arestavo

ericc191
How can I tell if I have REV 0.1 or 1.0?

Tested my card last night.

It has black lips, pulls a max of 462 watts at 119% power slider, but only showed 112% TDP in GPU-Z.

PCIE wattage showed only a max of 59 watts? Not 75?

You probably have a 1.0 revision. The revision number should be printed near the PCIE slot on the card. FWIW, you want PCIE slot power draw under 67W as GPU-Z only reads 12V and not 12V + 3V (75W max total for the spec, 67W for 12V, ~8W for 3V).
 
500W (or 450W if you haven't flashed the XOC) total power draw also depends on the game and the resolution that you play at. You aren't going to max out power draw on an unoptimized or old game. Try 3DMark Timespy Extreme, or Doom Eternal.

Tiiii86
My revision card 1.0 didn't want to go higher than 463w on bios 94.02.42.c0.02 that precision x1 wants you to update after you install the card. It's bios for the v2 board with PCIe power fixed via special rma program. I was a little upset that it didn't hit 500w

Now here's the fun part I updated the bios via nvflash to version 94.02.42.80.27 and look what happened 😁😁😁

I am so happy!!🙏

ramsito82

ericc191
Damn, don't know if I can beat that! Are you on water

 
air cooling .

zig11727

ramsito82

ericc191
Damn, don't know if I can beat that! Are you on water

 
air cooling .

what bios are you using ?

nxqdevga

ramsito82
I'm very happy with the unit of the rma oc program.

https://www.3dmark.com/pr/1104669

do they send you the total new card? They insist sending me an updated card, but not the new ones. I'm a bit confused now.

zaikk
Is there anyone from EU here that did RMA to get one of the new 3090s because of the power draw issues? If so, did it take long time?

zaikk
What is okay for pcie slot power draw? What should I look for? If you guys don’t mind me asking

arestavo

hallmark888
My card is the old red lipped 2014 serial one. It hits 82W max on PCI-E and maxes out at 480-490W for fraction of seconds in Quake II RTX but will average between 445-465W. Is it worth it to try the special RMA program? I've seen people worse than my old card even if it is revision 1.0. Can the RMA cards hit 500W on average in Quake II RTX?

You might be denied the 3090OC RMA, but a regular RMA is in order and should not be denied since you shouldn't see more than 67W on the PCIE slot power as read by GPU-Z (it doesn't read 12V + 3V wattage, just 12V wattage).
 
But requesting an RMA is up to you, since your total draw is nice. It's just that your PCIE power draw is way, way over the PCIE slot power spec - probably around 90W total draw - but with a high end motherboard that may be OK, or it might not be (it is out of a universal spec, after all).

• Should I be concerned by this result? Specifically, the high PCIe Slot Power and/or 8-Pin power imbalance?
• Should I consider getting in touch with EVGA for the special RMA?

jevy_b
Following on from my previous post, above:
This evening I ran the Time Spy Extreme Stress Test with the OC bios (94.02.42.80.27) and default Precision X1 settings, but raised the power limit to 107% (temperature limit raised to 91C, accordingly).
I then flashed the XOC bios (confusingly also numbered 94.02.42.80.27) and ran the test again, with default Precision X1 settings, and a power limit of 119% (91C temp limit, again).
I'm not overclocking the card for these tests because I want to keep the number of variables/considerations low.
 
For the OC bios:
The max. PCIe Slot Power was 72.4W
Max. 8-Pin Powers were 148.9W, 160.1W, 79.5W for #1, #2, #3 respectively.
Max. Board Power Draw was 460.4W.
 
For the XOC bios:
The max. PCIe Slot Power was 77.6W
Max. 8-Pin Powers were 160.3W, 172.5W, 88.6W for #1, #2, #3 respectively.
Max. Board Power Draw was 498.9W.
 
Max. PCIe Slot Power exceeds the "safe" 67W quoted for this reading, and the 8-Pin powers are heavily imbalanced.
How concerned should I be about this?