The Gigabyte Aorus Gaming OC 4090 arrived damaged.
The Gigabyte Aorus Gaming OC 4090 arrived damaged.
I bought the Aorus RTX 4090 Gaming OC Edition from Gigabyte and set it up on my system. Before that, I had a 3090 without any problems. My MSI Z590 Pro Wifi CEC i7-11700K with 80GB Seasonic memory and Windows 10 Home Day 1 was running smoothly. After updating the latest Nvidia drivers, I tested Blender and noticed significant performance improvements. Then I played Cyberpunk for several hours straight at maximum settings without any issues. After shutdown, I returned to the PC and encountered driver crashes while using Blender. I briefly used Cycles before it would crash the driver. No freezes or BSODs occurred. I attempted Cyberpunk again, but it would crash to the desktop. The CTD errors appeared during legal screens or after about two minutes of gameplay. My troubleshooting steps included the JayzTwoCents DDU method, restarting in safe mode, disabling automatic driver installs, and manually reinstalling the latest Nvidia driver. After rebooting and running Cyberpunk again, I found repeated CTD errors with the message "nvlddmkm." I tried adjusting file permissions and rerunning DDU, but crashes persisted. I cleaned the system with DDU, reinstalled Windows with user files, and updated the motherboard BIOS. I experimented with different clock speeds and power limits, even testing dual BIOS options on the card. Eventually, I replaced the 3090 with the new GPU and everything worked perfectly. I contacted Gigabyte Tech Support, who admitted they didn’t have technical documentation for the card yet. They offered assistance but acknowledged I was stuck with further research. I’m hoping to resolve this without opening an RMA, but I’m unsure if it’s worth the effort with a $1700 GPU already installed. If anyone has faced similar problems, please share your experience.
It might just be a small unit with limited resources. If your teammates can manage it, give it a try. Once it functions well, it’s time to assess further.
It can handle titles such as Rainbow Sox Siege, meaning it's not completely broken. It might be related to the RT cores or a power problem. The crashes seem odd, especially with games that use ray tracing.
Run a benchmark using unigene superposition and other intensive tasks that avoid triggering RT cores.
Just to add a bit, I'm facing the same problem but reformatted it too. It doesn't matter if it's loaded—it still fails on the desktop. Aorus Xtreme x570 5950X 4x32GB G.Skill Seasonic TX-1000 and more.