NVIDIA RTX 50 SERIES - Technical/General Discussion

[Nitefly]

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

Yes it’s terrible that this is even an issue… so distracting when it’s bad, especially if you are a sensitive sausage to ‘strange noise’ like me

 

[Curtis vincent]

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.

This launch truly has been a disaster

 

[Sin_Chase]

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.

What reports?
From who?
Collated where?

Can we stop posting nonsense without at least attributing a source?

 

[SeeNoWeevil]

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.

What really chaps my ass is the cheaper cards like Zotac/Palit have much less chance of whine. I have no idea why companies like Asus keep using inductors that are prone to whine. Because they might overclock 10Mhz higher? How on earth is that a good trade off??

 

[CornyOC]

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

lol is that game still alive? I've seen a video 2 years ago how pretty much everyone was using wallhacks and radars.

 

[Sin_Chase]

What really chaps my ass is the cheaper cards like Zotac/Palit have much less chance of whine. I have no idea why companies like Asus keep using inductors that are prone to whine. Because they might overclock 10Mhz higher? How on earth is that a good trade off??

Is that supported with data or is it purely anecdotal?

 

[harmattan]

What really chaps my ass is the cheaper cards like Zotac/Palit have much less chance of whine. I have no idea why companies like Asus keep using inductors that are prone to whine. Because they might overclock 10Mhz higher? How on earth is that a good trade off??

Because those components are cheaper, higher performant in other areas, or the AIB is contracted.... and consumers generally throw a blind eye to it.

Agree. If presented with a card that sounds like a dying lobster vs one that doesn't overclock .5% as well, I take the latter every time.

 

[CornyOC]

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.

That is so scary How is it possible to perma damage GPU with software? These GPUs should have safety limits to execute emergency shutdown before they melt. Knowing that a new driver could kill the £2000-3000 GPU any time in future is just fckin scary.

 

[GoRedwings19]

What really chaps my ass is the cheaper cards like Zotac/Palit have much less chance of whine. I have no idea why companies like Asus keep using inductors that are prone to whine. Because they might overclock 10Mhz higher? How on earth is that a good trade off??

I have yet to see the any of the palit owners at least in this thread report anything of significant coil whine if at all. The zotacs peeps mostly report either none or very minor coil whine.

When more stock is freely available and not such a pain to get hold of. I might have to get a Palit in for personal testing curiosity. But knowing my luck I would be the first with major coil whine

 

[SeeNoWeevil]

Is that supported with data or is it purely anecdotal?

Obviously data is not exactly abundant but it's certainly looking that way from forum threads. Wasn't the 40 series the same? (I skipped that gen).

Buildzoid has done a video basically explaining that the 'best' inductors for gpus, in terms of power regulation, are by far the most prone to coil whine so it's not really even that companies are cheaping out but intentionally choosing these components.

 

[Nitefly]

What really chaps my ass is the cheaper cards like Zotac/Palit have much less chance of whine. I have no idea why companies like Asus keep using inductors that are prone to whine. Because they might overclock 10Mhz higher? How on earth is that a good trade off??

Agreed, it was a ridiculous oversight. MSI seem to have taken steps to address it this time but we’re all waiting on @Hostile_18 to confirm for sure ( ).

Is that supported with data or is it purely anecdotal?

It does seem to have been the trend with the 40 series. PNY and Zotac cards had little whine as far as I could tell… this was why my initial pick for the 50 series was going to be a PNY card!

I expect it’s simply because the cards with lower power limits are less likely to cause whine in the first place and that with higher power limits it’s a harder problem to solve.

 

[Rusty0611]

Drivers have been weird recently. I can’t run anything over 561.09 on my 3080 otherwise it has a hissy fit in most - but not all - games. Just crashes to desktop after like an hour or so mostly. No such issues on the older driver… not good news though on 5000 series!

 

[CornyOC]

I have yet to see the any of the palit owners at least in this thread report anything of significant coil whine if at all. The zotacs peeps mostly report either none or very minor coil whine.

When more stock is freely available and not such a pain to get hold of. I might have to get a Palit in for personal testing curiosity. But knowing my luck I would be the first with major coil whine

According to this guy it is louder than FE but it makes a less peculiar type of noise, so it is not as bad overall.

 

[GoRedwings19]

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.

I thought that was due to the 5090D variants a China-only model that Jay2centz reported on but there is no substantiated word on it

 

[GoRedwings19]

According to this guy it is louder than FE but it makes a less peculiar type of noise, so it is not as bad overall.

Sorry bro it against my religion to watch that ****** and I am still in the queue to slap him from another thread. Can you just give me the TLR version if the palit has coil whine

 

[GoRedwings19]

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.

o.o what kind of high end surround setup if I may ask?

 

[fraps]

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.

I have the exact same card, at 110% power limit with +375/1500 core/mem and the whine is inaudible unless I put my ear to the glass. I run it with a nzxt c1200.

 

[Nitefly]

Sorry bro it against my religion to watch that ****** and I am still in the queue to slap him from another thread. Can you just give me the TLR version if the palit has coil whine

He’s edited his post to add a summary if you haven’t seen, but PC Centric is ok / harmless … not sure what he’s done to deserve such ire! If you don’t like his style then fair enough, avoid

 

[SeeNoWeevil]

I have the exact same card, at 110% power limit with +375/1500 core/mem and the whine is inaudible unless I put my ear to the glass. I run it with a nzxt c1200.

At 120fps+?

 

[SeeNoWeevil]

o.o what kind of high end surround setup if I may ask?

B&W speakers, Denon AVR, SVS 12" sub.