Puget Systems releases an annual reliability report detailing the reliability of the components that it uses for its systems. According to the data, Intel and AMD produce the best CPUs and are tied in reliability. The report also presents data on which motherboards, graphics cards, and memory modules have the lowest failure rates.
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.
