A number of RTX 2080 Ti owners say the cards are failing

[Evernessince]

This is a concern somewhat. Think about this. You expect your card to last at least 2-3 years. And buying them now without knowing how many more will fail and not knowing if they are as reliable as the previous generation seems like a bad decision.
I thought of buying 2070. Now I have to wait for a year to see if this is an isolated problem which affects a very small number of cards. But I cant afford to have it fail on its third or fourth year where I plan to still keep it.

There is a warranty period so you can get an exchange/refund within that time. Annoying but that's why warranties exist.

According to people on the Nvidia forums, they don't cover return shipping and the average cost is $55 to ship (insurance on a $1,200 is expensive). So either way you are going to end up loosing more money.

All this and they are still having troubles getting people their cards in the first place.

 

[erickmendes]

All that come to mind now is the "Just Buy It: Why Nvidia RTX GPUs Are Worth the Money" article ... LOL

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-rtx-gpus-worth-the-money,37689.html

 

[toooooot]

All that come to mind now is the "Just Buy It: Why Nvidia RTX GPUs Are Worth the Money" article ... LOL

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-rtx-gpus-worth-the-money,37689.html

That's the top result I got when I tried to google search RTX problem. Not cool Google, not cool!

 

[CaptainTom]

Fermi all over again? I remember piles of Fermi cards failing every year.

Nvidia just cannot make a power-hungry arch on a new node without the cards being crazy unreliable...

 

[Hammayon]

According to people on the Nvidia forums, they don't cover return shipping and the average cost is $55 to ship (insurance on a $1,200 is expensive). So either way you are going to end up loosing more money.

All this and they are still having troubles getting people their cards in the first place.

Bullocks! That sucks man

 

[Mike BE]

It sort of sucks when you feel like you're in a beta testing program and paid more than $1,100.

Sorry to hear this.

Generally, I've had good experiences with Nvidia cards. I'm currently running on AMD, but I don't have any gripes against either company.

I have an Asus GTX 1060 6GB OC edition that will be used in a mini-ITX build.

 

[CaptainTom]

It sort of sucks when you feel like you're in a beta testing program and paid more than $1,100.

Sorry to hear this.

Generally, I've had good experiences with Nvidia cards. I'm currently running on AMD, but I don't have any gripes against either company.

I have an Asus GTX 1060 6GB OC edition that will be used in a mini-ITX build.

Well that's what Turing is - A beta test for Nvidia's true Next Gen 7nm cards...

 

[wizardB]

All that come to mind now is the "Just Buy It: Why Nvidia RTX GPUs Are Worth the Money" article ... LOL

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-rtx-gpus-worth-the-money,37689.html

That's the top result I got when I tried to google search RTX problem. Not cool Google, not cool!

Go Duck Duck Go and get real results instead of the filtered crap Google hands out.