiple personal rigs, as well as multiple friends/family (HD3850 AGP through RX6900). I have also helped a few people I know IRL troubleshoot their own systems with issues running AMD gpu's. It typically comes down to either an PSU issue, a software/OS issue, a driver conflict issue (with other drivers if switching), or a faulty card. All of which are things seen on the NV side too, just often less talked about.

As for your friend, what GPU and what game? I have a decent library of older titles and can try and do some testing, I run an RX-6900xt, and have the little brother 6500xt for testing too.

Let's be honest, nvidia out sells AMD like 10 to 1 an you still hear of less issues fir a reason.

Though tbf, I had a vega64 and it worked great with zero problems.

xSOSxHawkens 15 Sep @ 1:33pm

I miss my vega. It died awhile back to what I suspect was a bad PSU. Or motherboard, unsure, same tower killed 3x GPU's in the same way :(

The vega's are probably decent cards r/n with things like LLM's. A tad slow on compute (compared to a modern card), but able to put up 32GB of addressable VRAM space using the Pro drivers from AMD and their whole memory extension thing the line had running. Can actually load large models.

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Monk 15 Sep @ 1:39pm

Yeah the vega cads were actually really good, I had it at the same time as sli 1080ti's and it performed well, I got lucky and was one of a small handful to pick it up at the cheaper introductory price, but, the problem was, they went all in on hbm2 memory which it did not need but made the card far too expensive, if it had the same memory as the 1080 it would of undercut the 1080.while pretty much matching it's performance and we'd probably have a very different gpu market right now.

But, AMD (gpu division) never misses an opportunity to shoot themselves in the foot, sadly.

C1REX 15 Sep @ 1:44pm

Originally posted by Guydodge:
i also bought a AMD card for the wifes.

This was posted by you few times already. How many wifes do you have? /s
Nvidia is better overall but this kind of messaging is getting into fanboyism territory.
Amd's drivers are nowhere near as bad as you describe. They are behind with FSR, frame gen, Ray Tracing, Power consumption, memory temps, CUDA and generally with technology but their drivers are rock solid right now.

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Electric Cupcake 15 Sep @ 3:13pm

Better than Nvidia's overpriced, unstable, bad drivers crap x1000.

The_Abortionator 15 Sep @ 4:20pm

Originally posted by Monk:
Originally posted by xSOSxHawkens:
I have had great experiences with AMD GPU's in multiple personal rigs, as well as multiple friends/family (HD3850 AGP through RX6900). I have also helped a few people I know IRL troubleshoot their own systems with issues running AMD gpu's. It typically comes down to either an PSU issue, a software/OS issue, a driver conflict issue (with other drivers if switching), or a faulty card. All of which are things seen on the NV side too, just often less talked about.

As for your friend, what GPU and what game? I have a decent library of older titles and can try and do some testing, I run an RX-6900xt, and have the little brother 6500xt for testing too.

Let's be honest, nvidia out sells AMD like 10 to 1 an you still hear of less issues fir a reason.

Though tbf, I had a vega64 and it worked great with zero problems.

Nvidia forums are always PACKED with issue and have been for years, grean boys just want to pretend there isnt any.

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The_Abortionator 15 Sep @ 4:24pm

I switched from Nvidia Intel to all AMD and its been great especially on Linux

Even on Windows adrenaline software was way better than having to use GFE+Nvidia control panel+Nvidia broadcast+specific shadowplay menues.

AMD had it all in one place. Their voice filter wasnt AS GOOD but its 90% there and did the job.

On Linux I've had no issues and have great voice filtering using easy effects.

The only short coming is that HDMI 2.1 is blocked by the HDMI d!ck heads but that doesn't impact me no matter how many people assure me it does as I like a normal human use DP for my monitor.

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Electric Cupcake 15 Sep @ 4:53pm

Originally posted by The_Abortionator:
I switched from Nvidia Intel to all AMD and its been great especially on Linux

Even on Windows adrenaline software was way better than having to use GFE+Nvidia control panel+Nvidia broadcast+specific shadowplay menues.

AMD had it all in one place. Their voice filter wasnt AS GOOD but its 90% there and did the job.

On Linux I've had no issues and have great voice filtering using easy effects.

The only short coming is that HDMI 2.1 is blocked by the HDMI d!ck heads but that doesn't impact me no matter how many people assure me it does as I like a normal human use DP for my monitor.

Why are you using video software for voice effects?
https://github.com/wwmm/easyeffects

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bossman150 15 Sep @ 5:05pm

I love my 7900xt and I play almost all older games but still dabble in newer stuff. I have had zero issues,it runs perfectly.

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The_Abortionator 15 Sep @ 5:25pm

Originally posted by Electric Cupcake:
Originally posted by The_Abortionator:
I switched from Nvidia Intel to all AMD and its been great especially on Linux

Even on Windows adrenaline software was way better than having to use GFE+Nvidia control panel+Nvidia broadcast+specific shadowplay menues.

AMD had it all in one place. Their voice filter wasnt AS GOOD but its 90% there and did the job.

On Linux I've had no issues and have great voice filtering using easy effects.

The only short coming is that HDMI 2.1 is blocked by the HDMI d!ck heads but that doesn't impact me no matter how many people assure me it does as I like a normal human use DP for my monitor.

Why are you using video software for voice effects?
https://github.com/wwmm/easyeffects

Im not sure whether you are making this suggestion about AMD software on WIndows or easyeffects on Linux but either way you are wrong.

AMD has a voice filter feature for mics like Nvidia has RTX voice.

Easy effects is literally a GUI for the audio system known as Pipewire which is also not video software.

Easy effects lets you insert voice filters like RNNoise and Deep Noise Remover into the audio chain to filer out background noise before the audio stream hit a program like a game, chat program, or other.

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The_Abortionator 15 Sep @ 5:28pm

Originally posted by bossman150:
I love my 7900xt and I play almost all older games but still dabble in newer stuff. I have had zero issues,it runs perfectly.

Used to have a 7900xt because I thought it would fit a case I was getting but didn't. It did pretty good.

I gave up, got a bigger case, got a 7900xtx which I have now and put it and my 9950x3d on water cooled by a 240mm rad and it eats everything I throw at it.

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