GeForce RTX 2080 Ti FAILS After Gaming for 2 Hours @ [H]

faugusztin said:
My Gainward 2080Ti failed today in weird fashion after 2 weeks of use - on my Threadripper 2950x system it was failing with TDR errors left and right, none of the games started. Replaced with my old GTX 1080, system worked fine, including games. Moved the 2080Ti to a test system (i5-8400, Z370 board), unigine heaven benchrmark in fullscreen mode was going between a benchmark screen and black screen, in windowed mode the benchmark was freezing and then working, clocks were all over the place, all from 350MHz to 2010MHz according to MSI Afterburner.
Because it was day 14 of 14 day return window, i returned it for full refund. Now i am not sure i want to risk buying a 2080Ti again (in short term at least).
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If you can't live without the performance you're stuck in the same hell I am ... lol. It would appear that failure rates on these cards are still rather high.
 
I would never buy a card with a reference heatsink that does not exhaust heat out of the case. It just seems suspicious to me that there is no blower solution for the card. It is almost as if it was designed to meltdown or something.

This card just feels wrong to me.
 
Blackstone said:
I would never buy a card with a reference heatsink that does not exhaust heat out of the case. It just seems suspicious to me that there is no blower solution for the card. It is almost as if it was designed to meltdown or something.

This card just feels wrong to me.
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Well, nice as an efficient blower that's as quiet as an open-air cooler would be, such a unicorn doesn't exist.

And generally speaking if your case has airflow, the open-air cooler will keep the card cooler with less noise- the only exceptions being the obvious, where the case simply doesn't have the airflow. SFFs fall into this category on the smallest builds as open-air coolers can choke.
 
Legendary Gamer said:
If you can't live without the performance you're stuck in the same hell I am ... lol. It would appear that failure rates on these cards are still rather high.
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Ordered another one. Wouldn't have it done normally, but the store i returned the card to started a "black friday" on a cheaper model, so i get a model clocked 75MHz lower (but we all know the card boosts way above that) and saved 130 euros. Let's hope this one actually survives more than 2 weeks. If not, i add another post to this thread :D.
 
Well as of today, i'm at the 2 week period for my FTW3 Ultra card and it's running really well. It does have the Samsung memory, I don't know if that makes a difference or not. I am very impressed with the performance. A massive jump on what I was using before hand.
 
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Thiers another guy reporting space invaders on his 2080ti ftw3 Ultra card that's 2 months old on evga forums!

Says card was totally fine and heat mostly in the 55c tops and max on memory was 62c.

Bought in the UK and has micron memory.
 
eclypse said:
Kyle with all this crap going on what's in your personal system :)
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Actually I put back in my RTX 2080 Ti FE that has Micron VRAM on it. Wanted to use it for a while and see if it fails. I am setting up my RTX 2080 Ti FE with Samsung VRAM for a water block now, that will go in the system soon when I get the full loop set up.
 
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Livin on the edge.. but what choice do we have I guess.

Still using my evga 1080ti ftw3 elite 12ghz card on water.

Right now would be a great time for me to bug the wife into a 2080ti ftw3 ultra but man.. it's hard to go from 0 issues to maybe a nightmare for $1400-1600 on water. I'd be pissed to need to tear everything apart to rma it.
 
We were getting the Space Invaders card through a bunch more tests, xray etc., before moving to destructive testing.

Nothing but theories at this point, no hard data to go on.


The lab has been investigating if it is a memory training issue at boot, while some board layout folks are looking closer at our board x-rays of the PCB layout (memory tracings).


I was hopeful that we could discover a root cause while keeping the board functional, but I am starting to think that I may need to send the board off to our imaging labs for destructive analysis next week. The test procedures that keep the board functional are not giving us consistent or actionable data…

That all said, I have been getting some back-channel communications from AIBs, which is NOT easy to come by on this, as to why these cards are failing. NVIDIA is putting the hammer down on all these folks to be very quiet about this. However, we have gotten a few comms on this as to what they are seeing, but it is up to up to see if this card is sharing those same issues. Those theories will not be proven without destructive testings, and we are just about to that avenue.
 
I was in line at Microcenter yesterday and 2 young guys were returning their second EVGA 2070. (overheard them describing crash issues)

They did not look happy at all....
 
horrorshow said:
I was in line at Microcenter yesterday and 2 young guys were returning their second EVGA 2070. (overheard them describing crash issues)

They did not look happy at all....
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I think i will keep a backup 1060 just in case my 2nd 2080Ti fails. Also because i returned my first one in initial purchase return window, now i got second set of BF5/Anthem codes :D.
 
faugusztin said:
I think i will keep a backup 1060 just in case my 2nd 2080Ti fails. Also because i returned my first one in initial purchase return window, now i got second set of BF5/Anthem codes :D.
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Been there before! Love those double issues codes! Geat for those with 2 systems.
 
I've had one Asus ROG Strix 2080 Ti Advanced (Samsung memory) which failed after a week, and my friend's Asus Dual RTX 2080 Ti OC (Micron) failed yesterday after 4 months. I'm currently on an MSI Gaming X Trio RTX 2080 Ti for a few weeks now, with no issues. It really blows my mind how many issues this series of cards have had. I still have my old 970 as a backup, would suck if the one kicked the can.
 
Verado said:
So.. does todays announcement mean we wont get an answer to whats fucked with our RTX cards? :(
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Naw, dude, it's just taking time and on the DL. Because this info is precious to more than just us. Intel is gonna love this
 
Were never going to get the full report unless they finish it before April 1st.
 
No worries. All I know is that Nvidia replaced my 2080 Ti in a couple days, advanced shipping. Been working since then. That's the end of the story for me.
 
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