pantsaregood
Flashed this BIOS and can't seem to get my card to pull more than 400W after increasing the power target to 118%. Any idea what's going on here?

Open GPU-Z and run some Port Royal and Time Spy Benchmarks....go back afterwards and check GPU-Z and look at Board Power Draw....PCI Slot Power Draw and all 3 PCI-E plug power draws.....your likely having the Power Balancing issue that a number of us have...is PCI-E Plug #3 showing max power draw about 1/2 of #1 & #2 Plugs?

I think yall fail to realize the XOC bios's are for xtreme cooling. You're not gonna get any extra performance from a normal cooling solution and power.

kindofabuzz
I think yall fail to realize the XOC bios's are for xtreme cooling. You're not gonna get any extra performance from a normal cooling solution and power.

Not sure about others on here but I have a large Custom Loop.... 3080FTW3 Ultra maxes out at 40c looping any benchmark and I"m power limited.....to 390w w 450w BIOS. Its a Power Balancing issue and I see on the 3090 XOC Bios Thread there is a response regarding some email address to send this issue to......I know a few others with WC Loops having same issue, the whole point of our Custom Loops is so we dont see thermal throttling obviously....

I see on the XOC BIOS 3090 thread there is an offer from Evga to replace the Cards with the Power Balancing issue with a new Card.
XOC 450w Bios Card can only draw 395w ...appears to be gimped PCI-E #3 power plug. I know there are many others with the same.
 
I went all thru this Thread and dont see the same offer......can anyone ...a Mod perhaps (Sajin you're always up to sped) or Jacob please let me know if this same offer is in place for the 3080FTW3 Ultras that also have this exact same Power Balancing issue as the 3090's ......
Really curious if this is being recognized like the 3090's ?

Are the default bios versions in the bottom of this post still up to date? im experiencing an issue after OCing and want to reflash to stock bios.

Going to give this a test!

jaredo
On my 3080 ftw3 ultra gaming hybrid I had been running +1000 mem (10502mhz in X1, 1312.7mhz in GPUZ), -200 gpu, 70 power when mining for a while with the 450 bios, then would switch back to 0 gpu, 118 power when gaming (leaving mem +1000).
 
I noticed some FPS issues when gaming and seems to be whenever memory is above +700 my FPS tanks.  Doing furmark 1440p benches at +700/800/900/1000 in X1 fps and memory controller load get worse with each run and it seems around 800-850 perfcap changes from power to vrel so maybe just hitting limitations of the memory.  Assume this would be the same with the default bios as well but thought it was interesting.
 

 

It's because ECC is kicking in. Gddr6x counter to previous gen's has ECC which instead of giving you normal artefacts is just trying to correct errors due to too high overclock. Your overclock is never stable above 700 hence why you see frames drop. 
 
Easy way to test is using heaven benchmark and just simply pause on a scene, now increase the memory until you notice the fps drop, that is when the ECC kicks in.

ddog661
What kinda OCs have people achieved with this

None different from stock Bios. People think if they install the XoC bios they will get a better overclock. You won't. they are made for eXtreme overclockers that use super cooling and power. Your average user will see no difference.

Capt_Caveman
Got my 3080 FTW3 Ultra today.  X1 installed a new bios and firmware. 
 
 

How and where did you get your 3080 FTW3 Ultra card?  Was it by waiting in the EVGA queue or did you purchase it from a retailer?  If EVGA queue, how long were you waiting until you got a notification that it was available to purchase?

dylan.barkdoll
Are the default bios versions in the bottom of this post still up to date? im experiencing an issue after OCing and want to reflash to stock bios.

Did you get an answer to this yet?  Did you reach out to EVGA support to find out from them?