Switching to AMD - 6 Months Later 

Oops, my bad. Control was set to a render resolution of 1080P, but wasn't using FSR, just the standard internal scaling.

Going through comments has me realizing that you're still a smaller tech channel, the content is just so polished I tend to forget. Lovely video

i find it funny how i saw this channel go from literal 0 to 60k, good work there buddy.

Fancy graphics that require a fortune just to run at 60fps won't make games any better. It's annoying how the industry has been chasing flashy visuals over quality gameplay for decades now just to produce mediocre titles that are forgotten about 6 months after release.

I upgraded from an RTX 3060 Ti 8GB to XFX 6800 XT 16GB in April 2023. [Also upgraded from a 2600X to a 5800X3D January 2024] Loving every bit of it. AM4ever.

Upgraded from my retired old GTX 750 TI to a RX6600 because of your first video on switching to AMD, so far best upgrade ever, NVIDIA prices are completely unreasonable in Brazil, a performance matching NVIDIA card would be double the price.

Went from a PS5 to a 5600/6700xt build. Now have a 7600x/7900xt build. No issues with my purchases and would buy AMD again so long as their products come at a discount for their shortcomings in RT and upscaling.

Since I read it so many times here: Undervolt and OC your GPU, always, regardless of the brand. GPUs come way overtuned mostly to make sure most silicon runs stable. They dont want to have cards returned just cause of stability issues so the sell them on high voltage settings at stock. Even my 7900xtx sapphire nitro+ went from 420W stock to 280W on full load (less than a stock 4080) while never crossing 50C°. No performance loss. And Im not into extreme undervolting or overclocking. These are super standard stable settings and Im just amazed how the card performs while being so extremely cool. UV+OC your (somewhat) modern GPU, whatever u have. Literally 0 risk, your GPU lives longer, ur system is cooler and u safe some money too. The worst that can happen is that a game makes your system crash and it goes back to default GPU settings automatically. Just follow a guide on youtube, takes only a few minutes but gets u so many benefits.

Fantastic video and I will continue to support you on Patreon. I am no content creator so I went with AMD several years ago. Got an RX 5700 and I upgraded last Christmas to a 6900XT just like you. I am not interested in ray tracing, rather high resolution high refresh rate since I only play older games with the occasional new release like BG3. I am CPU-limited with my 3600 so I'll upgrade my cpu soon-ish. I can see myself holding onto this 6900 XT for a long time. Thanks again for the killer videos and I wish you the best.

I upgraded from a rtx 2060 super to rx6800 and so far no complaints. The prices was 500$ at the time.

I remember you getting the 6900XT like it was yesterday... incredible that it's already been 6 months.

on the road to 60k, love your work and love to see you grow keep growing 💪

amazing content for this kind of channel size, keep it up!

I did something similar recently. After I cashed out my PTO from switching jobs this past September, I treated myself to an upgrade from an RTX 2070 Super to an RX 7800 XT. There were some teething issues with RDNA3 being a new architecture, but I'm very happy with the performance so far at 1440p. Especially getting that card for 520 USD.

switch from gtx 1650 to rx 6800xt. I chose it mainly for its vram and AMD's history in maintaining software features to their old gen. bought it for 350 usd last year. Still rocking it to this day playing all the games i play at ultrawide 1440p at 60 to 200 fps max graphics.

I actually love your setup, because it is way more reasonable than most out there, and quite a bit more relatable too for most the audience - with the prices as they are, very few sport anything above the level of an RTX 4070 / RX 7900 GRE / RX 6900 XT. Also, with prices per fps not significantly dropping anytime soon, something at the level of an RTX 4060 Ti / RX 6800 ( 16GB 4k gaming ) likely will serve you well for years to come.

This is a great video and very polished! And it is very nice to see a much more relatable system spec being used as daily driver and testing!!!

I also just got my first Amd Card this Week after a GT 620 to a Gtx 750ti to a Gtx 960 i now have a Rx 5600 XT and so far im very happy. The Performance Jump from the 960 was Huge.

Few months back I jumped from an RTX 3060 ti (excellent card btw) to the Radeon RX 7900 XT. Honestly I am very happy with its performance.

