Nvidia graphics cards

[devshah4113]

I was randomly looking at graphics cards and saw that nvidia make graphics cards and then other companies such as EVGA,MSI and Gigabyte sell graphics cards that have "GeForce GTX".
Is there any difference between Nvidia GPUs and other ones? Or are they all the same with different aesthetics?

 

[2sidedpolygon]

Models from various manufacturers will have different power delivery, cooling, and aesthetics.

 

[Math Geek]

they are all based on the same graphics chip. so all 1070 cards have the same gpu no matter who manufacturers it. nvidia makes a "reference" design they produce themselves and offer to others to build as well. the various brands make reference design cards with various cooling and also custom design boards for themselves as well. that's why there are so many options for each gpu type.

most of the time the custom cooled cards are better than the nvidia reference cards by a lot. but you have to read reviews to see how all the custom cards compare to one another. they have different cooling, clock speeds, ram speeds, power delivery and so on and so on. therefore, they all perform a bit differently.

 

[devshah4113]

they are all based on the same graphics chip. so all 1070 cards have the same gpu no matter who manufacturers it. nvidia makes a "reference" design they produce themselves and offer to others to build as well. the various brands make reference design cards with various cooling and also custom design boards for themselves as well. that's why there are so many options for each gpu type.

most of the time the custom cooled cards are better than the nvidia reference cards by a lot. but you have to read reviews to see how all the custom cards compare to one another. they have different cooling, clock speeds, ram speeds, power delivery and so on and so on. therefore, they all perform a bit differently.

So i have an Nvidia GTX 1080. Does that mean that other types of 1080s, for example the EVGA, will perform better in games and any other GPU heavy task?

 

[2sidedpolygon]

they are all based on the same graphics chip. so all 1070 cards have the same gpu no matter who manufacturers it. nvidia makes a "reference" design they produce themselves and offer to others to build as well. the various brands make reference design cards with various cooling and also custom design boards for themselves as well. that's why there are so many options for each gpu type.

most of the time the custom cooled cards are better than the nvidia reference cards by a lot. but you have to read reviews to see how all the custom cards compare to one another. they have different cooling, clock speeds, ram speeds, power delivery and so on and so on. therefore, they all perform a bit differently.

So i have an Nvidia GTX 1080. Does that mean that other types of 1080s, for example the EVGA, will perform better in games and any other GPU heavy task?

Thermally, almost certainly, performance-wise, if you overclock them (Which is much more possible with those better thermals), yes also.

 

[Math Geek]

with the introduction of boost 2.0 last generation, overclocking and the high end over-engineered cards yielded pretty much no improvement over the cheaper options. the issue with nvidia reference cards (those with single blower style fan) is thermals. they tend to run hotter and therefore throttle back more often to keep temps from getting out of hand.

you'll see a small increase with a custom cooled 1080 over the reference card for sure. but it won't be massive but maybe 10% on a good day. that's a few fps here and there depending on settings but not enough to merit changing to another 1080.

buying those super expensive cards won't get any extra fps in game nor will manually overclocking them. gives you a nice warm and fuzzy to say it's running at 2.1 ghz but reality is that letting boost 2.0 do it's thing yields pretty much identical performance with no input from you at all.