AWK16
Will EVGA explain what are the real issues behind:
 
3080 FTW3 Ultra stopped working, 1 single red light and FTW3 Ultra Shutting down PC
 
I think its only fair to current and future owners to know why is this happening.
 
Please!

dreyarc
Pitching in here as the owner of a 3090 that was used with stock settings that is on its way for RMA after a single black screen with no video output afterwards. In my case, I highly doubt it was my psu (thermaltake 850w). Prior to the 3090, I used to run an OC'd Aorus Xtreme 2080ti which neared stock 3080 TDP (which is 30W less than stock 3090 tdp) with zero issues for 4 months. I do realize the 3000 series are known to cause transient power spikes but I still doubt my psu was the culprit because when I got the blackscreen, the protection on the psu did not trip and my PC never shut down. I had to manually shut down my PC. After ~10 hours of troubleshooting, I swapped my old 1070 and my PC is up and running flawlessly with zero issues since for 2 days now.

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jankerson

AWK16
Will EVGA explain what are the real issues behind:
 
3080 FTW3 Ultra stopped working, 1 single red light and FTW3 Ultra Shutting down PC
 
I think its only fair to current and future owners to know why is this happening.
 
Please!

 
Shutting down is a PSU design problem.
 
Some models of PSUs can't handle transient power spikes. (Also happened with the 1080Ti and 2080Ti and Vega 64)
 
Transient power spikes can easily be twice the normal measured load wattage, however they are only microseconds long.
 
The PSU design issue is on the secondary side of the PSU. It has to do with the cap size and or how the caps are used. If they can't handle the trainset power spikes the PSU will just simply shut down.
 
PSU wattage has nothing to do with it, a 750W or 850W PSU is plenty normally.
 
It's always good to take a PSU very seriously and research before buying. It is the most important part of the PC. Getting a good high quality PSU is paramount with the high end GPUs.

For the sake of argument, lest say Its PSU issue when comes to reboots (I highly doubt), there is a bigger issue with dying one after another 

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jankerson

AWK16
Will EVGA explain what are the real issues behind:
 
3080 FTW3 Ultra stopped working, 1 single red light and FTW3 Ultra Shutting down PC
 
I think its only fair to current and future owners to know why is this happening.
 
Please!

 
Shutting down is a PSU design problem.
 
Some models of PSUs can't handle transient power spikes. (Also happened with the 1080Ti and 2080Ti and Vega 64)
 
Transient power spikes can easily be twice the normal measured load wattage, however they are only microseconds long.
 
The PSU design issue is on the secondary side of the PSU. It has to do with the cap size and or how the caps are used. If they can't handle the trainset power spikes the PSU will just simply shut down.
 
PSU wattage has nothing to do with it, a 750W or 850W PSU is plenty normally.
 
It's always good to take a PSU very seriously and research before buying. It is the most important part of the PC. Getting a good high quality PSU is paramount with the high end GPUs.

For the sake of argument, lest say Its PSU issue when comes to reboots (I highly doubt), there is a bigger issue with dying one after another 

Dabadger84
There is clearly an issue involving the power-plug system on the GPUs going bad, I think it's one particular batch of both 3080s & 3090s, there is a consistent amount of reports... again, forums numbers are exaggerated because the majority of people "Happy with their card" aren't going to post about it, but there are several users here that have had this "red light" issue with AMPLE PSUs. 
There are also a lot of people that have had/are having issues that are CLEARLY the PSU being inadequate, which is making the issue harder to dictate which is the problem.
I can tell you, almost everyone that has posted about the "red light" issue, and has said they contacted eVGA, have setup an RMA & proceeded to start the RMA process, which eVGA suggested without hesitation, so they know this is an issue with at least a small percentage of 3080s & 3090s both, in the FTW3 Ultra range at the very least.
That's why I think it's a bad batch & they know there's a bad batch out there. 
Some people are experiencing this when the card is basically brand new, some after a few weeks.
If I had to guess, it's an issue with a batch of PCBs that had inadequate tracing for the power systems on the GPU & after some use, or right away, it's going "C YA" and red lighting.
Just a guess though.
Contact Customer Service & get an RMA setup, it's really that simple.  You'll be amazed at how friendly & fast eVGA's RMA department is, one person that had this issue said they sent their card in & received a new card within 10 days of sending the old one in, which is a pretty fast turn around considering how slow mail in general is moving at the moment due to the Rona.
 
Edit: TBF, I got my card from the initial batch of the first "Notify Me" cards, and I have had zero issues with mine.

jankerson
Exactly.
 
People who aren't having an issue and or aren't part of a forum etc aren't going to complain.
 
I am sure it is a small percentage of cards overall.

Dabadger84

jankerson
Exactly.
 
People who aren't having an issue and or aren't part of a forum etc aren't going to complain.
 
I am sure it is a small percentage of cards overall.

No, they're just going to A: return the card where they bought it from, or B: Do what is says in the box & contact eVGA to get an RMA setup... Which is what everyone should do if they're GPU kicks the bucket & it's from eVGA.
The people that are getting burnt to a crisp are going to be the ones that bought cards from scalpers, as they aren't even guaranteed to qualify for RMA, thought most of the time now the "second owner" qualifies under eVGA's warranty, but they have to purchase extended warranty first as far as I know, but that part I could be wrong on, I don't routinely purchase GPUs second hand (anymore).

liud21
Im just saying, there arent many people with EVGA 3080s out there... look at newegg, the reviews are under 100, Amazon? 2.... Safe to say there is only a few thousands EVGA 3080 Cards out there, if you think about it and we there is many people people here bringing up issues... its a lot.. 

bmgjet
Its the Fuses on the graphics card blowing.
GN did a mention on one of his videos when he was asked why he soldered over them.

manatane
I believe issues that needs explanation are more the cases where the gpu won't come back at all after a reboot, regardless of testing in a different system/with larger PSU, thus making the whole point about PSUs pretty moot here ... We all know a good PSU is required for those cards, and stability issues can indeed lead to question that component, but the real question being asked here is about so many cards crapping out after hours/days/weeks of regular use when they're supposed to be overclocking beasts, and what happen in a few years when we start needing this overclocking headroom ? I know DOA exists in the industry, it's usually exactly that : Dead On Arrival, not after a random amount of time ... that tends to get customers think there may be some QE issues (mine is pending rma approval after it lasted exactly 5hours, others lasted days or weeks before showing similar symptoms ...) 
Those QE issues may or may not not be evga's, we don't and won't know for sure, but we still can ask them to try and communicate about it since that's part of what people seem to love evga for (new customer here, but came to evga because friends kept telling me how good they were with service and community ...), as it would also avoid (both potential and existing) customers to feed their own FUD based on lack of information

jinkun01
Same issue with basically brand new 3090 FTW3 Ultra.  Blank screen while gaming without computer rebooting; game still running in background with audio etc.   -> no video output, not even while posting BIOS.  Single red light on board.  Don't think it's my PSU as I have more than enough overhead.  Corsair AX1500i, with 3 separate power cables directly connected to PSU.  EVGA customer service was great and initiated RMA process right after I called describing the issue.  Swapped back to my 2080ti in the meantime.