koroem

Dabadger84

koroem
Finally decided to give this a try this morning. On the stock bios I was power limited around 448w according to hwinfo64, curiously though GPU-Z was reading 450-460w. To do this I ran a custom fire strike ultra at 4k and paused the demo within the first couple seconds when the character is walking through the smoke. This seemed like a decent way to get the gpu to hold the max power rating.
 
Switched to XOC bios and the same setup I'm now power limited around 480w (483w in GPUZ and 497.542w in hwinfo64). I'm not sure if there is a better app/benchmark/game to run to see if I can get closer to the 500w supposed cap, but I did at least seem to gain 30w from 450w to 480w. Something is working for me, now how do I test for those last 20w....
 
EDIT might also be worth mentioning I turned the GPU lighting off. Might save a few watts I figured. Left fans on auto.

Do you still have the GPU radiator fans plugged in to the GPU?  I think perhaps the card is budgeting those fans in to the power limit, whether or not they are plugged in & drawing power or not, which would explain why it's leaving headroom between the power limit & the numbers it's actually hitting... maybe?
I think plenty of folks on here are only hitting 450-470W, with this BIOS installed, and seeing a PerfCap reason of "PWR" despite the fact that it's supposed to be power limited at 500W.

Well it is an air cooled card, so yes fans are still plugged into the gpu. Waterblock won't be here for a couple weeks until EK decides to ship them. Can test more on this theory later.

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koroem

Dabadger84

koroem
Finally decided to give this a try this morning. On the stock bios I was power limited around 448w according to hwinfo64, curiously though GPU-Z was reading 450-460w. To do this I ran a custom fire strike ultra at 4k and paused the demo within the first couple seconds when the character is walking through the smoke. This seemed like a decent way to get the gpu to hold the max power rating.
 
Switched to XOC bios and the same setup I'm now power limited around 480w (483w in GPUZ and 497.542w in hwinfo64). I'm not sure if there is a better app/benchmark/game to run to see if I can get closer to the 500w supposed cap, but I did at least seem to gain 30w from 450w to 480w. Something is working for me, now how do I test for those last 20w....
 
EDIT might also be worth mentioning I turned the GPU lighting off. Might save a few watts I figured. Left fans on auto.

Do you still have the GPU radiator fans plugged in to the GPU?  I think perhaps the card is budgeting those fans in to the power limit, whether or not they are plugged in & drawing power or not, which would explain why it's leaving headroom between the power limit & the numbers it's actually hitting... maybe?
I think plenty of folks on here are only hitting 450-470W, with this BIOS installed, and seeing a PerfCap reason of "PWR" despite the fact that it's supposed to be power limited at 500W.

Well it is an air cooled card, so yes fans are still plugged into the gpu. Waterblock won't be here for a couple weeks until EK decides to ship them. Can test more on this theory later.

Message approved.

Is there a reason my post got caught up and needed moderation?

I have the air-cooled version.

What do the new hybrid bios that just got uploaded change for a ftw3 ultra that’s converted to aio?

Still seems like without shunting the best bios for any ftw3 air or water Is the 2 pin XC3 bios if you wanna get anywhere above 450W that’s the only bios getting me higher scores and results.

Unfortunately, We have no idea how many actual watts the XC3 bios is pulling but it most be more than 450w because my scores are better in everything I test than Xoc or any ftw3 bios on this power broken card..

400-HY-1988-B1 Is available on evga website. In stock now.
 

I received my 3090 FTW3 ULTRA today. 
I installed PX1 and accepted the firmware update.
I pushed the card a bit and got these results /spy/16378966
Is this supposed to be good?

Can anyone state WHEN is the full version of official release of the RTX 3090 FTW3 Ultra Bios coming out. We have had a beta bios for ages now, and no updates to it? 

If anyone cares, the max PCIE Slot value is supposed to be 82.5W (at max TDP value), with a couple of the eVGA skus being 96.4W and one being 80W and a few being 78.4W.
 
https://docs.google.com/s...-bACq-Y3vHs/edit#gid=0

lilflip21
What do the new hybrid bios that just got uploaded change for a ftw3 ultra that’s converted to aio?

Still seems like without shunting the best bios for any ftw3 air or water Is the 2 pin XC3 bios if you wanna get anywhere above 450W that’s the only bios getting me higher scores and results.

Unfortunately, We have no idea how many actual watts the XC3 bios is pulling but it most be more than 450w because my scores are better in everything I test than Xoc or any ftw3 bios on this power broken card..

Yes XC3 the best by far

Anything related to this?
 
PEGx Slot Power Limit Value Value
Sets the upper limit on power supplied by slot.
Power limit (in Watts) is calculated by multiplying this value by the Slot Power Limit Scale.
Values 0-255
PEGx Slot Power Limit Scale 1.0x, 0.1x, 0.01x, 0.001x
 
Or from the Intel 10th gen specification sheet:
 
16:15 0h RW/O Slot Power Limit Scale (SLS): specifies the scale used for the slot power limit value. BIOS sets this field and it remains set until a platform reset.
14:7 00h RW/O Slot Power Limit Value (SLV): Specifies the upper limit (in conjunction with SLS value), on the upper limit on power supplied by the slot. The two values together indicate the amount of power in watts allowed for the slot. BIOS sets this field and it remains set until a platform reset.
 
https://www.intel.com/con...et-vol-2-datasheet.pdf