NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition Review & Benchmark

Our review of the GTX 1070 Founders Edition graphics card will compare it vs. the GTX 1080, 980 Ti, 970 (and more) and AMD's R9 Fury X & R9 390X. -

[DarkZane]

Why get founder edition? They're exactly the same as the non-founder one but cost more money.

[No_Pantaloons]

That is exactly what people have been asking since nvidia announced it. A small group of people just wont wait the extra 1-2 weeks for 3rd party cards or actually might need a blower style. Certainly the majority of us will just get a better cooled 3rd party card, likely overclocked, for less money.

[AuToFiRE]

Pfft air cooled is for n00bs ;) But seriously, you are right, but what it comes down to overclocking capability. Founders cards are more refined for more overclocking goodness, much like how Ferrari Enzos are hand built compared to a mass produced car. Mass produced graphics cards will have a certain number of imperfections on the die, whereas the founders are handpicked for their perfection. Much like CPUs, some people will buy hundreds of CPUs and overclock each one and then sell the better overclocking processors for a huge profit. My CPU is currently running at 4.6GHz, up from 3.5GHz stock. But I can still push it above 5GHz during the winter because its one of the better overclocking dies
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[ShadowKnight]

Yup definitely the same lol

[NovusTerminus]

Founders Edition won't make a difference for most people, but basically from what I've read it's the silicon / chips that scored the highest in testing. So they in theory have a higher overclock capability.

It's like Intel with the "K" series, just part of what is known as the "Silicon Lottery"

[AuToFiRE]

Do not downvote this guy, he is 100% correct. Enthusiasts like myself will overclock the hell out of our hardware and are very much willing to pay a little extra for the extra overclocking capability. My 5930K is one of those higher overclockers, capable of easily hitting 5GHz with very little increase to uncore voltages. There are people who buy trays of processors and individually overclock each and sell the highest overclockers for massive profit.

[ARESWARLORD]

I'm waiting for a non reference MSI EVGA 1070. Grace the beautiful Canadian Shores then it will be mine

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[susanto1228]

low cuda core count actually lower than the 980 which is another reason why I am going with the 1080 much higher cuda core count.

[AuToFiRE]

Im curious if there is going to be a 1090.

[conanlifts]

1060 and 1080 ti next i think.