The Greatest GPU of All Time: NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti & GTX 1080 2024 Revisit & History

[@GamersNexus]

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[@Chillypuwn]

The 1000 series was great in general. From a price to performance and uplift perspective, the 1060 was massive (as evident in steam hardware survey). It was essentially an entry level card, which was on par with the last gen flagship (980). I am looking to upgrade my 1060 6gb currently and consider the RX 7700 as it have dropped in price.

[@JEM_Tank]

The 6800 xt is like AMDs 1080 ti in my opinion

[@mahdilj5882]

@@johndough6236 you got dlss and rt and mesh loading (alan wake 2) and other things, don't listen to these simple non gamer reviews the game world is not about pure fps anymore

[@ZboeC5]

Sorry but 1080 (ti) is just carrying the 8800 GT torch. The 8800 GT was and always will be the GOAT.

[@AwesomeBlackDude]

​@@JEM_Tank So, are you actually suggesting that the Nvideo 2080 GPU should have been aborted altogether? (Pure sarcasm - coming out of left field.) 😅

[@internetman8015]

I still have my EVGA 1080Ti sitting on my desk, and I will be buried with it.

[@Rooachie]

Friend of me too. I asked him if he would part with it and he said no chance

[@josh5887]

Same

[@D.Feenstra]

I just bought a 1080ti fe for my new budget build with a 5600X

[@mmhoss]

nice pfp king

[@yves1926]

Give it to someone, time to let go

[@lemmonsinmyeyes]

Had a blower 1080ti, bought it new at launch, took it to uni in the Uk, did tons of VFX and gaming , upgraded to the 4090. The reason was VRAM. It took AGES to get a card that had more memory than the 1080ti. It was and still is a beast

[@wastanley734]

Just be careful. As an engineer the plug on that is a failure in application. It wasn't ok to do what they did. Just to only use 1 plug. Reducing 12 power pins with larger surface area to 6 power pins is a very dangerous thing. Why such a high percentage is failing. People say it's a consumer error problem but it isn't. I've said that since release. But de8ueur recently showed and proved it. As that card ages efficiency decreases with age increase wattage and why we are seeing the problem increase.

[@fauxguyfawkes6156]

11 gig lol.

[@Hr1s7i]

@@wastanley734 The efficiency decrease is somewhat arguable when you consider the frequencies at which current is being pushed. I realise that with time the filtration circuitry will deteriorate, but unless it deteriorates gloriously it shouldn't produce a fault scenario (until a diode or a cap explodes)

[@libaf5471]

@@Hr1s7i I think he's talking about the connector, not the silicon or the vrm. And the connector has this exact problem. GN has a video about this (it's about the specced safety tolerance for pci-e 8 pin vs. the safety tolerance in 12 vhp connector spec).

[@opachki8325]

@@wastanley734 One of the main reasons the new plug is just bad: Bad speccing and almost noone even keeps to those few specs that WERE specified.

[@Dnserror88]

My GTX 1080 is still going strong after 7 years daily use.

[@GamersNexus]

Which model did you buy? Ever have an RMA issue? Just curious!

[@blond_slut]

@@GamersNexus same here i have MSI black/red

[@tomppeli.]

@@GamersNexus I bought the ROG version of the 1080 Ti with absolutely no problems after seven years, if you're still curious

[@liamosuilleabhain9965]

@@GamersNexus Zotac blower model still purring along beautifully.

[@THMTHERMO]

@@GamersNexus ~5.5 years here, the MSI Gaming X 8G

[@acethemechanic2653]

Recently put a PC together for a friend who’s a first time PC Gamer, 8700K and a 1080 Ti with a cheap 1080P 144hz monitor, total pc cost me less than $600 buying off eBay. Can’t beat the performance per dollar on 1080P to this day.

[@J.Wick.]

2 of the best products in the segment ever made IMO. The 8700K and 1080Ti...Perfect pairing. Still more than capable today.

[@thisnameislongjustlikemysh9584]

6700 xt has probably best price per fps ngl

[@friskas8664]

you build my pc^^, add 32 gb ram and 2 tb ssd and your golden. but i also run it with two 4k monitors instead pf the 1080p.

