Really? It seemed to hold quite true for the 79XX series cards..Every beast O/C'ing 7950 out there had an insanely high ASIC score (mine was 91.6% and my core was O/C'd 50.5% on water)...Soooo it means nothing? I guess I will find out when I get my 290's max O/C dialed in...
To quote Mr Baumann-
http://forum.beyond3d.com/showpost.php?p=1808073&postcount=2130Dave Baumann said:ASIC "quality" is a misnomer propobated by GPU-z reading a register and not really knowing what it results in. It is even more meaningless with the binning mechanism of Hawaii.