German technology media Igor’s Lab conducted research on the recent unnatural crash phenomenon of NVIDIA’s new flagship graphics card GeForce RTX 3080/3090. They found that some of the problems in these faulty graphics cards were quite similar. Their characteristic is that they use lower quality capacitors, which leads to problems with the quality of current transmission and causes game crashes. Considering that the RTX 30 series family of graphics cards was just released not long ago, the market is in a state of chaos. Scalpers are desperately trying to monopolize the limited sources of supply and sell them after doubling the price. This news is bad news for players who are ready to wait for stable supply to buy RTX 30 series graphics cards:
▲RTX 3080/3090 crashes have been reported frequently recently, and experts point the finger at capacitor issues (Image source）
The RTX 30 series of graphics cards were recently released. The first RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 have outstanding performance in terms of performance. In addition, AMD has not yet launched products to compete with them. Therefore, the highest-end graphics card of the RTX 30 series at this stage is the RTX 3090. It is a well-deserved new-generation card king. Its outstanding performance, coupled with the performance increase compared with the previous generation, are the main reasons for attracting players to snap up and even cause scalpers to disrupt the market supply and demand relationship. However, recent RTX 30 series new cards have reported crash problems with varying degrees of severity. According to research by professional technology media, the capacitive component on the graphics card is the main cause.
According to the German website Igor’s Lab, the RTX 3080 crash problem is related to poor capacitor quality. Capacitors of insufficient quality are placed in certain key positions. In order to reduce costs and market prices, some AIB manufacturers even choose lower-quality POSCAP capacitors instead of higher-quality MLCC capacitors with high unit prices. This has led to many people buying cards and installing them at home, only to experience sudden crashes in the game, which has caused dissatisfaction among many players:
▲The German website Igor’s Lab believes that poor quality capacitors are the biggest culprit of problems with the entire graphics card (Image source）
At this stage, all consumers who have purchased defective graphics cards can obtain compensation or repairs through the original manufacturer’s warranty process. Since players discovered problems with the RTX 30 series graphics cards shortly after they were launched, at least they are less likely to encounter problems when it comes to returns and exchanges. What the original manufacturers and AIB manufacturers have to worry about is, since these capacitors are not suitable for use in RTX 30 series graphics cards, then how to use the “knife” to create affordable graphics cards that consumers are willing to pay for. will be an important issue.
In addition, problems with Samsung’s 8-nanometer process have recently been reported in the industry. Qualcomm, which places orders with Samsung, has encountered problems in product verification and delivery. Many people quickly wondered whether the production process of capacitors also suffered from major defects due to the rush of goods in some companies’ production lines. Most of the graphics cards with problems come from second- and third-tier graphics card AIB manufacturers. Some people also think that in addition to the reduction in capacitor quality, there may be other design errors that may lead to other possible problems. However, the good news is that at this stage, the performance of Taiwanese graphics cards is stable and reliable. In addition to the original manufacturers providing follow-up services to compensate players for their losses, many players are also optimistic and believe that NVIDIA may modify these problems through the driver level so that players can still play games normally:
▲The Asus TUF RTX 3080 Gaming graphics card, which was named by Igor’s Lab, is quite outstanding. The design still maintains MLCC capacitors instead of using POSCAP capacitors (Image source）
Source: KOCPC Chinese