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GeForce GTX 1070 / 1080 Founders Edition Explained
There seems to be quite some confusion about the announcements Nvidia made by offering a "Founders edition" graphics card. Let's explain what exactly it is.
Actually at the press-event this weekend, we the press have been pretty skeptical about the SKU naming as it confuses people. So what is the founders edition ? It's really simple, the founders edition is simply the reference design, yet with Nvidia's premium cooler. That's it ... and that's all. However it is 100 USD more expensive as the AIB partners could offer it at. And therein is the confusion to be found. Nvidia miscommunicated the message somewhat as everybody expected a 'reference design' and then another SKU called the 'Founders edition'. What feels rather wrong is that they are asking a 100 USD price premium for what they call the 'Founders Edition'. The product is in fact your standard reference card. The reason behind this is that Nvidia feels the product just isn't a normal reference card anymore, their reference cards these days are premium quality products with an expensive niche cooler.
Here's where the confusion started, everybody assumed the Founders Edition would be a special edition card.
So, there's no special binning for this series and the clock-frequencies are the same as reference. All this this even confused yours truly at the announcement. So the Founders edition is a reference card. Nvidia however has applied it with their 'premium' vapor chamber cooler. Nvidia just makes the founders edition (reference), the other cards will be AIB/AIC products. The founder edition cards are not factory overclocked, are not binned and it is not a limited edition or anything.
NVIDIA simply feels a reference design is not a just name anymore, and feels it is offering a premium quality product - hence founders edition.
The Founders edition is a 100 bucks more expensive ? Yep, AIB cards from ASUS, Palit, Zotac, MSI and Gigabyte etc can sell their cards and designs a 100 bucks cheaper compared to the founders edition. So yes, the reference design card (=founders edition) could be more expensive opposed to the AIB cards.
In short:
The Reference design = The Founder's Edition.
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#5269650 Posted on: 05/09/2016 04:39 PM
I don't know why someone would pay more for the ref. design, more power to 'em I guess.
Reference coolers are far better for small form factor builds, the 'blower' type cooler pushes warm air out the case far more efficiently than coolers on the AIB cards.
So there is a market for their reference design.
I don't know why someone would pay more for the ref. design, more power to 'em I guess.
Reference coolers are far better for small form factor builds, the 'blower' type cooler pushes warm air out the case far more efficiently than coolers on the AIB cards.
So there is a market for their reference design.
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#5269651 Posted on: 05/09/2016 04:41 PM
lol so much fail.. So now stock nv gpu is 700€
Btw wasn't vapor chamber a stock thing since Fermi 580GTX?+ well now they make it sound like its top $hit or something
lol so much fail.. So now stock nv gpu is 700€
Btw wasn't vapor chamber a stock thing since Fermi 580GTX?+ well now they make it sound like its top $hit or something
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#5269654 Posted on: 05/09/2016 04:45 PM
I too was confused when I heard "Founders Edition" - as I couldn't find what was special about it.
Now we know.
Seriously? $100 more for, what is (and it is, make no mistake!) a reference card.
That's a 3rd Party cooler for me then in future! (Not jumping at 1080 yet, anyway, so I'm more than happy to wait for the 3rd Party offerings + whatever else awaits)
Nvidia's pricing really boggles the mind sometimes.
I too was confused when I heard "Founders Edition" - as I couldn't find what was special about it.
Now we know.
Seriously? $100 more for, what is (and it is, make no mistake!) a reference card.
That's a 3rd Party cooler for me then in future! (Not jumping at 1080 yet, anyway, so I'm more than happy to wait for the 3rd Party offerings + whatever else awaits)
Nvidia's pricing really boggles the mind sometimes.
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#5269655 Posted on: 05/09/2016 04:46 PM
When I read Founder Edition I thought it would be like some kick starter program where you pay the premium but you get the product earlier than official release.
When I read Founder Edition I thought it would be like some kick starter program where you pay the premium but you get the product earlier than official release.
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So not only is the new cooler ugly it cost an arm and a leg.
I hope AMD has something up their sleeves with Polaris because Nvidia is getting out of hand.