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Post your gpu's ASIC quality

I have an ASIC now.


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I did get it to 820/1040, but it cocked out then. It seems it doesn't like temps above 85 C. Also I can't adjust the fan lower than 60%, which is pretty loud. No I'm not upgrading, this baby can play Wasteland 2.
 
my 7870 is 79.9
can oc to 1235 (but im pretty sure card is voltage locked stupid sapphire)
 
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Do I win?
 
Being a mobility part. Not avail
 
Hi. I just received Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 and the ASIC is 89.4%. Played Ryse: Son of rome for about 30 min with core +100 and power slider to the max resulting in boost @1600 mhz and it worked fine.
However some people say that voltage is lower for cards with higher ASIC but it does not seem to be the case with mine as the voltage when running stock is 1.250V.

I will try to play around bit more to see what is the max clock limit.
I had Palit Jetstream 970 for couple of days and it was passing stress testing without a pb with boost at 1560mhz but in game it was crashing with driver reset all the time.
 
my First Card (Evga Geforce 770 4GB)

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my Second Card (Evga Geforce 770 4GB)

how wierd having the same cards but differents ASIC Quality :shadedshu:
 
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not bad for a 120.00 card
 
Any prizes for the lowest? :oops:
 

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So have we decided what this means yet?

I get a 59.6% on my XFX 280X.

But it tells us how to interpret it, showing us a chart with Higher and Lower. Does that mean what to expect?
In which case having a low score or a high score isn't really indicative of OC abilities but OC methods required to achieve the OC? Such as more voltage will be needed for a card with 40% than a card with 90%.
 
AphexDreamer said:
So have we decided what this means yet?

I get a 59.6% on my XFX 280X.

But it tells us how to interpret it, showing us a chart with Higher and Lower. Does that mean what to expect?
In which case having a low score or a high score isn't really indicative of OC abilities but OC methods required to achieve the OC? Such as more voltage will be needed for a card with 40% than a card with 90%.
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I can only comment on the behaviour of my 280X, my quality is even lower than yours and the guide fits for mines behaviour in so much as with stock voltage there is little or no overclocking headroom, fortunately it's got a really decent cooler so I modded the bios to increase the load voltage a little so I can run 24/7 @ 1100mhz, bumped it from 1.2V to 1.212V was all it took but indicative of the suggested behaviour. Therefore there is less overclocking headroom simply because you will get to a "safe voltage" limit at lower Mhz..... in theory :) Some with a very high quality figure can apparently do 1200mhz (or more) on stock 1.2V, I cannot achieve that at 1.3V.
 
My card is 65.5 asic but I run @ 1200/1500 that's 225 past the boost clock of 975. I can run at 1220 but that's it. The mem sucks but but I can add 10 to it before it's craps the bed lol.
That all in all is the best clocker I have ever owned. The thing is, what really would I gain from having a higher asic? It has always confused me.
 
fullinfusion said:
Interesting, so far all the new 9 series Nvidia gpu's are below 80% ASIC, where the 7 series were in the 90's and OC like mad.

I guess we shall see what comes along with what vendor.
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Sounds like a reasonable theory that most 970s will be around 70-80. Surely some higher bins probably made it into the mix, but I agree with your thinking (from what I've seen), and with this first batch it probably is roughly the cutoff line. I wonder what 90-100 is, 1600mhz? That would *appear* to be around what the design is aimed for at around 1.3+v (ala if you extrapolate voltage/clocks from gk104). Also, I don't know about anyone else, but mine hardlocks above 1600mhz core clock or 7600mhz ram, which is very weird (bios limitation?).

Mine can do somewhere around 1506-1518 (kboost + heaven) at stock, voltage doesn't seem to help much. I think I'll probably set it to around 1300n/15xxb +/- after playing with voltage (which increases max boost so nominal clock has to be lower) a bit to see if a decent max can be had/sustained. Gaming/3Dmark may allow higher, but good ol' Heaven makes me feel secure I'm not going to have any problems.
 

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Does this mean that AMD and NVIDIA can make a certain series less overclockable or more depending on the quality of the asic rather it having to do with that generations technology?
 
AphexDreamer said:
Does this mean that AMD and NVIDIA can make a certain series less overclockable or more depending on the quality of the asic rather it having to do with that generations technology?
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One will never know but hey,
 
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Sapphire 280X TRI-X


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AphexDreamer said:
Does this mean that AMD and NVIDIA can make a certain series less overclockable or more depending on the quality of the asic rather it having to do with that generations technology?
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Nothings changed in years, we just have a tool now to see it before our eyes, it's just down to the silicon at the end of the day (although there may be other factors that I am not aware of), it's like everything else in life, you manufacture several thousand units of something and they will never be all of identical quality or performance. Many manufacturers have often used the best for their OC models and as far as I know have always done so.
 
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