AMD beats Nvidia in the battle for the most stable drivers

AMD beats Nvidia in the battle for the most stable drivers

By Matt Hanson

In the battle between the graphics giants there appears to be one area where AMD can claim a definitive win over Nvidia: driver stability.

A few months ago AMD commissioned QA Consultants, an independent software assurance firm, to test the stability of its latest graphics card drivers in comparison to Nvidia’s drivers.

The results, which are available to view online, give AMD a clear win, with its drivers passing 92% of the tests compared to Nvidia’s 82%.

Testing, testing

QA Consultants used CRASH from Microsoft’s Windows HLK to perform 12 days of 24-hour stress tests to evaluate the stability of the graphics drivers.

As the firm notes, “in our testing, both AMD gaming and workstation GPUs performed better than the comparable NVIDIA products. Based on our testing of the […] 12 GPUs, we believe that AMD has the most stable graphics driver in the industry.”

The hardware on test was the Radeon Pro WX9100, Radeon Pro WX7100, Radeon Pro W3100 from AMD running the Radeon Pro Software Enterprise 18.Q2 drivers, and the Radeon Vega RX 64, Radeon RX 580 8GB and Radeon RX 560 running AMD’s Radeon Software Adrenalin 18.5.1 drivers.

On Nvidia’s side, the professional Quadro P5000, Quadro P4000 and Quadro …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components

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