Hello,
 
i installed AIO kit from EVGA on my 3080 ftw3 ultra today and I am trying to flash hybrid bios from post#1 but I am getting this and I tried to install normal and OC....
 
NVIDIA Firmware Update Utility
Version 5.670.0
Copyright (C) 2018-2020, NVIDIA Corporation. All rights reserved.

   The display may go *BLANK* on and off for up to 6 seconds
   or more during access to the EEPROM depending on your display
   adapter and output device, it will begin in about 3 seconds.

No display adapters were found that are compatible with this update.

***UPDATE***
apparently you can install FTW3 ultra bios only, not hybrid. not sure why, since right now this is hybrid card...anyway I am hitting 444W draw for the board.  +650 on mem and +148 on core. timespy graphic score 19053

donnie123

AdrianK258
Hello,
 
i installed AIO kit from EVGA on my 3080 ftw3 ultra today and I am trying to flash hybrid bios from post#1 but I am getting this and I tried to install normal and OC....
 
NVIDIA Firmware Update Utility
Version 5.670.0
Copyright (C) 2018-2020, NVIDIA Corporation. All rights reserved.

The display may go *BLANK* on and off for up to 6 seconds
or more during access to the EEPROM depending on your display
adapter and output device, it will begin in about 3 seconds.

No display adapters were found that are compatible with this update.

***UPDATE***
apparently you can install FTW3 ultra bios only, not hybrid. not sure why, since right now this is hybrid card...anyway I am hitting 444W draw for the board.  +650 on mem and +148 on core. timespy graphic score 19053

Thumbs up, interesting I hit same timespy graphic score but it only draws 380 watts during the test..

and what OC you have on yours? i am hitting 55C at max load. case is meshify c i have 2x140mm fans intake. aio is on the top as outtake and rear fan 120 outtake.
 

Again the voltage controller is not it. Otherwise other cards that don't feature it wouldn't have exactly the same symptoms. Same thing can happen on Kingpin or some strix cards, as well as handful of gigabyte.
 
Probably the boost clocks are just the silicon lottery, however you want to turn it. I can have 2130+ stable in games without any issues, while somebody else can't, same goes for CPU's somebody can have much better bin and push much higher clocks on the same cpu..

rahimdamji29
For some reason or another these cards can't crash in gaming when you are overclocked..... They can't handle the power phase switching. I think it has something to do with the ****ty up9511 voltage controller.... Almost all other cards have up9512 which is wayyyyy better, has way higher frequency range. I'm really annoyed I have to downlock my card to 2115 to 2130 to stay stable in games. Keep in mind my max temps are 36 to 41c gaming on my water block

I doubt the cards with up9512 are set to switch at a higher frequency, even if they are capable of it.


edit: I mean i have a FTW3 too and im game stable at 2160-2175, as dude said before, its probably just your chip thats limiting you.

rahimdamji29

Jaz11
Count yourself lucky. Mine won't draw over 390w on the 450w bios. It's ****ed

U need to get ur card colder or a waterblock. Otherwise u won't draw as much. I'm sitting at 36 to 44 max temps..... With my loop and block. 2130 to 2160 in games.... Port royal 2190 is max stable.... Timespy 2175 if I keep it under 33c.... Before I had under water max game clocks were 2085 to 2055 if I was lucky....under 60c

Umm, nope. My card is cold AF. 8-10 Celsius actually, 30-35 under full load and its not pulling more on Timespy than 398W with 1,1V and clocks set to 160 on the GPU and 1250 on the VRAM.


 
BIOS is installed, tried both switch positions, rebooted etc. nothing works for me. What is wrong with this card ? What load do i have to put on it ? I think the BIOS is not giving me **** as the 398W are no matter if i push the Voltage to 1.1V or leave it at standard 1.063 or with the VRAM at 0 OC.
 
Anyone have an idea what i could do ? Is it the Card ? Is it the BIOS ?
 
EDIT: Forget what i said. I downloaded the BIOS again, reflashed, shut down the PC, flipped the switch twice and now its working. I don't know where i messed up...argh.

third life

rahimdamji29

Jaz11
Count yourself lucky. Mine won't draw over 390w on the 450w bios. It's ****ed

U need to get ur card colder or a waterblock. Otherwise u won't draw as much. I'm sitting at 36 to 44 max temps..... With my loop and block. 2130 to 2160 in games.... Port royal 2190 is max stable.... Timespy 2175 if I keep it under 33c.... Before I had under water max game clocks were 2085 to 2055 if I was lucky....under 60c

Umm, nope. My card is cold AF. 8-10 Celsius actually, 30-35 under full load and its not pulling more on Timespy than 398W with 1,1V and clocks set to 160 on the GPU and 1250 on the VRAM.


