Modern Graphics Card Failure Rates

LoadsaMoney · 19 Mar 2009 at 13:14

Hardware France managed to convince a major un-named French retailer to give them some RMA numbers in comparison to the number of units sold. The data was collected in the period of seven months from August 2008 to March of this year. The breakdown is vendor & product specific, which will give us a better idea on the reliability of brands as well as individual products.

http://gpucafe.com/2009/03/modern-graphics-card-failure-rates/

mame · 19 Mar 2009 at 13:17

10%

Is that one the reasons the 280 isn't on sale now.

Tom|Nbk · 19 Mar 2009 at 13:26

Oh dear.

Ducky Spud · 19 Mar 2009 at 13:27

10% is awful!! No wonder they stopped making it and went for the 285 instead! 4850 looks the way to go haha

{SAS}TB · 19 Mar 2009 at 13:42

So, anyone with an POV GTX280 is on borrowed time

Keep your receipt handy

elpedro · 19 Mar 2009 at 13:54

Oh well, peace of mind with my lifetime warrenty.

Musty Pie · 19 Mar 2009 at 13:59

was just thinking the same thing ...

Sean_UK · 19 Mar 2009 at 14:01

Amusing graph layout

kylew · 19 Mar 2009 at 14:14

Sean_UK said:
Amusing graph layout

How so?

At least it's not one of those graphs that don't start at 0.

jamrowls · 19 Mar 2009 at 18:47

Good find!
Shows there is definetly something wrong with the GTX280.
Im on a 75% failure rate, 3 out of 4!

Ducky Spud · 19 Mar 2009 at 19:04

jamrowls said:
Good find!
Im on a 75% failure rate, 3 out of 4!

Thats pretty bad!! Can you not ask for an upgrade, say youve RMA'd 3 of them already and getting annoyed or somthing? I'd be looking for a new card after it had happened twice i think

psychas · 19 Mar 2009 at 19:15

hugs mine 4870 <3 and 8800gts 512mb

gurusan · 19 Mar 2009 at 19:17

Failtastic

Trunks9486 · 19 Mar 2009 at 19:26

This is just one retailer though. Cant draw too many conclusions now, especially without knowing the volume sold at the specific retailer.

thegoonden · 19 Mar 2009 at 19:50

Only card that's ever failed on me (actually my card, on a mate's box) was a Radeon 9800, and it blew the mobo when it went. That makes my own results very different, doubly so because 100% of my 1 280 is utterly unfailed. Statistics are fun.

nightmare99 · 19 Mar 2009 at 19:57

LOL what a load of old toss, I would not base any purchasing decisions on that data.

For starters it is unclear if those are RMA rates or actual failure rates, there is no data to suggest what proportion of what vendor has been sold.

So, anyone with an Asus GTX280 is on borrowed time

According to that info Asus has the lowest failure rate :rolleyes:

Out of the Nvidia vendors listed I bet Point Of View outsells the others put together.

Also if its talking about RMAs I bet Point Of View GTX280 does get the most returns, think nuggets (buying the cheapest GTX280 they can find) sending them back because they can't get them running while stroking thier 1000W Qtec triple fan PSU :rolleyes:

mmj_uk · 19 Mar 2009 at 20:13

Ducky Spud said:
10% is awful!! No wonder they stopped making it and went for the 285 instead! 4850 looks the way to go haha

That's what happens when you push the boundaries, GTX280 has 50% more transistors than AMD's closest rival.

james.miller · 19 Mar 2009 at 20:30

mmj_uk said:
That's what happens when you push the boundaries, GTX280 has 50% more transistors than AMD's closest rival.

the 8800gtx had nearly 80% more than the x1950, that cant be used as an excuse.

Monkeynut · 19 Mar 2009 at 20:33

I'm interested to see the midrange failure rates and how they compare to the high end chips.

I'm expecting it to be lower because the chips are smaller and less complex.

Lightnix · 19 Mar 2009 at 20:34

It makes me wonder about pre-overclocked versions of the GTX285, especially the ones that have GDDR3 memory in the 2700MHz region.