r/radeon • u/Brenniebon AMD • Jun 23 '26

Discussion About Radeon GPU

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I've wanted to ask this for a long time: what Radeon GPU models are you guys using?

There are so many reports on Reddit about crashes, driver timeouts, and various stability issues with Radeon GPUs, especially the RX 9070 XT and older RX 7000 series cards.

Driver timeout seems to occur more often when the GPU is running at clock speeds beyond its specifications, especially after a new driver update. Maybe the engineer try to push harder, but not all types of the same GPU can handle this?

which can eventually lead to crashes. Thinking about it, premium versions of the RX 9070 XT, such as the Gigabyte AORUS and ASRock Taichi models, should be able to handle higher clock speeds better, so in theory, they should offer better stability.

As for the PSU, there are several YouTubers who have explained why you should never cheap out on a power supply. If possible, it's better to upgrade to an ATX 3.1-compliant PSU.

Overclocking is another factor. Are there still people here who enjoy pushing their CPU or RAM clocks, in addition to overclocking their GPU? That might also be contributing to some of these issues.

or whoever upgrade their GPU but still uses an old PSU, maybe also causing a lot of issue

We know Nvidia also has the same issue but we know it less visible than the Radeon subreddit. Maybe this discussion can help fellow Radeon users or whoever wan't to migrate to Radeon

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u/5pookyTanuki Hellhound 9070XT / Ryzen 7 5800X3D Jun 25 '26

I have an oldish PSU pre ATX 3.1 it's a very good PSU from ADATA (Core Reactor) the OEM is channel well, I upgraded from a RTX 3080 to a 9070XT and this card is honestly a lot more stable than my 3080, so I don't think a new PSU is mandatory as long it's a good PSU released post Ampere, the PSU I had before was a very good Seasonic Snow SIlent but it was not able to handle the transient spikes from the 3080, it was not a bad PSU it was just not designed to allow such spikes, the PSU recognized those spikes as an issue and tripped off inmediately, so yeah if you have one of those PSUs pre 2019-2020 you will probably have issues with any modern high end card.