Tom’s Hardware - Amazon Patches New World to Solve "Dying RTX 3090" Dilemma
 
“According to a Tweet from Amazon's New World dev team, New World will be receiving a patch today that will cap FPS in the menu screen to prevent more RTX 3090's from dying due to "overutilization" of the GPU.
 
This whole situation started yesterday when Amazon's new MMO, New World, went into its open beta phase, inviting more players to test the game. As new players began running the game, some users with RTX 3090's reported that their cards were dying from leaving the game running inside the menu screen.
 
As it turns out, the issue stemmed from the game's menu system not having a frame rate limiter, and allowing the GPUs to run at thousands upon thousands of frames per second. It's likely that the game was somehow 'over-utilizing' the graphics card in a way that overloaded the VRM and power delivery system.
 
This new patch for New World will enforce a frame rate cap in the menu system that will reduce the graphics card's workload, which should help prevent further RTX 3090 deaths.”
 
The why this happened appears to still be the subject of speculation.

The new patch will, but when is the new patch releasing?

I do understand Amazon wanting to take no ownership, but furmark use to kill cards as well, until it was patched, I think buildzoids rant was pretty good if you can make it through all 30 minutes of it and he tries to understand what was happening, and in the end, it seems like he was thinking the Memory VRM running away since the cards would be regulating total board power draw, rather than just memory power draw, which would allow the Memory phases to go into overdrive without full regulation.

Buildzoid does state that the first shut down sounds exactly like Over Current Protection kicking in, and the second shut down sounds like a catastrophic failure from OCP not being able to catch the over current from the massive power draw.

There is an issue with the safety over ride sets, which is default to enable no the nvida console. Evga is replacing any card bricked by this.

There is capping i in the visual menu. However it is uncapped if you select very high and have to manually change that setting if you don't want it uncapped.

Many games have the uncapped feature on the highest setting, which is very high in this case.

Also keep in mind, all reports have been evga cards. Other 3090s havenr been reported as bricked, on reddit, the new world forums or the nvidia forums.

Being part of beta, and part of alpha for almost a year, I've talked to plenty of people previously and currently that are running 3090s with no issue.

What it making the 3090's die? Too hot vram?