- Feb 6, 2025
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Sooo.. this is gonna be a long one.
I came across an old 2080 Ti of my friend, who recently upgraded his rig and asked me to look at his old GPU.
When he used it (850W PSU dunno the brand, with a 3600x at that time) it worked as it should for about 2 years or so. Then it started going downhill.
The card clocks to like 1350-1550 MHz and voltages go to 0.720 V, power doesnt go higher than like 150 W.
The card HEAVILY underperforms in benchmarks and games (Steel Nomad ~1500 points instead of expected 3700)
I tried it out in my rig (7800x3d, 5400mhz 32gb ram, msi mpg motherboard, 750W be quiet PSU) and it had the exact same issues.
Fanspeed runs on max (3500 rpm) and the temps don't go over 73°C.
No matter what settings I throw in on MSI Afterburner the card does whatever it wants.
I tried forcing 1.000 V and 1950 MHz clocks and 40% fanspeed, which is stable when clicking checkmark on Afterburner.
As soon as I start a benchmark the card the clocks go down to the same stuff as before (1350mhz, 0,720v, 3500rpm, 73°C) and ignores my Afterburner settings.
Using HWinfo and temp limit has never reached.
Also when I simply reduce the power limit to like 70% off the stock settings, the performance improves significantly over 100% power limit (still overall VERY bad performance).
I've found a bunch of the same posts, all of them at least 3-5 years old and ALL OF THEM with the same card:
ASUS ROG STRIX 2080 Ti
Yet not a single thread I've found has a solution.
I tried out:
undervolting + curve editor
reset windows
try different rigs (mb, ram, cpu all different)
energy saving modes in windows on max performance
DDU + fresh install
If anyone can help to not let that poor 2080 Ti rot in the basement, please help me.
I came across an old 2080 Ti of my friend, who recently upgraded his rig and asked me to look at his old GPU.
When he used it (850W PSU dunno the brand, with a 3600x at that time) it worked as it should for about 2 years or so. Then it started going downhill.
The card clocks to like 1350-1550 MHz and voltages go to 0.720 V, power doesnt go higher than like 150 W.
The card HEAVILY underperforms in benchmarks and games (Steel Nomad ~1500 points instead of expected 3700)
I tried it out in my rig (7800x3d, 5400mhz 32gb ram, msi mpg motherboard, 750W be quiet PSU) and it had the exact same issues.
Fanspeed runs on max (3500 rpm) and the temps don't go over 73°C.
No matter what settings I throw in on MSI Afterburner the card does whatever it wants.
I tried forcing 1.000 V and 1950 MHz clocks and 40% fanspeed, which is stable when clicking checkmark on Afterburner.
As soon as I start a benchmark the card the clocks go down to the same stuff as before (1350mhz, 0,720v, 3500rpm, 73°C) and ignores my Afterburner settings.
Using HWinfo and temp limit has never reached.
Also when I simply reduce the power limit to like 70% off the stock settings, the performance improves significantly over 100% power limit (still overall VERY bad performance).
I've found a bunch of the same posts, all of them at least 3-5 years old and ALL OF THEM with the same card:
ASUS ROG STRIX 2080 Ti
Yet not a single thread I've found has a solution.
I tried out:
undervolting + curve editor
reset windows
try different rigs (mb, ram, cpu all different)
energy saving modes in windows on max performance
DDU + fresh install
If anyone can help to not let that poor 2080 Ti rot in the basement, please help me.
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