Nvidia released Pascal, with tremendous performance and reasonable pricing. Nvidia realised its mistake, and said "never again." These 10 series cards were really something, and the fact they can still hold it together today says a lot about them. Maxwell was another quite impressive release from team green. So sad that those days of reasonable price:performance are well and truly gone.
Ampere (the 3090 notwithstanding) was quite reasonably priced (MSRP) given the leap in performance vs. the RTX Turning cards. I was able to get a 3080 at MSRP about 2 months after launch. Coincidently, it replaced a 1080. Had the 4080 been price similarly $700-ish, I would've happily sold my 3080 and bought one. But for $1200+ USD, it's hard pass. It's pretty bad when the price/performance leader in the lineup is the halo card.
@@FoDaddy Sadly they gimped that too by using Samsungs 8nm process. Granted it was a big jump from Turing, it would've completely demoilshed RDNA 2 if they went with TSMC's 7nm. Prices were reasonable though across the stack.
Pascal was so insane, that laptop OEM's could actually release laptops with two 150w gtx 1080's (almost same perf as desktop 1080 SLI) + an OC'd i7 and actually manage to cool it all with 2017 levels of laptop cooling. Thats cooling over 300w + in laptops. Now, with much better laptop cooling? We're barely cooling a 175w rtx 4080 16gb in laptops called the ''4090''
Pascal didn't have that amazing pricing, especially before the 1080 Ti launch... AIB 1080s were going for well over $700 until the Ti launched. Nvidia having high pricing is not a new thing, it goes back to even the AGP days...
And here we see the GTX1080 in its natural habitat, quite at ease on a bed of gravel and now moving over to catch some sunlight amongst the garden flowers. Lovely!
It's amazing that this Nvidia generation has aged so well even after half a decade. It's a real shame that the current 40 series offer is so terrible in terms of price to performance.
Still rocking a 1070 that I only dusted and applied thermal paste on occasions for 6+ years and recently got myself a $650 ($300+ for the RAM/Storage Upgrades) laptop with a 3050 in it (Sadly it's 4GB but it's fine for my use). Ngreedia lost their god damn minds for even attempting to price a fucking 4070Ti over 2.5x the price that I brought my 1070 as.
Shame is putting it lightly. Highway robbery and greed seems more befitting for Nvidia's behavior. They have completely lost touch with their gaming fan base. Even the lower models are gimped in memory bandwidth and capacity. (such a pity)
Nostalgia at it's best. I am still using one. I can't see a reason to upgrade until I upgrade beyond the 1080p165hz monitor. All games are smooth but I don't play single player 2023 titles.. who does?
Same. I built a pc in 2019 and was using a LP 1050 ti from the office pc i upgraded from. I decided to get a 1080 on a whim early March 2020. I was glad I did for the next few years.
I wanted the Strix but still got lucky getting the MSI Gaming version. I did get the Rog Strix GTX 1060 oc and love how it boosts over 2000 without using Afterburner software to do it. Enjoy your sound smart purchase.
I have a EVGA GTX 1080 FTW and it's still great for 1080p. I have no reason to upgrade yet. Awesome video showing off what the Dell OEM card is capable of!
Same card here too, I run most games at 4k with med/high settings & perfectly good framerates. Waiting to upgrade for something which wont be worse value
Don’t get me wrong, that’s still a good card, but you got a very poor value on it. You could get a brand new rx 6700 xt for $340 and it performs identical to the 2080 ti, has more vram, and will have longer driver support.
@@steamedauroraborealis8208 it's only a 1 gig difference in VRAM, and if Nvidia's pattern of supporting their cards much longer than AMD keeps up, the RTX 20 series could last longer than the RX 6000 series, at least in terms of official driver updates. but we'll have to wait and see, Nvidia could always decide to make themselves an even less appealing option by dropping driver support for newer cards.
Long live the 10 series and 16 series. Even being on an RTX 3060 Ti, I still have fond memories of my 1060 and 1660 Ti; my friends who still run them have no complaints either
Love the 60series GPUS. Too bad newegg sold me a defective 3060ti. I ended up getting an AMD RX6800 as a replacement now the new Nvidia are cards are way overpriced.
@@MetaDude tbh it's the sweet spot for Nvidia. Also glad to see that you knew to pick the Ti version since those two little letters are not as meaningless as your average Joe might think
i use this exact card in my personal rig with a triple 1080p monitor setup for sim racing/trucking. Funnily enough i actually had a founders edition 1080 (I got for £200 at the start of 2022) before it and swapped it for the dell 1080 (i I got for got for £120), as i wanted to use the better looking gpu for a PC i was flipping as i do a lot of PC flips. I still use it even though im constantly buying rtx 2070s and other 20 series cards for flips as i personally dont need much more performance. Great video as always :)
I still rock this card (but one from Gigabyte with a standard 3 fan blower cooler) on a daily base for 1080p 60Hz Gaming. Paired with an i7 7700k and 32GB of DDR4. Just awesome! I actually still have no need to upgrade. It runs everything I want absolutely fine!
The GTX1080 has a TDP of 180W. The RTX3060 8GB has a TDP of 170W. It makes you wonder about how much improved the new generations really are, the performance is often almost the same. The prices are hiked a lot now, thats the biggest change.
My RTX 2060 is nerfed af, full load at stock voltage eats 160~180watts and mine is undervolted at 725mv=85/95watts. Performance lost is around 25~35% it's a big deal for a 450w psu
Oh they are improved I had a 1080 FE and swapped it for a 4070 FE Both using just 1 8 pin to power. The 4070 usese around the same power but is much faster and has 12 GB. So yes they new cards are better using the same power. That said I still have the 1080gtx in my 2nd system and its working fine with a 165hz 1080p monitor.
I'm still using my old Palit gtx1080 gamerock .. it boosts a bit higher than that dell card maintaining at least 2ghz ..often a little bit higher. ..it's still only a 1080p card as you said..for £135 that dell card is good value ...love these older more attainable hardware videos ..most of us can't afford a 30 or 40 series rtx card.
held up much better than i thought. what a legend. it's also insane how much GPU power draw has gone up across the SKUs since the 10-series. they're just blasting them with Watts now
Owner of almost all variations of Pascal, I'm impressed with power to performance. (Legendary GPU's!) These days I'm shocked at the power envelope and scratching my head at these extreme prices. I'm rooting for intel's new comer, The ARC A770 LE 16 gig. So far impressed by my 2k visuals and performance. Lets hope for clarity and reality check going forward.
Yeah no kidding! It's crazy that 3060 Ti TDP is 200W and this old 1080 has 180 and runs most games hovering around 150. Shame on you Nvidia! Undervolting somewhat migitates the issue with newer cards, but the best case scenario would be to have lower power design to begin with.
