News Users report bricked or unstable RTX 5090 and 5080 cards — root cause to be determined

[Amdlova]

Memory Overclock, CPU overclock, and Put 20 PWM fans on the case and want the New graphics to work :S
Noise inside of case will be nuts!

 

[wwenze1]

Root cause is stretching employee "cost/performance" until things break

 

[spongiemaster]

Also like in election you can choose to abstain - at least if your previous GPU is still alive.

While it is an option, you should never abstain from voting no matter how bad the candidates are.

I have never lived by the mantra that the only things I will buy are things that I love. If the 5090 was twice as fast as it actually is far fewer people would be complaining about the price and it would be in far greater demand than it already is. That in no way means anyone would love spending $2000+ on it.

 

[spongiemaster]

You are not forced to vote or buy a GPU or toilet paper. Consider looking into a bidet as a better alternative. Things are only ever worth what amount of money you are willing to part with to get. Love is not the correct term, for sure, I was just keeping the trend of your use of verbiage. In reality Nvidia does not "love" your money either. The sterile and more accurate turn of phrase is; They want your money, and you want their product, else you would not be paying for it.

The fact you think toilet paper is optional is pretty disgusting. I own multiple toilets with bidet functions. A bidet is not a replacement for toilet paper. You need less, but you still need it. I would agree with your last statement.

 

[YSCCC]

Just reporting, in my local asian market, the 4080 and 4090 have been in low supply and not even have marked priced from shops, they used to only sell whole prebuilt PC with the cards at 100-200% over MSRP, right now, after less than a week, the 5080s are shown up in almost all shops, although still at almost double the MSRP (~1.8kUSD for gigabyte 5080 SFF OC for example), seems this time around at least in my locality, the sales are abyssmal compared to the 40 series at least

 

[TheyStoppedit]

All these peeps out there waiting 4 months for their bricked 5080's to arrive, as I drive 6 blocks over to buy a 3 month old 4080S for half the price, while keeping 92% of the performance. Humans are so special I tells ya

 

[beyondlogic]

Yay more hobbled together cards that stumbles out the gate good luck to beta testers that buy this rubbish on day one.

If you spend 2k or 1.4k on this crap it should work out the gate zero issues day one.

Knew this was gonna be a disaster when I saw the split PCB as 2 different components that just adds a higher failure rate. Easy to replace but more prone to failure and signal integrity loss.

Then there's the pathetic thermal pads over the connectors. Like seriously if it's getting that hot that it's literally damaging the connector then it's not fit for purpose.

Then there's the absolutely dreadful adapters Nvidia supplys still that are poorly made and have zero instructions to do not bend.

 

[Lamarr the Strelok]

From what I understand there's an additional %10 tarriff on chinese stuff. Is it %30 now? None of them explained.I guess if you can lock in a good price and have to wait that'd be the best.IDK if that's even possible.
But yes if you want one and you see it, get it.The software will be fixed.
I think the bathtub curve still applies here(?) Most defects will die fairly quickly if they're inclined to croak.Nvidia will get it sorted. I'm sorta surprised it's not going well.(Not sarcastic)

 

[namtrooper81]

This is exactly the kind of thing, that prevents me from being an early adopter of anything nowadays. I'd rather watch from the sidelines untill the launch issues are addressed.

 

[evdjj3j]

I wonder how much of this is garbage power supplies.

 

[helper800]

The fact you think toilet paper is optional is pretty disgusting. I own multiple toilets with bidet functions. A bidet is not a replacement for toilet paper. You need less, but you still need it. I would agree with your last statement.

I never said you didn't need toilet paper for a bidet... As you know that would reduce the amount of toilet paper drastically...

 

[TheOtherOne]

Can I choose none of the above, because that is what I chose, and I still got screwed. (stayed with my 4090 and the new drivers are causing all kinds of problems - at least I have the option of rolling back).

I NEVER, EVER update new drivers immediately and have auto update turned off. I always read the release notes first to see what's changed in new drivers and when it comes to those releasing with new gen cards? A big heck NO!

If two/three months old drivers were working just fine, they won't magically improve your gaming experience with a new version specially with new cards. Chances are, those "new" drivers will most likely (on purpose) screw up your older card's performance to put more thoughts into your head to buy shiny new cards in the market.

 

[Gururu]

Can’t spend too much time optimizing software or else never launch. Is “brick” the best word? Are the cards toast?

 

[Gururu]

I NEVER, EVER update new drivers immediately and have auto update turned off. I always read the release notes first to see what's changed in new drivers and when it comes to those releasing with new gen cards? A big heck NO!

If two/three months old drivers were working just fine, they won't magically improve your gaming experience with a new version specially with new cards. Chances are, those "new" drivers will most likely (on purpose) screw up your older card's performance to put more thoughts into your head to buy shiny new cards in the market.

Don’t they usually release prior to WHQL certification? Wouldn’t install until that happens though could be a few weeks.

 

[SyCoREAPER]

I don't doubt it's happening but also with the lack information (as usual, be it here or other outlets), it's hard to say what outside factors could be contributing.

Proper power supplies?
Card properly slotted?
Card supported with a brace or stand? (Weight and pin contact).
Bad drivers which we know were already a problem?
Rushed/Bad cards? Per GN some partners were given less than a month at best to make their cards complete and rush them out.

What's most troubling is, knowing how few were even available in the US (per GN) let alone world-wide, even if it's a hand few of failures, there were only a handful relatively speaking of cards actually available which makes the percentage of failures pretty high.

 

[Dementoss]

Looming tariffs could have you paying 3k-5k for a 5090 if you cannot get it early. I would rather have the hardware early in this instance and hope drivers are sorted soon.

I see where you're coming from but, personally, I have no need of such a powerful GPU so, for me it matters not.