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5080 & 5090 Coil Whine Thread

Guru 3D has a few reviews of 5090s and 5080s now and this is how they are stacking when it comes to coil whine. Higher score = worse coil whine. I’ve also added the ‘overall rating’ as they scored them (Silver / Gold / Bronze).

5090s:
FE = 8/10 (Silver)
MSI Suprim = 6/10 (Gold)
MSI Suprim Liquid = 6/10 (Gold)
Palit GameRock = 6/10 (Silver)
ASUS Astral = 5/10 (Silver)
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5080s:
ASUS TUF = 8/10 (Silver)
MSI Suprim = 8/10 (Silver)
MSI Vanguard = 7/10 (Silver)
Gainward Phantom = 7/10 (Silver)
Galax 1-Click OC = 6/10 (Bronze)
Colorful iGame = 5/10 (Bronze)
Palit Gaming Pro = 5/10 (Silver)
FE = 5/10 (Bronze)
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All over the place!
 
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Currently being roasted on Reddit for switching in a 5080 FE for a 4090 TUF OC, but the coil whine on the 4090 has been driving me nuts and spoiling my enjoyment of games so the downgrade in FPS was worth it. Thankfully the silicon lottery has been kind and although it does have coil whine it's quiet enough so as not to be audible in the case, except in a couple of games and even when audible is low enough to ignore.
 
Strangely on my second day of using the card something bizarro has occurred that I have never experienced before. The electrical buzzing has subsided by quite a lot. So I got in from work and was mucking about doing my benching and what not. And then it dawned to me I didn't hear it any more. So I muted the sound and put my ear right next to the card (It in an open bench setup)And I could just about hear it like the faintest of noise. This shocked me to say the least. It was never loud in the first place but for it to almost disappear is practically a first for me. I mean I have read it from members and was always sceptical or like how changing power supplies may help but I was like Nah. needs more testing to confirm.

I am going to church tomorrow as now I am a believer. Amen brother to the anti coil whine almighty. :P
 
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Stu999 said:
8/10 coil whine somehow not bronze? It should be rated 'brown' for obvious reasons.
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I suppose they don’t mark it super harshly for bad whine as the nuisance factor is subjective and an undervolt / power limit can deal with it for most people.

But yeah, it’s enough to make it a pass for me.
 
Nitefly said:
I suppose they don’t mark it super harshly for bad whine as the nuisance factor is subjective and an undervolt / power limit can deal with it for most people.

But yeah, it’s enough to make it a pass for me.
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There's nothing subjective about excessive coil whine. It's measurable and tangible.
 
SeeNoWeevil said:
There's nothing subjective about excessive coil whine. It's measurable and tangible.
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… it’s subjective in how it affects you personally.

Some people that only game with headphones do not care. Some people expect high power cards to cause this sort of noise and therefore ‘deal with it’. Other people deal with it via undervolting.

This is why coil whine is only mentioned in passing, if at all, in the ‘nerdy’ reviewer vids that everybody praises for being ‘the best’.
 
Nitefly said:
… it’s subjective in how it affects you personally.

Some people that only game with headphones do not care. Some people expect high power cards to cause this sort of noise and therefore ‘deal with it’. Other people deal with it via undervolting.

This is why coil whine is only mentioned in passing, if at all, in the ‘nerdy’ reviewer vids that everybody praises for being ‘the best’.
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Seems counterintuitive to spend big on silent card/fans only to get this.

My personal theory is it's more to do with a person's white noise in the room itself. A dead silent room will make it very apparent.
 
Nitefly said:
… it’s subjective in how it affects you personally.

Some people that only game with headphones do not care. Some people expect high power cards to cause this sort of noise and therefore ‘deal with it’. Other people deal with it via undervolting.

This is why coil whine is only mentioned in passing, if at all, in the ‘nerdy’ reviewer vids that everybody praises for being ‘the best’.
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If the coil whine is so bad (8/10) that you need to drown it out with headphones or have hearing loss from too many raves in your teens, then it is a lesser product worthy of a lesser score. Undervolting probably won't fix it and is also not guaranteed to even be possible.
 
SeeNoWeevil said:
If the coil whine is so bad (8/10) that you need to drown it out with headphones or have hearing loss from too many raves in your teens, then it is a lesser product worthy of a lesser score. Undervolting probably won't fix it and is also not guaranteed to even be possible.
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I don’t put up with bad coil whine, the card gets sent back. But that’s because it’s not acceptable to me, personally. You’ll read all over the web about people putting up with terrible coil-whine and debating whether they should RMA it, but I’ve never got that far - if I don’t like it, it’s an instant return, I’m not putting up with that BS.

You’ll have to ask Guru 3D why they choose to rank the cards the way they do. I can only offer what I said as a suggestion.
 
So new PSU installed.

Its a Corsair RM 1000X with the new 6x2 cable for the GPU

Still no noise from the TUF 5080 if it helps anyone, I know it can be a bit of a lottery.
 
I have a weird question, in all my GPU's

ati all-in-wonder pro
random mid 2k's radeon
gtx 660 ti
gtx 1660s
6700xt
3070
4080

I've never heard a thing from a GPU outside of the 2 fan ones sounding like helicopters when the fans would go to 100, yet I always hear talk of this coil whine issue. Is it this widespread? Why don't I hear it? Is it super high pitched and maybe my hearing is bad?
 
arknor said:
you can only really reduce it by capping fps so the cards never at the highest clock speed
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Not true, I have eliminated coil whine on my 3090 with an undervolt and underclock.

For about a 10% performance hit from stock it now pulls around 260W instead of the 400W+ it boosts to at stock (EVGA 3090 Ultra).

It is often at 100% GPU utilisation but doesn't make a peep anymore.

As I've mentioned before my recent PSU purchase (Corsair RM1000 ATX 3.1) helped a lot with the coil whine issue as well.
 
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