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Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti graphics cards are dying on a lot of users.
RTX getting bashed again. Just found this post.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/nvidia-rtx-2080-ti-graphics-cards-dying/
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/nvidia-rtx-2080-ti-graphics-cards-dying/
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https://forums.geforce.com/default/board/227/geforce-rtx-20-series/
I do hear that nVidia is at least offering advance replacement on RMA (they ship you a replacement unit before they receive the malfunctioning hardware). I would think, for the price of the cards, they would include concierge home delivery and installation, but there I'm getting a bit biased.
1) What fraction of the cards are dying?
2) How were the dead cards treated before they died?
Some fraction of every SKU produced in large quantities will fail. If it's in line with other cards, then it's just the price of buying a consumer video card. It's only if it's abnormally high that there's a real story there.
On (2), one important factor is whether the card was overclocked. In the case of the founders' edition cards, the answer is that they have a considerable factory overclock, and that can't be good for failure rates. But there's still a question of whether they were further overclocked beyond that. There's also the question of whether the power supply and case airflow were built to be appropriate for a high end card. But I doubt that would be substantially different from what is typically done with other high end cards.
Run my 1080ti 6 months straight no power off no fail.
Brenics ~ Just to point out I do believe Chris Roberts is going down as the man who cheated backers and took down crowdfunding for gaming.
Brenics ~ Just to point out I do believe Chris Roberts is going down as the man who cheated backers and took down crowdfunding for gaming.
I just hope the OEMs are paying attention to this.
The returns policy is good so hopefully no problems, and at the price of the card I expected 6 months of back rubs and happy endings but we cant have everything.
On reddit a few people mentioned that the way that some PSUs react to those spikes damages the GDDR6 memory or its controllers, which is why some people keep having RMAd and different cards die (same PSU that causes no issue on any other card).
Another redditor swapped PSUs with a friend and had no issues with a problematic card.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/9su4da/nvidia_2080_ti_failures_vs_power_supply/
He thinks it's voltage regulation on the 12v rail, but bullzoid from actually hardcore overclocking thinks it's too agressive OCP protection on some PSUs, hopefully he does indepth testing on this on his youtube channel.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/rtx-2080-ti-gpu-defects-launch,37995.html
Brenics ~ Just to point out I do believe Chris Roberts is going down as the man who cheated backers and took down crowdfunding for gaming.
The GTX 590 had the excuse that it was two GPUs that could crank out perhaps 450 W combined, as the nominal 365 W TDP was pretty much a lie. The Radeon HD 5970 was also a dual GPU card. The RTX 2080 Ti doesn't have any such excuse. Is a $1200 price tag not enough to pay for a decent cooler or something?
https://www.hardocp.com/article/2018/11/09/geforce_rtx_2080_ti_fails_after_gaming_for_2_hours/
What I don't see is direct reason to believe that the RTX 2080 and RTX 2070 are also unreliable. Maybe they are, or maybe not. A thermal shot like the one Psycho linked above would be useful.
https://www.hardocp.com/article/2018/11/14/nvidia_on_cause_rtx_2080_series_card_failures/
The RTX 2080 (non-Ti) and RTX 2070 don't seem to be affected. They're available in ample stocks and aren't plagued by rumors of widespread failures. The GTX 1080 Ti seems to be discontinued, as the ones that were available at reasonable prices are gone, and all that remains is some stragglers at stupid prices. Presumably Nvidia wants people to move to the RTX 2080 for that performance level. The GTX 1080 still seems to be around, though.
"We were in such a rush to get cards to market that we didn't test them very well, so we didn't filter out enough of the defective ones before selling them."
Just to note, the 2070 does not have the power to do ray tracing in any effective way.
https://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&IsNodeId=1&N=100007709 601294835 601295933
It's not terribly surprising that Nvidia discontinued them once they had a next generation version. At their earnings announcement yesterday, they said that they basically weren't going to ship any mid-range cards this quarter, so the 1080 might be on the way out, too.