Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti graphics cards are dying on a lot of users

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Concerns are mounting over the failure rate of Nvidia’s RTX 2080 Ti graphics card, with increasing numbers of reports of dead and dying cards from early adopters. Some display issues involving artifacting and instability immediately after being installed, whilst others begin to show signs of degradation after a few days, despite a lack of manual overclocking or voltage manipulation.

Nvidia’s recently released RTX Turing graphics cards are the most powerful consumer GPUs ever made and support exciting new gaming visual features like deep learning supersampling (DLSS) and ray tracing. That said, the performance enhancement over the last generation isn’t as dramatic as first hoped and inflated pricing left some concerned about the real audience for such cards. Mere weeks after they became widely available, quality assurance concerns now join those earlier issues.

Threads have been cropping up on Nvidia’s forum about dead and dying RTX 2080 Ti cards for weeks now, with almost every thread over several pages with hundreds of comments highlighting crashes, black screens, blue screen of death issues, artifacts, and cards that fail to work entirely. There are some reports of issues with the 2080, too, but the majority are referencing problematic 2080 Ti cards.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/nvidia-rtx-2080-ti-graphics-cards-dying/

anyone else have trouble with theirs?
 
I've got a 2080Ti FE purchased direct from Nvidia. It's got a light overclock running on it now. Just waiting for my waterblock to come in before I really dial in my settings. So far, I've had no problems (aside from the lack of RTX features, heh). Here's roughly what I've done thus far over the past ~3 weeks:

- 77 Hours in Final Fantasy XV
- 15 Hours in Doom
- 10 Hours Assassin's Creed: Odyssey
- 200+ Hours in After Effects
- 50+ Hours in Blender

So far I haven't experienced any of the symptoms plaguing other users.
 
Mostly FE cards as well, few posts in the owners thread saying about cards shitting out.
 
I know for sure, most of the issues are false positives, i've been having all kind of BSOD, CTD when overclocking since 411.63 which was the RTX launch drivers and I'm on 1080ti. Most people could just think are natural issues with their cards when in fact it could be just driver issues and this include going back to my 980Ti and 970.. in fact in the troubleshooting process which when discovered driver issues also affected my maxwell cards.
 
Everything ran fine until today, now I’m having trouble booting into windows and the Device Manager under display adapter shows a “Windows has stopped the device because it has reported problems. (Code 43).”

Anyone else with this issue? Using a Zotac AMP 2080Ti.

Here's what GPU-Z looks like, notice the memory size and clocks..
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Everything ran fine until today, now I’m having trouble booting into windows and the Device Manager under display adapter shows a “Windows has stopped the device because it has reported problems. (Code 43).”

Anyone else with this issue? Using a Zotac AMP 2080Ti.
That is the same error code I had on my FE card that I had to RMA. For me the failure was preceded with artifacting in game and then a bsod. Hope you manage to get things resolved.
 
Everything ran fine until today, now I’m having trouble booting into windows and the Device Manager under display adapter shows a “Windows has stopped the device because it has reported problems. (Code 43).”

Anyone else with this issue? Using a Zotac AMP 2080Ti.

Here's what GPU-Z looks like, notice the memory size and clocks..
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All of you unfortunate folks keep us updated on how long it takes to get your cards back and any issues you encounter during the return process please.
 
All of you unfortunate folks keep us updated on how long it takes to get your cards back and any issues you encounter during the return process please.
I've gotten my replacement. My original card failed on the 19th and when putting in for the RMA that evening they said it'd take about 3 or 4 business days to ship it. Since it was the weekend I'd have to wait a bit. They eventually shipped it on Friday from Hong Kong and it arrived this morning. Haven't had to RMA with Nvidia before so I'm not how long it usually takes them to ship out a replacement.
 
Do they do an advanced RMA where they send you a replacement then you ship back the faulty one?
 
I bought two 2080 Ti cards and I think one of them was bad. At least I was getting consistent blue screens and crashing on that card in multiple apps.

Nvidia was really good about the RMA. I contacted them the Sunday before last, they asked a few questions and then agreed to RMA.

They are even doing advanced replacement, and my new card arrives tomorrow (so about 1 week wait).
 
I wonder if these people are using a single cable for their power delivery or using 2 separate cables.

No issues with mine so far.
 
I wonder if these people are using a single cable for their power delivery or using 2 separate cables.

No issues with mine so far.

I imagine some of the issues maybe related to PSU, especially Corsair PSU and how it delivers the power to the GPU. Also, shouldn't dual 8-pins cable able to handle 300 watts?
 
Well, I had a Corsair digital PSU, an AX1500i (not a cheap one either), and I had so many problems after installing the 2080 Ti cards.

I tried what they said on Reddit about single-rail mode, using 2 cables, etc. but it wouldn't work.

So I ended up buying an EVGA 1000W and things have been good so far (with the 1 good card, I'm still getting an RMA for the other).
 
