Unusual high failure rates for GeForce RTX 2080 Ti?

#5602051

tunejunky

2018-10-31 15:26

while this is highly concerning, i'm heartened by the proud owners of the new cards. bravo - you're braver than me. imho, i suspect since these are massive chips with the concomitant low yield, that the binning process is flawed. i seriously doubt that Nvidia screwed the micro-architecture.

#5602086

warezme

2018-10-31 16:45

Current statistics for this thread on reported users with 2080ti failed or not. Total 2080ti self reported 26 cards, of the total 6 have failed for a 23% failure rate from this thread Of the 26, total 2080ti FE edition cards reported 14, of which 5 have failed for a 35.7% failure rate for the FE model of the 26, total non FE cards (other manufacture) 12 cards, of which on 1 has failed, never heard of brand and questionable explanation for a 8.3% failure rate if believed otherwise 0%. Two posts SamuelL421 and asturur were duplicate posts different user. SJCWall and Promachos also duplicate post same user. Both FE version one saying good the other bad. Based on this I would say most issues are related to the FE model with only a few from other manufacturers and likely related to OC'eing, Power or other hardware configuration issue.

#5602087

waltc3

2018-10-31 16:46

gUNN1993:

Lets hope it doesn't stop people using the ray-tracing on their new cards

Very funny!...;)

#5602090

waltc3

2018-10-31 17:10

Allen Saffy:

I purchased two 2080 Ti FE cards and an NVLink bridge from NVidia.com. Prior to installing these cards I had two 1080 Tis connected with an HB Bridge. I installed the 2080 Tis, taking all the normal precautions (been doing this for many, many years without issue). With zero overclock beyond the way the cards were configured upon receipt, I ran FireStrike Ultra and Extreme, VRMark Blue Room (131 fps, way beyond the necessary 109 fps required to pass the test), I was getting 133 fps in Shadow of the Tomb Raider at 4K highest. As an aside, the ambient room temperature is 68 F. I was exhilarated at the performance of these cards. After benchmarking for about an hour, I exited all running programs and my system was sitting at the desktop. I left the room for maybe 30 minutes - when I came back, my system had rebooted and I my login screen was huge, 1024X768 or maybe even 800X600. I logged into Windows and when I right-clicked desktop and selected "NVIDIA Control Panel" I was informed that my display was not connected to an NVidia device. Now, normally you'd see this if you connected your display to integrated graphics instead of your discrete graphics solution, but this wasn't the case - my display port cable went from my 4K 120 Hz G-Sync monitor directly into the top-most 2080 Ti. I tried various things (doing into Device Manager and uninstalling the top-most card and then scanning for hardware changes (Device Manager showed a warning icon next to the card description but the 2nd card didn't have the warning icon). Anything I tried, including booting into Safe mode, would result in screen corruption and an eventual BSOD. I removed the top-most card and left the 2nd 2080 Ti in it's slot. This card seemed fine at first, so I started the RMA process on the first card. The next night, after reading about reported 2080 Ti failures form other buyers, I decided to run a few games on the remaining card. I started up Doom (2015) and at 4K with everything maximized, I played for maybe 20 minutes before my screen started widely artifacting - and then Windows froze and I had to reboot. Both cards failed in a matter of a two days with the same symptoms. I have since requested a refund and my cards are on their way back to NVIDIA as I write this. This, for me, was hard to do, as while I had the cards in NVLink, while they were working, it was the most amazing experience I've had in all my years of PC gaming, with regard to blisteringly fast frame rates. When the first card failed, I resigned myself to the RMA process and decided I could "live" with one 2080 Ti while I waited for a new one to arrive - after all, most recent games don't benefit from NVLink (SLI) - but when they do, the scaling can be almost unbelievable.

Good post. I was going to suggest a look at your PSU, but since the first card failed after you exited your games and were just sitting on the desktop, that would tend to rule out an over-stressed psu, I think. The only other thing I might have advised was to take the second card and plug it into your primary pcie slot--some motherboards won't even boot with only one GPU running in the secondary slot. But the symptoms you describe on the second GPU failure are exactly what happens when a GPU is overclocked (not by you in this case, but the factory, possibly) *and* the cooling of the GPU is insufficient--a matter of the card's component design/functioning. Good luck! Hopefully the replacements will run as advertised.

