manufacturers need to spend less time spent on RGB and more on quality control

Just in time as my 2080 Ti died :D

If i had this card and it died on me i would go down with it.

"you can turn a negative into a positive, in that you can keep that memory slider down there, and then one month before your warren....beeeeeep...." so funny but so true.

The card failed because you called it a gravis card.

This is terrible! Very bad quality control, this is yet another indication the RTX series launch was rushed.

Just a quick note , if you want to see what memory you have on your card you dont need to take it apart , use GPUZ it will tell you exactly what memory you have on your 20 series card , i used it to confirm what was on my Gigabyte 2080 before overclocking it & luckily for me it was Samsung 😀

11:15 that’s what we do in Sweden. My cousin he gets a rtx 2080ti and he need to under clock his gpu to make sure his gpu not crash in 100% load.

My argument would be.If i paid $1200 for a card it must work.I don't want to declock it just to get it running that's not what people pay for.I am already disappointed in the rtx on performance now declock as well :D

I swear he says "gravis" card ! :P

That's why you don't buy day one

My Zotac RTX 2080 TI AMP (bought in November) had a catastrophic failure 2 weeks ago, the store replaced it with a Aorus RTX 2080 TI today.

I work at an RMA centre and boy you wont believe the number of RTX cards thats been sent in for artifacting and crashing. It got so bad to the point we have to stop selling the RTX cards until the problem is fixed

Why not use GPU-Z to identify if it's Micron or Samsung memory ? it's faster :) The same problems have also been reported with Samsung memory (HardOCP).

Excellent advice, I'll be checking your channel more often ^^

my evga 980ti i got 3 years ago got a memory fail (micron) back then you could still look it up with software. and i got a gtx 1070 as a replacement,

IT JUST WORKS!

*"Bleeding edge hardware"* with *bleeding memory chips* lol

Ty soooooo much for this, I had exactly the same issues with my RTX Card

11:11 holy crap, you got me there HAHAHA

I got your point about warranty lol

It still looks very much like a power sequencing issue to me. There are multiple power supplies on the card that must start up in the specific order at power on time. It's possible that incorrect power sequencing results in a temporary 'out of spec' voltage condition on the RAM, causing incremental damage to the silicon every time the machine (actually the card) is powered on. With the various power management modes of the card, it's possible that same applies to those modes, and not just on/off power cycling.

Hi man, whats that onscreen information monitor you're using and everyone uses?? I can never find out!!

I'm on my second third replacement card for a build I bought from Overclockers and it still powercycles in games on medium load (Mordhau, pubg, etc). Its like having a Ferrari that bursts into flames if you go over 20 miles an hour.

Just an idea but i don't know for sure but could it be the Memory controller in the Silicon (Turing Architecture) that is Failing in some cards? As some people are having the same issue with Samsung Memory as well.

Gigabyte 2080 dead after 4 months. Scan uk refuse to refund though

Room setup is looking nicer and nicer mate. Glad to see you on the up and up!

So, any upates? was it due to micron memory failure? I had the same problem with RTX 2080. I am about to replace with Samsung Chip if it confirmed due to Micron failure

You can use GPUZ to pull the memory mfg off the board without tearing it down.

Im sooo glad I stuck with my Gtx 1080! :O

-The way it's meant to be played!-

This is so interesting your first person I've seen fix these out of 4 channels.

I liked the end there. “You can wait till warran...”, now back to our regularly scheduled program. Good bit of info Bryan. (:

Insane. The most expensive "gaming" GPU and it has quality issues! Unreal !

I wonder if the people making the micron memory chips are overclocking them by default to make them seem more impressive to buyers but they're actually only stable at 13ghz.

Good i still have my gtx 1070ti that i also overclocked. Was thinking about changing to 2080 half a year ago but i did not change because of this problem and it still exists wow ...

I thought after watching years of Aussie shows I learned the accent. I thought he was saying Gravis card instead of graphics card and looked up the Gravis brand name lol. Well I just ate at an Outback Steakhouse this week but apparently I'm no Aussie!

*Tech Yes Warranty Tips*

Same here with a EVGA XC Ultra. Started artifacting on Witcher 3 and Pubg. -200 on memory. Another 4 days. Same artifacts. -500 on memory.. Another 3 days good... aaaand artifacts. -99999 (slider all the way to the left).. Crashing all over the place. Waiting for my replacement card now.

I was thinking of getting an MSI rtx 2070 (dual fan), but would it fail like your 2080 ti?.. should I wait a month or two and see if the issue is fixed?