[@kidd32888]

I am planning at the exact same build

[@Apex.AP1]

1080 Ti Gang Decided to finally build my first PC in late 2018 and wanted to ball out with the 1080 Ti, best decision ever, zero hiccups & still going strong 💪

[@zerocal76]

Enjoy it brahh #1080tifamz 😎

[@justsomeguy5103]

I built mine in early 2018. I argued myself up from 1060 to 1070 to finally 1080, but I couldn't quite justify the ~$200 to go from 1080 to 1080Ti at the time. Finally made the upgrade to 1080Ti last year after snagging a good deal on the used market. It's taken a lot of my games from 45 fps to 60. It's obviously no match for my buddy's 4090 doing 120+ fps, but that card cost more than my entire computer.

[@ThePitris90]

Same here! Bought 1080 Ti in 2018 from used market for 640$ and still hold until today. Im just waiting for next generation of cards if there will be some interesting card which I could upgrade to.

[@MegaFUZZY2010]

Just got rid of mine for a 7900xtx I snagged for $380. Such a monumental upgrade but the 1080Ti was still perfectly fine for the games i play (CS2, PUBG, Witcher 3, Skyrim etc)

[@ThePitris90]

@@MegaFUZZY2010 I would look for AMD too, but I really want to play Cyberpunk with Path Tracing after upgrade and in this field Nvidia is still better in terms of raytracing performance

[@m1k1a1]

Just sold our Asus Strix 1080 Ti that myself and my son have used daily for gaming since the launch. The buyer drove to get the card himself and we chatted for a long while. We were like mirror images. Both having built our own PCs since the 90's. I didn't even feel sad to see the card go, it went into a good home :)

[@KingOfKings89-89]

Sounds like a love story

[@m1k1a1]

@@KingOfKings89-89 True. Every day I tell the woman and minors living in my house how much I love my PC.

[@KingOfKings89-89]

@@m1k1a1 lmao thatgs right

[@Watka-Pro]

Coping

[@zawiszaczarny1749]

its just a gpu relax nerd smh

[@Thaokai]

I still use my EVGA 1080 TI FTW3 in my secondary pc. Even had an AIO leak all over it, cleaned it, and its still working. Still holds up like a champ.

[@matdan2]

A champ that can barely speak after taking a lot of knocks to the head

[@Fractal_blip]

Gpu has cte ​@@matdan2

[@not2hot99]

​@@matdan2 But the champ still stands!

[@123hgf456]

I have the same card in my PC that I use for everything. Its a beast

[@Grodstark]

I hope the 1080 and the Ti ends up in some kind of museum as the greatest gpu of all time. It really is, I bought mine when it came out and have used it until yesterday when it retired for the 7900xtx. However the 1080 will have the highest place in my shelf as a decoration. I'll never get rid of it. It has served me more than well. Farewell for now my friend.

[@JohnnyBoy144]

It really deserves to be there..

[@arturomoreno7706]

People will keep this gpu in relevance for the years to come.

[@garyr7027]

😭😭

[@lathamtk]

I just did the same, retired my little 11GB VRAM version of 1080Ti and got myself a 24GB VRAM version of 7900 XTX. Rest now sweet prince, you were a workhorse like none other I've ever possessed. 7 years of gaming, from 2017 till 2024.

[@Drsavation]

go touch grass you dork

[@matteo964]

The fact this card is still so popular when its architecture is 8 years old really goes to show how good of a product it was.

[@ash36230]

Partly how good the card was, partly how expensive it is to replace it

[@mactep1]

or how badly priced its successors are.

[@yves1926]

Good because of much VRAM

[@saricubra2867]

​@@yves1926No, it's the 352 bit memory bus and core counts. There are cards with even more VRAM and they don't deliver good perfomance beyond 1080p.

[@Mr.Genesis]

@@saricubra2867 the 3060 12GB lol

[@theblackpixell3216]

As someone that plays on 1080p, I still don't really feel the need to upgrade from my EVGA 1080TI FTW3. Even when I don't play eSports title like The Finals that on max graphics I still get 100-120fps. Nothing feels too much for it

[@volvo09]

If it still fits your needs, no need to upgrade. I feel 1080p is good enough for me, even though I have a 4k monitor, I don't need to drive it at 4k in a game.

