changboy
 Hey i forgot told you this : A guy on rtx-3090 forum bought the Asus rtx-3090 strix oc and cant get a score of 14 000 in port royal even after overclock it and he sell it on ebay. This is what it is.
 
 Not mean you will get a golden chip every time you buy an asus or any brand card.
 

changboy
 I understand you man, ear me....ur card works with a bios, try the 1000w bios on it and you will see, just dont push the slider over 60% = 600w then you will see if you reach ur 500w.

changboy
See this 2160mhz ! Just 408W ! not everything will draw 500w.

changboy
The only thing left : sell ur card the price you paid for...this is it.

changboy
Ya sell this and buy a 3060 ti you will be happy :)
Or play less and go fishing real fish hehehe.

cerealkeller
I came to terms with the fact my card isn’t perfect awhile back. I’m fairly happy with the XC3 BIOS and an EK water block. The EK block really evens everything out, it’s so much smoother. Clock speeds don’t move at all in some games, move a little in others. Much much more stable clock speeds in Cyberpunk and other ray tracing games that used to seriously stress the thermals.

changboy
Stop trolling in this thread

EvgaUser2711201
Did some testing with my watt monitor as well. My card pulled roughly 480-500 with the xc3. 420-435 with stock and xoc bios. Pcie slot pulls 83w max stock.
Not seeing correct read outs using the xc3 bios bothers me so I just run my card stock.

nosde
Here is my results on PortRoyal default OC Bios. PowerDraw by PCI-E Slot 78.2w MAX and 74.2 AVG. Do you think xoc bios is worth trying?

https://gyazo.com/b4b5e9414faefe519151691281adf76a

CL600
Just for information: I received a new RTX 3090 Ultra Hybrid with serial number 2119 as part of an RMA.
 
With the new card, the 500W is achieved with the help of the OC-Bios published here.
 
Unfortunately, the new graphics card has other shortcomings (fans turn up and down for no reason, numerous sensors show up to 6500 degrees and the card is significantly warmer than the previous one).

MastahFR
When I compare those number with my new strix ... 43W on PCIe, something is really off with this FTW3.

Exsurgolol
Not really sure what to do with my 3090 FTW3 Ultra.  Purchased this card for the 450W power limit, but in Port Royale/RDR2 and most games it will not break 425W with the stock bios.  The XOC bios makes 0 difference, still capped at 425W with dips to 415W.  Something is clearly wrong with the power delivery on my card (batch 2012 China model).  PCIe Slot Power hovers around 77W while total board power @ ~425, with spikes to 440W and 78W PCIe.  The fact that it can't make it's stock power target while under 70c makes me thing an RMA is in order, but I want to try some other stuff as the card is a decent overclocker and scores fairly well considering it's capped at 425W.

arestavo
 
Repeating this ad nauseum:
 
If your card is over 75W PCIE slot power draw, it is out of the PCIE spec and a valid reason for RMA if you are on the *stock VBIOS without a GPU/VRAM overclock*. Should the rep try and deny you an RMA, get it in writing that they are denying an RMA on a stock card that is out of PCIE spec. Your options then are to contact the BBB, or you could take EVGA to small claims court, or you can tell that rep that you'll be sending the response over to Gamer's Nexus to talk about (they're the ones that eviscerated AMD for the RX480 having out of spec PCIE slot power draw).
 
From everything that I've seen, other company 3090's tend to have PCIE slot power draw around 66W (or lower!), so there is something wrong with EVGA's 3090 power balancing that drives the PCIE slot power out of specification.
 
Edit: or you could try the XC3 VBIOS, . You may have a good overclocking chip that is just gimped by the power balancing, like mine.

arestavo

DarkEch0es

Exsurgolol
Not really sure what to do with my 3090 FTW3 Ultra.  Purchased this card for the 450W power limit, but in Port Royale/RDR2 and most games it will not break 425W with the stock bios.  The XOC bios makes 0 difference, still capped at 425W with dips to 415W.  Something is clearly wrong with the power delivery on my card (batch 2012 China model).  PCIe Slot Power hovers around 77W while total board power @ ~425, with spikes to 440W and 78W PCIe.  The fact that it can't make it's stock power target while under 70c makes me thing an RMA is in order, but I want to try some other stuff as the card is a decent overclocker and scores fairly well considering it's capped at 425W.

I'm in the same boat. for my card I noticed in GPUZ that the PCIE #3 power connector is consistently 10-15 watts below the other two. I contacted EVGA about an RMA and they denied me, saying that as long as the card is hitting 350w then the card is fine in their eyes. Given the type of card this it's not acceptable in my opinion I'm not sure what else I can do.
 

Repeating this ad nauseum:
 
If your card is over 75W PCIE slot power draw, it is out of the PCIE spec and a valid reason for RMA if you are on the *stock VBIOS without a GPU/VRAM overclock*. Should the rep try and deny you an RMA, get it in writing that they are denying an RMA on a stock card that is out of PCIE spec. Your options then are to contact the BBB, or you could take EVGA to small claims court, or you can tell that rep that you'll be sending the response over to Gamer's Nexus to talk about (they're the ones that eviscerated AMD for the RX480 having out of spec PCIE slot power draw).
 
From everything that I've seen, other company 3090's tend to have PCIE slot power draw around 66W (or lower!), so there is something wrong with EVGA's 3090 power balancing that drives the PCIE slot power out of specification.
 
Edit: or you could try the XC3 VBIOS, post 3215. You may have a good overclocking chip that is just gimped by the power balancing, like mine.