I did about seven RMA’s since I bought my RX 7900 XTX Red Devil from PowerColor on March 2023 and every card came with a different problem.

First things first: All 7 out of 7 cards have slight Artifacting issues (rarely noticable on some occasions) and reached a whopping 90+ degree junction temp when the card is maxed out. This might still be acceptable, I thought. Maybe it has to do with the drivers, I thought.

About 4 out of 7 cards got Random Reboot issues in which the card is not stable enough to idle on stock settings and will randomly black out for a few seconds before triggering a hardware reset resulting in a system reboot. This is unacceptable and there is no excuse for this. Before you go ahead and blame me for not using a more powerful PSU let me make it quick for you.

An 850W 80 Plus Gold bequiet System Power 10 and a 1200W 80 Plus Gold (Pure Power 12 M from bequiet) were both incapable of preventing the card from crashing in idle. The other 3 cards were not having this issue!

If I put aside all of the countless software and driver issues causing screen flickering (including but not limited to AMDs Adrenaline Overlay flickering, bugging out etc.), ingame crashing/driver timeouts, stuttering (could be their drivers, could be their hardware or both, who knows), having 1/3 of the avg. FPS in 1% Lows…, etc., the card is unusable.

Take these into account and the card is still unusable.

This card just feels like an expensive tech demo rather than a working product.

Thought i should maybe upgrade for once, had a RTX 3060, bought a RX 9060 XT and this has been the biggest headache i ever had with any piece of hardware probably. Some games for some reason just run worse. VR and especially VR thru Steam VR runs like absolute shit, so thats lovely. Adrenalin software is filled with useless junk such as the fucking AI chat assistant that is being spammed everywhere and dumb hype words so you would try their junk ('Smart technology' and 'HYPR-RX' like what are we even doing here). Not to mention the 'Adrenalin' App itself fucking REFUSING TO OPEN if i have more than 1 monitor active like COME THE FUCK ON. I had high hopes in changing from Nvidia to AMD but this just feels like i was hope baited by a Linux guy to run Arch or something because allegedly its better, like why do i need to make a rocket engine to play a fucking game. So fucking dissapointed

Brb gonna ask my """AI assistant"""" to short circuit the GPU or something so i could ask for a warranty or something

It is currently 6 am and im stuck trying to figure out why Steam VR is crashing with this huge piece of plastic junk

Edit: 7am now and i have completely DDUd everything and now steamVR refuses to even launch

I am so fucking done with this piece of shit and no im not reinstalling my entire OS
Best thing i can do is probably switch back to nvidia before i grow fucking old troubleshooting this piece of shit

Tried every possible thing that I've read on this subreddit and cant seem to fix the timeout/crash thing, thanks for a full year of losing my mind AMD

So I delidded my 9800x3d with a delid die mate for ryzen 7000 and found some damage. Not sure if I caused it with my delid. Is that chip fried or is it fine to give it a try?

The 9070XT has been the worst gpu i've owned, after this I don't think i'll ever be returning to AMD, non stop crashing of every variety, adrenalin overlay can never decide when to actually overlay and when to take me to desktop instead to the use the app, bugs about the cursor vanishing due to overlay were reported for months and they didn't do anything to address it, alt-tabbing seems to just completely break most games. Every single reddit thread I find of 9070xt crashing involves some stupid suggestion that doesn't do anything "Check you PSU", "Clear the cache", "Re-install windows", "use ddu".

How can you write software that is this horrendously shit, for this many years? I thought we live in the golden age of AI and AMD can't vibe code better software? Insane.

This is my first AMD GPU, thankfully the guy at the microcenter told me about DDU, so I made sure to do that before installing.

However, after downloading and installing adrenaline, I got a pop up that I should be in "UEFI" mode or something like that, but it kept installing, and then my entire computer seemed to crash and restart in the middle of doing so automatically.

My bios and safe mode boots are now entirely messed up in both resolution and being green with messed up colors.