[@FreelancerB10]

Yeah, I only upgraded from my 1080ti due to getting into VR and headsets increasing in resolution after the first bout of them. I probably would still be on a 1080p monitor now if I never upgraded, but I did move up once I got a new GPU since it seemed like a waste otherwise.

[@theblackpixell3216]

​​@@FreelancerB10 the thing is, it's not like I don't want to upgrade, it's just feels like I have to get at least some of the weird 4070s upwards or something like that because otherwise it doesn't feel like an upgrade. Because if I'm buying a new one I'd like to use all the new features like RT safely. And if I have to do that I'll also have to change CPU and so one to not bottleneck it and I'm just buying a new PC, so until I feel like it's time. And the other thing is Price...to get a strong PC nowadays is a lot pricier...

[@FreelancerB10]

@@theblackpixell3216 I get that 100% since I was at the same crossroads as I had needs such as needing more than 11GB of VRAM which starts me right in the more expensive tiers. I just had a few things pushing me over the edge. You get more value and options the longer you can wait so it's just good to wait if you can anyways.

[@dreyga2]

@@theblackpixell3216 you can't ugrade from 1080ti, you have to change the hole system. Idio.ts at nvidia forgot about that with their dumb prices. Plus all new games are so bad. Wtf are we upgrading for??

[@WilliamAndRose1]

I'm still running a 1080 Ti myself, which I got from my brother as an upgrade to my 1080 when he didn't need his anymore (and I passed my 1080 onto my son) 😊

[@GamersNexus]

That's awesome!

[@anonysalt]

Trickle down GPUnomics.

[@inqizzo]

Well, thats a family with goat farming traditions

[@93836]

And I hear there’s still people driving 2004 Toyota Corolla’s, too. …Fascinating…🤔

[@rodiculous9464]

Heirloom GPUs, who'd a thunk it

[@thronee_]

upgraded from a rx580 to a 1080ti the other day, can't beat the used prices and since I game at 1080p, it plays almost everything I play at high/ultra settings at 144+fps

[@soad11dude]

My coworker recently upgraded to a 7900XT. He ran a used 1080 for years. He plans on framing it and hanging it on the wall. Rightfully so. I ran a 980ti (with a raijintek cooler) until 2022 when I jumped up to a 6950XT as prices came down a bit. The other thing I'll always remember about the 10 series was the 1070. It competed with the 980ti for a fraction of the price. Same with the 1060. It would beat the 970 on a regular basis for less money. I miss these kinds of gpu generations... Thanks for the generation revisit GN. I'm sure this video will get loads of views :) people love the 10 series.

[@PrestoJacobson]

Kinda weird hoarder behavior imo to keep it, when one could sell it to someone who'd use it.

[@Anomyron]

@@PrestoJacobson could be his first ever card and given him a lot of memories. Its also a cool piece of history being debatably the best gpu oat

[@thomasbisset1136]

I bought a 980 3 years ago and upgraded to a 1070, a year ago. Can still play pretty much everything. Would grab a 1080ti in an instant if i could find one for a reasonable price.

[@blkspade23]

@@PrestoJacobsonIt's greatness is relative to when it was released and the cost. No one should really be angling to buy one in 2024. It holds up if you're stuck with one still, but there are better ways to spend new money. You're nearly giving it away for what it would sell for on Ebay, after they take a cut. My 1080ti FE is in my server, running a virtual machine my son occasionally games on, but is otherwise just a simple 2nd desktop. If it died, I wouldn't throw another 1080ti in there to replace it.

[@stayawayfromthoseoranges]

yeah back when I was upgrading my first PC with an i5-6500 and 1060 3GB. I thought the 1070 was grandiose, would set me up for years. Unfortunately as a folly of youth I bought an EVGA 2080 Super once those came out. $1400 NZD.... 30-series released, $900 NZD..... :( Now I have a $800 3080 and am happy once more

[@dylanherron3963]

I absolutely LOVE these revisits! As someone that never owned one, I was always SO jealous of my best friend who slapped one on his credit card a couple months after launch. It was a total anomaly. My favorite part is going thru the comment section at all the people saying "7 years strong, MSI 1080ti. 6.5 years Zotac here, great card , no problems." The PC gaming space is so FAST that it's awesome to be reminded of the people that are aware that 4+ year old hardware is JUST FINE. Sure, buy what you want and enjoy, but the miles you can get out of electronics are so much longer than our need to upgrade.

