Geforce RTX

Wed Oct 10, 2018 10:18 am

Grumly wrote:You have to understand than half of the first batch of the 2080ti have been thrown away, because of faulty VRAM... they have to test by hand EVERY card now... that's why avaibility is problematic now. But it's better, than receiving a defective card.

Source?

Wed Oct 10, 2018 11:49 am

zoppo wrote:
Grumly wrote:You have to understand than half of the first batch of the 2080ti have been thrown away, because of faulty VRAM... they have to test by hand EVERY card now... that's why avaibility is problematic now. But it's better, than receiving a defective card.
Source?

https://vonguru.fr/

it's a french website dedicated to hardware. They made interviews in production lines, talked to third party manufacturers... They have always very good inside infos about production problem.
Their story about defective 2080ti, explains a lot why reviewer get their cards only 2 days before the end of the NDA, each cards has been tested individually.

Mass production of the GDR6 was expected in 2019, but Nvidia found a manufacturer, who claimed to be able to mass product mid 2018... apparently, it was not the best idea.
Even with manual testing, their is still a lot of falty memory in delivered 2080ti. I am happy not to have problem, but the NVIDIA forum is full of people with RMA because of that.

Even NVIDIA aknowledge having production issue in september, explaiining why the 27 september was not the 2080ti launch date, like it was supposed.
The second batch of cards was supposed to be better... that's why 5 or 10 october was stated (I received mine the 5 of october) for ALL preorder, but again a large part of the card are not sent... and a lot of people received now the 30 november as the new delivery target.

That is commom, when you have a very new componant, to have a lot of defective pieces in the beginning... that, with a bit of rush from Nvidia to show the cards... explains a lot.

Fri Oct 12, 2018 7:37 pm

Grumly wrote:https://vonguru.fr/

Thank you, I didn't know that. Makes me wonder why other hardware sites don't report it.

Tue Oct 30, 2018 6:47 am

Just tested combination of GTX1080 and RTX2080, it seems to work fine in both Octane 3.08.5 and 4.00 RC7 (with latest nVidia drivers, Win7 x64)

Tue Oct 30, 2018 10:50 am

andw wrote:Just tested combination of GTX1080 and RTX2080, it seems to work fine in both Octane 3.08.5 and 4.00 RC7 (with latest nVidia drivers, Win7 x64)

Thanks for the info.

Found a benchmark 2080 vs 2080ti
https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/artic ... ance-1241/

Tue Oct 30, 2018 11:20 am

BLACKOUT until end of year or next year!! -- Due to the abnormal performance of RTX cards - lack of Vulkan or Optix API and/or the bad optimization until new OR 2018.1 or 2019.

Mon Nov 12, 2018 10:42 pm

So any new info on Octane 2018.1? Not much left of 2018

I am about to get my 2080Ti tomorrow, so naturally i am looking forward to see it performing as fast as possible - as soon as possible

Tue Nov 13, 2018 8:31 pm

Timmaigh! wrote:So any new info on Octane 2018.1? Not much left of 2018
I am about to get my 2080Ti tomorrow, so naturally i am looking forward to see it performing as fast as possible - as soon as possible

We'll be able to share a status update as soon as V4 stable is released!

Wed Nov 14, 2018 6:17 pm

Goldorak wrote:
Timmaigh! wrote:So any new info on Octane 2018.1? Not much left of 2018
I am about to get my 2080Ti tomorrow, so naturally i am looking forward to see it performing as fast as possible - as soon as possible
We'll be able to share a status update as soon as V4 stable is released!

Many thanks for your response, cannot wait! You are super-awesome!

Tue Nov 20, 2018 4:48 am

Hello

What configuration is faster?
Two RTX 2070 or one RTX 2080 TI ?

Thanks