The Greatest GPU of All Time: NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti & GTX 1080 2024 Revisit & History
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Date: 2024-04-07
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McLongSausage
Still rocking my GeForce Aorus Extreme 1080TI in my old PC, would probably still be using it but my upgrade path for everything else in it was non existent and the 7400 was pretty limiting unless I played in 4k but new games were getting pretty heavy for the card and it just didn't feel ideal. Gave the PC to my son, it's called the Blue Bomber, it's blue front LED Ring Fans in a Fractal Meshify C Tempered Glass, 12 Gb 2226 generic ram, OEM Asus Motherboard (that didn't allow any overclocking of said ram) that I had harvested from a pre-built on sale along with the stock intel cooler, processor and 1tb hard drive. Upgraded the system to the fractal case and installed a sata ssd and the 1080TI and a Walmart 8Bit LED Bomberman figure as a support for the card ( at the time this was a monster card, we were all sweet summer children lol) and it got 30 to 60 fps in 4k high with cyberpunk, more 30 then 60 lol. Built a system last year in a Fractal Torrent White Tempered Glass, 7950X3D, B650E Aorus Master Motherboard, 4090 Aorus Master, 2x 32Gb GSkill Trident Z RGB at CL30 6000mt/s , 3 Samsung 980 1tb Nvme's(operating system and 3d Design) 1 Teamsomething pcie gen 3 4tb Nvme(games library) plus a Arctic Liquid Freezer II 420 AIO (Case Modded to Fit) in Push/Pull, 2 140s on the bottom, 1 120 exhaust, the decepticon/autobot logo switching on the 4090 lcd to add a few more fps all powered by a EVGA SuperNova G3(I think) 1300 power supply connected to a 65 Samsung Neo Qled 4K QN90B monitor and a Meta Quest 3 to play Microsoft Flight Sim (which is the reason for the 4tb ssd 4 my gaming library) lol. Hoping I'll get my 6 or 7 years out of this set up as well lol.
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Still rocking my GeForce Aorus Extreme 1080TI in my old PC, would probably still be using it but my upgrade path for everything else in it was non existent and the 7400 was pretty limiting unless I played in 4k but new games were getting pretty heavy for the card and it just didn't feel ideal. Gave the PC to my son, it's called the Blue Bomber, it's blue front LED Ring Fans in a Fractal Meshify C Tempered Glass, 12 Gb 2226 generic ram, OEM Asus Motherboard (that didn't allow any overclocking of said ram) that I had harvested from a pre-built on sale along with the stock intel cooler, processor and 1tb hard drive. Upgraded the system to the fractal case and installed a sata ssd and the 1080TI and a Walmart 8Bit LED Bomberman figure as a support for the card ( at the time this was a monster card, we were all sweet summer children lol) and it got 30 to 60 fps in 4k high with cyberpunk, more 30 then 60 lol. Built a system last year in a Fractal Torrent White Tempered Glass, 7950X3D, B650E Aorus Master Motherboard, 4090 Aorus Master, 2x 32Gb GSkill Trident Z RGB at CL30 6000mt/s , 3 Samsung 980 1tb Nvme's(operating system and 3d Design) 1 Teamsomething pcie gen 3 4tb Nvme(games library) plus a Arctic Liquid Freezer II 420 AIO (Case Modded to Fit) in Push/Pull, 2 140s on the bottom, 1 120 exhaust, the decepticon/autobot logo switching on the 4090 lcd to add a few more fps all powered by a EVGA SuperNova G3(I think) 1300 power supply connected to a 65 Samsung Neo Qled 4K QN90B monitor and a Meta Quest 3 to play Microsoft Flight Sim (which is the reason for the 4tb ssd 4 my gaming library) lol. Hoping I'll get my 6 or 7 years out of this set up as well lol.
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HappyBeezerStudios
The GTX 1080 Ti totally deserves to be in a hall of fame together with the Geforce 4 Ti 4200, the Radeon 9500 Pro, the Geforce 8800 GT, and the Radeon HD 7970
All cards that had great performance for the money and aged insanely well.
The Ti 4200 not only outperformed the 5200 but also the 6200
the 9500 Pro could be unlocked to a 9700 Pro and that was at the time the unbeatable fastest card
The 8800 GT released at $200 and came incredibly close to the $400 8800 GTX and about 3 times the performance of the $150 8600 GTS. That would be like a RTX 4080 SE (With 4070 Ti Super performance) for the price of a 4060 Ti today.
The HD 7970 had incredible performance and aged so well, FineWine became a fitting description.
Personally I'm still on a 1060 like many millions other users. It still does all I need it to do.
