There have been reports of this happening to non-EVGA cards on twitter, so the preponderance of EVGA cards failing here is likely just due to their market share

There have been reports of this happening to non-EVGA cards on twitter, so the preponderance of EVGA cards failing here is likely just due to their market share. EVGA has sold far more RTX 3090 cards than any other AIB partner of nVidia.