[@dylanherron3963]

@@RicochetForce Especially in the space you said, yup. Anything indie or "competitive" will be standard issue stuff for YEARS to come. The generational improvement is crazy when finally upgrading. I'm rocking an XFX RX6800 I picked up on Cyber Monday for a STEAL, upgraded from a 5 year old OEM HP 1660ti that came with a Prebuild. Can I be honest? That damn HP 1660ti is one of my favorite cards I've ever had! I repasted it every year, with liquid thermal pad replacement. (k5-pro) Never saw temps above 70C after HOURS of full load. Solid build, no issues. I also hear that DELL OEM RTX 3080/90's are... really good?? Whats up with OEM GPU's being good quality lmao?

[@JohnDoe_333]

@@RicochetForce GPUs starting with the 10xx series are just overpowered for the average game. Most people are just fine with 1080p 60fps in singleplayer and 144fps in competitive games. Maybe 1440p if you are ambitious. The 1080ti is on the bottom of most charts in the video but still hits this target without any problem. And if you think about most games that are just not as demanding as the titles tested in this video you can't really justify an upgrade.

[@SupraSav]

Agreed. If I didn't switch to playing on TV, I would still be on my 1080ti trying to squeeze 1080p@120hz

[@blizbiggy]

This right here is why I'll have my RTX3080 for many many years to come. With what I play, there's no reason to upgrade, and I came off of a 1080Ti.

[@ThexXxXxOLOxXxXx]

If you're on 1080p a 1080 ti's all you'll ever need and more, unless you want insanely high FPS

[@23BiGFailure]

Man, I bought the MSI 1080 Gaming X from a German store(live in Finland) for 450 euros in 2017, used it for 5 years playing on 1080p 144hz monitor and then sold it to a friend of a friend during the chip shortage times in 2022 for 300 euros and bought my self a 3080 because the 1080 started to struggle on my new 1440p 144hz monitor. 150 bucks for a strong daily driver for 5 years, and the legend still lives on in someones computer today.

[@Non-Stick_Pan]

I have EVGA GTX1080 FTW Hybrid, bought in 2017 originally. First one the pump died pretty quickly but very efficient RMA and now the replacement is still slapping hard. I did take it apart and replace all the TIM about 3 years ago once it was out of warranty, occasionally blow the dust out of the rad with air compressor.

[@justinmanse2849]

mines still kicking even being overclocked

[@ieonful]

My first "high-end" PC I could effort was the 1080 matched with a 7700k! It still has a special place in my heart.

[@damionp8615]

The good old days 1080ti oc with a 7700k with 4.6ghz oc lasted 5 years comfortably. Fondest memories with that computer and only costed 1200 back than

[@ieonful]

@@damionp8615 Yeah true. I paid over 1800€ alone for my 4090 for my new rig. Shame on me! The prices for high end GPUs are out of control.

[@Craigpyrog]

I still rock this rig as my daily. Photo editing and even some 4K gaming.

[@rich22221]

1070ti 6700k here.

[@fredster1797]

1080 TI and i7 8700k 🙋‍♂️

[@JaredJanhsen]

I'm not surprised you made this video. I remember the 2080 Super review "NVIDIA, we get it, you made a 1080Ti" and knew what Steve and the GN team thought of the card. I'm glad y'all made this retrospective. To me, 1080/1080Ti were the last NVIDIA GPUs where you really felt you got something special. They were efficient, cool, with incredible performance. I never overclocked my 1080Ti because it was that good out of the box. My 1080Ti went into three different systems before I overpaid for a 3070 in one of newegg's Bundle deals (At least my bundle was a 3070 and a monitor, which I use). The 20 series left me going "Juice isn't worth the squeeze" because I didn't have any games I was playing that used RT. Then the 30 series left a sour taste in my mouth with the crypto mania, then NVIDIA's price over-correction with 40 series just has me indifferent.

