Nvidia's new generation Turing architecture GPU has always been nicknamed "gas stove" because of its unique and distinctive appearance. Yesterday, 2080Ti user Shansoft was surfing the Internet and simply browsing the web without doing anything else.

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RTX 2080 Ti, Nvidia new generation Turing architecture GPU, because of its unique and distinctive appearance, has always been nicknamed "gas stove".

Now this nickname is finally worthy of its name.

Yesterday, 2080 Ti user Shansoft was surfing the Internet, simply browsing the web and not doing anything else. Suddenly, the computer suddenly turned off the computer black screen.

, so he looked into the case and said, it was amazing: 2080Ti is on fire!

The child was also next to him at that time, but it scared the user: "Scared the shit out of me"... This sentence is very straightforward, which is what is called scaring out of flying.

The following picture shows the 2080 Ti after the fire.

On the Hardforum forum, another user provided a picture and comment.

This gas stove 2080 Ti that can really ignite is a GeForce RTX 2080 Ti XC GAMING produced by EVGA company. There is a purchase restriction in the United States, and one can only buy one.

Graphics card is burned. Has it affected other computer parts? Don't know, the user said he has no other GPU available, so it's not clear what other losses are there yet.

2080 Ti troubles

Shansoft is not the only user who is in trouble.

In the past few weeks, the GeForce RTX 20 series graphics cards that have been highly anticipated have been exposed to various strange problems. Some are from partners (e.g. EVGA), and more issues are from the official GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition.

For example, a user's screen suddenly appears.

or the inexplicable artifact appears.

user OrionIndigo posted on the GeForce forum that they bought three 2080 Tis. Two or three weeks later, two of the 2080 Ti Founders Edition were hung, and the remaining one Asus 2080Ti Dual OC can still be used. "Angry," the user said angrily.

Then a bunch of users ran over and said me too.

"My Founders Edition was hung a week later"

"My two 2080Ti FEs were hung, one was two days ago, the other 3 hours ago "

", my RTX 2070 was hung a week later. Damn, I can only use 1060"

...

Now building a building has more than 12 pages. Everyone was also very noisy on the Reddit forum. Many users have bluntly said that they don’t have to pursue a 2080 Ti. The 1080 Ti with the previous generation of Pascal architecture is already very useful.

For users who engage in deep learning , you can refer to a review released by Tim Dettmers at the beginning of the month. Let’s transfer a few main conclusions:

1. If you have money, buy more GPUs to use

2. The first choice is to buy Nvidia GPU

3. Choose 2080 Ti or 2070 to pursue performance. You can also wait for next year’s RTX Titan

4. If you are not in a budget, you can buy Titan (Pascal) or GTX 1060 (6GB)

5. Just want to do deep learning, 1050 Ti (4GB) is also good.

6. The most cost-effective one is RTX. 2070, see the following table

detailed evaluation address:

http://timdettmers.com/2018/11/05/which-gpu-for-deep-learning/

Official response

continues to talk about the problem of 2080 Ti.

In the end, almost everyone pointed the culprit at Micron's GDDR6 video memory . It is said that Micron's video memory failure has caused it to be unable to run at the default clock speed of the GPU.

speculated that the video memory was replaced with Samsung after the re-repair.

According to feedback from Reddit users, the 2080 Ti after the repair can work stably, and some users also reported that there are still problems after the repair. Another controversy is that you have to pay the shipping fee for the return repair.

Previously, Nvidia has been avoiding talking about this matter. Now Nvidia has finally admitted the existence of the flaws. They posted a low-key post on the GeForce forum.

Limited test escapes from early boards caused the issues some customers have experienced with RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition.We stand ready to help any customers who are experiencing problems.Please visit www.nvidia.com/support to chat live with the NVIDIA tech support team (or to send us an email) and we’ll take care of it.

There was a problem with Founders Edition, but Nvidia did not explicitly say the definitions of "limited testing" and "escape". Perhaps when manufacturing these GPUs, a batch of products were not tested due to some error.

But fortunately, the official has come forward to solve this problem.

But this response lacks details. For example, I don’t know which batches will be affected, and I didn’t say what specific components it is. The statement of

also shows a few points. First of all, Nvidia knows about this matter, and secondly, there should be no similar problems in the subsequent new batches, otherwise it would be a real slap in the face.

The stock price plummeted after the financial report

The trouble is more than that.

Today's Nvidia can be said to be "the two heavens of ice and fire". After the 2080 Ti fire incident, the subsequent financial report for the third quarter of fiscal year 2019 was disappointing to the hearts of investors in the market.

This morning, Nvidia's new first quarter financial report was released. According to the third quarter financial report, Nvidia's revenue was US$3.2 billion, a year-on-year increase of 21%; net profit was US$1.2 billion, a year-on-year increase of 47%.

After the release of this financial report, Nvidia's stock price jumped off the cliff and plummeted by 19% after the market. The reason for the plunge of

is that Nvidia's performance this quarter was lower than Wall Street analysts' previous expectations, and on the other hand, Nvidia's expectations for the next quarter were also lower than analysts' expectations.

Take a closer look:

• game business, revenue this quarter was US$1.76 billion, lower than the expected US$1.89 billion.
• data center business, revenue this quarter was US$790 million, lower than the expected US$820 million.

value Nvidia graphics card intergenerational replacement, digesting inventory has become a trouble now.

Due to the release of Turing architecture GPUs, Nvidia's GPU sales were lower than expected in the third quarter, and users' willingness to buy the previous generation of graphics cards was greatly reduced. The new generation was expensive and difficult to buy, and there were many problems.

Moreover, due to the cryptocurrency market, the number of users who purchase Nvidia GPUs is decreasing, and many miners are selling their Pascal architecture GPUs, which further affects Nvidia's inventory destocking.

In short, Pascal graphics cards are now a problem. When looking forward to the next quarter's performance, Nvidia said that the mid-range chip Pascal will no longer be shipped in large quantities, but will wait until inventory will normalize.

Huang Renxun expects excess inventory to be consumed in the next two quarters. "We should have expected this situation earlier," said Huang Renxun, but he is still optimistic about the prospects.

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