NVIDIA on the Cause of RTX 2080 Series Card Failures

NVIDIA has announced that the culprit behind some of the defective early boards for the NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition was limited test escapes. Test escapes refers to the testing of the parts such as resistors, capacitors, etc., that are on the PCB. Sometimes these parts are defective or of marginal quality.

By using Big Data Analytics, companies can test, monitor, track, and find bad batches of parts before they enter the final product assembly manufacturing stage. As alluded to by NVIDIA, something was missed along the way and the bad components made it through quality control and into the final product.

So, from our understanding of what a "test escape" is, it would seem that NVIDIA is actually owning up to putting bad RTX 2000 series cards into the market.