[@monzarace]

Exactly.

[@hotmail730]

Exactly gamers have been tortured by cryptomania and now by AI farms

[@LegionGamingTV]

I had this exact conversation, in Daniel Owens KZbin comment section a week, or 2 weeks ago. I said the 1080 Ti would be the equivalent to a 7900XTX, price to performance wise today (considering inflation) and how nobody gives the 7900XTX credit for the value it actually has.. Everyone argued with me, and said I was pretty much ignorant, then Steve makes a video confirming my observation. Thanks, Steve.

[@bruhmoment-ib5dz]

I recently bought the 7900XTX because its the only logical high end option. Nvidia cant really compete for around 1k. The 4090 is the only better card and costs like 1.5k more. I just hope this card will serve me as well as my 1080 has for the last 8 years.

[@T33K3SS3LCH3N]

I just don't think that 7900XTX will have the same staying power, because so much graphics improvement now actually requires new hardware components (or to upscale components that are currently used in a much smaller manner) rather than just raw power. Ray tracing and upscaling are only becoming more relevant.

[@Doggo-frencton]

Huge difference though. AMD only charges so little due to market inferiority.

[@misterpinkandyellow74]

Ray tracing is a gimick​@@T33K3SS3LCH3N

[@ethancrosby2573]

@T33K3SS3LCH3N I don't know about calling upscaling an "improvement" when it lowers image quality in pretty much every way compared to native. Raytracing still won't become a mainstream, untoggleable feature for years and years. Probably over a decade, and potentially never. Even features like ambient occlusion can still be toggled completely off

[@Aveok]

Got the 1080 TI for 7 years now and it served me well until today. I bought a brand new 144hz 4k HDR monitor so i need to step it up to a RTX 4080 super, which i ordered 2 days ago. RIP my dear friend, you will never be forgotten.

[@thealien_ali3382]

Haha same, I saw a massive jump from a 1080ti to a 4080 super, what cpu U go for? I bought a Ryzen 9 7900x

[@V12BigBlock]

I remember back in the day when a good friend of mine won the silicon lottery with one of these cards, it was a reference model blower-style 1080 Ti that ran at 2200 Mhz all its life, perfectly stable in every workload, never crashed once, i'm still jealous to this day...

[@rodturner6759]

Most of the1080 Ti's did this, I now mine did. The 1080 Ti was a reaction to Radeon VEGA, Radeon so overhyped that series that NVidia had a kneejerk reaction and over shot the increase that they normally would have shot for. This is why the 20 series was so lackluster...

[@ProfoundBikers]

@@rodturner6759 My 1070ti went out from a lightning strike, I got a 1650 super as a replacement the same day from Micro Center MSI for like 150 usd out the door. Ran source games at the fps cap, games like dayz/gtav were surprisingly playable 80-100 fps 1080 even multiplayer. That little GPU carried me out until the end of the 30-series GPU shortage. Couldn't even get a good 20 series thanks to crypto bros. My electricity bill also shot up a good amount after getting my 3070ti.

[@TheeGlocktopus]

@@rodturner6759 No, the only blower style reference hardware model this can possibly be is the 1080ti founders edition. The only way you can get legit reference hardware. They are actually produced first party by nvidia, not under license. They are the exact reference specification manufactured by the people who designed it. These are the gold standard models, and the ONLY models actually manufactured by nvidia. These will out perform licensed 3rd party manufacture cards by at least 7%-15% due to licensees skimping for profit during manufacture and design. I have the 1080ti Founders, and a 2070 Founders. The 2070 Founders grossly outperforms my wife's 3rd party EVGA 3060 and is closer than it should be to a 3rd party 3070. (Maybe 8% less bench score). The scary thing is that the 1080ti founders can still run most modern games, although the limiting factor is starting to become the limited directx 12.0 support. But there ways to get some patched drivers which adhoc in 12.1 and 12.2 support, but not supported by nvidia :(

[@ElPrezzy]

My gf and I had a golden sample GPU at one point, it was super cool and novel! It was uh... a 1060 3gb though... 🤣

[@TheeGlocktopus]

@@ElPrezzy People knock the 1060 and while there are third-party manufactures that budgeted the thing within an inch of it's life, there are some good versions, like the 1060 SC 6gb OC. That card is a beast for it's size. Was the king of SFF builds for a while in the mid 2010s. Had one for my mobile lan build and everything at 1080 floated.

