Do YOU have Problems with YOUR RTX card?

Do YOU have Problems with YOUR RTX card?

  • My RTX 2080 Died

    Votes: 2 0.9%
  • My RTX 2080 Ti Died

    Votes: 30 13.6%
  • My RTX 2080 has BSOD Issues

    Votes: 3 1.4%
  • My RTX 2080 Ti has BSOD Issues

    Votes: 13 5.9%
  • My RTX 2080 has Other Issues

    Votes: 7 3.2%
  • My RTX 2080 Ti has Other Issues

    Votes: 23 10.5%
  • I have RMA'd my RTX 2080

    Votes: 2 0.9%
  • I have RMA'd my RTX 2080 Ti

    Votes: 26 11.8%
  • My RTX is a Founders Edition

    Votes: 62 28.2%
  • I have NO ISSUES with my RTX card

    Votes: 156 70.9%

  • Total voters
    220
That's RMA territory already, if not already a down right return. I would not accept even a few artifacts, let alone crashes and game glitching. The asus 2080ti has been performing flawlessly since I got it, evga card let me finish far cry 5 so I guess it was ok in the sense I completed 1 game.
 
I wonder how many people have partly defective 2000 series cards and are just "living with it" or otherwise accepting the problems like this person is.

For the prices of these cards, partly working is not acceptable and warrants an immediate return/RMA.

I don't disagree. After the first bad card and seeing the replacement exhibit some issues... I will be RMA'ing the replacement. After it pisses me off enough. Here's the problem, I'm starting to believe that the issues really aren't just space invaders, BSODs and hard locks. My last one was just completely unstable with Artifacts and flickering. This one has the occasional artifact, some screen flickering and does not seem unstable at all. How bad is this generation in terms of flaws? Really? So, the returns are X%. Yeah, how many people live with the issues because the card works? That's a really good question.
 
I don't disagree. After the first bad card and seeing the replacement exhibit some issues... I will be RMA'ing the replacement. After it pisses me off enough. Here's the problem, I'm starting to believe that the issues really aren't just space invaders, BSODs and hard locks. My last one was just completely unstable with Artifacts and flickering. This one has the occasional artifact, some screen flickering and does not seem unstable at all. How bad is this generation in terms of flaws? Really? So, the returns are X%. Yeah, how many people live with the issues because the card works? That's a really good question.
Why go through all the trouble again? A refund seems to make more sense, IMO. Wait until there is a fix. Maybe they will even need to redo the card to fix it?
 
My friend's Gigabyte RTX 2070 died after 2 weeks. He RMA the card to Gigabyte. I think the poll should expand to 2070 as well.
 
Why go through all the trouble again? A refund seems to make more sense, IMO. Wait until there is a fix. Maybe they will even need to redo the card to fix it?
I mulled it over. The refund does make the most sense. I'm just not ready to give up yet. Amazingly, for one day only, the card has been utterly stable. I don't trust it, but my 1080Ti founders was on the way out anyway. Either I buy a used 1080Ti or I just keep fighting with these cards until I get one that works. I still have a couple more RMA's in me ;)
 
I mulled it over. The refund does make the most sense. I'm just not ready to give up yet. Amazingly, for one day only, the card has been utterly stable. I don't trust it, but my 1080Ti founders was on the way out anyway. Either I buy a used 1080Ti or I just keep fighting with these cards until I get one that works. I still have a couple more RMA's in me ;)

You’ve made comments about your 1080Ti dying. You made crazy statements about your videocard melting nearby cards. You’ve been thru a couple new cards.

Are you sure you don’t have something else going on?
 
You’ve made comments about your 1080Ti dying. You made crazy statements about your videocard melting nearby cards. You’ve been thru a couple new cards.

Are you sure you don’t have something else going on?

My 1080Ti is displaying artifacts, It's probably near the end of it's lifespan. I had the same thing happen to one of my GTX970's though it was under warranty and I got it replaced. I really never considered looking at the warranty on my 1080Ti, I need to do that but I'm guessing it's past that point. The crazy statements about my video card melting nearby cards is factual, my 1080Ti killed anything I placed next to it in the PCI-E 1x slot next to it (went through a pair of sound cards before I realized my 1080Ti Founders was cooking them). It cooked the cards in a Coolermaster HAF XB EVO that had incredible air flow. This is my second 2080Ti, I will be sending in the RMA for it as it's flickering and artifacting, as of 20 minutes ago in game.

