NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 instability traced to capacitors - SlashGear

The GeForce RTX 3080 was expected to be NVIDIA’s latest and greatest consumer graphics card so much so that it was quickly snatched up by bots when it launched.

Like any piece of electronics, graphics cards make use of capacitors and a cluster of them are actually employed to regulate the voltage that passes through the card.

igor’s LAB investigated several RTX 3080 cards as well as NVIDIA’s specifications and theorized that the kind and mix of capacitors used for this purpose may be the cause of instability.