@@LurkingLarper Exactly. Instead of an arms race we have a "Highest" wattage race. Let's not throw a little caution to the wind!? My old trusty/crusty Kepler GTX 660 runs about 130 watts. I just upgraded that system with a GTX 1650 super at 100 watts. That to me seems like a smart upgrade. Nvidia seems to have forgotten a little thing called reality, Or are they just lazy sloppy? Or did they just taken the easy way out? 1200+ watt PSU's, 2000 dollar 500+ watt GPU's to play 4k games? I'm just Imagining the coughing up of the electric bill? What about heat output? 300 watts just for the i9 13900k. Add a RTX 4090? Just seems simply crazy to me. Had to rant. Common sense rock on!
@@Obie327 sadly the trend seems to be pushing the envelope with power limits since the limitations of the process nodes and the silicon itself are fast approaching. But yes, everyone should take power usage into consideration when they buy new card in the future. It not only saves you money, but the card runs cooler a d quieter as well if it's a lower powered one. Obviously there are exceptions to the rule, but generally I would always go for the lower TDP value card if the performance and price are in the same range with the competition.
Still got my msi gtx 1080. Recently played The Callisto Protocol everything on high and some ultra settings. 70 - 80 fps in 1080p was no problem for this true BEAST! The 1080 still holds up in 2023. 👍👍❤️
Unbelievable. I've had a 1080 ti since 2017 and it's been a 4K card the entire time. On most games I get between 40-60 with everything turned up. To think how much different the 1080 runs everything is astounding. Just for example at 4K I get 79 fps in Call of Duty MW 2 with most things at high settings. Thanks for the video, love your stuff been watching for years.
I'd be very surprised if the 1080ti was still a 4k card for many titles after 2020 - it was very good in its day but for more recent titles even starts to struggle with 1440p60 , mostly because of drivers not being optimised for it.(this is the only reason the 3060 can best it)
haha yeah, and i am Bill Gates if that card can run anything newer from 2015, 2016 maybe, in 4k at more than 30fps at least medium-high. People are ridiculous 😂😂😆😆
Hard to call the 1080 "outdated" when it's pretty much identical to the current consoles GPUs. Still a great card and since the prices of the newer cards just go up and up there's no budget replacement for it.
I know the PCMR like to huff copium but the new consoles literally use ZEN2 CPUs and RDNA2 GPUs..... it's fairly easy to find a PC equivalent, and it is said to be the R7 3700X & RX6700
GTX 1080 (and 1070) is a great value buy today. The most weird thing, is the 1650 cost about the same on the 2nd hand market, as the 1070 these days. (*hint, get the 1070, if you have a PCI-E connector, it is a LOT better). The 1080 in the video for £135 is a great deal. I got a few 1070s for £100-115, which Im pretty satisfied with for some builds.
Time really flies, I still remember watching videos about the 9800 gtx in 2016 and saying that's an old gpu, now the gtx 1080 is considered an old gpu...
Super interesting stuff, I’ve just bought a system with a 1080 in for work and play, as my gaming laptop was getting a bit toasty with its 1060. It’s nice that the 1080 keeps up so well in modern games, I’ve been pleasantly surprised in my limited testing
I have a ROG Strix 1080 Ti in my #3 system which is usually hooked up and ready to go. Still a solid card, esp at 1080p. It shares a 1440 monitor with another system and some games I'll run at 1080p and some at 1440. I have an MSI 1080 non-Ti in another system and is also still a decent option. Basically in the ballpark of a 2070 Super or 3060, but available for quite a bit cheaper, at least in the US. These are still both very usable cards for almost any game at 1080p or many games at 1440. I still think the 9xx to 10xx jump is the greatest single step in GPUs, discounting the ability to run DLSS.
Actually at that 1080p resolution is still very good, it was born and bought by owners to play games at high refresh rate 2k even 4k nearly 7 years ago. Even now, the minimum required for some new games just reaching GTX 1060 at 1080p, so i think there is no reason why GTX 1080 is not enough, even at 2k.
1080 is about like a 6600 so still very good 1080p high/ultra card and alot of games at 1440p. Driver support for new games not as good is the only downside in my opinion.
My OC'd 1070 Ti Advanced Binned is around stock 1080 performance and I still love it. Yes it was the all Ultra card but I've been enjoying tinkering with different graphics settings again to find the optimal fps/eyecandy ratio :P
Value of a life time. I just ordered a RX 6800 used on eBay for $370 after shipping and tax. I play 1440P and hope this will last as long as the 10 series did for me.
Still using my EVGA GTX 1080 SC for 5 years now. 1080p and 144Hz is the perfect setting! Recently upgraded from an i7 7700k to an r7 5700x and got massive performance gains. Love it!
Just a reminder that the VRAM figure shown by MSI Afterburner displays how much VRAM the game has allocated, NOT how much it is using. Hardware Unboxed did a really good video about this with one of the earlier RE games/remasters. Some games are really aggressive with allocation, so you may actually have a lot more headroom than that figure would lead you to believe.
I love when you do these videos a friend of mine has a GTX1080 in his PC (arquitect work) but he occasioonaly plays some games... I can just show him this video to see how well he could tweak his settings
this card is so good, it's still comparable with 3060 in raw performance. it's a sub flagship 2 generations old and yet as capable as a new entry level.
I did. It's still very good. But I did replace it with a 4090. I hope to hack some Linux Quadro drivers for the 1080Ti and use it for 3D accelerated Virtual Machines.
I think this card looks great, and I’m impressed with the performance. Could you please include Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 in some of your videos?
Hey I had this card, specifically a watercooled version of it. Bought it for $100 from a miner. It ran REALLY well. Only issue was the green PCB, that was a little bit of an eyesore.
Random, I'm definitely a believer of Pascal and a Proud own of my MSI Gaming version. I recently switched to ARC A770 LE on my 1440p panel and switched to using my GTX 1080 @ 1080p res. ( 2K was struggling with my old Pascal) I would personally stay away from the blower style versions of this card. (More FPS's with MSI oc, runs cooler as well) Thanks for the upload and review of this legendary beast of a GPU.
I love the design of the Founder's Editions form the 900 and 1000 series with the silver. Still rocking an MSI FE 1080 Ti and the only real sign of age is the green dye of the Nvidia glowing logo is fading unevenly so it doesn't look quite as crisp anymore with some letters more mint green and others lime green.
@Narkomancers MSI made a Founder's Edition 1080 Ti. It is even listed on their website. Can't speak to other board partners but some of the Founder's Edition cards were made by MSI. Just a fancy way of saying reference design anyway.
