Thursday, November 15th 2018
NVIDIA Confirms Issues Affecting Early Production Run of GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Graphics Cards
NVIDIA, via a blog post on its forums, has confirmed widespread reports of failures affecting their flagship RTX 2080 Ti graphics card. The issues, which resulted in "crashes, black screens, blue screen of death issues, artifacts and cards that fail to work entirely," started cropping up throughout tech forums, before reaching a critical mass that warranted coverage - just in case this was exactly what it seemed, ie, a production issue.
It seems this was just so, and that the problem was luckily limited to some early manufacturing issues or QA controls. As NVIDIA themselves put it, "Limited test escapes from early boards caused the issues some customers have experienced with RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition." The company then says that they stand ready to help customers who are experiencing problems - but nothing else was to be expected, really.
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It seems this was just so, and that the problem was luckily limited to some early manufacturing issues or QA controls. As NVIDIA themselves put it, "Limited test escapes from early boards caused the issues some customers have experienced with RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition." The company then says that they stand ready to help customers who are experiencing problems - but nothing else was to be expected, really.
69 Comments on NVIDIA Confirms Issues Affecting Early Production Run of GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Graphics Cards
We also aren't certain the entire founders edition series, as a whole, is affected. You act like that is a factual statement.
Read what was written, not what you want to read.
I think you both are misunderstanding his point??
Their second post was much the same but with a bit of distracting nonsense thrown in for good measure. Neither of the posts from said user offered anything of value in the context of the information offered by the article. To me, it seems like FUD offered by someone seemingly attempting to degrade NVidia over a problem that is effectively very minor. And I was objecting to the misquoting of the article.
Still good so far.
HardOCP - RTX 2080 Ti FE Escapes Testing by Dying After 8 Hours
A good portion of returned cards have probably been suffering from driver bugs rather than actual defective hardware. Still, there is no evidence of any widespread hardware issues. Only time will tell, we never know if every card is a ticking time bomb.
That can be a lengthier process and take even more time
I was merely asking: Why are so many people willing to buy launch cards from a company that lied about how much VRAM was in their cards (Multiple times actually), approved VRM designs that literally lit on fire (EVGA 1080's), and obsolete their previous architectures ASAP with "Gamesworks" packages. And this is just in the past 4 years.
It blows my mind I am often accused of being a "fanboy" for asking these common sense questions. I don't get why so many put up with such low quality products.
1. They did not lie about the amount of VRAM. There is 4GB there. Just 512MB is slower. Any performance issues because of this were not common. Hell, you can use that slow 512MB w/o issue if it wasn't swapping out constantly. ;)
2. EVGA 1080's had a cooling issue that had nothing to do with NVIDIA. IIRC, it was also on their CUSTOM CARD, not using NVIDIA's specs, but a more robust VRM implementation. The issue was with the AIB and how it cooled some parts, not NVIDIA.
3. Gameworks? Wha? I don't believe they are/were 'obsoleting' their previous archiectures. There have been plenty of quality reviews showing this isn't happening.
I'm certain you'll have things to say about these things, but, it is what it is... :)
Back to topic;
There is nothing wrong with buyers expecting their product to work, but this doesn't mean that every failed sample is proof of a fundamentally defective product. Every mass-produced piece electronics have a failure rate >0, while the failure rate may vary between products, a typical DOA or short-time failure rate of 1-2% and 4-5% over three years, is completely normal for graphics cards.
The other day there was one guy on Youtube which experienced the same type of artifacting on a RTX 2070 as the famous defective RTX 2080 Tis, implying a bigger scope for the "Turing problems". But this looks like just a normal defective card, how come all these "tech people" know so little about the fact that some samples are just defective?
Here in the forums, one guy got the exact same symptom on a GTX 1080. Every series of graphics cards have a failure rate, even AMD's ones, that's why we have warranties to cover such problems. The existence of a few bad samples doesn't prove a bigger problem, but an abnormal high failure rate would do. So far, most complaints seem related to driver issues and relatively few cards have actually been returned.
The problem, imo, is the overall knowledge level and maturity of some forum users. It's the same. ones. every. time. Even long standing members fall into this hole. While the issue is seen everywhere, people's opinions here seem to be more polarizing and extreme.