What does Asic actually mean?? GTX 680 at 100%

[Jay85]

I opened gpu-z last night and ran the asic test which gave me 100% score. Then below it had a small chart but i cant make sense of it.


Is having 100% a good or bad thing???!

Anyone able to shed some light on this and put it into laymen terms?


Thanks!

 

[Jay85]

Guess we both have good overclockers? Or really poor ones lol.

 

[Jay85]

^^ They changed the way to read data off the cards with the 6 series - you can infact destabalise the system trying to read it wrong so that might be why they all show 100%.

The numbers seem a bit meaningless but trend I've seen - which actually seems slightly different to what the GPU-Z author suggested:

Cards with low number <=60% seem to run fairly hot but overclock well, respond better to enhanced cooling than they do higher voltages.

Cards with >60% don't seem to overclock as well on stock but respond better to extra voltage and get good results when watercooled and a voltage boost.

What you said makes much more sense to me since mine is watercooled and i have upped the voltage which allowed me to bump the overclock nearly past +200mhz on the core!

Awesome explaination (thumbs up)