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

Probably a botched vbios update or bios corruption.

It had the issue -before- they attempted the bios update. It's a hardware level issue, the only option is to RMA.

I'm suspecting there's a bad batch of 20 series cards so you might have to 'win the lottery' and just not get a bad one. Otherwise you pay extra to RMA your shiny new 20 series card and 'hope' that you don't have to do a 2nd or even 3rd RMA.

It's a PITA and really not acceptable quality control on a $1200 high end video card.

Get your act together, Nvidia!!
 
Bad batches are possible. I stayed away from the first month's worth of EVGA RTX but am curious to figure out which "week" this card was made when compared to the failing cards.
 
Some very broken cards in there.

Yes there was. I keep jumping between there is an issue with these cards to there isn't a widespread problem and it's just because the cards cost so much the RMAs are getting more attention.

I think if I was an owner, I would prefer if the issue is massively overblown so that it stays in media attention and prompts Nvidia to go back and make sure that no issues exist. $1000+ is a lot to spend on a GPU, so if there is a slightest chance that something might be wrong, sort it out now. My concern going forward would be when the cards start using the full chip. When owners start playing Ray Traced and DLSS games and the cards are under a lot more stress what's going to happen?
 
How many of these cards do you think Nvidia has sold?

Let's say they sold 10,000. A 1% failure rate would be 100 people with problems. Could 100 people make this much noise? I don't know.

I mean, Gamers Nexus did a live test with broken cards and he had like 20 that people sent in. And there are tons of threads here and on Nvidia forum and elsewhere of people with problems.

So what if it were a 5% failure rate. That would be 500 people. I think 500 people with problems could make enough noise on the internet. 5% would be bad, but that still means that 95% of people had no problems.

I actually think the issue may be overblown. Granted, I got a bad card too (or at least a bad driver) but I feel like there was so much negativity since the beginning, and it's an expensive card, it's probably just getting extra attention.
 
How many of these cards do you think Nvidia has sold?

Let's say they sold 10,000. A 1% failure rate would be 100 people with problems. Could 100 people make this much noise? I don't know.

I mean, Gamers Nexus did a live test with broken cards and he had like 20 that people sent in. And there are tons of threads here and on Nvidia forum and elsewhere of people with problems.

So what if it were a 5% failure rate. That would be 500 people. I think 500 people with problems could make enough noise on the internet. 5% would be bad, but that still means that 95% of people had no problems.

I actually think the issue may be overblown. Granted, I got a bad card too (or at least a bad driver) but I feel like there was so much negativity since the beginning, and it's an expensive card, it's probably just getting extra attention.


Well, of course it's getting extra attention. If you pay $1000 for a GPU you don't expect problems. With the higher price there comes extra responsibility to make sure the cards are working properly.

Weren't your problems caused by your memory overclock? It's good that you got everything sorted. Going through an RMA can be a pain.
 
Weren't your problems caused by your memory overclock? It's good that you got everything sorted. Going through an RMA can be a pain.
In the end the memory OC was the issue. However, I went though so many things to get it working, including completely replacing the PSU, I'm not sure it was the memory alone.

Also, I was running the memory at that speed for about 1 month with my GTX 1080s, so it's strange timing that all the problems started once putting the RTX 2080 Ti into the system.

I got game crashing, freezing, BSODs, black screens, failure to boot Windows, the whole nine. About the only thing I didn't see was artifacting. None of that happened until I got the 2080 Ti.
 
In the end the memory OC was the issue. However, I went though so many things to get it working, including completely replacing the PSU, I'm not sure it was the memory alone.

Also, I was running the memory at that speed for about 1 month with my GTX 1080s, so it's strange timing that all the problems started once putting the RTX 2080 Ti into the system.

I got game crashing, freezing, BSODs, black screens, failure to boot Windows, the whole nine. About the only thing I didn't see was artifacting. None of that happened until I got the 2080 Ti.