The RX 480/580 that only competes against the 1060 in the midrange market is a bit like how the HD 4870 competed in the midrange market against the GTX 260. An almost perfect repeat actually. Slightly better performance and price at slightly higher power draw and some fewer features. And in both periods both cards from both manufacturers were absolutely viable options.
And the RTX 20 cards were basically a proof of concept that hardware RTX can be a thing, but weren't that amazing at it. It took the following generation for a meaningful performance upgrade.
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The GTX 1080 Ti totally deserves to be in a hall of fame together with the Geforce 4 Ti 4200, the Radeon 9500 Pro, the Geforce 8800 GT, and the Radeon HD 7970
All cards that had great performance for the money and aged insanely well.
The Ti 4200 not only outperformed the 5200 but also the 6200
the 9500 Pro could be unlocked to a 9700 Pro and that was at the time the unbeatable fastest card
The 8800 GT released at $200 and came incredibly close to the $400 8800 GTX and about 3 times the performance of the $150 8600 GTS. That would be like a RTX 4080 SE (With 4070 Ti Super performance) for the price of a 4060 Ti today.
The HD 7970 had incredible performance and aged so well, FineWine became a fitting description.
Personally I'm still on a 1060 like many millions other users. It still does all I need it to do.
The RX 480/580 that only competes against the 1060 in the midrange market is a bit like how the HD 4870 competed in the midrange market against the GTX 260. An almost perfect repeat actually. Slightly better performance and price at slightly higher power draw and some fewer features. And in both periods both cards from both manufacturers were absolutely viable options.
And the RTX 20 cards were basically a proof of concept that hardware RTX can be a thing, but weren't that amazing at it. It took the following generation for a meaningful performance upgrade.
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BrianCroweAcolyte
I saw some stats that something like 60% of playtime last year went to games that are more than 5 years old, so I don't really know how successful the milking attempts from Nivida and AMD have been or will continue to be. I know three people still using 1080tis, and to my knowledge they haven't even thought of upgrading yet.
I think if the 4070ti Super was dropped down to a more reasonable $650-700, people would go bananas for it and it'd be the new 1080ti. For a lot of people the VRAM sells the card, like I saw people decide to not buy an RTX 3080 because it had 1GB less VRAM. Radeon perpetually remains irrelevant to 80% of PC gamers, especially when they're trying to price match Nvidia or are only offering a slight discount.
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I saw some stats that something like 60% of playtime last year went to games that are more than 5 years old, so I don't really know how successful the milking attempts from Nivida and AMD have been or will continue to be. I know three people still using 1080tis, and to my knowledge they haven't even thought of upgrading yet.
I think if the 4070ti Super was dropped down to a more reasonable $650-700, people would go bananas for it and it'd be the new 1080ti. For a lot of people the VRAM sells the card, like I saw people decide to not buy an RTX 3080 because it had 1GB less VRAM. Radeon perpetually remains irrelevant to 80% of PC gamers, especially when they're trying to price match Nvidia or are only offering a slight discount.
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LlamaCat
I've got a 1080ti in my system and I plan to run it til it breaks or I want to gift this PC to someone. I game at 1440p (and VR) and have never felt held back in any way by the card when gaming, even for modern releases. Only time I really feel held back is when trying to both play a demanding game and stream it at the same time but I don't do that often. I view RT as a nice to have but I don't feel bad not having it - the games I spend the most time in don't really care about that anyway. It's kind of bizzare because I still view my PC as pretty high end because it can do so much, but when helping friends with PC builds I have to sometimes stop and go oh right its been 7 years, that's more powerful. Here's to 7 more years
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I've got a 1080ti in my system and I plan to run it til it breaks or I want to gift this PC to someone. I game at 1440p (and VR) and have never felt held back in any way by the card when gaming, even for modern releases. Only time I really feel held back is when trying to both play a demanding game and stream it at the same time but I don't do that often. I view RT as a nice to have but I don't feel bad not having it - the games I spend the most time in don't really care about that anyway. It's kind of bizzare because I still view my PC as pretty high end because it can do so much, but when helping friends with PC builds I have to sometimes stop and go oh right its been 7 years, that's more powerful. Here's to 7 more years
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methane1027
Of course it is. I've been using mine NON STOP daily for what, 8, 9 years now Still using it. Still going strong. Can still play many modern games in 1440p60hz.. Sometimes more, sometimes less, sometimes with less fancy graphical options than newer cards, but that's alright. It does the job just the same. I got my money out of this card, that's for sure. It just won't make sense to upgrade until Video Card manufacturers can quit with all their profiteering and go back to making something worth using again.... but I have my doubts that will happen in my lifetime. I'll just sit here playing old games, still using my current PC and 1080 if I have to. I don't care. Corporations don't deserve our support anymore.
