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Post by 888 on Oct 26, 2020 22:30:16 GMT
There have been numerous reports of instability with the new Nvidia RTX 30 series graphics cards - especially when overclocking. This instability seems to be caused by possible sub-standard capacitors in the cheaper makes of card. Although even Asus cards seem to be effected, so there may be other issues.
These cards have impressive specs and I'd be interested to see what they could do in Folding@Home. The 3 main models have 5888, 8704 and 10496 cores, compared with the current top card - the rtx 2080 ti running 4352 cores.
But this issue is going to put a lot of buyers off purchasing them, at least until Nvidia prove this problem is solved. Especially as the price range is expected between £600 and £1300 
update - Nvidia are now saying this issue has been fixed with the new driver update. However, this update just seems to lower the boost frequencies of the card - not really a fix then.....
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Post by Bozo on Oct 27, 2020 0:15:26 GMT
I had read about problems but as they are not available to most people assumed it was just one or two manufacturers. I know somebody is already running one in einstein@home and they are good but not that much better than current crop but einstein isn't optimised for Cuda.
out of curiosity now that folding is cuda optimised on folding did your temps go up on your GPU ?
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Post by 888 on Oct 27, 2020 10:59:27 GMT
That's quite disappointing about the performance of the new cards. But hopefully with a few tweaks and driver updates that should improve.
The temps on both my 1060 and 2070 are still around 63'c at full load, which I'm quite happy with. I'm still having instability problems when I run them in the same machine though.
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Post by jenesuispasbavard on Oct 27, 2020 14:24:29 GMT
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update - Nvidia are now saying this issue has been fixed with the new driver update. However, this update just seems to lower the boost frequencies of the card - not really a fix then.....
Lol, reviewers should update their benchmarks with the the new frequencies in case performance suffers from this "fix". |
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