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1.0 out of 5 starsConstant crashes. Runs very hot.
Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2020
I'll start with a caveat: It's difficult to tell if my card was actually faulty, or this is just the way the Radeon VII is. Considering the symptoms I was experiencing are commonly reported by many people on the internet, I lean towards this just being a "too good to be true" deal, and these cards just not performing well in general.
I purchased it because I thought 16gb for $500 was a fantastic deal!
Unfortunately, my completely new PC would freeze and crash repeatedly.
It would crash when I was streaming on twitch.
It would crash when I was playing games as old as L4D2, or as new as Division 2.
It would crash when I was doing almost nothing particularly taxing.
The L4D2 crashing issue seemed directly related to the anti-lag feature being turned on. Crashing stopped while playing that game as soon as I turned that feature off, and I guess I just had to suffer that 1fps difference. Woe me.
But crashing continued in all other scenarios, for 2-3 weeks. Drivers updated, completely removed, updated again, various solutions from around the internet followed... to no avail.
Heat-wise, card was running at 80+F general GPU temp, and ~112F junction temp. While this is supposedly within spec for this card, all that heat being spewed into my case certainly didn't didn't seem like it was helping anything.
I finally had enough, installed a GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 2070 , and returned the Radeon VII.
2 weeks now on the GeForce and not a single crash. Nothing else was changed.
