NVIDIA Investigates GeForce RTX 50 Series "Blackwell" Black Screen and BSOD Issues

[thesmokingman]

You'd think given how at 78% profit margin, they'd make sure that these worked right the first time around.

 

[Solaris17]

"Breaking News: NVIDIA's Blackwell GPU prototypes are behind the massive fires in recent weeks."

Listen; its clear that the fires are only happening to finish baking the chips. You just have to let them break in.

Actual power issues aside though. Gathering meta reports from around the internet imo it starts to paint a picture in regards to silicon issues in regards to everything else. I dont really have high hopes this is going to get fixed with a vbios update or even drivers like they claim. If anything there will be simply "less" cards on the market that are......marketable as internal QA with partners and nvidia get more serious now because of the news; and affected users proceed with RMAs.

Thats a super long winded way to say. I dont think software's gonna fix this chief.

 

[JustBenching]

MFG stands for multi flame generation.

 

[Solaris17]

MFG stands for multi flame generation.

and yall thought the 480s were a hot product.

To be fair; the actual core thermal performance of the 5xxx series appears to be fantastic.

 

[JustBenching]

and yall thought the 480s were a hot product.

To be fair; the actual core thermal performance of the 5xxx series appears to be fantastic.

I'm just memeing. Card is a beast, no one would say no to a 5090. Even the gimped 168 rops one

 

[Knight47]

Are older cards affected too?

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

It’s feeling a bit like NVIDIAs Raptor Lake moment. Pushing the design too hard to hit a performance target is causing some trouble. And folks calling for AMD and Intel to magically compete is a lot like expecting Intel to magically recover in the CPU space in an instant. This stuff is years in the making.

 

[Waldorf]

@Bronan
except what res/settings you can run a game at, depends mainly on the game.
i have no trouble playing all (MY) games at 2160p/60 with VRR enabled, only with Horizon 5 i now have to drop from extreme/ultra to get fps steady.
not everyone plays the same games, and basically all games 5y or older should be no problem to run native 4K on mid/higher tier cards.

 

[matar]

LOL i knew Nvidia had something fishy with this launch from the name (Black~well >be the new screen in gaming SO you will see nothing only Blackwell screen) and now missing Rops also maybe more issues to come.

 

[Chrispy_]

I would have sold it as long as you have something else, just like I sold my 5700 XT for £600 (I bought it for £450) during the mining craze, just because I found a 2070 for £500. That's £100 in my pocket for nothing.

I want the card more than I need the £200 I could profit by flipping the new GPU.

As an SI I am never short of alternative hardware - there's a dusty 2080Ti and a spare 4060Ti sitting on a shelf next door right now, but I won't be able to get a 5070Ti alternative right now. I might still flip it on eBay when the 9070XT comes out. I like having two desktops with both an AMD and Nvidia GPU under the same roof so that I can always see the experience for myself in real-time, but this 5070Ti isn't undervolting as well as I'd hoped, so it's probably not a candidate to replace the 4060Ti 16G in the HTPC which needs to be near-silent in a very specific, and not particularly well-cooled case.

What I have a word against is the recommendation to buy a product based on the fact that "there is nothing else available in that segment at the moment".

It's not really a recommendation, in the same way that I wouldn't recommend people buy a 4080S or 4070Ti Super. That level of performance is a long way off the performance/$ sweet spot and I still think the 7800XT at £470 today is the best option for an overwhelming majority of gamers looking for the sweet spot. If you can get a 4070S for under £550 or a 7700XT for under £375 those are also awesome choices. All three of those cards will run a game well, at high details, high refresh or both and allow you to get the full experience from just about any game that's out right now. Beyond a certain point, improving the graphics hits diminishing returns and if the game is good it's unlikely to be good because of the graphics.

My point was that even an £850 5070Ti is objectively, measurably better performance/$ than the 7900XTX, 4080S, and 4070Ti Super. The price of 40-series cards has gone back up to silly money again in the last month because all of the supply has dried up and the flagship AMD card was never a good value in the first place.

 

[Legacy-ZA]

Need more AIB's sending their cards for review, flying blind, I want to see those PCBs.

 

[evernessince]

Anyone buying the best gaming card on the market is not concerned about value for money, that doesn't make them idiots, it just means they have the disposable income for it.

I see this and the "High end buyers don't care about price" line being spread but EVERYONE is concerned about value for money at some point. As a 4090 owner the 5090 doesn't interest me, it's not good enough value.

A lot of people see high end graphics cards selling like crazy and assume the same people who always buy them are still doing so when in reality it's mostly AI buyers using the cards for work while your normal gamers are being pushed down the stack.

 

[STSMiner]

Handing over money to be a "beta tester" - Wonderful idea !

One thing I'd like to point out here too and that is that the "reviewers" that got these cards for "free" failed at doing the required checks with specs etc.

 

[eidairaman1]

This keeps getting better and better lol

Nvidia have lost the plot, all they're good at is market manipulation these days.

Blackwell has also had big issues in the server market, with overheating and power issues delaying its rollout.

Zero real innovation since 2016, the 5070ti and 4080 essentially identical. The bottom line, is that software has stopped advancing as well.

Outside of snake oil, like RT, cards from the 3000 series onwards look like they'll continue to do a great job in gaming until at least 2030.

Fixed that for you

 

[Event Horizon]

Blackwell screen, missing ROPs, melting connectors, high tdp, crazy high prices, and low availability. This generation is a dumpster fire.

 

[TheEndIsNear]

My 4090 does the black screen thing in the middle of the game and it comes back very annoying. I would like to get rid of it and get another 7900xtx but I need lots of horsepower for this 57 inch monitor. Uggghhhh

 

[Recus]

Here we go again. The other option is AMD and has been for a long time. Nvidia has never been very high quality. Its all hype and no substance with them. As some have said, stop buying Nvidia and look elsewhere. We need to end this monopoly before the GPU market is really screwed.

Monopoly is good... If AMD benefits from it.

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[Guwapo77]

I was deadass set on buying a 5090, I'm glad their didn't have stock or I'd be one of these sad people with their house about to burn down from a GPU. Crushes my soul I have to wait another two years or buy a 9070XT for 4K gaming on low to low-medium settings.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

50 series the gift that keeps on giving....

 

[Ruru]

What a great release. No stock, melting cables, missing ROPs and now blue & black screens.

I was deadass set on buying a 5090, I'm glad their didn't have stock or I'd be one of these sad people with their house about to burn down from a GPU. Crushes my soul I have to wait another two years or buy a 9070XT for 4K gaming on low to low-medium settings.

Low to medium? I play at 4K without issues with 3080, medium settings is the way to go.

 

[Guwapo77]

What a great release. No stock, melting cables, missing ROPs and now blue & black screens.

Low to medium? I play at 4K without issues with 3080, medium settings is the way to go.

I'm guessing you between 40-60FPS. I want to play 90-120+ fps at max settings hence why I wanted a 5090. The monitor I have rocks to 240Hz, I mean I don't think I'm asking for too much in OLED glory. I thought 2025 was going to be that year as I'm doing a massive rebuild...WRONG!

 

[Klemc]

BlackWell translated literally means black is good, so, black screen is good and it's 50x GPU's normal behavior, lol.

 

[bonehead123]

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[PerfectWave]

I understand why EVGA endeddoing business with NVIDIA ...

 

[Fluffmeister]

I understand why EVGA endeddoing business with NVIDIA ...

Yeah and EVGA has gone from strength to strength ever since... lol.