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but is it still too pricey?

Yes.

Yes.

If CardFactoryOverclock Is True
Then IsCardOverpriced = True
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Unless you're hardware voltmodding then the silicon lottery is not something you even need to consider, nor any effort OEMs may or may not put into binning chips above 'stock' clocks, because 'stock' clocks have been a misnomer for years now. Effectively every Turing (or Volta or Maxwell or Pascal or any other arch that boosts up to board power limits until hitting Tmax by default) will perform effectively identically and be limited by the board BIOS power limit. Take your lowly non-factory-OC card, download literally any OC utility, and slam the power limit up the the maximum, and the card will perform as well as and factory OC card would based on the same cooler and fan curve.

edzieba

If CardFactoryOverclock Is True
Then IsCardOverpriced = True
EndIf

Unless you're hardware voltmodding then the silicon lottery is not something you even need to consider, nor any effort OEMs may or may not put into binning chips above 'stock' clocks, because 'stock' clocks have been a misnomer for years now. Effectively every Turing (or Volta or Maxwell or Pascal or any other arch that boosts up to board power limits until hitting Tmax by default) will perform effectively identically and be limited by the board BIOS power limit. Take your lowly non-factory-OC card, download literally any OC utility, and slam the power limit up the the maximum, and the card will perform as well as and factory OC card would based on the same cooler and fan curve.

I don't entirely disagree, but in some cases you may need modified BIOSes to make this work. e.g. the MSI card we compared to is 105% limited (based on 175W at 100%) even at max, but this GB one seems closer to 240W when maxed out, and the difference shows both at stock and when max-OCed. It's unquestionably a... question... of available power, but if a card makes more power available by design to the same GPU, that seems worth exploring.