Graphics Card Failure Rates

Interesting failure statistics from a "large French e-retailer" covering
parts sold between September 2008 and March 2009.

Failure rate by brand:
- PNY 1.69%
- ASUSTeK 1.71%
- MSI 2.05%
- Gigabyte 2.63%
- Sapphire 2.7%
- Gainward 3.15%
- Point Of View 4.67%

PNY seems to be doing quite well.

Failure rate by chipset:
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 : 2.4%
- ATI Radeon HD 4850 : 3.3%
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 : 6.5%
- ATI Radeon HD 4870 : 6.1%
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 : 8.3%
- ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 : 10.5%

The GTX 295 is more reliable than the GTX 280, despite its greater
complexity.

Article is in French, so use Google Translate if required:
http://www.hardware.fr/articles/773-...omposants.html

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First of One wrote:

> Interesting failure statistics from a "large French e-retailer"
> covering parts sold between September 2008 and March 2009.
>
> Failure rate by brand:
> - PNY 1.69%
> - ASUSTeK 1.71%
> - MSI 2.05%
> - Gigabyte 2.63%
> - Sapphire 2.7%
> - Gainward 3.15%
> - Point Of View 4.67%
>
> PNY seems to be doing quite well.
>
> Failure rate by chipset:
> - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 : 2.4%
> - ATI Radeon HD 4850 : 3.3%
> - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 : 6.5%
> - ATI Radeon HD 4870 : 6.1%
> - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 : 8.3%
> - ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 : 10.5%
>
> The GTX 295 is more reliable than the GTX 280, despite its greater
> complexity.
>
> Article is in French, so use Google Translate if required:
> http://www.hardware.fr/articles/773-...omposants.html

Is this for actual failures, or just all returns? Not all returns are
actual failures. For example, a lot of the GTX cards have a whine
during certain graphic instances. There is considerable info about it
if you google it, and often these cards are returned to the
manufacturer and replaced, and the customer has found the same problem
with the replacement. It's not a failure, but a resonance from the
coils. My FTX275 did it when I first got it, but after a few weeks of
use, it's stopped doing it altogether. Many people returned them after
a few days of it doing it. Instances llike this would skew the figures
for the GTX range.
Crash Lander

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First of One wrote:
> Interesting failure statistics from a "large French e-retailer" covering
> parts sold between September 2008 and March 2009.
>
> Failure rate by brand:
> - PNY 1.69%
> - ASUSTeK 1.71%
> - MSI 2.05%
> - Gigabyte 2.63%
> - Sapphire 2.7%
> - Gainward 3.15%
> - Point Of View 4.67%
>
> PNY seems to be doing quite well.
>
> Failure rate by chipset:
> - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 : 2.4%
> - ATI Radeon HD 4850 : 3.3%
> - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 : 6.5%
> - ATI Radeon HD 4870 : 6.1%
> - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 : 8.3%
> - ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 : 10.5%
>
> The GTX 295 is more reliable than the GTX 280, despite its greater
> complexity.
>
> Article is in French, so use Google Translate if required:
> http://www.hardware.fr/articles/773-...omposants.html
>

If these are actual failures and not DOA GPU cores, then I tend to see a
high correlation between thermal load failure rates. I wonder how many
of these were somebody popping a dual GPU card into a cramped mid-ATX
case with a few loud fans and thinking nothing of it .

From what I can understand, the numbers listed are cumulative return rates
for cards sold between September 2008 and March 2009, so they include both
infant mortality items (DOA, coil "singing") and defects that may have
occurred as much as a year into service.

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"War is the continuation of politics by other means.
It can therefore be said that politics is war without
bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."


"Crash Lander" <idont@think.so> wrote in message
news:_tPBm.47900$ze1.46564@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> Is this for actual failures, or just all returns? Not all returns are
> actual failures. For example, a lot of the GTX cards have a whine
> during certain graphic instances. There is considerable info about it
> if you google it, and often these cards are returned to the
> manufacturer and replaced, and the customer has found the same problem
> with the replacement. It's not a failure, but a resonance from the
> coils. My FTX275 did it when I first got it, but after a few weeks of
> use, it's stopped doing it altogether. Many people returned them after
> a few days of it doing it. Instances llike this would skew the figures
> for the GTX range.
> Crash Lander
>
> --
>

First,

> Failure rate by brand

What, no XfX?

Jim

"a1pcfixer" <a1pcfixer@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:VA.00000007.09cc3c75@comcast.net...
> First,
>
>> Failure rate by brand
>
> What, no XfX?
>
Was wondering that myself but I like my XFX GTX275 anyways Nice card.

Mind you, have to work out how this hybrid sli works and all when I update
to win7 next weekend.

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Skipai