I'm so glad this video is popping off and that your hard work is paying off. Just keep grinding, eventually you'll become a reference in the PC enthusiast scene :p

Almost exacly a mirror of what I did. The Last of Us made me switch from a 2080 to a 6900XT (sold the RTX for almost the same price as the RX). A lot of fighting with the drivers and core temps, but I´m now enjoying the benefits.

Great presentation in this video! Keep it up!

8:39 - Hot Tip. Works with any game if you haven't got a VRR monitor: Leave VSync off in game and in the Radeon drivers enable "Enhanced Sync" for the game. All the benefits of Vsync, but with the ability to drive it at high refresh rates.

Your content is really polished for someone with under 100k subs. Keep it up man. Consistency is the key!

Bought team red complete system 7 months ago. 7800X3d paired with 7900XTX. Absolutely love it. Played all the following games with 4k high settings. Resident evils 2-4. Plague tale requiem. Final fantasy 7 remake Call of duty modern warfare Doom eternal Red dead redemption 2 Horizon zero dawn dawn Shadow of the tomb raider The last of us part 1 No regrets at all.

Honestly, I switched to AMD simply because I like the company and it's mission more. Nvidia doesn't care about gamers and continuously screws us over. They only care about dirty money and crypto-miners, regardless who they fuck over on the way. AMD is a company of gamers, for gamers. They care about their fans, work hard to improve their products, and price their products fairly. At the end of day, the choice to switch was easy for me. I'd rather feel like a gamer than a chump getting squeezed for money.

Very detailed and engaging! Keep it up! 👍

Recently found this channel and the quality is great! I would like to see more information on power usage of the cards... cost of living crisis and all, it would definitely help the current situation

I'm happy with my 15$ used rx 580 8gb saphire nitro, playing alot of mmorpg games at 1440p 60fps with high settings and very satisfied ( the owner selled the gpu for not working but I switched to its other bios and it worked flawlessly). Best 15$ spent !

I recently swtiched to amd. I love it really much now 1650 to 6600 xt this was the biggest upgrade i could have with my tight budget. The performance is insane and so called driver "issues" I never had a single one

RU-vid just recommended this channel to me, and I'm loving the content so far. Will be keeping updated here from now on. Gg wp

Very solid video, good job! At first I thought "Not again this type of content..." but you raised a lot of very good points! The RX 7000 series endeavor could be interesting from a workstation POV, as there are some major bugs with the AV1 encoder - it can't properly encode resolutions which aren't a multiple of 64x16 pixels, so 1080p comes out as 1082p with a black row of pixels unless masked by the container, which not all containers can do. Among the already widely known idle and video playback power issues. I did my own experiment with switching to AMD with an RX 6600, from a GTX 1660, needless to say after 9 months of using it - and after the issues with RX 7000 started rolling in - I just ended up with a 4070 since the video encoder and power draw are very important to me, unlike the VRAM capacity since I don't play anything latest gen.

Been using a 6900xt gpu for about 18 months or so now, and it’s been really good for the majority of experiences. But Helldivers 2 does not like all their additional post-processing tweaks they apply by default and has caused me a lot of headache. Turned off all those settings and it has resolved the issue. Nice vid and great channel. Earned a sub!

great video! thanks for the content :)

First time watching your video and I must say clean as heaven great vid man , (yeah man )

10:31 -- The perf drop could be because of the dense foliage and vegetation that uses a lot of textures with alpha transparency. The ray-intersection test has to make several passes for each alpha textured surface to figure out what pixel is transparent or opaque. One of the RT enhancement in Ada Lovelace deals exactly with this problem -- Opacity Micro-Map -- but I don't know if the feature is implemented in this particular game or it just runs faster on RTX hardware.

I love my 7800XT. I feel it's performance versus cost wins hands down over an equally performing GeForce card. And while the titles I have tried RT on ran just fine, I really don't care about RT. Like you mentioned not appreciating RT in racing titles, I feel the same way. Focus is on the action rather than the eye candy.

