Quote Originally Posted by zalbard View Post
From your description, uber-mode sounds like factory overclock to me.

Higher voltages to maintain higher clocks. Higher TDP and noise levels being the consequence of this.

Not much different from manually raising TDP limit, fan speed and frequency.

So I guess, quiet mode (AMD) vs stock (Nvidia) and max OC (AMD) vs max OC (Nvidia) would still be the fair way to compare the cards.
So you consider boost on reference/stock cards to be factory overclocked?