AMD failure rate is higher than Nvidia's

[mrmt]

Don't know if this was posted here but I think it's an interesting subject. It would be even better if AMD representatives could chime in and give their two cents.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2052...ion-to-so-publicly-dump-amd-video-cards-.html

Jon Bach, president and founder of Seattle’s Puget Systems, provided a cornucopia of reliability data culled from testing of 5698 units. Here’s what he had to say via email:

”It is hard to quantify customer experience, but one thing I can quantify is reliability. How many have failed? Here’s a report from the last 3 years.

Nvidia: 5.36% total failures (in our testing + in the field)
AMD: 8.89% total failures (in our testing + in the field)
But more important than failure rate is how many failed in our customer hands? We do a lot of testing here to weed out as many bad cards as possible in our build process. Here’s how many have failed in the field over the last 3 years:

Nvidia: 2.42% failures in the field
AMD: 3.23% failures in the field
Here’s that same info, over the last 1 year only:

Nvidia: 4.95% total failures (in our testing + in the field)
AMD: 7.79% total failures (in our testing + in the field)
Nvidia: 1.02% failures in the field
AMD: 3.25% failures in the field
So yes, AMD does have a higher failure rate, but nothing that puts up such a big red flag that I would want to drop their product.”

 

[Grooveriding]

Only relevant portion of that wall of FUD from Origin comes at the end

Should you be worried?

It’s one thing for Origin to decide to stop offering AMD GPUs, but one has to wonder what the company has to gain from publicizing that decision just as AMD is launching a whole new GPU product line. (Update: Reading Cary's forum post, simple anger could be one reason for Origin to publicize this.) We know what Nvidia has to gain, but there’s no proof that it influenced Origin, financially or otherwise. It’s also possible that Origin simply has a lower tolerance for the failure rates than Puget Systems’ Bach reported.


But there’s also no denying that AMD has been on a roll recently, shipping its R-series graphics processors for the PC, scoring major design wins with both Sony’s PlayStation 4 and Microsoft’s Xbox One, and developing its super-interesting, cross-platform, Mantle graphics technology to bring PC and console games development together.


We have plenty of respect for Origin PC’s product line, but don’t let one PC builder’s decision sway your personal video card purchasing decisions—especially when independent reviewers who truly have no vested interest in the outcome haven’t been able to offer their opinions.

This troll topic was posted before though, so let's do it all over again for fun!

 

[chimaxi83]

Cool. I've had one AMD card fail (6950), zero Nvidia cards fail.


/lawn chair
/popcorn
/beer

 

[Imouto]

Don't know if this was posted here [...]

Yeah, sure.

 

[Barfo]

In all fairness, I've had a DOA ATI card, 0 failed Nvidia cards.

 

[Vesku]

A break down by brand and what was found to have broken would be nice.

I highly doubt all the failures involved the actual GPU die.

 

[Phanuel]

I've had 0 ATi/AMD cards fail (of the 5 I've owned) and two 7900 gt (melty editions) disintegrate (of the 5 nVidia I've owned).

 

[Kenmitch]

OP just for giggles search for NVidia bumpgate and see what you find.

 

[stahlhart]

Closing obvious troll threa-- no, wait, I'm going to leave it open. I feel like moderating tonight.
-- stahlhart

 

[NTMBK]

Closing obvious troll threa-- no, wait, I'm going to leave it open. I feel like moderating tonight.
-- stahlhart

 

[Subyman]

Ugh, R9 290X reviews come out praising the new card and here we go with underhanded trolling.

 

[ShadowOfMyself]

You know a launch has been successful when threads like these start showing up

And for the record, Ive had to RMA two AMD cards vs zero from Nvidia, so for me those stats ring true, but so what? Thats what warranties are for

 

[Phynaz]

One AMD brand card DOA on me. No other failures regardless of brand.
No Nvidia GPU based cards - various brands - have failed on me.

Canopus Pure3D...Ugh, went through three of them - memory failures - before they started replacing them with Pure3D II's. Hey, I ended up with a free upgrade

Disclaimer - Sample size of 1.

 

[Genx87]

Heh kind of funny as I am replacing a fan in my 5870 due to failure just today. It worked for less than 18 months before going to crap. And the 5870 was was a replacement for a 4850 that bit the dust

But in fairness I also had an 8800 GTS 640 that bit the dust after about 3 years of work.

 

[chimaxi83]

Next up, a YouTube video of whipping up breakfast on the back of a 290X :sneaky:

 

[DaveSimmons]

I've had the fans die on 2 EVGA GTX 560 ti (original and the RMA) but that's EVGA's fault. My first Gainward nv 6800 fanless cooked itself to death but that was Gainward's passive design and the revised heatpipe cooler on the replacement was fine.

My brother had an Asus 9800 Pro that cooked itself but it was an Asus custom design.

So, from another sample of 1, beware EVGA and custom cooling designs.

 

[Phynaz]

A break down by brand and what was found to have broken would be nice.

I highly doubt all the failures involved the actual GPU die.

This x100

Very few people are actually buying AMD or Nvidia branded cards. Most people seem to forget that.

 

[wand3r3r]

The Titanic and 780 were dethroned, quick build up that brand image?

This is a repost on top of it all.

 

[Piroko]

5700 units of an unknown distribution, reduced to the units sold in one year (unknown quantity and distribution, yey) to make a point. Great.

 

[PowerYoga]

my cards box was dented, amd sucks.

1 star, tech level 5.

 

[PliotronX]

I agree with Vesku, a lot of it is card manufacturers mucking with the reference board. It was only until after I had purchased a 7850 by Gigabyte that I saw all of the problems posted everywhere about it whereas I haven't read nearly the amount of problems with other brands.

 

[f1sherman]

Here’s that same info, over the last 1 year only:

Nvidia: 1.02% failures in the field
AMD: 3.25% failures in the field

So more than 3 times higher failure rate with AMD compared to NV.
Nvidia improved reliability with Kepler and AMD went slightly down with HD7000 compared to previous years.

It goes in line with TDP efforts on both sides.
Also, Nvidia's Green Light, limited overvolting, Sapphire(AMD?) slip-up with 7870 capacitors etc.

 

[NIGELG]

Personally I've had two failures...

A 9800 Pro after more than two years of abuse.

And a 8800 GTS after one year and not so much abuse.

 

[96Firebird]

I've never had any failures, so everyone makes flawless chips.

:biggrin:

 

[Qianglong]

Warranty covers it all unless of course ur doing uber overclocking or custom modification.