#5602091

waltc3

2018-10-31 17:21

SJCWall:

I was looking for help on this issue for a while, and I am glad to see that I am not the only one with this issue. I pre-ordered a 2080Ti FE on day one. (Direct upgrade from a 1080Ti) The card arrived and worked fine for a few days. Eventually, the card failed to wake from sleep and randomly would not display an image when doing a cold boot (black screen). After that, I started to get weird dots on the screen in Deus Ex Human Revolution. Then games started to randomly crash to desktop. I started the support chat process with Nvidia, who wanted me to run diagnostic software. I said screw it and just decided to return it. Since I decided to return it and not play the RMA game, I was required to go buy my own return shipping and insurance. So, now I'm actually out money on this deal. I also sold my old card, so now I actually don't even have a video card. I'm not sure what to do now, but I will probably try buying a different 2080Ti like an EVGA when they are in stock.

Artifacting can also be caused by faulty vram on the card, or when the vram is overclocked. I've dealt with myself in that past. I remember years ago buying a $2k cpu accelerator (MC68060-based) for my Amiga 4k (or was it for my 3k, can't recall), and I had to spend days on the phone walking that bad boy back through various departments before I hit satisfaction. Nothing is more disappointing than laying out a wad of cash for an expensive item--after reading many reviews and researching--only to find the problem was real but never mentioned anywhere else! Hope you get it sorted soon!

#5602095

waltc3

2018-10-31 17:28

gerardfraser:

Just on youtube and this reviewer has problems with his 2080 ti.Death to oh wait I use these cards,it's AMD fault. Also was reading the comments another reviewer said Brett we had the same issue with an RTX 2080 card, it didn't cause a BSOD, we just got lines all over the screen. This was weeks ago before all the reports so we sent it back to be replaced.

Indicative of bad vram--sure sounds like it.

#5602121

chispy

2018-10-31 18:51

More and more reports are starting to appear online , even reviewers like hardware unboxed have their RTX 2080Ti die on them as well 🙁 , not looking good at the moment. If you own a RTX 2080Ti please test and re-test your video card , stress test it just in case to be sure is running alright would be my suggestion to avoid problems later on. reviewer dead RTX 2080Ti and some important info: [youtube=z75wDmwfIJY]

#5602127

RealNC

2018-10-31 19:02

Wow. Can it be that due to NVidia's pricing, partners now have such low margins that they use crap components? Edit: Nope. Strike that. It seems to happen with NVidia boards too.

#5602147

tensai28

2018-10-31 20:19

It's only the FE cards that seem to be having issues. Even then, not every FE card. I'm sure those who have theirs die will simply get a replacement. This seems to be getting stretched out into a much bigger deal than it really is.

#5602151

Agonist

2018-10-31 20:25

tensai28:

It's only the FE cards that seem to be having issues. Even then, not every FE card. I'm sure those who have theirs die will simply get a replacement. This seems to be getting stretched out into a much bigger deal than it really is.

The hell it isn't. Nvidia deserves all negative backlash for this. D3M1GOD said things perfectly. I was even considering one eventhough Id give up freesync till I saw the launch price. Nvidia is getting mighty greedy again.

#5602156

MegaFalloutFan

2018-10-31 20:41

Someone said that FE cards made by PALIT and PNY, both are cheap uber shit brands that I wont touch, over here we have PALIT 2080Ti OC/non-OC for like almost 200SD cheaper and everything else is out of stock, sold to backorders, but these no one buys and they always have them in-stock

#5602173

insp1re2600

2018-10-31 21:35

MegaFalloutFan:

Someone said that FE cards made by PALIT and PNY, both are cheap uber crap brands that I wont touch, over here we have PALIT 2080Ti OC/non-OC for like almost 200SD cheaper and everything else is out of stock, sold to backorders, but these no one buys and they always have them in-stock

Enjoying my palit card just fine...

