I Tried Radeon in 2024 to See How 'BAD' It Truly Is…

Radeon cards seem to get a lot of hate these days, with many still preferring NVIDIA for some bizarre reason. In this video, I test a Radeon card in 2024 to see if it deserves the criticism. From driver installation and the AMD Adrenalin software to gaming performance and value comparison with Nvidia, find out if Radeon is really that bad!

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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
00:56 - Choice of GPU
1:31 - DDU Wipe
2:16 - GPU Install
3:46 - The AMD Driver Installation Experience
4:53 - AMD Adrenalin Software
10:03 - The Cyberpunk Experience using Radeon
11:28 - Enabling AFMF in Cyberpunk
12:51 - Apex Legends on Radeon
14:01 - Forza Horizon 5 on Radeon...
14:49 - Turning on AFMF in Forza...
15:14 - Is Radeon as BAD as they say?
15:54 - Detailed Performance Analysis versus NVIDIA and Intel
17:14 - Final Thoughts and Conclusion
18:08 - Outro

[NowThatsPCGaming]

If you still say AMD drivers are horrible in 2024, you either have not recently used a AMD GPU, or you work for nvidia for free. I have an xtx, 7900 gre, while my wife has a 3070. We deal with nvidia drivers issues more (though not many) then the AMD drivers. With that being said, both drivers work great.

[BigTyronex]

i find nvidia drivers are worse than amd now. like why do i need to make an account to run geforce experience

[Superluffypirate]

sheeshh. I'm building a new pc with ryzen 5 7500f and 7700XT with was 76$ cheaper than 4060ti 16gb and i cant be more happier seeing the performance here, definitely went with the better choice <3

[CaptMorpheusZ]

I definetely had a better experience with Nvidia than AMD.
I had a 970, then a 1080, eventually a 3050 and upgraded to 6900xt with a good deal and emediatly got into some driver mess that AMD was struggling to fix (couldn't open adrenalin app)
Eventually people mentioned it was fixed after reinstalling windows, so I did and it did work...but that is just an awfull experience.

Then I had the issue that randomy after reboots my settings would reset from adrenalin, so I had to check adrenalin after every reboot if my settings was still as I wanted it.

Since I never had ANY issues with Nvidia, even though its more than I wanna spend, it's worth the better experience.

[SuperHeroKevin.]

AMD = More FPS per Dollar and more VRAM
NVIDIA = Upscale and 4090 is for RAY Trac

NVIDIA has most Fanboy

[clem]

It's your first AMD GPU, and you bought their 2nd worst card(6500xt 1st). No way this wasn't unintended.

[sc]

Fluid motion frames doesnt provide much values anymore ever since Lossless Scaling dropped a banger of an app for Frame generation.

[reviakung]

Bro for the blurry overlay disable the radeon boost

[PlasmaPLx]

Should I choose the RX 6800 for €400 or the 6750XT for €360?

[kecktus]

Good video but I think that the title "I Tried Radeon in 2024 to See How Bad It Truly Is…" is a bit unfair I must say. A more fair title would be "To see if its as bad as some say" or something.

[djlim]

great video, thx. been using Radeons since the HD4200 days (currently on a 6700XT and 5700XT), and honestly I don't understand the hoohaa about drivers. never had major issues with them, ever. AMD needs to reduce the pricing at their launches, as Nvidia had them cornered with features. I don't care at all about ray tracing, but i do envy Nvidia's DLSS tech. But overall, am very happy with Radeons and would stick with them through thick and thin. By the way, in this day and age a lot of people would misconstrued your video title. just a minor feedback. keep up the good work.

[KBDW]

Thing is. I tried 6800 just last week and man it was good with a lot of games but…what really made me go back to nvidia was amds shitty dx11 shader compilation. Games like valorant is a stutter mess on amd. For some reason amd driver down clocks in valorant as it’s cpu intensive game. Also I play siege and prefer dx11 ver over Vulcan as it looks better and it stutters in that too

[Vennnaya]

"To see how Bad it truly is" is rather unfair. Its never been Bad. Basically ever.
A more fair title would be "To see if its as bad as some say" or something.

[complexity]

NVidia is required by all the good 3D editing software and video editing software (and gaming developers). So developers are forced to use Nvidia. Gamers and crypto-guys can pick AMD or NVidia. AI and deep learning also requires NVidia. Its because NVidia has CUDA and its better for writing software and code for parallelization. AMD keeps lagging on creating good tooling and AMD also keeps creating those heat issue. Our last hope was when AMD told us they were going to make better cards in 2020, and they lied. They just don't have the good engineers and probably the circuit printer to manufacturer the cards. NVidia is deep with the USA gov't and Taiwan -- they specifically have special optical circuit printers for NVidia.

[hellguardian]

The rtx 4060 is better than the rx 7600 for just 30usd more. After that Amd beats Nvidia at all price points for value and raster performance. The 4060ti 8gb is the worst card of this generation just like how rtx 3050 8gb was for last gen.
Ngreedia needs to start giving more vram (less vram = planned obsolescence) and Amdolts need to price a bit more aggressively.

[ClappOnUpp]

I have a 3090 in my pc and a 6600m in my laptop. The 6600m is a beast. It runs everything at 1080p probably slightly better than the 3090 does that 4K and AMD adrenaline is definitely better than Nvidia control panel

[advancedcyclops]

So what do u recommend?? Rx 6600 or rx 7600??