maybe foe you, but i have had issues with both amd AND nvidia, but i figured you would say that, you seem like and anti amd person going by most of your posts.
I've used AMD, nVidia, and Intel products. Typically I am at or near the most current drivers and I haven't had any issues, regardless of the company. When I have had driver issues, it was never one company specifically or most often. All companies will have issues with drivers at some point in time.
Their woefully incomplete ryzen 3000 AGESA code and the stumbling faceplant that was ryzen 3000's turboboost springs to mind. Or the rushed 5600xt change. Or their constant driver issues that only get fixed when there is media attention (frame pacing, black screens, and more recently general instability). Oh hey, remember when the ryzen 2000 mobile APUs came out and AMD went "LOL you have to make the driver packages yourself BYE"?
There was also a thread on the ASUS forums last year that broke down how much less time AMD gave board makers to test motherboards, that the code and documentation were incomplete, and that the AMD ES CPUs couldnt turbo boost at ALL. And lord knows you can go back years and find thread after thread of game developers in the AMD EVOLVED program getting jack shit from AMD in terms of support. Hell, RMAing a CPU through AMD is a month long affair, as any response to a support Email or question takes 2-3 days, so just getting to the third troubleshooting point takes upwards of 3 weeks. Takes 10 minutes through intel's online chat or phone support, neither of which AMD has.
Support has been AMD's Achilles heel for two decades now. You dont have to accept it, but its true, and its why AMD has long struggled in the server space, and why despite being superior to FERMI the TERASCALE GPUs couldnt ascertain market dominance. AMD has radically improved ont he hardware side, but only time will tell if Lisa su is finally implementing changes to fix their utterly borked support side of things, especially after ryzen 3000 didnt explode like ryzen 2000 did and AMD got pushback from motherboard manufacturers.
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vladx - Friday, April 3, 2020 - link
AMD's software failures are much bigger than Intel's trickling hardware improvements.Qasar - Friday, April 3, 2020 - link
what software failures? their drivers ?? as if nvidia is any better ...vladx - Friday, April 3, 2020 - link
Yes Nvidia and Intel drivers are a million times more stable than AMD's who never failed to release a new gen without crashes and bugsQasar - Friday, April 3, 2020 - link
maybe foe you, but i have had issues with both amd AND nvidia, but i figured you would say that, you seem like and anti amd person going by most of your posts.vladx - Friday, April 3, 2020 - link
Yeah at least I tested both AMD and Intel hardware in each generation in the past 15 years or so.Sorry that my experience and conclusions offends your fanboy delusions
schujj07 - Friday, April 3, 2020 - link
I've used AMD, nVidia, and Intel products. Typically I am at or near the most current drivers and I haven't had any issues, regardless of the company. When I have had driver issues, it was never one company specifically or most often. All companies will have issues with drivers at some point in time.Qasar - Friday, April 3, 2020 - link
sorry your anti amd, intel fanboy, clouds your judgment, but hey, if you like supporting intel and its BS, by all meansTheinsanegamerN - Saturday, April 4, 2020 - link
Their woefully incomplete ryzen 3000 AGESA code and the stumbling faceplant that was ryzen 3000's turboboost springs to mind. Or the rushed 5600xt change. Or their constant driver issues that only get fixed when there is media attention (frame pacing, black screens, and more recently general instability). Oh hey, remember when the ryzen 2000 mobile APUs came out and AMD went "LOL you have to make the driver packages yourself BYE"?There was also a thread on the ASUS forums last year that broke down how much less time AMD gave board makers to test motherboards, that the code and documentation were incomplete, and that the AMD ES CPUs couldnt turbo boost at ALL. And lord knows you can go back years and find thread after thread of game developers in the AMD EVOLVED program getting jack shit from AMD in terms of support. Hell, RMAing a CPU through AMD is a month long affair, as any response to a support Email or question takes 2-3 days, so just getting to the third troubleshooting point takes upwards of 3 weeks. Takes 10 minutes through intel's online chat or phone support, neither of which AMD has.
Support has been AMD's Achilles heel for two decades now. You dont have to accept it, but its true, and its why AMD has long struggled in the server space, and why despite being superior to FERMI the TERASCALE GPUs couldnt ascertain market dominance. AMD has radically improved ont he hardware side, but only time will tell if Lisa su is finally implementing changes to fix their utterly borked support side of things, especially after ryzen 3000 didnt explode like ryzen 2000 did and AMD got pushback from motherboard manufacturers.
vladx - Sunday, April 5, 2020 - link
@TheinsanegamerN: Indeed, unfortunately rabid fanboys here disregard any such issues existing.AMD software is a disaster, at least compared to Intel's and Nvidia's.
alufan - Friday, April 3, 2020 - link
hmm lets not talk about the Intel security issues then shall we?