[@Odinsday]

The Pascal architecture really was just peak graphics hardware. A massive jump in performance and efficiency from Maxwell which in of itself was incredibly efficient and powerful, it was priced well from the 1050 Ti to the 1080 Ti, and as an architecture has aged far better than most of NVIDIA's lineup. It was a once in a lifetime series, and that's why Nvidia will absolutely never let this happen again lol.

[@RafitoOoO]

Yeah, they could've done it again with Lovelace, but they made the whole lineup shit besides the flagship 4090.

[@406Steven]

NGreedia never letting it happen again is really the big thing. They know they messed up by building such good products that Jensen made specific mention of time to upgrade from it. They got used to the profits they made during the crypto boom and are going to fight tooth, claw, and nail to convince us that graphics cards are somehow worth so much more than they have been over the years while giving us less bang-for-buck. My $450 GeForce FX 5950 Ultra was considered beyond reach of most gamers in 2004, that's $700 in today's money. That's equivalent to selling a 4090 for $700, and they'd never be in stock if they kept a similar pricing structure as the last 20 years.

[@ThunderingRoar]

yea and they also pretty much doubled the VRAM across the board, even ~$370 GTX 1070 got 8GB, and that was back in 2016 when most demanding games used like 3-4GB. Today they design midrange cards in order push you to upgrade every gen

[@kristoffer3000]

@@ThunderingRoar My 3070 which I got used to upgrade from a 1080 has the same amount of Vram, it's ridiculous and it's why this card is struggling now, only a few years after it came out. I used a 7900xtx for about a week and with that I was seeing Vram usage of over 16gb in a lot of games.. And people say you don't need more than 8gb of Vram lol

[@EbonySaints]

I'm glad that someone actually mentioned the 1050Ti. While it was definitely a budget option, it served a purpose, was correctly priced, and could play just about any 2016-2017 title at 1080p60 on High settings if you go back and look at the reviews. All the modern >75W cards can't manage that and just about all except the 3050 6GB can't even manage 1080p60 Low for 2022-2023 titles. The budget market is still in a derpy place.

[@DJ-fw7mi]

Got my GTX 1080 for 439.99 with a 6 warranty all included in 2017. Never had to use it. December 2023 pulled it out for a 7900xt been nice, repasted it and put in a hand me down build for my brother with a 5600g. Been perfect at 1440p with XeSS pushing 60 plus fps high settings in cyberpunk, oh with 170 mods, Nova Lut, weather, texture, NPC improvements. Its silly how well the 1080s were. Heros come and go, but legends never die!

[@mikethomas6051]

Same here on cyberpunk with gtx 1080, 1440p has the odd dip here and there in high settings but it does hit around 60fps

[@fakyas4034]

Still rocking a 1080Ti and soon to be coupled with a Ryzen 7 9800X3D :D it plays every game i play at epic settings with epic FPS! the GOAT! i paid $325 for mine.

[@DanDoesGame]

1080 Ti & 9900k was my first PC Build & eventually turned into my PC Building Business. For me that's why the 1080 will always be my favorite 💯

[@KeepUp101-j1y]

same setup and story on my end

[@jonatanrullman]

Man, you're making me feel old. My first custom build that I did from scratch was a Pentium 4 Northwood with a GeForce TI 4400.

[@captaincrash12]

@@jonatanrullman Same except s GF4 something

[@supawithdacream5626]

@@jonatanrullman its ok we can all still appreciate tech

[@thealien_ali3382]

​@@KeepUp101-j1yI had a 9700k with a 1080ti

[@x3lA]

I still run my white 1080ti FTW3 in my system. It started life as a Hybrid, but when the pump failed, I found an air cooled heatsink and kept it going. It's a huge card for its generation. I used it during the ETH boom and clocked a stable 6ghz mem OC for 2700 hours, with core UC. It has a little coil whine now but still runs strong. The VRM on this card is gr8. Thank you for your coverage of this card over the years, especially the teardown, as that was very helpful when I replaced the cooler!

