Any current issues with 6900XT ?

[crotach]

Hi folks,

 

I'm looking to upgrade my graphics card, I currently run a RTX2070S, and there are good deals to be had on 6900XT. 

I'd like to know if the poor driver issues that every review was mentioning at launch have been resolved and if AMD/ATI is in a happy state right now, or should I rather go for RTX3080?

 

I use watercooling, mainly for noise reduction, and I can get a watercooled 6900XT for a bit less than an aircooled 3080. After adding in a waterblock, it brings the price to about 30% more than AMD/ATI side.

The rest of the setup is X470 and Ryzen 3900X. 

 

Thanks!

[--SID--]

1 minute ago, crotach said:

The rest of the setup is X470 and Ryzen 3900X

Brand and model of the PSU?

[ZetZet]

As far as I know they are pretty good, no hot GDDR6X memory issues like on Nvidia's top cards.

[crotach]

24 minutes ago, --SID-- said:

Brand and model of the PSU?

SeaSonic Prime TX-850

[Morgan MLGman]

I run a 6900 XT reference model and its been nothing but great. It's quite a bit faster than a 3080, besides ray tracing it's on par with the 3090.

[merco]

I had a lot of driver issues and crashes throughout 2020, but it has been stable for about a year (5600xt), some of them were also related to bad RAM. I recently upgraded to a 6700xt and it is stable, I never had any problems with it. Can't speak to the 6900xt but I'd guess in most cases it should be fine as well. If you want to see known issues that are not resolved yet, you can read the driver patch notes.

 

recommended: https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/release-notes/rn-rad-win-22-5-1

 

[crotach]

It just went up by 100 euro freedom units, guess i'll have to wait

[Ralf]

There shouldn't be any problems with it aside from coil whine on some models.

 

And ATI was consumed(in 2006, they ceased using the ATI brand name since 2010) by eternal glory AMD so you should correct your post to glorious AMD.

[crotach]

I have coil whine on 2070S, so no news there. I doubt it can be any worse to be honest

[Morgan MLGman]

On 10/16/2022 at 9:49 PM, crotach said:

I have coil whine on 2070S, so no news there. I doubt it can be any worse to be honest

Coil whine affects any card that draws upwards of 200W realistically, doesn't matter if it's Nvidia or AMD. RX 6900 XT has 300W TDP so some coil whine is generally expected. My unit mainly does it in very high-FPS situations like a 500FPS game menu, but besides that during normal gaming it's not a problem on my reference AMD model.
Some units have it better, some have it worse, some are just quirky combinations - for instance for some people the solution to their coil whine problem was changing the PSU to a different model or the motherboard. So it's a combination of more than just GPU alone. Nothing you can really do to prevent it, getting a more expensive AIB model doesn't affect coil whine.

Keep in mind that the 3900X may slightly bottleneck the 6900 XT in some games, unless you're running a 4K monitor. I tried a 3700X with it and at 1440p games like AC Odyssey or Shadow of the Tomb Raider showed a noticeable improvement when I switched to the 5800X. Still, it's a difference between like 120 or 140FPS, so without an FPS counter you'd barely be able to tell. But the 3900X should generally be more than enough for majority of titles.

[Sarra]

I have a 6800XT. I was planning on a second machine with an A770, 6700, or 6700XT, but now I'm tempted to grab a 6900XT or 6950XT and put the 6800XT in the second machine.

 

I've really loved my 6800XT, it's been all the card I've needed or even wanted. I was using a 3900XT with my 6800XT at first, but I went with a 5950X for rendering, and I actually got a slight performance boost or drop, depending on the game, from the change. I think a 5800X3D and a 6900XT/6950XT combo would be pretty much unbeatable, but to each their own.