Why do reference cards have blower coolers?

[lobster_zoidberg]

Every single reviewer tells you not to buy a reference card for all sorts of reasons, so why don't AMD and Nvidia make their reference cards with an 'aftermarket' cooler and shunt production of blower coolers to one of the third parties?

[TVwazhere]

1 minute ago, lobster_zoidberg said:

Every single reviewer tells you not to buy a reference card for all sorts of reasons, so why don't AMD and Nvidia make their reference cards with an 'aftermarket' cooler and shunt production of blower coolers to one of the third parties?

Aftermarket companies actually do make blower style coolers

Theyre too busy making the chips to outsource additional RnD into aftermarket coolers, since theyve been using the same/extremely similar reference coolers for like.... what, five years maybe? At least on Nvidia's part

[System Error Message]

price and targets. GPU must be below 80C and the reference cooler manages to do it at stock clocks. Aftermarket cards offer better for better overclocking and better VRMs. Same as why does intel make crappy stock coolers too.

[Blackhole890]

depending on the situation you will need a reference cooler or not... If your case is very small with almost any airflow, you would need a reference cooler to take air and blow it away. Normal air coolers need fresh air to push into the case and blow hot air out and reference coolers doesnt need any extra help because they do all the work alone even with higher temps

[HKZeroFive]

There are quite a few reasons:

 

1. It's highly "compatible" with most cases... especially in OEM ones where airflow is minimal and you need to dump out the hot air.

2. Cost.

3. It's basically tradition at this point.

[Princess Luna]

Because nVidia and AMD are busy actually manufacturing the Graphical Processing Unit which is the most important part of a video card

 

Leave the rest to the partners but in all honesty Founders Edition is good and it has its user cases where it is the best alternative, it just depends on what you want and need.

[lobster_zoidberg]

Just now, Blackhole890 said:

depending on the situation you will need a reference cooler or not... If your case is very small with almost any airflow, you would need a reference cooler to take air and blow it away because normal air coolers need fresh air to push into the case and blow hot air out 

I'm aware there's a reason for them being made, or else I wouldn't have written that they should keep being made by somebody else. 

It seems the vast majority of users though can buy aftermarket coolers, so wouldn't Nvida and AMD want a piece of that larger market? 

[Blackhole890]

1 minute ago, lobster_zoidberg said:

I'm aware there's a reason for them being made, or else I wouldn't have written that they should keep being made by somebody else. 

It seems the vast majority of users though can buy aftermarket coolers, so wouldn't Nvida and AMD want a piece of that larger market? 

like they said, their target is to release the horsepower and the manufacturers, their coolers

[i_build_nanosuits]

9 minutes ago, lobster_zoidberg said:

Every single reviewer tells you not to buy a reference card for all sorts of reasons, so why don't AMD and Nvidia make their reference cards with an 'aftermarket' cooler and shunt production of blower coolers to one of the third parties?

it's for compatibility... because a blower card is a self contained system that does not rely on case fans to push out the heat

that way nvidia and AMD are making sure that those reference design cards can be used in as much situations as possible.

[Princess Luna]

2 minutes ago, lobster_zoidberg said:

It seems the vast majority of users though can buy aftermarket coolers

You're not taking into consideration that a lot of people doesn't buy the Founders Edition because they can not buy an aftermarket card.... they buy it out of preference for its aesthetics or necessity for blower style.

[TheRandomness]

22 minutes ago, lobster_zoidberg said:

I'm aware there's a reason for them being made, or else I wouldn't have written that they should keep being made by somebody else. 

It seems the vast majority of users though can buy aftermarket coolers, so wouldn't Nvida and AMD want a piece of that larger market? 

A blower cooler is cheaper to produce than an aftermarket one. 

[DildorTheDecent]

They're nice and cheap enough to offset the cost of a waterblock. Waterblocked FE is fast af boi. 

[Mooshi]

Try jaming 2 cards back to back with aftermarket coolers and see how the top card enjoys choking. You don't get this with blower cards. This gives Nvidia and AMD the ability to showcase new cards at tech events in multi GPU configs.

 

Serious enthusiasts are going to replace the cooler anyway that it makes zero sense to care beyond a blower cooler.

[Mira Yurizaki]

55 minutes ago, lobster_zoidberg said:

Every single reviewer tells you not to buy a reference card for all sorts of reasons, so why don't AMD and Nvidia make their reference cards with an 'aftermarket' cooler and shunt production of blower coolers to one of the third parties?

Because that would give the third party preferential treatment, which would tick off the other AIBs.

 

Also blower style coolers actually exhaust the hot air out of the case rather than circulate it. This isn't ideal for certain situations.

[Mick Naughty]

Nothing wrong with metal blowers. Either people have bad cases or hot ass rooms. Simple and easy to produce, less points of failure and leave room for aftermarket to grow. The same with any product made. 

 

I'll take a Titan blower over any open air cooler ever. Look better and performance is all the same. I'd rather deal with water cooling then horrid open air.