Claims of NVIDIA having superior drivers were all fiction

Dec 16, 2014 16:20 GMT  ·  By

Many people believe that NVIDIA has superior drivers to Advanced Micro Devices, but the latter decided to express just how much it begs to differ.

The way it chose to go about it is pretty daring too. Some may even go so far as to call it blatant even. I call it funny.

AMD released some slides on which it points out that its drivers have such a low DPMU that you might as well say they're not buggy at all, almost.

In the course of only 3 years, the number of defects per million units (DPMU for short) was reduced by 90%, qualifying them easily as “Rock Solid.”

The Rock Solid standard is earned by a driver only when it has no more than 50 DMPU. Considering how many millions of graphics cards are sold each year, that's a very big deal.

Interestingly, the slides that made their way to the Internet don't account for Radeon boards at all, only FirePro ones, the professional adapters. Little wonder that AMD managed to pull 5% of the market away from NVIDIA and that FirePro drivers have perfect ISV certification success rate.

This revelation comes just at the right time, now that AMD has a new series of FirePro video adapters and powers the world's most efficient supercomputers.

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