Nvida 3000 series issues

avatar

image.png

Nvidia has announced and released the first wave of 3000 series cards. Namely the 3080, with the 3090 just starting the distribution.

The 3000 series looks very promising, promising improvements better than any previous launch all the way back to 2004.

image.png

While Nvidia has claimed the 3080 being two times faster than the previous champion 2080 Ti, the actual performance is quite a bit lower but still impressive. In fact, the entry level 3070 $499 card claims to be faster than the current 2080 Ti $1,299 card.

No one can get their hands on these cards. I personally waited at 9AM when the cards were to launch and I never saw them go in stock on any of the sites, they were sold out immediately.

If the launch wasn't bad enough, there is now a new issue cropping up.

On the back of the 3080 there are these capacitors, if you look in the picture below you will see two sets of smaller more expensive capacitors.

image.png

These capacitors filter out noise and keep the power supply clean. On the Founders edition, there are two banks of these expensive capacitors, but on the third party boards from Gigabyte, EVGA and others there are either only one set or none.

image.png

If you look at the EVGA version of the 3080 above, you can see they are only using one bank of smaller capacitors. In the case of Gigabyte, they are using none. These cards have been reported to be crashing to the desktop and showing other issues when they are overclocked.

As far as I have heard, this only happens when you overclock the cards. From what has been discoverd, the Asus TUF edition includes 6 banks of higher quality capacitors and is considered the best version of the 3080 available.

image.png

Right now none of the manufacturers are saying anything in response to this. The fix will likely end up being a bios update to reduce the overclocking ability of the cards rather than fix the problem.

That being said, the 3080 is still an amazing card and blows everything else out of the water for $699 compared to the previous champ 2080 Ti coming in at $1,299.

Image Sources: 1 2 3 4 5



0
0
0.000
6 comments
avatar

This is an interesting cost-cutting strategy, I hope it gets resolved in another batch, hopefully.

0
0
0.000
avatar

At first, I thought you just had three of them sitting on your floor. I was impressed.

0
0
0.000
avatar

As a 3D artist who has a need for a powerful card for rendering, I'll be skipping this series as the RTX 4000 will be coming in, hot on the heels of this one, next year. But yeah, I am thoroughly impressed with their performance.

0
0
0.000
avatar

4000 will be at least 1-2 years as the Ti editions are next and they likely won't be as impressive as the 3000 cards. Unless you just got a 2080 Ti you will likely see a big upgrade.

0
0
0.000
avatar

I hope AMD comes in hard with the prices with the next Navi. As enticing as these GPUs look as well as the prices, in pandemic, it's difficult to save up enough to get either of them, let alone the foreseeable RTX 3070 that's coming soon.

0
0
0.000