During the last a number of weeks, we’ve adopted the controversy with firm EVGA’s RTX 3090 sequence graphics card changing into bricked whereas enjoying Amazon’s New World sport. Here’s a recap of the journey of those two firms.
EVGA To Repair RPM Sensor Spikes on GeForce RTX 3090 FTW3 Sequence Graphics Playing cards By way of BIOS Firmware Replace
First, it was reported that NVIDIA GPUs had been changing into bricked throughout the gameplay of Amazon’s model new sport, New World, at present in beta. As extra developments got here to mild, Igor Wallossek of Igor’s Lab made a breakthrough, and, by trial and error blended with a little bit hypothesis, he found that EVGA’s RTX 3090 FTW3 card was the particular mannequin that was malfunctioning whereas enjoying the sport.
His ideas behind his reply had been as a result of design flaws with the particular card, a correction that NVIDIA made a number of years in the past within the authentic design that different producers have made workarounds to repair. The EVGA RTX 3090 FTW3 has a defective design within the fan controller. In the course of the course of, the framerate within the sport turns into locked through the menus in-game. Due to the extraordinarily excessive framerates that had been being produced, different consultants had been suspecting that not solely EVGA’s GPU was the issue, however so had been different graphics playing cards, such because the Radeon RX 6800 to 6900 XT GPUs by AMD, and the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti sequence by NVIDIA as effectively.
EVGA rapidly began to permit for traditional and Superior RMAs to be created to alleviate the problems occurring throughout gameplay due to their design. It was found that when inserting an Superior RMA for the substitute EVGA RTX 3090 sequence GPU, the deposit that was required was not the identical MSRP value of the cardboard (round $920), however a deposit of just about $1800. The worth is much like what was discovered with GPUs being bought from scalpers. EVGA didn’t touch upon the difficulty, however web site Tom’s {Hardware} speculated that the rationale for the excessive value was to discourage somebody from paying the deposit for regular MSRP, receiving the substitute unit, and turning round and promoting the cardboard themselves for a excessive greenback quantity and never returning the defective product.
Now, Jacob Freeman, PM of EVGA, took to Twitter and warranted that there could be an replace to the firmware of the EVGA RTX 3090 FTW3 that will repair the RPM problem. Needless to say EVGA has by no means acknowledged that they had been accountable for any points. Amazon did launch an announcement denying that the sport was not a problem, however did launch an replace to halt any overclocking throughout gameplay that will provoke a problem with any GPU producer’s playing cards.
Replace: May have new firmware for playing cards quickly to enhance this. This may occasionally happen if there occurs to be noise within the i2c bus from the place RPM is learn. Precision already filters out inaccurate readings however different apps might not. That is strictly a RPM reporting problem. https://t.co/xnMpWq86NX
— Jacob Freeman (@EVGA_JacobF) August 6, 2023
Freeman explains that the fault is within the noise of the I2C bus the place the information from the RPM is learn. He continues to state that any customers using EVGA’s Precision software program will probably be coated because of the filtration of the bus when studying the information.
Is there any official information but on what brought about the failure of some playing cards in New World? Some noticed the issue in a defective PWM controller and justified this with the excessive RPM sign, which they learn out. As I perceive you now, it’s merely a defective I2C sign and never associated.
— Andreas Schilling (@aschilling) August 6, 2023
We are going to proceed to observe this story as extra data develops.
