This is normal unless you have a golden sample, the community has got used to thinking all cards can support high clocks, and never listened to those of us who were silicon lottery losers, I expect what has happened here is that many Ampere chips cannot handle 2ghz, and the OC cards have simply been too aggressive in their clocks. Just because one Kingpin card (which is very likely to have a binned chip) has achieved it, it doesnt mean the entire manufactured lot can do it. If they all could do it, then the spec's would be higher.
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Rtx 3080 lower quality capacitor Issue
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This is normal unless you have a golden sample, the community has got used to thinking all cards can support high clocks, and never listened to those of us who were silicon lottery losers, I expect what has happened here is that many Ampere chips cannot handle 2ghz, and the OC cards have simply been too aggressive in their clocks. Just because one Kingpin card (which is very likely to have a binned chip) has achieved it, it doesnt mean the entire manufactured lot can do it. If they all could do it, then the spec's would be higher.
Soldato
Not sure if this has been posted yet
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/t...-nvidia-rtx-30-series-crash-to-desktop-issues
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/t...-nvidia-rtx-30-series-crash-to-desktop-issues
Some are reporting lower clocks and some are reporting higher clocks.
I do wonder if the ones with lower clocks are the cards with no or fewer MLCC - just to be clear I'm in no way suggesting SP-CAPS are why the cards have reduced in speed on the new driver - what I am suggesting is that those are lower quality cards to begin with and should never have been boosting as high as they were before - now they are performing like they should have.
For example, you can take a look at in game clocks across a range of 3080 cards - they've all been very similar on reviews regardless of if its an entry level card or top of the line. That was also a bit odd as GPU boost usually doesn't do that, cards with higher boost clocks set by the manufacturer should be the fastest. And after the new driver, that seems to be working correctly
Reviewers need to re-do their reviews
I do wonder if the ones with lower clocks are the cards with no or fewer MLCC - just to be clear I'm in no way suggesting SP-CAPS are why the cards have reduced in speed on the new driver - what I am suggesting is that those are lower quality cards to begin with and should never have been boosting as high as they were before - now they are performing like they should have.
For example, you can take a look at in game clocks across a range of 3080 cards - they've all been very similar on reviews regardless of if its an entry level card or top of the line. That was also a bit odd as GPU boost usually doesn't do that, cards with higher boost clocks set by the manufacturer should be the fastest. And after the new driver, that seems to be working correctly
Reviewers need to re-do their reviews
Soldato
Most of them are not reviewers. They are paid influencers, and their job is done.
I like that Galax came out with a statement that sounds like they know what they are talking about. To be fair to EVGA it is perfectly possible they did evaluate a 6x POSCAP or similar arrangement and rejected it - no one AFAIK is actually shipping a 6x POSCAP product and it is quite likely that 6x tants alone provide insufficient filtering and/or instantaneous current requirements - there are a number of other reasons why tants aren't a popular choice for a GPU environment. TBH though I think it was largely EVGA PR trying to leverage the situation without properly talking to engineering to fully understand what was going on.
Soldato
I like that inno3d are so confident, they've said their ichill cards aren't affected. Bold statement.
If no customers have cards then you won't receive any complaints
Inno3d is playing 4d chess
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Think they used different sp-caps then others with straight 6 design. Shouldn't take to long for buildzoid to get his hands on it and others
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Man I was thinking the same thing. It is amazing.
Man of Honour
If you have both a node shrink and a smaller chip than Turing it is not unreasonable to expect an increase in clock speed unless the silicon is poor.
Soldato
Node shrink doesn't automatically equate to higher clocks though. AMD's 7nm doesn't clock as high Bulldozer did. That doesn't make Zen2 "poor silicon".
Recent history suggests it's the opposite - node shrinks reduce clock speeds (temporarily)
Man of Honour
Yes there are other things that effect it but all things being equal you should be able to get higher clocks.
Associate
Will do. Will run a few benchmarks (game and synthetic) and see how the card performs and then do the same after drive update.
Soldato
Beaten to it
That was my point, its not a node shrink of turing, its a different tech. There is way more cores so each core works differently to turing.