So I've got a good deal on a Sapphire Nitro+ 7900XT and decided to upgrade from my 6750xt. Prior to this upgrade I've never had any issues with the drivers or any games. While performing normal tasks like browsing the web or watching youtube etc. there is no issue, however, once I boot up and play a somewhat demanding game the drivers crash. I manage to play for about 10 minutes to an hour before drivers crash unexpectedly. I stress tested the gpu using furmark and heaven benchmark and I've had no issue during the tests. CS2 is one of the only games that doesn't crash my drivers at all. I've pretty much done most of the fixes that I've seen online but to no avail. There are no stuters or anything else, my game just freezes for 3 seconds, my screen goes black and then there is the driver timeout.
* My gpu has 3 separate pcie cables.
* Tried undervolting
* I've ran DDU and installed different versions of the drivers.
* Played around with XMP
My specs:
CPU: R7 5800X
RAM: 4x8GB 3600MHz DDR4 Corsair Vengeance
MOBO: Asus B550 F-GAMING
GPU: Sapphire Nitro+ 7900XT
PSU: Corsair RM1000e
Resolution: 2560x1440 at 165Hz
I've got no temperature issues on both my cpu and gpu, everything runs well and the pc is cooled properly. The current version of drivers I'm on are 25.2.1.
To rma just seems like a very big hassle since they are not making this particular model anymore and that I got it at £700 when it was on sale and now the price for a Sapphire Nitro+ is around £840-£899. That’s if you do find it in stock. There are other options i could seek, like rma’ing the 7900xt and waiting to buy a 9000 series with the refund money, however scalpers and bots will be the end of me. Or just wait for new adrenalin patch around the release date of the 9000 series, since this issue is quite common for people with XT(X)s and I doubt AMD will just ignore finding a solution, because they’ve already acknowledged the problem to the public, whether they are addressing the issue I’m not sure. Based on some research I did, I saw that this mainly driver issue is because of some aggressive power saving technique AMD implemented in their drivers but that would be contradictory to me rolling back my drivers and the issue still persisting, so I’m not sure.
