And im sure X person will chime in and tell you they have no problems with their RTX 5000. And yet you just callem them "a mess". Based on what? Do you have any actual study conducted on stability of drivers between amd and nvidia? Have you even used an RTX 5xxx?
Repeating the same stuff ad nauseum. Thats the whole reason these kinds of videos exist. Cause people exactly like you hate nvidia and so content creators are just posting anti nvidia crap to milk you. Its called clickbait.
Where are the articles the videos and the reports about melted 9070xts? Let me guess, sapphire managed to fix the 12vh cable and so the sapphire 9070xt doesnt melt, amiright?
Sure sure, no problem, it's nvidias fault if the 9070xt using 12vh are burning. My question is, where are the reports, news articles, reddit posts and youtube videos about the burning 9070xts? Or the 12vh is safe now?
Dude, wrap it up already. Even users here on TPU reported problems with RTX 5000 series. (In this thread for example: Chomiq.)
As for 12V2x6 pin, not it's not safe. Sapphire and ASrock cards are lower TBP cards, they require less current to be delivered to them.
Though this does not save them from facing issue when current is distributed unevenly.
Give it some time and I'm sure we'll hear about connector problems on Sapphire Nitro and ASRock Taichi cards.
More people have driver issues with RTX 5000 cards than have users of RX 9000 cards. Worse thing is: RTX 5000 cards driver issues are more serious - they affect system stability.
Nvidia fucked up something with RTX 5000 series pretty good. It was obvious from the first time when even reviewers encountered issues when testing RTX 5090 and 5080.
They suspected PCIe 5.0 implementation to be a culprit, because when they switched link speed to 4.0, problems were mitigated. Nvidia blamed motherboard makers.
The reality is: no RX 9000 card required mobo BIOS update or any sort of PCIe 5.0 problem mitigation. PCIe 5.0 was simply not problematic on RX series. This actually says a lot.
Then the issues with drivers started emerging more and more as Nvidia kept trying to fix compatibility issues.
Many new drivers broke things for older RTX cards (specifically RTX 3000 and 4000 series). You can find users reporting problems in TPU particular news post about new drivers.
Don't tell me to go read some Reddit posts. I've been through Nvidia's own forums multiple times. I'm telling you to go directly to Nvidia's own forums.
And so we keep going, 1 or 2 new driver release(s) per week, and still problems. This all points to a bigger problem, in my opinion.
Nvidia has been known for having good drivers for a long time. And now with new cards they suddenly lost all their wisdom and don't know how to make drivers?
I think they are trying to solve design flaw or hardware issue, or any unexpected behavior that they were not aware of before.
Drivers are problem because they break things (or lower performance) on older cards, things that have worked okay for months, or even years.
In other words: Continuous tries for fixing the RTX 5000 series via drivers led to opposite effect on older cards. That's why (I think) the Nvidia's drivers are a mess now IMO.
I think lexluthermiester was right about PCIe x8 problems (performance drops) of RTX 5060 (Ti) cards when paired with PCIe <5.0 mobos.
It does not work normally as you'd expect from previous generations when x8 link was used.
Heads up: With next generation the tables might as well turn again and we may end up with good old fashioned crappy AMD drivers again. Good times ahead!
As for why some people don't (seem to) have issues:
There will always be users that don't have problems or they don't notice anything unusual.
Every user has different use scenario, thus different statistical chance for problems to occur. Gaming 5 hours a week is not like gaming 5 hours a day.
Some people always update their drivers when new version gets released, some update once per 2 months, or less frequently.
