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Third-party audit reveals AMD drivers are the most stable for gamers
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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#5565428 Posted on: 07/16/2018 07:25 PM
It is cherry picked... because it is just so long just see this - https://community.amd.com/thread/204857
The title sums up the rest is almost other threads of problems with this drivers and cards, heck even having the monitor to "shut off" makes me need to reset the computer because it won't come back up....
It is cherry picked... because it is just so long just see this - https://community.amd.com/thread/204857
The title sums up the rest is almost other threads of problems with this drivers and cards, heck even having the monitor to "shut off" makes me need to reset the computer because it won't come back up....
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#5565430 Posted on: 07/16/2018 07:32 PM
Same. Virtually flawless experience with my Nvidia GPUs for years. An occasional Nvidia driver related BSOD may crop up once every few months, but thats about it.
I don't even remember the last time my drivers crashed... maybe in PUBG? But that game is just badly made
Same. Virtually flawless experience with my Nvidia GPUs for years. An occasional Nvidia driver related BSOD may crop up once every few months, but thats about it.
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#5565432 Posted on: 07/16/2018 07:33 PM
Haven't had Nvidia for ages (almost all the cards back then had coil whining) but the last time I had trouble with AMD visually was with Mass Effect 2, the water was flickering. Took them about one month to fix.
And then of course there has been some stuttering in some games, which luckily the frame time measurements fixed in the end.
Remember also that Nvidia was responsible for about 40% of the OS crashes in Vista.
But people tend to ignore Nvidia problems or forget about them.
You can still hear the red bus bad driver joke about Ati/AMD. It's rare but it occurs.
Haven't had Nvidia for ages (almost all the cards back then had coil whining) but the last time I had trouble with AMD visually was with Mass Effect 2, the water was flickering. Took them about one month to fix.
And then of course there has been some stuttering in some games, which luckily the frame time measurements fixed in the end.
Remember also that Nvidia was responsible for about 40% of the OS crashes in Vista.
But people tend to ignore Nvidia problems or forget about them.
You can still hear the red bus bad driver joke about Ati/AMD. It's rare but it occurs.
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#5565434 Posted on: 07/16/2018 07:44 PM
All these tests show is that AMD has better driver stability than Nvidia on select hardware (with presumably 1 or 2 different drivers?) over a period of 12 days. No one can assume far reaching conclusions outside of that very limited framework.
There are no bad or good AMD /Nvidia drivers other than demonstrated in that brief slice in time the tests were conducted. For those who want to reach grand sweeping conclusions, these tests would have needed to be done 2 or 3 times a year over the last 10-15 years.
All these tests show is that AMD has better driver stability than Nvidia on select hardware (with presumably 1 or 2 different drivers?) over a period of 12 days. No one can assume far reaching conclusions outside of that very limited framework.
There are no bad or good AMD /Nvidia drivers other than demonstrated in that brief slice in time the tests were conducted. For those who want to reach grand sweeping conclusions, these tests would have needed to be done 2 or 3 times a year over the last 10-15 years.
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Looks like a cherry picked test. I'm calling BS and it's no where near any indication of stability in real applications. Heck, I could easily pick just 1 game to test and make AMD look like absolute crap, then, go global with that BS news and people will believe it.