Everything else is good. I migrated out of the Coolermaster Masterbox mid tower I was using because I thought the waste heat the 2080Ti was dumping into the chassis was the issue. I probably didn't even have to go to the full tower, however, the ambient inside is roughly 6c cooler than what I had before. Power supply is brand new Seasonic 850 Gold, main board I have two of and never had any issues with them. Nothing else in the case besides the RAM and Arctic water cooler I have top mounted and exhausting. The issues essentially disappear when I'm not using the 2080Ti. So, the issue is the 2080Ti. The screen flickering is happening even now as I type this. It was the same on the other board.

I don't want to give up because I don't really want to roll the dice with buying a 1080Ti off of Ebay that could potentially end up screwing me out of 600 bucks. I paid about a grand for the card, picked up the extended warranty and advanced RMA, might as well use it. Maybe, just maybe, they will send me something that isn't an expensive piece of shit... one of these days.
 
Some jerk sold me a bad amd card, eBay guarantee made it a non-issue. I wouldn’t be afraid to pull off an eBay deal.
 
Some jerk sold me a bad amd card, eBay guarantee made it a non-issue. I wouldn’t be afraid to pull off an eBay deal.
I appreciate the information, when I have another 600 bucks to burn I might pick up a 1080Ti second had there if any are left
 
How can a 1080 Ti "cook" a sound card? Even running at max temp (usually 86C and then it throttles), that should not be hot enough to melt anything. Something seems off about this.
 
How can a 1080 Ti "cook" a sound card? Even running at max temp (usually 86C and then it throttles), that should not be hot enough to melt anything. Something seems off about this.

It stands to reason that the video card would melt itself before it started melting things around it, but yeah. The wording of the original mention was internet gold as well.
 
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It stands to reason that the video card would melt itself before it started melting things around it, but yeah. The wording of the original mention was internet gold as well.

Guys, I'm happy I've provided some level of entertainment with the way I describe things. The Blower style 1080Ti exhausts most of it's heat directly out it's back plate. The cards tend to get hot. Pretty much all the blower style cards run hotter than ones that dump their heat into a PC case. The backplane where both my 1080Ti and a pair of creative labs sound cards were connected gets really damn hot. The heat didn't actually light anything on fire, however, on my first X-Fi card it essentially destroyed the ability to push headphones . On the second card, one of those newer, shourded 3D Creative cards it did more, the card ceased to function.

I discovered it was a heat issue after burning the skin off a couple fingers when I was pulling and reseating the sound card. The metal of the sound card back plate had become discolored. After my system cooled I looked at the back of my 1080Ti, the metal of that back plate appears almost "chromatic" like metal that changed it's properties due to heat.

I've been an IT tech for too long. As such I spend way in the hell too much time alone! ;) So , you might have to excuse some of the bizarre ways I describe things. Lol.

Update: I was asking EVGA about the advanced RMA transfer last night and mentioned the second card was exhibiting the same issues. They told me it wasn't possible, that they tested the replacements. I explained the screen flickering and artifacting and without even submitting a formal RMA they issued me a RMA on the spot, in response to my email.... That would indicate to me they've seen the issues I'm describing (at 2am) quite often.
 
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Guys, I'm happy I've provided some level of entertainment with the way I describe things. The Blower style 1080Ti exhausts most of it's heat directly out it's back plate. The cards tend to get hot. Pretty much all the blower style cards run hotter than ones that dump their heat into a PC case. The backplane where both my 1080Ti and a pair of creative labs sound cards were connected gets really damn hot. The heat didn't actually light anything on fire, however, on my first X-Fi card it essentially destroyed the ability to push headphones . On the second card, one of those newer, shourded 3D Creative cards it did more, the card ceased to function.

I discovered it was a heat issue after burning the skin off a couple fingers when I was pulling and reseating the sound card. The metal of the sound card back plate had become discolored. After my system cooled I looked at the back of my 1080Ti, the metal of that back plate appears almost "chromatic" like metal that changed it's properties due to heat.

I've been an IT tech for too long. As such I spend way in the hell too much time alone! ;) So , you might have to excuse some of the bizarre ways I describe things. Lol.

Update: I was asking EVGA about the advanced RMA transfer last night and mentioned the second card was exhibiting the same issues. They told me it wasn't possible, that they tested the replacements. I explained the screen flickering and artifacting and without even submitting a formal RMA they issued me a RMA on the spot, in response to my email.... That would indicate to me they've seen the issues I'm describing (at 2am) quite often.

