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Awesome, great PSU then. For this specific test you only need to test the start of Furmark, the first few seconds. The spikes occur when it starts rendering and the GPU's power limit circuitry doesn't know yet that a spike is coming, so it'll let it go through.


Question... The EVGA 3090 Ultra FTW3 card you reviewed. You recorded a peak of 507W during furmark power consumption testing. EVGA has a 500W power limit bios. Was the furmark testing performed using the 500W power limit bios and with any overclock?
 

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Question... The EVGA 3090 Ultra FTW3 card you reviewed. You recorded a peak of 507W during furmark power consumption testing. EVGA has a 500W power limit bios. Was the furmark testing performed using the 500W power limit bios and with any overclock?
It was tested at everything default. The default BIOS power limits are at the end of the OC page.

The thing is that the power limiter takes a split second to measure the card's power draw and react. My measurement system is much faster than that, so it can see spikes that a killawatt or nvidia pcat don't see
 
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It was tested at everything default. The default BIOS power limits are at the end of the OC page.

The thing is that the power limiter takes a split second to measure the card's power draw and react. My measurement system is much faster than that, so it can see spikes that a killawatt or nvidia pcat don't see

Thanks. I have interest in the EVGA 3090 ultra ftw3 for the 500W bios. I may sell my toxic card for it; I have been offered one at non scalper prices.
 
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It was tested at everything default. The default BIOS power limits are at the end of the OC page.

The thing is that the power limiter takes a split second to measure the card's power draw and react. My measurement system is much faster than that, so it can see spikes that a killawatt or nvidia pcat don't see

Yeah AMD logging couldn't grab it either. Logging interval 0.25s.

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