you may have seen a load of people including myself with one of these shiny
looking cards an Nvidia founders edition and wondered what the deal is
with them and what the difference between a founders edition is versus an
add-in board partner card like the zotac one or plenty others from the likes of a
Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, EVGA and all the other add-in board partners this video should
help explain that first of all we need to understand what a founders Edition
card is in the first place it's a card that Nvidia sells directly through the
website that they as far as I'm aware an away manufacturer themselves and sell in
theory for a little bit less than most add-in board partner cards.
generally is a tad a bit slower although we'll talk about that in a second this
interesting is that the founders Edition cards are actually a very new
thing up until the last generation they didn't have any founders edition cards
the cards that Nvidia produced were called reference cards and essentially
that was because they are cards that have a fairly lack-luster blower on them
they're generally not meant to be the sort of cards that you actually go out
and buy they were a reference design for the add-in board partners for things like
memory layout and that VRMs a power delivery layouts so that the add-in board
partners would have a reference to where they should put
all that sort of stuff. Now while you could go and buy a reference style card back in
the 980 days or whatever from people like say EVGA for example you normally
couldn't buy directly from Nvidia unless you obviously get a review sample which
in that case isn't buying from them but either way you normally couldn't buy
directly from Nvidia but that changed with the founders edition series with
the GTX 10 series cards where they launched still a blower style design but
it was a bit more unique in its styling and you can buy it directly from Nvidia
to website since then they've actually revamped the cooler entirely to go with
this actually just very beautiful dual fan design personally think that this is
one of the best-looking cards of generally all time so very very
impressed here so I also actually got a lot of heft to it in terms of its cooler
so actually performs pretty well there although again we'll talk about that in
a second now the way that add-in board partner cards come in is that as I
mentioned normally you wouldn't even be able to
by cards from Nvidia directly so they added more partners people like a soos
MSI ZOTAC EVGA all the other types of you know add-in board partners and those
were the people that you actually went and bought a card from never days you
have a couple extra options including NVIDIA themselves. Now technically
speaking I believe that stock is generally more limited and NVIDIA has
gone through a few kind of strange choices especially with the 2060
including having the power connector on the back side of the card where it's
just the most awkward to have it plugged in and you know cable management wise
and all that sort of stuff but either way that's that's an option but of course you can
still go with an add-in board partner card which is normally a little bit more
expensive but actually tend to perform a little bit better then when it comes to
the performance here you can normally guess by the clock speed that is listed
how well the card will do but because of GPU boost which is a technology that
allows the graphics core to automatically overclock itself as long
as it can deliver itself enough power and keep the heat away and but if it can
do that then it can normally boost even higher than the rated boost clock so the
rate of boost clock for the zotac card is 1800 megahertz whereas the race to
boot clock for the founders Edition is only 1680 so in theory the you know
Zotac card is gonna be a bit faster but in the real world the reference card got
up to 1950 megahertz which is a good like 200Hz than it you know
reckons that should go and the ZOTAC actually got to 2040MHz again 240
makers higher than it lists that it should go but obviously the ZOTAC
card that is a little bit faster here but not by that much so unsurprisingly
that 5% clock speed difference translates into games here's a quick
look at the benchmark comparing the two. Starting off with 3d mark FireStrike you
can see that there really isn't much of a difference here it's only about two
percent different in terms of the 4k fire strike scores so really nothing too
much to worry about when it comes to battlefield 5 it's actually the wrong
way around with fairly consistent results of the phone res edition card
being ever so slightly faster than the zoisite one this was just used to GPU
boost behavior and likely actually close enough to be
margin of error anyway so you're looking at very similar s of results either way
here dirt rally is actually identical here again so again this is just you to
the GPU boost behavior and power delivery and how they want to you know boost
themselves up and so obviously in this run they're at both pulling the the same
set of clock speeds when it comes to PUBG we're looking at about a six
percent difference at 1080p here which has kinda to be expected obviously
that's about what the maximum clock speed difference was and so it's fairly
reasonable to expect slightly higher on the saw set card although obviously not
buy all that much when it comes to Fortnite again we're looking at a fairly
similar difference of four percent still going for 133 to 139 so again not a massive
jump but potentially slightly noticeable especially at higher resolutions where
you can get a few more fps so if they perform pretty similarly are there any
other differences well of course style is one of them both cards do rocky dual
fan design but of course the ZOTAC card is a bit smaller and I would
mention that even though the both cards seem to use the same sized PCB the founders
edition card has a bit of an overhang for extra heat sink and the second fan
which actually doesn't end up impacting the temperatures all that much both
cards are sitting around about seventy degrees Celsius and both cards were
actually about as noisy as each other which was a tad noisy obviously just
from airflow generally but I was in an open-air chassis so you can take that
how you want now there are a few other changes obviously as I mentioned that
PCIe 8 pin on the back of the photo station card is not in the best place so
to attack correct of that on the side where basically everyone else puts their
power connections but so they then kind of went and ruined it by putting a
shroud over it which makes it really difficult to actually get the connector
in but I suppose that something there also changed up the rear i/o dropping
the DVI and USB C ports in favor of an extra display port so should you get a
founders edition or should you go with an add-in board partner card? Well that's
really up to you if you want a little bit better performance and potentially
depending on which model you get a better cooler a bit quieter
and other sort of stuff maybe some more overclocking head room then and add-in
board partner card is definitely the way to go you can also get some cheap ones
as well if the cooler here doesn't suit you or if the stock isn't available on
NVIDA's site because I don't believe that there's a mass manufacturing these is at
least as much as the add-in board partners will try and do so that's you
know option but if you do want this actually very stylish cooler and you
don't mind losing a little bit of performance and maybe not having the
single best cooler on the market then maybe the founders Edition is a way to
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