We've been tracking reports of problems with Nvidia's new RTX 50-series GPUs for a little while, but they now seem to be hitting critical mass.
It seems numerous owners of the new RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 cards are suffering crashes and particularly black screens, with a few arguably less substantiated reports of «bricked» cards, too.
We've asked Nvidia about the problems and have been told that it is currently «investigating the reported issues with the RTX 50-series.» As ever with an emerging issue, the current situation looks complex.
Most commonly, RTX 50-series owners are reporting black screen problems. The scenarios under which this occurs vary. Some say it's happening when switching resolutions or refresh rates.
Others are finding the black screen hits under heavy load, while yet others associate it with multi-monitor setups. Some users then find the problem persists on hard reboot, with the card not detected in device manager or system BIOS, while for others it's seeming more intermittent with a reboot restoring functionality for a time before the black screen hits again.