10439

Check that your photography program supports AMD; if so it’s a perfectly cromulent GPU.

10440

Yep - anything OpenCL 1.1 and later, and been tested on at least some RX series cards.

10441

Is there usually an availability issue with prebuilt PCs as well, or do they have contracts to fill so many orders?

10442

Usually there’s no availability issue at all, after the first couple of weeks at most.

But yeah, if you’re willing to buy an entire prebuilt computer, you could have purchased a PC with a 3080 in February 2021.

10443

90 or GTFO :)

10444

Forecasts predict high wallet threat levels this summer.

10445

Well, shit…

I commented a pair of times how my gtx 1080 is getting too long in the tooth. Performance in the latest games isn’t good enough, etc. I thought that was in part because I had changed to a monitor with higher res, so more pixels to move, apart from newer games needing better and better specs. But in reality , in the last months I was wondering if the gpu was breaking somehow, as I could swear it performed a bit better before?

Today I found an old benchmark log file in my folders for BL3, from Nov’2019 (same computer specs since then). I matched the settings and the old resolution, and it gave me 43fps. But in 2019 I had 78 fps!!!

I also found a pair of old reviews of the gpu, I saw the uniengine heaven score, run the same benchmark, and yeah, I can get a much lower score.

So yeah, my gpu is broken… except maybe not. In the Gigabyte OC tool of the gpu, I can see the power consumption only reaching up to 65%. In HwInfo64,
imagen
I see the how mobo (pcie +12v here) is bringing close to the normal amounts, 50W, but the 8pin cable is only bringing 93-96W, while I could see in a Toms Hardware article that it should be higher


and even higher with OC, and my gpu has a light factory OC.

So in other words, I think it’s the freaking psu! I bought it in mid 2019, it isn’t that old (but old enough to be out of warranty…), it’s a 750W PSU.

So now I have to get a new PSU, and I’m wondering how much. Because if the next gpu generation needs a bit more of power, like a 800w, it would be a bad idea to buy another 750w, just months before the new generation launches.

10446

If you’re hitting around 1900 to 2000Mhz with a TDP of 180w and peak temp of 70C, your GTX1080 should be performing normally. Rather than looking at old possibly suspect benchmarks, run a fresh 3dmark and compare it against other GTX1080s.

Real suspect item there is that peak temp, I would expect it to be higher under load unless you have aftermarket cooling or something. Basically the card should keep clocking up and increasing voltage and thus heat until it hits its limit around 82-85C.

10447

Yeah that’s the strange thing, the clocks for core and memory are fine. The usage jumps to 100% in games and benchmarks.

My computer is toasty, it’s a few higher degrees than ideal, I will admit, but it never was a big issue, and it doesn’t explain why I’m losing 45% of what the gpu should do. 3% maybe, not 45%.
(and also it was the same on 2019)

10448

Temps are actually low, not high, so I wouldn’t expect your case temp to be the issue.

First thing I would try is to reboot in safe mode and use DDU to completely nuke the drivers, then reboot and reinstall them.

10449

DDU, reboot, reinstall, and…


GPU or PSU? One of the two.
I actually had a maximum of 195W while doing this benchmark, better than before, but still far away of what the gpu should get.

10450

Before you start spending money, at least check the connections. Unplug and re-plug the power cables to the GPU, and re-seat the GPU in the motherboard socket.

10451

I replugged the cables already. In fact it was the first thing I did, as I thought maybe 2 pin cable (it’s 6+2) wasn’t properly connected, that could explain the low power.

edit: I bought a 850w Cooler Master psu on Amazon, I will return it if I still have the same issue.

10452

Really weird. I’d be surprised if it was the PSU.

10453

Do Nvidia drivers still warn you when your GPU isn’t receiving enough power from the PSU? That used to be a feature some odd twenty years ago. It taught me to stop buying cheap power supplies.

10454

Then I will hate it, because it will mean the gpu is the broken component, which means I will have to wait until Fall when the new gpus appear AND it will mean I can’t sell my old gpu on the second hard market in good conscience, which was my plan to at least offset a bit the surely expensive price tag of the new gpu .

Well, I will keep you posted when I have news next week about this. Don’t forget to like and subscribe, etc.

10455

Streaming time!

10456

I suspect it is driver issue. I always get better framerate with older drivers, especially when I was rocking ancient hardware. Try installing driver from 2019 (idk if Nvidia still have those on site, should be there tho) and see if your framerate goes back to your 2019 level.

10457

I’m not a tech genius, but wouldn’t a broken GPU cause a slew of errors and crashes as opposed to just lower performance? I’d agree there’s something amiss on the software/driver side of things.

edit - you could always back up your data and nuke it from orbit, but I understand nobody would want to go through that hassle

10458

I had a PS issue a few years ago where it could not provide the video card the power the card was asking for. The result was a hard reboot.

This was while playing Borderlands 3. Other games seemed fine. For some reason BL3 just pushed the card a little harder and the PS couldn’t keep up.