Serial number details:
 

• First two digits:                                   Year Manufactured
• Third digit:                                          Product type (1 being graphics card).
• Fourth and Fifth:                                  Factory.
• Sixth:                                                 Warranty Length.
• Seventh to Tenth:                                Part Number.
• Eleventh:                                            Region Sold.
• Twelfth to Sixteenth:                           SNS or Serial Number Sequence.

bcavnaugh

Sphericube
By the way, my S/N starts with 18, which means made in 2018.
Old batch on the shelf waiting to die (bought 8 March 2019)
I guess there are still plenty stock from 2018 more or less contaminated by TSMC.

Who told you about the Serial Number and Year?
 

He most likely saw my post.

It's even worse than I thought because I have found on Nvidia forum a defective card from 2019 with Samsung memory:
Can't insert link, but the topic is "brand new evga 2080ti ftw3 iCX2 hydro copper... error 43" (with a GPU-Z screenshot:  puu.sh/D0WTA/3383729c32.png)
 
I believe Samsung and Micron are not beginners to make both defective modules GDDR6.
Which tends to confirm that the problem is the core, and probably related to the contamination at TSMC fab 12nm.
So we know that the memory brand doesn't matter, and the problem reside in the core itself.
And we know that even cards from this year 2019 can die too, which is not reassuring, especially without any clear statement from Nvidia...

Hello Sphericube!
 
I see that your RMA request is already submit. Currently it is just needing approval from your proper region. As I am in the North American region, I would be unable to approve this RMA for you, but this should get approved in the next 1-2 business days after the weekend! :)
I know this is inconvenient, but we will try and make this RMA process as smooth for you as possible! If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to get in contact with us!
 
-Jacob B.

Sphericube
Hello Jacob,
Thank you, your help is appreciated.

You're welcome! :)
 
-Jacob B.

The 2019 GC (with samsung memory) that is dead is not necessarily dead from the same cause as those of 2018.

xblackvalorx

alexharis37
The 2019 GC (with samsung memory) that is dead is not necessarily dead from the same cause as those of 2018.

+1
My first card died of bad memory (artifacting) was micron
My second was Samsung and had an issue with power delivery. Wouldn't reach max power and started hard resetting under any load

You still don't understand that a degradation or contamination of some parts in the core can result in many different issues and behavior!
If the memory controller (inside the core) is damaged then the last state of the data cache would be corrupted, thus showing artifacts.
If the core is not completely damaged, it can still run but with freezes, crashes or on low power, or running too hot with fan over speed.
If the core is completely dead (like mine) it won't even be detected by Windows (blue screen).
Contamination problem is vicious and it's the worse case scenario because nobody can predict how the core will behave and how long it will survive depending on the contamination level.
 
I think Nvidia has underestimated how much TSMC has screwed up their order to build their huge Turing chips...
 

popuptoaster
Mine has just died, bought it in December and started getting space invaders crashes yesterday, PC is on most evenings for general use and gaming so i thought mine was a good one. Now is at the point where the PC will only boot if the drivers for the card are not installed.

I have messaged the retailer about returning it.

Oh and before anyone mentions the power supply, i bought an EVGA supernova 850 P2 at the same time as i felt my old 600w one would struggle with everything else my PC has attached.

It has nothing to do with the power supply, it is definitely your card. 

I'd be more worried if my computer was suddenly French.
 
J/K.