*I bought the rtx 2080ti so i can have realistic lighting in minecraft.*

Wassup Brian, yo videos are the best!

Main reason why I wait a few months, companies have taken so many shortcuts in recent years that I would not be shocked to see them use a nail gun to install parts.

Interesting video! One thing I want to add is the importance of using separate PCIe power cables for each power connector rather than using a single split cable if you have a modern PSU working in Multi Rail OCP mode. Failing to do this could result in sudden hard resets of your system triggered by the PSU to protect your system. A feature rather than a problem but rarely feels like it when your PC resets out of the blue... You can also avoid this by switching your PSU to Single Ray OCP mode. That however might result in your PC stating to smell melted cables and/or PCIe power connectors or worse in the long run.

And this is why kids, you don't buy anthing that releases in the first month.

I had Micron memory in mine. Played BF5 for 3 hours with RTX On, then nothing but BSOD. Tried the memory slider trick, still died. NVIDIA and local store replaced it no worries. GPU-Z did tell me it was Micron!

Is there any way you could give some advice on testing the GDDR6 memory itself? Are there any software diagnostics that can be run to test just that component directly? I understand the basic test of running down the Memory Clock using Afterburner and seeing if it affects benchmark stability, but that feels like a very crude test and I'm not entirely sure what it's actually telling us. Moreso for me, because my problems are not consistently reproduceable. I've been running Furmark, Cinebench and Octanebench for testing and probably only 30-40% of the time any of the 3 will trigger a total crash (either BSOD / artefacting / total system failure and reset). So I don't think I can really get a reliable indication by reproducing that test here. Is there an equivalent of MemTest64 that can be run on a GPU's onboard memory that you know of? Any advice would be appreciated. I will still RMA this card but I'd really like to have understood the nature of the problem, especially as there are many cases online of people that have had similar problems after 2 or 3 replacement 2080 Ti's. I really don't want to deal with this problem again, I've spent 2 whole weeks trying to diagnose and fix it, or at least rule out software as the issue. Having tried pretty much everything possible, I'm certain it's a hardware fault. But I'd love to know what exactly the problem is!

Is it on all brands that make the RTX models of GPU's or just specific brands.

First time I've heard someone pronounce BSOD like it's a word in 20 years. Great video though. :)

I had my msi ventus 2080ti die after a week, exactly how it does in the video, artifacting while in any 3d task. My second one is an evga black which died after a month, this one however crashes after a minute a so even while in Windows. Rma for it got approved while watching this vid. The card is great while it works, but definitely would not recommend it until the issues are resolved.

From the look of the card, it seems you can solder another memory chip on it. Of course the bios wouldn't be happy, but there may be a fix... I kinda want to test it.

i have an rtx 2070 super and as soon as i installed it it instantly crashed it also shows some on screen colors poping; n the game in random places right before the screen freezes and sometimes with a disturbed image. what should i do?

Is there any way of finding out the memory brand before purchase? Or any info on which manufacturer uses micron/samsung memory?

Have had my Evga XC Ultra 2080 since Sept 2018, I replaced the TIM with Kyronaut a few weeks after I purchased it. It has Micron memory. *Crosses Fingers*

I'l just wait for a new generation of gravis cards. Yup.

So when you downclock the memory, only the minimum framerates goes down? I've been working my 1080ti that I just put an Accellero III cooler on, messing with OC settings. Would be nice to know exactly how memory clocks works with compute clocks...

Never buy a new artifision grafik card when it first comes out, always wait for the next series in line as bugs and issues will most likely be fixed and also the second series of that type of cards in this case ''RTX'' will come out alot sooner than we are used to with other cards and will also be alot cheaper and a bigger bang for you bucks 👍

My 1080 strix (2 years warranty left) the RGB only lights up half the card and the White is pink. Could I RMA in a year when there's no stock and get a new one.

Are they still failing? I was thinking of getting rtx 1070 or super rtx 1060 soon

7:34 is there supposed to be a memory chip there? Is it missing or come off when you opened it?

Appalling crap from Nvidia. You pay as much for a graphics card as most people would spend on a whole computer, and you get to do the beta testing for them. Utter joke.

Trust me folks gravis cards are the future :)

Can I ask how much watts does your psu have in your rig when the it happened, I’ve read that psu can also provide solutions to this problem, not faulty but insufficient power going to the gpu? I’m not a pro on this but I’m worried this happens to me after my warranty expires.

Any updates with the card after down clocking? Does it still work? I want to know if it's worth it to buy a cheap ASUS 2080 TI that is having artifact issues.

