Freeride boards will be stiffer, to hold your edge better when carving, making them more stable at higher speeds. Each manufacturer has its own approach to improving board performance and durability. They each have their own construction process and design details, from sandwhich to full cap and some variations in between. If you read through the board descriptions for each of the lines we carry, they might sound similar. That's partly because we only carry high quality snowboards at Wavejammer.
Life's too short to ride bad boards.