Overview
- Consumer CPU failure rates were nearly identical at 2.52% for AMD Ryzen 9000 and 2.49% for Intel Core Ultra, a difference Puget says is not statistically significant.
- Intel’s Core Ultra 7 265K posted the lowest consumer CPU SKU failure rate at 0.77%, followed by AMD’s Ryzen 9000 X3D chips at 1.51%.
- Intel’s Xeon W workstation processors recorded zero failures in 2025 after only one the year before.
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 50 Series Founders Edition cards had the lowest GPU failure rate at 0.25%, with ASUS and PNY partner cards at 0.40% and 0.45% respectively, a ranking Puget notes can be influenced by sales mix.
- Kingston led memory and storage reliability, highlighted by KC3000 SSDs at 0.22%, while Samsung’s 870 QVO 8TB SATA SSD saw no failures in 2025 and a 0.19% overall rate; Super Flower LEADEX PSUs ran at 0.47% failures and Corsair SFX units reported none.