This just happened to me and I’m so bummed out.

Ahh Micron, back in the day I got a 1070 when they were first out and it had Samsung memory, few weeks later I got another (1080ti wasn't out yet) to SLI them. The second card had Micron memory. It was unstable on stock, forget about any overclocking, and only after few weeks when a bios update was released it was finally able to be properly used. So I guess they didn't learn their lesson yet and are still going with the cheaper memory. I was ready to upgrade to 20 series but now I think I'll just wait. $1400 for 2080ti in US and I gotta downclock it to make it work? Yeah, no thx.

ive gone through 2 asus rtx 2070s that have had this same problem. how do you turn the gpu speed all the way down?

I just bought and install an RTX 2070 last Saturday. I hope it doesn’t crap out.

He meant to say, that you can downclock the momory and keep using it, then one month before your warranty expires, RMA it and get a new series card.

11:07 LOL! Wink wink nudge nudge, know what I mean know what I mean?

hey man, I've put the card on water cooling, but when I play any game V-ram usage goes to the max... any help for this? thanks I did run heaven benchmark and did it with no problems at ultra rez... tried pretty much everything in that benchmark with a max temp of 53"

Hey i have a question @Tech Yes City, Im the owner of one RTX 2080 Super, and i got trouble it Artifacts and Render objects fail in games, also my RTX did crash my pc several times seconds after start launch some game, just the time too open the game and "Voila" BSOD or some times, shuting down my system, staying in loop for several minutes and rebooting too bios. I send it too the manufactuer but, i didnt receive any note about what cause that failures :/ In adicional notes, i can say that i use my GPU in base clocks, and i do not do OC on my system, i also pay an extra on a expensive PSU for get my system proctect but even it all this cares, this is my 3rd GPU in less of 3 years that get artifacts failures, do you have any idea of, what causes gpu fails/die? Thank you Sir

7:43 looks like alien Technology seems pretty advance lol

On the plus side, if anyone needs a job, Micron has several QC positions opening up. Although this time they might require previous experience...

Found this video, good one and i want to ask question. I found out my RTX 2070 super doing lighting artifacts especially on snow and also there are like purple and blue colors around it however i noticed it is related only to one game. I did benchmark testing and other games and there i didnt see anything similar to occur, could this issue be related only to that one particular game or not? thank you.

i worked in a furniture company. 80% of our products were for export. we had 20-21 different products. when i made a product and it had a fault in the wood, it was repaired. if it was a paint fault, it was re-painted. i had a drawer with stickers of each company that was buying from us. Furniture that had to be repaired, was recieving a sticker for a company in my country or any country near us, in south east europe. cheaper products. if it had a paint problem and had to be re-done , was recieving an export sticker together with the other ones. The best ones that came out perfect were the only that got IKEA and Leroy Merlin stickers. i worked at 3 other factories for different things, gear boxes, glass fiber kids playground toys ,etc. all had same thing. products were labeled for different companies/customers depending on quality. i hope that tells you something.. :)

Well, my wait for AMD Radeon VII seems reasonable, mostly for content creation and longevity.

Maybe so, maybe so - I'd still return it so Gigabyte's warranty people can investigate and determine the exact fault and kick in gear any corrective action for future production runs. Maybe I'm too much of an ideologist, but I trust a brand like Gigabyte would do this as opposed to simply replacing the card blindly (and any reputable company should be doing this - I was a warranty analyst for a big company that actually did do this). :-)

Whoa this is exactly what mine Zotac 2080 Ti Blower was doing... I was worried it was my mobo or PSU. Thanks for the video. It went back last week.

my rtx 2080 artefacts when overclocked to +905mhz on the memory with the auto core overock. starts showing blobs of bright red and green in random spots on the screen that grow into larger and larger blobs

Failures are NOT only temperature related. Over the years there have been many cases where due to contamination, or new processes with smaller dimension designs, that over a period of time the slew rate of the chips drops. This means that the items will still operate well at LOWER clock rates, but not at the designed clock rates. The best thing to do is to look at the actual signals on the data lines with a O-Scope. This was even seen back in the Atari 2600 days with some releases of various game cartridges. When new vendors were sought for the high volumes of ROMs needed for the games. Occasionally a new vendor would produce a chip that just did not perform long term as intended. With bench tests, it could be seen that the memory data outputs would not have a good stable output at the normal clock speeds the Atari 2600 ran at, often only reaching up to the "undefined" logic level voltages, before the next memory data addressed would be output to the data lines. Clocking the chip at a lower data rate revealed that the data was in fact still fully readable when the addresses were held longer to get stable normal logic levels on the data lines. The same has been seen with various TTL and CMOS family logic chips with some production lots from various vendors, usually from new production lines. CPUs, Support chips, etc have also NOT been immune from these situations. So this is not a surprise to see in the world of fast evolving tech going into a very high volume and competitive world of Graphics cards.

