Reference Card VS Non-Reference Card

[n4MiA]

Hello PC Enthusiast,

I just want to ask something about

The SLI Performance On Reference Card Vs Non-Reference

 

I'm asking this because I've seen many SLI build goes with reference card 

Is it really make much of a different on performance with reference card?

I've heard some said that the non-reference card made your entire system more hotter

and I also heard that the reference card made your gpu hotter

 

Please comment down below on which one should I buy

And also comment which one should i buy if I planned to SLI in near future

[Aytex]

Smaller/thinner so it can fit in many cases

or just purely asthetics

though theres the asus sli ugly ass blower one lmao

 

[JPotze]

5 minutes ago, n4MiA said:

Hello PC Enthusiast,

I just want to ask something about

The SLI Performance On Reference Card Vs Non-Reference

 

I'm asking this because I've seen many SLI build goes with reference card 

Is it really make much of a different on performance with reference card?

I've heard some said that the non-reference card made your entire system more hotter

and I also heard that the reference card made your gpu hotter

 

Please comment down below on which one should I buy

And also comment which one should i buy if I planned to SLI in near future

reference cards have very bad cooling IMO. non-ref cards differ in clock speed (most of the time they are factory overclocked) and have better coolers on them. 

The advantage of using ref. cards is that multiple brands will come with full-cover waterblocks for them. So water-cooling a (SLI) rig will be easier. 

 

-EDIT- I have to say that not all non-ref cards are better cooled. And yes. the ref cards COULD get hotter, so your system COULD get hotter.

[positivePXL]

Reference gpu's are easier to get water-blocks for. When you have 2 or even 3 gpu's in SLI, all of them have limited access to air, so even compared to open coolers, the open coolers vent their own hot air into the cooling fans of the gpu's above them, making all but the bottom one universally hotter. Having reference coolers means that that the air instead gets vented out the back, instead of into the airflow of the other gpu's.

[n4MiA]

2 minutes ago, positivePXL said:

Reference gpu's are easier to get water-blocks for. When you have 2 or even 3 gpu's in SLI, all of them have limited access to air, so even compared to open coolers, the open coolers vent their own hot air into the cooling fans of the gpu's above them, making all but the bottom one universally hotter. Having reference coolers means that that the air instead gets vented out the back, instead of into the airflow of the other gpu's.

so which one should i buy for sli in near future? reference?

 

[positivePXL]

2 minutes ago, n4MiA said:

so which one should i buy for sli in near future? reference?

 

Yes, reference. While they lack the immediate performance benefit compared to custom pcb/coolers, they will work better in sli, and they will be easier to water-cool.

[n4MiA]

Just now, positivePXL said:

Yes, reference. Why they lack the immediate performance benefit compared to custom pcb/coolers, they will work better in sli, and they will be easier to water-cool.

ok thanks 

[positivePXL]

o7 

 

(thats a salute for all you who don't play battle emulators)

[xentropa]

Reference cards are designed to blow out the case.  While non reference boards may have better cooling by themselves, I think the stacked nature of SLI cards worsens their performance.

 

Reference cards are generally preferred by the water cooling community since most companies design their gpu blocks to match the more generic reference pcb design