[@ThexXxXxOLOxXxXx]

What a hero of card lived tough it all and still kicking

[@rneth744]

In October 2023 I bought a 1080 from Amazon Renewed for $130. It came in like-new condition, no scratches or even fingerprints could be seen on it. Slightly warm thermals because the thermal paste and pads were old, but still an amazing value purchase.

[@RexNathanChan]

Used 1080/1080Ti are 200aud right now

[@WavveBoi]

You can use FSR on it too!

[@henkwilliemadriannusvander1955]

Strip the casing and use liquid cooling (if you can still find the water block, that is), and OC it. I do that with mine, and the card is still running strong after 6 years.

[@jbyrne8977]

My 1080ti died last night. Here to mourn it..😢

[@johndroyson7921]

F

[@sociallyimpairedgaming4329]

F

[@thealien_ali3382]

F, I hope U get laid

[@aleksandarlazarov9182]

I got a GTX 1080ti second hand 3 years ago - BEST DECISION EVER!!! I am still rocking it, I see no point in upgrading any time in the next 5 years.

[@aleksandarlazarov9182]

@@FULLTILTSWIFF I never got to try mining, electricity prices in Netherlands were and still are terrible.

[@waynenakanishi971]

@@aleksandarlazarov9182 I got my 1080 ti for around 500 USD equivalent in 2018. Funny story, one fan died and since it was still under warranty, the distributor RMAed my card with a "refurbished" one which was literally new. :)

[@DragonBane299]

I recently built a dream 2017 pc. Its running an i7-8700k on an msi z390-A motherboard, with an NZXT aio and 32gb of ddr4 3200mhz ram. Was also able to snag a beautiful GTX 1080Ti MSI Seahawk edition for only $150! What a steal for such a nice card. Whole system all up only ran me just under 500 dollars, got really lucky with the cpu , motherboard and ram. Surprisingly a very potent system considering the age of the components, ran all my games fine at 1080p and some even at 1440p without breaking a sweat

[@boburanus69]

Considering some of the most popular games people play in 2024 also came out in 2017 (or earlier) there is a ton of value in older games and hardware. Slept on, hard. I did what you did in 2021, during the pandemic.

[@4.0.4]

And that PC can run Steam games which cost a lot less than any other console, not to mention modding and all other uses.

[@rickgreer7203]

It runs 4K far better than you might expect too... (with NVidia's latest firmware update, I recollect -- especially if you're doing dual+ 4K for desktop work)

[@boburanus69]

My setup was an i54690k binned @ 4.3ghz, 2x8 DDR3 1600 Ballistix XMP memory, and a GTX 980. Still have it all, on my wall RN. Since then I have upgraded.

[@Sevicify]

I really wanted to get a MSI 1080 Ti Seahawk back in late 2017, sadly the store had none in stock with no prospect of getting any more. In fact they had no 1080 Tis in stock at the time, after a few weeks they got some MSI 1080 Ti Gaming X Trios so I decided on that, whilst in there to get one I spotted the dual fan MSI 1080 Ti Gaming X sitting on the shelf so I bought that instead being slightly cheaper and would fit into my case better. Still using it to this day almost 6 and half years later, runs great with an undervolt & overclock and I re-pasted March last year which really breathed a whole new life into it (was actually considering an upgrade at the time before decided I'll stick with the 1080 Ti a bit longer re-pasting instead).

[@HenryThe12]

This video is awesome. I entered PC gaming at the budget end around 2015/2016, when the RX 480 and GTX 980 were super popular. I moved to an entry level gaming laptop with a 1050Ti during school, so I largely ignored / missed the upper end greatness that was the 1080Ti. And even though now that I consider my current RTX 3080 (bought for MSRP in October 2020) and the RTX 4090 to be amongst some of the best cards that NVIDIA has ever made, it’s hard to argue with these numbers that the crown still belongs on the 1080Ti’s head.

[@rodturner6759]

With the exception of it missing some modern instruction sets, yes...

