[gammagoblin]

>Linux had (has?) exactly the same problem. I don't know how much progress has been made on either MacOS nor Linux to deal with this.

All my AMD GPUs have been issued GPU resets for years. I know that in 2013 my Radeon 5870 (the card I had at the time) was issued soft resets, which was logged in dmesg as a success. The problem with that is that whatever program caused the GPU lockup would continue to run (unless it crashes, which is frequently the case) until the kernel had reset the GPU so many times, the only option left is a hard reset.

On Windows, the way GPU lockups are dealt with is also by resetting the GPU, and it's the same there too, if it keeps locking up several times within a certain time span the kernel panics and you either get a BSOD or a complete system lockup.