Yup i just do test about this memory and i drop in fps in game lol, so i will keep it like this but memory already fast, we just need adjust the core lol.

My first post.
 
To the many contributors on this thread, thank you.
 
I ordered my FTW3 Ultra card weeks ago, and received it about a week ago. For the past week I have read through this thread many times and vacillated between keeping the card or returning it for a refund since I have not used the card or open the box.
 
Had EVGA responded to this thread to acknowledge the issue(s) and that they were working on a fix, I would have been more inclined to keep the card. The EVGA I had known from the past is not the same EVGA I have come know today. I bought my first EVGA cards several years ago (a pair of GTX 980 Classified in SLI and currently running a pair of 2080 TI's in SLI on my most recent EKWB water cooled rig).
 
EVGA sells these cards knowing they are being bought by enthusiasts, yet when there is a problem with their card(s) the response by some is well it meets the as advertise specs. This is an odd response and characterization given EVGA's customers for this type of product - the enthusiast, including water cooling enthusiast.
 
As a long time customer of EVGA, shame on you. As your customer I am affronted by your silence to this thread and in fact I am equally affronted by EVGA's agent response when I obtained my RMA.
 
Bottom line EVGA: Let this be a lesson on how to lose a customer.
 
It is with regret I make this post!
 
 
***Note: I will be canceling my Optimus water block order tomorrow.***

MythicHitman

Swagmagic
Hey Everyone,
I just received my 3090 ftw3 ultra yesterday. I was excited to see there was a 500w beta bios, but unfortunately did not read into the issues everyone is having with it. I have also not been able to get it to work. My card is unable to go over 400w in any benchmarks or games. Currently I have it OC'd at 150 core and 400 memory. Am I looking at a bigger issue with my card since it won't even tip over 400w. I am using a 1000w G3 with three separate PCI-e cables. Temperatures sit around 59-60c and GPUZ perfcap reason is pegged at pwr the entire time. 
 
It would be nice to have an update from EVGA about this.
 
Thanks everyone!

Literally the exact same situation for me even down to the PSU lol, except mine has one daisy chain 8pin and one stand alone 8 pin, and my temps are around 53-55c. And showed up this morning😜. But I digress, and all jokes aside...

We NEED an answer on this EVGA!! Even the small YouTube channel Framechasers has asked for it to be addressed as well, as it looks to be at a hardware level and load balancing with the PCIE and 8 pin power. And NOT the Bios!

Here is the aforementioned video...

I would wait with the whole pcie shunt modding thing, 1) its dangerous, u dont wanna kill your mobo with overloaded pcie 2) theres better solution, try flashing 2x8pin bios and that should help with whole PWR perfcap situation : overclock.net/threads/evga-3090-ftw-power-limit-bypass.1774611/

slovak_killer

MythicHitman

Swagmagic
Hey Everyone,
I just received my 3090 ftw3 ultra yesterday. I was excited to see there was a 500w beta bios, but unfortunately did not read into the issues everyone is having with it. I have also not been able to get it to work. My card is unable to go over 400w in any benchmarks or games. Currently I have it OC'd at 150 core and 400 memory. Am I looking at a bigger issue with my card since it won't even tip over 400w. I am using a 1000w G3 with three separate PCI-e cables. Temperatures sit around 59-60c and GPUZ perfcap reason is pegged at pwr the entire time. 

It would be nice to have an update from EVGA about this.

Thanks everyone!

Literally the exact same situation for me even down to the PSU lol, except mine has one daisy chain 8pin and one stand alone 8 pin, and my temps are around 53-55c. And showed up this morning😜. But I digress, and all jokes aside...

We NEED an answer on this EVGA!! Even the small YouTube channel Framechasers has asked for it to be addressed as well, as it looks to be at a hardware level and load balancing with the PCIE and 8 pin power. And NOT the Bios!

Here is the aforementioned video...

I would wait with the whole pcie shunt modding thing, 1) its dangerous, u dont wanna kill your mobo with overloaded pcie 2) theres better solution, try flashing 2x8pin bios and that should help with whole PWR perfcap situation : overclock.net/threads/evga-3090-ftw-power-limit-bypass.1774611/

 
I Have no intention of doing so, I just think we all want a reasonable answer for an $1800 Graphics Card! Idk how I'm feeling about this compared to the 3080 now. My brother bought the 3080 FTW3 Ultra on Newegg that I was able to snag a month ago and I took this 3090 from the queue on Monday. Kinda maybe regretting doing that now 😔😔😔 Might try and go back to an 80... Hell idk... An Official answer would be Great I know that lol.