@Narkomancers I am sure some were. I guess Nvidia didn't have the production capacity. IDK. But the GPU itself has no MSI branding just the box and even that is kind of low key. No red dragons, just the MSI letters in Nvidia green. As to who got picked to manufacturer the Founder's Edition cards like MSI versus Zotac who knows how that process went.
I still use a 1080ti till today. It is capable of running every modern game I want to play (Cyberpunk, Hitman 3, WatchDogs Legion and many more). Sometimes even at the highest settings and always at 1440p. Together with my i7-8700k, the PC is "old" but still usable as a good gaming PC. I don't see the point in spending any money for new PC parts in the near future.
I'm not a fan of any blower style cards, mainly because of the higher temps you mentioned. Minus the lack of a backplate, I do like the look of the card.
2016-2017 were the birth years of several legends that still hold to this day. GTX 1080/1070, Rx 480/580 and first generation of Ryzen 1600/1700. I don't know if we'll see anything like that anytime soon. The price to performance was just in the right spot.
All first gen Ryzen was definitely legendary. I still have my 1200 from 2018, got it overclocked to 4GHz and I could have it match around a 1500/1500X in benchmarks and real world gaming. Good times.
I must say, I had GTX 1080 and I mixed Ultra with Medium (volumetric fog, clouds and some other unnoticable stuff) in Cyberpunk and got 30-40 FPS in 1440p and about 50-60 with FSR 2.1 Quality
Found one of those at a garage sale a couple summers ago and the guy didn't know what it was or if it worked, and neither did I at the time, so he gave it to me $5. Works great and my son has it in his PC to this day. I bought a bunch of other PC parts from that guy that day but that was the the best score.
what an amazing card, im still rocking a palit gtx 1080 gamerock and this thing was worth every single penny when i got it used 4 years ago for 300eu. Im getting fixed 144fps on pubg with low-med settings, around 70-90 fps on cod warzone 2.. on 1440p i may add..!! still waiting for a worthfull upgrade. around the same price point.
So many friends still holding onto their 1080 and 1080ti's. Whats funny is so many of the cards now that have similar performance to a 1080 (2060, 5600xt) will eventually have a lack of vram and 1080 users will still have better cards.
Know what the insane thing is? The mobile gtx 1080, had almost the same TDP as the proper full fat desktop 1080. 150w (mobile 1080) vs 180w (desktop 1080). This means, you could very well overclock the mobile 1080 and get some nice boost to FPS. They also shared the same exact specifications since they were literally the same card. And it was during pascal, that the ultra high end GPU's packed SLI gtx 1070's and gtx 1080's. Sure, even back then SLI was basically dead, but you have to admit, that laptops were far more insane back then. I mean they were cooling like 300w + total in laptops (dual 150w 1080's and OC'd i7's or dual 115w 1070's and oc'd i7's). Infact, the highest TDP mobile GPU's ever were the 200w rtx a6000 in the asus studiobook pro art and the 200w rtx 2080 super laptops. The 200w rtx A6000 actually was within 10% of a desktop rtx A6000, despite being put in a thin and light chassis. And the 200w rtx 2080 super was basically as fast as the desktop rtx 2080. Nvidia could've put a desktop 2080ti into laptops as is at the same 200w TDP and would've gotten insane performance. Now, you might wonder, why don't we put 200w+ GPU's into laptops today, when we have MUCH better cooling and way more efficient and stronger CPU's. Its greed. Nvidia and AMD realised that they can lie to you and you'll still buy and defend their GPU's on laptops. Thats why nvidia decided that with ampere they won't put a desktop rtx 3080 die into laptops at give it at least 200w. Nvidia could've given this mobile rtx 3080 GA102 die more cuda cores too to compensate for a lower power limit and used better binning. I mean they're not gonna sell a lot of these anyways. Same with AMD. Could've given us a 175w rx6800 as a rx6800m but noooo.... AMD has to be greedy.
You can still buy one of these for less than 200€, a Ti version for slightly more. For raster graphics, they offer so much more value than any new card out there.
10:18 - Wow! That level of performance at 1080p High with RT Reflections set to High! 😮 I always forgot that Pascal GPUs with more than 6GB of VRAM can run DXR. I have two questions: 1) Can you include Control in your benchmarks? 2) Can you include RT mode in your benchmarks (or sometime making a dedicated video) when you're testing RT capable GPUs? I'm very curious about the RDNA2/RDNA3 APUs on this aspect!
this card is great using MSI afterburner: remove 300 mhz on core clock open "curve editor" and at 900 mV push up the line to 1900 mhz ,add more 300 mhz to memory and push power limit to max and boom you give around 10% more with lower power consumption and temperature
Nice! I actually have one of these. Came in my Dell XPS 8930 Special Edition. For 2018 it was pretty well specced out. i7 8700K, 16GB DDR4, GTX 1080, BluRay Burner. Optional Killer NIC Wifi and Ethernet.
Love the videos. Big fan, but do you ever play these games actually? Every time you benchmark them I've noticed it's always at the beginning of the game and never progresses. Lol
I main one of these (though not the Dell version) pushing a 1440p high refresh monitor. Plays everything I play at framerates and settings that make me happy. The PC it's in has developed a PSU problem (shuts off under high load), but the GPU remains reliable and capable, and still makes me happy. It was an AIO model before, but the prior owner ripped off the questionable and old AIO and installed an Arctic Accelero IV right before selling it to me.
They probably will at some point.... back then Graphics cards weren't flying off the shelves like they are nowadays. It will be like the Nintendo Wii, if you remember those. The Wii was in short supply until after the 2008 economic crash. The economy will crash again, employers will lay off workers, and we'll be back where we started.
Great gpus I sold a gigabyte gtx 1080 OC In December upgraded my Strix 3060ti to a strix 3080 OC 12GB,and gave my wife the Strix 3060ti OC as she was using my old 1080
Hey i have the exact same card have you hear/see the bug with the Fan ? When the card go to boost clocks fan are going crazy they are doing some rollercoaster... Nice vid m8 !
And I still have my SLI GTX 1080 setup as a secondary PC. Gave me so much gaming performance when SLI was still a thing and then so many coins when mining was a thing, pretty much paid for themselves and more. And still running.
That is an MSI Aero GTX 1080 Cooler so what dell it was pulled from had been upgraded, the Aero use a Nvidia OEM green PCB. The did a sea hawk AIO water cooled model to which was the same PCB and cooler but with a stylist back plate and Corsair AIO pump replacing the stock fin stack, but kept the shitty Blow to cool Mem and VRMs. plus those was upgraded to better one which could handle more power ful OC's. MSI did supply OEM's but dell normal have all branding removed and that would include the Carbon fibre looking bits and MSI their brand white stripe. GTX 10 series was the last one's of great value and worth the price tags.
