Early 1st gen ryzens segfaulted under certain workloads (particularly during compilations)
So it’s not like AMD is stellar that regard. Everyone has a faulty product occasionally.
But AFAIK AMD didn’t deny RMAs
With the i9, Intel is screwing their most profitable customers.
Considering Gamers Nexus track record it’ll be interesting to see how this works out
I expect Intel to come off worse in this exchange. GN and L1 are doing some absurd amounts of research and experimentation on this, from what I’ve heard so far. I’m really looking forward to them disproving a bunch of bullshit from Intel. This might even yield a class-action suit.
It seems crazy that intel were forced into a full recall by the backlash over the FDIV bug in the 90’s, but now they get away with far worse.
Not that crazy. Back then they were a luxury item and competition could easily spring up if they lost control of the market. Now they’re a necessity, competition is scarce, and they have deals with most major manufacturers to keep them in businesses even with faulty products. It’s standard late-capitalism consolidation at work.
They were relatively quick to pull the 1.13GHz Pentium III from the market when it turned out to have stability issues from pushing Coppermine too far.
This feels like a repeat of that, but with Intel sticking their heads in the sand and screwing over customers instead.
the team dives into game telemetry data (from Oodle) that shows Intel CPUs represent 70% of the error logs compared to AMD with just 30%.
Uh, what’s the market share? You can’t really provide the one number without the other.lol IDK how to link to a user on this app, but look at mox right below me. It’s just presented in a confusing way.
70/30% of the logs, not of the errors. It’s equivalent to what you’re thinking of as market share. (I can’t really blame you for misunderstanding, though; this article is poorly written.)
The proportion of errors is better explained in another article:
In fact, for one particular type of error (decompression, a commonly performed operation in games), there was a total of 1,584 that occurred in the databases Level1Techs sifted through, and an alarming 1,431 of those happened with a 13900K or 14900K. Yes – that’s 90% of those decompression errors hitting just two specific CPUs.
As for other processors, the third most prevalent was an old Intel Core i7 9750H (Coffee Lake laptop CPU) – which had a grand total of 11 instances. All AMD processors in total had just 4 occurrences of decompression errors in these game databases.
In case you were thinking that AMD chips might be really underrepresented here, hence that very low figure, well, they’re not – 30% of the CPUs in the database were from Team Red.
Buy new and charge back. They defraud us.
Don’t they usually check serial numbers?
Not usually, they don’t want to pay staff. Anyways, they’re criminals.
I must have won the silicon lottery because I’ve had no issues with my 13900K
yet
