Please remember this BIOS is a BETA and the intention is to collect feedback, and hardware will vary. On my test system below is the result with a production card, can anyone else testing post a similar screenshot? This is Doom Eternal 4K, only power target is maxed out and no other changes in PX. Ignore the blown out screenshot its because HDR is enabled
 
 

This actually is from the new DLC, but any other level shows similar results. Just trying to understand if there is differences due to application, hardware, etc. If you could do anything close to 4K that would be ideal just for compare purposes. Also make sure VSYNC is off.

arcky
Imagine using your first post to encourage scalping the products of the very company whose forums you’re posting on.

Sure buddy.  Show me where I indicated scalping as in the terms you are implying.  Getting your money back plus your shipping costs and tax are hardly suggestive of scalping...but twist it as you will.

originxt

Turbo-12R
I have to say it has been relatively amusing to watch all the Negative Nelly comments going on about this BIOS, and I’m sure I’ll be causing rage to some of you.  The same people now whining are probably the ones praising EVGA last week for its more than fair system of product distribution.  Just take a step back and listen to yourselves (those who are in a snit).  You are essentially whining about a BIOS that you had no idea was ever even going to be released when you purchased this card…let alone the card only being on the market a few weeks.  Also, you’re losing sleep over a BIOS that is giving you maybe 50w more….seriously.  Are you really that worried about gaining a spot on the 3DMark board, which is in reality 100% meaningless in real life?  Oh wait, bragging rights…I forgot.
 
For those of you who are threatening to “return” your card in hopes that will scare EVGA, that statement makes you double the fool.  Obviously right now with such a demand for any 3090 card, you could easily get your money back if not make a little for your troubles on Ebay or the like.  Show some patience and let them iron this out as it is a BETA BIOS. 
 
Wow, who would have thought my first post here would be to chastise a bunch of knuckleheads.

I didn't praise them for anything. Why should we praise them for a system that should have been implemented years ago? That's their own mess up they rectified, shouldn't get praised for it but indifference for being so late about it.
 
The problem isn't about the bios. It's the fact that they release something meant for our cards and it either at best barely works in spikes or at worse degrades performance compared to the previous normal/oc bios.
If you're not an overclocker looking for higher benchmark numbers, you shouldn't even be posting here in this topic. The bios was never intended for you.

 
Lul bragging rights... This stuff comes up every time but have you considered it might be fun for others pushing their components to the absolute maximum and see how they compare to others? Why play ranked or competitive in anything, you looking for bragging rights or something?
 
The bios is in beta yes, but that's why we give feedback.
 

EVGA_JacobF
This actually is from the new DLC, but any other level shows similar results. Just trying to understand if there is differences due to application, hardware, etc. If you could do anything close to 4K that would be ideal just for compare purposes. Also make sure VSYNC is off.

 
Any other game besides Doom? Running the PG27UQ, 4k hdr.

Kinda of agree with Turbo on this  

@EVGA_JacobF 

I went ahead and tested 8 games at 1.5 DSR from 1440p or at 150% in-game resolution slider if the game supported it, just a hair under 4k (3620*2036). I ran all games tested for 4+ minutes, at the beginning of each run I reset HWInfo to only pull data from only the run itself. Before each run, I would locate a scene that pegged the GPU @ 99% (or as close as I could get) tab out, restart the logging, then tab back in. None of the 8 games exceeded 450 watts draw on the GPU, the highest was BL3 (which has the option to increase rendering resolution via options) which pulled 449. Pretty much every title averaged ~430 watts over the entirety of the run. Tested on driver 456.98, all of the gory data is in the imgur link below, but here is the breakdown in case you don't want to click through each of the images. 

Titles tested:

Avengers: Max 436, Avg 422
Borderlands 3: Max 449, Avg 442
Control (1440p): Max 437, Avg 426
FFXIV: Max 439, Avg 433
Horizon Zero Dawn: Max 441, Avg 436
Monster Hunter World: Max 432, Avg 430
Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Max 439, Avg 429
Red Dead Redemption 2: Max 442, Avg 435

Edit: Evidently I can't post link, please reach out to me if you would like the imgur link. 

