Not that it helps that much, but I was benchmarking with superposition on 1080 extreme and 4k and saw 121% 2 times during 5 to 6 runs. I will try posting them tonight when I get home. This was on the HW Monitor on XOC,

tech73x
Not that it helps that much, but I was benchmarking with superposition on 1080 extreme and 4k and saw 121% 2 times during 5 to 6 runs. I will try posting them tonight when I get home. This was on the HW Monitor on XOC,

It is probably just overshot, I saw 118 and 119 a few times. It should consistently go to 127, similar to this run with XOC FW
https://i.imgur.com/JNef1Cd.png

So, has anyone heard anything from EVGA about this matter .

Snipes7

Andrew_WOT

tech73x
Not that it helps that much, but I was benchmarking with superposition on 1080 extreme and 4k and saw 121% 2 times during 5 to 6 runs. I will try posting them tonight when I get home. This was on the HW Monitor on XOC,

It is probably just overshot, I saw 118 and 119 a few times. It should consistently go to 127, similar to this run with XOC FW
https://i.imgur.com/JNef1Cd.png

No it doesn't need to hit those consistantly because in XOC there are more limiting factors disabled. Saw above 124 on the new FTW3 Elite OC Bios. Unfortunately with the new 12Ghz memory modules it's not compatible with the normal one.

Did you see response from Jacob
https://forums.evga.com/FindPost/2714804
If I can hit these numbers, I'll rest the case and be happy as a clam

 
Unfortunately what all people are getting is this

 
 
 

Andrew_WOT

Snipes7

Andrew_WOT

tech73x
Not that it helps that much, but I was benchmarking with superposition on 1080 extreme and 4k and saw 121% 2 times during 5 to 6 runs. I will try posting them tonight when I get home. This was on the HW Monitor on XOC,

It is probably just overshot, I saw 118 and 119 a few times. It should consistently go to 127, similar to this run with XOC FW
https://i.imgur.com/JNef1Cd.png

No it doesn't need to hit those consistantly because in XOC there are more limiting factors disabled. Saw above 124 on the new FTW3 Elite OC Bios. Unfortunately with the new 12Ghz memory modules it's not compatible with the normal one.

Did you see response from Jacob
https://forums.evga.com/FindPost/2714804
If I can hit these numbers, I'll rest the case and be happy as a clam

 
Unfortunately what all people are getting is this

 
 
 

Wow ok I was unaware by "bouncing off of 117" you mean hitting 117 means powertarget snaps right back to only 37%. Can't imagine the stutter fest you have to deal with. Even more frustrating when this is a problem with one of their flagship cards. This should be very high on the priority list. 

demon09 lol no his 37 is just the card idling down . It doesn't bounce down to 37 when it hits 117. It just acts like 117 is the max it can go to vs the advertised 127

Yes, that is correct, part of the graph is before and after test.

Drakke01
While mine isn't watercooled I do have a 1080 Ti FTW3 and though it didn't stay at 127, it did jump up there a couple times while running Furmark.

 
What bios are you running? Can you post a picture of your gpu bios?
 

Interesting, I have a FTW3 Hybrid and my bios is 86.02.39.01.90 
 
Do you have the Superposition benchmark? If you do, can you run the 4K Optimized benchmark?

Drakke01

petmic10
Interesting, I have a FTW3 Hybrid and my bios is 86.02.39.01.90 
 
Do you have the Superposition benchmark? If you do, can you run the 4K Optimized benchmark?

I have the 12GHz model that they recently released which may be why the BIOS versions are different.  Ran 4k Optimized and capped out at 116%.

Gotcha. Did you bounce off the power limit when running the 4K optimized?
 
Thanks for checking

Even a speculation from EVGA would be nice at this point. This is why I came to EVGA was for their customer service but it sure has been awfully quiet on this matter that many of us are having with this card.

I flashed my FTW3 Hybrid with FTW3 Elite bios I got from here. 
 

https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/195601/195601

 
At one point my card hit 129 and kept dropping all over place and did hit 127 again at one point. I used Unigine benchmark at 8K optimized. 
 
Another interesting thing is this bios will indeed go to 12GHz on the RAM by default. The GPU is at the usual 1974Mhz. Works completely fine with default settings. 
 

 
And this also if any of you are interested is the fastest bios I found that works correctly and at points hits 2050MHz on the GPU and 11.2MHz on the RAM without touching any settings. 
 

https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/192147/zotac-gtx1080ti-11264-170327

 

So it's a BIOS issue if power limits are removed by using the XOC bios, hardware is fortunately fine.
 
You can flash the 12Gbps BIOS to your standard FTW3 to fix this, but only if you have confirmed your specific card can do at least +500MHz(=12Gbps) on the memory safely 24/7 and artifacts only appear after pushing +600-800MHz.
The 12Gbps chips by Micron are just higher binned version of the 11Gbps, so the BIOS is 100% compatible.
 
By the way, don't use furmark or OCCT as those are considered 'power virus' and are banned by Nvidia on BIOS level, i.e. the card throttles.
 
4K Time Spy Extreme Graphics Test 2 has the highest power draw you can get currently, no game is pulling nearly that much power.
With a 350W power limit, in this test the gpu voltage drops to a minimum of 1000mV, with a 384W zotac limit a minimum voltage was around 1.025V. Only the XOC bios allowed for full 1.093V (and beyond).
 
Flashing another brand BIOS is not recommended as it sometimes causes lower performance and/or microstuttering (inconsistent frametimes). Different brand BIOS also may have a different number of connectors, so e.g. one of your displayports may stop working.
Also never flash a lightning z or galax HOF bios as those use 3x 8pin.
 
If you don't get a signal after rebooting, use the GPU bios switch or iGPU (or another eGPU on a different pci-e slot) to flash the original bios back.
 
I tried a few BIOS and compared their performance on my Palit 1080ti:
 
Test: 3 consecutive runs of 3dmark time spy extreme graphics test 2, (steady 1936MHz 962mV on core/6107MHz on mem to prevent power throttling).
 
palit bios
28.86 fps
28.90 fps
28.87 fps
run #2
28.54 fps
28.55 fps
28.51 fps
 
asus xoc bios
28.47 FPS
28.46 FPS
28.33 FPS
 
evga 12gbps bios
28.02 fps
27.94 fps
28.18 fps
 
zotac amp extreme bios
28.57 fps
28.56 fps
28.41 fps
run #2
28.55 fps
28.39 fps
28.41 fps
 
msi gaming x bios
28.49 fps
28.35 fps
28.33 fps
 
In my case at least the zotac bios caused microstuttering (even though fps was fine), probably due to the vastly different VRM.

Cool GTX
Just a note to say --- if you change the BIOS and Brick the card -- You probably also killed your warranty
 
Changing the cards BIOS should not be done without understanding the risks

The FTW3 has two vbioses, so it's hard to brick. 

Don't know what to say other than I paid quite a bit for this and would like to see it fixed. Sadly this isn't the only issue XOC is a bit buggy and Aida64 Extreme sensor support is non existent. I bought this card for two reasons dual bios and 9 sensors the former which will come in handy when we get a fix and the latter which I can only view with buggy software. 
Here's my proof the power limit doesn't go above 118%.
To be clear when furmark started it spiked but quickly leveled off well below 127
 



 

Keep this at the top until we get some kind of answer, EVGA????????????