I bought this kind of gpu for 320€ in Hearthstone Packs from a rich friend in 2017. Packed a Watercooler on it some time later. Best Gpu Deal I ever made.
My ASUS ROG STRIX GTX 1080 Ti GAMING OC got "demoted" to my office PC not because of not being good enough but simply because I've got an offer for a RX 6900 XT I just couldn't miss... there was that guys selling it at the local site for about US$ 550 with shipping included. I am certain that the 1080 Ti can perform very well @ 1440p on my i9-9900k gaming PC with any of my games at high/ultra settings. It was by far the best graphics card I ever bought... period!
Just picked one up for 120 also got a cheap brand new ryzen 5800x and got a whole pc for motherboard and ram and PSU for 100 spent like 350 for the hole build
The real MVP of Pascal was the 1080ti. It offered the highest or second highest (not sure anymore) performance increase over the previous 980ti in Nvidias history. Of course the other side of the story was that the regular 1080 even though it was the flagship at launch for flagship prices didnt get the best Pascal chip Nvidia could make. And that we only got the 1080ti the way it was because AMD made some ridiculous claims about how much faster the Vega 64 would be over the 1080. The 1080ti was so good that there was no use in upgrading to a 2080ti when it launched cause depending on the resolution performance gains in normale rasterization could be as low as 10% on average. Funnily enough Nvidia went from one of their best performance increases with the 1080ti to its third worst with Turing.
My EVGA 1070 Ti outperformed that 1080 in CP2077, but it was replaced with a 3080 12gb and I am playing Sims 3 this week and getting 5 second 0 fps lows every couple days and just before I save my Sim + lot and start a new game and import it again.
The way this card shows its age is when playing competitive games at hight refresh rates. Don't get me wrong, the 1080 can do Fortnite, Apex, Valorant at 120fps 1080p at low settings but that's it. Don't expect 160 or 200fps. For anything else, Native 4K, 30-60fps (or lock it at 40) on High Settings all day.
Blower OC model where great to watercool, cheaper than MSRP (and cheaper than hight end AIB including the waterblock cost) and permit to don't waste money on a cooler who where staying in the box.
I still have my MSI 1080ti cause I can't get myself to sell it for 150 euros or lower, part of the reason being emotional value, the gtx 970 was my first real gamer GPU, but with the 1080ti I felt like I was where I should've been, and I stuck with that all the way until a 6900XT in 2021, and now a 4090 in 2023, so it served me from 2017 till 2021, good 4 years out of a single generation, I really had to ugprade though as I was starting to play at 1440p and then later 1440p ultrawide.
Nvidia released Pascal, with tremendous performance and reasonable pricing. Nvidia realised its mistake, and said "never again." These 10 series cards were really something, and the fact they can still hold it together today says a lot about them. Maxwell was another quite impressive release from team green. So sad that those days of reasonable price:performance are well and truly gone.
Ampere (the 3090 notwithstanding) was quite reasonably priced (MSRP) given the leap in performance vs. the RTX Turning cards. I was able to get a 3080 at MSRP about 2 months after launch. Coincidently, it replaced a 1080. Had the 4080 been price similarly $700-ish, I would've happily sold my 3080 and bought one. But for $1200+ USD, it's hard pass. It's pretty bad when the price/performance leader in the lineup is the halo card.
@@FoDaddy Sadly they gimped that too by using Samsungs 8nm process. Granted it was a big jump from Turing, it would've completely demoilshed RDNA 2 if they went with TSMC's 7nm. Prices were reasonable though across the stack.
@@FoDaddy Nah actually. Its not that impressive. Pascal overall brought better performance jumps and massive gains to efficiency.
Pascal was so insane, that laptop OEM's could actually release laptops with two 150w gtx 1080's (almost same perf as desktop 1080 SLI) + an OC'd i7 and actually manage to cool it all with 2017 levels of laptop cooling. Thats cooling over 300w + in laptops.
Now, with much better laptop cooling? We're barely cooling a 175w rtx 4080 16gb in laptops called the ''4090''
Pascal didn't have that amazing pricing, especially before the 1080 Ti launch... AIB 1080s were going for well over $700 until the Ti launched. Nvidia having high pricing is not a new thing, it goes back to even the AGP days...
And here we see the GTX1080 in its natural habitat, quite at ease on a bed of gravel and now moving over to catch some sunlight amongst the garden flowers. Lovely!
look at the size of that creature! crikey, it's a sheila!
Reading in Attenborough's voice felt mandatory.
And now...the Larch....the Larch....and now...
It's amazing that this Nvidia generation has aged so well even after half a decade. It's a real shame that the current 40 series offer is so terrible in terms of price to performance.
Yeah hoping for better pricing soon :(
Was great seeing the 1080 work on UE5 tech demo
Still rocking a 1070 that I only dusted and applied thermal paste on occasions for 6+ years and recently got myself a $650 ($300+ for the RAM/Storage Upgrades) laptop with a 3050 in it (Sadly it's 4GB but it's fine for my use). Ngreedia lost their god damn minds for even attempting to price a fucking 4070Ti over 2.5x the price that I brought my 1070 as.
Shame is putting it lightly. Highway robbery and greed seems more befitting for Nvidia's behavior. They have completely lost touch with their gaming fan base. Even the lower models are gimped in memory bandwidth and capacity. (such a pity)
Be 7 years this may since 1080 launch
1080 will always hold a special place in my heart as it was the first card in the first PC I built. I'll always watch 10 series reviews
Aaaaaw...just like my first 3D-Accelerator in '98!!
^3dfx Voodoo² 12MB by/Hmm....well in a: Creative box ;-) (still running btw.)
Nostalgia at it's best. I am still using one. I can't see a reason to upgrade until I upgrade beyond the 1080p165hz monitor. All games are smooth but I don't play single player 2023 titles.. who does?
@@christophermullins7163 ".. who does?" You younglings? 😛
My first build had a GeForce 6600 back in 2004 lol , But I started out on windows 95 lol don't even think the pc had a gpu on my first one
Same. I built a pc in 2019 and was using a LP 1050 ti from the office pc i upgraded from. I decided to get a 1080 on a whim early March 2020. I was glad I did for the next few years.
I still have my Asus Strix 1080 i bought 5 years ago. Its stupid how good this card aged despite it being 7 years old.
Yeah aged so well
I wanted the Strix but still got lucky getting the MSI Gaming version. I did get the Rog Strix GTX 1060 oc and love how it boosts over 2000 without using Afterburner software to do it. Enjoy your sound smart purchase.
@@Obie327i also have Strix 1060 6gb OC edition. This thing is totally monster. Performs like 1660. With little OC.
I have a EVGA GTX 1080 FTW and it's still great for 1080p. I have no reason to upgrade yet. Awesome video showing off what the Dell OEM card is capable of!
