EVGA’s Soldering Killed RTX 3090s

Following recent reports of multiple GeForce RTX 3090 graphics cards biting the dust while people were playing Amazon’s NewWorld MMO BETA, EVGA launched an investigation into the possible reasons for the failures and has now shared the results with PCWorld ( https://bit. ly/PCW3090).

After analyzing the 24 deceased GeForce RTX 3090 graphics cards, the company discovered that the issue was down to ‘poor workmanship’, with some of the soldering around the graphics card’s MOSFET circuits not up to the required standard.

EVGA claims that the soldering problem only affected a handful of GeForce RTX 3090 graphics cards and that all of these were part of an early production run in 2020. Although it didn’t reveal exact numbers, the company confirmed that the affected batch amounts to less than one percent of all the graphics cards that it has sold.