Never owned an EVGA card before. Got the 3090 ftw3 ultra but lots of reviewers are bashing EVGA for the OC power cap at 450. Amongst other things. Can someone shed some light on that? I know Im in an EVGA forum but I hope you guys can be subjective and help me out. I ordered mine from canadacomputers, they have lots of it which I find odd that it wasnt sold out. Is the card good or does it have build issues?

Thnx!

So the card is good enough for basic OC? I'm going to OC it and just making sure there are no issues.

bmgjet
 People are already angry coming into getting the cards because the low stock and long waits.

Yes, this has been the most embarrassing launch I've ever seen in product history. NVidia should be absolutely ashamed of themselves. They probably aren't, but they should be.

Only you can make that choice.

 
Leaving everything (including fans) at stock and just turning on boost lock, my 3090 FTW3 runs at 1980MHz (at least it did when I just tested it now) - ambient is about 77°F btw.
 
I then started putting sustained heavy load on it (used AIDA64 System Stability GPU Stress Test) without turning the fans up or anything else, just whatever the default fan curve is, and saw how it throttled:
 
<40°C = 1980MHz

40°-44°C = 1965MHz

45°-64°C = 1950MHz

65°-70°C  = 1935MHz

70°-74°C = 1920MHz

75°-?°C = 1890MHz

Considering it's marketed to boost to 1800MHz at spec, it's clearly doing significantly higher without any overclocking on my part.
 
I'm waiting until some blocks are available so I can get this thing under water, I think it's really going to shine then. The Titan X Pascal was the same way but worse - throttled significantly under sustained heavy load only because the stock blower cooler really was not sufficient for the power in that card, but I put an AiO cooler on there (just a single 120mm radiator) and omg what a huge difference! I'm hoping this will be similar with the 3090.
 
 
 
 

Nereus
 
Leaving everything (including fans) at stock and just turning on boost lock, my 3090 FTW3 runs at 1980MHz (at least it did when I just tested it now) - ambient is about 77°F btw.
 
I then started putting sustained heavy load on it (used AIDA64 System Stability GPU Stress Test) without turning the fans up or anything else, just whatever the default fan curve is, and saw how it throttled:
 
<40°C = 1980MHz

40°-44°C = 1965MHz

45°-64°C = 1950MHz

65°-70°C  = 1935MHz

70°-74°C = 1920MHz

75°-?°C = 1890MHz

Considering it's marketed to boost to 1800MHz at spec, it's clearly doing significantly higher without any overclocking on my part.
 
I'm waiting until some blocks are available so I can get this thing under water, I think it's really going to shine then. The Titan X Pascal was the same way but worse - throttled significantly under sustained heavy load only because the stock blower cooler really was not sufficient for the power in that card, but I put an AiO cooler on there (just a single 120mm radiator) and omg what a huge difference! I'm hoping this will be similar with the 3090.
 
 
 
 

Awesome! My current card is a 1070Ti water cooled. Im waiting as well for EKWB to release the blocks for the FTW3 and hopefully the card will shine then.

USALion
 
Yes, this has been the most embarrassing launch I've ever seen in product history. NVidia should be absolutely ashamed of themselves. They probably aren't, but they should be.

So AMD's 6000 series, Sony's Playstation 5 & Microsoft's XBOX series X have been buttery smooth?

 

Nereus
 
Leaving everything (including fans) at stock and just turning on boost lock, my 3090 FTW3 runs at 1980MHz (at least it did when I just tested it now) - ambient is about 77°F btw.
 
I then started putting sustained heavy load on it (used AIDA64 System Stability GPU Stress Test) without turning the fans up or anything else, just whatever the default fan curve is, and saw how it throttled:
 
<40°C = 1980MHz

40°-44°C = 1965MHz

45°-64°C = 1950MHz

65°-70°C  = 1935MHz

70°-74°C = 1920MHz

75°-?°C = 1890MHz

Considering it's marketed to boost to 1800MHz at spec, it's clearly doing significantly higher without any overclocking on my part.
 
I'm waiting until some blocks are available so I can get this thing under water, I think it's really going to shine then. The Titan X Pascal was the same way but worse - throttled significantly under sustained heavy load only because the stock blower cooler really was not sufficient for the power in that card, but I put an AiO cooler on there (just a single 120mm radiator) and omg what a huge difference! I'm hoping this will be similar with the 3090.
 
 
 
 

I would check to see if your card can pull 500w before putting a block on it or else you might as well continue to run it on air. 
 

sparetimepc

ex90ranger
all you have to do is look at the top scores on 3dmark to know that EVGA cards have the overhead needed to be monsters.  but a lotof the top scores all have custom BIOS on them.

How do you know they are evga cards, flashing the evga bios to a msi, or gigabyte card will show them as a evga card even though they are not. It's well documented that the 500w xoc bios isn't working on the evga cards but helping tremendously on other vendors cards.

 
The one's at the top are Kingpin's anyway not even relevant. 

I'm more interested in the eVGA support than a few extra megahertz or frames.....
 
It's a beast as it is imo...and coupled with knowing I'll be taken care of if something does go wrong makes me much happier than "omg, I can draw 500W!" (honestly I don't know...I haven't really tried to OC this card, don't need to)
 
I've dealt with MSi, Gigabyte and Asus RMA processes before, and imo, they all SUCK compared to eVGA.