EVGA is doing everything it can for their NVIDIA RTX 3090 FTW3 cards, especially after the debacle with Amazon's "New World" MMO, killing a few.
To find out what really happened, popular tech YouTuber JayzTwoCents put "New World" and its NVIDIA RTX 3090-killing capabilities to the test recently. Initially, the theory involved the game's so-called "runaway" frame rates in the main menu. But runaway frame rates (those reaching up to thousands of FPS in menus, for instance) are not uncommon in video games at all.
At the end of the test with the same problematic EVGA graphics card, most parameters like VRM temperatures stayed normal. But the problematic one was the card's peak power draw while playing the game. The EVGA RTX 3090 drew an average of 10% more power than its max power limit, which made the card run way hotter than it's supposed to.
This could be among the reasons why many GPUs of this model got bricked, but it's not really tied to the fans spinning too fast at all.
There are more details about the tests in the video:
An Isolated Incident, More Or Less
The developers of "New World" have since patched the game. According to Tom's Hardware, the fix capped the runaway frame rate in the menu screen to prevent the game from "over utilizing" the graphics card. However, the devs didn't even know what caused the deaths of those 3090s. These problems, they say, weren't even present during their earliest playtests, when the game is supposed to be more unstable and incomplete.
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Written by RJ Pierce
