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r/LocalLLaMA · u/Reasonable-Height704 · 13h ago

blackwell gpus have PCIe5 issues?

Let's preface this with the fact I have 3090, 4090, 2080ti - and lots of stable long running compute heavy workloads.

I recently got a 5070ti (I am not willing to pay ridiculous money for 5090)

And it's been working reasonably well, until I left it running on a 6 hour CUDA job.

Near the end, it died, with system journal message:

NVRM: krcWatchdog\_IMPL: RC watchdog: GPU is probably locked! Notify Timeout Seconds: 7

So I tried to reproduce, but no success. My code is fine.

Then I investigate...

Apparently this is just problem with Blackwell we just accept?

https://en.gamegpu.com/news/zhelezo/rtx-5070-rtx-5080-i-rtx-5090-prodolzhayut…

I searched this sub and reddit, and previously people have mentioned it, but surprised there isn't more noise about it. Seems like Nvidia have only in the last few months officially acknowledged the problem.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1tifo1o/anyone_else_fighting_bla…

https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/1wiaj9e/nvidia_acknowledged_the_blac…

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