#5602174

warezme

2018-10-31 21:40

AMDfan:

And the NVIDIA damage controllteam is up at full speed... all of a sudden plenty of "2080Ti owners" stand up to claim their card works just perfectly fine... The 2080Ti is only for 1 or 2% of the computer enthousiasts at a premium price of 1.400 Euro, and here i counted 20 owners already

I'm a 2080ti owner who posted here and I just posted what my current experience has been so I could compare with other 2080ti user that may be posting. If it dies, I will replace it, if it doesn't, it doesn't. I posted some statistics on the matter and from what 2080ti owners have posted it has been by a wide majority the Nvidia FE edition that has been dying the most. That doesn't mean mine won't decide to go belly up but based on the users we have seen on this forum the non FE cards are fairing much better even when they are OC'ed and heavily used.

#5602180

Killersjp

2018-10-31 21:53

What a ridiculous statement that suggests anyone with a working 2080ti or 2080 are somehow sent by Nvidia to add a positive side to this conversation. If I remember this conversation on here was to see a little truth in the state of these cards with real owners, positive and negative. At the moment my card works fine, it may go wrong the next time I turn it on or after years of use. If it does go wrong I will be sure to let everyone who has one that has failed know. Fingers crossed my one will work as I sold my previous card.

#5602182

Noisiv

2018-10-31 22:04

Killersjp:

What a ridiculous statement that suggests anyone with a working 2080ti or 2080 are somehow sent by Nvidia to add a positive side to this conversation. If I remember this conversation on here was to see a little truth in the state of these cards with real owners, positive and negative. At the moment my card works fine, it may go wrong the next time I turn it on or after years of use. If it does go wrong I will be sure to let everyone who has one that has failed know. Fingers crossed my one will work as I sold my previous card.

Could be a false flag operation. To make AMD fans look like nolife losers 😉

AMDfan:

And the NVIDIA damage controllteam is up at full speed... all of a sudden plenty of "2080Ti owners" stand up to claim their card works just perfectly fine... The 2080Ti is only for 1 or 2% of the computer enthousiasts at a premium price of 1.400 Euro, and here i counted 20 owners already

https://abload.de/img/3626ec750d9380034ba5decdm5.jpg

#5602198

SpookySkeleton

2018-10-31 22:47

there is a thread in reddit with some raytracing test made by an user that can use the tensor cores on titan v and Turing cards and fallback mode for non rtx cards for the ones who need to test this stuff since there is no official tech demo released to the public yet https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/9lcs4u/microsoft_dxr_demos_compiled_for_windows_10/ PD don't feed the troll it has an obvious troll face in the profile picture so use common sense

#5602234

MaxBlade

2018-11-01 02:30

Every time I heard of GPU and HEAT I always tied it to AMD lol..sad but true. My 1080ti.. vs my friends 2080.. WOW does his get hot. Then to find out they ALL run that hot. My card NEVER gets past 76.. thats with NO afterburner. I believe there MIGHT be a problem. Yet I have commented on Nvidia about PAGES of post about some problem and as you went through EACH post.. MOST were by the same people over and over. AT NVIDIA...yet this problem is being posted other places by different people. Say what you want about TEMP.. running that HOT all the time...going to effect SOMETHING on that card.

#5602242

Aura89

2018-11-01 03:53

AMDfan:

And the NVIDIA damage controllteam is up at full speed... all of a sudden plenty of "2080Ti owners" stand up to claim their card works just perfectly fine... The 2080Ti is only for 1 or 2% of the computer enthousiasts at a premium price of 1.400 Euro, and here i counted 20 owners already

No need for useless, baseless, pointless, meaningless, brainless conspiracy theories.

#5602246

kens30

2018-11-01 05:15

BangTail:

Just Post it please.

https://www.techpowerup.com/249077/...with-turing-based-cards-its-not-a-broad-issue https://www.tomshardware.com/news/rtx-2080-ti-gpu-defects-launch,37995.html https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/nvidia-rtx-2080-ti-graphics-cards-dying/ Everyone return their overpriced rtx gpu's and ask for a refund to make Jensen Huang take that leather jacket off .

#5602283

kens30

2018-11-01 09:21

Stuttering RTX ON and OFF ARTIFACTING!!! Spoiler: "you tube vid"

[youtube=kEnPbx5GOIs]
Hilbert if you think this link to my post is inappropriate please delete it..