Founders 1070 vs EVGA 980TI?

So, I'm planning on buying a new GPU tomorrow as my 290X dumps waay too much heat into my case and room, and im starting to want more performance since recently switching to 1440p.

On Overclockers at the moment, I can get the EVGA Superclocked 980ti for 341GBP
Orrrr, the Founders 1070 for 389GBP

Anyone out there got either of these cards and can guide to either one?
Whats the thermals and noise like on the founders card?

Have looked at benchmarks and they appear to be pretty much the same performance level

thanks in advance!

Dont buy a Founders card. Your paying a premium for a stock card. Wait for an aftermarket cooler. the founders cards cant maintain their boost clocks because of heat.

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oh right okay, looking at reviews and such the thermals didn't seem bad but if that's the case i'll forget about the founders edition haha

thank you

1070 because it does support some level of async compute, but a lot less TDP and less power comsumption.

With the founders 1070 you can have either cool and loud or quiet and hot. At normal fan speeds they hit 80s.

The EVGA card will be cooler. So if it is heat you are replacing your card for I would say the 980ti, or wait for aftermarket coolers on the 1070.

Edit: Just as a by the way @giulianno_d The nVidia card completely disable async at the driver level when Time Spy starts. They don't have async, at least not for that test. Unless they updated something.

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I'll probably go with the 980ti then, since money's also a factor and an aftermarket 1070 is a little out of my reach.

thank you!

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That 1070 comes out ahead in that video. Maybe more if Nvidia got their async driver together.

ftw 1070, i get twice the performance than my 390

Oh yeah they still do really well in those tests, just not sure if the performance would go up or down at them moment if it was allowed to run async. The skeptic in me syas if they are disabling it it does not work well.

This all blew up a wekk or so ago when people were calling future mark out for being nVidia bias. They just said that nVidia disable it and can deal with the workload better when it is doing things how it likes.

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Get a 1070 none founders as founders cards cost more and have worse cooling