Hello all,
I am surprised there are not more discussions regarding PNY 3080Ti or other cards with reference PCB. Where I live(Scandinavia) it is one of the more easily attainable cards.
To the discussion itself, these cards seem to be severely limited in what they can do and I would like to understand why, for example I have not seen or heard about anyone being able to get these cards above 75-77 MH.
I don’t believe it to be power since the power limit is never even close to be reached, always stays under 280W.
I’ve spent hours with MSI afterburner trying to get it just above 80MH, but no luck.
Some of you must be more technical than me and a reasonable mind.
is it the Reference PCB ?
Power stages being the lowest among 3080Ti’s?(17)
2x8pin power card ?
Now in the end, I got tired of it and grew some cohones and bios flashed it. first I flashed it to Gigabyte Vision OC since it is the highest available power for 2x8pin power 3080Ti cards.
There is also a thread on this forum that shows people hitting 84-85 MH with the Vision OC.
One heartattack later, reboot and sucessfull bios flash. However no improvement and again no settings in AB helped. still stuck at 75-77 MH
At this stage I was frustrated so I started reading and watching plenty people that flashed their regular 3080 cards to 400-450 PL bioses successfully. However this meant going from 2x8pin bios to a bios meant for 3x8pin card.
I decided fuck it and went for it, successful flash, reboot… coming back from the hospital thanking the person who invented the defibrillator I noticed my PNY 3080Ti was now mining at 87-89MH.
Now bear you the power consumption and efficiency are absolute attrocious- but I nearly had the same efficiency at 75 MH.
what are your experiences with 3080Ti cards with reference PCB ? have you had more success?