Asic Quality

[danrey84]

The other day I posted a thread here regarding ASIC quality and was met with a wide range of people saying it doesn't matter. Some did say it does have an effect to a degree but most people started to have a b!tch at them saying it does. Well for some reason I beg to differ now the reason I say this is because EVGA on there website you can now buy a GPU depending on its ASIC quality. Now an international company wouldn't do this if it doesn't have some noticeable effect on performance I have in cluded the link so people can have a look then maybe buy.

 

http://eu.evga.com/articles/00944/EVGA-GeForce-GTX-980-Ti-KINGPIN/#BuyNow

[Dr_Pleeper]

Yes, Asic quality does matter.

[Nacho Marco Segui]

I had an EVGA 970 with 78 asic quality, and I couldn't go past 1470 Mhz, but my G1 with 71 gets to 1560 Mhz, so I don't know if it really matters.

[Guest]

Jay two cents has a video about this, saying asic doesn't matter on oc, it's just the effeciancy of the chip as far as leakage of current, you will need more volt for oc on low asic chips, but doesn't affect overall oc ability, I have a 92 asic on my gtx980, can't oc worth shit lol

[DocSwag]

I believe it generally has more to do with voltage leakage. The higher the ASIC Quality, generally less voltage is needed for the same clock speed. It might affect overclocking somewhat, but doesn't have a direct correlation to overclocking since lower voltages isn't the only thing that gives better overclocks on a chip. I think that's what it's supposed to mean. 

 

The technical definition (in my opinion) is :

ASIC=Application-Specific Integrated Circuit

Therefore ASIC Quality is the quality of your GPU (the die itself, not the circuitry and power delivery stuff)

Which means that probably higher ASIC quality=less voltage needed for same clock speed (for the most part)

[KE2012]

IMO the real reason they are selling different ASIC qualities is because people who don't know what they are doing will look at the higher percentage and instantly think 'Oh a card with 80% must be better than a one with 60%' and spend more of their hard earned money for some supposed performance bump. 

 

 

[Vellinious]

The ASIC quality of a card, is reading the voltage leak in the core. It doesn't, however, account for the rest of the components on the card. The VRM quality, PCB quality, chokes, caps. memory type, power delivery and about a hundred other things will play into how well a card will overclock.

All things being perfectly equal between two cards, the card with the lower ASIC will require a higher voltage to reach a specific clock than the card with the higher ASIC.  All of these things, however, are never equal between two cards, even of the same model number.

Realize too, that with Maxwell, the temps the card is running at will play a HUGE part in the max overclock.  The hotter it is, the lower the boost will be.  Likewise, the cooler the card is, the higher the boost will be.  Overclockability of the card, also has to do with the "overclockers" ability, and willingness to use custom bios files and increased voltages.

SO...is ASIC quality EVERYTHING?  No....but it IS a pretty good indicator of what that specific core will be capable of in the right hands, with the right cooling.

[Vellinious]

5 minutes ago, Vellinious said:

 

DELETE

[Praesi]

ASIC doesnt matter. Its just marketing to get more of your MoneyzzzZZzzz.

[Vellinious]

Ugh