Don't know if anyone can answer this, but is there any physical difference between the reference and the , other than the obvious water cooling setup? It seems the Hybrid has a higher stock clock and texture fill rate. The stock clock is probably EVGA just turning up a knob, but could the fill rate be tied to any physical difference in the two cards?
For reference the Hybrid has a fill rate of 200.6GT/s and the reference Super Clocked has a fill rate of 194GT/s. The reason I ask is because it looks like the Hybrid is going to be just about impossible to obtain. My plan is to buy a reference SC model (only slightly less impossible to obtain) and just strap a 980 or Titan X Hybrid kit (also hard to obtain) to it. Regardless, I plan on making a customer shroud so the mismatched branding does not bother me.
Then the question comes, if I take this route will I void any warranties or be ineligible for the step up program? Hopefully others have these questions as well.