I'm not about sacing my warranty just to resolve something that eVGA will likely put out a BIOS update for later, and like I've said before, I don't think I'll have this card longer than a month or so, so I'm not overly concerned about it... I'd prefer not to "pass that problem" on to the next buyer, but it's a problem that shouldn't exist in the first place. Technically speaking, these cards should have a 525W BIOS natively - they're the highest end GPU for their line, they have 3x 150W plugs plus a 75W PCIe slot, so if they were programmed/softwared properly to handle said power, 525W would be "Safe" and "Optimal" - instead we're getting a 78-82W draw from the PCIe slot while the 8 pin power connectors sit in the 120s most of the time & the card can't even hit it's power target in 95% of normal use cases. Literally the only thing I've been able to get close to 500W, or even more than slightly over 450W, is Time Spy Extreme & Time Spy.
I just don't get how they fudged this BIOS up so badly but the XOC BIOS for the 3080 does it's job perfectly... and they're supposedly the same PCB, the main diff: The amount of vRAM.