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Today, independent software quality assurance experts QA Consultants release a new report determining AMD has the most stable driver in the graphics industry. AMD systems passed 401 out of 432 tests while Nvidia systems passed 356—equivalent to a pass rate of 93 percent for AMD versus 82 percent for Nvidia.
QA Consultants tested six of AMD’s most popular graphics cards at the high, medium and budget price points, from both the Gaming and Workstation lineups against competing Nvidia GPUs. These include the Radeon RX Vega 64, RX 580 and RX 560 for gaming, and the Radeon Pro WX 9100, WX 7100 and WX 3100 for workstations, using drivers Radeon Software Adrenalin 18.5.1 and Radeon Pro Software Enterprise 18.Q2, respectively
The testing was extensive – QA consultants conducted a four-hour CRASH test on each GPU consecutively, six times a day for twelve days. Completing each test was considered a pass, and the overall stability score was determined from the total number of passes divided by the total number of attempts.
Driver crashes are more than just an inconvenience, they can incur real costs like lost productivity and time. These results reflect AMD’s continued focus on driver stability along with the most requested features and top performance to ensure the best overall Radeon Software experience.
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#5565410 Posted on: 07/16/2018 06:30 PM
Interestingly, on my system (r3 1200, 16gb gskill aegis hynix m chips, rx 580 4gb asus, msi b350m mortar, ssd 525gb) any driver after the 18.4 makes Fortnite crash after some time playing, so...
Interestingly, on my system (r3 1200, 16gb gskill aegis hynix m chips, rx 580 4gb asus, msi b350m mortar, ssd 525gb) any driver after the 18.4 makes Fortnite crash after some time playing, so...
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#5565411 Posted on: 07/16/2018 06:31 PM
True, really OpenGL on Windows at least now a days people use for emulators. I'm sure there's more uses for it, but gaming isn't one of them.
I think they more or less abandonded their proprietary OpenGL driver to focus on open source, and the open source driver on Linux is really great, sometimes performing twice as good as the proprietary driver.
True, really OpenGL on Windows at least now a days people use for emulators. I'm sure there's more uses for it, but gaming isn't one of them.
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#5565414 Posted on: 07/16/2018 06:38 PM
No surprise to me.
when i see people slating AMD i just laugh because they show no experience.
I have to say when the 290 cards came out i was suffering bsod a lot even on install.
But AMD needed that to stop them becoming complacent.
I fully expect Nvidia to improve after this report.
No surprise to me.
when i see people slating AMD i just laugh because they show no experience.
I have to say when the 290 cards came out i was suffering bsod a lot even on install.
But AMD needed that to stop them becoming complacent.
I fully expect Nvidia to improve after this report.
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#5565417 Posted on: 07/16/2018 06:55 PM
I don't know about AMD (last time I used its drivers was with a ATI 5850).
But Nvidia drivers are completely rubbish. In every release you might gain/lose performance/stability depending on the game/application. (The worst thing that could happen is a crash in a game or app or display driver)
And the control panel is still rubbish, you have cooldowns everywhere... it takes seconds to open, seconds to Save, seconds for almost any action. We're in 2018 and this reminds me of running an app 20 years ago.
I don't know about AMD (last time I used its drivers was with a ATI 5850).
But Nvidia drivers are completely rubbish. In every release you might gain/lose performance/stability depending on the game/application. (The worst thing that could happen is a crash in a game or app or display driver)
And the control panel is still rubbish, you have cooldowns everywhere... it takes seconds to open, seconds to Save, seconds for almost any action. We're in 2018 and this reminds me of running an app 20 years ago.
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Very simple explanation: they just don`t know how to mess with extended profiles settings for AMD drivers/cards.