RTX 2080 Ti Owners Complain of Defects, Nvidia Responds

[Guest]

People have taken to Nvidia's support forum and Reddit to complain about their RTX 2080 Ti crashing, leading to blue screens of death and outright failing.

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[SkyBill40]

Pfft... nothing more than early adopter growing pains. Trust Jensen. Just buy it, right? 😉

 

[redgarl]

Just buy it! There is a cost at delaying your purchase! - Toms

 

[folkema]

From the article "Many of these claims haven't been verified either, and if trolls can spread enough disinformation to impact elections they can almost certainly inspire doubt in Nvidia's flagship product."

That is the key. I read the posts on nvidias forum and over at reddit. Each case has no proof of problem and is just a report. This could be legit but with the state of information currently some healthy skepticism is necessary. We are also talking about a half dozen reports here even if legit.

 

[rantoc]

My 2x 2080ti's work great and took the stress tests that I do with new hardware (to rule out initial defects) like champs - Both of them

 

[mattkiss]

Yeah, but the more you buy, the more you save, so it all works out long-term...

 

[Jonathan Bennett]

Had to add a little election bullcrap in there.

 

[shrapnel_indie]

and if trolls can spread enough disinformation to impact elections

This is almost begging some to jump topic and argue over whether the claim is valid, or just a part of the blame game.

they can almost certainly inspire doubt in Nvidia's flagship product.

NVidia started the doubt train in the way they handled the announcement... it isn't hard to imagine that others will give it a good push to give it some momentum. It also isn't hard to imagine that NVidia, wanting to make sure they had a good lead on AMD, and fearing AMD just might pull a Ryzen out of their hat in the GPU market, may have rushed it to market, bugs and all. We just don't have enough info... and I'm sure NVidia won't tell

 

[gahelm1]

My 2080TI FE died after no more than 24 hours of use. Lots of visual artifacts, games crashing, PC crashing, and finally wont even boot with the card installed. Removed it and put in old GTX1080 and all is well again. I'm hoping to get working replacement from Nvidia.

 

[bigpinkdragon286]

it's not broad

Very subjective term that I fail to see clarified anywhere.

From my point of view, if NVIDIA does not consider the launch of the RTX series to be broad, they could claim a 100% failure rate is "not broad."

 

[littleleo]

My 2080TI FE died after no more than 24 hours of use. Lots of visual artifacts, games crashing, PC crashing, and finally wont even boot with the card installed. Removed it and put in old GTX1080 and all is well again. I'm hoping to get working replacement from Nvidia.

Ouch! Good luck dude!

 

[alextheblue]

it's not broad

Very subjective term that I fail to see clarified anywhere.

From my point of view, if NVIDIA does not consider the launch of the RTX series to be broad, they could claim a 100% failure rate is "not broad."

Yeah it's probably not widespread - I think they've learned their lesson from Bumpgate. But it would be a lot more reassuring if they published an approximate figure like "less than 1%" or something of that nature. Otherwise who knows for certain. I hope they (and board partners) are giving priority to customers with defective cards. Some people don't keep their old card around for long, it gets used in another machine or sold off.

 

[bit_user]

People have taken to Nvidia's support forum and Reddit to complain about their RTX 2080 Ti crashing, leading to blue screens of death and outright failing.

The FE seems so insanely overbuilt, it seems ironic if there are quality problems.

[video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9FtXZGQzfM"][/video]

He estimates the cooler, alone, contains 70 screws.

 

[bigpinkdragon286]

Seems overbuilt, yes, but you have to factor in the 60% increase in die size. Maybe what seems to be overbuilt is actually borderline for such a huge, monolithic piece of silicon?

 

[bit_user]

Seems overbuilt, yes, but you have to factor in the 60% increase in die size. Maybe what seems to be overbuilt is actually borderline for such a huge, monolithic piece of silicon?

I know you can have silicon problems even with an overbuilt cooler. That's why it's merely ironic and not outright contradictory.

 

[bigpinkdragon286]

What happens when everybody starts using DLSS and Ray Tracing, lighting up the other half of the die that is currently unused? Might be interesting to see how that goes, if there's a problem with the silicon itself.

 

[Incipient]

I would put a lot of the blame at the insanely large wafer required, and nvidia/fabs really shaving down the tolerance for what passes QA checks to get yields as high as possible (and hoping people don't have issues).

 

[bit_user]

I would put a lot of the blame at the insanely large wafer required, and nvidia/fabs really shaving down the tolerance for what passes QA checks to get yields as high as possible (and hoping people don't have issues).

Is this based on any evidence/data, or merely a hunch?

 

[hannibal]

The bigger cpu/gpu the more defective chips you get. It has been the norms as long as we have had prosessors. That is why new proses starts with small products.
But all in all all chips should be tested and binned so it should not have effect to the end users. Those rtx chips Are allready cut down version because of those defective part that has been disabled to get better yealds.

 

[chickenballs]

Who would even consider to buy a gpu that they don't even know would be that much better than the previous gen cards?
In the end the rtx cards are just barely better than the Pascal cards while costing a lot more with all the hype about RTX.
I asked the same question for awhile now: How many games actually support ray tracing? How many fps do they expect these overpriced cards will give you when ray tracing is turned on?
Nvidia has become even greedier than Apple

 

[ingtar33]

Just buy it! There is a cost at delaying your purchase! - Toms

Yes this logic is impeccable. If I buy it now, I get to be an early adaptor for a tech that doesn't exist outside of demos! Imagine all the bragging rights that brings!

 

[chickenballs]

seeing the word "logic" in the comment section about RTX cards is comical
I wonder what would those who pre-ordered these cards describe the word logic

 

[vogonpoetry49]

Had to add a little election bullcrap in there.

This

Sure Toms. Fanboys have nothing better to do than fabricate false claims of failure rates. Really now. Must be why this site's traffic is thriving these days. Maybe the Russians will get blamed next.

 

[G_IV]

It may have been said already somewhere, but....just buy it!

 

[drivinfast247]

My 2080TI FE died after no more than 24 hours of use. Lots of visual artifacts, games crashing, PC crashing, and finally wont even boot with the card installed. Removed it and put in old GTX1080 and all is well again. I'm hoping to get working replacement from Nvidia.

Same here. It lasted less than 24 hours and went toast.