NVIDIA GTX 980 Ti in 2021 Revisit: Benchmarks vs. 1080 Ti, 3080, 6800 XT, & More
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- Опубликовано: 8 июл 2024
- We're revisiting the NVIDIA GTX 980 Ti in 2021, specifically the EVGA Hybrid 980 Ti. The 980 Ti is a former flagship, now benchmarked vs. 1080 Ti, 970, 5700 XT, 3080, 6800 XT, & lots more.
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This 2021 review of the NVIDIA GTX 980 Ti uses the EVGA GTX 980 Ti Hybrid, setting forth to determine how the card compares to modern GPUs, like the RTX 3080, RTX 3070, RTX 3060 Ti, RX 6800 XT and 6800, and also to those in between. Because the GPU market is such a mess right now, depending entirely on where you live, you might have a better chance at getting an RTX 3060 Ti than a used GTX 1080 Ti; at the same time, if your local marketplaces have more used cards (discounting eBay, which seems to be way too expensive right now), it might be sensible to grab something used. Even still, the GTX 980 Ti does well overall for 1080p gaming in 2021, depending on the graphics quality settings, so it can hang on for a little while yet.
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - The Once-King Returns
03:47 - History of the GTX 980 Ti, Maxwell, & Pascal
06:38 - GTA V (4K, Frametimes, 1440p, & 1080p) GTX 980 Ti Benchmarks
11:01 - Three Kingdoms GTX 980 Ti Benchmarks in 2021
13:14 - Horizon Zero Dawn 980 Ti in 2021 (1080p, 1440p, & 4K)
16:07 - Rainbow Six: Siege (1080p, 1440p, & 4K) Benchmarks
17:24 - Cyberpunk 2077 at 1080p GPU Benchmarks
17:58 - Red Dead Redemption 2 at 1080p GPU Benchmarks
18:28 - Strange Brigade at 1080p
18:44 - Conclusion: GTX 980 Ti vs. 1080 Ti, RTX 3080, RX 6800 XT, etc.
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You requested it! Here's the 980 Ti. What's next?
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RX 580 4/8G
The 960 I have
I'll trade it for that 980 ti
gtx 1070
1060 3gb/6gb
I should send you my 5870 eyefinity 6 for you to do this.
That feel when you look over to your water cooled 1080Ti with a strong overclock and think "Thanks buddy, you saved me from three generations of manufacturer insanity."
Its not the OEMs but users themselves who cause price gouging.
I got the hybrid Evga kit for my 1080 ti FE and its beeen amazing how well that card has been able to hit 50-60 fps (and a good frametime of sub 20ms) on 4k gaming.
I was really hoping GE would show us now vs then benchmarking on titles they tested in 2017 when the card came out but what is really interesting is this
March 2017 | EVGA 1080 Ti FTW | 4k Sniper Elite 4 avg fps = 86.8 fps
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July 2019 | VGA 1080 Ti FTW | 4k Sniper Elite 4 avg fps = 89.9 fps
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so that's like 3-4%. So not so good and yet when you examine 1% low and 0.1% low figures there is significantly better result
Period | 1% low and 0.1% low
March 2017 | 73 & 68 fps
vs
July 2019 | 80 & 78
its more like 10% and that was 2 years ago so who knows how much better it is.
That is loyalty. And also no time to deal with GPU prices.
@@puciohenzap891 except miners literally go to the Chinese factories clearing out the stocks before they could even hit the shelves
@@user-njyzcip except the factories aren't in China.
GN in 2020: "Here are the brand new strong GPU releases from Nvidia and AMD!"
*scalpers and miners happen*
GN in 2021: "So, here are the gtx 970 and 980Ti..."
🤣 😂
I blame Nvidia. Now they're bringing back the 2060 and 2060 Super. Now why TF would they quit making something in demand in the first place!? They created this "shortage" & now they're screwed and can't even supply their customers. They didn't try any anti bot actions they just gave up on their website. The leaders in AI technology can't even stop the miners from stealing all our cards.
@Gareth Tucker Idk why they didn't just announce the 2070 super also. I'd still buy a 2070. If I have to get a 2060 I hope a SUPER is available... On newegg there is 2060 supers going for $1,200. The market is a disgrace right now.
@@bradbeyers9028 i hv i7 7700, msi b250 pro vh motherboard, 32gb vengeance ddr4 2400hz, cooler master hyper 410r cpu cooler, cooler master v650 80 plus gold semi modular psu. suggest me an RTX card for 1080p ultra wd max VRAM
@@bradbeyers9028 The RTX2000 series is made with TSMC 12nm node while RTX3000 series are made on short supply Samsung 8nm. AI is also fake; it's really just statistics with extra steps. No surprise it can't stop bots
"The longer 980 Ti and 1080 Ti are on earth, the stronger they will become."
I wish they did, but nvidia will do them dirty like all previous cards.
I'm not sure about AMD tho, I have some old cpus of them and gpus(some budget at the time so they are barely useable and some decent/ great stuff) but the rx5000 series had horrendous software support, which is why I got a 2060super and I recently got a 5600x and it is a nuclear reactor, the fx8350 I have on a mediocre aircooler is atleast 60c cooler. At much higher voltages mind you. Also have a 290x but only played valheim on that and valheim hates AMD so can't judge that myself.
