Nvidia's 3000 Series RTX GPU [3090s with different memory capacity]

I'm actually impressed that those planet sized coolers are letting the cards die.

Is this a problem of thermal density?
 
ToTTenTranz said:
I'm actually impressed that those planet sized coolers are letting the cards die.

Is this a problem of thermal density?
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Traditionally, some of those have put all their focus to disperse the GPU's excess heat into the environment. Only in recent - dunno 5-6 - years more emphasis was put on other thermally loaded components, the newest of which being the memory chips.

Now, some cooling devices are still working with assumption from that older period, others have insufficient input in their control algorithms for fan speed. Remember 3090's throttling during ETH mining because their memory was literally cooking (110 °C is the threshold for throttling)? That was partly because of insufficient memory cooling itself (sub optimal contact to the heatsink) and partly, because memory temperature was not factored (to a sufficient degree) into necessary fan speed. Ergo: GPU was comfortably in the low 50´s (centigrade), fans humming along at 800-1000 rpm, while memory was cooking.

On a FE, you can keep the memory at roughly 90 °C during mining (no memory overclocking!) with fan speeds around 70 to 80 %, which is LOUD.
 
I wouldnt know. But EVGA in particular seems to have some shoddy design at least this gen. They had issues at launch as well. Then when you looked at videos of their cards and the pcb, its sold at a premium but uses standards components. The backplate was just a metal plate hanging there, with no thermal plates. The cooling was pretty inneficient. We still need to wait for nvidia and evga to respond.
 
PC World:

Amazon defends alleged GPU-killing game, but will patch it anyway

Amazon patching New Horizon with menu fps cap while downplaying to the point of denying it was their game's fault. Also some info about nVidia and EVGA:

The good news is EVGA also confirmed that any RTX 3090 FTW3 cards that did fail from playing the game would be “completely under warranty.” Amazon officials for New World haven’t yet responded to PCWorld’s request for comment.
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Yay EVGA! :D
 
Malo said:
uhhh 3090's were released in September 2020 and most have 3 year warranties anway. Yay EVGA for honoring their warranty?
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Indeed, it's worrysome that people actually cheer for a company honoring basic warranty.
 
Jay did some testing, I'm only halfway through the video since I'm cooking dinner but some really interesting power draw results on the EVGA FTW 3 that look very not good:

 
This brings back the issue of dark silicon in our processors, and the issue of utilization, once the processor reaches past a certain threshold of utilization, it sucks power like a black hole, and then will throttle hard or go straight into thermal overload.

Circuits are not designed to be be under absolute constant 100% utilization, and this is a real shame.
 
DavidGraham said:
Circuits are not designed to be be under absolute constant 100% utilization, and this is a real shame.
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If they were then people would find something else to complain about, eg. lacklustre performance, high price or insane power requirements with associated noise & heat problems and cost of exotic cooling.
 
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