So i was a long time Nvidia user, and now i think it is time for me to join the Red Team side.
I was thinking about buying the RX 7800 xt, and iam between the Sapphire Nitro+ and the Asus TUF, the price difference between these two is almost 50 CAD. I know the Nitro+ is getting huge positive reviews when it comes to performance, but i could use the price difference to get a better CPU or RAM.
My question: Is there a big difference when it comes to the build quality, cooling and longtivity between these two brands?
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ASRock has been doing AMD cards for a while now and have been good.
They only do AMD and Intel, no nVidia.
As someone who has played both sides, and was exclusively a EVGA fanboy — I can tell you that when I went red, I always went XFX, and it was always a great experience.
Now, that being said, my current AM5 build is an Asrock motherboard, and a XFX GPU — and I’ve been sufficiently impressed with the board that I may give a 7900 XTX Asrock Taichi a try. But if I can’t source one when the time comes, XFX it is.
Sapphire and powercolor are always my go to
Honestly I would choose the TUF in your scenario as you said the money could be spent elsewhere. Generally I would avoid Asus, gigabyte and msi for radeon but the TUF model is actually pretty good this generation
I would not pay more for one over the other… It will make no difference and not be worth the extra money.
Usually the non-exclusive brands like ASUS just slap whatever cooler they use for nVidia with some minor tweaks on their AMD GPUs, sometimes it works well, sometimes not, you gotta look for reviews on the specific model you’re looking at.
Meanwhile AMD exclusive brands like Sapphire, PowerColor and XFX have coolers built with the AMD GPUs in mind and offer more predictable quality.
From personal experience all I can tell you is all my XFX cards were pretty great and the Asus Strix RX 480 I had a few years ago was pretty good too and still going strong in a friend’s machine so you’re probably fine going with the TUF if those 50 CAD are important to you.
offer more predictable quality.
So hotspot issues, paste pumpout issues etc? :D
Just be careful of the most budget versions, powercolor fighter, sapphire pulse, they cut costs, less heatsink, less fans, less clocks.
I had a sapphire rx580 8gb, great card. 6700xt 12gb powercolor spectral white, the build quality is insane, so easy to disassemble. 7900xt 20gb xfx, this card is super long! Kinda wish the heatsink was a bit thicker, but I should of shelled out for 7900xtx if I wanted the best. 34.4 cm, over 13 inches! I couldn’t fit the antisag bracket, had to improvise.
Stick to Sapphire, Asrock, PowerColor and XFX preferably when buying AMD GPU.
ASUS, MSI and Gigabyte are hit or miss when comes to coolers.
If you are in doubt between 2, I would just check reviews for both and see if there is any meaningful difference.
Is the cheaper one delivering something you feel good paying for? Is the uplift of the most expensive meaningful to you?
It’s not so much brands themself, but every brand can have a dud line up (also on nvidia)
Sapphire is roughly amd equivalent to what used to be evga.
Xfx lately has done very well on amd cards.
How often people recommended EVGA due to their customer service scared me off of them. If so many people know how good their customer service is, it made me wonder how reliable the actual cards were.
I always viewed EVGA as being recommended so much less because they were actually the best, but just because of their customer service, which actually made me weary of them because it seemed so many people had experience using EVGA customer service…
Personally, I’ve had a lot of good Sapphire cards. I’ve never had any issues with them. They look nice and are reliable. From my experience, brands which make Radeon cards exclusively tend to be the best option. I’d say that the Sapphire one is worth the extra money. That said, PowerColor cards are nice too. My current RX 5700 is a PowerColor card, and it has been very reliable.
The only correct answer… is Sapphire. if you are going to go AMD… you go Sapphire… Im on my third Sapphire card… and each one has been excellent… (RX590 - sold, RX-5700 - back up gaming rig and RX-6800 - primary gaming rig) Never have a problem with any of them.
Now you may pay a few extra bucks… but its well worth it. Not saying that any of the other brands are bad… (might stay away from Asus though). But when i started out getting my first GPU everyone was unanimous with Sapphire.
I would not recommend Asus for an AMD GPU. My top three would be Sapphire, XFX, and very surprisingly ASRock, all pretty much tied. They all perform similar at similar temps, the Sapphire will have better quality control and will run quieter than XFX, and I honestly just find the ASRock cards ugly most of the time. Replacing the fans would improve that a lot though lol.
Close following is Power Color, but this generation they perform slightly below the 3 I listed and haven’t been great at QC.
I have an XFX Merc310 because their price was stellar and their performance is on par with the best. Just a bit louder, but I use closed back headphones.
As far as Nvidia, I generally went Asus or MSI.
For AMD I’d go Sapphire or PowerColor.
There are definitely brands I avoided though. Back when I had an Nvidia card, I shied away from EVGA mainly due to how many people seemed to know how amazing their customer service was and recommend them based mostly on that, gave me the impression their cards had reliability issues.
For AMD I’d personally stay away from anything not reference (Sapphire I think), Sapphire, Powercolor or possibly XFX.
AMD makes better processors, hands down… Nvidia is the graphics king
My current PC is a Ryzen 9 5950x with a RTX 3060 12gb