Amd radeon drivers: stability issues continue

Despite the fact that AMD is doing its best to optimize its Radeon controllers as much as possible, stability problems are still detected in them. We are talking about black screens, flickering, artifacts in games, downclocking on some models. In short, stability problems that somehow alienate players from this platform.

Black screen issues with AMD Radeon drivers

One of the most frequently reported problems by users in AMD threads is the black screen problem. This problem does not arise for a specific reason, but randomly with random cards when playing and installing the driver. We have eventually experienced this black screen in certain games like Metro Exodus during testing. We thought that it was due to being models still little tested, but it seems that they still occur on cards with almost 8 months of life.

In fact in some cases (we include ourselves) we have also seen green screens on some models of the RX 5600 XT, and other users report the same. This may be due to memory overheating, which would make sense considering they've gone up from 12 to 14 Gbps. The problem could appear when the GDDR6 exceed the threshold of 100 ^o C, something not very common if the cooling is adequate, so we recommend visiting our analyzes where we also review the cooling of each model. For example Asus was one of the manufacturers who reviewed their RX 5700 and 5700 XT O8G for this issue.

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What does AMD say about this? Well, in one of the statements he claims to have solved these black screen problems. In fact there are still users reporting problems not only on the Navi, but also on previous Polaris and Vega architectures.

Other installation and downclocking issues

The second most common problem is a wrong driver installation. In our experience, the first thing we should do is avoid installing trial versions, and the second and very important thing is to uninstall the previous version before installing the latest version. We too have experienced this problem after updating to previous versions. What we should do is pass the DDU tool to completely remove the drivers and do a clean installation.

Downclocking occurs when the GPU is unable to reach the frequencies for which it is designed. We are quite clear that these graphics cards are already very squeezed from the factory, judging by the lack of overclocking capacity that they show in our analysis. But in some cases they are not able to reach the specified clock, for example the 1770 MHz in an RX 5600 XT remain at about 1650 MHz.

Faced with these and more errors, it is the community itself that provides certain more or less effective solutions that work for some and others do not. But the responsibility in any case must fall directly on AMD, since it is their developers who must fine-tune these drivers. The manufacturer has already spoken on its own blog reporting that they are investigating all reported problems.

Nvidia has not been spared the errors in the launch of new graphics cards either, but the developers manage to eliminate these with greater solvency and speed. This does not prevent the fight between the two graphics card giants from being quite interesting today. Of course, it benefits us, with a notable decrease in prices in Nvidia's GPUs to compete with the large market share that AMD has taken, something that had not happened in a long time.

Let's trust AMD to solve these problems in the AMD Radeon controllers, because if we spend more than 300 euros on a GPU, it is so that it works stably and with the maximum guarantees.

Have you experienced problems of this type if you have an AMD card? Tell us about these or other problems you have had.