After the performance issues in several AIB cards, many third-party manufacturers have started making changes to their RTX 3080 GPUs. Several users are reporting crashing during gaming and many other issues. Several reports now suggest that the issues are due to the hardware designs that AIB partners have implemented on their custom products.
Several Third-Party GPU makers have now started making changes to their PCB designs to rectify the performance issues. MSI is one of the third-party manufacturers that have made changes to their PCB. There were no announcements or statements from MSI in regard to the GeForce RTX 3080/3090 stability concerns.
But MSI has changed the design and the new design can be seen on the manufacturer’s website. MSI has changed the PCB designs of their GeForce RTX 3080 GAMING X TRIO and MSI RTX 3080 VENTUS 3X graphic cards.
ASUS has also made changes to their PCB designs and has also released an official statement. ASUS said:
All ASUS TUF and ROG Strix use the MLCC capacitors. That’s on all samples. However, some of our product pictures might not reflect that due to early engineering samples being used to capture those pictures. These are being updated now.
ASUS says that their cards are using the MLCC capacitors but the sample pictures on their website showed off the old design of engineering samples. ASUS 3080 TUF and ROG STRIX PCB designs now have been updated on the website.
NVIDIA has also officially responded to the issues that are being faced by the RTX 3000 series. NVIDIA gave the official response to Brad Chacos, who is the Senior Editor at PCWorld. It said:
Regarding partner board designs, our partners regularly customize their designs and we work closely with them in the process. The appropriate number of SP-CAP vs. MLCC groupings can vary depending on the design and is not necessarily indicative of quality.
NVIDIA explains in their statement that the custom cards are designed closely with their partners and they work very closely with them during the whole design/test process. We will have to see what lies ahead for the RTX 3000 series, which has got off to a shaky start, to say the least.
