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ASUS 3080 TUF GAMING OC - Full power draw and Instability at Stock

@Game - I average about 110 FPS on ultra settings 1440p which then drops to around 90 after playing at stock for about 15mins.

@FlyingFish - VOp means the card has reach max operating voltage meaning the card is drawing the max wattage it can to operate, however it is not normal for a card to do so thus causing the card to downclock and freeze up when game also resulting in low FPS.
 
How frustrating for you. Waiting so long, then being underwhelmed and having issues.

Your 3Dmark scores look totally fine to me though. Its very easy to get dragged into chasing numbers, as I did.
My CPU scores low, my GPU scores low... but ultimately it still "faster than 99% of systems" which is the stat one should take from that...
Rather than stressing about a few points here or there.
Especially as its so hard to know if the scores others post as "suicide" runs that barely stable, or actual day-to-day settings.

Going through an RMA now will probably be a long process. I cant imagine the vendor has any cards by for RMA, so probably back to ASUS. Who knows how long that will take?

If you can fix these issues with an undervolt, and are happy Id stick to that.

I run a daily undervolt just to get noise and coil-whine under control. I could probably RMA for the whine... but who knows if the replacement would even be any better.
 
Hi all,

The support on this is overwhelming and I very much appreciate the support.
Please see the below link with my PC cooling and stock voltage curve, I have taken off the case lid to see clearer.

https://imgur.com/RJnonaB

https://imgur.com/U241qhe

Nothing in my system goes above 65c and GPU usually is around that or lower.
CPU is usually between 55c and 60c while gaming.

@Joxeon is correct, you should be hitting power limit way before max voltage is even touched.
I am very much leaning toward an issue with the card itself.

Power draw at idle is 0.9900V which is far too high.
 
@xPETEZx I understand what you are saying it's just so odd to me that installing a cars at stock regardless of chasing points or any OC has an issue where it reach max power draw with FPS drops thus also not allowing me to use Nvidia features such as DLSS.
 
MrFunko said:
I understand what you mean about the lottery, however 2 things I will say is that firstly as I purchased the OC version you expect the chip to be able to boost higher, however still the issue remains that when gaming and just running the card at stock OC bios it has full power draw and getting VOp message in GPU- resulting in glitching and freezing as well as frames dropping to below 100fps at times and also due to power draw the features like DLSS etc also don’t even activate or have effect. Something is definitely up.
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most oc version are only 100mhz higher than stock now and some perfor
MrFunko said:
@Game - I average about 110 FPS on ultra settings 1440p which then drops to around 90 after playing at stock for about 15mins.

@FlyingFish - VOp means the card has reach max operating voltage meaning the card is drawing the max wattage it can to operate, however it is not normal for a card to do so thus causing the card to downclock and freeze up when game also resulting in low FPS.
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thats really not right
 
MrFunko said:
Hi all,

The support on this is overwhelming and I very much appreciate the support.
Please see the below link with my PC cooling and stock voltage curve, I have taken off the case lid to see clearer.

https://imgur.com/RJnonaB

https://imgur.com/U241qhe

Nothing in my system goes above 65c and GPU usually is around that or lower.
CPU is usually between 55c and 60c while gaming.

@Joxeon is correct, you should be hitting power limit way before max voltage is even touched.
I am very much leaning toward an issue with the card itself.

Power draw at idle is 0.9900V which is far too high.
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If it's doing 0.99v at idle then something is off, did you set the GPU to full power in nvidia control panel as that can stop it down clocking, something else to consider is if you have some crypto Trojan on the system that's mining in the background which would obviously effect the cards performance in games.

Failing that I'd try DDUing and reinstalling the nvidia drivers as it sounds more of a software issue than hardware related.
 
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I'm starting to think that perhaps there is nothing wrong with op's card, but perhaps something else is causing the stuttering etc.
I've just done run with SuperPosition Benchmark, at 1440p all settings maxed, with no overclock but a 117% power setting on Afterburner. << This is my normal config for gaming.
HWInfo shows I hit multiple limits, (Power, Max operating Voltage and Max reliability voltage) while not causing any issues, as the card was ran at 100% during the benchmark.
This leads me to think perhaps this is normal to stay inline with the limits set by the manufacturer/Nvidia.

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So a quick google and it seems the limits reached are the same as the op's

vRel = Reliability. Indicating perf is limited by reliability voltage.
VOp = Operating. Indicating perf is limited by max operating voltage.
Pwr = Power. Indicating perf is limited by total power limit.
Thrm = Thermal. Indicating perf is limited by temperature limit.
Util = Utilization. Indicating perf is limited by GPU utilization.

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Also have you tried having a look over at Asus's website, there have been a few vbios updates for the 3080 GPU's, I've updated mine to run resizeable bar ;)

Oh and dont always think the latest driver are the best, or most stable. I had a nightmare with 466.77 giving a driver crash error in the game Days Gone, I had to revert back to 466.27 to get rid of the crashes.
 
my 3070 will hit all the same perf limits and is just fine. but the OP has a 3080 with gddr6x, sounds like mem might be thermal throttling if he is getting a fps loss after 15mins.
oh and if he has high idle voltage and the card isnt clocking down to low power state, there's a power management option in the drivers control panel.
 
I would certainly be playing about more as it looks more like a software issue than hardware since the card runs fine when manually set up.

DDUing the drivers and reinstalling would probably be my first port of call, RMA is really a last resort option when all else has been exhausted.
 
@FlyingFish - Thanks for all your info and you investigation. I just expect a card to just work without having any need to touch or even install afterburner to help with issues.

I have also left all nvidia settings as default.
The VBIOS is up to date as it came fully updated.

@Joxeon - Ran DDU when I initially installed and also a few times after.

I just feel more comfortable knowing that if the issue arises with my replacement then I guess we can blame Nvidia.
 
It's no bother and gives you something to compare against.
If you get a replacement and it exhibits the same behaviour, I'd more inclined to think it's NOT the GPU and more something else in your system or software.
Realistically, what are the chances of getting two brand new GPU's with the same fault?
 
OPs card scored 17100 odd at stock so it seems perfectly normal to me, what doesn't seem normal is it idling at 0.99MV so something is off and I doubt it hardware related else the card would be hard crashing.
 
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