Thursday, September 24th 2020
RTX 3080 Users Report Crashes to Desktop While Gaming
A number of RTX 3080 users have been reporting crashes to desktop while gaming on their newly-acquired Ampere graphics cards. The reports have surged in numerous hardware discussion venues (ComputerBase, LinusTechTips, NVIDIA, Tom's Hardware, Tweakers and Reddit), and appear to be unlinked to any particular RTX 3080 vendor (ZOTAC, MSI, EVGA, and NVIDIA Founders Edition graphics cards are all mentioned).
Apparently, this crash to desktop happens once the RTX 3080's Boost clock exceeds 2.0 GHz. A number of causes could be advanced for these issues: deficient power delivery, GPU temperature failsafes, or even a simple driver-level problem (though that one seems to be the least likely). Nor NVIDIA nor any of its AIB partners have spoken about this issue, and review outlets failed to mention this happening - likely because it never did, at least on samples sent to reviewers. For now, it seems that manually downclocking the graphics card by 50-100 MHz could be a temporary fix for the issue while it's being troubleshooted. An unlucky turn of events for users of NVIDIA's latest and greatest, but surely it's better to face a very slight performance decrease in exchange for system stability.
Sources:
ComputerBase, LinusTechTips, NVIDIA Forums, Tom's Hardware Forums, Reddit
Apparently, this crash to desktop happens once the RTX 3080's Boost clock exceeds 2.0 GHz. A number of causes could be advanced for these issues: deficient power delivery, GPU temperature failsafes, or even a simple driver-level problem (though that one seems to be the least likely). Nor NVIDIA nor any of its AIB partners have spoken about this issue, and review outlets failed to mention this happening - likely because it never did, at least on samples sent to reviewers. For now, it seems that manually downclocking the graphics card by 50-100 MHz could be a temporary fix for the issue while it's being troubleshooted. An unlucky turn of events for users of NVIDIA's latest and greatest, but surely it's better to face a very slight performance decrease in exchange for system stability.
83 Comments on RTX 3080 Users Report Crashes to Desktop While Gaming
I felt somewhat these cards were released in hurry. I told ya.
The memory chips used are rated up to 95C, yet reportedly run up to around 120C.
www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/users-are-reporting-a-crash-to-desktop-issues-with-custom-geforce-rtx-3080-models.272539/post-4355476
Agree or disagree, there it is.
Though yes, with GDDR6X being new, it makes for credible suspect.
www.micron.com/products/ultra-bandwidth-solutions/gddr6x/part-catalog/mt61k256m32je-19
It's been theorized that a lot of the AMD 5700 crashes were due to the same thing (me included, and a new PSU fixed it), which didn't happen to reviewers since their PC's are maintained and overbuilt. Looks like the newer GPU's are more demanding on the PSU than just flat wattage.
I'm not going to go back and read all of them now to find references to it, lol.
Are you sure you're not talking about this? www.techpowerup.com/272420/the-reason-why-nvidias-geforce-rtx-3080-gpu-uses-19-gbps-gddr6x-memory-and-not-faster-variants
Best thing to do is set a maximum clock in the freq/voltage curve (undervolting) that the GPU will not boost above, so yeah while the GPU may not set some benchmark record the efficiency gain is nice and that is what matter when gaming.