P5BJEsus$549.99 for the NVIDIA reference card or $619.99 for this card. I personally would go with this card for the faster clock speeds and superior cooling system.
Better cooling/power phases do nothing for overclockability of Pascal, it's all silicon lottery. I can run my 1080 ti FE at almost 2ghz with undervolt/fan curve all day long and it never overheats or throttles. I also have Aorus 1080 ti with a over-engineered power phases and humongous three-slot cooler that barely reaches 1800hz and whines like crazy. This is a crappy a deal, and $70 over FE does not guarantee better clocks, and if you take into consideration that nvidia won't make you wait as long as MD, it's a no brainer.
ashirakiYou snooze, you loose. Seriously though, Nvidia's been quite good lately with restocking and its GPUs don't sell out in seconds any more. The last one lasted for hours and it was available at the time of the posting. I'm sure you can get any GPU you want from nvidia within a week or so.
P5BJEsusI don't understand. How do you buy it directly from them? The best I see is the link to bestbuy..
Edit: Oh the site was messed up from some add-ons.
NOT A DEAL AT ALL.
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/products/10series/geforce-gtx-1080/
Edit: Oh the site was messed up from some add-ons.