My theory is card makers are overclocking the memory too far out of the box, most founders edition reference cards are lower clocked. If I push my 1080 Ti memory too far I have the results you displayed and there is a really narrow area where it will begin to happen when it stops happening of only around 5mhz.

I have the exact same problems here - artifacting, bsods, crashes causing failure to boot ultimately. Degradation progressed over a 6 month period until it became barely useable. Am now RMA'ing. However, mine has the Samsung GDDR6 memory rather than the Micron. Card is an nVidia 2080 Ti manufactured by Palit - GamingPro.

do you know if it is the same with rtx 2060s?? I have a RTX 2060 gigabyte oc pro tri fan. I bought it a week after the rtx 2060 release date.

And this is why I don't own "bleeding edge" hardware......

My 2080 kept hitting me with a BOSD. Luckily I was able to get a replacement. Hopefully this new one doesn’t continue.

I have a 2070 super and my games crash but theres no indication of error. I dont know if its the gpu or something else. Can you tell me please?

1:50 that what i talking about Speed Of Light (The Light)

Sadly I spent the last few days trying to figure out why games were insta crashing or loading in for less than a minute with artifacts and then crashing....it's a roughly two month old RTX 2070, and the memory downclock worked.... I'm just done

I just returned the nvidia rtx 2070 founder edition yesterday before my return policy expired.. worked for about 3 days. Ran it on 2 monitors. 2ndary mon wouldn't turn on or it would randomly turn off.. next I just used it on single monitor (Acer pred2 set at 120hrz) . Games started crashing to desktop, followed by crashing PC, to Bsod. ..which.. followed to failure to post windows..(I would have to reinstall windows completly and wipe PC partitions).2 weeks of trial an error (corrupt os, ram, even mother board) I finally took the card back to best buy and exchanged it for evga rtx 2070. With fresh install of windows and driver... no issues as of yet.. So if you do experience what I went through.. it's the GPU. Great video

any adjust to fan speed in msi after burner Change anything?did you try it?

Do you think a 8gig 2060 super..aorus card would have the micron? That's what I have...no artifacting but card run very hot on backplate side ...was curious ..dunno if I should send it off

My 2070 artifacting after a week... horrible mistake buying this EDIT: Got the card replaced and so far so good... fingers crossed

Crazy this is still an issue. Even hearing the issues on some of the new "super" cards as well. My Zotac AMP 2080Ti (micron) has been rock solid for over a year now. With my luck, I can't believe I dodged that bullet. Edit: you don't have to tear down the card to find out whos VRAM it is, just run GPU-Z and Samsung modules were seeing almost as many failures as the micron Vram.

My gtx 1080 also had that problem after the latest driver and if enable G-sync compatible on 2 monitors. Fail memory stress test and freeze in Rise of Tomb raider. Turn off G sync in both or one of the monitor fix the problem. (Freesync monitor). Not sure if i should rma or is that a driver issue

Im trying to decide between msi ventus 2060 and msi vega 56. Is the vega 56 a safer option?

I’m so glad I watched this video, thank you for making it and explaining it so objectively. I have a RTX 2080 that worked perfectly for 2 months, after I built the system. All of my other hardware should have made a perfect environment for this card to work at full potential. I have never OC this card yet, and temps were peaked at 53°C. I received artifacts and crashes all of a sudden during AC Odyssey (graphic detailed, yes, but shouldn’t have stressed this card or the system much). I reached out to Nvidia, Ubisoft, and Gigabyte (maker of my card) and couldn’t resolve the issue. I just sent it back for RMA, before finding this video. I kind of wish I still had it so I could have tested dropping the memory. As I’ve seen elsewhere, this seems just to be a possible downside of rushing to the latest tech. I’m not at all upset with Gigabyte about this, as long as my card is fixed upon return. Yes, I believe that manufacturers should work this out before full-scale production, but at least for me I cut some small slack for them if the issue is addressed promptly.

Dose the rtx 2060 have any problems?

I just bought a PC with KFA2 RTX2080. I hope mine won't get worse/fail. Does KFA2 have micron?

Just had my Inno3D 2080 ti artifact and crashing on me as well. problem still not fixed?