I had a 980 GTX, bought for about £450. I was still rocking it and my 4790k until this year from about 9 years ago. Best bang for buck system I built for longevity. Still did 1080p well for most games! The pc still lives on! From a fellow yam yam.
@@FakeMrBear oh fr?? Damnnmn gonna be crazy when someone buys the 7900xtx for 40$ in 8years. When guess what? Time has passed and new and better options exist. Dumbahh
@FakeMrBear and what a good deal you got. I did effectively buy the 4080 Super of the 900 series generation for a fraction of the cost of today's cards (£600 in today's money), so it was pretty low back in the day. Got my moneys worth given it nearly lasted me a decade.
Honestly one of the most based PC gaming videos of all time. Old hardware doesn’t get worse because new stuff is better. I’m gonna be clappin my 2060 super out for a long time lmao
I think the main take away is that at this cards launch, it was in fact a fully capable 4k gaming card. I'm sure it probably had a window there where it was a solid 4k performer, from like launch to around late 2017. I imagine compromises with visual settings had to be made more and more from 2018 onward. I could have got a GTX 980 TI back in 2017, but I went with a GTX 1080 for my FX-8350 build. NewEgg had Gigabyte's vanilla GTX 1080 on sale for less than $500 at the time, so I jumped on it as it just made more sense to get at that point.
@@ThankGod4Ant GTX 1080? Nah sold it off during the pandemic gpu shortage. FX stuff however, I still have. I have a fuck ton of graphics cards on hand now, along with a lot of hardware covering AM2-AM3+, LGA775, AM4, and FM2+. I used to be a classic hardware collector for Windows 98/Xp era stuff, but started collecting more modern hardware during and after the pandemic. I currently use a second channel I set up to post videos of modern games running on my FX-8350 setup. This way I can share the results with friends interested in how the 12 year old FX is currently doing. www.youtube.com/@TheOldGodFX/videos
rx6600 has a longer life span and also doesn't output ludicrous amount of watts like 980ti does, if anything this video shows how much better with FPS per watt GPUs get each get, my rtx4070ti consumes around the same 260 watts this 980ti does, and it will obviously outperform it
That's a new rx 6600 though. $40 even for this card wouldn't be typical used price realistically and who knows if it was used for mining or whatever and will fail sooner than later. $200 for a card that will have official drivers for the next few years and can he rma'd if need be is a good deal.
Skyrim SE has a mod that unlocks the fps from the physics so you can go as high as you want now with no issues. There are also dlss and fsr mods if you wish to take advantage of upscaling.
The results are quite impressive to be honest, such a beast of a card even for todays standards, amazing job mate cheers (btw top tier anti sag support lol)
1080ti can still do 4k decently if you are playing esports or older games. But like with the 980ti its best suited for 1080p as both still have more than enough muscle and vram to play most games at high settings 60 fps.
I have two of those Zotac GTX 980 Tis. Even the box. One is right beside me here on the desk and the other is in my daughter's computer. My main system has a GTX 1080...also from Zotac. I think I will slot in my Zotac GTX 1070 Ti in my daughter's computer and retire that 980 Ti as a spare.
I agree. 4k with upscaling isn't 4k. That is why even the 4090 isn't an amazing 4k gpu. Still, many games require the use of DLSS to hit 4k120+. I think a truly great 4k gpu won't exist until 8k becomes the high-end resolution.
@jjlw2378 and I disagree... I think no matter the situation someone can point out a flaw, but on a game like say Cyberpunk, if it takes effort and close examination to determine that is not "real" 4k, then who cares? If it is good enough to deliver appropriately what the 4k experience should be, what does it matter how you got there? We aren't talking something competitive here where it then would matter
@ProYamYamPC nope, the angst was specifically that I used "4k" in the thumbnail. In the video itself I went over the specs of the machine and all the settings I used, in fact, i went over settings within the first minute of the video.
People that have high end setups are a small but very loud minority. If you look at steam survey stats 60% of users are still at 1080p with the rtx 3060 being the most popular gpu by a wide margin. 4090 users are around 1%.
@@BonusCrook I'm looking at steam survey right now and the 3080 is 2.2% of users. The 4080 is 0.8% of users. Both the old GTX 1650 and 1060 are higher up on the list than the 3080 or 4080.
