kram36
Go here and grab the 3080 Ti Hybrid bios. EVGA just put this up today. Of coarse save your bios before you flash.
 
https://forums.evga.com/EVGA-GeForce-30-Series-HYBRIDXOCDefault-BIOS-Thread-m3407542.aspx

Yea now that I think about it, the XC3 still isn't on TPU AFAIK. So would have to use it. But still important to back up the original with NVFlash or GPUZ.

gsrcrxsi

talon951

Well no matter what the reason, I would try harder to get EVGA tech to look at it. Other than flashing a different bios, there's nothing you can do yourself.

But if you do that, you should use NVFlash manually and save your original bios so you can restore it back on the card if you end up RMAing it.

before I think about flashing the BIOS to one from another model, I would like to find anyone with a 3080ti XC3 (any model, air/hybrid/HC) to see if anyone can replicate this behavior.
 

kram36
Go here and grab the 3080 Ti Hybrid bios. EVGA just put this up yesterday. Of coarse save your bios before you flash.
 
https://forums.evga.com/EVGA-GeForce-30-Series-HYBRIDXOCDefault-BIOS-Thread-m3407542.aspx

I'm not sure I should flash the hybrid BIOS, the regular air one would be just as well, no?

Somebody posted today over in that overclockers thread I linked that had one. Might want to try there.

kram36
I didn't see a bios for the air version at that link? I don't think it would matter anyways.

in the first post
 
4th option under the 3080ti section. click the 2nd spoiler window to expand. showing the air cooled card BIOSes. this subsection is mislabelled as "3090", but contains the default (air-cooled) 3080ti BIOS

and now with EVGA_Lee's post, I'm a little hesitant to flash to another card's BIOS.
 
I hope someone with a 3080ti XC3 can pop in and try to verify this is happening on their cards too.

yeah I know :(. I put out a feeler on overclock.net, and I'll probably make a post on reddit as well.

I sent some screenshots to support@evga.com yesterday evening but so far no one has responded.
 
It seems impossible to find anyone with a 3080ti XC3 to attempt to verify findings. everyone has the FTW3 model. even though people have responded to getting 3080ti XC3 models in the tracking threads, no one has responded to this request for testing. I've made a post on r/EVGA on reddit also, some upvotes, but no comments. 
 
I would like to attempt to flash a known-good BIOS for the HC card. so I hope EVGA_Lee can source it to add to the other thread. even though support over the phone didnt think that would help. I would like to try to cross it off the list. I've definitely experienced firmware issues in the past where there was some bug or glitch in the original BIOS that reflashing a fresh copy of the same one fixed. So I'd like to attempt that.
 
After that, I think EVGA needs to get someone knowlegable to take a closer look at the BIOS contents to make sure it's doing what it's supposed to be doing. I understand that customer service and level 1 tech support probably don't know the specifics, but I hope they can at least escalate it to the people that know about this stuff rather than writing me off.

xReason
I said screw it and bought the xc3 hc from a scalper and it should be here Monday. Thankfully I only paid about 250$ over msrp. I'm definitely hoping I don't run into these problems. I will test it out after I get it connected to my loop. Hopefully someone else can confirm before then.

Heh... might be some hope in the market yet. That is not that unreasonable for someone else to go through the hassle to get one.. and be successful. Good luck.
Not pro scalping... but... that's almost a good deal.

Ok soooo bad news bro.
 
AMD 5900x
x570 gigabyte aorus elite
850 watt superflower psu
2x 360 rads
 
I ran Time Spy Extreme and checked hwinfo64 and it showed 349.226 watts as my maximum. Did you have a firmware update when you first got the card? I installed x1 before this test and I was prompted to upgrade the 3080ti firmware. I dunno if that made a difference or not but yea I'm not having the same problem.
 
 
 

HeavyHemi

xReason
I said screw it and bought the xc3 hc from a scalper and it should be here Monday. Thankfully I only paid about 250$ over msrp. I'm definitely hoping I don't run into these problems. I will test it out after I get it connected to my loop. Hopefully someone else can confirm before then.

Heh... might be some hope in the market yet. That is not that unreasonable for someone else to go through the hassle to get one.. and be successful. Good luck.
Not pro scalping... but... that's almost a good deal.

 
 
Seriously, I was so happy for it. Prices are definitely dropping, you can get 3070 ti ftw for like 1k and I've even seen one or two for under 1k and msrp for that is like 800$

gsrcrxsi

xReason
Ok soooo bad news bro.
 
AMD 5900x
x570 gigabyte aorus elite
850 watt superflower psu
2x 360 rads
 
I ran Time Spy Extreme and checked hwinfo64 and it showed 349.226 watts as my maximum. Did you have a firmware update when you first got the card? I installed x1 before this test and I was prompted to upgrade the 3080ti firmware. I dunno if that made a difference or not but yea I'm not having the same problem.

yes I did the firmware update. but that would have no impact anyway, the PX1 firmware updates are for fans and RGB. nothing to do with the clocks or power.
 
what BIOS version do you have on the card? (read with GPUz). Mine is 94.02.71.00.BC, can you dump your BIOS with GPUz?
 
what was your timespy extreme score? can you link to the result?
how much power is used when you run furmark? with clock speeds.
how much power is used when you run MSI combustor? with clock speeds.

I have the same bios version as you but I went ahead and dumped it.
 
Timespy
Kombuster 4k fullscreen = max watts 347 in hwinfo64 though on afterburner I saw it go up to 353. Clock was 1740/1755
 
Furmark didn't push it as hard. 322 wats 1200 clock.
 
This was with +100 core clock and +580 on mem in afterburner
 
This is a screenshot of gpu z running kombuster stress test GL msi-01 @ 4k wth +0 on core clock

It's staying at 340-350 during the test.

Kokin
Is that with the power slider at 100% or max?

Max

swapped in a brand new EVGA 1200W P2, seems a little better, but no where near where it should be, and hard to tell if it's just a placebo. 

gsrcrxsi
well it seems this card is going to have to be RMA'd anyway, for a different reason now).
 
woke up this morning to the RGB on the waterblock non-functional. I had it set for static color on both the block and the terminal. this morning the terminal was totally off and the block was kind of a white/rainbowy look. rebooted the system and the white block part just turned off. tried unplugging the GPU and plugging back in, still nothing. Precision sees the presence of the RGB, but trying to change them just does nothing.

That's actually a good thing. A lot easier to convince them you need to RMA for a visible problem with the RGB.

gsrcrxsi
EVGA has made adjustments to BIOS’ of other models of cards to fix power issues like this. No reason they couldn’t or shouldn’t try to fix this one.

Not really - they actually lowered the limit on the PCIe slot so none of their cards will go out of spec on the PCIe slot.  There's nothing you can do except flashing the BIOS if you can find one with higher limits on the PCIe slot but that was killing cards previously so its not a good idea.  If you want more power budget you need to get a 3 connector card instead and preferably the Kingpin.

You could try some other manufacturers bios. But I would give that a small chance of success unless the XC3 is somehow more compatible with other manufacturers than the 3080ti FTW3. I've tried a bunch of them on my FTW3. Most show crazy power balancing (and hence even lower effective PL) and poor stability.

But it wouldn't hurt to try unless you are going to RMA for the RGB anyway. Pulling a little more power from the PCIE probably won't hurt the card. Plenty of cards max at around 75-80w with no issues.