Nvidia’s latest RTX 50-series graphics playing cards have been scorching, scorching, scorching, promoting out inside minutes upon launch. And although our evaluations of the RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 noticed some massive flaws, particularly within the former, little doubt anybody who managed to get their arms on one is thrilled.
Besides some early patrons are actually reporting critical instability points with each. Not what you need to hear after dropping 1000’s on a card…
Some RTX 5080 and 5090 playing cards are being rendered utterly unusable on account of driver and BIOS issues, experiences Tom’s {Hardware}. These “bricked” playing cards have an effect on Founder’s Editions and AIB accomplice variants, together with the China-exclusive RTX 5090D.
50-series GPUs useless after driver replace
Although the basis trigger of those bricked playing cards continues to be undetermined, a lot of the experiences level to points occurring after putting in Nvidia’s newest drivers from just some days in the past, which introduced new DLSS 4 options to new and older GPUs alike.
The driving force replace seems to trigger GPU initialization failures, black screens, and PCIe 5.0 instability (i.e., the GPU received’t boot whereas in PCIe 5.0 mode). Some customers say that rolling again the drivers fixes their points, however the replace is inflicting some playing cards to now not be acknowledged by motherboards and/or Home windows, making rollbacks unattainable.
The problems primarily seem to have an effect on RTX 5090 playing cards and don’t appear to be associated to any specific producer. One Reddit person additionally reported a difficulty with their RTX 5080, although, which solely labored in PCIe 2.0 mode after putting in the newest drivers.
We suspect this instability might’ve been averted if producers had extra time to organize earlier than releasing their playing cards. As Roman “8auer” Hartung explains in his video on the RTX 5090 launch debacle, some firms apparently had lower than per week to organize the suitable drivers. That’s far too tight a timeline for such an vital launch, particularly for high-end playing cards as costly as these.
What now?
Nvidia hasn’t but addressed these alleged issues with RTX 5090 and 5080 playing cards, so we don’t know for positive what the problems actually are and whether or not they’re on account of incompatibilities or person errors (e.g., the usage of the improper motherboard).
In any case, when you’re affected by these issues, you may strive rolling again your drivers to see if that fixes issues. In any other case, contact Nvidia help and wait for brand spanking new driver updates earlier than making an attempt any experimental options. Within the case of a completely broken card, you’ll should request an RMA.
After all, with RTX 50-series playing cards out of inventory all over the place and as much as 16 weeks for the resupply, you in all probability received’t be getting a alternative anytime quickly. We’ll know extra within the coming days.
This text initially appeared on our sister publication PC-WELT and was translated and localized from German.