PC Hardware:
Ryzen 3900XT 4.5/4.4 IF 1:1 @ 1.321v(ish)
MSI X570 Unify
G.Skill Trident Z Royal 32 GB @ 3900 (16-17-16-34-1T) 
EVGA 3090 FTW3 Ultra (...) w/ XOC Bios
EVGA Supernova 750 G2
970 Evo Plus
Wattage from the wall monitored via APC UPS never exceeded ~675 watts.

Double Edit: I don't own the Doom Eternal, I am more than willing to donate some of my time to get this sorted out, but I gotta draw the line at spending money on a game I probably wouldn't play, I am sorry I can't confirm your results on my PC. 

i was able to do all that before the new bios. they are doing a good job at tricking you tho.
If you want ill revert to stock bios and show you 470w... 
 
but if i show you a Gaming X user with the 500w bios and you see his gpuz you will feel dumb. Its NOT working

this is an evga forum. we're all more or less fans of evga in one way or another. the fact that in ten pages of posts we don't have a single, let alone multiple, example of people showing off their awesome new scores on their awesome evga cards with their awesome new bios tells you everything you need to know. if it worked, we wouldn't have to beg people to prove it with tangibly improved benches, they'd be bragging about it left and right and posting all the evidence we'd need. instead, the only bragging occurring is on other forums by users of other cards. @Jacob...please consider the absurdity of this. 

So I got some interesting results.  I did multiple runs of Doom Eternal while tweaking settings since its a game I haven't booted up in forever.  At some point things seem to have "unlocked" and I was getting a ton more power draw, not quite 500, but consistently over 450w.  So much so that it caused my 1500va UPS to warn me about power draw (approaching its 865w limit).  I shut everything down to reconfigure my power (pull everything off the battery backup but the PC) and since then I haven't been able to get it to "unlock".  Normally I am seeing well under 450w and hard capping at 450.  Screenshot 1 is a pic of the performance I was somewhat seeing "unlocked" (sustained 450w+), screenshot 2 is what I see 99.999% of the time; hard cap of 450w, in the range of 420-450 in Doom Eternal at 4k w/ everything on ultra nightmare.  
 
https://i.imgur.com/SEZ4YIy.png
https://i.imgur.com/iBt4oOk.jpg
 

All they have to do is de-couple the pcie sensor balancing from the rest of the board.
 
If they cant do that with bios flash, then change the ratio of balancing,
 
and if they cant do that, well,  maybe fix it on a hardware level and offer people replacements later when the red accents get converted to black.
 
Red accent cards = power limit coupled,
Black accents = decoupled
 
But the fact that such an expensive model is gimped by over engineering when the cheapest models on the market are gaining performance from this is quite obsurd.
 
If you think about it, the ftw3 technically has less value to most people than the gaming X trio since the trio isnt locked down

How can I go back to original OC Vbios?

Feedback: It doesn't work properly. Pretty simple. All we need to know is whether this is a software fix or hardware limited.

Adding on to what was mentioned by the lord above :

D0 bios set 80 w on pci slot and 450 w max
XOC bios set 75W on pci slot and 500 w max (but max core wattage is reduced due to what was mentioned earlier)

If 8 pin is a multiplier of pci slot power and in fact it is a difference in pci slot power as above in the bioses, to me it sounds like the bios can in fact change the pci slot max power and as a result with multipliers reach higher total wattage for the core.

Hence cant just the max power on pci slot be set to say 85W or 90W and with the multiplier and limits hw wise we can still reach a higher total core power even though we are out of pci slot spec for max wattage.

Or have I misunderstood something ?

Couldn’t a simple test behind closed doors be to make an unrestricted BIOS or 800W - and then hammer the crap out of it under good cooling conditions to see what the cards technical/electrical limit actually is? If you did this and it couldn’t go above 500W then question is answered... if it does, well then its simply bios/driver related and is a matter of fine tuning.

My point is that it should be real easy to understand this issue.

Personally I don’t really care either way, I like to test and help out, But I wont run my system normally on anything more than stock or a little slider bumpin’

I do want to note that while I am hitting over 500W (here or there every so often) it is not having any effect on improving my performance and most of the time it is not at 500W or close to it.