If you have the space you could always put a slot blower between the GPU and sound card. I used to use them and wire them to 5V rather than 12V (or if you’re fancy get a voltage controller.)
 
If you have the space you could always put a slot blower between the GPU and sound card. I used to use them and wire them to 5V rather than 12V (or if you’re fancy get a voltage controller.)

That would have worked if i had moved the video card down a slot. I hadn't even considered it, though I have done something like that in the past (in a much older case for cooling). I guess it just depends on whether or not both PCI-E 16x slots on my mainboard are full bandwidth or not. I'm not 100% certain but I think only one is. Lemme check.

Expansion Slots
  1. 1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x16 (PCIEX16)
    * For optimum performance, if only one PCI Express graphics card is to be installed, be sure to install it in the PCIEX16 slot.
  2. 2 x PCI Express x16 slots, running at x4 (PCIEX4_1/PCIEX4_2)
  3. 3 x PCI Express x1 slots
    (All of the PCI Express slots conform to PCI Express 3.0 standard.)
It appears that only the top slot is full 16x, the other two are 4x?...

Great Idea though!:)
 
Hope the replacement card works.

Also, might be a good chance to get an extra fan or upgrade the air flow in your rig.
 
Hope the replacement card works.

Also, might be a good chance to get an extra fan or upgrade the air flow in your rig.

I have three 120mm intake fans, one top mounted 120mm exhaust fan, one rear 140mm exhaust fan, top mounted Arctic Water cooler for the CPU, not sure how much more ventilation I can get in this case. The Coolermaster HAF Evo I have had plenty of damn airflow as well (my Ryzen 1700 is still in that case).
 

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Here's RMA number 2...

This will be my third card, I'm expecting that it's the same as the last two. Who knows.
 

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I have three 120mm intake fans, one top mounted 120mm exhaust fan, one rear 140mm exhaust fan, top mounted Arctic Water cooler for the CPU, not sure how much more ventilation I can get in this case. The Coolermaster HAF Evo I have had plenty of damn airflow as well (my Ryzen 1700 is still in that case).
Looks good actually.
 
This makes me wary of my replacement card...

I'm thinking the same thing. My replacement 2070 arrives Wednesday but I doubt I'll get to test it until Saturday.

I've been building my own PCs and PCs for my friends and family for 22 years and this is only the second time I've ever had to RMA anything. Maybe I'm lucky in the past but I'm feeling pretty wary at this point. Fingers crossed
 
I have a new 2070 coming Friday, to replace my kids' 1060. Not worried, personally.. despite having RMA'd a 2080 Ti.

Really anxious to get it.. have a 13 year old playing on 1440p and he just realized that everything's either scaled and/or low settings. He was going to inherit a 1080 Ti but I am doing a friend price deal to hook up a buddy that's been limping along on a 680.
 
My 2080Ti will be here Friday. I'm really hoping this card came from a different batch of chips. With some of these cards coming with Samsung ram (both of mine were Micron) makes me wonder if Nvidia had no idea what the issues were and immediately swapped the RAM on replacement boards... Or if they knew all along. Either way, I'm certain they've likely been able to isolate what's causing the issues by now and something tells me a microcode card bios update isn't gonna fix it. Something is massively flawed in their initial production "test escapes". Makes me wonder how many of these lower end 2080Ti's I'm gonna go through before I find one that works right...

Granted I'm just making an assumption but the "cheapo" 2080Ti boards are likely the worst silicon of the lineup, lol. Card 3 en route...
 
My 2080Ti will be here Friday. I'm really hoping this card came from a different batch of chips. With some of these cards coming with Samsung ram (both of mine were Micron) makes me wonder if Nvidia had no idea what the issues were and immediately swapped the RAM on replacement boards... Or if they knew all along. Either way, I'm certain they've likely been able to isolate what's causing the issues by now and something tells me a microcode card bios update isn't gonna fix it. Something is massively flawed in their initial production "test escapes". Makes me wonder how many of these lower end 2080Ti's I'm gonna go through before I find one that works right...

Granted I'm just making an assumption but the "cheapo" 2080Ti boards are likely the worst silicon of the lineup, lol. Card 3 en route...

Most likely we'll see VRAM from Micron, Samsung, and Hynix and it'll be a lottery. There's no way they spun up Samsung in response to a problem.
 
