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QA Consultants concludes that AMD has the most stable graphics driver in the industry.

bru said:
Well in the context of the article Nvidia wins all the best card awards, except the best AMD card ones, so in that sense you would need to be an AMD fan to pick the 580.

Now whether you agree with their findings or not is a separate and entirely debatable point.:)
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It sounds like eurogamer is sponsored by nvidia, or written by nvidia fans.
Normal brain would pick the RX 580 with its higher performance, lower price tag and 8GB D5 any time.
It is the best buy in its category - just under 250 pounds.

Even if you want because the components on its PCB are of higher value - the chip is bigger, the memory is more...
 
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mmj_uk said:
It's not that shocking although I don't think I've ever bought a GPU having thought about who has the least crashy driver. The tests above wouldn't have picked it up but the biggest issue with AMD drivers is that once you go outside the AAA titles that they put a lot of effort into optimising for you tend to get more graphical glitches and/or sub-optimal performance in lesser known titles.
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I never had this issue personally.
 
Another point about that article is they say

The best value option for AMD fans is the RX 580, which boasts better performance than the GTX 1060 but at a slightly higher cost,
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And yet they list the 4GB RX580 for £3 cheaper than the 1060. Hmm ok so it has 2GB less memory than the 6GB 1060, but that in turn has 2GB less than the 8GB 580's, so that is a bit strange.

I assume the 4GB 580 will perform the same as the 8GB one in anything that doesn't need the extra memory?
 
Don't laugh but they maybe required to say that through NDA.

I recall a time when a reviewer blurbed out that Nvidia's required them to Disable ATI's Catalyst AI and he actually did it in the review. He was called out on it and he told people on the forum that he was forced to and even showed the press doc from Nvidia.
Sure this was a long time ago. But it opened my eyes what goes behind the scenes.
 
Wrinkly said:
RX 580 with a nice Freesync panel is the sensible way to go when on such a budget. I can't understand why people recommend the 1060 these days.
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Nvidia is better! People would rather have a 1030 with DDR RAM than an AMD card, as apparently their drivers are rubbish, everyone says so... Oh and also 1030 is higher than 580, nearly double the speed.

The choice is a no brainier really, literally! Lol :D
 
Wrinkly said:
RX 580 with a nice Freesync panel is the sensible way to go when on such a budget. I can't understand why people recommend the 1060 these days.
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Only reason really is if you are gonna buy into the nVidia eco-system with G-Sync or whatever and upgrade from the 1060 later to another nVidia card.
 
tommybhoy said:
But you wouldn't have a clue how stable NV is:p

Last real issues I've had with NV drivers was the 350 branch with the TDR bug, they did get it sorted but it took a wee while, I don't install every driver released however and have most of the bloat installed as I've got a few Shields dotted about the house so need all the baggage-but ultimately even though the bloat installed, it's just as solid as the AMD drivers I used previous to moving over years ago(minus the ~4 month+ lack of any AMD drivers with game profile updates at all when they were really, really

So whether or not there are any claims over whose better/stable, like when I used AMD, I'll go off of my own experience over some one else's claims.
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But my experience would say the opposite. Never had any issues with AMD other than the odd niggle but Nvidia has been a nightmare. First coil whine then bad drivers (BSOD, black screen "Nvidia driver has recovered from an unexpected error" errors) you name it. Finally got a stable driver after someone recommended it here.

But obviously its Nvidia so like the 3.5gb Vram debacle it doesn't count... its Nvidia!
 
After several years of no upgrades I'm starting to think about it again. It's partly due to a plan to get my PC back into another room which has the space to add my other two monitors, combined with GPU prices seemingly on the fall. I've been flip flopping between MacOS, Windows and more recently Linux and so my minimum requirement for any software and most hardware is to work across all three OS.

Amazingly AMD currently have far better Linux drivers (it was the opposite a few years ago - AMD have really improved). They also support triple monitor PLP setups with hardware rotation on the portrait monitors. So while I'll consider an NV card if it's the right price, I'm leaning towards AMD for their driver support.



** I appreciate that PLP is pretty irrelevant today with ultra wide screen monitors but I already but I've had the spare screens and stand packed away for years so using them is free.
 
Not surprising, Nvidia drivers have been bloatware for a long time. Around when the 480 was launched AMD improved their drivers massively.

The last 4 Nvidia cards I've owned had TDR crashes all the time. Though I think a lot of it was down to the cards degrading very quickly...
 
Nasher said:
Not surprising, Nvidia drivers have been bloatware for a long time. Around when the 480 was launched AMD improved their drivers massively.

The last 4 Nvidia cards I've owned had TDR crashes all the time. Though I think a lot of it was down to the cards degrading very quickly...
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Huh. Check the last NV drivers outstanding list.
The issue with the Gsync is there for many months (4-7 depending when someone upgraded to W10 Spring), affecting many people. (300+ pages complain thread at official forums).
 
Last AMD card I owned was a XFX 5870 and I had a lot of driver issues with a couple games (Deus Ex HR and Max Payne 3) but the card was old even back then.

My friend has an R9 280x and he had more problems with the software that came with the drivers than the drivers themselves.

Now I only update a driver if it's for a new release I'm about to play, else I don't bother.
 
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