 
BIOS is installed, tried both switch positions, rebooted etc. nothing works for me. What is wrong with this card ? What load do i have to put on it ? I think the BIOS is not giving me **** as the 398W are no matter if i push the Voltage to 1.1V or leave it at standard 1.063 or with the VRAM at 0 OC.
 
Anyone have an idea what i could do ? Is it the Card ? Is it the BIOS ?
 
EDIT: Forget what i said. I downloaded the BIOS again, reflashed, shut down the PC, flipped the switch twice and now its working. I don't know where i messed up...argh.

 
hmm just tried this twice and didnt fix for me. still hitting 380-390w and saying power limit :(

Hmmm I didnt run it as administrator but I made sure to extract it. Made sure nothing was running in background both times. Yeh I checked the switch is on the OC bios with it flicked closest to io ports .

Yeh under waterblock as well. GPU temps in the 40s. Still won't draw over 390w :(

Not sure what else I can do.

The bios has definitely applied because gpuz says my power limit is 450w...

Yeh can set to 118% power limit. Yeh all separate pcie cables to 1000w psu

So I have a 3080 FTW3 Ultra Hybrid coming tomorrow and am looking for advice on what to do with this BIOS business.  I'll be using my own fan curve so I'll probably just be downloading the "Normal" XOC BIOS and flashing the OC position on the card. (keeping the normal position as my fail safe stock/default option)
 
I imagine I should install the card and let PX1 update the firmware. Then do some stock benchmarking (portal royal and time spy) for baseline data so I can see what kind of gains I'm actually getting.
 
Then what would some of you recommend? Flash the Normal "EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 FTW3 HYBRID" BIOS from OP? Or just the Normal "EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 FTW3 ULTRA" BIOS?  Or nothing and maybe just wait for the next BIOS revision? (maybe even the one that will include BAR support or higher power limit) Thanks in advance I appreciate any insight, I've thought about this and read soooooo many pages and still am not sure what is the "best". <3 
 
EDIT: IT CAME AND SO DID I.  I ended up flashing the XOC Hybrid BIOS to the OC position.  I think it's running as expected and I am the happy. :D
 

Evga has started a replacement program for 3090s with the unbalanced power draw from pcie pins and 430w cap. My 3080 ftw has the same and many others have reported same, but no aknowlegment for us yet ..

Bcassiman
Got 4th place out of 40k results in Timespy for the 5600x/3080 combo globally with this bios. I did convert to a hybrid though. 

So you converted to Hybrid and use XOC Hybrid bios? I have FTW3 Ultra with XOC 450w bios but also capped at 400W still as many. I ran Kombustor for half an hour and see average 395W draw. PICE: 47W, 8-pin1: 129W, 8-pin2: 148W, 8-pin3: 70W. Constantly GPU-Z tells me powerlimit PerfCap reason. So is this low 8-pin3 power due to the card or due to the bios? Or is is possible PSU related? I have Fractal Design 860w platinum.

Since I am still toying with my hybrid card and seeing OC potential I spent some time today and was able to get over 118% TDP and the 450W.  Probably somehow the perfect storm.  I was just running MSI Kombustor using the (GL) msi-01 (burn-in mode) Stress test.  It wasn't stable at these speeds but got the juice it needed. Made in Taiwan serial starting with 2114 using "EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 FTW3 HYBRID - BIOS 1 (Normal)" from OP.
 
Just put +699 on the mem and +180 on the core, voltage/power sliders maxed out. Oh and 100% fans.. not sure if that mattered somehow. (maybe could have turned off the lights for more juice?) Oh well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ since the hardware looks capable hopefully more XOC bios tweaks can do something although this issue sounds more hardware related.
 
Board Power Draw: 451.5W
PCIe Slot Power: 58.5W
8-Pin #1 Power: 143.4W
8-Pin #2 Power: 154.0W
8-Pin #3 Power: 96.8W
Power Consumption (%): 118.8 TDP

Nope. EVGA haven't done or even really aknowledged anything.

I'm still gaming seeing my "power limit" pop up from 350w...

well this is my first EVGA card and most likely last. People here on the forum are excellent and helpful, but EVGA as a company lack a proper communication. There is no update for almost 6months now, I am happy that Jacob is playing DOOM Eternal but maybe provide an update here? Cards were NOT cheap and some update like: "We are working on it, ETA 3weeks" or anything like that would be nice.