My new 4080 seems to be locked at -100% powet limit and performs terrible.

[Jesus.Kistus]

Hi folks, i got a new Gigabyte RTX 4080 Gaming, put it into my PC and tried starting it. So far so good, PC turned on. When i ran 3DMark TimeSpy i noticed, i only got like 12 FPS and startet to wonder. After a ton of looking around, i found, that the Power Limit is set to 0% in MSI Afterburner and to -100% in the Gigabyte Extreme Engine. Naturally, i thought, that must be the problem, as the GPU didnt seem to go beyond 855 MHz core clock. 

When i tried to set the Power Limit to 100% and hit apply, it instandly snapped back to  0%, both in Afterburner and Extreme Engine. I am clueless on what to do now.

 

Specs:

 

Ryzen 5800X3D

MSI Gaming Edge Wifi X570

Mushin 3600 32GB DDR4

RTX4080 GIgabyte Gaming

Corsair RM750 Watt PSU

[deadlou666]

Check if all power cables are plugged in 100%. If that fails I'd say RMA it. 

[Alex Atkin UK]

50 minutes ago, Jesus.Kistus said:

Hi folks, i got a new Gigabyte RTX 4080 Gaming, put it into my PC and tried starting it. So far so good, PC turned on. When i ran 3DMark TimeSpy i noticed, i only got like 12 FPS and startet to wonder. After a ton of looking around, i found, that the Power Limit is set to 0% in MSI Afterburner and to -100% in the Gigabyte Extreme Engine. Naturally, i thought, that must be the problem, as the GPU didnt seem to go beyond 855 MHz core clock. 

When i tried to set the Power Limit to 100% and hit apply, it instandly snapped back to  0%, both in Afterburner and Extreme Engine. I am clueless on what to do now.

 

Specs:

 

Ryzen 5800X3D

MSI Gaming Edge Wifi X570

Mushin 3600 32GB DDR4

RTX4080 GIgabyte Gaming

Corsair RM750 Watt PSU

It could be Afterburner and Extreme Engine are conflicting, you aren't supposed to run more than one piece of software to control performance at the same time.

 

Also did you run DDU to clear out the old drivers first?  Generally if Afterburner is showing odd info its a driver problem.

[Dukesilver27-]

Did you DDU your old drivers before installing the new GPU?

[Mark Kaine]

why would they not lock the power limit ? i don't understand 

[owwnoooo]

5 minutes ago, Mark Kaine said:

why would they not lock the power limit ? i don't understand 

They locked the power limit, the problem here is the power limit is Half what it is supposed to be for that model of a gpu .

[Mark Kaine]

2 minutes ago, owwnoooo said:

They locked the power limit, the problem here is the power limit is Half what it is supposed to be for that model of a gpu .

ok then there's really something wrong,  did you DDU? 

[Jesus.Kistus]

Same thing, used DDU in secure mode, cleaned everything up, installed the latest drivers from NVIDIA.

 

Afterburner (i only run Afterburner now) still shows 855 MHz clock and 0% power Limit

[Jesus.Kistus]

1 hour ago, Jesus.Kistus said:

Same thing, used DDU in secure mode, cleaned everything up, installed the latest drivers from NVIDIA.

 

Afterburner (i only run Afterburner now) still shows 855 MHz clock and 0% power Limit

I have now tried a completely different PSU, with 850 Watts, still the same. Slider set to zero, unable to move it to anything higher

[MastterJT]

On 3/24/2023 at 5:50 AM, Jesus.Kistus said:

I have now tried a completely different PSU, with 850 Watts, still the same. Slider set to zero, unable to move it to anything higher

I am having the same issue with a brand new RTX4080.  Please let me know if you fixed this...

[Mister Jazz]

Bro, I have the exact problem with my Gigabyte RTX 4080 using MSI Afterburner. I will be filling out an RMA today.

 

[SaddamAWP01]

Can someone tell me what means this RMA? Sorry but I've been out of this kind of discussions for many years . I just came back into pc stuff and I am planning to buy a brand new PC, and right now I am in the "select the components" mode, and I don't want to buy some crap stuff. Thanks

[Blai5e]

Question to all: are you all using the supplied 3 x PCIE to 12VHPWR adaptor?

 

If so, try disconnecting the PSU cable from one of the adapter's PCIE pigtails and see what happens. I know Gigabyte supplied some iffy adapters that were causing all sorts of issues when all 3 PCIE pigtails were connected on the supplied adapters (replacing the adapter with a native cable fixed the issues).