Well, the ASIC stuff is interesting right. I tested around 15pcs on air cooling.
From lowest bin to the highest bin. Almost all KP980Ti seems to be clocking at around 1530-1590mhz at default voltage (around 1.16v). Higher asic cards will be the higher clocking ones, lower asic cards are at the lower end of the range.
There are definitely exceptions, not all gpus go like that, but most do.
ALL KPE 980ti are binned gpus
, even the lowest asic level base card is still capable to hit 1520-1550 usually or more.
That's the air part of asic. Its pretty consistent, but there can be rogue gpus.
The LN2 part of of ASIC value is that higher asic cards clock higher on LN2, have more leakage which will helps with cold problems, and have better memory controllers(highest memory clocks).
ASIC value really applies to LN2 the most. On air, it can help with maxwell because you cannot add additional voltage at ambient cooling. Highest clocks at default voltage almost always on higher asic gpus.
This is what makes higher asic better on Maxwell than previous (Kepler could scale voltage on air, so lower asic was better). Lower ASIC % in the past (pre-maxwell) was the best for raising voltage on gpu at air, because there is less leakage on lower asic gpus. Less leakage = less heat/less noise and also the ability to increase voltage.