So not sure if who's better.
@@tilburg8683 already started with guardians of the galaxy :(
3080 Ti coming too.
I need my bfg 9000
Remember back in the good old days when $650 was the best expensive flagship card you could buy?
And now $650 will get you an average card
I thank god I got hit in 2018 miner craze. with my 1070ti that was overpriced at $500+. Now I look at 2021 and smile at my Step Up 2080. Saved me money in the long run
Yeah I also remember buying a pack of smokes and fill up my car for less then $10. Its called inflation.
@@jirune8453 $650 gets you 'average'? I'd say the 6800xt is a very high end card
@@UnluckyDomino ya if only we could still get it for under a grand...
Linus was at 60fps. Then he dropped a frame and thus he turned into a monster!
I don't get it?
@@AegisK pfffft, he's very careful
@@Examoon 3090 was a "fake" but still, my heart sunk when he did it
@@Examoon its his hobby at this point.
Wow, 980Ti still holding up there even after more than 5 years after!
I was really interested in seeing the 1080ti results. I get that there was a focus on the 980 and the games available at its launch in 2015
I was really hoping that would have loaded up the games they tested in the original reviews and compared the results in those tests with today's results.
With updates to Vulcan, DirectX, OS and Nvidia Driver's you'd expect, hope, to see improvements however its impossible to tell because despite GTA V being tested almost always it seems on the 1080 ti reviews that GE didn 't do any GTA V testing back in 2017 when it launched.
oh well
No surprise since nano technology is what kept them stuck on the easy path of increasing frequency and reducing size...
Wouldn't be surprise if at some point they manage to build multiples levels of core one on top of another to save space and increase dissipation.
And 980ti oc ? 1450mhz gpu clock?
I went 980ti -> 3080, it was pretty great. My wife went 770 -> 980ti. When we play stuff together I'm constantly struck by how good everything runs on her older system. That 980ti is a workhorse, its given me half a decade of great graphics.
It's hard to go wrong with desktop cards in general, even as they show their age. When laptop graphics cards age well.. that's when things get interesting graphically lol
hah a is ur wife mad 8 yr old gpu
"Hands me down" to your wife. Nice.
The 980ti is the first high end card I ever bought and I'm still rocking it to this day. I wanted to get a bit more performance out of it so in 2020 I decided to learn how to OC it. Given current GPU prices, it was probably not the best time to try and OC my one and only GPU, but whatever, it worked like a champ. Either way, I love the card and plan on using it till it can't go anymore.
The factory clocks on the 980ti is extremely conservative. You can easily overclock it to 1.5ghz and gain roughly 30% performance. This is the last generation card that actually overclocks compared to the likes of 1080Ti and 3080Ti. The latter two you can barely bump the core frequency up 50mhz b4 it crashes
@@lambdastorm7787 Total nonsense dude! You aren't getting a 30% performance boost from a 200Mhz overclock. You'll gain about 7 to 10 fps from the overclock. It's no different than the 200Mhz boost you'll get from OC the 1080 Ti from its base boost of 1850 to 2050.
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@@Gamevet 1180mhz to 1500mhz is pretty much 30%. 980ti's default clocks are extremely conservative.
@@lambdastorm7787 but you dont get 30 % boost in games for fps, you get 30%more clock "maybe" but that doesnt mean 30% more fps
@@theplayerofus319 He said performance which can also refer to how the CPU itself is performing, not just games
The GPU situation is so absurd we are re-reviewing Nvidia 900 series GPUs now..
Who thought the GPU situation would go even more crazy then the previous crypto boom during the 20-series? I did not see it coming at least.
The difference in prices from MSRP or even between US and EU is absolutely massive! People are having to pay double price between one country to the next (not talking scalpers here, retail prices). Even getting a used card from 2 generations back is not easy and not cheap.
Dark days for gaming right now...
@@thewrulph Wholesalers are scalping the retailers now. They can command whatever price they want. They (retailers) ask for a card and might get given what's in stock at that second rather than what's been requested and it is a "take it or leave it" situation.
@@clansome local store just got some 3070 cards. Gigabyte 3070 Gaming OC is 849€. Currently 7 in stock. Probably will be gone in 2-3 hours.
@@jaagup What gets me, and I'm sure this is linked to tariffs, is none of board partners have to the best of my knowledge actually released MSRP's so we have nothing to judge the prices by. This is the same whether it's AMD or nVidia, that said AMD GPU are at the bottom of the stack insofar as 7nm is concerned. Epyc, Ryzen, and consoles are far more profitable relatively.
@@jaagup oof that sucks
Steve's hair looks especially marvelous today.
probably he works the whole night for the bench results^^...he worked for so long, that his hair grown for another 2 inches^^
it looks better everyday.
OGX Tea Tree and Mint Conditioner
Steve needs an agent to get him some shampoo/conditioner commercials. I’m shocked nobody has done so.
I assume he uses Ivan Pavlovs classical conditioner!
