[SOLVED] Why is my new RX 6950 XT performance so bad ?

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SomethingRandom1

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I bought RX 6950xt 2 days ago from amazon and it lags and stutters in all games
I had rtx 3060 before

this is my setup
ryzen 9 5900x
32 gb ram in dual channel config.
nvme ssds
rx 6950xt

in many games like gta or red dead the card is not even detected, I have all the latest drivers and i have tried every single thing and nothing has worked to fix it!

Should i just retun it and buy a rtx 3090 ?
 
Solution
The PROBLEM IS SOLVED!
I was using a UPS and it was connected to my desktop incase of powerloss
maybe the ups wasnt providing enough power because now games have little to no stutter
it was a 900w UPS i thought i would work but that seems to be the issue
You can go the RMA route but what you're describing sounds like a software issue like others have mentioned. Have you tried to roll back to stable drivers from AMD? Check the Radeon settings and try an older driver standard. Have you tried your GPU in a different slot? I had a PCIe slot that crapped out and I thought it was my GPU changing PCIe slots seemed to work for me.
i did try the other pcie slot yesterday but the same thing was there,
my 3060 works on this slot so thats not the issue

which is the stable driver for amd radeon RX 6950 XT ??
 
Are you using multiple PCIe power cables connected to the GPU, or one cable using two connectors?

The rx 6950xt has 3 x 8 pin connectors and i have used 3 pcie cables for that
I am not using any pig tail connectors, before installing looked it up and it showed to not use any pig tail connectors
meaning 3 cables of pcie attached to psu
 
The PROBLEM IS SOLVED!
I was using a UPS and it was connected to my desktop incase of powerloss
maybe the ups wasnt providing enough power because now games have little to no stutter
it was a 900w UPS i thought i would work but that seems to be the issue
 
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Solution
The PROBLEM IS SOLVED!
I was using a UPS and it was connected to my desktop incase of powerloss
maybe the ups wasnt providing enough power because now games have little to no stutter
it was a 900w UPS i thought i would work but that seems to be the issue
this is great news, yeah an old ups isn't gonna cut it for that setup.

Super glad to hear you got rolling
 
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