Are there any existing good resources for determining reliability of a particular gpu model (brand, model number, spec, etc), beyond just looking at general reviews for each?
I’m thinking something like user benchmarks but for failure rate. Or something like blackblazes hard drive failure rate reports I guess (though unless a large company is buying a wide variety of GPUs and running similar workloads for it, probably won’t be quite the same). Seems like this would be useful when buying a new card that has been around for a bit.
If not, I might try to make something for that if others would be interested and willing to contribute their experiences. Maybe a pretty simple SQL database with the various info broken up so easy queries can be done to dig some extra info out. Contributing info maybe something like:
Brand | Model | Type | GB | OC | Months of life
Oh yea? I keep hearing about, for instance, MSI made AMD cards being unreliable or prone to problems. Maybe everyone is about the same and just some people have run into more problems with one than another?
That’s also kinda why I’d like to have a resource that could potentially show what’s going on. Maybe show that any differences are negligible or within margin of error.
I mean if you get the msi armor card thats the cheap white cooler on like a 580 your gonna have a bad time thermal wise, but i havent seen any major issues
That’s a much higher failure rate than I was expecting to see, and even if old many of those cards are still around. It wasn’t as fine grained as I would hope, but still good info.
Which does actually list specific models, but doesn’t show as much data (just shows their top 6 lowest failure rate cards, and gives some general information in the blurbs after that).
From that it sounds like there may be some pretty big differences by models after all though.
