Re:AMD Radeon RX 6800 and RX 6800 XT Review
by neogodless on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @11:30AM
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My take as someone who does light gaming is that the drivers are "pretty good" but not perfect.
I run Windows 10 and had my system on a Nvidia Geforce GTX 780 for roughly a year before buying an AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT this spring. During that time running the Geforce, I had no issues in or out of gaming.
Running the 5600 XT with the latest WHQL drivers, I have had one very recent game crash (StarCraft 2) but otherwise, just some issues with booting - instead of the Windows loading icon, I'd just get a white cursor in the corner of the screen indefinitely. I would have to hard reboot using the power button. Once it kept doing it and I caved and did a reset of Windows, having to reinstall programs. I've had the boot problem once since then, and the above game crash. I think it's very reasonable to believe these are driver issues.
If you're wondering, I didn't do a clean install, but used Guru3D drive cleaner between the Geforce and Radeon. And then I did do a Windows reset, and have had problems since, so I don't think it's reasonable to blame the driver issues on the switch.
I run Windows 10 and had my system on a Nvidia Geforce GTX 780 for roughly a year before buying an AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT this spring. During that time running the Geforce, I had no issues in or out of gaming.
Running the 5600 XT with the latest WHQL drivers, I have had one very recent game crash (StarCraft 2) but otherwise, just some issues with booting - instead of the Windows loading icon, I'd just get a white cursor in the corner of the screen indefinitely. I would have to hard reboot using the power button. Once it kept doing it and I caved and did a reset of Windows, having to reinstall programs. I've had the boot problem once since then, and the above game crash. I think it's very reasonable to believe these are driver issues.
If you're wondering, I didn't do a clean install, but used Guru3D drive cleaner between the Geforce and Radeon. And then I did do a Windows reset, and have had problems since, so I don't think it's reasonable to blame the driver issues on the switch.