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Nvidia would be wise to push a patch limiting the power consumption to safe levels, and offer a "hot-rod mode" as a kernel parameter or something.

capableweb 4y ago
Benchmarks (and therefore profits) would probably take a hit if so, hence they are not doing it.
- smoldesu 4y ago
  Which cards are even competitive with the 3090, much less the 4080? It's perfectly acceptable for Nvidia to admit they were wrong about power scaling if they offer an unlocked mode for idiots in fireproof houses.
  - m-p-3 4y ago
    The RX 7900 XT should be fairly close and at a lower wattage.
  - squeaky-clean 4y ago
    I got a nice settlement check from AMD who had to admit that their 8 core CPUs were actually 4 core CPUs with dual parallel math units. I'm pretty sure a post-launch reduction in power and performance of these cards would qualify any current owners for a refund.
    - Y_Y 4y ago
      Nvidia are doing something like this now advertising their CUDA TOPS as double their actual value but with a footnote telling you this is for "sparse" multiplications. Here "sparse" means each dot-product can assume half of each input vector is zero.
ploxiln 4y ago
The thing is, the 4090 is the pushed-past-the-limit supercar of the generation, these things always have issues. It's just due to market conditions that they didn't release all the somewhat reasonable cards (4070, 4080) yet. They don't want to cannibalize 30xx series sales, they don't want to delay 40xx series, they want the top of the charts. shrug Just don't buy a 4090. The technology is incredible, the model is stupid. Buy a 3080 Ti, or wait for a 4080. Like, don't buy a $1 million Bugatti, you could get a $250k supercar and it would probably be better for any real-world use. (But do people buying $50k BMWs complain about these things?)
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Arn_Thor 4y ago
It's far from certain that would fix the issue, though. If the problem is some edge case problem with the connection, what's to say it couldn't happen under standard load?

capableweb 4y ago

Benchmarks (and therefore profits) would probably take a hit if so, hence they are not doing it.

smoldesu 4y ago
Which cards are even competitive with the 3090, much less the 4080? It's perfectly acceptable for Nvidia to admit they were wrong about power scaling if they offer an unlocked mode for idiots in fireproof houses.
- m-p-3 4y ago
  The RX 7900 XT should be fairly close and at a lower wattage.
- squeaky-clean 4y ago
  I got a nice settlement check from AMD who had to admit that their 8 core CPUs were actually 4 core CPUs with dual parallel math units. I'm pretty sure a post-launch reduction in power and performance of these cards would qualify any current owners for a refund.
  - Y_Y 4y ago
    Nvidia are doing something like this now advertising their CUDA TOPS as double their actual value but with a footnote telling you this is for "sparse" multiplications. Here "sparse" means each dot-product can assume half of each input vector is zero.

ploxiln 4y ago

The thing is, the 4090 is the pushed-past-the-limit supercar of the generation, these things always have issues. It's just due to market conditions that they didn't release all the somewhat reasonable cards (4070, 4080) yet. They don't want to cannibalize 30xx series sales, they don't want to delay 40xx series, they want the top of the charts. shrug Just don't buy a 4090. The technology is incredible, the model is stupid. Buy a 3080 Ti, or wait for a 4080. Like, don't buy a $1 million Bugatti, you could get a $250k supercar and it would probably be better for any real-world use. (But do people buying $50k BMWs complain about these things?)

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Arn_Thor 4y ago

It's far from certain that would fix the issue, though. If the problem is some edge case problem with the connection, what's to say it couldn't happen under standard load?