Do YOU have Problems with YOUR RTX card?

Do YOU have Problems with YOUR RTX card?

  • My RTX 2080 Died

    Votes: 2 0.9%
  • My RTX 2080 Ti Died

    Votes: 30 13.6%
  • My RTX 2080 has BSOD Issues

    Votes: 3 1.4%
  • My RTX 2080 Ti has BSOD Issues

    Votes: 13 5.9%
  • My RTX 2080 has Other Issues

    Votes: 7 3.2%
  • My RTX 2080 Ti has Other Issues

    Votes: 23 10.5%
  • I have RMA'd my RTX 2080

    Votes: 2 0.9%
  • I have RMA'd my RTX 2080 Ti

    Votes: 26 11.8%
  • My RTX is a Founders Edition

    Votes: 62 28.2%
  • I have NO ISSUES with my RTX card

    Votes: 156 70.9%

  • Total voters
    220
It is the audio card Slayer. You are absolutely correct. I gave it to him because 1. I'm an asshole & 2. Now it's his problem. ;)

Damnit, now your got me thinking- I purchased, then returned, a Sound Blaster Z because after a time the channels went wonky on the headphone output, for which I purchased it. It was driving 300Ohm Sennheiser HD600's and quite well at that, but it simply did not behave when placed above a GTX970, which was in SLI with another GTX970 below it. The top card ran especially hot.

I'm not sure why I didn't try a lower slot...
 
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Damnit, now your got me thinking- I purchased, then returned, a Sound Blaster Z because after a time the channels went wonky on the headphone output, for which I purchased it. It was driving 300Ohm Sennheiser HD600's and quite well at that, but it simply did not behave when placed above a GTX970, which was in SLI with another GTX970 below it. The top card ran especially hot.

I'm not sure why I didn't try a lower slot...
Yeah, I will never put another audio card in that slot again... Anything I put below the Graphics card was fine. My old MSI Tomahawk had an old PCI slot on it and I had put a ASUS audio card into it, just didn't match up to the Sound Blaster Z in any capacity. I agree, probably should have put it in the lower PCI-E slot. However, it was a bit late since the 1080Ti had roasted a couple of my Audio cards at that point. That's the exact problem I had tho. The Headphone output went wonky on all three cards I placed in the 1X slot above the graphics card.

I ended up tossing a pair of Turtle Beach Headphones that had awesome Bass response thinking that they had failed after like 5+ years of flawless use. Once I realized the cards were failing I was kicking myself for not realizing what had, actually, happened. However, I'm pretty sure that given the reactions on here about my discovery that no one would ever expect anything like this to happen.
 
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Yeah, I will never put another audio card in that slot again... Anything I put below the Graphics card was fine. My old MSI Tomahawk had an old PCI slot on it and I had put a ASUS audio card into it, just didn't match up to the Sound Blaster Z in any capacity. I agree, probably should have put it in the lower PCI-E slot. However, it was a bit late since the 1080Ti had roasted a couple of my Audio cards at that point. That's the exact problem I had tho. The Headphone output went wonky on all three cards I placed in the 1X slot above the graphics card.

I ended up tossing a pair of Turtle Beach Headphones that had awesome Bass response thinking that they had failed after like 5+ years of flawless use. Once I realized the cards were failing I was kicking myself for not realizing what had, actually, happened. However, I'm pretty sure that given the reactions on here about my discovery that no one would ever expect anything like this to happen.

Colour me surprised indeed, that's definitely something I didn't expect to hear (pardon the pun)... all the more justification for an external DAC too. Never been a fan of sandwiching cards. I wish you luck with your next GPU or build... you definitely deserve a break from the hardware gods!
 
Colour me surprised indeed, that's definitely something I didn't expect to hear (pardon the pun)... all the more justification for an external DAC too. Never been a fan of sandwiching cards. I wish you luck with your next GPU or build... you definitely deserve a break from the hardware gods!
I did learn. I went External USB Sound Blaster and been pretty happy ever since. Might not be perfect but it still sounds a helluva lot better than on board sound. I'm just using older X-Fi 5.1 units I picked up cheap. They do the trick. Thanks for the good mojo!
 
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Damnit, now your got me thinking- I purchased, then returned, a Sound Blaster Z because after a time the channels went wonky on the headphone output, for which I purchased it. It was driving 300Ohm Sennheiser HD600's and quite well at that, but it simply did not behave when placed above a GTX970, which was in SLI with another GTX970 below it. The top card ran especially hot.

I'm not sure why I didn't try a lower slot...

I had a Soundblaster Z sandwiched in between a pair of 980's for years, no problems. I know just one data point but wanted to mention.
 
I had a Soundblaster Z sandwiched in between a pair of 980's for years, no problems. I know just one data point but wanted to mention.