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Of course it is. I've been using mine NON STOP daily for what, 8, 9 years now Still using it. Still going strong. Can still play many modern games in 1440p60hz.. Sometimes more, sometimes less, sometimes with less fancy graphical options than newer cards, but that's alright. It does the job just the same. I got my money out of this card, that's for sure. It just won't make sense to upgrade until Video Card manufacturers can quit with all their profiteering and go back to making something worth using again.... but I have my doubts that will happen in my lifetime. I'll just sit here playing old games, still using my current PC and 1080 if I have to. I don't care. Corporations don't deserve our support anymore.
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geekofband007
Bought a used Gigabyte Aorus Xtreme 1080ti in November 2018 for $500. I upgraded from a 980 and was going to buy a 2080ti but when pricing came out, I jumped on a 1080ti. Used it till August 2023 when I bought a used 6800xt for $410. The 1080ti is now in my wifes PC still killing high refresh rate 1080p gaming.
I settled on the 1080ti > 6800xt using Tom's Hardware GPU Hierarchy as a reference point. I determined a 3080 12GB would get me at least a 100% uplift in performance at 1440p. From there I scoured the used and new market and found the 6800xt to be the best price to perfomance option.
Super happy with my decision overall, the 1080ti is a beast of a card and still running strong.
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Bought a used Gigabyte Aorus Xtreme 1080ti in November 2018 for $500. I upgraded from a 980 and was going to buy a 2080ti but when pricing came out, I jumped on a 1080ti. Used it till August 2023 when I bought a used 6800xt for $410. The 1080ti is now in my wifes PC still killing high refresh rate 1080p gaming.
I settled on the 1080ti > 6800xt using Tom's Hardware GPU Hierarchy as a reference point. I determined a 3080 12GB would get me at least a 100% uplift in performance at 1440p. From there I scoured the used and new market and found the 6800xt to be the best price to perfomance option.
Super happy with my decision overall, the 1080ti is a beast of a card and still running strong.
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gamersnexus
Yup, last year i sold my GTX 1080, i used it with boosted frequency. But card just cant push 60fps in new games on 1080p, even with OC and reduced details, got myself RX6800 regular, and well yeah, 50% increase in performance, basically in every title. Only Starfield refuses to run at 60fps average in cities. Though in better optimized games it runs good, very good card, got it for around 300e while it was mining rush, and back then sold RX580, gtx 1080 is basically double the performance of RX580 and i added additional money (when i sold rx580) basically 50e for double the performance xD best buy i ever did :D
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Yup, last year i sold my GTX 1080, i used it with boosted frequency. But card just cant push 60fps in new games on 1080p, even with OC and reduced details, got myself RX6800 regular, and well yeah, 50% increase in performance, basically in every title. Only Starfield refuses to run at 60fps average in cities. Though in better optimized games it runs good, very good card, got it for around 300e while it was mining rush, and back then sold RX580, gtx 1080 is basically double the performance of RX580 and i added additional money (when i sold rx580) basically 50e for double the performance xD best buy i ever did :D
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refuze4k
Going strong with my Asus Strix 1080 Ti that I bought in 2017.
I do however notice that the OC that I used to have is no longer stable and throwing error and game crash.
I had to dial it back to factory default settings and it seems stable. I kind of want to upgrade because I wanna move to 4K screen.
I play mix of games including some that are quite GPU heavy.
I bought the card for 7500SEK equal to 750euro at the time.
I just recently got a 5700x3D as a upgrade from 3900x to achieve better GPU utilization in some games were my 3900x was holding back.
Really good combo for now!
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Going strong with my Asus Strix 1080 Ti that I bought in 2017.
I do however notice that the OC that I used to have is no longer stable and throwing error and game crash.
I had to dial it back to factory default settings and it seems stable. I kind of want to upgrade because I wanna move to 4K screen.
I play mix of games including some that are quite GPU heavy.
I bought the card for 7500SEK equal to 750euro at the time.
I just recently got a 5700x3D as a upgrade from 3900x to achieve better GPU utilization in some games were my 3900x was holding back.
Really good combo for now!
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gamersnexus
Yes, the 1080 Ti is the GOAT. I used it in triple SLI for many years (custom waterloop).
Switched last year to a 4090. The performance-advantage of the 4090 in2023 was imho comparable to a 1080ti in SLI mode in 2017: about 1.700 dollar for the best possible graphics. Even better, SLI didn’t always work correctly, but the 4090 simply destroys anything else in every game (excluding some very poorly for NVIDEA optimized games). It’s too expensive to be the today GOAT, I get that, but it’s an absolute BEAST of a card.
