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NVIDIA’s latest graphics cards are hot, hot, hot, hot, Sale within minutes after startS And although our reviews for RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 They noticed some major shortcomings, especially in the ex, no doubt someone who managed to deal with one, is excited.
With the exception of some early buyers, they are now reporting serious problems with instability with both. Not what you want to hear after dropping thousands on a card …
Some RTX 5080 and 5090 cards are made completely unusable due to driver and BIOS problems, reports Tom’s hardwareS These “brick” cards affect the publications of the founder and AIB partner variants, including, exclusively exclusively from China, RTX 5090D.
50-Series Graphic Processors Dead After Driver update
Although the main cause of these brick cards is still unspecified, most reports point to problems that occur after the installation of NVIDIA drivers Just a few days agowhich brings new features of DLSS 4 to new and older graphics processors.
The driver update appears to cause GPU initialization failures, black screens and instability of PCIE 5.0 (ie, GPU will not be charged while in PCIE 5.0). Some users say that returning the drivers is correcting their problems, but the update causes some cards not to be recognized by motherboards and/or windows, which makes RollBacks impossible.
Problems seem to affect the RTX 5090 cards and seem to be not related to any particular manufacturer. One Reddit user also reported a problem with their RTX 5080, which only works in PCIe 2.0 mode after installing the smallest drivers.
We suspect that this instability could be avoided if manufacturers have more time to prepare before they release their cards. As the Roman “8auer” explains Hartung in his Video on the debule of RTX 5090 issuanceSome companies have apparently had less than a week to prepare the relevant drivers. This is a very strict schedule for such an important edition, especially for high -end cards as expensive as these.
What now?
NVIDIA has not yet dealt with these supposed issues with RTX 5090 and 5080 cards, so we do not know for sure what the problems are and whether they are due to incompatibilities or user errors (eg the use of the wrong motherboard).
In any case, if you are affected by these problems, you can try to return your guides to see if this is fixing things. Otherwise, contact NVIDIA support and wait for new driver updates before trying any experimental solutions. In the event of a permanently damaged card, you will need to request RMA.
Of course, with RTX 50-serial cards outside a warehouse everywhere and Up to 16 weeks for deliveryYou probably won’t get a replacement soon. We will know more in the coming days.
This article originally appeared on our sister publication PC-WELT and was translated and localized by German.