I've seen this just...happens to some people with AMD cards, and even after using the and utility clean up tool to uninstall the drivers and reinstall them (After navigating my BIOS to make sure I'm in that UEFI mode now) the BIOS and Safe mode still looks messed up.

However, I tried playing FFVII Rebirth on max settings and at 4k and it seemed to be playing almost flawlessly outside the high gpu load and the card running a little hot, so I think it's fine?

I've tried a few fixes I've seen around for the green BIOS but none have worked (adrenaline won't let me change the color profile, and as said uninstalling and reinstalling drivers didn't fix this) but I'm seeing a lot of people talk about getting lots of crashes for no reason still here, is there anything I should change to prevent issues from happening? I'm not someone that overclocks my stuff, or undervolts or whatever, I've never really messed with that kinda stuff.

I saw something about windows in particular messing with AMD GPU's unless I do something? Just kinda stressed and annoyed cus I never needed to worry about this stuff with my NVIDIA lol. Apologies for being a bit of an "In-depth" tech novice.

EDIT

The BIOS issue resolved itself the next day, automatically, somehow, and the card's been working fine, I was just worried seeing how many issues people keep talking about with my card in particular and wanted some reassurance, so far, everything seems to be fine. Thank you for the helpful and informative comments, I'd reply to them all if I had the time.

it has been a year now. Im planing to switch to 5080 once I saved up. I had a lot of hope for AMD This is just sad.

Computer Type: Desktop

GPU: Sapphire pure 9070 xt

CPU: RYZEN 7600x

Motherboard: ASUS B850 BTF W

RAM: 32 Vengance

PSU: rm850 corsair

Operating System & Version: win 11

GPU Drivers: 26.7.1

Just undervolt, lower the tdp, change the clock speed, mess with the registry, probably a power supply, do DDU for every driver update, be thankful AMD is affordable, etc, etc - Average AMD Sympathizer

Why is it hard for people here to simply admit "Yeah AMD drivers suck at times. We can only roll back drivers, hope and pray that our emails and crash reports reach their attention, so we can benefit from the latest update that fixes the previous problem."

People here have paid $100s of their slave labor money to buy a GPU, it isn't the consumer that should have to suffer the problems introduced by the company.

You paid 100% for the GPU, you are entitled to benefit 100% from that GPU you paid for. Call me a Karen but this acceptance behavior is what allows AMD to bully their consumers

People here probably come home tired from a 8-12 hour shift, and if it were me and seeing "Driver Crash" and spending 2 hours on reddit just for someone to tell me its my fault for not undervolting, underclocking, etc, etc is why AMD has a bad reputation in the first place.

Edit: Seriously, why is it the first thing people come up with here is that I am Nvidia shill? I would rather Nvidia crash and burn and Jenson goes back to being a dishwasher at dennys so that he can realize how overpriced his GPUs really were and how greedy it was to gatekeep dlss and fg.

It's uninstalling on every bootup undervolting my gpu and lowering my refresh rate to 60hz

Plz plz plz tell me there's a way to uninstall this shit and manually install any graphics driver that lets me use my fckn 165hz as it is

I swear to god it's so frustrating every time booting up ur pc and there no 165hz cuz adrenaline automatically shift my monitor to 60hz and and won't let it change me

Amd adrenaline alone made my life 10x miserable I can't find a job and now can't even use my specs anymore

First time AMD user (7800xt) purchased on Monday and here it is Wednesday and I have spent more time trying to fix stuff and “DirectX Error crashes”, “AMD Software detected that a driver timeout has occurred on your system” restarting my system uninstalling drivers DDU clean install new drivers now I’m just downloading “Driver Only”…this is so frustrating why can’t it just work like my Nvidia 3070 worked…I just wanted a lil more FPS…I don’t know what to do will I be able to play a game or will I get a error…is it like this for others? When it does play I love it’s giving me exactly what I want..all I play is COD and I have a 144hz 4K monitor that’s all want to be able to play at 7800xt is giving me those numbers when it does work but man am I frustrated…should I return the card?