@@BonusCrook If you look at the rtx 3060, 2060, and 4060 that's a much larger percentage of steam users. You add up all the 3080, 3090, 4080, 4090, and rx 7900xt users and that's still around 5-6% total. So someone with a 3060-4060 level gpu is much more representative of the "average" steam users setup. If you add up just 3060 and 3060ti that's 10%
I like these titles '20, 30, 40$ graphics card' that in reality is not only hard to find, it's real second-hand market price is WAY above what people state in the titles. Gosh, I'm so tired of these 'baity' titles. It's a yet another 'old legend', yet another 'kind of budget gaming', and yet another 'still capable today'. How come people aren't tired of the same-ish videos? I'm sorry, dude, nothing personal. I wish people would just try and take a more creative approach to these kind of videos. Almost all of them look identical. Whether these were '750Ti legend' videos years ago, or X card today, it's all the same story: things were cheaper, things were better, it can still do a thing today to a degree. THE END.
980 ti is not supposed to be sold for pennies the gpu is not even 2x times weaker than a 6600 which is usually sold at 200 so why would someone give like 20 bucks or something for a gpu that can match half of the performance of a 6600 (a 200$ gpu) ?
@@mikaela43523 did you even read my comment? How does that change the fact that it's a clickbait title that doesn't represent the content of the video and distorts and stretches the real state of affairs a bit too much?
@@VGHOST008 how is it clickbait, i mean it can play some AAA games at 4k at playable framerate a 980 ti can also play non AAA games at 4K its not necesarily wrong
ProYamYamPC : I've had an opportunity to buy this exact model of the Zotac GTX 980 Ti 6GB AMP EXTREME edition for 110 EUROS....but I just couldn't because it's crap and at best equally as fast as the GTX 1060 6GB but eats 100 % more power. It's just such a crap card and so utterly unimportant that it's not even funny to buy it for 40 EUROS. The true legend is the GTX 1080 8GB GDDR5X and GTX 1080 Ti GDDR5X....while the GTX 980 Ti would be a legend if it had 12 GB of VRAM.
a 1080 isnt even that much faster than a 980 ti and even then how is a 980 ti a bad gpu? ESPECIALLY FOR 40 BUCKS, youre literally able to play every game for less than the price of a single AAA game
@@mikaela43523 the GTX 1080 8GB GDDR5X is literally 100 % faster in every game. Going from Maxwell to Pascal was the biggest jump in performance that Nvidia ever made.
@@lflyr6287 its not 980 ti performs around 5-10%slower than a 1070 and 1070 is only like 25% or so slower than a 1080 and all 1080's are gddr5x and 8gb so no point in mentioning that
TDP of the 980Ti is 250w, lets assume electricity costs 64p per kilowatt hour and because the 980Ti draws 250w you can divide that 64 by 4; now you just times that by the number of hours you play in a month and you've got your electricity bill. If you were to play 5 hours a day for a whole month then the 980Ti would cost you £25 a month, so just after two months the card would have written itself off in just electricity. No wonder these cards are getting cheap.
I had a 980 GTX, bought for about £450. I was still rocking it and my 4790k until this year from about 9 years ago. Best bang for buck system I built for longevity. Still did 1080p well for most games! The pc still lives on!
From a fellow yam yam.
450 pounds for gtx980🤣 I paid 450 usd for rx7900xtx🤣🤣🤣🙏
@@FakeMrBear oh fr?? Damnnmn gonna be crazy when someone buys the 7900xtx for 40$ in 8years. When guess what? Time has passed and new and better options exist. Dumbahh
@FakeMrBear and what a good deal you got. I did effectively buy the 4080 Super of the 900 series generation for a fraction of the cost of today's cards (£600 in today's money), so it was pretty low back in the day. Got my moneys worth given it nearly lasted me a decade.
@@cs2n845 true🥳
@@FakeMrBear 9 years tho..
Honestly one of the most based PC gaming videos of all time. Old hardware doesn’t get worse because new stuff is better. I’m gonna be clappin my 2060 super out for a long time lmao
I'm glad you like it bro🙌
I stubbornly kept using my RX 480 until about last year.
If I had FSR back in 2016 with my GTX 980 Ti I might not have upgraded to the GTX 1080 so fast for 4K.
