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
I had four hard shutdowns after installing my EVGA 2080 TI FTW3. :dead:
That was with a Seasonic 850w PSU, Xeon 1650 6c 12t Clocked @ 4.6GHz, 16GB GSKILL 2133MHZ Snipers, and an ASUS P9X79-WS.
Going from a Zotac 980ti Amp Extreme to a 2080ti caused about 0.20v of vdroop on my CPU rendering my once stable overclock unstable.
I upped the voltage to hit 3.0v stable and all is well.
 
I wish it was an unstable CPU causing my problem, but I popped in the Asus 2080ti and continued gaming like nothing has changed. After work today, I saw I had a EVGA reply email to try clean driver install, reset my bios, install approved drivers, flash to a new bios etc. I could not even get the evga card to get past the post screen, let alone windows. I think when the memory starts going, it REALLY goes. Also in the short span I had it in there to test, the card warmed up significantly. The asus card was in their since last night and on all night and day and wasn't close the the warmth of the dead card when compared to the few minutes it ran. I suspect once its dying, its a runaway effect.
 
Blade-Runner said:
Soooooooooooo......still not safe to buy these cards yet?
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Just got my EVGA Black RMA back. No time to throw it in my system and test, work and all.

I'm migrating my build to a new full tower case with front, back and top ventilation. I will let you know if this damn thing still manages to light on fire later tonight after I have some time to complete the build.

Don't buy yet. Too many failures IMO.
 
My first Asus 2080ti is now back in my main PC and still working. I got this at end of Oct. My 2nd 2080ti EVGA XC which was purchased 2nd week Nov, died a few days ago. I'm at 50% failure rate and in the midst of a RMA with EVGA right now. I find it funny they want me to do a firmware update on a card that can't even get past the post screen. Even more comical is that I got sent an automated rate our customer service before my follow up of "it doesn't post" was replied to.
 
Buddy just sent me this:

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Guess they're sending him a new one overnight and upgraded to an XC.
 
Ok, here's the update. I moved my entire rig into a cheap ass 70 buck Blowswill "Rise" full tower case. It has something like a 140+mm rear exhaust fan, I pulled my 3 cooler master 120mm fans and replaced the crap ones it shipped with in the front intake. Mounted my Arctic 120mm push/pull on top where the 5.25" bay was (ripped it out) and it exhausts directly upwards. I placed another 120mm cooler master fan next to it also venting upward. It beats the living shit out of the cooling that the Cooler Master Mid tower was capable of. The 2080Ti was sitting, on average, at 78c in a handful of minutes. It would climb upwards of that and keep gradually climbing in temp. The new EVGA Black 2080Ti never goes above 72c, thus far, granted I was only playing Battletech at 4K, max settings for about two hours. The card seems stable... I have noticed what I might call an artifact or two, but I think it might actually be Battletech (I saw the same thing on my 1080Ti) and I'm paranoid after the first card shit the bed.
 

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I've always had a critical eye for details... I am displeased to report that while I've managed to improve the overall cooling of my entire rig... I'm still encountering the screen flickering. No real visible artifacts yet, however, it's no different than last time. I suspect the enhanced cooling will slow the manifestation of issues, however, I'm pretty damn sure I have a bad card. It's the exact model as the last one, with Micron memory (not that we established the RAM was even the issue)... I will try the new drivers, but my optimism pretty much died watching Jack Ryan when the screen flickering was intermittent and somewhat regular. This is bullshit, how many cards are plagued with issues? My god...
 
Aww shit. Seems like I am becoming a member of the space invaders club, and I don't even have a 2080TI.
MSI RTX 2070 Gaming Z, never OC'd or anything. 4 weeks old today. Case has serious airflow.
Been getting a few bluescreens today, and this last one had 16 wierd invaders on my right monitor, nothing on the left and the bluescreen on the center.
I didnt even get proper invaders, just these wierd ones all over the monitor.
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So, what in the sam hell is the actual failure rate? Upwards of 20%? Is the NDA people signed with Nvidia preventing the truth of these failures from being broadcast across all the major media outlets?

Nvidia absolutely knows they have a shit release on their hands and all indications point to them not giving a damn. Couldn't have widespread panic by telling the truth.... You know, a little something called Transparency that would go a long way with the people that actually shell out the cash for these cards.

Nvidia's NDA really seems like they knew, with certainty, they had created a flawed architecture. Yet they were in the commit stage. Either scrap one generation, and correct it or release it anyway and manage the fallout and then fix it in the 7nm generation that's just around the corner. My money is on the latter .

Wish I was home right now loading my new RMA until it failed . Damn work...
 
