Nvidia Confirms Some RTX 2080 Ti GPUs Are Defective, Promises Remedy
Two weeks ago, we wrote a story about repeated reports of RTX 2080 Ti failures and how those failures were piling up and making waves on Reddit and Nvidia’s own forums. At the time, we told you that Nvidia’s official guidance was that there was no GPU problem. That guidance has changed, thanks to additional problem analysis. The company’s new information, however, is exceedingly brief.
A memory swap could also simply be evidence that Nvidia’s repair shop / GPU supplier had Samsung memory in-stock instead of Micron. Just because a company is using two different companies for supply doesn’t mean it always has an equal and identical stock of parts from both manufacturers on hand literally every single moment of the day, and we’d need to know more than we do about what issue Nvidia has identified and how it slipped through the cracks to know what happened here. Thus far, that information hasn’t been disclosed.
The optics of shipping defective hardware immediately after you jacked up the price on your flagship GPU by $500 are not good, and gamers who promptly sold their old cards upon purchasing new ones may find themselves stuck on Intel integrated graphics while the replacement goes through, but Nvidia has pledged to make the situation right for affected customers. What Nvidia needs to do now, if at all possible, is release information that will help gamers identify if they have a defective GPU before it fails, in order to request replacements as quickly as possible and avoid potential system damage.
wfoojjaec does not recommend gamers purchase the RTX 2070, 2080, or 2080 Ti for reasons discussed in the review linked below.
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