MDG73
This is the response I received from EVGA:
"Thank you for reaching out to us regarding your graphics card. These connectors will not require an even amount of power as these connectors power different components on the GPU. This is normal behavior for your card

and will have no affect on the lifespan of your card.

Please let us know if you have any further questions.
Regards,
EVGA"

Jaz11
No chance this would end in a recall.

I haven't. The only 1 who would care and maybe be interested in doing some testing would be Steve from gamers nexus

phroze

justin_43

Jaz11
No chance this would end in a recall.

I haven't. The only 1 who would care and maybe be interested in doing some testing would be Steve from gamers nexus

Try and make him aware of the issue. I'd love to see him make a video about it and make it a known issue so maybe EVGA will do something about it.

I just emailed him stephen_burke@gamersnexus.net
 
Here's what I wrote:
I don't know if you have seen this but the power delivery issues on the EVGA FTW3 3080/3090 cards is crazy. These things are dropping like flies. Especially in certain games such as Halo MCC. The irregularities in power draw between the cables is insane. These things also regularly pull more than the 75watt standard from the PCIe slot. If enough people contact you about this we would love to have you test this out and bring it out in the limelight.

phroze

justin_43

Jaz11
No chance this would end in a recall.

I haven't. The only 1 who would care and maybe be interested in doing some testing would be Steve from gamers nexus

Try and make him aware of the issue. I'd love to see him make a video about it and make it a known issue so maybe EVGA will do something about it.

I just emailed him stephen_burke@gamersnexus.net
 
Here's what I wrote:
I don't know if you have seen this but the power delivery issues on the EVGA FTW3 3080/3090 cards is crazy. These things are dropping like flies. Especially in certain games such as Halo MCC. The irregularities in power draw between the cables is insane. These things also regularly pull more than the 75watt standard from the PCIe slot. If enough people contact you about this we would love to have you test this out and bring it out in the limelight.

Dabadger84
The issue with getting eVGA to officially respond & acknowledge that this is a problem with their cards will be it doesn't happen with ALL of them, just a fair lot of the people posting on these forums with 3090 FTW3 variants have this issue both on the stock BIOS & the "500W" Beta BIOS.
I've also went over this with eVGA through Customer Service emails when I had a 3090 FTW3 Hybrid & they said this was not something I could RMA the card for - for which I got called a "blatant liar" by another member, which I found to be hilarious when I'm just relaying information CS gave me as a reply.
 
At the end of the day, unless the card is performing significantly worse than others, aka "acting faulty", drawing insufficient power or hitting more than "power spec" on the PCIe slot (which is a misnomer, 75W is just the spec provided by the slot makers, the slot can handle much more than that, especially if your motherboard has additional PCIe power via something like a 6-pin PCIe power connector like a lot of eVGA boards do) - none of that behavior is something that would result in a recall, because it's not "dangerous".
 
Which is exactly why I'm on a Kingpin now that doesn't have "power" issues, at least not like the Hybrid FTW3 did; on that thing I saw Power Limit as low as 420W load at times in games, on the "500W" BIOS that doesn't work properly seemingly 90% of the time.  

jankerson
All 3 of the FTW3 Ultra 3080's I have had here didn't have the problem, all 3 were easily pulling 450W.
 
And that is 3 different cards.