Great video, I’ve had some minor driver hickups with my 6600XT, but the used 6900XT I picked up for 450 has been working perfectly.

Excellent video! Very relatable and well presented.

7900XTX for ~940 USD after tax during prime day. Haven’t looked back. Considering that’s cheaper than the $999 MSRP of the 4080 Super (and much cheaper than the MSRP of the 4080 when it came out), I’m super happy. Also price is usually higher since I’m in Canada, so that’s nice too.

Upgraded from GTX 1070 ROG STRIX to RX 6800 XT Asus TUF Gaming. No problems with drivers or anything. Its paired with my old I7-8700k which is stock. Would like to upgrade soon to 7800x3d to see more of the performance upgrade, but I'm happy so far. Great video again!

I can't help but wondering since I got the exact same setup as yours, about the temps of your GPU that I saw hovering to 80 degrees. Is that the hotspot temps that shown on screen? because AFAIK the sapphire nitro is technically have a better cooling than mine (Powercolor Red Devil Ultimate).

oh man u truly deserve more views and subs! your videos are so entertaining

Most “problems” people have are bc they don’t uninstall drivers before installing the new ones. Like the vast majority of problems

I went from a 1080ti to a 3070ti. I really disliked the 3070ti and recognised that for what I do, I really needed more VRAM. Saw a 7900xt on sale one day (it was still alot at the time) and took the plunge. Afew driver issues, but it's honestly been really good.

Great video. It's always interesting and educational to see a long form review of living and working with a product, rather than a week of benchmarking on release. I had to upgrade myself from the 3070 due to lack of VRAM. Lesson learn't for the future. I am curious, did you choose the 6900XT because it lined up well fiscally with your 3070? I was just confused after your intro where you mention that you won't be reviewing old gear because that content already exists, I expected you'd be looking at the 7000's series.

Very enjoyable video! I also like your more organic approach to GPU testing. Thank you 🙂 You have a new subscriber.

I definitely think overall, that if you want RT and good upscaling, then you pretty much have to go NVIDIA, but if you only care about pure performance, then an AMD card will almost always be the better price to performance. The AMD cards also tend to have more VRAM. It really just depends on the feature set you either do or don't want, and a lot of people still don't care about RT or upscaling. They just want a good price to performance card so they can play some games with friends.

I do computer building for clients as a side gig, and if they are looking for strictly a gaming PC with no intention of doing any sort of heavier workloads or streaming I recommend them full AMD systems. if they want to stream or any heavy workloads are intended for the system, I recommend NVIDIA only due to their encoders being better. My own system has a 5800x3d and a 4080Super but I plan on streaming eventually and might be getting a different full time job where the gpu will get more use. But this is down the road.

i bought a 7900xtx last august for $850 and squeezed it into my $2k budget PC build. 4080s were still above msrp at the time so i saved well over $400 and get to game in native 4k on ultra settings in just about any title at 60+ frames. Can't really complain for the amount of juice. I have nothing against nvidia and the super refreshes were a promising sign they have come back down to earth on price, but im feeling good i will be set for the next half decade at least. Pleasantly surprised with my AMD experience after having nvidia gpus for a decade plus.

Upgraded from my gtx 970 I got in 2017 to an rx 6600 xt back in November. I had no issues up to this week were whatever driver version i had would constantly crash my games. Updated the drivers again it was fixed. Not too big of an issue and having over 2x the performance of the 970 is great for 1080p 180hz gaming.

How is it possible that you’re videos are so freaking good??? Everytime I watch them they completely catch me, thanks man, my day just got a lot better

I have never had that Death Stranding Vsync issue before, does adaptive sync help at all?

5600X + 6750 XT user here. Been using this setup for exactly a year now. I got back into PC gaming after 14 years of using an iMac so I can't comment on NVIDIA vs AMD. With that out of the way, I'm happy with both the CPU and GPU. Depending on the game I'm getting anywhere from 60fps+ to hundreds of fps at High, Ultra or a combination of the two. The 12GB of VRAM is plenty for modern games. That said, BIOS updates 1.2.0.A and 1.2.0.B took some fps away. For example, CP2077 used to run anywhere from high 60s-low 80s fps and now it's hovering around 60 fps in general gameplay. Control ran in the 60s at max settings RT Off pre BIOS update so I assume performance will drop into the 50s.

