Originally Posted by
potis
I dont know man, as someone that builds lots of PCs for generally people on a budget, which means very often, have to go for VFM instead of the actually best option for them i can definitely say that AMD has a lot of issues.
There was a period was example i only put R9 280X for everyone because the price was absurdly low in our country, realistically, 3 years after most if not all of them had issues and had to be replaced, all models, Sapphire, XFX, all simply started having issues, black screens, usual dying VRAM, etc.
My own personal experience, i bought a 5850, BSOD out of the box, if i recall that model had major undervolting issues one of their batches, the shop literally sent them all back, and 5 years later, when i went to buy a R9 270X for a family member, BSOD right after the drivers cause of overvolting issues on that Sapphire model, both times went back, got a 8800GT and a 760 on the next one.
Or the 5700XT issues that appeared 6 months ago, they are plaguing a few models, while some others (more expensive options) seem to not have any.
So, as someone with half a brain, i know all these hardware faults arent exactly AMD, cause Nvidia cards at time have some same issues (Had a Palit batch of 960s with voltage issues as example) which simply means its the reselling companies fucking up, probably cheapening out on components or terrible voltage scaling when combined with the drivers and not the GPU manufacturer.
But the driver issues are 100% legit in favor of Nvidia and they are much more stable on a decent, well taken care off PC.
So, personal experience of 12 years of dealing with this shit? Stay away from AMD if you can afford it, but its literal RNG what problems you might have.