That was so frustrating!! Hope the rest of the time with your 2080Ti's is a lot more enjoyable :)
 
That was so frustrating!! Hope the rest of the time with your 2080Ti's is a lot more enjoyable :)
Yeah. It's been working pretty solid now with no crashing for the past week. I even reinstated my memory OC (with upped voltage) and things are still working.

Definitely unexpected hassle, but it's finally working and the performance has been phenomenal. Recently upgraded to a 166Hz monitor, and I'm maxing out a lot of games at 1080p ultrawide (164 fps frame limit).

I guess that is part of the joy with PC gaming. Kind of crappy sometimes dealing with driver issues, parts going bad, software bugs, and everything, but when it works it's worth it.
 
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Maybe a bad batch of memory? It's hard to tell what the commonality is between these failures.
 
I just wanted to add my 2 pennies worth. I have no problems at all with my Palit RTX 2080 Ti. I have it water cooled with a Kraken G12 & Corsair H60. It runs at around 1960 on the Core and I have a +600 OC on the memory. Temps never get above 60. I game in 4K. Probably the most graphically intense games I have are Shadow of the Tombraider & Star Wars BF2. Both run in 4K with ultra settings @60FPS vsync on without issue. I'm not disputing some people have issues but generally if it's running ok most people don't announce it on forums so the results can look skewed. If anyone wants an opinion on whether it's worth an upgrade from 1080Ti my own opinion is that it is not worth it for the price you pay. Having said that I'm glad I got one.
 
Reporting in after seeing more posts on the temps and memory theories. I've returned mine to stock, I've found my max OC to be in the 575 range for memory and a +100 for GPU core. While I have seen it peak at 2100 a few times, it seems its more apt to run around 2000-2040. Stock, the GPU runs around 1950-1990 range which is not much of an overall OC to justify running temps to the 80's.

Temp wise stock, its happy to live at 72C while gaming in FC5.
 
Except they'll probably want at least $1500 (Or more) for that Titan card if past experience is looked at.....:sneaky:
 
Played Witcher for 3 hours and the screen started artifacting badly around light objects at first then randomly elsewhere 10 minutes later. Temps look normal to me low 70's fans are barely spinning per the profile. Switched to Destiny 2 since that what I play most and its artifacting everywhere. Mine was a Zotac triple fan. Was totally loving the card before this sour note. I think I will wait for a strix.
 
Played Witcher for 3 hours and the screen started artifacting badly around light objects at first then randomly elsewhere 10 minutes later. Temps look normal to me low 70's fans are barely spinning per the profile. Switched to Destiny 2 since that what I play most and its artifacting everywhere. Mine was a Zotac triple fan. Was totally loving the card before this sour note. I think I will wait for a strix.

Man this is awful, sorry that happened to you. :(
 

Man... People would FLIP their shit if Nvidia released a Titan with good gaming performance this go around. Not having a Titan this series is about the only way they sort of justify the price on the 2080 Ti (imo).


Back on topic.... This thread (and Kyle's newer thread) isn't exactly making me feel comfortable, lol. I've yet to experience any issues but I'm not thrilled about the temps I've been seeing. I tuned the fan so they're reasonable, but I'm used to watercooling and seeing GPU temps in the 60s during a heavy gaming session. I sure hope this shit gets sorted out soon so I can have a little piece of mind before I slap a water block on my overpriced toy.
 
I had to chance to buy two evga 2080Ti XC Ultras last night and passed on it because of these reports of cards dying. Waiting to see if things improve before dropping that kind of coin on GPUs.
 
Mine started to artifact a couple of days ago. Nvidia FE. I just created an RMA ticket. At least they are shipping a card first and I send mine in second. Cross my fingers I don't have issues with second one.
 
Yeah, it's nice that they are doing advanced replacement on these cards.

I had a Titan X Pascal I bought from Nvidia that had artifacting on day one. They did replace it, but I had to send the busted one first.
 
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