You might recall that Nvidia and AMD were butting heads over driver quality earlier this year, too.
Nvidia has been engaging in firing more flak at AMD over the quality of its rival’s GPU drivers (in an indirect fashion), in what has been something of a running battle over the course of this year (Intel takes some shots here too, mind).
As Tom’s Hardware (opens in new tab) reports, Nvidia’s Senior Product Manager for GeForce drivers, Sean Pelletier, shared a table of driver update frequency over the last two years for AMD, Nvidia and Intel.
The message is that Nvidia delivers a lot more driver updates on a regular basis for gamers, with 20 WHQL-certified graphics driver versions in 2021, and 18 in 2022 (up to December 8). WHQL stands for Windows Hardware Quality Labs, so they’re certified by Microsoft.
That compares to 5 and 6 WHQL-certified releases for AMD respectively, though Team Red also pushed out 24 and 19 beta drivers in 2021 and 2022. For Intel, the release driver tally was 9 and 6 certified, plus 5 and 13 beta drivers over 2021 and 2022 respectively.
Pelletier observes that Nvidia introduced support for a good deal more games with these driver releases, too: 75 and 69 games to be precise, for 2021 and 2022, compared to 37 and 29 for AMD, plus 5 and 28 respectively for Intel.
This is yet another not-so-subtle dig at AMD (mainly, and Intel on the side) and its driver quality.
