Nvidia RTX 3080 is already having serious problems — what you need to know

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Nvidia RTX 3080 is already having serious bug — what you need to know

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As if getting an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 wasn't difficult enough, those lucky enough to accept ane are running into problems with third-political party models.

It all started with someone on Linus Tech Tips flagging a game crashing with the Zotac GeForce RTX 3080 Trinity terminal week. Since then, that issue has expanded to include owners of the MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Ventus 3X OC reporting crashes in the Overclockers UK forum. A lot of these crashes see people thrown out of games and back to the desktop, so far there's no clear explanation of why that's happening.

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ComputerBase flagged the reports of problems, but has nonetheless to recreate the same bug with its GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition, a graphics menu that comes directly from Nvidia. Even so, information technology would appear that when the graphics card is boosted to beyond a 2.0GHz clock speed it causes a crash to the desktop.

This issue appears to be particularly noticeable with third-party versions of the RTX 3080 as they tend to come up with a manufactory overclock.

"I would like to point out a possible problem for all (un) happy owners of an MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Ventus 3X OC," said ComputerBase forum user R-47. "The card boosts significantly too loftier with default settings in games -> eastward.g. up to 2040 MHz after a few seconds in the [Assassinator'due south Creed: Origins] criterion, which then of course causes a game crash."

What to do

The solution to this seems to exist offsetting the GPU's clock speed by equally much as 100MHz, undervolting the graphics menu using the MSI Afterburning 4.half-dozen.3 BETA 2 utility software, and disabling hardware-accelerated GPU planning in Windows ten. But these are inappreciably ideal solutions to a problem in a brand new and very powerful $699 graphics card.

While there'due south currently no official fix, we'd be fairly sure that Nvidia will be working on a driver update to tackle the outcome, provided it's not a fundamental flaw in the hardware. Nevertheless, this isn't great news for people who manage to get their easily on the RTX 3080. And with AMD Big Navi on the horizon, Nvidia would be wise to motion quickly to solve such problems with the RTX 3080.

Roland Moore-Colyer is U.K. Editor at Tom's Guide with a focus on news, features and opinion articles. He often writes about gaming, phones, laptops and other bits of hardware; he'south too got an involvement in cars. When non at his desk Roland can exist constitute wandering around London, oftentimes with a look of marvel on his face.

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