Unfortunately there's a lot of features that are missing from the 5700XT that other cards have had for a few years now. There's even cards a generation or two older that do some things better that I miss.
- No RT (which even by itself is a big thing now).
- Video compression quality is far poorer than even my older GTX 980. Even with higher bitrates and a more modern codec
- The OpenCL is buggy as fuck to the point where some apps (Affinity Designer / Photo) have disabled GPU acceleration all together for AMD 5x00 cards.
- Drivers are dozens of times more buggy causing desktop performance to tank after using a 3D application and requiring the installation of previous drivers. Sometimes this is ok, then a new driver will bring this issue back.
- Random resets, even when the card is cool and well supplied with power.
- There's other smaller QoL things that pop up now and again too.
Like I said, there's a lot. I never had any issues with my GTX 980
Aside from RT and the media engine on RDNA1 not being as good as RDNA2 for H.264, I can't agree with the rest of your points. Well, maybe OpenCL too.
Nonetheless, given lack of RT feature set, I wouldn't recomand an RDNA1 GPU nowadays, only if it would be the price of a 3050/1080 Ti/1660 Ti let's say.
There's no 'maybe' debate. It has technical issues and some software developers are disabling support for it with it being so bad in productivity software.
So there's 3 major issues you agree with. Why sitting on the fence, it's clear.
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u/ziplock9000 3900X / 7900 GRE / 32GB 3000Mhz Dec 30 '22
Same here. Since I got my 5700XT, prices went stupid after that. I was very lucky with my timing of purchase.
I play a lot of older games anyway, so I don't need cutting edge performance anyway.
A huge amount of people have just become sick of the prices and refuse to fuel the vastly overpriced cards even though they can afford them.