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2080ti cards failing ?

melmac said:
Yeah, I read that over on their forums. That's really unlucky.
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And more than you would expect by chance with this supposed "limited test boards" rhetoric. How can a card with the new ram in a new box be a test board?

There's a distinct smell of pish coming from Nvidia currently.
 
Gerard said:
Still doesn't explain the 2080ti failures, the "test boards" reasons doesn't wash as the problem has occured on cards that don't use the reference board. So it'll be interesting to see if they upgrade this to test gpu chips at some point.
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Of course you will get failures on every SKU with any card it is the percentage of faulty cards that is the important figure.

As to what the percentage of failures is with the 2080 Ti it is still quite low according to anyone with access to accurate figures.

Even Gamers Nexus who did some testing of faulty cards pointed to the above.
 
What I do find strange about this thread is the 2080 Ti does have some weaknesses but the people here are so focused on faulty cards that they have totally missed the obvious.

Even the tech site reviewers have for one reason or another not reported what I am talking about.

Having said that the 2080 Ti is a nice card, it is unfortunate that the asking price is too high.
 
The RTX series is attracting so much hate over the internet because of the pricing which has resulted in issues being blown out of proportion. There are plenty of gamers happily gaming on Turing and not posting on the forums. NVIDIA knows the consequences if all cards started failing en masse. I wouldn't worry about it. If it fails, it will fail within the return window. Doesn't take long for the problem to rear its head, thankfully. Mostly all cards have issues at launch.
 
Just because it hasn't failed yet doesn't mean it won't. If there is a manufacturing defect with the chip, it will be present in all of them made within that period. Space invaders might strike months down the line.
 
Which is why all those stating return numbers are low are also getting stats that are too early to give the full picture. Nvidia have admitted there are defective cards (they defined them as 'test escapes', nice spin on that too :D ) and they'll replace them, which is fine. No comment on them fixing the issues or whether it's something that got beyond those and still present for those currently in production.

Pretty normal for corporate nonsense.
 
TrixX said:
Which is why all those stating return numbers are low are also getting stats that are too early to give the full picture. Nvidia have admitted there are defective cards (they defined them as 'test escapes', nice spin on that too :D ) and they'll replace them, which is fine. No comment on them fixing the issues or whether it's something that got beyond those and still present for those currently in production.

Pretty normal for corporate nonsense.
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Many will go bang after the 2-3 year warranty expires. Nvidia will be banking on that. Good luck ebaying these cards at next upgrade time though :P
 
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I'm starting to wonder if the distinct lack of rtx 2080ti's available is actually due to the number of GPU's failing on the production line.

I unfortunately had a 2080ti fail on me 10 days into ownership (Gigabyte Gaming), the RMA was processed quickly and I was refunded but this has left a sour taste in my mouth.. Back to my trusty 980ti for the time being.

I would encourage anyone also affected to add your experience to the following thread, it would be interesting to see if there are any trends appearing.
https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/t...x-card-if-so-please-post-the-details.18836254
 
Kaapstad said:
What I do find strange about this thread is the 2080 Ti does have some weaknesses but the people here are so focused on faulty cards that they have totally missed the obvious.

Even the tech site reviewers have for one reason or another not reported what I am talking about.

Having said that the 2080 Ti is a nice card, it is unfortunate that the asking price is too high.
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Care to elaborate? Am curious as to the obvious weakness? Also knowing you own a titan v do you think 2080ti would have been faster with some hbm loving?
 
Nasher said:
Just because it hasn't failed yet doesn't mean it won't. If there is a manufacturing defect with the chip, it will be present in all of them made within that period. Space invaders might strike months down the line.
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Yeah same with the older BGA solder failure problem - there were some cards that were in the affected production that never had issues and a lot that failed very early on then the rest failed over a series of months or even years but before they otherwise would have.
 
Vince said:
Care to elaborate? Am curious as to the obvious weakness? Also knowing you own a titan v do you think 2080ti would have been faster with some hbm loving?
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Sometimes the performance difference between a 1080 Ti and 2080 Ti @2160p is in single digit percentages.

HBM2 on the Titan V hinders it at 1080p and helps it at 2160p when compared to the 2080 Ti. At 1080p the 2080 Ti is faster at 2160p the Titan V is faster. This is based on both cards using their air coolers and normal bios.
 
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