Reference Blower vs Aftermarket Blower

[djmoney]

I know there is a hotly debated topic of blower vs open shroud but i have not seen a Founder or reference blower vs an after market blower discussion before.  Is there a difference?  

 

Example  both are clocked the same so why make 2 different products if the turbo doesn't cool better.  (I do see that the turbo has a DIV port on it)  

 

Asus Founders 1080 ti

https://www.asus.com/us/Graphics-Cards/GTX1080TI-FE/

 

Asus Turbo 

https://www.asus.com/us/Graphics-Cards/TURBO-GTX1080TI-11G/ 

 

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3 minutes ago, djmoney said:

Blower vs open

Sorry, my mind is a little off with the title.

[d3sl91]

The Turbo has a DVI Port, which could mean it has a Custom PCB. Founders is always going to be the same PCB, Layout, etc as other card manufacturers for those wanting waterblocks etc.

 

This could be why this card exists. It could be a non-reference PCB in blower style.

[3 Lions]

Aftermarket cards will always be better however reference cards do have their advantages like finding water blocks is much easier and if you have a small form factor case that doesn't have much airflow reference cards will be better. 

[djmoney]

2 minutes ago, d3sl91 said:

The Turbo has a DVI Port, which could mean it has a Custom PCB. 

 

Founders is always going to be the same PCB, Layout, etc as other card manufacturers. 

I guess that would be a reason to have the different produce but what about the cooling and OC head room?  I guess that is what I am really getting at.  

 

3 minutes ago, LinusTechTipsFanFromDarlo said:

Aftermarket cards will always be better

For cooling is this true for aftermarket blower style cards too?  

[3 Lions]

Just now, djmoney said:

For cooling is this true for aftermarket blower style cards too?  

Aftermarket blower cards will be on-par with reference in fact most aftermarket blower cards use the same PCB as the reference version. 

[ApolloFury]

On 14/03/2017 at 5:10 AM, LinusTechTipsFanFromDarlo said:

Aftermarket blower cards will be on-par with reference in fact most aftermarket blower cards use the same PCB as the reference version. 

I know this topic is old but I am interested in aftermarket blower cards. But this shows that the ASUS' blower design is much worse than Nvidia's design.

ASUS tends to be overpriced and underdeliver (they have one of the biggest 3-fans cards for GTX 1080 but it runs hotter while producing more noise compared to other smaller 3-fans cards or even 2-fans), so I am not certain if this represents every aftermarket blower designs out there for Pascal GPUs atleast.

Edited March 22, 2017 by ApolloFury
fixed spelling