Unusually high ASIC Quality?

[nicholician]

So today I got curious and checked the ASIC quality of my card (Gigabyte 760 Windforce 2GB) and found a crazy high percentage of 98.2%. Proof here.

 

Do you suppose this is an error made by GPU-Z? Does this number even make a difference? (my guess is no, you tell me)

 

 

 

Things to note:

 

- I have sent my GPU for an RMA into Gigabyte and just got it back a couple weeks ago; that might cause errors

- I have never done any overclocking on this card cause i'm using it for folding and I didn't want to verify it for a full 24 hours just cause of the time (sorry)

[QueenDemetria]

Screenshot broken, but overclock it.

[thekeemo]

It means less power leaking (very simplified) meaning you need less voltage to get a certain clock (again simplified)and doesn't make any difference to a normal person

[EliasNM]

Your guess is right, it just means power leaking is less, better overclocking on lower voltage.

[-CLASSIFIED-]

asic quality usually only comes into play in extreme over-clocking conditions example - sub zero , and at ludicrous clock speeds 

[Keystone Nyan Cat]

 

A higher ASIC [ Application Specific Integrated Circuit] quality allows for a chip to require less voltage to run at the default specifications, thus generating lesser heat but the voltage limit is lower & voltage response is weaker. It is debatable though from what I found whether the ASIC quality determines the overclockability of a card.

An interesting post on Anandtech which talks about the validity/ significance of the ASIC which I recommend giving a read states [this is just a part of it; I recommend reading the full post]

 

 

It doesn't mean much. They use a value found on each chip denoting what they call "quality" during the binning process. It really has no reflection on overclock relative to voltage & temperature, since people with 60% and 80% can clock higher than others with 71% and 84%, while some 78% and 68% are the bottom of the barrel. See what I mean, it has no relationship. 

The final stable overclock of your board greatly depends on the quality of the board and the quality & quantity and spec of components used. Take 100 reference 580 boards, or 100 reference 7970 boards as an example. Last I checked gpu-z's ASIC quality check feature didn't even work for most Nvidia cards, while the number reported is useless for AMD cards. W1zzard however tell us something like lower = better overclocking with regular cooling while higher = better oc with better cooling.

 

Sourced from- http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2246288

A few more resources worth reading-
http://www.overclock.net/t/1410428/asic-quality

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/27079-what-is-asic-quality/

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2246288 

[nicholician]

Screenshot broken, but overclock it.

 

Nope, the screenshot isn't broken, I just wrote this post at 2 AM right before going to bed and forgot to include it. I've eddied the original post to include it now.

[Jumper118]

Nope, the screenshot isn't broken, I just wrote this post at 2 AM right before going to bed and forgot to include it. I've eddied the original post to include it now.

it still not there. 

 

edit. it is now i refreshed.