TBH, this failure rate is pretty high anecdotally. In my past 20 years experience of my own cards and actually working in performance analysis at nvidia, I have only experienced 1 dead card (2 officially since my 2080ti RMA has been approved). Even a card that LIT MY TEST MOTHERBOARD ON FIRE still worked after the fire (AGP slots were much more flammable in 2001 than today's PCI-E).

That fire required a fire extinguisher intervention.
 
Well, according to this poll, failure is around 30%. I could believe it, as I bought 2 cards and 1 of them was bunk.

It seems likely Nvidia knew of a problem, but maybe the margins are high enough that it's still profitable for them, even with a 30% failure rate.
 
cybereality said:
Well, according to this poll, failure is around 30%. I could believe it, as I bought 2 cards and 1 of them was bunk.

It seems likely Nvidia knew of a problem, but maybe the margins are high enough that it's still profitable for them, even with a 30% failure rate.
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Again, this brings me back to an ethics study I did of Eli Lilly Pharmaceuticals when I finished my bachelors in 2011. They knowingly released drugs that killed people in their clinical trials and decided to deal with the fallout and lawsuits because they were making so much damn money off the drugs to begin with. Nvidia isn't killing anyone, however, the lack of ethics toward their consumers is appalling and essentially the same

Replace the dangerous drugs that work for some people and kill others (Lilly) with video cards that work for some and fail to certain degrees or utterly for others (Nvidia).

Just that they went a step further, created a media blackout prior to releasing their faulty cards and then released them anyway. So, actually getting enough evidence together from the outlets that signed the NDA will be really tricky.
 
Updating my vote to no issues, with the near daily driver updates from nvidia, I haven't seen any weird stuff happening in BO4 on the newest ones in a while. Also BFV RTX on ultra 4k looks and runs really well with that patch they released a while ago to improve performance.
 
mikeo said:
Updating my vote to no issues, with the near daily driver updates from nvidia, I haven't seen any weird stuff happening in BO4 on the newest ones in a while. Also BFV RTX on ultra 4k looks and runs really well with that patch they released a while ago to improve performance.
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You and one of my friends appear to be incredibly fortunate. I sent him my code fro BF V since he missed out as an ultra early adopter of the 2080Ti. Good Luck, hope it lasts.
 
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You and one of my friends appear to be incredibly fortunate. I sent him my code fro BF V since he missed out as an ultra early adopter of the 2080Ti. Good Luck, hope it lasts.
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Yeah, mine was one of the initial batch preorders for the zotac 2080 ti amp before the BFV promo, bought the game anyway before that promo started. Single player is cool but cant seem to get the controller sensitivity setup right so have mostly been playing BO4.
 
I'm a mixed bag. 50% failure rate. The OLDER card is the one still working....
 
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I don't know what it is about heat and these cards... I initially thought they generated too much. Now I'm just wondering if the issues manifest because the flawed silicon can't handle damn near any heat build up.

So, here's the deal. When the ambient temperature of my house is like 72f and I fire up my system the card manifests issues.

When my ambient temperature in my house is 60, because I drop my heat when I go to work, the damn card runs flawlessly. Could it be feasible that the flawed cards have shit thermal negotiation? I just went home for lunch and gamed on it for just over an hour (yes I was pushing my lunch hour) and the 2080Ti black performed flawlessly. When, yesterday, right out of the box it was kicking out flickering and some artifacts... Or is it simply the fact that it works perfectly sometimes and will eventually fail utterly after a certain burn in period?

I'm at a loss.
 
You might want to RMA. That doesn't sound normal.

I've had my Ti reaching around 86C and working fine.
 
cybereality said:
You might want to RMA. That doesn't sound normal.

I've had my Ti reaching around 86C and working fine.
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I'm jealous. ;)

I still need to beat the shit out of this card before I ask for another RMA. I want to try to figure out why these damn things fail...

I'm gonna heat up my den, then kick on my space heater and get the room temp to around 80ambient. Then do some load testing and see what the card does when I get home
 
My card died below 75C. In most situations, I was lucky to see 78C. I had the LED go full on royal blue if I broke 78C. Never got to that. The working Asus card is also seeing similar temps under load, 72-76C temps. I only broke 80C when overclocked and doing some benchmarking which tried to stress it.

As pointed out previously, the game where it died, Vermintied 2 is CPU limited, not GPU limited at 1440p.
 
I have had 4 different 2080’s (2 FE’s, 1 EVGA Black, and 1 EVGA XC2 Ultra) crunching BOINC projects 24x7 for the last 4-6 weeks and haven’t had any issues with any of them. Knock wood.
 