I really appreciate how GN shows how much they oc their components, it helps in estimating real world performance for personal oc's
I have a 1080ti FTW3 (Hybrid AIO) - Even 4 years later it's performance is so good I won't even consider changing this GPU until 2022. It's one of the most impressive bits of kit I've ever purchased.
The 980TI is still a great card! I upgraded years ago but I still remember it being a phenomenal value.
What'd you upgrade to?
@@GamersNexus GT 1030 GDDR3 version
@@thecchrist777cc6 Or the new GT 1010 xD nothing else is really available right now, at least in my country
its is but if u want to play in 1440p with max details, it will be struggle!!
but for all, who wants a new card and own a 980ti 1080/ti they are in a good position. They can wait until the prices drops to normal.
for people who need a GPU NOW, its a very very bad time!
@@thecchrist777cc6 GT 710 GDDRX5 Edition
I was running Cyberpunk on my 980Ti just last month. That little soldier served me well.
@@vbvapat upgrading my 1050 to a 3070
ditto
@@vbvapat dont bother buying a 30 series if you use 1080p60, a 980ti is still very capable today. Upgrading to 30series would require new parts for your pc, new mobo for pcie gen4 support, new power supply and a new monitor so you wont bottleneck the 30serie
Grabbed a 1070FE for 250$ last year and serves me well on 1080p60hz gaming and engineering CAD works
@@vbvapat 980ti to 3070 is hardly an upgrade, save up for the 4080 when it comes out (imo)
@@vbvapat just the monitor? you might also need the mobo to fully utilise pcie gen 4. and the psu too (maybe, depends on your current build if ya have a 800-1000+ W)
IM IMPRESSED AT HOW BOTH 1080 AND 1080TI HOLD UP
What if I told you it's not that those cards are great but RTX series were a failure.
@@kotekutalia kinda but the 3000 series saved it a bit (apart from the 3080 drivers)
Pc parts age fucking well.
@@connorzubington2829 3000 series what? This gen is a failure as well. If AMD and Nvidia don't fix the stock soon many might consider waiting for 4000 series next year.
@@connorzubington2829 People who had GTX 1080 Ti already skipped RTX 2000 series because you had to buy 2080 Ti to get significant performance boost. Now 2080 Ti is midrange (3070) and is not worth the investment, $500 is too much for 70 series/8 GB. So they should either get $800-1000 RTX 3080 card with less VRAM or wait for 4000 series.
Thank you so much for this! I've been running that exact 980ti since I've built this pc and have been wondering exactly the improvements from newer cards. Especially the not -80's series. Very helpful.
I was "forced" to buy a 980Ti secondhand in 2017 when new GPU prices were inflated by the 1st crypto boom, after having waited a month for RX580 8GB. Retired the 980 Ti just yesterday when 3080 arrived (waited just 4 months) and now I can sell the 980 Ti for 90% of what I got it for in 2017, isn't that crazy?
Ya, crazy awesome! Take advantage of the situation and get your moneys back!
Here in Mexico it's crazier, I got a used 1080 for around $325 like 2 years ago, I can sell it right now for around $400 or even more, good for me, I guess, my 3060 Ti costed freaking $700 after all..
I think it's hilarious that I bought an rx 5700xt mid year last year for 390 including godfall and shadowlands and after 6 months I could easily sell it for a huge chunk above what I paid for it. I bought an rx 580 8gb for 200 in 2017 and could easily sell it for more than that now lol. Crazy world we're living in.
@@TecnoMercy lmao, i sold my 1060 6gs for 100$ haha, now i have my asus tuf 3060ti for 575$
@@patrickmcgovern4004 Those RX580s were a great investment, wish I had patience and waited for one in 2017. Could've easily made at least double profit from selling it back then since once mining was all the hype people would buy them for almost 3x the retail price.
I cannot get over how much I love the timers on the side of the charts. Small detail, but really appreciated!
These videos are very useful. I'm still rocking a 970, and it was great to see it put into context with modern GPUs given that I'm planning an upgrade. Now if only the supply (and by extension pricing) situation would improve.
Gimme yr old gpu I have a gt710 .
Thanks for doing these revisits! Good to know how the older cards compare and if we stumble across one for a reasonable price to grab it!
Ah, the 980Ti, a card that can actually be bought someplace!
For now :/
@@peekayboo7183 lol no. My 980ti works fine. Heck, my 780ti still works.
@@peekayboo7183 honestly I still have my titan X (Maxwell) working perfectly. It was my main card until I got my 3090 and now it's running on one of my servers 24/7. This titan x is basically running under max load 13h a day, almost every day for what will be 6 years now. I think a 980Ti used by any normal person that doesn't have a job that hammers their gpu 7h a day and game 6h day will be fine for the next year's
Dude it's selling for like, 250+ on ebay ;_; but i do see some for less than that i also see some people buying $300 980tis
@@inlinesk8r477 same here with my evga 980ti. Not one issue since launch and still going strong.
Thanks, Mr Burke and his stuff! I needed this.
Love these reviews keep em coming! Ive just started building my very 1st PC as a hobby and will sell it on later. Managed to get all the components for 230 GBP except i've skipped putting in a GPU for now as it will probably be double or triple the price of everything else.
