Not as big of a nuissance, a reboot fixed that every time. The only other issue we've encountered at some point is the green or pink screen bug after installing new drivers, though I haven't seen that one for at least the last few driver updates. I was able to load back into Windows 10 normally, clean installed the driver, and after that I never saw the issue again. Then I used the Display Driver Uninstaller tool (DDU) to remove the bad driver install. The fix was to hard reboot until it prompted me to load Windows into safe-mode. My issue was seen when updating the display driver, after a reset the Windows desktop wasn't seen again, I was instead presented with a blank screen every time Windows loaded.

We're not even sure if it's the same 'black screen bug' people are complaining about, or if the two are even related. Around 4-5 months ago I ran into the black screen bug once. I should preface this by saying we haven't run into any major issues after countless hours of testing new Radeon GPUs in our labs. We've received countless reports of crashing, flickering issues, and of course, the black screen bug.

AMD, on the other hand, has had seven months to sort out Navi, and by the looks of it, they just haven't been able to deliver. Nvidia went through a fair share of teething issues with Turing, but we think it's fair to say they went on top of any major issues very quickly.

Typically we like to give both AMD and Nvidia a few months to iron out bugs when releasing a new GPU series, especially when they're based on a new or mostly new architecture, as was the case with Turing and Navi. We've already reached out to AMD for a statement and they have responded and we'll cover that towards the end of this article.Īt this point it's no secret AMD is struggling to iron out some driver related issues with their Radeon RX 5000 GPUs.

As I planned and was beginning to run our next big graphics card benchmark test, I felt I had to shift gears to discuss AMD's driver woes after a recent poll we ran on the community.

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