Hello everybody, I'm also a not-so-happy Evga rtx 3080 xc3 Ultra owner, and I've been having the same problems you all had, this thread helped me make some progress, so I wanted to share it.
-I had the same problem with Firefox and youtube videos (Corrected by disabling hardware acceleration).
-Got black screen and had to reboot the computer almost instantly with some games. Sometimes I would be able to play for hours and after the latest driver the problems got worse.
The main difference is that I was able to reproduce the error almost instantly with a game I was playing (Genshin Impact). On this game the driver error would happen between 1-5 minutes of gameplay, so I started trying the potential fixes here.
I'm not sure which one of the last 2 fixes did the trick (or if it's the combination of both), but as of right now the game runs properly with no crashes after 40 minutes of gameplay, then I finally logged off (This is really a progress, the game has been crashing non stop all afternoon while I tried different fixes such as firmware upgrade, replacing cables, etc). No matter the fix, couldn't make more than 5 minutes of gameplay on that specific game, so it was ideal to test.
Anyway, I downloaded the old drivers ( 456.71 from Nvidia) and before trying it I wondered about one of the last posts regarding the windows wallpaper service, since I had it set up in slideshow mode. I decided to just try disabling that, and some weird happened.
The moment I set it from Slideshow to a static picture, the black screen error happened and I had to reboot the computer again.Once I got back I went directly to try the game and there were 0 crashes so far, so I call this definitely progress.
TL;DR: Try disabling the desktop wallpaper if you have it on slideshow. In case it helps, I use a dual monitor setup, one at 144hz and the second one at 60hz. Perhaps that's related since I seen a lot of people having similar setups with this error.
I'll let you guys know if I run into the error again, but after watching the same game crash about 30 times and not a single one after that fix I believe I'm into something.