Watch this and educate yourselves:
 
  TL:DW
     ASIC scores are related to the ICs ability to do the same amount of work with a varying degree of voltage. Higher ASICs have less voltage leakage, Lower ASICs have more. This does not necessarily mean that you can overclock more or less with one or the other unless under extreme circumstances (I.E. LN2) A card with higher ASIC may boost higher naturally than a lower ASIC card simply because of the voltage efficiency, but only slightly. Cards with lower ASIC scores can reach the same clocks as higher ASIC scores, they just require more voltage and will run hotter as well. My personal opinion varies slightly from Jayztwocents' here, but the difference is negligible at best under most circumstances.
 
     EVGA is binning the Kingpin 980ti's to better suit what the card was built for, extreme overclocking (LN2)
 

Mine has a 81.7% ASIC , this runs cool and quiet.
In fact I cannot really hear it even in Firestrike!
 

stalinx20
No. It doesn't matter.

Oh yes it does.
 
I am building a 3 way EVGA GTX 980ti, Z170 Classified extreme water system and have worked with now 4 980ti SC ACX 2.0 4993's.
 
1 ASIC 63.2 popped while doing a 3 way SLI Firestrike test. (there was actually a hole in the GPU)
2 ASIC 78.9 EVGA warranty replacement  w/ samsung memory  max   1550/4100   (Will run @ 1550/4200 but seeing green stripes)
3 ASIC 77.8 Bought this one at Frys with #1 above w/ Hynix memory  1550/4000 stable (Run 4c to 5c hotter than #2 with same exact cooling but never gets over 40c) 
4 ASIC 72.5 Bought this one from Newegg w/ Hynix memory     max    1520/3800  ( Temps run between #2 and #3)
 
Bad part about doing a multi GPU system is your limited to the weakest GPU,  but disabling cards with the PCI-e switch was great.
 
Firestrike scores Z170 @ 5 GHz 3333 MHz memory Adaptive voltage .225 offset ( Will Boot at  5.1GHz but will not pass Prime 95)
 
Single GPU #2 above Slot 1  1550/4200  Score 18331
Two Way SLI #2 Slot 1 #3 Slot 4 1550/4000 Score 25580
Three way SLI  #2 Slot 1 #4 Slot 2 #3 Slot 4  1520/ 3800 Score 28000
 
Slot 1 and 4 in two way SLI IS just slightly faster than Slot 1 and 2 @ 1520/3800.
 

Maybe we should rename the Forum from EVGA to the Walking Dead Forum

EVGATech_BrandonS
I saw a 92% K|ngp|n while sorting them out one day. I was REALLY tempted to throw money at it, but couldn't quite afford it :(

I feel you... must be thrilling to be that close to the source :P

980ti classified 82.1%
980ti classified 68.5%  kind of a crapshoot. probably why the guy was selling it. good thing I don't plan on overclocking anyway. im just glad to have two of them

Lone_Gunman

stalinx20
No. It doesn't matter.

Oh yes it does.
 
I am building a 3 way EVGA GTX 980ti, Z170 Classified extreme water system and have worked with now 4 980ti SC ACX 2.0 4993's.
 
1 ASIC 63.2 popped while doing a 3 way SLI Firestrike test. (there was actually a hole in the GPU)
2 ASIC 78.9 EVGA warranty replacement  w/ samsung memory  max   1550/4100   (Will run @ 1550/4200 but seeing green stripes)
3 ASIC 77.8 Bought this one at Frys with #1 above w/ Hynix memory  1550/4000 stable (Run 4c to 5c hotter than #2 with same exact cooling but never gets over 40c) 
4 ASIC 72.5 Bought this one from Newegg w/ Hynix memory     max    1520/3800  ( Temps run between #2 and #3)
 
Bad part about doing a multi GPU system is your limited to the weakest GPU,  but disabling cards with the PCI-e switch was great.
 
Firestrike scores Z170 @ 5 GHz 3333 MHz memory Adaptive voltage .225 offset ( Will Boot at  5.1GHz but will not pass Prime 95)
 
Single GPU #2 above Slot 1  1550/4200  Score 18331
Two Way SLI #2 Slot 1 #3 Slot 4 1550/4000 Score 25580
Three way SLI  #2 Slot 1 #4 Slot 2 #3 Slot 4  1520/ 3800 Score 28000
 
Slot 1 and 4 in two way SLI IS just slightly faster than Slot 1 and 2 @ 1520/3800.
 

It's the FPS and the input lag that matters. Not a firestrike score.

stalinx20
 
It's the FPS and the input lag that matters. Not a firestrike score.

It's NOT the FPS and the input lag that matters, stability matters.
Firestrike is a stability test

Benchmarks are well and good, but the only "real" test is playing your games. A card could run fine with valley, heaven, catzilla, firestrike, etc. Then boom- crash your pc when you load your favorite game. Just my $.02

My ASIC is 75.9 %, and my 980 SC overclocks great. I have it at +99 for everyday, but I can bump the core up to +114 if I wanted. The memory is at +149, and I just keep it there. OC's like a champ.

stalinx20
Not that it really matters for me, but mine is 65... I can get a core of +150, and memory of +250. It doesn't choke a bit. However, I back off doing this now, and just use SLI if I want more performance. I would like my GPUs to last at least a year or 2 more.

Wow. +150 on the core? Stable? That is frikkin awesome. What good overclockers these 980s are. I just got my new Acer 28 inch 4k monitor, thinking about throwing another 980 in for sli.........I dunno. I have 1300 bucks burning a hole in my paypal!!!! I dunno if I should just sell my 980, and then pay 120 for the 980ti, or just get another 980 for my rig. Decisions, decisions.........

Walterfulmer

stalinx20
Not that it really matters for me, but mine is 65... I can get a core of +150, and memory of +250. It doesn't choke a bit. However, I back off doing this now, and just use SLI if I want more performance. I would like my GPUs to last at least a year or 2 more.

Wow. +150 on the core? Stable? That is frikkin awesome. What good overclockers these 980s are. I just got my new Acer 28 inch 4k monitor, thinking about throwing another 980 in for sli.........I dunno. I have 1300 bucks burning a hole in my paypal!!!! I dunno if I should just sell my 980, and then pay 120 for the 980ti, or just get another 980 for my rig. Decisions, decisions.........

Thanks. I backed off doing it though -_-. Continuous overclocking on the GPU (while on air) can give it a heavy burden. So, I set it back to default, and just use SLI.
 
Sorry. Didn't answer your question.
You should sell it and get a 980TI.

My 980 Ti Classified has ASIC quality of 67.9% and anything above 1450MHz (around plus 50-60 in MSI Afterburner) will become unstable in benchmarks (Unigine Heaven and FurMark) as well as in games (GTA:V and some others). Seems lower than most folks around here.