Most readers understood that, under the guise of "Founders Edition" will hide the usual video card GeForce GTX 1080 and GeForce GTX 1070 reference design, which will appear on the market before the product with own design partners, and therefore will have extra charges. If the affiliate video card GeForce GTX 1080 will be later available for $ 599, for the right to possess the Founders Edition version will have to pay the full $ 699. In the case of the GeForce GTX 1070 run-up in prices given: $ 449 versus $ 379.
In the reporting quarter conference which has just ended, one of the attending analysts turned to NVIDIA leadership to explain what is special about the graphics cards Founders Edition series. The CEO began his reply with an unexpected formulation: in his words, these cards have appeared in response to consumer demand. According to him, the usual reference design - a kind of starting point for the company's partners, which allows them to improvise a little bit. In the case of the Founders Edition place for "amateur" does not remain. All cards in this series are made uniform in accordance with NVIDIA's idea. In fact, the company enables consumers to buy the product in the version in which it was developed by NVIDIA.
This does not mean that NVIDIA will put a spoke in the wheel to its partners, who want to modify the reference design cards, and create own products. Supporting partners will be carried out in the previous volumes. It's just that the GeForce GTX 1080 and GeForce GTX 1070 will be very standard version. This was followed by brief remarks from the mouth of NVIDIA CEO that the Founders Edition will overclock well , and in the production will be used only quality components. This does not mean that a variety of video cards by partners of the company will be worse.