Midrange cards are low margin and are redesigned to be cheaper than the reference, not to have better power delivery. It's more like outsourcing because a Taiwa

Midrange cards are low margin and are redesigned to be cheaper than the reference, not to have better power delivery. It's more like outsourcing because a Taiwanese OEM is well positioned to have an army of labor design and manufacture boards for cheaper than Nvidia or AMD can. > They often know better how to make a board for a GPU than Nvidia and AMD themselves. Maybe a long time ago, but not for recent generations. AFAICT almost all 3rd party AMD cards sold are reference design.