Same; its hard to upgrade when it can still run everything I enjoy at 1440p.
Same card here too, I run most games at 4k with med/high settings & perfectly good framerates. Waiting to upgrade for something which wont be worse value
I just bought an RTX 2080ti for 300 used, I think Nvidia gpus truly shine in the used market
Good lord that's a great deal. Will age a hell of a lot better than the rtx 3070 because you've got 11gb of vram.
Don’t get me wrong, that’s still a good card, but you got a very poor value on it. You could get a brand new rx 6700 xt for $340 and it performs identical to the 2080 ti, has more vram, and will have longer driver support.
@@steamedauroraborealis8208 naw.... Nvidia just works......... amd bad drivers and you get dlss...... so win win....
@@steamedauroraborealis8208 If the 6700XT performs the same for $340, how did he get a bad value for the 2080 Ti? lmao
@@steamedauroraborealis8208 it's only a 1 gig difference in VRAM, and if Nvidia's pattern of supporting their cards much longer than AMD keeps up, the RTX 20 series could last longer than the RX 6000 series, at least in terms of official driver updates. but we'll have to wait and see, Nvidia could always decide to make themselves an even less appealing option by dropping driver support for newer cards.
Long live the 10 series and 16 series. Even being on an RTX 3060 Ti, I still have fond memories of my 1060 and 1660 Ti; my friends who still run them have no complaints either
Bro is commited to xx60 series
I'm running a 1060 3gb in my daily rig everyday since 2017. It does everything I ask of it.
Love the 60series GPUS. Too bad newegg sold me a defective 3060ti. I ended up getting an AMD RX6800 as a replacement now the new Nvidia are cards are way overpriced.
@@MetaDude tbh it's the sweet spot for Nvidia. Also glad to see that you knew to pick the Ti version since those two little letters are not as meaningless as your average Joe might think
I'm on 1660 Ti rn. Might upgrade to 3060 Ti or 3070 later this year if nothing unexpected occur for Starfield
i use this exact card in my personal rig with a triple 1080p monitor setup for sim racing/trucking. Funnily enough i actually had a founders edition 1080 (I got for £200 at the start of 2022) before it and swapped it for the dell 1080 (i I got for got for £120), as i wanted to use the better looking gpu for a PC i was flipping as i do a lot of PC flips. I still use it even though im constantly buying rtx 2070s and other 20 series cards for flips as i personally dont need much more performance. Great video as always :)
I still rock this card (but one from Gigabyte with a standard 3 fan blower cooler) on a daily base for 1080p 60Hz Gaming. Paired with an i7 7700k and 32GB of DDR4. Just awesome! I actually still have no need to upgrade. It runs everything I want absolutely fine!
@Lurch cannot complain. Mine is running fine since 2017 :)
The GTX1080 has a TDP of 180W. The RTX3060 8GB has a TDP of 170W. It makes you wonder about how much improved the new generations really are, the performance is often almost the same. The prices are hiked a lot now, thats the biggest change.
I have a RTX 2070 which performance wise is on par with this 1080, claims to be 175w but it actually draws around about 225w.
I have my 1080 undervolted to .875 MV 1850 graphics MHZ and it pulls about 150 watts under load
my 1080 ti pulling over 300 watts 😎
My RTX 2060 is nerfed af, full load at stock voltage eats 160~180watts and mine is undervolted at 725mv=85/95watts. Performance lost is around 25~35% it's a big deal for a 450w psu
Oh they are improved I had a 1080 FE and swapped it for a 4070 FE Both using just 1 8 pin to power. The 4070 usese around the same power but is much faster and has 12 GB. So yes they new cards are better using the same power. That said I still have the 1080gtx in my 2nd system and its working fine with a 165hz 1080p monitor.
I'm still using my old Palit gtx1080 gamerock .. it boosts a bit higher than that dell card maintaining at least 2ghz ..often a little bit higher. ..it's still only a 1080p card as you said..for £135 that dell card is good value ...love these older more attainable hardware videos ..most of us can't afford a 30 or 40 series rtx card.
held up much better than i thought. what a legend. it's also insane how much GPU power draw has gone up across the SKUs since the 10-series. they're just blasting them with Watts now
Owner of almost all variations of Pascal, I'm impressed with power to performance. (Legendary GPU's!) These days I'm shocked at the power envelope and scratching my head at these extreme prices. I'm rooting for intel's new comer, The ARC A770 LE 16 gig. So far impressed by my 2k visuals and performance. Lets hope for clarity and reality check going forward.
Yeah no kidding! It's crazy that 3060 Ti TDP is 200W and this old 1080 has 180 and runs most games hovering around 150. Shame on you Nvidia! Undervolting somewhat migitates the issue with newer cards, but the best case scenario would be to have lower power design to begin with.
@@LurkingLarper Exactly. Instead of an arms race we have a "Highest" wattage race. Let's not throw a little caution to the wind!? My old trusty/crusty Kepler GTX 660 runs about 130 watts. I just upgraded that system with a GTX 1650 super at 100 watts. That to me seems like a smart upgrade. Nvidia seems to have forgotten a little thing called reality, Or are they just lazy sloppy? Or did they just taken the easy way out? 1200+ watt PSU's, 2000 dollar 500+ watt GPU's to play 4k games? I'm just Imagining the coughing up of the electric bill? What about heat output? 300 watts just for the i9 13900k. Add a RTX 4090? Just seems simply crazy to me. Had to rant. Common sense rock on!
@@Obie327 sadly the trend seems to be pushing the envelope with power limits since the limitations of the process nodes and the silicon itself are fast approaching. But yes, everyone should take power usage into consideration when they buy new card in the future. It not only saves you money, but the card runs cooler a d quieter as well if it's a lower powered one. Obviously there are exceptions to the rule, but generally I would always go for the lower TDP value card if the performance and price are in the same range with the competition.
we are in the pentium D era of graphics cards. at this point i’m holding out for the core 2 era!
The 1080 is still a great high fps 1080p esport card, and a capable 60FPS 1440P card because the 8GB of DDR5x has aged very well.
Same. It's a fantastic beast 7 years on.
Still got my msi gtx 1080. Recently played The Callisto Protocol everything on high and some ultra settings. 70 - 80 fps in 1080p was no problem for this true BEAST! The 1080 still holds up in 2023. 👍👍❤️
Unbelievable. I've had a 1080 ti since 2017 and it's been a 4K card the entire time. On most games I get between 40-60 with everything turned up. To think how much different the 1080 runs everything is astounding. Just for example at 4K I get 79 fps in Call of Duty MW 2 with most things at high settings. Thanks for the video, love your stuff been watching for years.
