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Rtx 3080 lower quality capacitor Issue

I get the feeling the manufacturers will find the stable spot and limit the cards to that in a VBios update.

As long as it's above advertised boost there's nothing wrong with that.

Having said that it will likely affect sales if it's known which cards have lower limits than others where as previously the advertised "Boost clock" speeds are all that most common users looked at.
 
Probably going to cancel my order now and wait for Big Navi, if only because that might drive some price drops from NVidia and by then we should see which cards are solid performers and which are a capacitor lottery.

This launch is a joke ting. AIBs clearly rushed into delivery. Some manufacturers spotted the problem early and changed it, others went with the cheap bios option to downclock/power limit their cards. I'm not spending £750 on a card that has to run at 95% power limit.
 
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Gamer_3983 said:
Well gigabyte cards dont have any problems since they use 470 rated SP caps. Why cant other manufacturers do the same? If they did then non of these cards wont have this problem when it boosts over 2ghz just like the gigabyte rtx 3080 eagle oc card. Most manufacturers are just cutting corners just to save money and sell a crappy product to a customer and charge more than MSRP. What a joke.
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Is this true? If so, I'm pleased!

I have the Eagle on preorder and have been looking out for issues with it but haven't seen anyone specifically say they have had any.

Has anyone here who has received a Gigabyte card had these issues, or seen anyone with one mention that they have?? I know it appears to be the whole 3080 series model but there is so much speculation and **** talking going on right now...
 
robfosters said:
I’ve watched quite a lot of videos on this and seen many reviews and benches, I haven’t seen much evidence at all of cards pooung the bed at stock.
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There are loads of posts on forums/reddit with cards not working out of the box. GPU boost is automatic, nothing to do with manual overclocking.
 
Jam3s said:
Is this true? If so, I'm pleased!

I have the Eagle on preorder and have been looking out for issues with it but haven't seen anyone specifically say they have had any.

Has anyone here who has received a Gigabyte card had these issues, or seen anyone with one mention that they have?? I know it appears to be the whole 3080 series model but there is so much speculation and **** talking going on right now...
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I have the Eagle card and zero issues with it so far, I'm staying stock speeds for now, but another user here has OC'd his quite successfully.
 
Jam3s said:
Is this true? If so, I'm pleased!

I have the Eagle on preorder and have been looking out for issues with it but haven't seen anyone specifically say they have had any.

Has anyone here who has received a Gigabyte card had these issues, or seen anyone with one mention that they have?? I know it appears to be the whole 3080 series model but there is so much speculation and **** talking going on right now...
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Gamer_3983 said:
Well gigabyte cards dont have any problems since they use 470 rated SP caps. Why cant other manufacturers do the same? If they did then non of these cards wont have this problem when it boosts over 2ghz just like the gigabyte rtx 3080 eagle oc card. Most manufacturers are just cutting corners just to save money and sell a crappy product to a customer and charge more than MSRP. What a joke.
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After reading about this I decided to test it with my new RTX 3080 Gigabyte Eagle OC card. Note, it runs solid at the shipped clocks. It plays plenty of games with the card maxed out as I have tried Witcher 3 and Shadow of War at 4k with unlocked FPS for extended periods (boost clocks are hovering between 1830 to 1940MHz ish under load). I loaded MSI Afterburner and ran Time Spy Stress Test while pushing the clocks up and sure enough as soon as the boost went over 2GHz Time Spy demo CTD (crashed to desktop). I repeated this multiple times at different overclocks (no memory OC and temp never went above 65°C). I wound the OC back down until it was +70MHz in MSI and Time Spy ran fine while boost clocks were very close to but never went above 2GHz.

Again the RTX 3080 cards were reported as poor overclockers in early reviews so I never intended to push it at all but any other card you push will fall over at some point. My last RTX 2080 had +125MHz on permanently and it only very occasionally went just above 2GHz, mostly hovering in the high 1900s. Any more and it would fall over too so what's the difference? If manufacturers are charging people extra money for overclocked cards that CTD with no user overclocking then that is another issue entirely and should be addressed. I am happy to leave mine stable at the stock clocks given I paid no extra (£650 inc VAT) since it still kills the performance I was getting with an RTX 2080 I paid the same for 18 months ago. It also runs incredibly quietly and at lower temps than the MSI RTX 2080 did! If there are issue down the line I will RMA it.
 