I believe it- I'm not sure what was going on here. Plenty of ventilation, but I know that card was getting hot regardless. If it makes any difference, I was stressing the headphone amp too.

I did learn. I went External USB Sound Blaster and been pretty happy ever since. Might not be perfect but it still sounds a helluva lot better than on board sound. I'm just using older X-Fi 5.1 units I picked up cheap. They do the trick. Thanks for the good mojo!

Getting the analog stage outside of the case is the goal for audio these days- USB headsets bare minimum, but I'm running optical out from the crab chip, which is fed by Creative software (not to be mistaken for their interpretation of drivers), to a balanced DAC, that then feeds either a headphone amp or a balanced studio 2.1 set.

No noise, strong sound :)
 
I had a Soundblaster Z sandwiched in between a pair of 980's for years, no problems. I know just one data point but wanted to mention.
Dude, everything is always perfect in your world... That's not the world most of us live in.
 
I believe it- I'm not sure what was going on here. Plenty of ventilation, but I know that card was getting hot regardless. If it makes any difference, I was stressing the headphone amp too.

It's a fair point. Mine was mostly used for voice chat during MMO's so I definitely wasn't placing any undue stress on the card. I just had a motherboard at the time that had useless audio out.

I might have even had game sounds via USB DAC at the time, but it's been a while so not 100% sure.

Dude, everything is always perfect in your world... That's not the world most of us live in.

Perfect, like the 2080 Ti that space invadered?

Just because I don't have video cards that can alter the molecular structure of surrounding items doesn't make the world perfect. I also don't think replacing a video card 3-4 times as something that represents "most of us".
 
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It's a fair point. Mine was mostly used for voice chat during MMO's so I definitely wasn't placing any undue stress on the card. I just had a motherboard at the time that had useless audio out.

I might have even had game sounds via USB DAC at the time, but it's been a while so not 100% sure.



Perfect, like the 2080 Ti that space invadered?

Just because I don't have video cards that can alter the molecular structure of surrounding items doesn't make the world perfect. I also don't think replacing a video card 3-4 times as something that represents "most of us".
It's because you've lived a sheltered life.. lol. I actually am still on my third and nothing you suggested helped. Nor was anything you said correct. You like to point things out assuming you, in your sole perspective of experience, are correct . You continue, endlessly, to remind me of the same things over and over and over and over and over ... Jesus H Christ.

One person on here was dead on accurate. Some of the best advice I could ever have explored. Wasn't you.

While these forums are helpful the lesson here is trust your gut. Edit: and only listen to certain people's advice ;)
 
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welp, decided to go NV again with the G-Sync compatibility stuff that's now a thing and got a 2080 Ti Strix yesterday. Today, the card is crashing to a black screen in several games. I tried underclocking it by 100 MHz which reduced the frequency of the crashes a bit, but it also shows the space invaders artifacts when crashing now, so I guess that's a sure sign it is faulty. For me it's most reproducible in Crysis 3, crashes within a few mins of play time.

Card is going back to Amazon. I might go for the Radeon VII I guess or just stick with my Vega. I'm sure I just got unlucky but there seems to be way more reports of failures with these 2080 Ti than any other card in recent memory.

Also in case anyone is interested here's my GPU-Z screenshot: http://i.picpar.com/dSdd.png

card has Micron memory and is an non-A chip.
 
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I thought so, but even TPU lists the regular Strix as a non-A: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/asus-rog-strix-rtx-2080-ti-gaming.b6107

In my GPU-Z screenshot you can see the device ID matches that of the non-A one too, "10DE 1E04". And, I only have a 112% power limit in Afterburner.

Maybe they only used A chips for the initial run or it's some kind of lottery.

That's very interesting. I never knew there was more than the one model. I thought they were all O11G.
 
welp, decided to go NV again with the G-Sync compatibility stuff that's now a thing and got a 2080 Ti Strix yesterday. Today, the card is crashing to a black screen in several games. I tried underclocking it by 100 MHz which reduced the frequency of the crashes a bit, but it also shows the space invaders artifacts when crashing now, so I guess that's a sure sign it is faulty. For me it's most reproducible in Crysis 3, crashes within a few mins of play time.

Card is going back to Amazon. I might go for the Radeon VII I guess or just stick with my Vega. I'm sure I just got unlucky but there seems to be way more reports of failures with these 2080 Ti than any other card in recent memory.

Also in case anyone is interested here's my GPU-Z screenshot: http://i.picpar.com/dSdd.png

card has Micron memory and is an non-A chip.
I had sincerely hoped that these issues were disappearing from the marketplace... However, this just feels to me like Nvidia never actually corrected a damn thing. They may have been able to dial things in a bit, however, the flawed silicon is still out there. Which makes me wonder what the current rate of failure is this late in the production cycle...