I'd be very surprised if the 1080ti was still a 4k card for many titles after 2020 - it was very good in its day but for more recent titles even starts to struggle with 1440p60 , mostly because of drivers not being optimised for it.(this is the only reason the 3060 can best it)
i play 4k with my 1070 aswell
good cards
And other complete fabrications
Same my 1080ti plays everything 4k60 with a few tweaks in settings it's fantastic.
haha yeah, and i am Bill Gates if that card can run anything newer from 2015, 2016 maybe, in 4k at more than 30fps at least medium-high. People are ridiculous 😂😂😆😆
Hard to call the 1080 "outdated" when it's pretty much identical to the current consoles GPUs. Still a great card and since the prices of the newer cards just go up and up there's no budget replacement for it.
Nah the new consoles have ray tracing, this doesn't
I'd say the current consoles are more powerful , more like rtx 2080 level at least
I know the PCMR like to huff copium but the new consoles literally use ZEN2 CPUs and RDNA2 GPUs..... it's fairly easy to find a PC equivalent, and it is said to be the R7 3700X & RX6700
@@tourmaline07 in pure number crunching a PS5 has a 2070, but the optimizations make it feel like a 3070.
@@Brukner841 Feel like a 3070? lmao what are you smoking?!
GTX 1080 (and 1070) is a great value buy today. The most weird thing, is the 1650 cost about the same on the 2nd hand market, as the 1070 these days. (*hint, get the 1070, if you have a PCI-E connector, it is a LOT better). The 1080 in the video for £135 is a great deal. I got a few 1070s for £100-115, which Im pretty satisfied with for some builds.
Time really flies, I still remember watching videos about the 9800 gtx in 2016 and saying that's an old gpu, now the gtx 1080 is considered an old gpu...
Super interesting stuff, I’ve just bought a system with a 1080 in for work and play, as my gaming laptop was getting a bit toasty with its 1060.
It’s nice that the 1080 keeps up so well in modern games, I’ve been pleasantly surprised in my limited testing
80's always aged so well even after a half decade, i used to have 980 back then and it's still game till now.
I have a ROG Strix 1080 Ti in my #3 system which is usually hooked up and ready to go. Still a solid card, esp at 1080p. It shares a 1440 monitor with another system and some games I'll run at 1080p and some at 1440. I have an MSI 1080 non-Ti in another system and is also still a decent option. Basically in the ballpark of a 2070 Super or 3060, but available for quite a bit cheaper, at least in the US. These are still both very usable cards for almost any game at 1080p or many games at 1440. I still think the 9xx to 10xx jump is the greatest single step in GPUs, discounting the ability to run DLSS.
I own a ZOTAC 1080 FE, got it for 120$, its a legend
I just scored one for $168 refurbished on eBay that we're old video rendering cards
same for me, i'm glad i've bought it!
I haven't got the chance to use it, still waiting on parts but very excited! Going to be a good vr oriented build too
Actually at that 1080p resolution is still very good, it was born and bought by owners to play games at high refresh rate 2k even 4k nearly 7 years ago. Even now, the minimum required for some new games just reaching GTX 1060 at 1080p, so i think there is no reason why GTX 1080 is not enough, even at 2k.
1080 is about like a 6600 so still very good 1080p high/ultra card and alot of games at 1440p. Driver support for new games not as good is the only downside in my opinion.
Yeah driver support is what will make this card age fast going forward
I know the 1080ti 11gb is nearly the same as the 6600 so this should get around 10% less fps
@@AinzOoalGown2138 I do believe that the GTX 1080 Ti is on par with the XT.
1080= 2060 < 2060s
6600 smokes the 1080. The 1080 is on par with a 2060 in 2023.
Grabbed a used GTX1080 with EKWB black and unused refence cooler for just 99 euro last week. Amazing the best value for my R5 3600 pc!
still own my two originals. theyre keeping my kids enetertained on their pcs. still chugging along all these years. great cards.
My OC'd 1070 Ti Advanced Binned is around stock 1080 performance and I still love it. Yes it was the all Ultra card but I've been enjoying tinkering with different graphics settings again to find the optimal fps/eyecandy ratio :P
Value of a life time. I just ordered a RX 6800 used on eBay for $370 after shipping and tax. I play 1440P and hope this will last as long as the 10 series did for me.
Still using my EVGA GTX 1080 SC for 5 years now. 1080p and 144Hz is the perfect setting! Recently upgraded from an i7 7700k to an r7 5700x and got massive performance gains. Love it!
Just a reminder that the VRAM figure shown by MSI Afterburner displays how much VRAM the game has allocated, NOT how much it is using.
Hardware Unboxed did a really good video about this with one of the earlier RE games/remasters.
Some games are really aggressive with allocation, so you may actually have a lot more headroom than that figure would lead you to believe.
Ah yeah forgot about that, good point
@@RandomGaminginHD cheers! Love the channel. Hope you sis is still selling cool threads.
I love when you do these videos a friend of mine has a GTX1080 in his PC (arquitect work) but he occasioonaly plays some games... I can just show him this video to see how well he could tweak his settings
Yeah it’ll do great
this card is so good, it's still comparable with 3060 in raw performance. it's a sub flagship 2 generations old and yet as capable as a new entry level.
If you bough a 1080 / 1080Ti when they came out, you had many years a great GPU! 🙂
I got 1080ti new in 2017 best card I ever owned plan on keeping it till 2025 when I build entire new system
I did. It's still very good. But I did replace it with a 4090. I hope to hack some Linux Quadro drivers for the 1080Ti and use it for 3D accelerated Virtual Machines.
Almost 7 years old and still hitting 60fps at medium-ultra 1080p for new games is pretty great.
I think this card looks great, and I’m impressed with the performance. Could you please include Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 in some of your videos?
Hey I had this card, specifically a watercooled version of it. Bought it for $100 from a miner. It ran REALLY well. Only issue was the green PCB, that was a little bit of an eyesore.
This is one of the greatest GPU's of all times!! The 1080TI is actually the greatest!!
you making this video right now is hilarious, since my gpu gave out luckily its under warranty and i had to go back to my old gtx 1080
It’s still a great card! But sorry about your other card 😞
Random, I'm definitely a believer of Pascal and a Proud own of my MSI Gaming version. I recently switched to ARC A770 LE on my 1440p panel and switched to using my GTX 1080 @ 1080p res. ( 2K was struggling with my old Pascal) I would personally stay away from the blower style versions of this card. (More FPS's with MSI oc, runs cooler as well) Thanks for the upload and review of this legendary beast of a GPU.
@El Cactuar 1440p res
@El Cactuar Basically half of 4k is what I was trying to confer.
