AMD RX Radeon 7900 XTX (reference) Failure rate would be 11% opposed to 1%
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Denial
I'd rather a lobster chew on my balls then thank Elon Musk for anything.
Stop posting political shit on on technical threads - go to the pub if you want to push crazy.. we are all stocked up here, having to pay $1000 for a midlevel GPUs that catch on fire or others that have to be oriented with euler angles to get proper performance.
moab600
This might be the end of AMD GPU department, literally nothing going on for them with the 7900XTX.
Hopefully I'm wrong, as nVidia is already a monopoly.
Astyanax
11% so basically constitutes all MBA cards. 😳
no_1_dave
A spec design, not Nvidia's design. They used the new ATX3.0 standard which is a 12 pin socket
It is user error... User's did not properly insert the plug until it clicked securely in place. That's pretty much the definition of user error.
Special training is not required, only common sense and making sure you do something correctly. The same issue has happened in the past with normal PCI cables when people didn't pay attention
No they can't. If the plug is connected properly and clicked into place it cannot simply vibrate out with "computer vibrations" LOL
That's probably sensible... Computer vibrations might magically bring your PC to life and make it run off down the street...
Craig Alan Fay
It's a shame that the air coolers are having trouble. I'm crazy and have 4 rigs with RDNA2 cards all on water blocks. They primarily do folding at home to help heat the house up. I do game with the one in my main rig though when I'm not folding. I know it's not a real solution for a company to just say screw the air cooler, but it is an option. After hearing about how much wattage the new cards draw, I'm not that surprised. Even with water cooling RDNA2 cards can get hot. RDNA3 would make the heat problem even worse I think. It would be great if we could order the new cards without any cooling similar to buying a tray processor without a heatsink. I wouldn't use it anyway. Air cooling can be nice for not having to worry about leaks though, so I get it...
Mufflore
Strange they say "RMA instances are 9–11% per thousand of cards".
The percentage rate covers every single card, not each thousand only.
As though they are trying to limit our perception of damage to a portion of 1000 cards.
On the plus side I expected this to be a lot worse, perhaps it will be.
Reddoguk
How do you mess up a vapor chamber or is it just failing when mounted in anything but a horizontal position?
Neo Cyrus
Can we fire Scott Herkleman even if he has nothing to do with it?
user1
the manufactuaring defect is insufficient liquid in the chamber, there is enough liquid that in the vertical orientation , gravity is sufficient to bring th liquid back to the cooling plate, but horizonally gravity works against it , and there isnt enough liquid wicked back to keep the cooler functioning.
Airbud
This^....the pub section should come with a warning label though.
Astyanax
no, its usually a block unit of returns.
Spets
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Failure Rates Reportedly At 11%, RMA’s Piling Up But Users Not Receiving Cards
https://wccftech.com/amd-radeon-rx-7900-xtx-failure-rates-reportedly-at-11-rmas-piling-up-but-users-not-receiving-cards/
Folks were frothing out their mouths to recall the 4090 for 0.04% of users being too delicate with their cables. 11% failure rate is more than double the standard for a recall.
Crazy Serb
I don't know why are people surprised by these numbers. I don't know how many is "1 batch" for coolers, but considering amount of cards AMD is selling, that could be easily 20% of reference cards. Intel was already at 40% of AMD GPU sales and I would not be surprised if AMD ends in 3rd place by the end of the year.
doza
i remember when i purchased rtx2080 MSI Duke when it was released, in first week 19/20 that where sold where sent back for RMA here at my local store so imagine how that went world wide....
I don't remember reading anything about that fuss, QC is low in few past years regarding gpus.
illusiveman
"While this sounds promising, Igorslab uncovered nine to eleven percent of reported RMA cases between consumers, AMD, and their partners."
To me this translates that 9-11% of RMA cases are with the vapor chamber problem...In my mind this just means that 11% of the RMA cases are with this issue, the other 89% RMA calls are different issues. How does one draw the conclusion that 11% of xtx sales have this problem ?
Valken
Dood... don't make political posts in TECHNOLOGY discussions!
Post those in CONSPIRACY instead...
Gets a big bucket of popcorn...
NvidiaFreak650
https://i.imgur.com/tkuLyD1.gif
leszy
On Mindfactory.de for 180 sold Powercolor Radeon RX 7900 XTX AMD Edition, the complaint rate is 0.57%. I smell some black PR made somewhere on purpose.
https://www.mindfactory.de/product_info.php/24GB-Powercolor-Radeon-RX-7900-XTX-AMD-Edition-OC-DDR6--Retail-_1474340.html
PS. For 24GB Palit GeForce RTX 4090 GameRock Aktiv it is 0.39%. Not so far.
cucaulay malkin
number must be not up to date if 7900xt reference has 1% and this has 0.5%.
seems like they're just not reporting the number, mindfactory always had a strong amd affiliation, their sales numbers were mostly amd cpus and gpus.
when I search the best deals for cards in Europe, the best offers for rx6000 series were always from mindfactory.
Unstizzy
My 7900XTX is running great! It's a bummer some people got paper weights though 🙁. I'm hoping we will see some solid third party cooling solutions by this summer like a new NZXT Kraken bracket.
