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Educate me on ASIC quality

Quartz

Quartz

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I've been monitoring my Titan X with GPU-Z and just found the ASIC Quality menu option. Mine comes up as 62.3%, which per the second link below is rather low.

I've read pages like

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

and

https://forums.geforce.com/default/...what-is-gpu-asic-quality-amp-how-to-read-it-/

which indicate that I'm going to see increased power consumption and thus slightly lower performance and significantly reduced overclocking ability, but I'm not going to overclock the card (because I don't want noise), so should I be concerned?

Beyond that, what else do I need to know about ASIC quality?
 
I just read up on this myself after seeing some people accuse ocuk of cherry picking cards with good asic numbers.

Seems hard to gauge the merit from what I've read. But definitely easy to gauge the tinfoil
 
Some people think it's indicative of gpu quality and oc overhead, it's not.

That's about all you need to know :)

Gibbo did post a little more detail on the base factors of asic if you're interested (980ti owners thread I think?). But essentially sums up the above.
 
From my personal experience ASIC quality is closely correlated with overclocking potential.

My high ASIC cards have always clocked higher than my low ASIC cards.

Here is a recent example of my two superclocked 980 Tis:

1st card: 74%
2nd card 62%

Cards boosted to 1250~ during gameplay.

I returned the second card because it had other unrelated quality control issues and my new card had an ASIC quality of 73.5%.

Cards now boost to 1305~ during gameplay.
 
ASIC will have some implications for whether a GPU responds more to decreased temperature or increased voltage to get a higher overclock but even that can be a bit complicated it doesn't directly correlate with how well a core will clock.
 
Personally iv'e found that a lower asic card (with a good core) will respond better to increased volts and generally (and i'm talking water cooled here) can be pushed further. To put it in contrast i had a 780ti with a high-ish asic (78%) which overclocked ok but didn't like extra volts, it overclocked ok on air but no better water cooled either. My Titan X however has a low asic 67% and was a crap clocker on air but water cooled it clocks like a beast and the more volts the better.
 
Seems like a load of BS to me. Both my cards have pretty low ASIC Quality but they overclock like bats out of hell, also not needs tonnes of volts.

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In my experience lower is better for overclocking. Since it seems higher is better for other people, i guess its no indication of the overclock potential.
 
It isn't because ultimately if you have a rubbish core then ASIC won't be the deciding factor.

Silicone lottery is and always will be the main factor in how good a card clocks.
 
from my experince the higher asic card will boost higher at stock with possibly lower voltage
 
I owned two Palit GTX 980 Jetstreams. One had an ASIC in the high 70s and one in the low 60s. The better quality one boosted way, way higher (over 1500MHz with a 1300MHz base clock), but overall there wasn't a huge difference in their manual overclocking potential. Both plateaued at just over 1500MHz in the end, but the higher quality ASIC one did it at stock voltage. It was more of a struggle and required some extra volts to get the lower quality ASIC one up there.

Although the lower quality card also had crappy Elpida memory, whereas the other one had Samsung, so it was a relative dog in every respect.
 
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