I only upgraded from a 980ti (to a 5700XT) in December of 2019. The GTX is still in use in my little brother's 1080p machine.
youre a good person, hope your brother is happy
LUL do you hate your little brother or something? LMAO
@@jonathansoko1085 Smaller sibling gets hand-me-down? Tale as old as time.
@@jonathansoko1085 a free 980ti to play esports games, I think most would be over the moon
@@jonathansoko1085 nah but I know that your parents sure as hell don't love you. They just want a son, and sadly you're the one defective piece that managed to pop out.
TechJesus looks sleepless, hope everything's well!
He always looks like that!
First thing i noticed
jeesus doesnt sleep, he has just resurrected
Nah he just showed
The guy pours his entire being into this content, so he ends up working insane hours.
Thank you so much for making this, very helpful for me!
Thank you very much for this revisit/review! Very nice to see how many cards still in use, will play modern games, as well as how they hold up to the current gear.
Some may say this will take away from new sales.....no chance. There will be more people looking to upgrade, than others who try to me more frugal within their own means. Also, helps others to be more money conscious when better gear is waved in their faces.
When Steve/ GN does segments like this, it really shows even more good character as there are people who cannot afford to upgrade and at least they have some reassurance that their hard-earned gear is still very usable.
I applaud your efforts, thanks again.
The Static Cling is Strong with this one!!!
When will see a GT 1010 review? The people want to know!
Naruto ref indeed.
To be honest: I am! But for features! Can it run 3 displays?
The 1030 can't and i assume the 1010 cannot, since it is the same chip, which would be quite the bummer!
Why do i need it?
We have a lot of Workstations, we use for coding/compiling. So they need RAM and CPU power.
GPU...well give me something, that reliably powers 3 Displays and i am fine and here is the issue: low cost GPUs and iGPUs have issues here.
I won't go into much detail, but damn...especially under Linux, where i EXPECTED at least the Intel iGPUs to work. Furthermore, getting motherboards with 3 Outputs is also a challenge!
@@IncapableLP they also do not have nvenc
@@Nighterlev both nvenc and nvdec are a dedicated part of the die with fixed function(read asic) so the performance of it is dependent not on a GPU performance, but on the size and the generation of the block.
you can get a decent review at the garbage dump
"We saw a 5700XT go for $500 in ebay. That's not worth it."
Me: Well, fuck me.
story of my computer
I decided in July 2019 that I was going Ryzen 3700x and RX 5700 on x470 non - max MSI Gaming Plus and It is still my main gaming rig .. I guess paying MSRP back then on both parts was future proofing by today's prices = ruclips.net/video/Fk9E4Tw1kDc/видео.html
@@kravenfoxbodies2479 Honestly, I didn't think it was outrageous. Msrp for the 5700 XT is $400, and I grabbed it in Newegg for $460 + taxes. But I was kind of lucky. I know how crazy it is to find something right now.
@@natalmi 500 is an absurd price to pay for a 5700xt unless you have no computer at all right now and for some reason require one with a gpu at least that powerful for work, school etc. Just wait a bit and get a newer gpu for much better value when they come back in stock.
@@Zeratuhl The wait is not worth it sometimes. I personally think that, when it comes to GPUs, if you there's something decent available and it isn't too far from msrp, it is a good deal. Scalpers will buy everything in minutes and sell them at 50% higher in ebay. I recently bought a 5700 XT because I couldn't get my hands on any 2000 or 3000 series RTX. I'm super happy with the performance. Just don't buy from scalpers.
God , how I love this guy.
Steve is 👌
the best tech reviewer I've always wanted... Keep up the good work.
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I had two 980ti hybrid for sli at the time lol used them to do CUDA coding too
that 59.9 bit had me convulsing on the ground with laughter
Had my EVGA 980Ti FTW since new and still going strong! Just got into horizon zero dawn and now have a 4k panel to drive, my play through frame rates match your testing quite well and have caused me to finally desire to upgrade my GPU. Would have loved to jump to a 3080 FE, but I have no chance getting one in the UK…
Picked one of these up for $80 back in June-- deal of the decade for me!
That's a an absolute bargain m8
I sold one for $350 two weeks ago, The market is insane!
@@discostoo im getting one for abaout 200 Euroaybe 250 Euro. When i need a graphic cards.
Nice work! I bought mine when the 1080 was released for £300, came with the EK waterblock for it, I could probably sell them and break even, maybe make a small profit... and have basically gamed on it for free for however many years it's been.
Thats a 1660ti
I have a 980ti in my VR machine, and it runs great. When I upgrade from my 1070 that's in my daily machine, I'll swap out the 980ti, just for the extra ram.
I hope to see the Fury X & Nano added to your compilation. I thought you had revisited the Nano somewhat recently.
I've been waiting for a video about the 980ti. I found it very informative. I'm still running mine and have been thinking about an upgrade.
