NVIDIA RTX 50 SERIES - Technical/General Discussion

[SeeNoWeevil]

Sending my TUF OC 5080 back, the coil whine is awful. I'm out, buying modern GPUs is like punching yourself in the balls. PC gaming stinks right now. I see why so many of my friends have gone console/Steam deck only.

 

[Nitefly]

Sending my TUF OC 5080 back, the coil whine is awful. I'm out, buying modern GPUs is like punching yourself in the balls. PC gaming stinks right now. I see why so many of my friends have gone console/Steam deck only.

Have you tried power limiting it? With my 3090 I can only ‘totally eliminate’ the whine by power limiting to 80%, which maybe harms performance by 5-10%.

However I can live with some whine with game music on etc.

Not great, but it’ll do for now.

If there’s only a couple of % performance hit, might be worth seeing if that works for you?

 

[Grim5]

Sending my TUF OC 5080 back, the coil whine is awful. I'm out, buying modern GPUs is like punching yourself in the balls. PC gaming stinks right now. I see why so many of my friends have gone console/Steam deck only.

The ps5 console has plenty of coil whine too btw

Wear some headphones

 

[Sin_Chase]

The ps5 console has plenty of coil whine too btw

Wear some headphones

The whine on my 5090FE is only really intrusive at high load and like 300+ FPS.

In normal gaming circumstances its fine.

 

[GoRedwings19]

Have you tried power limiting it? With my 3090 I can only ‘totally eliminate’ the whine by power limiting to 80%, which maybe harms performance by 5-10%.

However I can live with some whine with game music on etc.

Not great, but it’ll do for now.

If there’s only a couple of % performance hit, might be worth seeing if that works for you?

I have no ever been able to eliminate or even drastically reduce coil whine on the worst offending cards. Plenty of people have mentioned this and it has worked for them. But I found in my experience at least on the cards that have really bad coil whine no amount of power limiting will help as I tend to run all my gpu's at 70-80% anyways.

@Grim5 Funny you should say that my friend one has pretty bad coil whine but when I owned one it was as quiet as a mouse.

 

[Grim5]

apparently escape from tarkov devs consider the driver dlss4 override to be cheating/breach of TOS and ask players not do use it

 

[GoRedwings19]

apparently escape from tarkov devs consider the driver dlss4 override to be cheating/breach of TOS and ask players not do use it

How is it cheating?

 

[Grim5]

How is it cheating?

Modifies the game, it's more of a technicality than any real cheating, it's considered bad simply because it's modifying the image outside of the game developer's intent

I'm not aware of anyone getting banned yet though, just the devs ask people not to use it

 

[Alt0153]

The whine on my 5090FE is only really intrusive at high load and like 300+ FPS.

In normal gaming circumstances its fine.

is that 300 real fps or 80% fake ones?

 

[SeeNoWeevil]

The ps5 console has plenty of coil whine too btw

Wear some headphones

Oh yeah, I'll just not use my high end surround system and sit in my livingroom wearing headphones to drown out coil whine. Great suggestion.

 

[SeeNoWeevil]

Have you tried power limiting it? With my 3090 I can only ‘totally eliminate’ the whine by power limiting to 80%, which maybe harms performance by 5-10%.

However I can live with some whine with game music on etc.

Not great, but it’ll do for now.

If there’s only a couple of % performance hit, might be worth seeing if that works for you?

Yeah it doesn't really make any difference. Over 100fps is whine-central regardless.

 

[Sin_Chase]

is that 300 real fps or 80% fake ones?

Real

 

[uscool]

Have you tried power limiting it? With my 3090 I can only ‘totally eliminate’ the whine by power limiting to 80%, which maybe harms performance by 5-10%.

However I can live with some whine with game music on etc.

Not great, but it’ll do for now.

If there’s only a couple of % performance hit, might be worth seeing if that works for you?

not that its already insulting now you gonna compromise and still let them get away with it , and 5%-10% is actually big deal when the improvments are so low in the first place lol

 

[Curtis vincent]

Dubai edition. For one 3000 dollars just wasn't quite enough of a rip off

 

[SeeNoWeevil]

not that its already insulting now you gonna compromise and still let them get away with it , and 5%-10% is actually big deal when the improvments are so low in the first place lol

Yeah this is how I feel. I was already at the absolute limit of accepting all the other aspects of this card so the whine just pushes me right over.

 

[harmattan]

Has anyone tried downclocking the VRAM yet and seeing what difference it makes to performance and power usage? I recall a brief comment from one review saying it overclocked by a huge amount (core OCd as well though) but the difference was barely noticable so I'm wondering just how necessary GDDR7 actually is.

Performance difference will be notable but marginal; power difference will be very marginal (5-10w)

 

[Nitefly]

not that its already insulting now you gonna compromise and still let them get away with it , and 5%-10% is actually big deal when the improvments are so low in the first place lol

The 4090s I had were totally **** with coil whine, were not acceptable to me even with under-volts and I sent them back - so it’s not as if I willingly accept utter rubbish.

But there should be scope for wiggle room / tolerance. Worth trying to find a solution if a card doesn’t work for you at stock as a replacement card could have the same issues.

 

[harmattan]

I have no ever been able to eliminate or even drastically reduce coil whine on the worst offending cards. Plenty of people have mentioned this and it has worked for them. But I found in my experience at least on the cards that have really bad coil whine no amount of power limiting will help as I tend to run all my gpu's at 70-80% anyways.

@Grim5 Funny you should say that my friend one has pretty bad coil whine but when I owned one it was as quiet as a mouse.

This has been my experience as well: no amount of undervolting or PSU swaps help. Also, telling someone to reduce power below spec is like asking if you've tried limping on a dodgy knee.

It's absurd we have to deal with coil whine on cards this expensive.

 

[uscool]

The 4090s I had were totally **** with coil whine, were not acceptable to me even with under-volts and I sent them back - so it’s not as if I willingly accept utter rubbish.

But there should be scope for wiggle room / tolerance. Worth trying to find a solution if a card doesn’t work for you at stock as a replacement card could have the same issues.

i had this with FE 30 series, terrible coil whine high variable pitch I just felt another person paying the same and same card maybe doesnt have it why should it be like that, so I returned it and replacement was much better still had it but no where as bad and gets drowned out when fans kick in

now prices have gone up and you still have this lottery

 

[andyrpsmith]

andyrpsmith wrote on 2/6/2025, 11:11 AM
Just a heads up that reports are filtering through that the new driver 572.16 recently released for the 50 series cards (If you were lucky to get one) can seriously permanently damage the card. The reports relate to the 5090 at the moment but users of 40 series have reported black screens which seems to be the initial phase of failure. No reports so far of 30/20 series being affected. One solution is to roll back to 566.36 which released last Dec as an interim safety fix. (this would mean the 50 series not being recognised by windows but may save your card until the issue has been resolved). Not sure if Studio Driver version is affected but better safe than sorry. I have rolled back to 566.36 for my 4080S and 1080Ti in case.