The original post: /r/buildapc by /u/MightBeNozza on 2025-01-24 03:44:56.

TLDR: Common driver issues get annoying, Bad luck on silicon lottery, Brands price/performance difference still doesn’t justify buying AMD again, so I’d like to hear your experiences/input/advice.

I bought a Sapphire Pulse 6700 (non-XT) a couple years ago, it’s been extremely unstable and has daily driver timeouts that literally no fix has had an impact on, the only fix I haven’t tried is returning it, partly due to the learning curve in diagnosing an actual root cause of the issues, partly because I don’t want to go without a GPU for a month, but I’ve also gotten used to it.

Other issues are with drivers & Adrenalin, low impact annoying issues like new drivers breaking games & rolling back to compatible driver versions, then getting no driver updates for a month+.

And losing a month of game clips because Instant Replay stopped working for no diagnosable reason, requiring a DDU reinstall for it to start saving clips again. (& clips being VFR only)

The issue remains that a 4070 Ti Super is the nearest worthwhile Nvidia upgrade at 1440p, which is ~30% ($AUD) more expensive than a 7900 GRE, similar enough price to a 7900XT, or another $100-200 for a 7900XTX which is still cheaper than a 4080 Super.

4070 Ti Super / 7900XT performance is the bar, 4080 Super is the goal, but 7900XTX only really loses in driver features, but as I said I’m really not considering it as an option because I’ve been burned alot.

I have no experience with Nvidias driver software, but everything I’ve seen & heard leads me to believe it’ll be more likely to be stable out of the box and won’t feel like FOSS software.

I’m technically literate enough to diagnose and resolve the many random problems that pop up using AMD/Adrenalin, but its gotten old and is just so intrusive.