Bro really launched Cyberpunk at 4k on a 980Ti
I sure did🤣
My old 980ti still lives on in an older PC! Legend of a card
I think the main take away is that at this cards launch, it was in fact a fully capable 4k gaming card. I'm sure it probably had a window there where it was a solid 4k performer, from like launch to around late 2017. I imagine compromises with visual settings had to be made more and more from 2018 onward. I could have got a GTX 980 TI back in 2017, but I went with a GTX 1080 for my FX-8350 build. NewEgg had Gigabyte's vanilla GTX 1080 on sale for less than $500 at the time, so I jumped on it as it just made more sense to get at that point.
u still got or upgraded?
@@ThankGod4Ant GTX 1080? Nah sold it off during the pandemic gpu shortage. FX stuff however, I still have. I have a fuck ton of graphics cards on hand now, along with a lot of hardware covering AM2-AM3+, LGA775, AM4, and FM2+. I used to be a classic hardware collector for Windows 98/Xp era stuff, but started collecting more modern hardware during and after the pandemic. I currently use a second channel I set up to post videos of modern games running on my FX-8350 setup. This way I can share the results with friends interested in how the 12 year old FX is currently doing. www.youtube.com/@TheOldGodFX/videos
Maxwell might be one of the best GPU architecture ever. It still aged pretty well
980 ti was Maxwell not Pascal
pascal are 10 series cards
@@Hairybarryy I stand corrected, thanks.
I mean pascal did age better than maxwell so it's not nessarialy a wrong statement, Just wrong in this context.
@@andrewmcewan9145 I meant to type Maxwell lol
980 ti a 40$ gpu? thats a steal that doesnt even perform 2x times worse than a 6600 which is usually around 200
rx6600 has a longer life span and also doesn't output ludicrous amount of watts like 980ti does, if anything this video shows how much better with FPS per watt GPUs get each get, my rtx4070ti consumes around the same 260 watts this 980ti does, and it will obviously outperform it
@@unclexbox85 yeah but the 6600 costs 5 times more
That's a new rx 6600 though. $40 even for this card wouldn't be typical used price realistically and who knows if it was used for mining or whatever and will fail sooner than later.
$200 for a card that will have official drivers for the next few years and can he rma'd if need be is a good deal.
Pretty crazy if you imagine how long 4k has been on the market and how little people actually use it looking at the steam hardware survey.
Skyrim SE has a mod that unlocks the fps from the physics so you can go as high as you want now with no issues. There are also dlss and fsr mods if you wish to take advantage of upscaling.
i never knew that, thanks for the heads up mate!
Happy days mate did a lot better than I thought!!! 😎
Ikr mate🤣 Fair play from this 9 year old card!
The results are quite impressive to be honest, such a beast of a card even for todays standards, amazing job mate cheers (btw top tier anti sag support lol)
I was very impressed too mate! And who knew a 50mm lens was a great GPU support🤣
1080ti can still do 4k decently if you are playing esports or older games. But like with the 980ti its best suited for 1080p as both still have more than enough muscle and vram to play most games at high settings 60 fps.
I have two of those Zotac GTX 980 Tis. Even the box. One is right beside me here on the desk and the other is in my daughter's computer. My main system has a GTX 1080...also from Zotac. I think I will slot in my Zotac GTX 1070 Ti in my daughter's computer and retire that 980 Ti as a spare.
Have you tried Lossless Scaling method on this setup?
Some of these were actually surprising ngl
I know right, glad to see older hardware is still viable!
Hey I'm in a plan to build a pc for web development is i5 3570 enough for my purpose @@ProYamYamPC
wonder how well 1440p is with this card
Fascinating, I got attacked for calling it 4k when I used upscaling and called it 4k
I agree. 4k with upscaling isn't 4k. That is why even the 4090 isn't an amazing 4k gpu. Still, many games require the use of DLSS to hit 4k120+. I think a truly great 4k gpu won't exist until 8k becomes the high-end resolution.
@jjlw2378 and I disagree... I think no matter the situation someone can point out a flaw, but on a game like say Cyberpunk, if it takes effort and close examination to determine that is not "real" 4k, then who cares? If it is good enough to deliver appropriately what the 4k experience should be, what does it matter how you got there? We aren't talking something competitive here where it then would matter
@dragonsystems5973 Agreed. It's subjective. If you're happy, then I'm happy.
I think as log as you state it's upscaled, you're ok. That's why I included both native and upscaled results
@ProYamYamPC nope, the angst was specifically that I used "4k" in the thumbnail. In the video itself I went over the specs of the machine and all the settings I used, in fact, i went over settings within the first minute of the video.
i think its better suited to 1440p medium high or 1080p ultra.
wow the 980 ti has come down in price quite a lot, $40 is a deal for that thing.