I, truly, hope someone can expose what's actually going on with this generation of cards... I'm really not a betting man, however, I have faith in someone here to shed some light on it for all of us.
 
I, truly, hope someone can expose what's actually going on with this generation of cards... I'm really not a betting man, however, I have faith in someone here to shed some light on it for all of us.
Our Space Invaders card is undergoing thermal testing this weekend. Monday we will start memory and memory infrastructure testing. Getting thermal out of the way seemed like a good place to start.
 
Well, after a couple weeks of no issues I encountered something new I can't explain. It seems similar to the white screens with digital pixels I noticed in screen flashes before. This, however, is like that ... only sustained. Completely locked my system and made it unresponsive, I had to do a hard reset to get my system back up. I think there are still issues here, just they're taking their sweet ass time manifesting. I have been noticing my screen blanking with some increased frequency. Especially noticeable when opening a web browser, my video display will blank out for a second or two and then resume as normal. It was also happening when exiting streaming video on amazon. What's really odd is that I can see flickering pixels between the text I'm typing now. As if there is a line connecting each letter to one another. I have included both videos below.



 
Someone posted this on NVIDIA forums yesterday:

"All RTX cards produced in September/October have a defective VRM components (no matter which manufacter/memory).
If you buy a RTX card, make sure your card is produced in November and later (Check S/N).
Sorry for my bad English."

Then says later that the info is from MSI and Palit employees.
 
Someone posted this on NVIDIA forums yesterday:

"All RTX cards produced in September/October have a defective VRM components (no matter which manufacter/memory).
If you buy a RTX card, make sure your card is produced in November and later (Check S/N).
Sorry for my bad English."

Then says later that the info is from MSI and Palit employees.
Is there any way you could get the official post & weblink? That way we can shoot it over to Kyle to verify.
 
Someone posted this on NVIDIA forums yesterday:

"All RTX cards produced in September/October have a defective VRM components (no matter which manufacter/memory).
If you buy a RTX card, make sure your card is produced in November and later (Check S/N).
Sorry for my bad English."

Then says later that the info is from MSI and Palit employees.

It would make sense since people with waterblocks don’t seem to have issues as far as I have heard.
 
It would make sense since people with waterblocks don’t seem to have issues as far as I have heard.

My EVGA 2080Ti XC Hybrid has been running 10-12 hrs a day for a month now w/no issues. Highest I've seen my temp get is 56c in games.

Sam
 
My late Oct Asus 2080ti is still running after 3 months. My replacement EVGA 2080ti has been running a little over a month 24/7. Here's crossing my fingers that the Asus card holds out.
 
Kind of makes you wonder if this will spill over into the RTX equipped laptops....

With entirely separate PCBs and different power envelopes, one would expect any issues with the mobile parts to be separate from what has affected the first desktop parts.

Can't say I would personally count them out, though. I'd want to wait and see.
 
With entirely separate PCBs and different power envelopes, one would expect any issues with the mobile parts to be separate from what has affected the first desktop parts.

Can't say I would personally count them out, though. I'd want to wait and see.
So long as there's no actual flaw in the RTX core silicon, then yeah, won't be issues in the mobile parts. We do have to wait and see.
 
So long as there's no actual flaw in the RTX core silicon, then yeah, won't be issues in the mobile parts. We do have to wait and see.

They're mentioning a VRM issue above which tracks plausibly with the failures we've seen; I'd imagine that a failure of the board designers to understand the core's requirements could be an issue that perhaps propagated to other parts though. I hope not.
 
They're mentioning a VRM issue above which tracks plausibly with the failures we've seen; I'd imagine that a failure of the board designers to understand the core's requirements could be an issue that perhaps propagated to other parts though. I hope not.
I know... It's just hard to believe that Nvidia even got the VRMs wrong too, in addition to the AIB cards. Plus we now have the possibility of corrupted silicon from TSMC and god knows what else... Even some custom cards, like higher end ROG boards failed with enhanced VRMs. Maybe it was just Space Magic...
 
Are these cards still blowing up?
I don't have the figures on the numbers. I see the occasional issue here, though on the Nvidia forums there are more. Kyle recently told us he was told off the record that AIB vendors were seeing a 20% RMA rate.

IDK personally. My third card does some wonky stuff on occasion, I don't trust it but it works most of the time...
 
I don't have the figures on the numbers. I see the occasional issue here, though on the Nvidia forums there are more. Kyle recently told us he was told off the record that AIB vendors were seeing a 20% RMA rate.

IDK personally. My third card does some wonky stuff on occasion, I don't trust it but it works most of the time...

What sort of things does it do.
 
All the things I've listed here in this thread. I have a couple videos up of it's oddities.

System lockup resulting in a "static" white screen. Looks like an old CRT TV just with multicolored pixels.

