News NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Is 2x Faster Than 4080 At $999, RTX 5070 Ti 2x Faster Than 4070 Ti At $769, RTX 5070 Faster Than 4090 For $549

[PunkX 75]

I heard about this. Not a great look for Nvidia of course. I suppose people should have expected software issues for a software release.
They'll fix it eventually I imagine. A hotfix driver 572.24 has been released recently, solves some of the issues.

I hope board partners/Nvidia are replacing bricked units, no questions asked.

 

[radiantoceans]

I hope board partners/Nvidia are replacing bricked units, no questions asked.

Will be an even look worse if they don't.
This reminds me of the 4090 cable melting crisis.

 

[PunkX 75]

This reminds me of the 4090 cable melting crisis.

That could still be attributed to a poor design choice, and user error to an extent. But not this, straight up bricking the cards for installing the FIRST driver available to it.

 

[radiantoceans]

That could still be attributed to a poor design choice, and user error to an extent. But not this, straight up bricking the cards for installing the FIRST driver available to it.

So is it only a driver issue or driver + something else ? Is that known ? Either way I imagine they'll replace the cards and roll out fixes for the issue eventually.

 

[PunkX 75]

So is it only a driver issue or driver + something else ? Is that known ? Either way I imagine they'll replace the cards and roll out fixes for the issue eventually.

Apparently, the educated guess is poor quality control of the PCB, itself. Once official drivers are installed, the card starts functioning in 3D mode, increasing power + strain vs 2D mode, when only the basic Windows display drivers are installed. This is just rumored.