AMD still hasn't addressed this decade old problem? Billion dollar company btw.
WHQL, MS Partner, Decade Long Relations, 6 figure Engineers, and the issue still persists

https://www.levels.fyi/companies/amd/salaries/hardware-engineer?country=254

When can AMD GPUs have a breakthrough like Ryzen for once? Ryzen is amazing!

I once had a 9060 XT Sapphire, same issues with driver timeouts and the AMD morons told me my ram and PSU were faulty, exchanged it for an Asus 9060xt, to have the same issue, only to be told I can't use MSI Afterburner, and I have to to reach rounds explained below.

My crappy GTX 1050 TI with a broken fan is more stable then AMD drivers, and that thing is from goodwill. Goodwill without any protections, just sitting on a shelf with a $50 price tag. While these cards come sealed and still give issues.

Never had to do TDR Delay, Undervolt, Underclock, or some weird work around that these copers use to justify senile behaviour from a billion dollar company

Now for my next prediction, someone with a 9060xt or a 9070xt will have a driver timeout in the next hour, and people will bombard them with what I just said.

Update 12/31/2025: I was right lmao https://www.reddit.com/r/AMDHelp/comments/1q07oyy/how_i_fixed_the_persistent_crashes_with_this_error/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

https://www.reddit.com/r/AMDHelp/comments/1pzjpea/i_dont_know_what_to_do_at_this_point/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

https://www.reddit.com/r/AMDHelp/comments/1pzqvez/rx9070xt_driver_timeouts_extensive_fixes_tried_im/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

AMD Responses I have gotten from this subreddit (AMD Response Handbook):

A) Billions of bandaids that don't work

B) Call you a moron, because you don't know computers

C) Never had an issue (secretly does but can't let his ego down)

D) Use Linux because Windows sucks (More Cope)

E) Call you an Nvidia Shill

Changed to a rx9070xt from 4060. Always been Nvidia except like 20 years ago and was such a Mission I went to Nvidia and never looked back. As. An I.T tech for 20 plus years I must say after full Ddu and everything (done properly) it was good for a day until first driver time out. Already know the fixes but it actually messed up windows so that nothing responded or just hung, could not even restart or shutdown. Guessing my Intel mobo with xmp tweaked, plus maybe bad windows updates but ye this shit ain't worth all the trouble to be honest. Plug Nvidia in and it works.

I don't care for the extra fps native if I have to deal with this. Should of gone 5070. Sounds like a moan and it is but I'll stick in and see if I can't get it all Perfect yet it was perfect until day 2 and a 2 hour stalker 2 session. Had to go to xmp normal and completely uninstall adrenaline for me to even launch a game.

Hello, I’ve just received the cpu, the AMD box had a little damage on the corner and inside the plastic support was strangely bended and broken on the other side. Indeed the processor was not hold properly at the center. I don’t get how that is possible, the sticker closing the box was intact so how can it be packaged like that ? I’m returning it for a new order.

I can use a browser with hardware acceleration because my pc crashes.

I can't play any video game without my pc crashing.

when I put in gtx 1080 or use an integrated GPU, I have no crashes, it's insane.

I've tried underclocking and fan control.

I'm thinking about buying 5070.

AMD has such idiotic incompetent software engineers that can't make a single decent driver. Always creating constant issues with crashing, black screening, driver timeouts, and many other issues. Their graphics cards would be amazing if only they'd hire people who actually know what they're doing when making a driver. And I get that even Nvidia can have bad drivers sometimes, but it's not even close. AMD driver issues are constant whereas Nvidia driver issues only happen on a tiny amount of occasions. It's just so incredibly stupid.

I was getting weird frame rate issues in certain games (usually ones with invasive anticheat), after trying a million different things, out of desperation I put in some Windows Feedback reports.
About a week later, I get a windows update with a screen I'd never seen before "Do not turn off your computer, windows is updating hardware" (black with white text and spinning dots).
Now I'm another victim of all this constant black screen garbage, I can't believe how prolific this problem is, and how it seems to be unaddressed.

What on earth is going on?