"the 980ti is still a great card" *cries in dead 980ti and down grade to 670*
Damn a 670 cant run anything. You probably have to go to 720p
@@zmb5501 actually it can run quite a bit in potatoe mode, barely, even cyberpunk on minimum to my astonishment
it just all looks like ass
F
You're lucky man. I'm on Intel 630 after 1070ti broke.
@@SuperTheLycan ouch
Had a 980 ti for years. great chip, not enough ram. 1080 ti is perfect.
900 series was a big improvement in memory capacity compared to 700, even though 6GB is not a lot by today's standards, before that it topped out at a miserable 3GB. Now that was bad. Titans don't count.
But Pascal was Nvidia's golden child.
This. I bet it would do better in some titles if not for the lackluster 6GB of vram. I remember Dishonored 2 filling it up on very high just after loading into the game and it would result in a lot of swapping. It's even more pronounced when trying to play games in 1440p
Also Gsync compatible was not supported on the 980Ti
@@neoqueto and before the 3gb cards was 1gb, and before that 512mb cards, then 128mb, 64mb, 32mb, 16mb, 1mb, 512kb, etc. Yeah, GPU performance and VRAM requirements have increased fairly linearly over time. No matter the generation, for the most got a good 6 years out of each generation's flagship, with lowered graphical settings (usually in shadows, textures, and/or anti-aliasing effects) being required in the last year of life.
My 1080ti struggles at 4k though, but a custom res seems to work amazing so far
Thanks for this video! I bought a GTX 980 recently that I am quite happy with thanks to this.
Thank you for your Video, helped me a lot!
Gotta love the 980ti. Bought one this year just for being the fastest card with analog out for crt gaming.
Duuuude I just did the same now :DD
What CRT and which 980ti you have?:D
Also, were you able to get interlaced working with your crt?
Thanks in advance!
Why would you play on a CRT?
Still using mine, hasn’t failed me yet even in cyberpunk
I'm running 970 SLI and get better numbers in GTAV but I don't that will hold true in Cyberpunk. I think the RAM limitation will kill it if it even works work SLI.
@@glenwaldrop8166 sli won't work in cyberpunk
@@randybobandy9828 didn't figure it would.
@@randybobandy9828 the metro also doesn’t work :/
I have the exact same model (EVGA Hybrid) and it broke, years and years of pure happiness and ultra gaming... gone
Thanks for this video, exactly what I needed. I still have 980ti in my old pc somewhere. It served me for 5 years. Great card even for today on 1080p gaming.
This was a great video. As someone who bought a 2060 KO back in April after not upgrading for years, this was very interesting to me.
3600 and a 980ti is actually still kicking good good. My 980ti impressed me all the time. If you can find one for under 300$ atm then grab it! It truly kicks ass still. Smokes my brothers 1660ti and my dads 1070…I love my evga 980ti..✌🏼
I just got one for $225. Not crazy for it. Runs good but runs to hot. Under full load my 8gb rx570 never went above 67c. This card gets into 80 territory under the same load.
@@shawnyoung5960 yeah the 980ti does get a bit hot. Mine ran way better with new thermal paste and custom fan curves. Try replacing thermal paste on it. It’s not super hard and it’s def worth it. Cheers
@@shawnyoung5960 ps. That’s a great deal right now for a 980ti..and it can also last too until the drought is over..
I had this card, the ROG Strix version. It’s still going strong in my brother’s PC.
I’m still rocking the 1080Ti until both Green and Red team get their act together.
Went from a 980ti sea hawk to a 1080ti XLR8 and slapped a waterblock onto it. Just amazes me how a 1080ti trades blows with a 3070. What an absolute beast of a card for the price!
Also rocking the 1080ti for the same reasons. No regrets either as I’m not paying what scalpers want for the new cards
I got a 1080ti off ebay with little use right after the 20 series came out. I see no reason to upgrade until ray tracing becomes good.
Same here. The old 980ti is still running most games quite happily, where my 1080ti is running at 4k at around 30 to 40 or significantly quicker if I reduce to 2k.
Happy to wait until the 3080 actually turns up
I really like these revisit videos
I've been waiting for a video like this for some time, it's quite relevant for those still on GTX 9 series, my whole rig is around 6+ years old, I want to go to RTX30, but it's nice to see I could just transplant it for now.
I just picked up the 980 Ti Strix for $220 Canadian for my older computer to get me over till I rebuild my brand new system
Not bad! Given the current market, that's pretty good pricing. Strix is a good model.
@@GamersNexus that was my thought, and given that I was coming from a GTX 760, it was really good. Now I just got to get the money together so I can get rid of my really old AMD FX 8320. Whole system is overclocked, and luckily my games don't take that much, but it is really starting to show age to it. The real test will be doing an extra life life stream of the children hospital in my city (Edmonton). If I didn't lose my job to COVID I could have been looking at a completely new system
I'm glad someone is finally tackling the 59.9/'Linus Spawner' phenomenon
I've been running a 980ti since the beginning of 2016 and it's been doing well. Like I can run most stuff at max settings up until more recent titles. Decided to finally upgrade recently and got myself a 3080. Can't wait for it to arrive.
