Leifeng.com previously reported that the Nvidia RTX 3080 that was launched on September 17 was sold out. The new graphics card with an original price of US$699 was sold for more than US$1,000 on eBay. The price of scalpers on Amazon was even more exaggerated, and the price of US$5,000 was 7 times the original price.
This aroused consumer dissatisfaction, and Nvidia also urgently responded to related questions. It mentioned that the GeForce RTX 3080 is in full production, Nvidia has started shipping GPUs to partners since August, and is increasing supply every week, hoping to meet this unprecedented demand by increasing production capacity and reminding consumers to be careful of scalpers.
It seems that if you are one of the lucky few to snatch Nvidia RTX 3080 before robots, it is worth congratulations! But hopefully this purchase won't make you regret it, as more and more early users report that their shiny new RTX 3080 graphics card will crash during the various gaming processes on desktops.
VideoCardz The first English website reported that the overclocking RTX 3080 in third-party factories showed unexplained crashes or serious graphics flaws during gaming, such as ZOTAC, MSI and Gigabyte. Since the problem was exposed, related discussions have increased rapidly, and complaints have emerged on websites such as Reddit, LinusTechTips and Nvidia official forums. What exactly is the problem with
?
In short, the card will crash the desktop when the affected GPU model reaches a clock frequency of 2.0 GHz or higher.
Igor's LAB published a notable survey report finding a range of cheap capacitors in GPU models that users report problems.
Each RTX 3080 has six capacitors on the back of the GPU for filtering and providing a "clean" power supply. The Igor Labs report explains that a combination of cheaper (POPSCAP, tantalum polymer capacitor) and more expensive (MLCC, ceramic stacked capacitor) capacitors are used on some GPU models.
"Problem Card" tends to use more cheap POSCAP (highlighted in red below) rather than more expensive MLCC capacitors (highlighted in green below).
Nvidia RTX 3080 Founders Edition card, Image source: Igor's lab
There are two notable situations: First, Nvidia's own Founders Edition card does not have these problems (probably because Nvidia uses a combination of capacitors).
Secondly, disassembly shows that the Asus TUF RTX 3080 uses a costly capacitor.
Although the capacitor has not been officially identified as the culprit, YouTuber JayzTwoCents believes that this is definitely due to the low-quality power supply of the GPU itself, which introduces noise and makes the GPU more unstable at higher clock speeds.
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Nvidia's board partner EVGA also passed PR Jacob Freeman: "During our mass production quality control test, we found that the scheme with 6 POSCAP capacitors could not pass the practical application test. Before we started production, we spent nearly a week looking for the reasons, reducing the POSCAP capacitors to 4 and adding 20 MLCC capacitors, which is why the release of the EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 FTW3 series was postponed. 6 POSPOS production EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 FTW3 was not shipped."
What can you do?
The best advice is not to buy a new graphics card on the first day, you can wait for the first batch of users to discover such problems and solve them in mass production thereafter.
If you cannot get the acceleration clock indicated on the packaging box, why not choose to return it? If not, you can use a program like MSI Afterburner to lower the GPU clock frequency and limit it to 2.0GHz, to some extent alleviating the problem. If you must buy
, it is best to first determine the RTX 3080 and 3090 models and the capacitors used by disassemblying the photos or videos.
This article is compiled from: Leifeng.com
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2020/09/27/your-new-nvidia-rtx-3080-may-have-a-serious-crashing-problem/#72ccd8012a15 Leifeng.com
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