Graphite8five
I'm getting some heavy electrical buzz noise from my case that correlates with GPU load being applied. It sounds like an electrical buzzing noise sometimes changing frequencies. In a game when I go to the pause menu the GPU clocks drop back and so does the noise. As soon as load is reapplied the noise starts again.
 
I'm guessing it might be a capacitor/coil whine type thing but I cannot pin point whether it is coming from the PSU or the graphics card. Can a capacitor on the graphics card potentially be responsible for this or more likely the PSU? If so do I have a bad cap? My Seasonic X-750 Gold PSU is just over three years old and still well within ATX tolerances. I've tried putting a cardboard pipe to my ear but I still cannot pin point the noise exactly. 

 
More than likely it is the chokes/inductors squealing under load. Every single 2080Ti I've had come through here (somewhere around 10 by now) makes the same noise, some slightly worse than others but all easily audible. Manufacturer doesn't seem to matter. You can try to RMA but I've come to the conclusion (perhaps incorrectly, YMMV) that all 2080Ti's will behave this way. If I ever hear a completely quiet 2080Ti under load I'll change my mind.
 
The least offensive one I experienced was from Gigabyte, probably because it used a full cover block that did well to damp the choke/inductor/vrm areas. Place your straw/tube next to those areas on the GPU and you will probably discover that I'm correct.

degenerate
 
 More than likely it is the chokes/inductors squealing under load. Every single 2080Ti I've had come through here (somewhere around 10 by now) makes the same noise, some slightly worse than others but all easily audible. Manufacturer doesn't seem to matter. You can try to RMA but I've come to the conclusion (perhaps incorrectly, YMMV) that all 2080Ti's will behave this way. If I ever hear a completely quiet 2080Ti under load I'll change my mind.
 
The least offensive one I experienced was from Gigabyte, probably because it used a full cover block that did well to damp the choke/inductor/vrm areas. Place your straw/tube next to those areas on the GPU and you will probably discover that I'm correct.

If your hearing this noise on as many as 10 cards that can't be coincidence. When you say squealing I tend to think of a higher pitched noise. This is a lowish buzz noise but does have some higher pitched swirling frequency noises in it as well. Same noise your thinking of do you think?

Graphite8five
 
If your hearing this noise on as many as 10 cards that can't be coincidence. When you say squealing I tend to think of a higher pitched noise. This is a lowish buzz noise but does have some higher pitched swirling frequency noises in it as well. Same noise your thinking of do you think?

Indeed, I used multiple PSU's as well. As for the noise I would call it more of a mid-range tone, different from your typical coil whine which essentially sounds like really high pitched whistling. This is more akin to an electrical buzzing as you stated, but it varies in pitch/severity with load/framerate in the same way coil whine does. Always emits from VRM areas, seems more audible on air-cooled cards.

The 2080ti ftw3 also had coil whine but it was light on load. Quiet prob because of the hydro copper block but you could hear it.

May fade with time.

chrisdglong
If you can hear it while gaming, over speakers, while trying to do anything, then send that junk back. I will not pay $$$ for junk GPU's. BTW, I have an ROG Strix 2080Ti and no coil whine. 

I'll make some decisions. The card was not noisy when I first got it, just in the last week or so.

Graphite8five
If so do I have a bad cap?

Doubt it.

You'll want to be sure that's where it's coming from. Roll a piece of paper into a cone shape to your ear to help in point it at load.

Hope it's not the new psu.

AHowes
You'll want to be sure that's where it's coming from. Roll a piece of paper into a cone shape to your ear to help in point it at load.

Hope it's not the new psu.

Loud hissing noise coming from the VRM area of the board, don't even need a paper tube to locate it...

AHowes
So the psu is not directly below the card possibly reflecting the sound?

I am about 100% positive the noise is coming from the GPU and not the PSU..

This might sound weird but yesterday I went willy nilly deleting EVGA stuff in the registry before reinstalling PX1. The saying is always true, don't change stuff in the registry your not sure about. The consequence of that appeared to be random display port signal loss and system lock. Now that I have restored the registry backup file I made the display port issue is fixed. What I wanted to say was that the GPU noise appeared to get worse right around the time of mucking in the registry. It could be a coincidence or it could not be. I need to check the GPU again when I can to see if the same level of noise is there. I guess it's possible registry entries can affect the hardware operation??

degenerate
Noise at idle & low pstate is very strange... could it be a bad fan on the FTW3? Pump noise if it's a Hybrid card? Unlikely it's the new PSU but gotta go through the process of elimination. I have only ever heard noise under load & high framerates, never at idle (unless we count pump noise).
 
I've read somewhere (GeForce forums maybe?) that Turing is more sensitive to dirty AC input power and can benefit from being used with a UPS or some sort voltage regulation. I use a line conditioner at the moment but may experiment with a UPS at some point, even though I don't think it will fix the noise under load.

The idle noise has settled a bit but I can still put my ear close to the card and hear a faint buzzing as well as what sounds like a hard disk reading the platter noise strangely enough... It's like a ticking noise from the GPU!
 
I have spoken to EVGA support and they have confirmed this is an inductor buzzing and have offered the opportunity to RMA but also not guaranteeing that a new card won't also have a loose/vibrating inductor. So I would like to know is this buzzing inductor truly a manufacturing defect and is it possible to get a card without it and worth my time RMA'ng? Perhaps my card is an example of what this noise is like at it's worst but I don't have much to compare to. I did find this video which appears to be same inductor noise, notice the comment "weird mine does not do that" 
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h4HDhYdl-o&feature=youtu.be 

Graphite8five
The idle noise has settled a bit but I can still put my ear close to the card and hear a faint buzzing as well as what sounds like a hard disk reading the platter noise strangely enough... It's like a ticking noise from the GPU!
 
I have spoken to EVGA support and they have confirmed this is an inductor buzzing and have offered the opportunity to RMA but also not guaranteeing that a new card won't also have a loose/vibrating inductor. So I would like to know is this buzzing inductor truly a manufacturing defect and is it possible to get a card without it and worth my time RMA'ng? Perhaps my card is an example of what this noise is like at it's worst but I don't have much to compare to. I did find this video which appears to be same inductor noise, notice the comment "weird mine does not do that" 
 

This is the same noise I've heard on every 2080Ti I've personally had come through here. I have never heard the noise while at idle though, like you described. It is inductor noise under load and I have a feeling it is normal for the majority of 2080Ti's but of course no way to test that except by testing large volumes of cards which I can't do. If you're okay with going without a card for 1-3 weeks then you can try to RMA. I would not get your hopes up though, in the event your replacement has the same issue.
 
If it makes you feel any better my 2080Ti Kingpin makes the same type of noises under load. I personally won't bother RMA'ing though, my experience tells me it will just be a waste of time & money.
 

Graphite8five
Sorry missed this part. I am actually plugged into a CyberPower PFC Sinewave UPS, similar to this but I think this is the new version: https://www.cyberpowersystems.com/product/ups/cp1500avrlcd/ Quite surprised that an UPS and brand new high quality PSU can't sort the GPU noise out, maybe it does not depend on the power quality at all?

I highly doubt it has much, if anything, to do with AC power noise; I've just always been meaning to pick up a UPS. The only reason I recently grabbed a new PSU was in an attempt to keep its fan from kicking-in while under gaming loads (most good modern PSU's have a fanless mode until ~40% load). Of course the additional headroom is always nice to have in the bag, too.