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5080 & 5090 Coil Whine Thread

Hostile_18 said:
I have been getting @Personality+ to do extensive tests with his card. Sure he'll bring us his official verdict of the FE in due course ;)
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If you always use headphones you'll be fine, otherwise fans do ramp up here and there and coilwhine/buzzing is covered by fan noise for the most part.


Everyone has different tolerance levels... I'd prefer to have a dual bios 5090 with a silent mode personally even if it did have whine, at least then fans aren't in the mix as much.


Not as bad as some of the reviewer youtube videos though....


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Personality+ said:
If you always use headphones you'll be fine, otherwise fans do ramp up here and there and coilwhine/buzzing is covered by fan noise for the most part.


Everyone has different tolerance levels... I'd prefer to have a dual bios 5090 with a silent mode personally even if it did have whine, at least then fans aren't in the mix as much.


Not as bad as some of the reviewer youtube videos though....


Let me add (stock settings)
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Can we get audio?
 
I have an external MO-RA and will be watercooling the GPU, so I dont have the comfort of fan noise to mask coil whine.. Just waiting for the 5090s (all 4 of them) to reach people's hands and report how bad the coil whine on various models is.
 
wij said:
Managed to get one of the Zotac 5080 Solid OCs which arrived today, it certainly has some coil whine but not intollerable to me.

My case is a Fractal North XL mesh with the three stock Fractal fans in the front, Arctic III 360 up top and one additional 140mm Arctic P14 at the back so not a silent build by any means but it is virtually silent when idle and even under load the fans and pump don't seem to really work too hard.

Appears to be worse when the FPS is very high - running Timespy at 1440p when it hits 250+ FPS it is auidble from about 50cm away with my case up on my desk, outside of those scenarioes though it seems to be fine to me though.

For my uses it is fine, and certainly with a pair of closed back headphones for gaming use I cannot hear it at all.
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Sorry to hear that and glad it doesn't bother you. Last gen the Zotacs with the Giga were excellent for not having coil whine. Wonder why the zotacs have coil whine now. And likewise the Msi suprim X's were notorious for coil whine like the strix bu this time round it doesn't have any. Well at least not that sample in that review.
 
5090FE is arriving this evening. Not sure I'll have time to play with it today as I've got a prior engagement tonight but I can get you all some videos tomorrow for sure to highlight the horror.
If anyone has any specific game/benchmark requests let me know. I'll probably be able to accomodate.
 
kreas said:
can we get an audio sample?
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Made a couple of short clips under different scenarios, the Timespy is by far the worst one as the pitch seems to go up with the FPS.

The audio on these does make it sound worse than it is in reality, but certainly very auidble without headphones on - with headphones I cannot hear these noises in game so they don't bother me, but I would certainly not enjoy this if I was using the PC in a living room with a controller or some setup like that.

Zotac 5080 Solid OC - this is using the default "performance" BIOS setting, I have not tried the "silent" one yet (and I need to figure out how to disable the silly RGB lighting too!).

Idle on desktop:

Gaming - 1440p with FPS limmiter to 144 to match my monitor refresh rate:

Timespy - 1440p / No FPS limitter:
 
GoRedwings19 said:
Sorry to hear that and glad it doesn't bother you. Last gen the Zotacs with the Giga were excellent for not having coil whine. Wonder why the zotacs have coil whine now. And likewise the Msi suprim X's were notorious for coil whine like the strix bu this time round it doesn't have any. Well at least not that sample in that review.
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It could be I have a particularly bad sample too, not a lot of reviews out there for many of the AIBs yet so maybe that will become clearer in time.

If 5080s and 5090s were abundent in supply I'd maybe be tempted to return this one and try another, but right now I'll just live with it as my backup GPU is a noisy old 2080 with a blower fan cooler so this is nothing compared to the noise that thing makes!
 
My Zotac 5080 AMP Extreme INFINITY (I didn't realise there's an infinity mirror on the end of the card, durr!) has coil whine but it's much less audible than the squealing of my 6800 XT when it was paired with my old PSU.

I've yet to try it at very high FPS so will give TimeSpy a run with all limiters off later to see how bad it can get, but I don't notice it at all with my headset on (it's how I game 90% of the time), and it didn't bother me when I took them off.

The fans are definitely louder than the old Nitro+, but temps are nice and low so I'll give the quiet BIOS a go. It's an odd system, instead of the usual BIOS switch it's a button that you press while it's powered on, which applies the change when the PC is rebooted.
 
5080 FE owner here. Just got the card a few hours ago and while there is a bit of coil whine, it's nowhere near as noticeable as I was expected - especially compared to my old Zotac 1070 which was terrible for coil whine.

Plus, it only seems to happen during loading screens when the frame rate ramps up into the thousands.

Fans are not too loud, with my previous GPU I had to make my own fan curve as it was unbearably loud but I don't feel I need that with the 5080.
 
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Stu999 said:
Is 1 lots of coil whine or 10 is the most?
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The high end models have more coil whine due to the better 70A inductors they use. If you watch Bullzoids 5080 PCB analysis on YouTube he explains it. The cheaper models with inferior inductors have less whine. Hence the Suprim and TUF etc. have bad ratings 8/10 for whine on guru3d.
 
This was interesting from Guru 3D regarding the 5080 Suprim:

Coil whine​

The presence of coil squeal in any GeForce RTX 5000 graphics card can vary, depending on the degree of the issue. It becomes audible when reaching high framerates, but typically remains at a manageable level. Within an enclosed case, this sound is likely to blend into the background noise. In our experience with this specific card, the coil squeal has been very noticeable to us. This product RTX 5080 will make coil whine, rated 8 out of 10.
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Hmm, I hope that the 5090 version is better than that…
 
zarg said:
5080 FE owner here. Just got the card a few hours ago and while there is a bit of coil whine, it's nowhere near as noticeable as I was expected - especially compared to my old Zotac 1070 which was terrible for coil whine.

Plus, it only seems to happen during loading screens when the frame rate ramps up into the thousands.

Fans are not too loud, with my previous Gigabyte 3080 Gaming OC I had to make my own fan curve as it was unbearably loud but I don't feel I need that with the 5080.
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How's the upgrade, that's quite a jump!
 
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