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Yes, the 1080 Ti is the GOAT. I used it in triple SLI for many years (custom waterloop).
Switched last year to a 4090. The performance-advantage of the 4090 in2023 was imho comparable to a 1080ti in SLI mode in 2017: about 1.700 dollar for the best possible graphics. Even better, SLI didn’t always work correctly, but the 4090 simply destroys anything else in every game (excluding some very poorly for NVIDEA optimized games). It’s too expensive to be the today GOAT, I get that, but it’s an absolute BEAST of a card.
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jonathanhaney9235
as a 6800xt owner amd is still riddled with driver problems. my rog ally rdna3 has artifacting and crash bugs and both gens had and still sort of have high idle draw issues for multi monitor high refresh rate configs that they used consumers to generate fixes for. they even recently had to disable the clean install option! Im no fan of Nivida these days but until intel can step up i would pick nvidia just because they have the best drivers. my last gpu 1080 gtx i still use with moonlight can attest to it.
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as a 6800xt owner amd is still riddled with driver problems. my rog ally rdna3 has artifacting and crash bugs and both gens had and still sort of have high idle draw issues for multi monitor high refresh rate configs that they used consumers to generate fixes for. they even recently had to disable the clean install option! Im no fan of Nivida these days but until intel can step up i would pick nvidia just because they have the best drivers. my last gpu 1080 gtx i still use with moonlight can attest to it.
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Pray4TheBatman
I still have my 1080 ti since the 2080 launch and you guys helped make that decision for me. Best GPU I've ever owned, hands down. I still have it and I used it for 1080p gaming for years. I recently upgraded to 1440p and it's definitely slowing down now at that res. I might wait until next generation to see what cards are dominating 1440p at an affordable price, similar or less than the 1080 ti so I can keep it around as long as I did this.
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I still have my 1080 ti since the 2080 launch and you guys helped make that decision for me. Best GPU I've ever owned, hands down. I still have it and I used it for 1080p gaming for years. I recently upgraded to 1440p and it's definitely slowing down now at that res. I might wait until next generation to see what cards are dominating 1440p at an affordable price, similar or less than the 1080 ti so I can keep it around as long as I did this.
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Fabio4Coelho
Still rocking a Gigabyte GTX 1080 windforce OC 80 Core 350 Memory, on a Asrock z77 extreme 6, i7 3770k at 4.4ghz, 16gb RAM 1600MHz and a couple Sata SSD's. Does not bottleneck because I play at 2k res and I don't really play recent AAA games anymore.
But Cyberpunk has been on the wish list for far too long so I can't really avoid an upgrade for much longer
I also have a sim rig so I kind of could use more framerate.
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Still rocking a Gigabyte GTX 1080 windforce OC 80 Core 350 Memory, on a Asrock z77 extreme 6, i7 3770k at 4.4ghz, 16gb RAM 1600MHz and a couple Sata SSD's. Does not bottleneck because I play at 2k res and I don't really play recent AAA games anymore.
But Cyberpunk has been on the wish list for far too long so I can't really avoid an upgrade for much longer
I also have a sim rig so I kind of could use more framerate.
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pituguli5816
I paid $1050 for my SC2 EVGA 1080ti new but today you would get a 4070 Super for the same money with only 1gb of Vram more, if you had told me back then we would today be stuck with 12gb 70 tier cards for 80Ti prices I would have laughed.. Nvidia will never make the same mistake they did with the 1080Ti, $2000 FE 5090 incoming with DLSS4 Super Frame FPS Turbo Booster Anti Lag 2.0 degeneration. What a joke its all become.
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I paid $1050 for my SC2 EVGA 1080ti new but today you would get a 4070 Super for the same money with only 1gb of Vram more, if you had told me back then we would today be stuck with 12gb 70 tier cards for 80Ti prices I would have laughed.. Nvidia will never make the same mistake they did with the 1080Ti, $2000 FE 5090 incoming with DLSS4 Super Frame FPS Turbo Booster Anti Lag 2.0 degeneration. What a joke its all become.
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Hahahanoyes
I don’t think it’s really fair to compare ray tracing cards to pascal. If 2080ti didn’t have ray tracing, it would’ve blown the doors off 1080ti. It was more efficient per watt as well. 2080ti had a 25% uplift over 1080ti but was 42% more. The card was great, it was just terrible value. 25% uplift with ray tracing and dlss. Its a damn shame nvidia made it $1,000 because that card would’ve been goated at $700.