Thx this actualy helpt alot
Oh how funny it is that I sold my 2060S when they 3080 was announced for £275, and now they are going for £450 and I don't have a GPU cuz the 3080 I preordered, after 4 months of waiting I am still 260th in the queue and the store I bought it from haven't had any deliveries from Asus for over 2 weeks, as I said fucking hilarious.
You messed up my friend... I sold my 7700k /2080ti build last year right before then launch of 10900k / 3080 and managed to get both upgrade for literally nothing out of my pocket thanks to incredible resale on old parts.
Buy day 1 sell day negative 14 and you'll always make out well (but also don't be stupid and have a backup)
I can sell 2 weeks - 1 month early because I keep a secondary system that's much weaker / cheaper around for the times my main rig is down being upgraded.
It may seem like a waste of money but it's literally paid for itself many times over the years (like I said my last upgrade was $0 out of pocket because I could sell early)
Now with them boom happening I'll likley sell off that backup card (rx 580) get more than I paid for it years ago and wait around for price drops to pickup another cheap go between card.
It's the strat I've been using for a decade and I've managed to keep my pc cutting edge the ENITRE time and yet only spent on average about $250 per year.
Less than a dollar a day to have the best you could ask for in pc gaming your entire life isn't a bad deal.
Everyone said when the new cards were releasing to sell your old ones. I didnt and I'm glad and fucking laughing at anyone who did. 2070 Super still king
@@jamesherman3750 well I mean I sold my 2080ti in late August for $1050 and got a 3080 for $699 on launch day so not all of us made a "mistake" in selling.
Just sucks for those that got the short end of the stick on both ends.
Me? I feel like I got the absolute best results I could ask for then. Hundreds in my pocket and an upgrade to what is essentially the best gpu you could ask for.
Sure I could have been even more lucky (greedy) and held the old card and sold it for even more money once everyone was desperate but I'm not gonna fret about not being able to rip off fellow gamers.... It's a bad look. Lol
And this is the reason I point to to all those idiots screaming about "why cant these us companies just take my d@mn money for a backorder?"
Nothing quid change except you having SOME future date (maybe years?) down the road while the company holds on to your money or if they don't take it up front likley could just forget about you or skip you and you wouldn't even know.
I'm glad I didn't rely on any of the pre-orders I landed during first days and made sure even after securing them I still did my absolute best to get a card in hand.
I got my first card shipped day 1 after 8 hours of trying and between more due diligence as well as a few of those preorder actually working out (eventually) I was able to get myself and several of my friends and family cards between September and November.
12x 3080s in total between my 3 and the 9 I got for them.
So sad, I sold mine for 465(what I bought it for) and used a 780ti in between for like 4 months.
Then I sold the 780ti for a good price just ti have the seller bend the cooling and kinda melt the card( he messaged me that he had issues after somehow bending the cooling solution on it).
Now he is selling it for 178 euros.
My point is, don't give good deals to randon people. I was like oh lets make someone happy(also wanted money yes, but I saw it as a win, win. I got money they got a good gpu at a decent price).
I remember wanting this card so bad back in the day. good mems
Thank you for making this video
No way! That's awesome, I have that card and wanna see how it will compare to the newest models! Thanks a lot! 👍👍👍
Perfect just in time for dinner and a show
the jab at linus is pretty epic, and spot on XD
I have that exact card still and I can confirm the accuracy of these tests. I actually dipped into the high 30's a lot in Cyberpunk in the middle of the city and the low 50's in the badlands.
Cheers, Been holding onto my 980ti still but i can see it showing its age when streaming. Likely getting a new card this year. Had it for 6 years or so, great value.
Only jesus drops some quality content at 2am on a Thursday. Needed something to watch as I "try to sleep"
I think I'll "go to bed" and "sleep" now *opens subscription feed*
I wake up about this time, this is just what i needed. Happy Thorsday!
Steve's hair is slowly approaching Baroque Prince levels of volume.
Very Responsible of you to release this videos during a shortage of GPUs and jobs. This clears some doubts to keep using their old GPUS.
I had 2 Amp Extreme 980tis in SLI. I loved them. Now have a single 3090 in a completely different system. Still remember those days fondly.
You gave me images of Linus's mom pregnant with him and she was gaming right at the time of birth and right when the fps went down to 59 fps he was born. 😂
Your hair is braver than Apple removing the headphone jack
Great that you're reviewing the 970 and 980Ti.
- a 980 owner/holdout.
Awesome!!!! :) Many Thanks! :)
‘I am getting tired testing GPUs’ Test GPUs of 3 generation ago. Damn man the coherence.
Timestamp?
@@noahfense nah because in recent vids he's stated he's tired of testing GPUs and appreciates the break from them, which is funny because here he is publishing a video about like 5 year old GPUs that nobody is really searching for today lol.
@@TheGauges420 Oh, people are searching for them now LMAO
@@TheGauges420 It’s less for people that are searching for them, more for those who still HAVE them and are determining whether to upgrade.
