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Anything to help them take on Nvidia and stay competitive is a good move. However, I wish they would also announce a recommitment to driver and software stability. I had to move to Nvidia for my workstation rig after having constant stability issues with numerous AMD cards across multiple builds. I can handle a few rough edges or performance that isn't top-of-the-line but I can't put up with constant crashes ad driver timeout errors. It's annoying in games and devastating when I'm working.
I wish their GPU line received even a portion of the polish and care that their CPU line did.
The annoying part is their drivers are stable....sometimes.
Its an endless game of seeing if any specific version is broken in a way that annoys you and rolling back if you find an issue.
Not exactly a premium experience.
Even on Linux where their drivers are supposed to be better, my 7900XTX has been crashing randomly for at least a month and it was only fixed in the latest 6.10.9 kernel release yesterday.
Yeah I've heard the 'AMD drivers are better!' thing for Linux and have always been confused since I've had no issues with nVidia cards on Linux or Windows related to driver issues.
AMD stuff on the other hand, has been a mess non stop, except for my ROG Ally for some reason which is fine?
In short: computers suck and are unpredictable, or something.