Does Powercolour have a "reputation"?

[Vulkan HeStan]

I've heard that brands like Zotac have a negative reputation in terms of reliability, and I'm wondering if Powercolour have the same sort of reputation, or are considered higher quality, or even just "ok" cards

[Tegneren]

Powercolour in general has a good reputation, with the Red Devil series often being best in class for the different gpu tiers

[Aphala]

They're popular but it depends on where you live.

 

EU and the eastern board they seem to be a more widely known brand but not so much in the US but they cards are always good and as Tegneren said the Red Devil series is very good (basically EVGA Kingpin / FTW3 tier in terms of premium cards).

[ckinfos]

powercolor has a serious name in the market. It may not be so popular in EU for example because in my country you cant find it easily, but globally they are good tested and not malfunctioning easily. other than problems of the software drivers issues , which many people blame the brands for that and not the drivers for the problems, you will not have. The materials are good but offcourse the pricier the better at these products...i mean for powercolor dragon vs red devils.

[DoctorNick]

Powercolor is great actually. Had some cards from them and never had any issues whatsoever. For some reason, they have also been solid overclockers every time. I don't have any experience with them past GTX 200 series though

[JoostinOnline]

Don't pay any attention to the brand. Pay attention to the product. Pretty much every brand has good and bad products.

[xg32]

zotac isn't even that bad, gigabyte had a whole batch of v56 that was defective, msi scalps, and 2 of 3 cards popped on me was sapphire, from what i've seen power color's great.

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

Had a powercolor card blew itself and warranty rejected. Its one of those brands where its good when the product works.

Swore them off ever since 

[Mister Woof]

They all poop out turds and they all have moments of poor CS

 

Judge each individual model by reviews, and hope your sample doesn't suck, and hope if it does, your CS experience is good.

 

I really have lowered my expectation to be almost zero these days. 

[Guest]

PowerColor has been around a while and generally viewed as the budget brand much like Palit. 

 

The list of more popular brands would have them under...

 

ASUS

GIGABYTE

MSI

EVGA

NVIDIA

and everything else would be under the above, but above not in any special order. 

 

Most of the powercolor and Palit cards are not known for good overclocking, so they are not super popular even in the competitive oc world.

 

Also, these manufacturers don't typically buy into binned chips when founders edition and kingpin cards usually have the highest out of box clocks.

[frozensun]

Dude, powercolor makes cards back in 90s.

Ofc it's good better then XFX.

Also brands like palit gainward...

So I'd always trust them.

[GamerDude]

2 hours ago, ShrimpBrime said:

PowerColor has been around a while and generally viewed as the budget brand much like Palit. 

I pretty much ignored whatever you had to say after reading this. 

 

PowerColor, Sapphire and XFX make AMD cards exclusively, they have budget to top tier range. Are the big three, GB/Asus/MSI, better? Not in my opinion, they can be more expensive, but that doesn't necessarily make them better. 

 

When it comes to AMD cards, I'd take Sapphire and PowerColor, even XFX, over any of the big three. To prove I ain't just mouthing off, I put my money where my mouth is. I'm a proud owner of a PowerColor Vega 64 Red Devil, and a Sapphire Nitro+ RX 6900 XT. I'd have been just as happy if I had gotten a PowerColor Red Devil RX 6900 XT, or an XFX MERC319 RX 6900 XT. 

[Guest]

38 minutes ago, GamerDude said:

I pretty much ignored whatever you had to say after reading this. 

 

PowerColor, Sapphire and XFX make AMD cards exclusively, they have budget to top tier range. Are the big three, GB/Asus/MSI, better? Not in my opinion, they can be more expensive, but that doesn't necessarily make them better. 

 

When it comes to AMD cards, I'd take Sapphire and PowerColor, even XFX, over any of the big three. To prove I ain't just mouthing off, I put my money where my mouth is. I'm a proud owner of a PowerColor Vega 64 Red Devil, and a Sapphire Nitro+ RX 6900 XT. I'd have been just as happy if I had gotten a PowerColor Red Devil RX 6900 XT, or an XFX MERC319 RX 6900 XT. 

Depends on how you would classify "better" over more popular where I was exclaiming popularity over "better" however you'd like to describe that in your own opinion, and that's great!!

 

I've had plenty of AMD cards, my favorite in particular was a 4850x2 which I should have never sold (years ago), but I think for overclocking, the MSI cards with ATI/AMD chips seemed a little more robust in my opinion.