I'm running a 7900X / 7900XTX in 4k on a 32" Samsung Odyssey Neo G7. I've been playing games in 4k for about 6 years now, moving from the RTX 2080 (upgrading from a GTX 1070 in 1440p), up to the 3080 Ti, up to the 7900XTX. In my opinion, getting the best possible visuals in 4k has nothing to do with RT being on (with the major exception being Cyberpunk). It usually has everything to do with whether or not you can run the game in native 4k res. (Also by wasting a lot of money upgrading your GPU every gen.) This means disabling upscaling supersampling tech like FSR/DLSS/XeSS. I can do this with the 7900XTX in everything I play, and it's why I love it. I don't like FSR, DLSS, or XeSS as I find everything looks a little blurry and feels a little more sluggish regardless of which one you are using. (This is less of a problem in lower resolutions where objects don't look as sharp due to the lower res.) The blurriness tends to get A LOT worse as the polygons get further away from you: looking at objects like trees, mountains, animals, etc., look blurrier the further away they are with supersampling enabled. This is something you can't really experience watching YT reviews, and it's something that only became completely clear to me once I was able to stop using supersampling with the 7900XTX. Even if you have to lower your settings to to high or medium, native 4k looks better than ultra quality with supersampling enabled. EDIT: Also, Adrenalin is so much better than GeForce Experience that it boggles the mind that NVIDIA took so long to create a new software solution.

There are many reasons why I love AMD, either for the price, vram etc etc, but I also like how in 6 years, because of their open sourceness someone like Nimez will probably create legacy drivers for the GPUs that will be way way cheaper than Nvidia cards for people on lowend budgets

Switched from a 3060ti to a 7900xt and honestly have had no complaints whatsoever. Excited for your upcoming videos on the 2011-v3 chips you listed! Just bought a 2667v3 for $10.

I switched from green to red back in the Kepler vs GCN days. Moved from SLI 660's (my attempt at a 2gb titan by adding Cuda cores😂) to an R9 290. Stuck with it through Vega 56 and now have a 6700XT in a Ryzen 5700G build running games on a 34 inch ultrawide (3440x1440). No issues at all, and have yet to find a game that taxes it to the point where I need to do much work on detail settings, as it sticks to 60+ fps on high or even ultra in many games :)

Great video!... I just went from a 1080 to RX 6750XT... actually really happy with it...getting same great performance but ample modern day VRam... Thinking if this lasts me well for the next two years I'll then upgrade again!

Have no regrets going from 3080 10gb to 7900 xtx, best decision ever, don't care about raytracing since its barely playable on nvidia without fake frames and that shortage of vram is dealbreaker

I regret switching to an rx 6700xt because somehow it can't handle 8k hevc vr video, while my old rtx 2060 had no problem with that. Deovr has confirmed this is a problem from amd. But I got a used one for only about 150 bucks, so at least it was cheap.

Hi I'm shocked you haven't had driver crashes. I've been on the 7800 XT for exactly 6 months. Crashes in WoW, BG3, D4. Are you using adrenaline software for drivers or do you download drivers directly? Thank you

Amazing video, though I do have a question. Are you running an overclock on that ram at all? For a while I was running a 2080ti with Ryzen 5 overclocked, but my ram is ddr4 2333hz... most all games stuttered and couldn't push consistent frame times. Since then I've downgraded and sold my rig, for my future build I'm planning on running some 7200-7800hz ram to see if its the deciding factor with frame times. Just interested in your thoughts, as the 16gb of VRAM may be better utilized with faster ram, but I'm far from an expert. much love

Went from a 3070 to a 6800xt about 5 months ago, myself. I've got one thing to say to you: AMD Fluid Motion Frames. I have no idea how it works, but it does. It's insane.

FSR 3.1 just dropped btw

What is the program are you using to do on screen monitoring like that?

what site do you use for managing your backlog?