@@TheGauges420 ooooh okay! I was worried he'd been a little incoherent at one point and was like "oh no, Steve seriously needs sleep" -- glad that isn't the case haha. It is funny that he's doing more vids on old GPUs now, but I'm glad he's doing them. Tbh it's helped me help my friend look for potential upgrades from his 1050, and as someone that used to own a 970 it was really interesting to see how it holds up today
*Next video* "Sapphire 7870 HD Tahiti in 2021 Revisited: Benchmarks Vs Potatoes, Hash Browns, Fries, & Poutine"
Me: *rubs my computer* "It's your time to shine old buddy"
YES great card, passed my r9 280x on to my GF two years ago, still strong :)
Ironically I just came here from watching this to see if decades old mres last. Some things technology or food last ...ruclips.net/video/YieLNwaI1uo/видео.html
I couldn't get my Sapphire HD 7870 XT to display on my system on Linux so I tried the HD 7770 with no luck and finally I dig out the GTX 275 and it worked. Back to the 55 nm 219 TDP and 896MB of GDDR3 on the Tesla 2.0 architecture.
7870 was my first real card. Sadly died a couple of weeks past warranty and I got gifted a used 7950, wich also died in about a year. RX 470 has been holding ever since.
Nice to check for my 1080ti s2 from EVGA. No upgraded required yet, great work guys. 980ti still got some legs, awesome.
I love that you are still comparing to older card.
Honestly with the value that 1080, and 1080 ti offers, if you find it used locally (ebay is terrible), it means that there's good reason to still have them included in the charts when doing benchmarks. I got a used 1080 in december and I'm very happy with what I got for the price.
Yeah this card is still really good especially with maxwells crazy oc headroom
I watched a 5700XT sell for 750 a few days ago on ebay. PC parts new and used are bonkers expensive on websites, have to shop local.
WHAT?! $750 doesn't seem like it can possibly be justified. Maybe in a business-critical scenario.
@@GamersNexus a 1660 new is going 400 and up online
@@zdwaffles ha ha rx580 for 400$ here in Russia :(
@@jester61rus haha I bought one in 2017 for 300 so jokes on you pal
@@GamersNexus in uk going for 550 uk pounds plus (770 usd i think)
I literally have the EVGA 980 Ti Hybrid in my system. This is a great video! Still waiting on a 3080.
I upgraded from a mobile 970M to the 3080. It pushed a lot of frames for me over the years but the 3080 just outclasses it so much. Really happy with my build.
My nephew is using my old 980Ti's
SLI was great
I picked up a pair of secondhand 760's couple of years ago just to mess around with SLI - when it worked, it was extremely impressive!
@@stoneymahoney9106 We have to get back to this eventually if it doesn't get better. But I hope MCM GPUs will resolve this whole issue. (Multi Chiplet Modules)
My 980ti just died last month, I gotta say that it was honestly still incredible at 1080p and played almost any game at max settings at a framerate I was comfortable with. Truly an excellent card
And it's dead and now worth what?
My 980ti turned into a 1080ti turned into a 2080ti and turned into a 3080 and it's still going strong.
You know how much I spent from 980ti to 3080?
About $440 out pocket
I had what you had plus many better cards over the years that kept my performance up near the top while yours has dropped to the very bottom and now I'm using a 3080 and have only spent about $440 more than you but you're still left needing to pay full price for a new gpu.... I wonder whose strategy works better?
@@TJ.85 assuming he buys a new card .
@@mcmoose64 well the point is of course assuming he isn't just going to quit pc gaming cause his card died... Lol
I was just pointing out how the idea of "riding it out" with an older card for a long while doesn't necessarily beat something like I do not only in performance but in actual costs as well.
If you're smart about it and buy and sell at the right time there's very little lost "value" in always trading up to the next best card as soon as its available.
One of my tricks to make it work the best is I sell the "old" card a few weeks - month before the new ones releases (perks of staying informed on the market) and in the downtime I usually keep a relatively cheap lower end card in a drawer for use as a temporary card.
The money I save doing this easily allows me to spend a couple hundred bucks every few years buying and selling my "go between" and even this time my last one was a rx 580 I paid $179 for that I sold a few months ago via ebay auction for almost $600 (I set price to start at $1 and that's where it ended up).
So now come next time I need a gap fill card I've already got ~$400 bucks to spend on one and not even see a impact on my spending whatsoever.
I've been doing this wince 2013 when I first got my first high end cards 780's and I've upgraded every gen between then and now of the 80/80ti cards and in total my out oc pocket costs are only around $180 / yr
Absolutey worth it to never have to settle for anything but the best for all this time.
@@TJ.85 assuming someone is into the scene enough to be on top of such things, and the willpower to go through the hassle of selling them at specific times. *Not to mention the costs of upgrading other parts to handle it, unless you've had overkill parts from the start. You sound like you're pretty passionate about it comparatively
@@Anreii I was mid level card user for most of my life up to 2013 and had always used radeon as they (back then) almost always had the best cards in my range.
When I finally did want to go high end (having gotten a 4k screen and shooting for 4k/60 performance) I really didn't have much choice but to go Nvidia and the gtx 780 eventually I got a second one and had dual card SLI for all x80/ti cards through the 2080ti when I went back to a single card. The upgrades each year cost me only a couple hundred and when going from sli 1080ti - 2080ti I was able to do so without spending anything and then going to the 3080 I was able to pocket another $300.