Most likely we'll see VRAM from Micron, Samsung, and Hynix and it'll be a lottery. There's no way they spun up Samsung in response to a problem.
Gotcha.

I'm not remembering if Nvidia has ever come out and admitted anything without a class action lawsuit compelling them to, like with the 970's. So, I'm not thinking they will own up to a flaw in this series of chips, especially since their stock has been taking a serious beating. Anything else negative, like a defective product launch could cause their current hammered stock value to plummet.

I love their boards, fastest in the industry... However, I would love to see them get their asses handed to them for charging people a premium just because there is no competition.

Intel really didn't have any competition until Ryzen, however, at least you could still buy a decent i5 or i7 for a couple hundred bucks. Nvidia is gouging it's loyal customers IMO.
 
My 2080Ti will be here Friday. I'm really hoping this card came from a different batch of chips. With some of these cards coming with Samsung ram (both of mine were Micron) makes me wonder if Nvidia had no idea what the issues were and immediately swapped the RAM on replacement boards... Or if they knew all along. Either way, I'm certain they've likely been able to isolate what's causing the issues by now and something tells me a microcode card bios update isn't gonna fix it. Something is massively flawed in their initial production "test escapes". Makes me wonder how many of these lower end 2080Ti's I'm gonna go through before I find one that works right...

Granted I'm just making an assumption but the "cheapo" 2080Ti boards are likely the worst silicon of the lineup, lol. Card 3 en route...



You know how those small convenience stores always place the stale stuff at the front.....
 
Gotcha.

I'm not remembering if Nvidia has ever come out and admitted anything without a class action lawsuit compelling them to, like with the 970's. So, I'm not thinking they will own up to a flaw in this series of chips, especially since their stock has been taking a serious beating. Anything else negative, like a defective product launch could cause their current hammered stock value to plummet.

I love their boards, fastest in the industry... However, I would love to see them get their asses handed to them for charging people a premium just because there is no competition.

Intel really didn't have any competition until Ryzen, however, at least you could still buy a decent i5 or i7 for a couple hundred bucks. Nvidia is gouging it's loyal customers IMO.

The way I look at it is that I'm ok to pay the NV tax because they are pushing the envelope even in a competition vacuum. If you bought a CPU then you were paying the Intel tax for very little innovation generation over generation.

I'm sure someone can come along and tell me I'm wrong because of reasons, but that's my take.
 
People always have those "reasons" lol! That's a compelling argument, 35% faster + entry level Ray Tracing that no one else has (even if I don't use it)... That's definitely better than the 5% gain Intel has been eking out per generation and remaining stagnant on the same core architecture. I'm happy [paying 999 for that gain over my stock 1080Ti FE. However, paying another 3-400 bucks for a few more Mhz of headroom... ugh... My displays don't do above 60Hz so squeezing the OC out of the higher binned cards just didn't make any sense to me.
 
People always have those "reasons" lol! That's a compelling argument, 35% faster + entry level Ray Tracing that no one else has (even if I don't use it)... That's definitely better than the 5% gain Intel has been eking out per generation and remaining stagnant on the same core architecture. I'm happy [paying 999 for that gain over my stock 1080Ti FE. However, paying another 3-400 bucks for a few more Mhz of headroom... ugh... My displays don't do above 60Hz so squeezing the OC out of the higher binned cards just didn't make any sense to me.

I mean if I wasn't trying to push 4K then I wouldn't have any interest in one, but here we are. It's hard to put that genie back in the bottle once the chase begins.
 
I mean if I wasn't trying to push 4K then I wouldn't have any interest in one, but here we are. It's hard to put that genie back in the bottle once the chase begins.
Yes, yes... my 1080Ti seemed sort of sufficient for 4K, however, the 2080Ti really nails it for me. I agree, once I tasted it I just can't let go. Regardless of how damn painful it's been thus far. Not sure what happened to my Advanced RMA... I emailed EVGA about it, but the second replacement didn't carry the next day service, it shipped ground. Need to have another discussion with customer service.
 
I got my replacement. Now to test in gaming. So far so good.
I'm jealous, I'm playing with my artifacting and flickering card at the moment until Friday. Hopefully the third card is not just another damn repeat offender.
 
I know I have mentioned "media blackout" before on the Nvidia 2000 series cards... This is the only mention, off this site, I could find on the net on the Tom's Hardware forums:

Is my 2080ti dead?
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EpicKillerDec 13, 2018, 7:47 AM
Hey everyone.

