How Reliable Is Nvidia's Quality Control...?

General news News 04/15/2025

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TECH NEWS – There have been a number of questionable stories surrounding Nvidia’s new graphics cards, and here’s another one.

A Reddit user has reportedly experienced coil whine noise with Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5090, raising concerns about the company’s quality control. The Blackwell architecture flagship is not doing too well in the market, considering the after-sales performance of the RTX 5090. Several issues have been reported by users, whether it’s missing ROPs (we reported on this earlier) or what appear to be quality control errors.

In a Reddit thread, MutedMobile3977 mentions an Asus TUF GeForce RTX 5090 model that appears to have experienced coil whine. He found this out after the GPU started making loud noises during operation. After inspecting the card, he discovered a damaged capacitor, which is quite rare for a GPU like this. (Granted, we’re not talking about a top-of-the-line model, which would be the Asus Astral, but we’re still talking about an RTX 5090).

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Such a case is shocking because physical damage to the GPU during operation is quite difficult to occur, especially on such a new model. Whether the capacitor is damaged is uncertain at the moment, but the pictures clearly indicate that something is wrong with the card. The interesting thing is that the GPU works fine except for the loud noise. If it was a capacitor failure, there is a high chance that the GPU would experience some kind of disturbance under load, so the situation is unclear for now. For current GeForce RTX 5090 customers, however, this is a huge concern, because if there are problems during the quality control process, it is certain that more units will experience similar problems in the longer term.

If an older card, 8-9 years old, were to run into such problems, we could understand the age and the resulting ‘wear and tear’, but for a card released a few months ago, and one of the most powerful, this is highly embarrassing. Warranty replacement may not be the answer.

Source: WCCFTech

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