
To best gage the quality of the GPU cooler under review, GPU temperature was taken with the graphics card idle and under load. Water-based Testing Configuration and Benchmarks Used.WATERCOOL HeatKiller GPU-X3 Core Layout and Design.We take some tools to our new and shiny EVGA GTX 970 SC ACX 2.0 card in a quest for better temperatures and higher performance….Introduction and Technical Specifications.I know what ASIC quality is meant to mean, but I'd be very surprised to see overclocking scale remotely linearly with it. 69.8% on the Strix and 71.5 on the SC ACXĬan't believe you're running 980's with an 8370 lol. This feature has been developed for Nvidia’s Fermi (GX10x and GF11x) and AMD’s Southern Islands chips (Radeon HD 78xx and HD 79xx) and is supposed to indicate the quality of the specific GPU, in percent, based on electrical leakage data.īoth my chips are around the same. " The ASIC Quality screenshot on the right can be evoked from GPU-Z's context menu and is individual for each graphics card and GPU. Googlygoogle it for more information, I just read a little bit in. So its estimating your overclocking performance, not performance compared to an ASIC? ok then. The higher this number, the lower voltage the GPU needs to work at the default clock rate and the higher overclocking results you can get with it by increasing its voltage.Īccording to Alexey Nikolaichuk (the author of RivaTuner and MSI Afterburner), the correlation between voltage and quality is like follows:

The GPU of our sample of the card has an ASIC quality of 76.6%. This feature has been developed for Nvidia’s Fermi (GX10x and GF11x) and AMD’s Southern Islands chips (Radeon HD 78xx and HD 79xx) and is supposed to indicate the quality of the specific GPU, in percent, based on electrical leakage data. "The ASIC Quality screenshot on the right can be evoked from GPU-Z's context menu and is individual for each graphics card and GPU. Right click on the top left menu corner and select "Read ASIC quality." Just noticed my 760's ASIC quality is 86.9% and apparently 77% is good.ĪSIC quality is essentially an easy way to view how good your chip is, you can googlygoogle about it for more details.