On a more practical note, how do I view the right logs to actually see why its crashing?

My suspicions are:
my motherboard is just slightly too old for the TPM to be compatible with whatever the heck MS is trying to do
there's been an undetected round of malware that's come though Adrenalin, Anticheat hijacking or what not, and we all have slackware (at one point flashing my video bios fixed it for a few weeks, but then the crash happened during gaming and its back)
Microsoft are basically falling apart at the seams and are pushing bad drivers/bios/updates to get everyone on 11 so they can stop spending billions patching their sieve of an operating system and make it all TPM manufacturers responsibility

Idk man its all speculation, I just want this stuff to work like it did a few months ago

Missing cpu pin upon arrival?

When I received my r7 5700x I immediately tried to boot my pc with it but to no avail it hadn’t started, motherboard turned on but no post, tried with an old different cpu and low and behold it posted and worked, however due to this being brand new it has warranty but amd state no returns or refunds for missing pins even though it was missing on arrival!

To clarify: I inspected before use and saw a missing pin, I chat gptd it and it said it was a useless pin but it turns out it was one of the most important ones…!

Hey everyone,

I’m running a 9800X3D with a be quiet! Light Loop 360mm AIO (top-mounted), 3 side intake fans, and 1 rear exhaust. All fans are on the default Gigabyte BIOS profile (not low RPM). Ambient temps are around 22°C.

At idle, my core temps sit around 26°C, but IO die, CCD, and hotspot temps are much higher—around 50°C. On first boot, the CPU idles at ~47°C, but after light browsing or gaming, it never drops below 50°C again, even after closing all background apps and letting the PC sit.

I’ve already repasted the CPU with Arctic MX-6 (pea-sized method), and thoroughly cleaned the CPU and cold plate using the included wipes. I’ve been going crazy repeatedly double-checking my cooling setup, fan placement, and BIOS settings—nothing looks wrong physically or in firmware.

Could this be a bad bin, or is this just how the 9800X3D behaves?

Specs:

• Gigabyte X870E AORUS Elite WiFi 7

• Ryzen 7 9800X3D

• Gigabyte Gaming OC RTX 5070 Ti

• Samsung 990 Pro 2TB NVMe SSD

• Corsair RM1000x PSU

• be quiet! Light Loop 360mm AIO

• iBUYPOWER Element 9 Pro case

Would appreciate any help or insights!

Previously: https://www.reddit.com/r/AMDHelp/s/m37XB5YuI4

So here I am, I bought a 5600 today to see whether my mobo or cpu is dead Turn out I was right that the CPU is dead, seems the short circuit in my house killed it somehow First part of the vid is the dead Ryzen 3600 and the second part is the new Ryzen 5600

hello

i see too many posts about lag,stuttring,random shutdown or blackscreen its has to be amd gpu or adrenaline driver issues

im new to amd i switched to amd gpu rx 9070 xt pulse 2 months ago its seem fine to me except bf6 menu artifacts only in menu(fix need to disable instant replay but i need it)

anything else is fine temps at 100% usage max is 55c with 1500rpm fan also im at last driver 26.1.1

im at -10pwr cause my psu 750w planning to upgrade to 1000w soon

is that true that amd gpu is more problematic that nivida or the drivers is bad?

Hello everyone,

I apologize in advance for the very long post, I will put a TLDR version at the bottom but thanks in advance for any suggestions you have.

I bought a computer a little over a year and a half ago from CyberPower PC. Well I originally got an:

i-9 13900 K with 360 M Liquid cooling, Asus Prime Z790-P Wifi Mother board, Asus Tuff Gaming 4080 (non super), 2 T-Force 16 GB 6000 CL30 Ram sticks, 2 WD_BLACK 2TB SN850X SSD drives and 7 (counting the liquid cooler but not the GPU) fans with CORSAIR 5000X and later added a 4 TB WD BLACK same model as well.