Slade said:
My card died below 75C. In most situations, I was lucky to see 78C. I had the LED go full on royal blue if I broke 78C. Never got to that. The working Asus card is also seeing similar temps under load, 72-76C temps. I only broke 80C when overclocked and doing some benchmarking which tried to stress it.

As pointed out previously, the game where it died, Vermintied 2 is CPU limited, not GPU limited at 1440p.
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God I miss just buying a card, dropping it in and being able to play games and not worrying about shit failing. I'm sticking with this, gonna try not to give up. I think my paitence can handle a couple more RMAs, but if I get 5 for whatever reason I think that will be where I cut my losses, assuming EVGA let's me get a refund at that point. If not... I will be stuck sending these damn things back until they give me one that doesn't die.
 
I'm not sure I have the patience to do 5 RMAs... lol

Completed filling out and going through cross shipping hoops. EVGA's "we must receive your card in 14 days" bothers me since the holidays are coming up and we know packages have a tendency to be delayed.
 
Slade said:
I'm not sure I have the patience to do 5 RMAs... lol

Completed filling out and going through cross shipping hoops. EVGA's "we must receive your card in 14 days" bothers me since the holidays are coming up and we know packages have a tendency to be delayed.
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Well, thanks to me being a dumbass... I don't have to worry about that! I had already sent it out three days ago instead of waiting for their RMA box with a prepaid label :facepalm:
 
AltTabbins said:
Did your source mention if it’s letting up at all? I want to buy a couple 2080 ti’s but don’t want do deal with returns. I already got and returned (unopened) 2 founders edition cards that were in the serial number range of the ones having issues.
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Dunno. No information in the last week. Last person to tell me AIBs with over 20% was last Wednesday.
 
RFGuy_KCCO said:
I have had 4 different 2080’s (2 FE’s, 1 EVGA Black, and 1 EVGA XC2 Ultra) crunching BOINC projects 24x7 for the last 4-6 weeks and haven’t had any issues with any of them. Knock wood.
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More failures are reported when cards are heat cycled/power cycled but it's one of a few theories so far. So you might do fine... for now.

Surely someone wants to sell a 2080Si to Kyle?
 
Had my Asus 2080 ti ROG Strix 011G Gaming for about ten days, just running OC benchmarks, no problems. +100 GPU.+1000 mem. Max boost 2125, max temp 62 deg. Time Spy Extreme graphics score 7270.

I'm not reading about failures of this card. There is no Asus upflash for it, or intention of one (port assignment is unique, so others won't do), but not interested anyway.
 
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Well, any line of logic I follow doesn't work... I am sitting in my den, sweating my ass off at a nice, sweltering, 90f. I have to say, the Rosewill Rise equipped with good fans is doing a kick ass job keeping this card pretty cool. I'm impressed by a 70 buck case with more than a couple flaws (like the push clips not locking into place to hold the dust filters). I will stick with it. I did notice a glitch or two when my room temp spiked past 80 degrees, however, they disappeared... dammit! Ok, I give, these cards fail when they want to. I just have to wait this bastard out...
 
It feels ironic that just as I'm about to send out my broken 2080ti for RMA, the replacement trim kit pieces show up in the mail.
 
With my RMA submitted, the automated system asked me to pick a trim kit for my 2080ti replacement.

I thought about having 6 pairs of trim kits, red, white and black in case of SLI, then I realized I'd have to go thru that many more RMA processes. LOL
 
Slade said:
With my RMA submitted, the automated system asked me to pick a trim kit for my 2080ti replacement.

I thought about having 6 pairs of trim kits, red, white and black in case of SLI, then I realized I'd have to go thru that many more RMA processes. LOL
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They never asked me :cry: lol.

My second card is artifacting a bit more frequently, but it's not "unstable" yet.
 
Legendary Gamer said:
They never asked me :cry: lol.

My second card is artifacting a bit more frequently, but it's not "unstable" yet.
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When my card artifacted it locked or lost video output. I never saw any artifacts where it kept running. Just my experience though.
 
brentsg said:
When my card artifacted it locked or lost video output. I never saw any artifacts where it kept running. Just my experience though.
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The last one was like watching a fractal in games, it also deposited me to desktop more than I can count. I initially thought it was the games I was playing and bugs in them, not the case. The other issue was like a white screen flash with millions of multicolored pixels on it, happening once every couple minutes. Now on this one... I see intermittent artifacts, it's not super frequent, but I always notice it. I've been seeing a line that runs the length of the screen, at the bottom a couple mm thick that glitches in and out of existence every so often and the screen flash / flicker still happens though I tend to only see that while watching video. This one just won't fully commit to failing, it's toying with me and my sanity :grumpy:
 
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