Turbo-12R
Sometimes manic depressive nail biting ego maniacs are not the best people to get your advice from.  I'd take what that guy does with a grain of salt personally.

slovak_killer

Jmalto7

slovak_killer
Hello guys,
Just trying some things, Ive managed to fix my card somewhat, its not downclocking or randomly undervolting to 987mv anymore.
U have to flash this bios : techpowerupDOTcom/vgabios/225604/gigabyte-rtx3090-24576-200928
its 2x8pin bios so it will freak out the card (bug her) and allow her to not do stupid auto downclocking/undervolting.
have fun, btw its up to your own responsibility, im not holding any responsibility for damaged cards.
and please leave feedback if u try it, wanna see how it works for others.

Anyone willing to give this a shot that has the card?  Saw another post where this worked as well which tells me perhaps it is not hardware based after all?

Well its working for me, maybe should i do video for proof or smthing ? dont worry its nothing dangerous, u have dual bios so worst case u switch bios and reflash again.
I dont think the problem we all have is something we cant fix through bios flash/firmware update, my method proves this, if u freak the card out about power related stuff it can full boost no problem.

Thank you my friend.  Can you let us know which slot you flashed the Gigabyte bios to?  Was it the standard OC bios or the OC bios?  I am thinking best one would be to flash the OC bios and leave the standard alone as a fail-safe like you said.

slovak_killer

MythicHitman

Swagmagic
Hey Everyone,
I just received my 3090 ftw3 ultra yesterday. I was excited to see there was a 500w beta bios, but unfortunately did not read into the issues everyone is having with it. I have also not been able to get it to work. My card is unable to go over 400w in any benchmarks or games. Currently I have it OC'd at 150 core and 400 memory. Am I looking at a bigger issue with my card since it won't even tip over 400w. I am using a 1000w G3 with three separate PCI-e cables. Temperatures sit around 59-60c and GPUZ perfcap reason is pegged at pwr the entire time. 

It would be nice to have an update from EVGA about this.

Thanks everyone!

Literally the exact same situation for me even down to the PSU lol, except mine has one daisy chain 8pin and one stand alone 8 pin, and my temps are around 53-55c. And showed up this morning😜. But I digress, and all jokes aside...

We NEED an answer on this EVGA!! Even the small YouTube channel Framechasers has asked for it to be addressed as well, as it looks to be at a hardware level and load balancing with the PCIE and 8 pin power. And NOT the Bios!

Here is the aforementioned video...

I would wait with the whole pcie shunt modding thing, 1) its dangerous, u dont wanna kill your mobo with overloaded pcie 2) theres better solution, try flashing 2x8pin bios and that should help with whole PWR perfcap situation : overclock.net/threads/evga-3090-ftw-power-limit-bypass.1774611/

Very interesting, indeed! :)
 
Are there other 3090 bios options? if the 2x power conn option from Gigabyte works OK... maybe a 3x connector option from another vendor?

I dont know if its work to flash the evga 3090 ftw3 ultra with the asus strix 3090 oc coz my mobo is an asus x299 omega, so it will see an asus card and will get control of the lighting with my mobo.

KartmanCanada

slovak_killer

MythicHitman

Swagmagic
Hey Everyone,
I just received my 3090 ftw3 ultra yesterday. I was excited to see there was a 500w beta bios, but unfortunately did not read into the issues everyone is having with it. I have also not been able to get it to work. My card is unable to go over 400w in any benchmarks or games. Currently I have it OC'd at 150 core and 400 memory. Am I looking at a bigger issue with my card since it won't even tip over 400w. I am using a 1000w G3 with three separate PCI-e cables. Temperatures sit around 59-60c and GPUZ perfcap reason is pegged at pwr the entire time. 

It would be nice to have an update from EVGA about this.

Thanks everyone!

Literally the exact same situation for me even down to the PSU lol, except mine has one daisy chain 8pin and one stand alone 8 pin, and my temps are around 53-55c. And showed up this morning😜. But I digress, and all jokes aside...

