I bought one after the big stability update and it was causing random hard reboots while sitting on the desktop (so not a power issue). May have been a hardware issue with the card. This was on a Windows system which previously had an Nvidia card which anecdotally seemed to cause issues, though I did run Display Driver Uninstaller in safe mode, etc. That being said it's hard to tell how many people actually had issues given how vocal people are when they do. I'd expect the vast majority of people had no issues.

Also the previous generation RX 580 cards were very stable.

I have a 5700XT, and there were driver problems on Windows where the screen would turn black while playing games and require a reboot. It could be fixed by disable FreeSync in the AMD software, but you shouldn't have to disable features for a card to work. They eventually fixed the issue with driver updates, but I think it took a few months. I also never had any issues with it on Linux.

I also have problems with 5700XT. I can't play some games without putting them at very low quality, although the specs of my machine are well within the recommended range. My computer randomly restarts if I am not at low settings. I have suspected overheating, but I have done what I can to fix it bar getting liquid cooling and I still have the issue. Very odd stuff. If anyone has suggestions, please let me know.

This sounds a lot like a problem with your power supply. When your graphics card starts working harder, it uses more power than your PSU can supply, which makes the voltage drop and causes the PC to reboot. I'd get a new PSU from a reputable manufacturer that is rated for more than the maximum combined wattage of your components. There are heaps of PSUs on the market that are advertised at a much higher rating than they can reliably supply.

> I'd get a new PSU from a reputable manufacturer that is rated for more than the maximum combined wattage of your components.

And "more" hear really should mean significantly more to have some buffer for peak power draw (which often is more than the rated power) because you are likely not forgetting some components (mainboard, connected USB devices, ...).

I just saw this thread. Thank you both for the tips, I will look into it!

Their drivers are quite good, the claims in this thread that they are flakey are rather bizarre and seem based on outdated information.

It's not bizarre. Driver issues with the 5000 series were widespread and widely reported. Hopefully the 6000 series doesn't have the same issues but who knows.

For whatever it’s worth it took a month or so for the 5700 XT drivers to be sorted but after that mine has been running with no troubles for over a year with a lot of different gaming and content creation workloads.

Same here. First month got daily black screens. After first update: only black screen in destiny 2. Next update. 0 issues that I’m aware of. No crashes.

For 3D video cards, I've gone from being a 3dfx diehard in the 90s, to Nvidia diehard, to AMD after they bought ATI, back to NV today. That's generally speaking, I've purchased and sold ATI cards and others in that time, and my list of GPUs is a long one. The end result? I do not have strong opinions on each brand. A hard truth is that too much changes over time to be brand loyal.

My most stable card was my Radeon 5870, I bought it on launch day and installed every single WHQL release on it that they ever produced. One game had an issue, but it also had the same issue on NV. I think I used that card daily for nearly 8 years.

I wouldn't worry about stability or crashing on a new Radeon card, but rather if the details about it meet what you need. How are you using it- CUDA, VR, 4K, etc. I still lean Nvidia but I wouldn't hesitate to purchase a 6800XT after looking into my particular needs.

Same thing applies to CPUs. You can't really go off benchmarks, you really would need to benchmark what you're doing with it to matter at all. If you can't afford to buy them all and test, then your use-case probably doesn't matter enough to even investigate, buy whatever suits you. For me, the 16GB included on these cards is very attractive but I'd need to do in-depth research on these new Radeons and their VR performance (which has tended to lean NV, but can improve over time) to make a final decision.

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 don't play a huge amount of games but I do have an AMD card and the games I have been playing have been fine stability wise.

I have an RX 5700 and can't remember the driver crashing, but as always YMMV

I had the green screen crash on my 5700XT a few months ago. They did a big stability release and its been fine since then.

I'm primary Linux user, but I run RX 580 in VM for gaming-only on Windows and in last 2 years it was really stable for me. I had much worse experience with older AMD GPUs and drivers.

Have old RX560 on few computers. CentOS and windows are running smoothly. I even played Falllot 4 on the low setting 4K. No crashes.