I love the design of the Founder's Editions form the 900 and 1000 series with the silver. Still rocking an MSI FE 1080 Ti and the only real sign of age is the green dye of the Nvidia glowing logo is fading unevenly so it doesn't look quite as crisp anymore with some letters more mint green and others lime green.
@Narkomancers MSI made a Founder's Edition 1080 Ti. It is even listed on their website. Can't speak to other board partners but some of the Founder's Edition cards were made by MSI. Just a fancy way of saying reference design anyway.
@Narkomancers I am sure some were. I guess Nvidia didn't have the production capacity. IDK. But the GPU itself has no MSI branding just the box and even that is kind of low key. No red dragons, just the MSI letters in Nvidia green. As to who got picked to manufacturer the Founder's Edition cards like MSI versus Zotac who knows how that process went.
Just overhauled my PC. Upgraded my Ryzen 7 2700 to a Ryzen 7 5800x. Still rocking my Strix Gtx1080. Have no reason to replace it yet.
I still use a 1080ti till today. It is capable of running every modern game I want to play (Cyberpunk, Hitman 3, WatchDogs Legion and many more). Sometimes even at the highest settings and always at 1440p. Together with my i7-8700k, the PC is "old" but still usable as a good gaming PC. I don't see the point in spending any money for new PC parts in the near future.
I'm not a fan of any blower style cards, mainly because of the higher temps you mentioned. Minus the lack of a backplate, I do like the look of the card.
I just got a msi 1080 used for 100$. Its a nice upgrade for me since i was using a 1060.
I have the Asus Strix retail version of this card, its still a champ for 1440p 165hz gaming in my opinion.
2016-2017 were the birth years of several legends that still hold to this day. GTX 1080/1070, Rx 480/580 and first generation of Ryzen 1600/1700.
I don't know if we'll see anything like that anytime soon. The price to performance was just in the right spot.
All first gen Ryzen was definitely legendary. I still have my 1200 from 2018, got it overclocked to 4GHz and I could have it match around a 1500/1500X in benchmarks and real world gaming. Good times.
Your background image of thmbnail pic is always awesome ...and you always show me the best content!
I must say, I had GTX 1080 and I mixed Ultra with Medium (volumetric fog, clouds and some other unnoticable stuff) in Cyberpunk and got 30-40 FPS in 1440p and about 50-60 with FSR 2.1 Quality
Same goes with Spider-Man: Ultra everything but some settings (crowd, LODs - bad CPU) and got 60-80 FPS with FSR
Found one of those at a garage sale a couple summers ago and the guy didn't know what it was or if it worked, and neither did I at the time, so he gave it to me $5. Works great and my son has it in his PC to this day. I bought a bunch of other PC parts from that guy that day but that was the the best score.
Very good video, but I think you should have added some games at 1440p with FSR to show how well this card can still do with more modern displays.
These are showing up in my local market for $100-$150 now, along with 1070's. It's good to have your video as reference.
what an amazing card, im still rocking a palit gtx 1080 gamerock and this thing was worth every single penny when i got it used 4 years ago for 300eu. Im getting fixed 144fps on pubg with low-med settings, around 70-90 fps on cod warzone 2.. on 1440p i may add..!! still waiting for a worthfull upgrade. around the same price point.
So many friends still holding onto their 1080 and 1080ti's. Whats funny is so many of the cards now that have similar performance to a 1080 (2060, 5600xt) will eventually have a lack of vram and 1080 users will still have better cards.
Know what the insane thing is? The mobile gtx 1080, had almost the same TDP as the proper full fat desktop 1080. 150w (mobile 1080) vs 180w (desktop 1080). This means, you could very well overclock the mobile 1080 and get some nice boost to FPS. They also shared the same exact specifications since they were literally the same card. And it was during pascal, that the ultra high end GPU's packed SLI gtx 1070's and gtx 1080's. Sure, even back then SLI was basically dead, but you have to admit, that laptops were far more insane back then. I mean they were cooling like 300w + total in laptops (dual 150w 1080's and OC'd i7's or dual 115w 1070's and oc'd i7's).
Infact, the highest TDP mobile GPU's ever were the 200w rtx a6000 in the asus studiobook pro art and the 200w rtx 2080 super laptops. The 200w rtx A6000 actually was within 10% of a desktop rtx A6000, despite being put in a thin and light chassis. And the 200w rtx 2080 super was basically as fast as the desktop rtx 2080. Nvidia could've put a desktop 2080ti into laptops as is at the same 200w TDP and would've gotten insane performance.
Now, you might wonder, why don't we put 200w+ GPU's into laptops today, when we have MUCH better cooling and way more efficient and stronger CPU's. Its greed. Nvidia and AMD realised that they can lie to you and you'll still buy and defend their GPU's on laptops. Thats why nvidia decided that with ampere they won't put a desktop rtx 3080 die into laptops at give it at least 200w. Nvidia could've given this mobile rtx 3080 GA102 die more cuda cores too to compensate for a lower power limit and used better binning. I mean they're not gonna sell a lot of these anyways. Same with AMD. Could've given us a 175w rx6800 as a rx6800m but noooo.... AMD has to be greedy.
im buy 1080 when mining booming 3 year ago after selling my vega 56 serving me playing mw 2019 like champ love this gpu
I was actually using a dell 1080 with a aftermarket cooler and a moderate overclock for a long time
I will be intresting see the strongest gtx 1080/1070 vs weak rtx 3050/2060
The strongest 1080/1070 performs as the same as founders edition, same with the 3050/2060
Overclocked versions of 1070/1080 have an average of 5 to 10/15% gaming gain over faunders edition cards.
1070 is similar to 3050 performance. A little lower in modern games because dx12 performs better on newer architectures as expected
You can still buy one of these for less than 200€, a Ti version for slightly more. For raster graphics, they offer so much more value than any new card out there.
10:18 - Wow! That level of performance at 1080p High with RT Reflections set to High! 😮
I always forgot that Pascal GPUs with more than 6GB of VRAM can run DXR.
I have two questions:
1) Can you include Control in your benchmarks?
2) Can you include RT mode in your benchmarks (or sometime making a dedicated video) when you're testing RT capable GPUs? I'm very curious about the RDNA2/RDNA3 APUs on this aspect!
this card is great using MSI afterburner: remove 300 mhz on core clock open "curve editor" and at 900 mV push up the line to 1900 mhz ,add more 300 mhz to memory and push power limit to max and boom you give around 10% more with lower power consumption and temperature
Congratulations on 500,000 subscribers!
That card will still be good years from now honestly
The comical thing about this is I just sealed a deal for a founders edition 1080 for $100 USD locally where I'm at
Nice
Nice! I actually have one of these. Came in my Dell XPS 8930 Special Edition. For 2018 it was pretty well specced out. i7 8700K, 16GB DDR4, GTX 1080, BluRay Burner. Optional Killer NIC Wifi and Ethernet.