So, I was just on my PC and suddenly the screen goes black and the fans on the 2080ti speed up massively and there is no signal to my monitor. I rebooted and the same thing again but there never was any display.

Anyway, I swap it out for my 1070 and now everything is working so I am inclined to think the card is defective.

What are your guys thoughts?

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  1. xSimply1337x Dec 13, 2018, 7:54 AM
    Most likely. If you weren't keeping up with the news when you decided to purchase the 20 series you may not have noticed that more than enough people have had to RMA their 20 series cards for a number of reasons all of which have the end result that they are dead. Which is why I am totally content with keeping my 1080 Ti and will consider 20 series only when it's confirmed that it won't die like the others. Or I'll end up waiting for the next generation of cards.

There's been NOTHING mentioned anywhere else since the end of November. I'm kind of curious because I'm working on my third card here, the first two were (are) utter crap. First Card, artifacting, flickering and game crashing. Second Card, initial flickering, then stuttering in games and now artifacting...
 
I know I have mentioned "media blackout" before on the Nvidia 2000 series cards... This is the only mention, off this site, I could find on the net on the Tom's Hardware forums:

Is my 2080ti dead?
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EpicKillerDec 13, 2018, 7:47 AM
Hey everyone.

So, I was just on my PC and suddenly the screen goes black and the fans on the 2080ti speed up massively and there is no signal to my monitor. I rebooted and the same thing again but there never was any display.

Anyway, I swap it out for my 1070 and now everything is working so I am inclined to think the card is defective.

What are your guys thoughts?

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  1. xSimply1337x Dec 13, 2018, 7:54 AM
    Most likely. If you weren't keeping up with the news when you decided to purchase the 20 series you may not have noticed that more than enough people have had to RMA their 20 series cards for a number of reasons all of which have the end result that they are dead. Which is why I am totally content with keeping my 1080 Ti and will consider 20 series only when it's confirmed that it won't die like the others. Or I'll end up waiting for the next generation of cards.

There's been NOTHING mentioned anywhere else since the end of November. I'm kind of curious because I'm working on my third card here, the first two were (are) utter crap. First Card, artifacting, flickering and game crashing. Second Card, initial flickering, then stuttering in games and now artifacting...

Anyone that signed that NDA is not going to be reporting about defective cards or a possible issue. At best you may get a passing article, however if you check the Nvidia forums then you see many have issues.
 
The problem is that the NV dice are weighted, at the moment, even if it was a D100 it would roll high on the chances to get a bum video card (IMO).

I mean if you get a third bad card in a row and EVGA is pretesting them, I’d at least consider that perhaps something else could be problematic. Whether that is hardware, software, drivers, who knows.. but at least consider.

I know you’ve already swapped the case, so you’ve been doing that.
 
I mean if you get a third bad card in a row and EVGA is pretesting them, I’d at least consider that perhaps something else could be problematic. Whether that is hardware, software, drivers, who knows.. but at least consider.

I know you’ve already swapped the case, so you’ve been doing that.
What is their method of pretesting? Turning it on, it displays video, its good?
Even playing a game for 10 mins is not going to do anything.
 
I mean if you get a third bad card in a row and EVGA is pretesting them, I’d at least consider that perhaps something else could be problematic. Whether that is hardware, software, drivers, who knows.. but at least consider.

I know you’ve already swapped the case, so you’ve been doing that.

I always consider all the components in the chassis. However when I'm getting the same issues in my Ryzen build and my Devil's Canyon i7 And in my current i5 9600 , it's the card. I have 3 complete systems in my house, all attached to 4K displays of different makes and models.

When I'm dropping in my 1080Ti or regular 1080 and everything just works... It's a bad card. Hell, I have a pair of GTX 660's on hand, that just work...

So, yeah, I considered it initially... I just have several systems to test it on, not many people I know have a computer in every room that they can test on.
 
I always consider all the components in the chassis. However when I'm getting the same issues in my Ryzen build and my Devil's Canyon i7 And in my current i5 9600 , it's the card. I have 3 complete systems in my house, all attached to 4K displays of different makes and models.

When I'm dropping in my 1080Ti or regular 1080 and everything just works... It's a bad card. Hell, I have a pair of GTX 660's on hand, that just work...

So, yeah, I considered it initially... I just have several systems to test it on, not many people I know have a computer in every room that they can test on.

Can always be a driver or game related issue that affects the 20 series.
 
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