Anyone had RTX 2080 issues?

[Digby]

It seems many people are having cards die etc.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2018/1...

Huge list here containing all types of manufacturers. Many posting here, for example, are on second and third cards..

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/discov...

[Speckle]

Looks to be a problem exclusive to the 2080Ti. I'm quite pleased now that I didn't stretch my budget that far and settled on the Ultra Gaming version instead. Had no issues in 5 months.

[FourWheelDrift]

This was happening over 12 months ago - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIRfPlC15uc

Are we talking new cards still failing, or old cards that have been in stock failing? Haven't newer cards been fixed?

[MintyScot]

nVidia in non-competitive market overpriced shoddy product shocker.

Need Intel and AMD to start being competitive to stop these things from happening.

[FourWheelDrift]

This guy (below) bought a cheap RTX 2080 Ti, turned out to be the specially built cheap model for an Alienware PC it kept overheating and crashing, he took it apart checked all the thermal pads and added 4 washers when putting it back together. It then worked faultlessly.

Could it be just poor factory assembly causing overheating and failures?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssqYleBjPIw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUQ5rXYiBo8

[anarki]

I've owned my Inno3d RTX2080 from launch (Nov 2018) with a mild overclock (+150Mhz Core/+500MHz RAM) from the moment it was installed and it has been faultless. Its in a really small case too - Louqe Ghost S1.

[FourWheelDrift]

It's just the Ti model that has issues.

[Mothersruin]

MintyScot said:

nVidia in non-competitive market overpriced shoddy product shocker.

Need Intel and AMD to start being competitive to stop these things from happening.

AMD have raised the game in the last 6 months - their CPUs are often winners across all price points now and while their GPUs are low in number, again they seem to be delivering better value.

[HRL]

I've had a Zotac 2080Ti since launch in 2018 and no problems so far.

Discovered that reducing the power limit to 96% but using the same OC's I was using at 116% power limit has kept me at the same boost clocks and performance but at much less wattage and heat. Took me completely by surprise TBH.

+110 GPU and +1000 RAM even with the original Micron RAM. Boosts GPU to 2115 and the RAM to 8000 while almost never using more than 270W.

[maxdb]

The non-super RTX models had a lot of issues as does the 2080ti. I had a 2080ti delivered to me by mistake and that wouldn't run when I tested it - it kept crashing and displayed artifacts.

[130R]

I've had 2 x 2080ti and no issues with them working. I imagine it's a tiny % of cards in reality that have and you can always RMA.

[Digby]

FourWheelDrift said:

This guy (below) bought a cheap RTX 2080 Ti, turned out to be the specially built cheap model for an Alienware PC it kept overheating and crashing, he took it apart checked all the thermal pads and added 4 washers when putting it back together. It then worked faultlessly.

Could it be just poor factory assembly causing overheating and failures?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssqYleBjPIw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUQ5rXYiBo8

Didn't watch the complete videos I must admit, but it looked to me like he tested it first with the pc case side on (card dies) and then did his modding and tested with the case side off? That would lower temps, surely.