In my honest opinion I do believe Nvidia knows internally that there is an issue with some of these cards but aren't admitting it; the symptoms are all too common - hard lock ups, artifacting and 100% fan speed spooling up after cards initially work perfectly for the first week or so. I've purchased multiple iterations of the Titan X line and NEVER had an issue with them locking up like this within two weeks to the point that a hardware failure was pretty evident.

It seems to be all 20 series cards affected, there are reports from all aib cards (evga, zotac, msi, gigabyte, Asus, etc.) all with the same symptoms, heavy artifacting or just straight up bricking.

Just like the title says. I started doing some research and coming across all these various forum posts and articles on the web as soon a family member contacted me and mentioned that his recently acquired EVGA 2080 (non Ti) had to be RMA'ed because of artifacting. A lot of early adopters out there on both Reddit andof the RTX 2xxx series cards are saying their video cards go *poof* belly up and are dying on them. Some are even reporting that they're onYes, you read that right... Their fourth! Read though all the links if you have time.I'm glad I didn't buy into the RTX hype and went with a GTX 1080Ti instead. I would be pretty pissed off right now if I owned an RTX card only to have to RMA the bloody thing. As far as I can tell this is not limited to just the 2080Ti card. I think Nvidia is keeping quiet about this problem as users are asking for an official statement from nVidia because this problem also relates to 2080 series cards and there has been 2 mentions (so far that I can find online) of 2070's going back for RMA. I have also heard from another user on a different forum that someone has already RMA'ed their EVGA 2070 ULTRA OC (3 slot version) because of artifcating. (EVGA made 2 versions of this card. A low profile 2 slot and high profile 3 slot card, dubbed OC & ULTRA OC).So this is not just a 2080Ti problem, even though majority reports 2080Ti, there are also 2080 and 2070 reports, just not as many. Seems to be some serious PR hush hush about this. I'm still waiting for YouTube reviews to mention this. Maybe they are forced to keep quiet because or the NDA? I don't know. But its not pretty.Tons of forum sources (Best ones I can find, I'm not going to post them all):If anyone has any more source information or articles, please feel free to post.I will update if I come across anything new.