My dude is playing on 60hz

I got an rx 6800 in November and I don't regret it, great purchase at a good price.

really good content i'm full AMD since 2017 for the price / performance reason rocking a 6700 xt atm but looking to upgrade as i have a 4k 120hz tv amd also makes more sense in this case as i'd rather have more vram than better RT, at a lower price RT is nice but only in a handful of games you see a big difference in image quality FSR is getting closer to DLSS quality, frame gen is also a thing now with Fluid Frames

Going from my first own self purchased gpu, the Rtx 2070 to a 7900 GRE Has been game changer in regard to experiencing games now: I Cannot recommend it enough for a new video, especially after updating from a near 6 year old card.

I hope you consider getting a 5800X3D next for your personal rig. The X3D plus 6900XT combo is so smooth. My 1% lows went up greatly and in fortnite alone, they went from 120 to 170, which is only 50 fps away from my average fps of 230 (at 1440p btw)

did not expect to see Star Trek Online in your steam library, one of my fav games at the moment

Switched from a 1060 to an RX6600 about a year ago and so far, I have 0 complaints. I haven't had any problems with it. I played any game I wanted at medium-high at 60fps. Since I still have a 60hz monitor, more frames wouldn't help that much, so, at least for now, it's doing great work.

Are you reviewing older radeons as well? I'm thinking like r9 390 or fury series? Also, I'm still using a 4790K, thinking of delidding it to OC for 4.8 -5.0 GHz range

For the budget minded gamer nothing beats a one generation old AMD card, I have heard rumors of teething issues with new cards, but my options were RTX 3070 or RX 6800 when the time came for my last upgrade and I am very happy I went with the 6800, I have had zero issues and it runs anything I throw at it.

And here I am, still rocking my RX 570...will I change it maybe? But for now, still suits my needs. Gr8 vid, keep on delivering quality content like this. Don't even mind a deep dive to technicals if a script requires it.

This channel is underrated. Great video, detailed explanation, nicely done. I am moving from Intel and nVidia to AMD/ATI platform for the 1st time in my life, although there was a 6 months period when I was playing with two R9 270 ATI card in CrossFire mode. Have no money to invest in 4090/4080 or 7900 XTX GPUs, therefore I made conclusion that best value for money (at this moment and for my wallet) is combination of 7800x3d & 7800 XT CPU-GPU combo. P.S. keep up the good work!

Thanks for the video!

Radeon Chill can help you with tearing, enabling it will cap hardware side to give only demanded number of frames, which will aswell help with tearing This and eyefinity are 2 things that Radeon nailed and Nvidia wasn't able to make work decently, tbh Radeon Chill can make your Haven benchmark output only 60fps, which was funny when i was testing things

Still rocking my RTX 3060 Ti, but next card, I'm going back to amd, RX 8000 series

suscribed, i enjoyed this video

been watching you for quite a long time no idea why I've never subscribed before

6:52 Not the gpus fault here. Only using 180w clearly shows a cpu and overall game optimization problem.

20:48 is the exact reason why Nvidia has been able to charge whatever they like for their underperforming cards. If someone gave me a free 4090 TI, I'd sell it to another sucker. I had only 4 major issues with my 3 years of using AMD RX 6600. I worked around 2 of them by downgrading the driver until the next update fixed it. One was Windows automatically updating my GPU drivers for some reason, and the last one seems to be an anomaly with my specific card, where Square Enix's GotG runs horribly. I also play all my single-player games on Linux and never had to even worry about a single issue, other than how to overclock my card like I do in Windows... and also GotG running horribly (which is why I think it's an anomaly). Nvidia has completely sold most of the average and the rich gamers on the idea of RTX, frame-gen, etc. This is like believing that you have a chance of having a relationship with an Instagram model that you have crush on, only to end up being the camera operator and a tool to enhance their public perception, just like Nvidia has become one of the highest valued companies. Say what you want about AMD and Intel, they have done more for benefitting the entirety of the consumer computers by publishing open-source firmwares and drivers, and being much cheaper with performance beyond acceptable for the price. I praise and curse them wherever they deserve. I'm able to see which of their actions are beneficial to everyone in the long-term and/or the consumers as a whole, and I hope more people are able to do so too.

