Graphics Card Failure Rates

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We finish our series of current events on the failure rates with the graphics cards and GPU. These statistics are always those of a large French E-tradesman. They relate to the charts sold from March to August 2008, that is to say 6 months 1 year from operation. The statistics by mark are based on a minimal sample of 500 sales:

- ASUSTeK: 2.0%
- Sapphire: 2.0%
- MSI: 2.1%
- Leadtek: 2.4%
- PNY: 2.8%
- Gainward: 3.2%
- Gigabyte: 3.6%
- Point Of View: 5.6%

The failure rates are overall normal, except Point Off View which is notably less good. If the least reliable models more closely are looked at, one finds two charts with the top of 10% which were sold with more than 100 specimens: Gigabyte GV-RX26P5H, Radeon HD 2600 passivates, is to 14.1%, against 10.2% for ASUSTeK ENGTX280/HTDP/1G. If one looks at the rates of return by GPU, one arrives at the following figures:

- GeForce GTX 280: 9.9%
- GeForce GTX 260: 4.3%
- GeForce 9800: 3.2%
- GeForce 8800: 3.3%
- Radeon HD 4870: 3.2%
- Radeon HD 4850: 1.9%
- Radeon HD 3870: 2.6%

In spite of the high temperatures reached on Radeon HD 4870/4850, these last have completely normal failure rates. A contrario the GTX 280 are not the queens of reliability. Concerning the charts Bi-GPU, one is to 6% for the 9800 GX2, 11% for the 3870 X2 (!) and 4.3% for the 4870 X2.

Source: hardwarefrance