Truly a video for the average PC gamer who blows the budget on useless garbage like AIOs, too many cores, RGB ram, and overpriced boards.
People that have high end setups are a small but very loud minority.
If you look at steam survey stats 60% of users are still at 1080p with the rtx 3060 being the most popular gpu by a wide margin. 4090 users are around 1%.
@@Flyon86 high end stuff isn't uncommon, 3080s are everywhere
@@BonusCrook I'm looking at steam survey right now and the 3080 is 2.2% of users. The 4080 is 0.8% of users. Both the old GTX 1650 and 1060 are higher up on the list than the 3080 or 4080.
@@Flyon86 yea 2.2% isn't uncommon, thats just for the 3080. high end stuff isn't tiny
@@BonusCrook If you look at the rtx 3060, 2060, and 4060 that's a much larger percentage of steam users. You add up all the 3080, 3090, 4080, 4090, and rx 7900xt users and that's still around 5-6% total.
So someone with a 3060-4060 level gpu is much more representative of the "average" steam users setup. If you add up just 3060 and 3060ti that's 10%
I like these titles '20, 30, 40$ graphics card' that in reality is not only hard to find, it's real second-hand market price is WAY above what people state in the titles. Gosh, I'm so tired of these 'baity' titles. It's a yet another 'old legend', yet another 'kind of budget gaming', and yet another 'still capable today'. How come people aren't tired of the same-ish videos?
I'm sorry, dude, nothing personal. I wish people would just try and take a more creative approach to these kind of videos. Almost all of them look identical. Whether these were '750Ti legend' videos years ago, or X card today, it's all the same story: things were cheaper, things were better, it can still do a thing today to a degree. THE END.
980 ti is not supposed to be sold for pennies
the gpu is not even 2x times weaker than a 6600 which is usually sold at 200 so why would someone give like 20 bucks or something for a gpu that can match half of the performance of a 6600 (a 200$ gpu) ?
@@mikaela43523 did you even read my comment? How does that change the fact that it's a clickbait title that doesn't represent the content of the video and distorts and stretches the real state of affairs a bit too much?
@@VGHOST008 how is it clickbait, i mean it can play some AAA games at 4k at playable framerate
a 980 ti can also play non AAA games at 4K
its not necesarily wrong
@@mikaela43523 do you have problems with reading comprehension? It is NOT a 40$ card, that's how. The title says -> 40$ card. That is simply not true.
@@VGHOST008 alright then
sure maybe not usually sold for such a price
these people find it for a bargain and think its the normal price for a gpu
ProYamYamPC : I've had an opportunity to buy this exact model of the Zotac GTX 980 Ti 6GB AMP EXTREME edition for 110 EUROS....but I just couldn't because it's crap and at best equally as fast as the GTX 1060 6GB but eats 100 % more power. It's just such a crap card and so utterly unimportant that it's not even funny to buy it for 40 EUROS. The true legend is the GTX 1080 8GB GDDR5X and GTX 1080 Ti GDDR5X....while the GTX 980 Ti would be a legend if it had 12 GB of VRAM.
a 1080 isnt even that much faster than a 980 ti
and even then how is a 980 ti a bad gpu? ESPECIALLY FOR 40 BUCKS, youre literally able to play every game for less than the price of a single AAA game
@@mikaela43523 the GTX 1080 8GB GDDR5X is literally 100 % faster in every game. Going from Maxwell to Pascal was the biggest jump in performance that Nvidia ever made.
@@lflyr6287 its not
980 ti performs around 5-10%slower than a 1070 and 1070 is only like 25% or so slower than a 1080
and all 1080's are gddr5x and 8gb so no point in mentioning that
What are you on about? $40 for a 980 Ti is an amazing deal. Especially given the performance it has
@@mikaela43523 haha....I hope your wishes come true in your dreams :).
I bet the 980 uses more than £40 of electricity a month!
TDP of the 980Ti is 250w, lets assume electricity costs 64p per kilowatt hour and because the 980Ti draws 250w you can divide that 64 by 4; now you just times that by the number of hours you play in a month and you've got your electricity bill. If you were to play 5 hours a day for a whole month then the 980Ti would cost you £25 a month, so just after two months the card would have written itself off in just electricity. No wonder these cards are getting cheap.
Can I bought this GPU from you for 55 $
that emount lens is the most expensive gpu holder i've ever seen lol