HeavyHemi
Wonderful. How about we stick with the card under discussion a 3090. I agree a 3rd PCIe imput would be less useful on a 3080, but that isn't the topic.  It always a bit amusing seeing folks opining about completely blowing past the PCIe specs as if they are irrelevant. Lastly, the limit on a PCIe plug is limited by wire gauge and what the PSU can supply. The HARD limits are imposed by the DEVICE not the cables  powering them. An important distinction many blur.

the PCIe plug spec is based on the MINIMUM wire gauge that could be used by any PSU manufacturer. so some cheap Chinese PSU might decide to use 20awg on their PSU cables, and be at the limit for spec, but a more reputable PSU manufacturer might be using 16awg on their cables. both with the same "spec" but of course the larger cable can handle more current (and hence power).
 
this is partially why there is a descrepency between the 6-pin and 8-pin power capability even though they both have only 3 12V lines. the 6-pin was originally spec'd for a smaller wire gauge, with the option to only run two 12v lines. when the 8-pin came around it was spec'd with heavier gauge and needing all 3 12v lines. and again why the nvidia 12-pin plug handles more than 2x6-pin even though the number of 12v and ground pins are identical. theres a higher standard for wire gauge.
 
these days almost all reputable PSUs are over spec, and can handle much more power than the base connector spec. but GPU manufacturers have to stick to the hard limits for the liability aspect if someone were to use their product with a barely spec PSU. they still need to work with all products that meet the minimum spec.
 
this is why you wont ever see EVGA offer a BIOS with more than 375W on a card with only 2x 8-pin plugs (75W slot + 300W from 2x8-pin), even if your overspec PSU could handle it.

I’m curious to see what i can do in a custom loop w a 10900k and a 3090

Jay2Cents got a special bios from EVGA that let him raise the power limit 200%. I could use that too. 

ty_ger07
That'll do the job!

Would prefer to go bios route first then shunt if necessary... haven't been following the xoc streams on youtube so not sure what the cards are drawing with 'x' bios..  Whatever bios' that are out there, it sounds like the card itself can handle whatever the draw is pretty well...
 
still early, maybe we will start seeing some releases soon

Axejess

EVGANewMember2719
Jay2Cents got a special bios from EVGA that let him raise the power limit 200%. I could use that too. 

Hehe would be great also the 3080 one gamernexus has.
But prob we won't see those ;) let's hope they at least give us some new update bios with same targets as asus. 3090 (480) 3080 (450)
Btw wasn't the 3090 supposed to have 440 but now has 450? And how about the 3080 then? Did it also get a +10w from 420 to 430?
Dunno if it matters that much but he every tiny watt can help haha.
 

The 2080 Ti FTW3 power limit was 373w, or +43% over reference.  If Ampere FTW3 had the same, 3080 FTW3 -> 460w, 3090 -> 500w.  I'd be OK with that.
 
The XC3 people really got hosed though.

3080 Strix has a 450W max power limit, 370W base.  Seems to clock better too.

Are you implying we could use this bios?

Wow people are really cranking out some fat TS scores with that 3080 Strix bios over on the OC.net thread, finally some exciting news.
 
https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/51355499?
 
That's a solid 20% over an OC'd 2080 Ti FTW3 on air.

Goloith
So I recently purchased an EVGA GeForce RTX 3090 XC3 ULTRA GAMING, but what bums me out is that after spending over $1,700.00 (after tax) that this GPU has practically no overclocking potential.

Yes, I'm aware two 8-pin + PCI-E has a spec of 375w, but why the heck is the power limited to 366w? For Pete's sake, a $100 Asus GPU runs cooler and faster and is set at 375w and regularly goes over. Literally, the #1 problem why this GPU is crashing so much with even the hint of overclocking is that it's power-starved per GPU-Z. Hell even underclocking this thing and it's still capping out at 366w.

This is the first and most expensive GPU I've ever owned and it's the worst at overclocking.

We know people are able to push 500w over two 8-pin + PCI-E with a shunt mod, so please at least release a vbios/driver update to increase the power to 375w and higher!

If a vendors card is set to pull 376W (stock) out of 2x8pin +pcie slot and motherboard or powersupply goes out they could be liable to replace the item due to not following the proper standards.   It would be stupid to intentionally open themself up to that.   You are not going to see that config pull more than spec allows without you having to change it yourself either through software or hardware.
 
Anyone wanting to oc should have gotten a 3x8pin even on the 3080 let alone a 3090 and this was very clear even before launch.

anarchy998
Almost none of these cards have any overclocking potential. Nvdia pushed the limits of this card to its almost max to begin with. That's not a bad thing though, these cards are insanely powerful.

So the Timespy result I posted just above that is 14% ahead of a reference 3080 is.......what?  Looks like there are tons of cards with no potential, but the chips have potential on the right card.