Thursday, October 15th 2020
EVGA Releases Optional BIOS Update for RTX 3080 FTW3 ULTRA - XOC 450 W
EVGA has just released a shocking update for their RTX 3080 FTW3 Ultra graphics card, which increases the cards' power limit to 450 W, a 50 W increase over the 400 W power limit the card ships with. The BIOS release doesn't, however, guarantee higher performance - as always, NVIDIA's Boost is affected by temperatures (which are, in turn, affected by the chips' power draw). What this power limit increase does mean is that users who want to embark in overclocking feats can now do so with more ease.
The EVGA RTX 3080 FTW3 ULTRA thus joins ASUS' ROG STRIX OC in their upper power limits; NVIDIA's RTX 3080 cards are usually capped at 320 W or 340 W, due to power efficiency and temperature concerns. EVGA's FTW3 Ultra features three 8-pin connectors to allow for this amount of power to be delivered to the boards' circuits. Look after the break for the rundown on this BIOS availability by EVGA's own Jacob Freeman. The original post on EVGA's forums is available via the source link. After you do update the BIOS (if you choose to do it), you can use TechPowerUp's GPU-Z application to verify the changes to your cards' power limit.
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EVGA Forums
The EVGA RTX 3080 FTW3 ULTRA thus joins ASUS' ROG STRIX OC in their upper power limits; NVIDIA's RTX 3080 cards are usually capped at 320 W or 340 W, due to power efficiency and temperature concerns. EVGA's FTW3 Ultra features three 8-pin connectors to allow for this amount of power to be delivered to the boards' circuits. Look after the break for the rundown on this BIOS availability by EVGA's own Jacob Freeman. The original post on EVGA's forums is available via the source link. After you do update the BIOS (if you choose to do it), you can use TechPowerUp's GPU-Z application to verify the changes to your cards' power limit.
Due to many users request, have a new BETA BIOS that increases the maximum Power Target. This BIOS is only intended for the extreme overclocking user and does not have any other changes. Please note the following:
This update will increase the power consumption while overclocking, and is recommended you have adequate cooling and power (850w+ Gold minimum) when using this.
EVGA does not guarantee any performance increase or overclock while using this BIOS update.
Any other questions or concerns will be answered in this forum thread only. Please post below your results and feedback!
BIOS Instructions (Windows Installation):
Download the correct.zip file below for your graphics card below.
Extract the files to a location on disk.
Make sure no programs are running in the background, and double click Update.exe
Press "Y" to begin the update.
DO NOT TURN OFF POWER OR RESET DURING THE UPDATE PROCESS!
After update, restart PC.
EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 FTW3 ULTRA
EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 FTW3 ULTRA - BIOS 1 (Normal) |BIOS 2 (OC)
NOTE: There are 2 BIOS's, one is for the BIOS when switched to the normal stock position, the other if switched to the OC position
29 Comments on EVGA Releases Optional BIOS Update for RTX 3080 FTW3 ULTRA - XOC 450 W
If AMD manages to get to or close to RTX 3080 performance with lower TDP, more VRAM,lower price and better availability, they're gonna do to Nvidia what they did to intel.
Cos I installed it with the switch set to the normal BIOS and after I installed it, my normal BIOS has now 450w power limit lol.
Seems like a good thing to me :)
I'll likely pass hard on the 3090 seeing it's price is just way too much for a gpu 1500-2000.us for lowest to big dog
3080 super duper or 3080ti with more vmem would be the ticket and likely 1k.us range.
Depends on cooling.
You do not wage price wars with something that isn't even available.
The Ampere announcement stated a 1.9x perf/W compared to Turing. If that was true...
- Let's say the 2080 Ti can deliver 100% performance with a TDP of 250 Watts.
- In that case, the 3080 can deliver 190% performance with the same 250 W TDP.
- The 3080 actually has a TDP of 350 W, which is 1.4x higher than the 2080 Ti's 250 W.
- Based on these data, the 3080's performance should be 1.4 x 1.9 = 266% compared to the 2080 Ti without any mods or overclocking.
- The modified 450 W TDP is 1.8x higher than the 2080 Ti's 250 W.
- After similar calculations, the 3080 can potentially deliver 342% the performance of the 2080 Ti with this mod, and the right overclock.
Are any of the above statements true? No. Load of bollocks.Best case senario for Ampere is 4K. There it has a x1.2~1.3 perf/watt gains over Turing. When you drop to 1440p the gains are like x1.05 over Turing.
As many are saying it does not scale well across resolutions and even in 4K the perf/watt its not that impresive over Turing.
He was trying to demonstrate Jensen's BS claims about x1.9 perf/watt relation with Turing 2080nonTI.
This can be a meme... "Jensen's x2"
...when in reality is x1.2
To be real, the raw performance uplift of 3080 against 2080Ti is indeed +20% for 1440p and +30% for 4K.
You should've made a backup first using the new GPU-Z version though LOL
When they announced the prices and everybody started panic selling their 2080 Ti's, I had a feeling that there was a reason behind it. Nvidia has never been famous for bringing good value propositions in the higher market segments - don't get me wrong, people, they're good cards, just not as good as Jensen claimed in the announcement. It also puzzles me how they managed to achieve a 30% performance uplift with ~double the cuda cores.
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Its easy if you know the specifics. According to Jensen a process unit to be called cuda core must be able to execute FP32 instructions.
Pre-Turing architectures every cuda core was capable of 1 Int or 1 FP instruction, and cannot execute both.
This has changed in Turing. In Turing every cuda core was performing exclusively FP instructions and the number was 4352. For Int instructions Turing had another 4352 units that was not counted for cuda cores (see Jensen)
Ampere 3080 now has (4352x2) 8704 cuda cores and the 4352 of them are executing exclusively FP instruction and the other 4352 are executing Int or FP instructions, but not both.
See?