As a 6800XT user for the past 2.5 years, I just can’t recommend this to a friend, without a massive asterisk. Drivers needed a long time to mature (in before people mention; yes - RAM tested fine, BIOS got updated, etc. basic stuff), so that they finally allowed me to just start my PC, play some games and repeat that the next day, without having to reinstall the drivers, rollback to older versions, etc. I took all that for granted with my nVidia cards, it wasn’t so simple with a Radeon.
I still remember getting constant driver timeouts in 2021 while trying to play Mafia 1 DE - the first “good” driver for me was the FSR 1.0 release driver, seemed to fix a ton of issues in general. It also happened with many other games, but after that driver update - most games started to work well. A major quality of life improvement! It shouldn’t have taken so long to happen, though.
This is also why AMD’s cards need to be noticeably cheaper - the AMD Jank.
As a 6800XT user for the past 2.5 years, I just can’t recommend this to a friend, without a massive asterisk. Drivers needed a long time to mature (in before people mention; yes - RAM tested fine, BIOS got updated, etc. basic stuff), so that they finally allowed me to just start my PC, play some games and repeat that the next day, without having to reinstall the drivers, rollback to older versions, etc. I took all that for granted with my nVidia cards, it wasn’t so simple with a Radeon.
I still remember getting constant driver timeouts in 2021 while trying to play Mafia 1 DE - the first “good” driver for me was the FSR 1.0 release driver, seemed to fix a ton of issues in general. It also happened with many other games, but after that driver update - most games started to work well. A major quality of life improvement! It shouldn’t have taken so long to happen, though.
This is also why AMD’s cards need to be noticeably cheaper - the AMD Jank.