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I have a gtx 1080 reference card with icx cooler and was wondering what is the main difference between my gpu and non reference card.
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Re: What is the main difference between reference vs non-reference card?
2017/10/01 23:31:46
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mostly power delivery components being slightly better/with more phase's ect... which can somewhat help overclocking. also sometimes a higher power limit / ftw series have an extra bios . but with pascal most of your overclocking ability is down to the silicon lottery. a lot of it depends which two cards you are comparing. (in simple terms your reference card is the same pcb as the FE card and the non reference cards have a custom one)
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Re: What is the main difference between reference vs non-reference card?
2017/10/02 00:06:54
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One other factor is heat...
Reference coolers(FE) exhaust hot air out your case. Non-reference cards(ACX3.0) swirl the hot air around in your case.
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Re: What is the main difference between reference vs non-reference card?
2017/10/02 00:12:49
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One other factor is heat...
Reference coolers(FE) exhaust hot air out your case. Non-reference cards(ACX3.0) swirl the hot air around in your case.
reference cards can have non reference coolers example his icx cooler card has a Fe pcb .as he was asking about that card i didn't add cooling as he already has a non reference cooling with a reference pcb kinda a hybrid to say
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Re: What is the main difference between reference vs non-reference card?
2017/10/02 02:37:25
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By bad...I didn't read the "icx" part.
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Re: What is the main difference between reference vs non-reference card?
2017/10/02 21:53:26
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Re: What is the main difference between reference vs non-reference card?
2017/10/02 23:17:25
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Reference is what NVIDIA showed off originally while non-reference is ones that companies tweaked. Often with better coolers or faster default speeds.
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Re: What is the main difference between reference vs non-reference card?
2017/10/03 00:20:55
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Re: What is the main difference between reference vs non-reference card?
2017/10/03 01:03:03
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As you can see from the above post there are many differences. The main difference between reference and non-reference is the non-reference card comes with a better cooler/beefed up vrm section.
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Re: What is the main difference between reference vs non-reference card?
2017/10/03 02:00:14
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From my personal (anecdotal) experience reference cards were always more reliable. I'd go as far as to say that non-reference cooling usually sucks compared to blower (turbine) fan.
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Re: What is the main difference between reference vs non-reference card?
2017/10/03 06:35:32
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Go with the non reference cards!
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Re: What is the main difference between reference vs non-reference card?
2017/10/03 07:42:56
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From my personal (anecdotal) experience reference cards were always more reliable. I'd go as far as to say that non-reference cooling usually sucks compared to blower (turbine) fan.
if non refrence coolers do worse it's ussaly for lack of air flow as the need more. Blower style cards are efficient in pushing there heat away and are good for small builds or low airflow builds. But refrence cards can have non refrence coolers attached what you are talking about is an FE stye cooler card. For example the 1080ti SC black is a refrence pcb like his icx but has a non refrence cooler
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Re: What is the main difference between reference vs non-reference card?
2017/10/03 07:46:26
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Go with the non reference cards!
Jc
I have a gtx 1080 reference card with icx cooler and was wondering what is the main difference between my gpu and non reference card.
Thanks!
If you read OP's post he's asking about the difference from his refrence ICX card which is a refrence pcb with non refrence cooler. He didn't really ask which card to buy.
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Re: What is the main difference between reference vs non-reference card?
2017/10/03 19:17:04
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Thank you all! I will think about this!
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Re: What is the main difference between reference vs non-reference card?
2017/10/03 20:37:19
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Pre-overclocked cards are the way to go.
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Re: What is the main difference between reference vs non-reference card?
2017/10/03 21:06:44
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Pre-overclocked cards are the way to go.
why is that?in Pascal it has really just seemed to be a lottery as the boost clocks they quote are allways way lower then what gpu boost it's self pushes it to. The only card with any decent binning is really the king pin where they guarantee you a good oc. The other cards guarantee boost clocks of like 1683 for the ftw3 some are slightly lower. But in pascal there's no real need for places to bin them, other then a few select cards as all Pascal cards go well above the boost clocks they state. There are some better coolers but in a bang for buck sense the little MHz you gain performance wise is small when looking at say a SC black vs a ftw3. But if you have the money to throw fancy coolers are nixe
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Re: What is the main difference between reference vs non-reference card?
2017/10/03 22:12:41
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I just like cards overclocked out of the box. You can either push it a little more, or leave it as is. Everyone has their own opinion.
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Re: What is the main difference between reference vs non-reference card?
2017/10/06 09:20:16
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Aftermarket cards pretty much always have a more effective cooling solution than "reference" cards.
Many but not all aftermarket cards also have a better "power the GPU and RAM" setup - the exceptions generally use the "reference" board design.
Aftermarket cards generally but not always set the "default" clocks higher than reference cards.
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