Graphics cards are currently extremely expensive. Many see the best chances of getting a model at acceptable prices with the reference designs of the manufacturers themselves or with Nvidia’s Founders Edition (FE). In the case of the new RTX 3070 Ti, the FE seems to be virtually nonexistent.
A graphics card that is not available at the moment sounds anything but unusual. It is noticeable, however, that the other RTX 3000 models are in circulation as the Founders Edition. You will look in vain for the FE of the RTX 3070 Ti.
For example, on Ebay many offers of the RTX 3080 Ti as Founders Edition and it has often been sold there. The same Find the RTX 3070 Ti
How the prices for graphics cards are currently developing in general, you can find out in the following article:
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What makes the Founders Edition so special?
In terms of performance, there are only minor differences between the different variants of a specific GPU such as the RTX 3070 Ti. Nvidias in Europey exclusively through its partner Notebooksbilliger.de Founders Editions sold are a certain exception, at least in terms of availability.
If you look in forums for buying tips for current graphics cards, new deliveries from the Founders Editions are often mentioned as a promising point of contact (or in the case of Radeon graphics cards the AMD shop). However, when exactly they take place is mostly unknown in advance.
In order to be there on time, there are various alarm systems, for example via certain Discord servers. Meanwhile, however, they are well known on a fairly broad front and some of them are no longer accessible, so that even in the case of the FE, it takes a lot of luck to get a model.
If you want to know how fast the RTX 3070 Ti is, we recommend our test with numerous benchmarks:
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Not only affected Europey
The Founders Edition of the RTX 3070 Ti is not only lost in this country: You have not found it in the USA either (via The Verge). That speaks for general delivery problems at Nvidia. At the same time, partner cards of the RTX 3070 Ti are »readily« available, depending on the circumstances.
No official statements so far: We have sent inquiries about the background to both Nvidia and Notebooksbilliger.de, but have not yet received an answer. Should that change (which we think is unlikely), we will update this article accordingly.