Love the videos. Big fan, but do you ever play these games actually? Every time you benchmark them I've noticed it's always at the beginning of the game and never progresses. Lol
Honestly I don’t do much personal gaming these days. If I do it’s usually older games, like fallout new vegas and kingdom come deliverance
dude I love your videos
I bought one at launch... still rocking it today lol.
Congrats!! for 500k 😄✌️
Just picked up an old Alienware Aurora and tossed this exact card in it. No regrets! Great card
I still buy and use 1080 and 1080ti graphics cards. Great bargain. I rarely play modern games. Just need cuda cores for other purposes
I’m still rocking one of these with my 7700k!
Congrads on 500k subs
I main one of these (though not the Dell version) pushing a 1440p high refresh monitor. Plays everything I play at framerates and settings that make me happy.
The PC it's in has developed a PSU problem (shuts off under high load), but the GPU remains reliable and capable, and still makes me happy.
It was an AIO model before, but the prior owner ripped off the questionable and old AIO and installed an Arctic Accelero IV right before selling it to me.
I had a dream of owning this beauty years ago, now I have the 2060 to live the 1080 dream.
7 years old card and it is still going so strong:) well done 1000 series card I'm sure nVIDIA will never release something like this ever again
They probably will at some point.... back then Graphics cards weren't flying off the shelves like they are nowadays. It will be like the Nintendo Wii, if you remember those. The Wii was in short supply until after the 2008 economic crash. The economy will crash again, employers will lay off workers, and we'll be back where we started.
congratulations on 500k subs
Great gpus I sold a gigabyte gtx 1080 OC In December upgraded my Strix 3060ti to a strix 3080 OC 12GB,and gave my wife the Strix 3060ti OC as she was using my old 1080
The 10 series, especially 1050ti, is definitely going down in history as one of the best product lines from NVIDIA, and for GPUs in general.
At 2:57 "Remember, switching to your pistol is always faster than reloading."
If you have a modest fan in the front of the case sucking in and blowing cool air into the blower inlet, these things work just fine, and run cool.
Can you review the 1070 ti in 2023? I have a r5 4650g and am planning to buy one used. Much appreciated! 🙏
Hey i have the exact same card have you hear/see the bug with the Fan ? When the card go to boost clocks fan are going crazy they are doing some rollercoaster... Nice vid m8 !
I still have one of these rds. It's a 1080p beast. I am going to build a midrange PC with it.
And I still have my SLI GTX 1080 setup as a secondary PC. Gave me so much gaming performance when SLI was still a thing and then so many coins when mining was a thing, pretty much paid for themselves and more. And still running.
Ive got a few cards myself, one being a KFA2 Hall of Fame GTX 1080 I believe they are quite rare in europe.
That is an MSI Aero GTX 1080 Cooler so what dell it was pulled from had been upgraded, the Aero use a Nvidia OEM green PCB. The did a sea hawk AIO water cooled model to which was the same PCB and cooler but with a stylist back plate and Corsair AIO pump replacing the stock fin stack, but kept the shitty Blow to cool Mem and VRMs. plus those was upgraded to better one which could handle more power ful OC's. MSI did supply OEM's but dell normal have all branding removed and that would include the Carbon fibre looking bits and MSI their brand white stripe. GTX 10 series was the last one's of great value and worth the price tags.
I bought this kind of gpu for 320€ in Hearthstone Packs from a rich friend in 2017.
Packed a Watercooler on it some time later. Best Gpu Deal I ever made.
My ASUS ROG STRIX GTX 1080 Ti GAMING OC got "demoted" to my office PC not because of not being good enough but simply because I've got an offer for a RX 6900 XT I just couldn't miss... there was that guys selling it at the local site for about US$ 550 with shipping included.
I am certain that the 1080 Ti can perform very well @ 1440p on my i9-9900k gaming PC with any of my games at high/ultra settings. It was by far the best graphics card I ever bought... period!
I just bought one for 130 euros, to uplift my 1060, it'll do great for 1080p gaming before I do a proper upgrade.
I just bought one of these as an upgrade aahah, won an auction for 110 pounds. Very solid performance even for 2k with FSR
@El Cactuar 2k is 1440p
my turbo 1080 is still running like a champ. all new gen games 100+ fps still :D
I daily drive a 1080ti by PNY!
I got it for my new Ryzen 7600x build because I just couldn't justify the money for current gen Nvidia. $170
Just picked one up for 120 also got a cheap brand new ryzen 5800x and got a whole pc for motherboard and ram and PSU for 100 spent like 350 for the hole build
The real MVP of Pascal was the 1080ti. It offered the highest or second highest (not sure anymore) performance increase over the previous 980ti in Nvidias history. Of course the other side of the story was that the regular 1080 even though it was the flagship at launch for flagship prices didnt get the best Pascal chip Nvidia could make. And that we only got the 1080ti the way it was because AMD made some ridiculous claims about how much faster the Vega 64 would be over the 1080. The 1080ti was so good that there was no use in upgrading to a 2080ti when it launched cause depending on the resolution performance gains in normale rasterization could be as low as 10% on average. Funnily enough Nvidia went from one of their best performance increases with the 1080ti to its third worst with Turing.
Congrats on 500K!
My EVGA 1070 Ti outperformed that 1080 in CP2077, but it was replaced with a 3080 12gb and I am playing Sims 3 this week and getting 5 second 0 fps lows every couple days and just before I save my Sim + lot and start a new game and import it again.
The way this card shows its age is when playing competitive games at hight refresh rates.
Don't get me wrong, the 1080 can do Fortnite, Apex, Valorant at 120fps 1080p at low settings but that's it. Don't expect 160 or 200fps.
For anything else, Native 4K, 30-60fps (or lock it at 40) on High Settings all day.
Ultimate sweet spot in price to performance imo. I have recommended this and blower 1070s to anyone I know looking to get into a gaming PC
Blower OC model where great to watercool, cheaper than MSRP (and cheaper than hight end AIB including the waterblock cost) and permit to don't waste money on a cooler who where staying in the box.
I still have my MSI 1080ti cause I can't get myself to sell it for 150 euros or lower, part of the reason being emotional value, the gtx 970 was my first real gamer GPU, but with the 1080ti I felt like I was where I should've been, and I stuck with that all the way until a 6900XT in 2021, and now a 4090 in 2023, so it served me from 2017 till 2021, good 4 years out of a single generation, I really had to ugprade though as I was starting to play at 1440p and then later 1440p ultrawide.
1080 is one of the best cost to performance gpus for 1080p gaming right now abd they take a good oc as well just run at 1080p crank everything up