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Reports of Bricked NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 and RTX 5090D Surge

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Wrt hardware, if it was that bad, you'd see people stop buying, class-action law suits. When you make hundreds of thousand or millions of any product, there will be defects. The defect rates are probably in the low single digits. We just have more channels to make noise about that, that's all.
And keep in mind defect rate goes up naturally as the products get more and more complex.
On a paper launch?
 
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those defective cards will do good 5070 and 5060.
joke.
 

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And people say the 50xx series isn't that much faster.

Nvidia drivers used to take 2 to 4 years to brick their GPUs now it only takes 2 to 4 days! That's 36500% faster.

On a more serious note, now I believe der8auer, this kind of thing isn't strange if board partners only have 2 to 15 days to test the card.
And this might not be something new considering that at least the last 3 gens had major issues at release.
Never buy a GPU at release, specially a Nvidia one, seems as true as ever.
 
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Doesn't matter, if this is a 5600XT, or 5090. The products that being launched, should be ironed out before the release. There's no exuse. Neither nVidia, nor AMD, or Intel are garbage cheap brands and compainies. They have hundreds of billions, to find staff, that is able to fix the problems.

Once upon a time, the launch and release was meaning the same thing. Now, the "Launch" may happen month before an actual release, and yet the products often come with severe issues.

Yes, the tech has become enormously more complex. But this is still not excuse, for the misleading marketing and unlrealistic goals. If they need more time to fix the issues, the companies must keep it shut behind the doors, and not anounce anything, until the product is at least 95% ready. Otherwise, they all sell the unrealistic expectations, and increase the hype, to prepare the "hight" sales, and inflate the product and stock prices, beforehand.

Making the $2000 product, that has problems, is a slap on the face. And this isn't the first time. I mean, if someone releases such an expecive piece of tech, it should be tested before, and not upon arival, no? Maybe these people, who were waiting in queues for days (much like Aplle iPhone launch), will respect themself more, next time.
 
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Doesn't matter, if this is a 5600XT, or 5090. The products that being launched, should be ironed out before the release. There's no exuse. Neither nVidia, nor AMD, or Intel are garbage cheap brands and compainies. They have hundreds of billions, to find staff, that is able to fix the problems.

Once upon a time, the launch and release was meaning the same thing. Now, the "Launch" may happen month before an actual release, and yet the products often come with severe issues.

Yes, the tech has become enormously more complex. But this is still not excuse, for the misleading marketing and unlrealistic goals. If they need more time to fix the issues, the companies must keep it shut behind the doors, and not anounce anything, until the product is at least 95% ready. Otherwise, they all sell the unrealistic expectations, and increase the hype, to prepare the "hight" sales, and inflate the product and stock prices, beforehand.

I believe it's all down to the now-widely accepted culture of using customers as beta testers.

So, Nvidia will refund them $2,000?

Since when are we taking speculation and potential problems as an irrefutable statement of fact? And of course not.

Should the need for a recall arise, it's up to stores, distributors and AIBs to refund and/or replace the defective products. But it's unlikely it will get that far.
 
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Big snip…
Either I was just really unlucky today or this driver has some real issues.

Counterpoint: I’ve been gaming on the 570 driver branch since before it was publicly released. Only issue I have is current gen games look so good I can’t go to my backlog.
 
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paper launch and it's a $2k silicon brick. To those who went through all the troubles just to get their hands on a card that gives ~10% improvements over the 4090; congratulations, you've played yourself. The scalpers who bought a pallet worth of it; congratulations, you've bought a pile of bricks that no one will be buying.
10%?
im gaming 5K and its around 45% faster for those 3 games i was playing so dont know where u got this 10%?
 
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Naeeeehh don't think so
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It's not only the 5090. Roman had issues on his 5080, and trust him of all the people to know a thing or two and not be using a cheap motherboard. Dude even tried to troubleshoot it. Quickly pointing the fingers at motherboard manufacturers isn't the best thing to do tbh. He's not the only reviewer having issues either..

A very disappointing launch really, I expected more from them. It's probably the most disappointing launch i've witnessed in a good while.

Edit: Here's your chance on a silver platter AMD. You ramped production at the same time at 50 series but didn't have a joke of a launch with hundreds of products. Iron out bugs, do a proper launch, price it well and actually have stock. Judging by their track record, something should be amiss but let's not hope it's all of those points.
I wonder if that sample had an issue with the internal PCIe riser type cable the FE cards now use?
 
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