That’s comfortably below 2GHz (2000MHz) and while there have been some reports of Nvidia Founders Edition cards crashing, they’re relatively rare. In practice, for example, we observed Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition running between 1800MHz and 1900MHz during many games.

It’s a wonderful technology that lets your graphics card run faster than advertised if possible to give you extra performance. Nvidia graphics cards have a feature called GPU Boost that lets the core clock speeds increase in 15MHz increments if the card hasn’t hit its power or thermal limits. The GeForce RTX 30 are rated for boost clock speeds of roughly 1.7GHz, but that’s only part of the story. Further testing by affected users seemed to reveal that the crashes happened in some games when their GPU boost clock speeds hit roughly 2GHz or above. Videocardz compiled a list of some of the reports from forums around the Internet. In the week after the GeForce RTX 3080’s launch, users began reporting that their graphics cards were crashing to the desktop when playing games. Our original article below gets into the speculation, and we’ve also added a statement from Nvidia about the POSCAP vs. Nvidia didn’t specify what stability changes were made in the driver.

The root cause of the crashing remains unknown. Read the details in “ Tested: Nvidia’s new drivers fix RTX 3080 crashes by sacrificing clock speed” and download the new drivers here. Update: We’ve tested Nvidia’s new Game Ready drivers and they fix the crashing issue, albeit by slightly dialing back the maximum GPU Boost clock speed in ultra-fast RTX 3080 models.

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