Puget: Core Ultra 7 265K has only 0.77% reported failures

Puget Systems, a system integrator, has published its 2025 component reliability report based on internal burn-in results and RMA records. The company says the data reflects parts used in its own desktop and rackmount workstation builds, not the full retail market.

On consumer desktops, Puget Systems reports near-identical failure rates for AMD AMD Ryzen 9000 (2.52%) and Intel Core Ultra 200 Series (2.49%). Puget Systems avoids calling a family-level winner because the gap is tiny. According to them, Intel Core Ultra 7 265K posts the lowest per-chip failure rate at 0.77%, while AMD Ryzen 9000 Series X3D lands at 1.51% as a group. Puget Systems adds that most X3D failures were caught before systems shipped. 

However, there are two standouts within these families that did record fewer failures across a wide enough sample size! The most reliable individual processor was Intel’s Core Ultra 7 265K, with only a 0.77% failure rate. As a group, AMD’s Ryzen X3D processors also had a better track record than the Ryzen 9000 family as a whole, with 1.51% of chips failing in 2025 – and the vast majority of those being caught here before systems shipped out to customers.

— Puget Systems

What’s important is that Puget Systems builds workstations at stock settings and does not tune CPUs the way many enthusiasts do. Core Ultra 200 buyers can also enable Intel 200S Boost, a BIOS profile that vendors describe as overclocking and that requires a BIOS update on supported boards. A system that runs 200S Boost, or other vendor boost options, can behave differently for power, temperature, and stability than Puget Systems’ baseline configurations. 

The report does not say whether Puget uses any ASRock motherboards, so it is unclear how the numbers might look if the company included that brand.

Puget Systems also says workstation-class Intel Xeon W-2500 and Intel Xeon W-3500 had zero recorded failures in 2025. The report notes lower unit volume versus Threadripper, but frames the trend as consistent across recent Xeon W generations. 

GPU reliability was also measured

Puget Systems lists NVIDIA Founders Edition GeForce RTX cards at a 0.25% failure rate in 2025, followed by ASUS at 0.40% and PNY at 0.45%. Again, this is not a typical gaming-oriented PC building comapny. Puget Systems’ mix leans toward baseline, “MSRP” designs (often TUF and PNY), while many gamers buy higher-power factory-OC models with different boards and cooling. 

Source: Puget Systems

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