I have an XFX Merc 310 RX 7900 XT BLACK. This is an AIB card with an excellent cooler. It’s the same board and cooler as the XTX version and carries a factory overclock.
I’ve had nothing but problems with ATI/AMD cards since rage 128. Each generation, I wanted to support ATI, being Canadian and I’d buy an ATI/AMD card. I’d love the AIW ones in particular. I had SO MANY driver problems with each ATI/AMD card they ALL went back to the store during the return period and I ended up happily using Nvidia cards for the rest of the generation only to start the cycle again next generation.
So, I’m someone who wanted to love AMD GPUs but found the drivers unacceptable.
more recently, I got an 580 an had black screen issues so it went back. Ended up on RTX2000 series with no trouble. Darn.
starting the cycle again, I got my son an RX6600 for my son’s system and guess what? It’s fine. We used it heavily all through the return period and it was great. AMD had finally gotten its poop in a group.
So, being time to upgrade my RTX2000 series, I impulse bought this great XFX model of the RX7900XT.
its similarly great. No problems to report at all. Hwinfo64 shows power usage has dropped since the the launch driver but I’ve never had any issues or any kind with it.
Well, sort of. My Seasonic 650watt wasn’t up to the task and the system would shut off on a stress test. Replacing the power supply with an 850 watt unit immediately solved that problem so obviously that’s not the GPU’s fault.
colour me surprised and pleased. RDNA 2 and 3 have been great for me.
do get a quality aib card, though.
edit; I should ad that under stress test like furmark, I got a GPU temp in the 60s and the highest Tjunc temp or hot spot reported is only 79c. It runs quite quietly too.