MSI Gaming Radeon RX 6900 XT 16GB GDDR6 PCI Express 4.0 Video Card RX 6900 XT Gaming X Trio 16G $678.4

I tried this card. I had zero driver issues (a few days). I did return it though because while before i bought it i didn't know about the hot spot issues, but they were real for me. i was running at 100c.

Otherwise though i was really impressed with the amd drivers. I had no crashes. I was messing with lowering the power limit of the card a lot (clearly) it wasn't always intuitive, but i got used to it (i lost my settings a couple of times) to be fully honest, but other than that I actually think i like the client application better than Nvidias, and i didn't feel like it was a bad experience. My issue was the cooler, and normally i'm a bit of an MSI fan at least as far as never having an issue and i own two other cards and a motherboard from them.

this one like i mentioned though a couple of places i think the cold plate is an issue. I had zero knowledge of that problem until i saw it. I was really surprised to see a problem like this so late in the cycle. You'd think they have worked that out. Before i returned it there isn't much you can do in terms of after market cooling either.

However other than that i think the experience was so good i'm probably going to try to pick up either a different brand of this one when the prices drop more, or wait for the new ones since it's november now, or used is looking better to me as the mining stuff is coming in finally. Though i still think people on ebay are asking way too much for a used card.

Don't hold. Avoid.

I somewhat agree with this. for those that really want to hurt the companies raking everyone over the coals, go buy a used card off eBay. every used card purchased will hurt more than a new card sold at a lower price.

I somewhat agree with this. for those that really want to hurt the companies raking everyone over the coals, go buy a used card off eBay. every used card purchased will hurt more than a new card sold at a lower price.

If you haven't seen it this is the new pricing per AMD

New MSRPOld MSRP

RX 6950 XT$949$1,099
RX 6900 XT$699$999
RX 6800 XT$599$649
RX 6800$549$579
RX 6750 XT$419$549
RX 6700 XT$379$479
RX 6650 XT$299$399
RX 6600$239$379
RX 6500 XT 4GB$169$199
RX 6400$149$159

What amazes me out of AND's new prices is they STILL want $169 for the craptacular 6500XT! That is a $100 max card, and that's being generous.

Holding bois. Holding. Learned to live without a high end gpu this long might as well wait until I get a killer deal.

This is my biggest fear switching to AMD Gpus. Poor drivers and not being able to play my games with the limited time I have.

I have both. I like Nvidia GPU's. AMD drivers are better, zero contest and have been for awhile because of consoles. I have to rollback to old drivers and fiddle all the time to get games to play right. My Gf's and my son's AMD rigs never have these issues and are smooth as butter.

Nvidia has good support and fixes problems reliably and is never as bad as Amd was 12 years ago.... But Nvidia drivers have been a bit of a circus for awhile. Only the most rabid Nvidia zealots push the AMD drivers have trouble with everything narrative.

Last note, you never, ever ever ever swap from an Nvidia card to an AMD card without doing a complete scorched Earth fresh install. Nvidia always has and always will, Play dirty and you WILL have problems if you don't do a complete wipe and fresh install.

I never thought about this. What program do you use to wipe the nvidia drivers?

I never thought about this. What program do you use to wipe the nvidia drivers?

This is my biggest fear switching to AMD Gpus. Poor drivers and not being able to play my games with the limited time I have.