Over the past few weeks there have been reports of Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti cards dying in myriad ways, and now Nvidia has admitted in its forums that there is a problem. In a post, the company states, "Limited test escapes from early boards caused the issues some customers have experienced with RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition. We stand ready to help any customers who are experiencing problems."
Based on my understanding of what a "test escape" is, it basically means when they were testing parts for their boards early in the manufacturing process some components that were faulty "escaped" past their certification process, meaning bad parts made it all the way through to final construction. This could be transistors, capacitors, RAM modules, and so forth.
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Based on my understanding of what a "test escape" is, it basically means when they were testing parts for their boards early in the manufacturing process some components that were faulty "escaped" past their certification process, meaning bad parts made it all the way through to final construction. This could be transistors, capacitors, RAM modules, and so forth.
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