The first few months it was fine but quickly I started experiencing the dreaded intel problems. Well long story short, I stayed up to date on the intel bios updates and all of the stuff with that, but eventually it would just crash on some games and had trouble booting. I ended up rma'ing it for a 14900K and although I made sure to update bios it still had some problems like crashing on Fortnite and then I eventually got one more rma of a 14900K back in November but occassionally still had problems. However my performance as far as frame rate was still better than my new build.

Well last year during black Friday and also in January I decided to "upgrade" my set up after 2 of my ram slots on my motherboard stopped working after the rma and I wanted to be able to play all of the games and I was tired of working around the instability problems and everyone raves about how amazing the 9800 X3D. I bought some new parts:

9800X3D with new ARTIC liquid 360 amd cooler, ROG STRIX B650E-F GAMING WIFI motherboard, Same GPU, 2 32 GB Corsair Vengence 6000 CL 30, new (Both AMD and Intel compatible), same storage and everything else except 2 additional fans (used some from the old liquid cooler).

Also on both setups I play(ed) on a 34" LG 34GS95QE ultrawide 1440 p OLED Monitor for gaming and a 27" MSI Optix MAG274QRF-QD on the side for discord/internet.

Well I paid some guy to install everything but he wasn't able to come until last month and he had to go after it booted to Windows. We did make sure to wipe the Boot drive and do a fresh install of Windows when we started. I had also updated bios as well before. Well he had to go but things were still having problems. The wifi at first wasn't working but I solved that.and everything but it was still having problems.

Well after installing graphics drivers, chipset drivers, making sure expo is enabled, resizable bar enabled, windows is up to date, and all the neccessary programs and games. I tried some games to my disappointment, pretty much almost all of my games so far have been about 20 - 25% worse fps plus also taking several seconds to load some textures, and yes I double checked all my settings in the games to make sure they are the same.

For sake of simplicity just assume that every game runs on DX12 if it has it, and also the games I play that I choose to play on max settings (so usually GPU bound), DLSS Quality on, No Frame Generation and V Sync on also no motion blur and games like Fortnite even with Ray Tracing on. At worst if the game is GPU bottlenecked you would think they would be comparable give or take a few fps but on paper you would think if CPU limited then it would be even better than before as 9800 X3D is supposed to be the best gaming CPU but as I said it's getting 20 - 25% worse frames in games like Marvel Rivals, Naraka Bladepoint, and even stutters in games like Age Of Empires 3. It even crashes in Fortnite still and Marvel Rivals and I never had problems with Marvel Rivals Crashing.

I have tried reinstalling drivers, messing with more bios settings, enabling secure boot, looked at C-state, made sure Nvidia drivers were up to date (even tried old ones), tried DDU to redo drivers and other things as well. I checked GPU Z and HW info 64 and my temps are fine as well. I'm honestly at a loss. Can someone please help me? I don't know what else to do but since I bought the parts a few months ago I can't return them. Any advice is appreciated.

TLDR: Swapped from Intel 14900K to AMD 9800 X3D and am getting in a lot of games about 20 - 25% worse frames, random stutters and crashes that I wasn't getting nearly as much before. Tried troubleshooting it with the steps from above 2 paragraphs and can't get even near same performance and need help.

I've had this issue since I got my new PC (built it myself). Basically, if I turn vsync in game on a at 60hz, which is sometimes the max a game can run, , I get stutters every second. They are marked as 1.7% stutters, and 30fps 1% lows. If I disable vsync, it fixes the stutters, but I get horrible screen tearing that freesync does not fix.

I've tried everything at this point...

-Used ddu and uninstalled drivers -Updated chipset drivers -Reinstalled windows 11 -Tried different combinations of vsync and freesync. -Capping fps using external sources like RTSS. -Disabling Bluetooth and Wifi drivers. -Changing monitors -Disabling integrated graphics. -EXPO is enabled btw. -Done stuff with the registry editor to no avail.

PC specs: 9600x, 9070xt, 6000mhz cl36 ram, 750w psu, 1 tb hdblack nvme gen4 ssd.

At this point I'm thinking of reselling the whole pc cause I'm tired of having issues in most games I play. Let's see if we can find a solution together.