So in the previous post you already notice the 980 and 980 Ti, but next to regular Gaming edition that come factory tweaked, MSI will also offer LE editions of the GeForce GTX GeForce GTX 950 - 960 and 970 Gaming LE cards. These again are all light models. http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/msi-also-releases-geforce-gtx-960-and-970-gaming-(le)-cards.html
It all comes down to price really as if the only difference is the clock speeds then I would imagine we can manually overclock them to the same (or close enough) speeds. Do these come with the same updated cooler with the back plate and LED lighting?
Isn't that still above reference 970 clocks? And I think it's exactly the same as my Gigabyte 970 mini, which I paid about $290 for.