History seems to repeat itself again with New World. A few weeks ago, a “drama” as the Internet knows how to do, took place around the RTX 3090, apparently from EVGA. The story was obviously not related to a problem of design of EVGA cards as we suspected at the beginning because we learn today that similar problems affect Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3090 but also AMD Radeon RX 6800 / XT and Radeon RX 6900 XT graphics.
As you can see, these concerns about graphics cards “cracking” affect only high-end GPUs. Again, the cards get carried away and reach a level of FPS much too high. Nothing really seems to work to protect GPUs since an owner of a Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3090 Gaming found his card dead despite being limited to 144 FPS via the Nvidia control panel. While the user reported that the game’s FPS meter indicated that it was going up to 60 FPS. Despite this, ” the screen went black and the fans started running at 100% “. The card then ended up dying. In a similar vein, another user who owns an Asus TUF RTX 3080, reports that his GPU sweated heavily after playing 30 hours without limiting FPS. He reportedly saw power consumption spikes of up to 374W. However, his card was not damaged. All these anecdotes led a big US PC assembler to renew an alert about New World. For PowerGPU, there were already too many emails from users complaining about GPU crashes after playing New World for this to be a coincidence.
As this happened in the beta, we will now have to see if the problem comes from the game, the assemblies or both.
