QA Consultants has released a report, claiming that AMD’s drivers are more stable than NVIDIA’s drivers. According to the report, AMD’s systems passed 401 out of 432 tests while Nvidia’s systems passed 356. This basically means that AMD’s GPUs achieved a pass rate of 93% whereas NVIDIA’s GPUs achieved a pass rate of 82%.
QA Consultants used six gaming machines and workstations from AMD and six from NVIDIA. The AMD GPUs that were used were Radeon RX Vega 64, RX 580, RX 560, Radeon Pro WX 9100, WX 7100 and WX 3100. On the other hand, QA Consultants used NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, GeForce GTX 1060 (6 GB), GeForce GTX 1050 (2 GB), Quadro P5000, Quadro P4000 and Quadro P600.
QA Consultants used the 64-bit variant of CRASH to stress the GPU. CRASH is described as a GPU stress test tool that spans 4 hours in length and captures test cases covering S3, display resolution changes, display orientation changes, content protection, and rendering. And as QA Consultants noted.
“While 4 hours of stress testing is a good indicator of prominent quality issues, it does not suffice in capturing intermittent stability failures or glitches. Therefore, we ran this test back-to-back around the clock for 12 days for each GPU. This accounts for 288 hours of non-stop stress in a test designed to make the GPU driver fail.”
So while NVIDIA’s drivers perform better in DX11 games and put less stress on the CPU, this test shows that AMD’s drivers are more stable!
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Oh that’s good. Maybe Nvidia can come down from their high horse now ?
That horse isn’t as high as Nvidia markets it as being.
Well said.
I don’t even know you, but I disagree.
LOL
Those last few years nvidia got lazy with their drivers,not bringing anything new and breaking existing features
The fact that the test was commissioned by AMD cast some doubts on the results, the testing methods also are of dubious indications as they don’t load the GPU nor the driver, it just perform screen rotation, color and resolution changes in loop
How reliable are third parties, anyways? I think I can trust Nvidia to be honest about their products. Same goes for AMD. They have no incentive to lie to me.
Lmao
Wrong question. the right is: How reliable are third parties if paid by one of the actor subject of analysis?
Wrong… Right…
None of these words mean a damn thing without EVIDENCE.
You are confusing answers with questions, I was talking about questions, do we need evidence to ask a question?
Nope – You need evidence to say why her question is wrong and yours is right
I think nipple_pinchy’s question was sarcastic, by saying wrong I was clearly rhetoric as questions can’t be wrong or right by itself, they just may lead to a useless answer
And how is the utility of the potential answer to be determined?
Actors are nice people. No need to generalize them.
True, but my question is valid for any actor in any area, it’s a principle 🙂
Not hollywood actors….most of them are trash..
Well, as a pure analysis of fact,
– 61 out of the 76 Nvidia fails happened on their Quadro cards. So, 80% of Nvidia’s fail was on their professional line.
– 27 out of the 31 AMD fails happened on their Pro cards. So, 87% of AMD’s fail was on their professional line.
That leaves:
– 15 desktop card fails for Nvidia
— of which
– 10 fails for GTX1060
– 3 fails for GTX1050
– 2 fails for GTX1080ti
– 4 desktop fails for AMD
—of which
– 2 fails for VEGA 64
– 1 fail for RX 560
– 1 fail for RX580
In summary – the GTX 1060 is a donkey …..
And… their testing is highly questionable if BOTH vendors have 80%+ fail rates on the professional lines.
Not only that, their test consisted on only performing things like screen rotation, colors and resolution change and the whole analysis was commissioned and paid by AMD…
Doesn’t surprise me, Nvidia seems to regularly need to follow up “game ready” releases with a hotfix driver. They’re not awful by any means, but definitely subpar.
I gotta admit, Nvidia drivers are really mess outside gaming. The most notable problem for me was crazy DPC latency on Windows 10. This issue is cannot be solved no matter what.
As someone stuck on 17.7.2, because the Adrenaline drivers seem to bork hardware encoding on my Rx480, I find this horrifying.
Ngreedia needs gaming gpu competition. They make bank in other arenas, esp nnets now, but continue to price gouge gaming cards. Looking like the industry will correct finally until they all go for their next push into nnet gaming when they will try to take away enthusiast hw ownership in favor of subscriptions.
Retry in english please.
I have no problem understanding his comment. Perhaps you should have spent more time at school.
Believe me, i spent way too much in there, and i can see when someone has a good enough english, and that to me looks like low grade english.
rate me daddy
Yea you’re bad at English and don’t know f*ckall about sh*t. Stop.
Ugh!
*low-grade English. ;P
Really? Cmon…
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0e73e06ca01072cef551062de1015bd00eb21a420fd4a661c0d923b961fae422.jpg
10/10
i agree with the seksy bald man.
If AMD could optimize driver overhead on DX11 it would be great
Believe me, i spent way too much in there, and i can see when someone has a good enough english, and that to me looks like low grade english.
That, and always keep the installer for the last working version around so you know what to go back to if anything breaks.
C:NVIDIAlast.version
You’re welcome 😀
Unless of course you delete that folder every time you install new drivers…
third-party paid by AMD… the test which doesn’t even stress the GPU, not even with a seemingly real world workload was commissioned and paid by AMD.
Johon, please correct the article, the way is written is highly misleading deceptive.
The fact that the test was commissioned by AMD cast some doubts on the
results, the testing methods also are of dubious indications as they
don’t load the GPU nor the driver, it just perform screen rotation,
color and resolution changes in loop
Poppycock.
i like nvidia more than my girlfriend’s stinky poosy
Rofl, no they aren’t. I’ve never once, ever, had a driver error with any nvidia card. Literally not once ever. I have routine BSODs with the AMD drivers at work and when I had an AMD card at home. Once again nothing but moron pcmr wannabe’s here with no PC knowledge whatsoever. Gotta attribute everything to your own trash system and your hatred for Nvidia and Microsoft. So sad.