Swiss Retailer Data Reveals GPU Brand Failure Rates: An Analysis
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CalculuS
Ha! People laughed at me for getting a "budget" Palit 970 Jetstream GTX.
KissSh0t
Wish I knew this before getting my previous xfx card... ohh well. live and learn.
Kaarme
My previous card, Sapphire Radeon 390 lasted for many years. I wonder if Sapphire's quality has crashed only in the recent years or maybe I was just lucky. Nevertheless, it seems like Sapphire being the best bet on the AMD side is a myth.
Incredible Lama
I live in Switzerland and Digitech is the biggest vendor here with good customer service and RMA reputation. So this data is very reliable and nice to have
mackintosh
I got soured on Palit when all three GTX 570s I bought failed within weeks of each other. Glad to see they've upped their game since then. Unfortunately once you get burned like this, it's almost impossible to rebuild trust.
CalculuS
Major brands fall and minor brands rise up.
Gigabyte was always seen as relatively reputable until their graphics cards started shitting the bed and their mobos got selectively downgraded.
The rest of this seems somewhat in line with my experiences. Asrock were always a bit budget to me but their support have always been top notch. Zotac and sapphire worry me. Always saw them as top card makers, sad to see that they have statistically more issues compared to what we thought were qualitative worse options.
H83
For me this analysis is extremely reassuring because failure rates below the 5% rate are amazing for such complex products, at least for me.
fry178
@Incredible Lama
while info shows a "trend", and im not saying they are making up stuff, but without knowing how many they sold, its not "reliable" at all.
to be statistically relevant, you need about 2500-5000 sold, and thats each...
fantaskarsef
Let alone the usual, statistical deviation and the highest fail rates are around 2%...
Venix
My palit 1060 still chugging along ....and I think is officially my longest operational card since previews gainward 460 1gb and gigabyte 770 2gb both died a sudden death !
Silva
I would take this with a grain of salt as we don't know how many of each brand was sold neither total amount of GPUs.
If this was a bigger country I'd be inclined to believe some level of accuracy, but Switzerland? They're like a grain of rice on the global market.
rl66
AsRock is good at RMA they make standard exchange at RMA, mean less than 1 day most of the time...
warezme
Palit is not that big in the States as far as I can tell so percentage wise they would sell a small number compared to brands like Asus, MSI, Gigagbyte,etc. so by numbers alone their returns would be significantly less than larger volume brands.