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Vogon said:
People asking should they cancel ... I would say not, just adjust your expectations of clock speeds. seems most cards will game around the 1900 area quite happily, and still be faster than what it replaced.
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Yea, the official boost is 1710, fact that some golden chips are hitting 2200 is amazing but now its set that everyone wants one of those or something that can maintain around 2050mhz even though it doesnt really increase frame rate that much.

Edit: Though the cards should never come out of the box unstable, but GPU Boost is pushing the cards further than they're able to go.

I'm just going to be happy if I can maintain 1950 though I'm planning to undervolt it to save that 100 watts of power for a few less fps.
 
Duncan Reay said:
After reading about this I decided to test it with my new RTX 3080 Gigabyte Eagle OC card. Note, it runs solid at the shipped clocks. It plays plenty of games with the card maxed out as I have tried Witcher 3 and Shadow of War at 4k with unlocked FPS for extended periods (boost clocks are hovering between 1830 to 1940MHz ish under load). I loaded MSI Afterburner and ran Time Spy Stress Test while pushing the clocks up and sure enough as soon as the boost went over 2GHz Time Spy demo CTD (crashed to desktop). I repeated this multiple times at different overclocks (no memory OC and temp never went above 65°C). I wound the OC back down until it was +70MHz in MSI and Time Spy ran fine while boost clocks were very close to but never went above 2GHz.

Again the RTX 3080 cards were reported as poor overclockers in early reviews so I never intended to push it at all but any other card you push will fall over at some point. My last RTX 2080 had +125MHz on permanently and it only very occasionally went just above 2GHz, mostly hovering in the high 1900s. Any more and it would fall over too so what's the difference? If manufacturers are charging people extra money for overclocked cards that CTD with no user overclocking then that is another issue entirely and should be addressed. I am happy to leave mine stable at the stock clocks given I paid no extra (£650 inc VAT) since it still kills the performance I was getting with an RTX 2080 I paid the same for 18 months ago. It also runs incredibly quietly and at lower temps than the MSI RTX 2080 did! If there are issue down the line I will RMA it.
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Duncan Reay, thanks for taking the time to undertake this for us and the details posted.

I'm with you with regards to being content with the card not clocking over 2GHz. I gather that your happy with the card and that's promising to hear! Fingers crossed mine arrives soon :)

Thanks again bud!
 
ZedEx48K said:
I have the Eagle card and zero issues with it so far, I'm staying stock speeds for now, but another user here has OC'd his quite successfully.
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Thanks bro thats promising news! Glad about the responses for the Gigabyte cards from owners since there has been so much trash talk going on with virtually nothing from people that actually own the cards.. just assumptions based on the capacitors speculation flying around.
 
Duncan Reay said:
After reading about this I decided to test it with my new RTX 3080 Gigabyte Eagle OC card. Note, it runs solid at the shipped clocks. It plays plenty of games with the card maxed out as I have tried Witcher 3 and Shadow of War at 4k with unlocked FPS for extended periods (boost clocks are hovering between 1830 to 1940MHz ish under load). I loaded MSI Afterburner and ran Time Spy Stress Test while pushing the clocks up and sure enough as soon as the boost went over 2GHz Time Spy demo CTD (crashed to desktop). I repeated this multiple times at different overclocks (no memory OC and temp never went above 65°C). I wound the OC back down until it was +70MHz in MSI and Time Spy ran fine while boost clocks were very close to but never went above 2GHz.

Again the RTX 3080 cards were reported as poor overclockers in early reviews so I never intended to push it at all but any other card you push will fall over at some point. My last RTX 2080 had +125MHz on permanently and it only very occasionally went just above 2GHz, mostly hovering in the high 1900s. Any more and it would fall over too so what's the difference? If manufacturers are charging people extra money for overclocked cards that CTD with no user overclocking then that is another issue entirely and should be addressed. I am happy to leave mine stable at the stock clocks given I paid no extra (£650 inc VAT) since it still kills the performance I was getting with an RTX 2080 I paid the same for 18 months ago. It also runs incredibly quietly and at lower temps than the MSI RTX 2080 did! If there are issue down the line I will RMA it.
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This is in line with what i now expect and am not disappointed about.
bottom line is
unless it's a driver issue it can't be helped and people expecting oc past 2ghz need to curb expectations
 
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