Bizarre pixel traces between characters on screen at times (it disappeared recently).

Random screen blanks, like the card is switching video modes.

Occasional screen flickering in some applications.

Overall, though, it's been stable. Though I do firmly believe it's a POS. Just waiting for it to die, to be quite honest.
 
I got a replacement 2080 Ti Strix from Amazon and this one so far has been working fine (previous one died within a day). Has Samsung memory instead of Micron this time. They were out of the regular, so got the OC version as well, has an A chip.

Hopefully, this one doesn't die on me... Pretty happy with the card as far as noise levels and performance goes. My old Vega 64 was the Nitro+ version which has a pretty solid cooler and I had it undervolted as well, but the 2080 Ti Strix is still quieter. Impressive considering it's giving like 80-100% more performance in many games.
 
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The nvidia drivers of late have had some weird issues with flickering screens, videos, browsers etc. In monster hunter world, I can't play the ingame tutorial videos because it will CRASH my game. Previous versions caused me weird flickering in my browser when watching videos due to me using a gsync monitor and a non gsync combo on my system.

Some of my mkv files shows really messed up corruption when trying to skip time index within the video. I was re-watching the orville and wanted to skip the intro and for the first 10 seconds of playback after skipping to a time index, it was just a garbled mess of pixels for video. Previous versions of drivers showed no problems.
 
The nvidia drivers of late have had some weird issues with flickering screens, videos, browsers etc. In monster hunter world, I can't play the ingame tutorial videos because it will CRASH my game. Previous versions caused me weird flickering in my browser when watching videos due to me using a gsync monitor and a non gsync combo on my system.

Some of my mkv files shows really messed up corruption when trying to skip time index within the video. I was re-watching the orville and wanted to skip the intro and for the first 10 seconds of playback after skipping to a time index, it was just a garbled mess of pixels for video. Previous versions of drivers showed no problems.
Well, hot damn, I thought I was going crazy. Glad to know someone else is suffering right along with me ;) . So, it's the drivers? I've been seeing this stuff on my 2080Ti through every driver update. It's pretty hard for me to completely blame the drivers when you would figure that Nvidia is well aware of this stuff by now. I hope it's just the drivers because the alternative my mind jumps to is some sort of underlying rendering flaw in this generations hardware.
 
As of last week, my Asus 2080 ti Strix started showing artifacts while playing Wolfenstein2....it's a little buggy, so I reinstalled the Nvidia Driver...nope. So I tried playing Doom and several other older titles....same thing. Ran Furmark Memory test and immediately showed artifacts. Contacted Asus and talked to the tech rep about an RMA. He said they don't cross ship, so it would take up to a month. He said they would trouble shoot it and repair it if they could. The conversation constantly had a tone that there was a likelihood of Crypto mining stress or overclocking, none of which I have done. So, I'm just returning it to Amazon for a refund, then getting an EVGA 2080ti. Gonna give it another shot. Wishing now the new Radeon was worth a shit....
 
As of last week, my Asus 2080 ti Strix started showing artifacts while playing Wolfenstein2....it's a little buggy, so I reinstalled the Nvidia Driver...nope. So I tried playing Doom and several other older titles....same thing. Ran Furmark Memory test and immediately showed artifacts. Contacted Asus and talked to the tech rep about an RMA. He said they don't cross ship, so it would take up to a month. He said they would trouble shoot it and repair it if they could. The conversation constantly had a tone that there was a likelihood of Crypto mining stress or overclocking, none of which I have done. So, I'm just returning it to Amazon for a refund, then getting an EVGA 2080ti. Gonna give it another shot. Wishing now the new Radeon was worth a shit....
Sorry to hear about your issues. Looks like every manufacturer is desperate to blame the owner so they don't have to take more returns. EVGA's returns are a bit easier and typically you get them in a week. I can't say the BS you face from their customer service is any better once you get a couple RMAs deep though, your first one will be easy.

I think the Radeon VII is worth a damn. It's just not as fast or faster than a 2080Ti in most workloads. Though it kicks the crap out of even the latest Titans in certain rendering and video editing scenarios. Which it is actually being marketed as a Professional Consumer card. It's not the card for me either though. Too damn long and tall to cram I to my front room HTPC.
 
Thanks....actually, you have a point, as drivers and applications aren't matured enough..I'm sure it (Radeon) will run better with further optimizations. And yeah, that's why I chose EVGA...much stronger RMA; although they still use Micron memory.....cross fingers...
 
Thanks....actually, you have a point, as drivers and applications aren't matured enough..I'm sure it (Radeon) will run better with further optimizations. And yeah, that's why I chose EVGA...much stronger RMA; although they still use Micron memory.....cross fingers...
My EVGA is still working. Mostly ;)

I'm sending ya all the good karma/mojo I can. Let's hope you win the silicon lottery!
 
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