EVGA has released a new beta bios for it's RTX 3080 and 3090 FTW3 cards.

Rejoice young PC enthusiasts! EVGA has heard our complaints (and that of popular youtubers) and have released some new beta bios firmware that ups the stock power ceiling.  

Upon release, the original dual bios cards had a power limit of 400w. This was a huge letdown upon release due to the untapped potential still laying dormant with in the cards. Last week saw a bios update that gave us a limit of 450w, then this week we got a beta version that ups it to 500w. The beta firmware only ups the limit and is designed for over clockers trying to squeeze out more performance. If you have the cooling solution and the knowledge. Head on over to the EVGA forums where you can download both files (since the FTW3 cards are a dual bios setup, you need two files, one for each bios).

One user has reported hitting 119% of their target power.

(credit: Arestavo of the EVGA forums)

The beta versions are available for the following cards:

EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 FTW3 (10G-P5-3895-KR)

EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 FTW3 ULTRA (10G-P5-3897-KR) 

EVGA GeForce RTX 3090 FTW3 ULTRA (24G-P5-3987-KR)

As it stands, there is no beta version files for the EVGA GeForce RTX 3090 FTW3 (24G-P5-3985-KR). 

This leads to a question we have to ask. If EVGA is able to do this to all their cards with the exception of 1, what is stopping other manufactures from giving us the full performance that these dies can give? Why has Nvidia severely undervolt their cards to prevent us from using the full capability? Will we also see updates for other companies, such as Dell's Alienware, to allow us to have the ability of 500 watts of power?

What do you guys think? Comment below and let's trade theories and ideas. 

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