2080 Ti Issue Status?

[JMSOG]

What's the current status of the notorious 2080 ti issues? Have more recent batches been fixed? Haven't been able to find anything concrete.

[LukeSavenije]

It was only on the first line, the ones sold en produced are just at the normal failure rate

[Mira Yurizaki]

Gamers Nexus's analysis ruled out temperature and firmware issues. So it's likely a manufacturing defect that managed to slip by QA in the first runs.

[Jrasero]

While the media and people's anecdotal horror stories about the RTX 2080 Ti failing paint a terrible picture for the card, in all reality the card has a pretty standard failure rate.  Scouring the internet it mostly seems Nvidia branded RTX 2080 Ti cards have been effected.  Some have hypothesized this is due to a bad batch of Micron ram and replacements are being sent back with Samsung versions?  TLDR still a overblown story just magnified by the $1000+ cost of each card and with ray tracing being a dud so far. 

[WereCat]

16 minutes ago, Jrasero said:

.  Some have hypothesized this is due to a bad batch of Micron ram and replacements are being sent back with Samsung versions?  TLDR still a overblown story just magnified by the $1000+ cost of each card and with ray tracing being a dud so far. 

No. Nvidia simply also gets VRAM from Samsung as well as Micron alome can't keep up with the production. 

[Jrasero]

On 11/27/2018 at 4:18 PM, WereCat said:

No. Nvidia simply also gets VRAM from Samsung as well as Micron alome can't keep up with the production. 

Yeah so what I said is correct.  If people's defective cards are using Micron VRAM, NVIDIA still could be sending out Samsung replacements  

[Sprayingmango]

They are safe to buy. I just bought two EVGA 2080Ti XC Ultras and they have been flawless. They are spectacular cards and absolutely rip everything.