AMD Goes On The Offensive, Claims Its Radeon GPU Drivers Are More Stable Than NVIDIA’s
You'll also encounter a portion of PC gamers who actively avoid AMD graphics cards. We haven't done the research to say what percentage of players this applies to, but it's definitely non-zero, and probably in the double digits. If you own a Radeon and everything's right as rain, you're likely wondering, "why would anyone want to avoid these wonderful GPUs?"
Of course, we haven't tested the new drivers ourselves, yet; we're waiting on those OpenGL tweaks before we do. Hopefully they're included in the next mainline update (presumably 22.7.1). AMD would like everyone to know how hard it's working on its drivers, though, and it put up a blog post with some talking points to help dispel the idea that its graphics drivers are sub-par.
Never one to pull its punches, AMD takes direct aim at NVIDIA with the post. It points out that by NVIDIA's own reckoning, AMD released more WHQL-certified drivers in 2021 than NVIDIA did, and that it apparently checks some 1/3 more test cases than NVIDIA. No word on exactly what those test cases are aside from "automated testing on unique system configurations," but it sounds impressive, anyway.
AMD's focus in the blog post is primarily stability. The company claims that it has "industry-leading" stability, and goes on to say that "99.95% of users experience no crashes when AMD Software is installed." That's almost hard to believe as a statistic for Windows PCs in general, but there it is.
AMD's slide also says that it has one unified code-base for "mobile, desktop, gaming, and creator," and suggests that NVIDIA does not. Taking a peek at both companies' download pages, we see separate drivers for "PRO" (or "Studio") users, as well as unified drivers for mobile and desktop, so we're not quite clear that this claim holds water, but maybe AMD knows something we don't.
In any case, the point AMD wants to drive home is that it's fixing up its driver foibles, and that "Optional" driver updates are not considered beta quality. You can head to AMD's blog to read the company's full statements on the matter.