AMD: Professional Drivers have been 'Rock Solid' for the past two years

AMD has really come a long manner. At that place was a time when bad drivers plagued lineups of AMD, only at present, for quite a long time, any claim of dark-green having superior drivers (in terms of bugs and defects) are mostly founded on superstition. To demonstrate but how far AMD has come with its drivers (on the professional side) they have released the following statistic on DPMU numbers.

AMD Rock Solid FirePro Drivers A slide showing DPMU numbers from the November Printing Deck @AMD

FirePro drivers are no longer buggy and haven't been for a long time - AMD

This particular slide was included in the printing update deck and reveals just how far AMD has come in this short while. They were able to reduce their DPMU (defects per one thousand thousand units) number by an astounding 90% in simply iii years and are now well below the 'rock solid' standard of 50 DPMUs. This update was targeted at the professional side but so it doesn't include Radeons, which would have made a perfect gear up coupled with this. AMD has also gained a market place share of approximately 5% from Nvidia according to Jon Peddie Research. This is following the launch of their new generation of FirePro GPUs and too the fact that they have fabricated a proper name for themselves in efficiency (No1 in Green500).

AMD FirePro W5100 graphics likewise has a perfect ISV certification success rate, and by perfect I mean the whole 100%. Finally they mention the advantages that FirePro counterparts entail, including higher vRam on boilerplate and the utilise of PCIe 3.0 (as opposed to PCIe 2.0 on some Quadros). The only difference that now remains between AMD and Nvidia pro GPUs is the fact that while AMD can only offer OpenCL implementations, Nvidia offers both CUDA and OpenCL implementations where the former is a closed but well developed ecosystem.

Ofcourse, consumer drivers are unremarkably a wee bit less polished than pro drivers. This is not because of lack of efforts but because the applications on the consumer sector are generally too vast to accurately cater for. Even then, in my feel AMD has come a long way when it comes to drivers. Maybe in that location was a time, when this merits held weightage, but I don't recall that is truthful anymore.