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The tables have turned for 2025, as the company reports that the Intel Xeon W family of processors hasn’t seen a single failure this year and only one the previous year. For consumer CPUs, AMD Ryzen 9000 and Intel Core Ultra 200S have neck-and-neck failure rates: 2.52% for AMD Ryzen and 2.49% for Intel Core Ultra. Beyond these chip families, one SKU stood out: the Intel Core Ultra 7 265K , with a 0.77% failure rate. AMD’s X3D processors also delivered excellent performance, with a 1.51% failure rate, making them more reliable than the rest of AMD’s 9000-series CPUs.
Asus ProArt and TUF GPUs took the reliability crown last year, but because the company did not sell enough cards from a specific product line this year, Puget Systems chose the most dependable GPU manufacturer instead. Nvidia Founders Edition GPUs are at the top of the list, with a 0.25% failure rate, while Asus and PNY followed closely behind with 0.40% and 0.45%, respectively. The system integrator also said that Nvidia’s professional RTX Ada Generation and RTX Pro Blackwell GPUs were equally reliable, with low failure rates — except for the high-wattage RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition.
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- https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/SPONSORED_LINK_URL
- https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intel-ties-amd-for-most-reliable-cpus-in-2025-system-builder-report-nvidias-founders-edition-gpus-dominate-with-the-lowest-failure-rates#main
- https://www.tomshardware.com
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