What an great video ! It definitely related to my exprieince. I came from a 1080ti (still a QHD G.O.A.T) and upgraded to a 7800xt. In the beginning it was an actual nightmare (BSOD's. black screens, having to clear CMOS etc). After a week of troubleshooting I coudln't narrow the problem down and I assumed it was just this specific card that was broken. I was still within my free return period so I decided to return the card. As I game in 4k I also found the 7800xt to be slightly underperforming so with my heart set out for team red I decided to upgrade to a 7900xt. I played games and the performance was absolutely amazing but then to my absolute horror the same issues started happening again. I again had to take apart the PC, try diffrent GPU's to sanity check certain causes and try my best at fixing the probelems. I was DDU'ing my drivers on a daily basis for atleast a week. I had just spent €800 on a card that was only giving me issues left and right. And the worst part, all of my friends were taking every problem that I was encountering as an oppurtinity to shout; JUST GET AN RTX 4070ti!. "Just go back to team green". Although certainly tempting to go back to Nvidea I felt like the moments where the card was working well the performance was simply unbeatable, especially by a 4070ti super. I play a lot of shooters so getting high FPS on a game whilst it also looking pretty is awesome. When seeing close to 110 FPS on Battlefield 2042 with the settings maxed out in 4k and freesync 144hz enabled it was just a stunning expirience. That made me determined to continue the troubleshooting. As I was trying multiple fixes at once to speed up the process there are 2 possibilities of the fix that ended up working: 1. Uninstalling MSI Afterburner 2. Reinstalling my system chipset drivers (even though I was already on the latest one) EIther way the fact of the matter is that this card is now working like an absolute champ. I have had 0 issues with it so far. My build is a "for looks" build with white parts and RGB lighting troughout the case and the white ASrock 7900xt just shines like a magnificent centrepeace. Although it certainly didn't come easy I am very glad I kept trying with this card as in the end Nvidea just cannot achieve this performance at this price point. Can recomend!

just got a 7900xt after having a 3080 on lease from a friend after my 3060 fried itself, and even coming from a 3080 the 7900xt is a huge jump. im super happy with its performance and being a linux user its way more simple driver wise. looking forward to sticking with team red for a while!

most of the "people" bitching about AMD gpus dont even own an Radeon card and fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck ray tracing

Been using a sapphire nitro 7900xtx on my rig for nearly a year now and it’s been an absolute pleasure. Forgot how good sapphire were at making AMD cards. Great performance, no coil whine, quiet, no crashes or issues, great temps. Basically plug in and forget.

Loved the video, new sub here

planning on upgrading this year from a r5 2600 + 2060 to something like a 5700x + 7800xt (mainly cus AM4). This video has been very insightful for my upgrade plans. since i saw game clips using the 5700x

my RX 5700 still powerfull..

Hey Mr. Tech, have you seen the FSR 3.1 presentation? It looks very promising and very well could close the image quality gap between fsr and dlss! Also Frame gen being decoupled from fsr is also super cool imo :D

Ever since my first pc build I have always went with Radeon gpus and I have never had an issue. Planning to do the same on my next build I plan the end of this year.

If money was unlimited, I might buy a 4090, but just as likely, I'd spend half as much on a 7900 XTX, it's half the price and more than half the performance. I have serious issues with how Nvidia is currently treating the gaming public and their refusal to give us decent VRAM and memory buses for the tier of GPU. If they want to charge these high prices, they have very little excuse to cut bus width and not increase VRAM so current gen GPUs can run current gen games at high or better settings.

22:02. That's why this is the only benchmark channel that i follow. You are realistic with your tests and opinions. Of course the 4090 is a better card, but i don't have the money to burn in a piece of plastic that's gonna run my games with better reflections. Great video !

I switched to a 7800xt, and ive had no issues at all. Its been great, i came from a 3080. I do highly recommend to do a clean windows install and update chipsets driver (and ofc gpu driver) in order to avoid issues.

Good work sir, Keep it up.

The quality of your videos is superb

How many times are you going to switch to AMD