I know for sure, most of the issues are false positives, i've been having all kind of BSOD, CTD when overclocking since 411.63 which was the RTX launch drivers and I'm on 1080ti. Most people could just think are natural issues with their cards when in fact it could be just driver issues and this include going back to my 980Ti and 970.. in fact in the troubleshooting process which when discovered driver issues also affected my maxwell cards.

That can't possibly be true. Only AMD cards ever have driver problems. It is known. /s
 
I imagine some of the issues maybe related to PSU, especially Corsair PSU and how it delivers the power to the GPU. Also, shouldn't dual 8-pins cable able to handle 300 watts?

It should, but a lot of PSU's out there are frankly piles of crap and the wattage rating means nothing.

Also, this card spikes over 300watts easily if you crank the power slider up.
 
It should, but a lot of PSU's out there are frankly piles of crap and the wattage rating means nothing.
Well, they didn't work on my Corsair AX1500i. A platinum PSU with 1500W. I think it cost $450, not a crappy PSU by any means, and it was never a problem running GTX 1080 SLI.
 
My 2080 may be kicking the bucket, too, then. I got some driver IRQL blue screen in the middle of Civ 6. Then I rebooted and tried using Display Driver Uninstaller. Only to have it hang while trying to uninstall the drivers. So I force close that and just try to use the Programs and Features menu. That fails too because it can't locate some file. Then I try Nvidia's driver download. But it hangs while installing. So I try rebooting to safe mode by going to settings and going through the recovery menu. Only to have Windows BSOD after hanging on a black screen trying to get to the safe boot menu, citing some sort of driver power state management problem that I've never seen before in my life.

This is fun. PC gaming is the best.
 
On one hand, I’m happy that I wasn’t just unlucky. On the other, I don’t like how big of an issue this is. I know hardware fails all the time, but the amount of complaints seems to be much larger than previous generations.
 
I'm seeing it more with Founders cards and that worries me. You would think they would have better QA. I hope for my fellow 2080 ti owners better experiences going forward.
 
I've got a 2080Ti FE purchased direct from Nvidia. It's got a light overclock running on it now. Just waiting for my waterblock to come in before I really dial in my settings. So far, I've had no problems (aside from the lack of RTX features, heh). Here's roughly what I've done thus far over the past ~3 weeks:

- 77 Hours in Final Fantasy XV
- 15 Hours in Doom
- 10 Hours Assassin's Creed: Odyssey
- 200+ Hours in After Effects
- 50+ Hours in Blender

So far I haven't experienced any of the symptoms plaguing other users.

Sure you want to install that water block if your card could potentially fail?
 
I read somewhere (NV forums maybe?) that they are blaming these on a bad batch of GDDR6. Many of the artifact screenshots certainly support that as they look like classic examples of memory failure. That would be better than some process or design fault in the GPU silicon itself. That would lead to a lot of pain going forward, especially if it is only the most marginal chips dying first.

Hopefully my EVGA FTW3 will not be affected, but their support is generally top notch if it does go bad. Maybe I should hold on to my 1080 Ti just in case...
 
I read somewhere (NV forums maybe?) that they are blaming these on a bad batch of GDDR6. Many of the artifact screenshots certainly support that as they look like classic examples of memory failure. That would be better than some process or design fault in the GPU silicon itself. That would lead to a lot of pain going forward, especially if it is only the most marginal chips dying first.

Hopefully my EVGA FTW3 will not be affected, but their support is generally top notch if it does go bad. Maybe I should hold on to my 1080 Ti just in case...

I would if you don't need the money. Has this issue only affected the ti version thus far?
 
So far so good on my end. I'm on an EVGA 2080Ti. The only issues I've had thus far have been with Shadow of the Tomb Raider, and apparently they're widespread and likely game-related.
 
This is a scary Halloween story but I'm going to look at the Nvidia forums. I hope it's a simple fix.
 
I should also add that my 2080 Ti FTW3 is working very well so far. I've had the card since 10/25 and have used it quite a bit with no issues. I'm hoping to stress it a bit this week with maxed out Witcher 3 or heavily modded Fallout 4 at 4K.
 
Sora that guy who knows everything :) said the FE cards are outsourced to PNY and Palit so that is what you are getting. It could be memory degration but 2080 cards are not having a problem temps are not the problem because some people are watercooling.
 
Out of curiosity, are people recommending using a single power cable or two for these cards? I'm on a Corsair HX1000 and have had no issues for what it's worth.
On day 1 I hooked it up using 2 separate cables, but went to a single cable (using both connectors) just to neaten things up a few weeks later.
 
I think I'm going to RMA. Like I said my card was fine for over a month (launch pre-order), now Windows won't even recognize it and booting up with the drivers installed results in black screen crashing within seconds.

Guess we'll find out how good (or awful) Zotac's RMA process is.
 
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