It turns out that the problem was fixed with the capacitors and you can safely buy an EVGA GeForce RTX3080 Ultra FTW3 10 GB OC Enthusiast?

Avolate
Asus is using all MLCC's for their cards and they sell Tuff at MSRP.    I dont think I am going EVGA anymore. 
I am waiting for now to see what happens with the 3070. Probably gonna get a Tuff version instead of the XC3. I wont get price gouged and they will use better components. 

There's a reason you usually see all MLCC around CPUs yeah.
As for the 3070, I wouldn't hold your hopes up for Asus there since that's a more "entry" range GPU that won't push as high of clock, the current images on the site show no MLCCs, even on the Strix.
But maybe that'll change by time they ship, we'll see. But regardless, I can't see it being an issue with 3070s anyways due to the reduced power delivery needs of GA104 versus the large GA102 chip.

kakkoii

Avolate
Asus is using all MLCC's for their cards and they sell Tuff at MSRP.    I dont think I am going EVGA anymore. 
I am waiting for now to see what happens with the 3070. Probably gonna get a Tuff version instead of the XC3. I wont get price gouged and they will use better components. 

There's a reason you usually see all MLCC around CPUs yeah.
As for the 3070, I wouldn't hold your hopes up for Asus there since that's a more "entry" range GPU that won't push as high of clock, the current images on the site show no MLCCs, even on the Strix.
But maybe that'll change by time they ship, we'll see. But regardless, I can't see it being an issue with 3070s anyways due to the reduced power delivery needs of GA104 versus the large GA102 chip.

 I saw a teardown of a Strix 3080 and its all MLCCs

how about on the cheaper base model 3080 and 3090?

Why does alot of people call the capacitors POSCAP when they are infact not POSCAPs... rather SPCAPS.
 
but anyway good for EVGA to put this message, and seems like that 2 MLCC set is the fix and has no marginal gains against the ASUS TUF with 6 MLCC, but kudos for asus on that.
 
I just think that the 30xx Series are just really specced on the edge out of the box.

I join Whippyice. I ordered the same on cu https://www.computeruniverse.net/ru/evga-geforce-rtx3080-ultra-ftw3-10-gb-oc-enthusiast-grafikkarte
But I'm more than sure there will be video cards with new capacitors. Why would you knowingly send a bad product that will be returned ..

Digital Flight
If Nvidia uses 4+2 on their card why haven't EVGA cards got the same throughout the range?

This.
 
This tells me, that the amount of MLCC capacitors are used as a tool to artificially bottleneck these cards. There's a clear evidence that capacitors have something to do with stability, since AIB's took the initiative.
 
https://spectrum.ieee.org...-of-polymer-capacitors
 
 

Thank goodness for EVGA proactive approach to their products, Thank You Jacob 

If you look at the Black 3080 and 3090  the only ones that do not have a picture of the back... Hmm, I wonder what that means.
 

 
Edit: you cant post links?

EVGA_JacobF
 wrote   -  There were no 6 POSCAP production EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 FTW3 boards shipped.
 
So, EVGA GeForce RTX3080 Ultra FTW3 10 GB OC Enthusiast will only have MLCC ?

Relevant for anyone that wants to see why these are used:
 
https://components101.com/articles/decoupling-capacitor-vs-bypass-capacitors-working-and-applications
 
The use of varying capacitor types and sizes may be the way to go to filter the transients from power switching.

rougeau
If you look at the Black 3080 and 3090  the only ones that do not have a picture of the back... Hmm, I wonder what that means.
 

 
Edit: you cant post links?

Even though you joined in 2007, the forum software requires a minimum post count before you can post links.

For now, remove the period in the website.com we can put it back.

Rusich
EVGA_JacobF
 wrote   -  There were no 6 POSCAP production EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 FTW3 boards shipped.
 
So, EVGA GeForce RTX3080 Ultra FTW3 10 GB OC Enthusiast will only have MLCC ?

No, it’s literally in his statement. They’re now using 4+2, which is a move away from the all 6.

https://industrial.panasonic.com/ww/products/capacitors/polymer-capacitors/poscap
 
 
https://industrial.panasonic.com/ww/products/capacitors/polymer-capacitors/sp-cap
 
 
it's incredible...
 
One is Conductive Polymer Tantalum Solid Capacitors (POSCAP)
 
the other is 
 
Conductive Polymer Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitors (SP-Cap)
 
 No one considers or notices that they are talking about the wrong subject.

Once you know a manufacturer has addressed the noise issue with MLCC caps, it’s really hard to know which is the better solution, 1 MLCC station, 2, or all the way to 6. Those capacitors don’t live in a vacuum. They are part of that entire circuit which includes the on-board power supply, many other components, the GPU, and even the circuit board itself. You can’t tell by visual inspection if one arrangement is better than another. It takes proper test equipment to really know.
 
As was pointed out, there are lots of different kinds of dielectrics and many more capacitance values. MLCC capacitors that small don’t have markings on them either. Once soldered down, about all you can say is it’s a cap and even that can be hard sometimes. The range of values and electrolytes/composition means boards that look identical can actually be very different. The poly caps and the MLCC caps are each good for certain frequency ranges and stored charge but it is important to remember other components and structures are also involved, and these are systems.
 
So without proper test equipment, our only handle on the situation is how well the board clocks. If EVGA guarantees a clock rate and the board hits it, it’s good. That’s the same for any manufacturer. With smaller and smaller transistors, we are moving into the regime where we don’t get to push the limits as much as we used to.
 
Without test equipment to see the actual noise and ripple, we have no way to say one board’s compliment of MLCC caps is better than a different model or manufacturer’s board. Again, these are systems and these MLCC and poly caps are part of that. The ASUS board may have more trouble with high frequency noise and need all those MLCC caps and not need the polys. The EVGA boards may be better off with a few polys in the mix to smooth the ripple. Both are probably looking for the steadiest, cleanest, and most stable power rails under the GPU.
 
And cost probably also factors in. Nobody likes to replace one component with 10. Ignoring actual component cost differences (probably a few pennies per board max) placing all those caps takes time and slows production lines, increases the chances of defects, etc. We have no handle on how important that is to manufacture decisions but it could be a complicating factor.
 
Just in general, as IC feature size gets smaller, voltages get more critical and can’t be boosted or lowered near as much as they used to. For those wanting to overclock, get the best regulated and filtered power supply you can and don’t run it at its limit. Clean power gets critical at the lower voltages these chips operate at and just helps the on-board power supplies and filtering.