Is RTX 2080 also affected by failures?

[celpas]

I am reading reports of 2080 Ti’s catching fire and some outright failing everywhere and am scared of my 2080 founders edition now. I haven’t yet pushed my card hard yet as it’s running on a 1080p 60hz monitor until my 1440p 144hz monitor arrives tomorrow. It’s only 60-70% GPU utilisation on assassins creed origins for 4-7 hours and so far it’s fine. Do these cards only fail after extremely demanding games? This is only my second PC build. A fire in the PC would ruin everything. Should I send it back till nvidia sorts everything out?

[Skiiwee29]

Yes, even 2080s are failing. 

[Reznik]

I doubt you can send it back if it's not having issues unless you are within whatever return/exchange period it has.  

 

Worrying about something that hasn't happened is nonsense.  That would be like thinking of being in a car wreck everytime you drive.  Use the card, push its limits and if it has issues you are within warranty.  

[LukeSavenije]

it will have failures that are normal to the first line of it. but it's not the 2080 ti's firecatching or something.

[xg32]

2 hours ago, celpas said:

I am reading reports of 2080 Ti’s catching fire and some outright failing everywhere and am scared of my 2080 founders edition now. I haven’t yet pushed my card hard yet as it’s running on a 1080p 60hz monitor until my 1440p 144hz monitor arrives tomorrow. It’s only 60-70% GPU utilisation on assassins creed origins for 4-7 hours and so far it’s fine. Do these cards only fail after extremely demanding games? This is only my second PC build. A fire in the PC would ruin everything. Should I send it back till nvidia sorts everything out?

that was 1 2080 ti fire, i wouldnt worry about it, granted this is the first time ive heard about it on a ti card. 670s and 970s were notorious for fires. As for the space invader artifacts, they were on both the 2080 and 2080 ti, but largely the first batch, the serial number were mostly 0323818. I'd only return it if you have one with that serial number assuming you are within the 30day return window. I'd think everything's already sorted out.

[celpas]

9 minutes ago, xg32 said:

that was 1 2080 ti fire, i wouldnt worry about it, granted this is the first time ive heard about it on a ti card. 670s and 970s were notorious for fires. As for the space invader artifacts, they were on both the 2080 and 2080 ti, but largely the first batch, the serial number were mostly 0323818. I'd only return it if you have one with that serial number assuming you are within the 30day return window. I'd think everything's already sorted out.

I am within the 30 day return window. My serial number is 0323618*****. Its not from the first batch right?

[xg32]

6 minutes ago, celpas said:

I am within the 30 day return window. My serial number is XD*. Its not from the first batch right?

i wouldn't post the entire serial number (just in case) anyway, i can't be sure since the 2080 might be labeled differently but several people that had 2080 ti problems had the same (probably first) batch.

[celpas]

2 minutes ago, xg32 said:

i wouldn't post the entire serial number (just in case) anyway, i can't be sure since the 2080 might be labeled differently but several people that had 2080 ti problems had the same (probably first) batch. 

OK . Guess I will run it and see if it has any issues. Can you also please edit out the serial number partly in your post? Thanks

[xg32]

1 minute ago, celpas said:

OK . Guess I will run it and see if it has any issues. Can you also please edit out the serial number partly in your post? Thanks

brain fart lol, good luck, the failure rate is rather low, but the problems were rather pronounced as this is the first mass failure of higher end cards, you should be fine