Sadly, not if we see the same pattern as with the 1080. Oddly, the FE cards turned out to be cheaper in South Africa.
I think it is too early to call yet, even for the 1080. Stock is hard to get so you still have to pay premium prices.
With the local online retailers I checked, nowhere could you just drop one into your cart. It's listed as either "out of stock", "enquire", "pre-order" or "contact for availability".
Also, there are not a lot of non-founders edition cards listed yet and those that are have words like "extreme" and "gaming" in the title. And them be $$$ words.
For example, the cheapest card I could find (
EVGA FE, Rebeltech for R12999 *Out of Stock/Enquire*) doesn't even have any non-FE cards from the same brand listed anywhere locally to make a comparison with.
As a wise man once said:
...little patience, mm yeah, mm yeah
need a little patience, yeah
just a little patience, yeah
some more patience, yeah
need some patience, yeah
could use some patience, yeah
gotta have some patience, yeah
all it takes is patience,
just a little patience
is all you need