We NEED an answer on this EVGA!! Even the small YouTube channel Framechasers has asked for it to be addressed as well, as it looks to be at a hardware level and load balancing with the PCIE and 8 pin power. And NOT the Bios!

Here is the aforementioned video...

I would wait with the whole pcie shunt modding thing, 1) its dangerous, u dont wanna kill your mobo with overloaded pcie 2) theres better solution, try flashing 2x8pin bios and that should help with whole PWR perfcap situation : overclock.net/threads/evga-3090-ftw-power-limit-bypass.1774611/

Very interesting, indeed! :)
 
Are there other 3090 bios options? if the 2x power conn option from Gigabyte works OK... maybe a 3x connector option from another vendor?

as far as I know any 2x8pin bios, currently using evga XC3 bios on FTW3 Ultra, its better cuz u get every display port working and have support with Precision X

arestavo
Well this is kinda retarded. Here's a not trying very hard (no clean boot or really dialing in an OC, WITH AB running OSD) XC3 Ultra run vs my very best FTW3 500W run (where I went whole hog, even the 30 min downtime between runs):
 

 
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.
 
100% fans instead of 80%:
 

Im sure your 500W run was pwr throttling nonstop, flashing XC3 bios onto FTW3 should fix this.

arestavo

slovak_killer
Im sure your 500W run was pwr throttling nonstop, flashing XC3 bios onto FTW3 should fix this.

My launch 3090 FTW3 Ultra always shows power, regardless of VBIOS. It's one of those that 440W seems to be the most that it can pull on average even at 4K on any game/benchmark.

just try it, flash any 2x8pin, preferably gigabyte master one/ Evga XC3 , it will bug the card and let her fullboost.

arestavo

slovak_killer

arestavo

slovak_killer
Im sure your 500W run was pwr throttling nonstop, flashing XC3 bios onto FTW3 should fix this.

My launch 3090 FTW3 Ultra always shows power, regardless of VBIOS. It's one of those that 440W seems to be the most that it can pull on average even at 4K on any game/benchmark.

just try it, flash any 2x8pin, preferably gigabyte master one/ Evga XC3 , it will bug the card and let her fullboost.

I guess you missed it. I was comparing the XC3 Ultra to the FTW3 500W VBIOS. On a FTW3.

my bad then, thought u were comparing xc3 card vs ftw3 card, so can u share your experience ? I take it the better (left side score) is with XC3 bios right, so it looks like it helped u a bit with boost... Did u encounter any issues ?

arestavo

slovak_killer
 
my bad then, thought u were comparing xc3 card vs ftw3 card, so can u share your experience ? I take it the better (left side score) is with XC3 bios right, so it looks like it helped u a bit with boost... Did u encounter any issues ?

Temps are warmer by about 5C with similar ambient temperatures. Max OCs seem to be the same on the XC3 vs FTW3, but yeah - the boost clocks are a lot higher on average with the XC3. They aren't locked at 2145Mhz, but they are over 50MHz higher on average during a PR run. 
 
Can't wait to get a FTW3 Hybrid kit.

Yep then here u have it, pwr percap fixed, reason why it isnt locked at 2145mhz is you exceeded 60C and nvidia boost algorithm is adjusting boost according to it. I think anyone who wants to push ftw3 needs 2x8pin bios, atleast for now.
 
BTW: We need someone with shunt moded ftw3 to try 2x8pin bios.

I'll update my post to more accurately reflect that it's the VBIOS and not two different cards. Can't do it from my phone without messing up the URLs as I'm benchmarking atm.

Where are FTW3 Ultra 450w BIOS core clock running for any of you guys when bumping up against power limit? If I’m power throttling hard it’s usually 1995 max, 1920 if it’s bouncing around and at 60C+
Im finding it difficult to determine other people’s results because I can’t really OC my core unless I’m under the power limit. And so far being under the limit typically means I don’t really need to OC because I’m at 60 or 120 FPS solid.
I haven’t tested too many games RDR2 4K max but no MSAA or raymarch clouds, runs between 60-80 FPS depending on the area. Doom Eternal 4K120 no trouble whatsoever, Doom 8K60 15.5 GB VRAM usage lol 50-60 FPS with v sync set to 60 Hz. So far those are the only two games I’ve played.