I don't know how "passionate" I am about all of it but having the best while spending as little as possible is something I do work pretty hard to make sure happens. I would same I'm more interested in that side of it than anything.
Knowing I'm gaming on hardware someone who is spending the kind of money 8ve spent typically could afford makes me feel satisfied with the effort I put in to stay "in the know".
The fact is I would (as a hobby) be keeping up with all this stuff anyways so I might as well benefit in some ways from all the "wasted" time, lol.
Have had the GTX 980ti for the last 6 years and haven't been able to upgrade it since... But, I'm so glad to have it at a time like this!
It would be great if you could include real-world power draw for more vids like this! 😄 But super helpful as always so thank you, Dr. Stephen Nexus
I remember going from 980 sli to 980ti. Didn’t lose much performance and the extra 2GB of RAM helped a lot in 4K. First truly 4K capable card back then. It was impressive. Especially when you compare the prices to high end cards nowadays...
God secondhand cards are a rip off sold my 2080ti for 500 pounds after I picked up my 3090.
@asdrubale bisanzio works for me I got 3080 on launch day for $699 while selling my 2080ti 2 weeks before for over $1000.
Now that "backup" card I had for in between (rx 580) I'll likely go ahead and sell that too for more than I paid for it.
It's been a GREAT YEAR for pc upgrading for me that's for sure.
Went from a 7700k/2080ti build in May and by September had upgraded the whole system to 10900k / 3080 and spent absolutely NOTHING!
You're doing the community a great service with this comparison. Nice to see the ol' boy's got some life left in it.
Ah the 980ti my first high end graphics card. Remember getting it in late 2015. It was such an upgrade from my crappy as 960 that I had. I even had a twin 980ti setup for a little bit. Oh the nostalgic memories with that card. Even though I have 6900xt now, I still fondly remember my 980ti’s.
I miss this card. Mine broke out of nowhere.
It held up well, after all those years of abuse.
why i hear alot of 980ti breaking, how '-' i found a 980ti lightning 8pins + 6 pins from msi, good one?
@@zackk6415 I'm not sure what happened to mine. One day my pc just crashed and then everytime I turned it on, it kept crashing until I replaced the gpu.
Its a really good card, but the fact it broke made me sad. I barely ever used it, mind you. I played maybe 2000 hours of total game time with it, throughout 6 years.
I think for my case, a capicitor exploded or something. I heard a popping sound one day. Ever since, it had issues.
In not sure if they're very common to break or not
@@Ownage4lif31 oh ok 6 years i get it
Linus dropping frames is the most normal part of 2021
Great Video GN! I still love my 980ti and It's hard for me to justify upgrading
This is great, I like the idea of the bigger tech channels going back to older hardware. Would you ever consider re-looking at the X99 stuff? Selfishly because I have a 5820K and a Xeon 1660 V3 (similar to 5960X) and there aren't many good benches comparing to modern hardware.
I would like to see in this chart either the 1070 or the 1660
980ti is better than both, excpt in 3-5 newer games
Came for all the "i still use a 980ti in 2021, no reason to upgrade cuz i still get 60 fps ultra in all games" posts
At 720p lol
@@daviddelong424 whne staring at the floor sure, you aint playing at almost 60 LOL
Honestly I use a 980ti and it's been perfect with nearly everything. It's just now starting to show its age. I am using a 1080p monitor but still.. For the price I paid back then the fact I'm still using it today shows its still a great card.
Nobody wants to play Cyberpunk anyway. Linear, boring ass game.
Could you guys potentially do a video on the 1080? Love this series!
Thanks man! I decided to go for it, while waiting all this overpricing mess out.
Insane how much the 1080TI has come down in price. I was just able to purchase a refurbished founder's edition for $200 flat.
Nice ! Its my next upgrade to replace my beloved 980 ti.
@johnbartender3451 the 1080ti is phenomenal for its age, I am currently playing starfield with little issue but for the first time I am having to play at 1080p medium settings since I got the card so I am thinking it may only get another year or so before I may have to upgrade it. I was on a budget when I made my build and I appreciate the breathing room the 1080ti gave me. I will likely go duel card and just keep the 1080ti and add something like mayby the 3080ti or if prices come down a 4080ti, but I'm not holding my breath on a 4080ti.
still the queen!!! especially paired with a CRT
What settings are you using on GTA V out of interest? I am getting no where near those settings on a 980TI
I'd like to see this kind of content in upcoming launches and generations, few generations back so us who won't upgrade until there is a gap great enough to justify the upgrade! Thank you for making this
You realize that by waiting til "it's worth it" you'll likley have killed off most if not all of your old parts resale value and in doing so you'll be paying full price for the new parts.
Meanwhile those that are smart about timing can buy new and then sell before new parts hit and get the "upgrade" to next new part for very little.
They spread that large cost you're sinking all at once to much smaller amounts a few different times but ejsy they get is to have a pc that STAYS top of the line the entire time instead of starting out strong and quickly fading all the way down to the bottom of the charts.
To me why spend $700 every 5 years when I can spend $160 a year and never have to deal with parts that no longer considered "the best"