Quesadilloif I remember right, this new card did have a firmware update when I opened precision x1 not sure if that had something to do with it
joshjd93I had the same problem too for a long time. I recently started to give up on getting anything over 450w power draw and started to undervolt my card to get same or better stock performance but will alot less power usage. This has basically reduced my temps and given me the same or better performance as stock versus my original overclock settings, but I noticed something else too. My power draw between the 3 8-pins is perfectly balanced now. Before I too would get 75w pcie, 130-150w on the 1st and 2nd 8-pin, and low 3rd 8-pin power draw, but now all 3 are almost always the same ~125-130w draw with pcie still sitting ~75w. I would give it a try and see if you have similar results, it was kind of interesting and am not sure why its drawing balanced power now, but the only difference is I undervolted my card.
Dabadger84Some cards exhibit this, some don't. Some cards do this with the XOC BIOS, some don't. My 3090 FTW3 Hybrid had a similar spread of power usage, the 3rd 8-pin always lagged behind the others & the slot was almost always over spec under heavy loads...
bavorDabadger84Some cards exhibit this, some don't. Some cards do this with the XOC BIOS, some don't. My 3090 FTW3 Hybrid had a similar spread of power usage, the 3rd 8-pin always lagged behind the others & the slot was almost always over spec under heavy loads...All of my EVGA 3090 FTW3s did that with both the stock and XOC BIOS. Instead of drawing more power from the 3rd PCIE 8 pin power connector, the power draw through the PCIE slot would increase to 80+ watts along with the power draw from the #1 and #2 PCIE 8 pin connectors increasing to 150+ watts each. The #3 PCIE 8 pin connector didn't increase its power draw nearly as much as the other sources of power. It seemed to be an unusual behavior for power draw.
Dabadger84 Worth noting, eVGA clearly "knows" how to do this properly/fix it, because the Kingpin (at least mine) does not have this problem on the 520W "LN2" stock BIOS.
RickJamesBishDabadger84 Worth noting, eVGA clearly "knows" how to do this properly/fix it, because the Kingpin (at least mine) does not have this problem on the 520W "LN2" stock BIOS.Is the hardware identical between the FTW3 and the Kingpin as far as components that would potentially make a difference when it comes to the power handling?
_Gir_To those with uneven power, how does it behave during 4k resolution benchmarking?
grabibusYou are all lucky guys !!My 3090 FTW3 ultra shows 0w on third 8 pin slot in gpuz with stock bios.In TimeSpy, whatever the overclock settings, voltage goes up max 0,987V and frequency max 1995MHz.Should I RMA the card ?
grabibusDid I loose silicon lottery here ?