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I don’t think it’s really fair to compare ray tracing cards to pascal. If 2080ti didn’t have ray tracing, it would’ve blown the doors off 1080ti. It was more efficient per watt as well. 2080ti had a 25% uplift over 1080ti but was 42% more. The card was great, it was just terrible value. 25% uplift with ray tracing and dlss. Its a damn shame nvidia made it $1,000 because that card would’ve been goated at $700.
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Neanderthal75
I regret I sold my 980ti which I bought for a song on eBay. Yes it came from a miner, but it ran reliably without any hiccup for 4 years and I wasn't nice to it, I tried all sorts of overclock on it and ran it in a hot machine, but it took all the beating. Everything else I bought after, AMD an Nvidia they all had some sort of issues, whether black screen after sleep or shutting down in the middle of gaming.
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I regret I sold my 980ti which I bought for a song on eBay. Yes it came from a miner, but it ran reliably without any hiccup for 4 years and I wasn't nice to it, I tried all sorts of overclock on it and ran it in a hot machine, but it took all the beating. Everything else I bought after, AMD an Nvidia they all had some sort of issues, whether black screen after sleep or shutting down in the middle of gaming.
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LowKeyContender
amd is still plagued with driver issues. my 7900 xtx kept crashing in games i wanted to play..... so i had to switch back to my 1080 ti just to be able to play reliably. when u spend 1500 for a gpu you expect better!!! undervolting..... trying settings etc.... you should not have to mess around greatly just to try and get something to do its JOB. i kinda regret buying it even at this point.
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amd is still plagued with driver issues. my 7900 xtx kept crashing in games i wanted to play..... so i had to switch back to my 1080 ti just to be able to play reliably. when u spend 1500 for a gpu you expect better!!! undervolting..... trying settings etc.... you should not have to mess around greatly just to try and get something to do its JOB. i kinda regret buying it even at this point.
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Pikez98
I retired my 1080ti on christmas last year after getting a 6950xt but only because the 1080 would crash at even it's stock oc, so i wanted to spare it a death after 7 amazing years and keep it as a gpu for a multimedia pc.
Edit: downclocking it to above stock settings based on nvidia numbers fixed that, but i have a 4k monitor now (which i will switch with an 1440p one later) so i needed a bit more power.
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I retired my 1080ti on christmas last year after getting a 6950xt but only because the 1080 would crash at even it's stock oc, so i wanted to spare it a death after 7 amazing years and keep it as a gpu for a multimedia pc.
Edit: downclocking it to above stock settings based on nvidia numbers fixed that, but i have a 4k monitor now (which i will switch with an 1440p one later) so i needed a bit more power.
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djsmithers99
I bought a GTX 1070ti second-hand and abused it for another 5 years. I gamed the shit out of it for that period, I finally upgraded to an RTX 3080 a few weeks ago (what a jump, I might add!). Now that card is going to my son who plays Minecraft daily, who has been playing on an old GTX 1060 almost daily. I think the Pascal cards were all-round legendary! Salute to that range of cards!
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I bought a GTX 1070ti second-hand and abused it for another 5 years. I gamed the shit out of it for that period, I finally upgraded to an RTX 3080 a few weeks ago (what a jump, I might add!). Now that card is going to my son who plays Minecraft daily, who has been playing on an old GTX 1060 almost daily. I think the Pascal cards were all-round legendary! Salute to that range of cards!
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max5183
I still game on my regular 1080, strix edition for the interest ones.
And i do it at 1440p. To be fair for the last 3 years i dont really play triple A titles anymore. Hogwarts Legacy i really wanna play, but i know i would get horrible frames.
But my pile of shame on steam is big enough, that i enjoy some witcher 3 right now until pricing comes down a bit in europe.
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I still game on my regular 1080, strix edition for the interest ones.
And i do it at 1440p. To be fair for the last 3 years i dont really play triple A titles anymore. Hogwarts Legacy i really wanna play, but i know i would get horrible frames.
But my pile of shame on steam is big enough, that i enjoy some witcher 3 right now until pricing comes down a bit in europe.
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arturogonzalez4273
Too bad the graphs don't include the mighty AMD 5700xt, which was equally as impressive. It usually performs very close to that 1080ti for half the price (one year later). Its competition back then, the 2060 and 2060super, aged like fine milk compared to the 5700xt, which is still able to play most games just like the 1080ti. That's my GOAT gpu if you ask me.
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Too bad the graphs don't include the mighty AMD 5700xt, which was equally as impressive. It usually performs very close to that 1080ti for half the price (one year later). Its competition back then, the 2060 and 2060super, aged like fine milk compared to the 5700xt, which is still able to play most games just like the 1080ti. That's my GOAT gpu if you ask me.
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