[@jloiben12]

13:38 So 7+ years later and this OP legend is still competitive as a roughly entry-level card. Computer components aren’t supposed to have that type of staying power

[@dafff08]

i still occasionally run my win7, 1070, i7 3700 system. what an era for pc gaming. good os. affordable systems and many many iconic games.

[@Goldscare]

This GPU is truly something else. I bought my 1080ti founder's edition in May 2017, and I still have it. It's still my main GPU, outlasting many other components and being kept for at least three full rebuilds now, and she's still as powerful as the day I got her.

[@AC3handle]

Right before the 3070 launch, people were dumping 1080s on ebay. I managed to get a base 1080 FE card for under 300 bucks. Took a few auctions to get that. Then the 30 series launched. And the video card scene exploded. Or caved in, however you want to call it. That 1080 became the new daily driver.

[@PlayinWithMahWii]

Same here! Bought a Zotac Amp extreme for $260.

[@jayb2705]

People did go a bit crazy before the 3000 series came out, 2080ti's were also dumped for really low prices.

[@pancakejaywithtie]

I have a 6800 non XT, I’ve sadly never owned a 1080 or 1080 Ti, But I’ve considered looking at them for a friends system, they don’t play many Big Titles they play Mainly Indie games, Honestly it’s amazing to see the Actual Kick this card still has in 2024 and and makes me kinda Nostalgic when this card was THE CARD at that time. Great Video and I’m glad to see older Hardware Still holding their crown in this Market atm

[@zacharywiseman7847]

Out of everything I watch on KZbin on my phone that I cast to an old Chromecast..... Your video quality is always the best. I don't know what it is but your channel cast the absolute best. So crisp from an old s9+ to and old Chromecast.

[@GamersNexus]

Maybe just our lighting! Not sure. We don't use the fanciest equipment!

[@Tsiikki]

Source bitrate, or export format that KZbin likes?

[@thealien_ali3382]

​@@GamersNexusit's probably that 1080ti 😂

[@fubar5884]

I had my EVGA 1080 Ti and 4790k right up until 2022. If it wasn't for a spring storm and a bolt of lightning either hitting the house or hitting right nearby frying everything electronic on that one end of the house I'd still be using it. For everything I played including VR and even some of the better optimized AAA (or ones that got optimized over time) it still did just fine, even when asking it to power a 21:9 1440p monitor. I ended up putting the motherboard/CPU/waterblock in a frame and the GPU and block in a separate frame and making some wall art out of them. They both sure gave me my money's worth and lasted me quite a long time.

[@Griddens]

lol no joke same thing happen to me in 2022 with i7 4790k evga 1080 ti lol went thru my network cables and took out everything

[@jamesyoung151]

I'm sorry that you lost equipment. It sucks, I've been there. That was also the last time I ever plug a computer into a surge protector. I spend the extra money and get a UPS. I even plug my ethernet cable into the UPS, then to my PC. So far (fingers crossed), no issues. In my case, I lost a server that cost me quite a bit. The company that made the surge protector called it an "act of god" and they wouldn't honor the guarantee of up to $50,000 in lost equipment. That was during the power outage in 2003.

[@toufusoup]

I passed on my EVGA 1080 Ti FTW3 to my friend for his first ever gaming PC paired with a 12400F. He’s super happy with it and I’m so glad that it will continue to push frames in another system. Long live the 1080 Ti, you were and are still NVIDIA’s greatest mistake!

[@nedt8778]

I did the same with my brother. He was really tight on budget, so I built him a 12100f CPU based system with the 1080 I gave him. He pretty much just plays games like Skyrim, Dues Ex Human revolution, black Mesa and everything runs great for him. He could play newer titles, but he's happy with what he has.

[@leesthoughthub8719]

Me too, I just upgraded after nearly 7 years to a 7900 XT. Giving my 1080 Ti to my little brother for his birthday as he's currently on an RX 570 poor guy. Should be a huge upgrade for him.

[@thealien_ali3382]

Same 1080ti was a beast miss that gpu

[@sdfopsdmsdofjmp7863]

I still haven't found a reasonable replacement for my 1080. I want an upgrade at 1070 prices but they can barely be had in terms of pure rasterization performance, which is the only thing that matters for me. Swedish GPU prices are fully out of control. An 8GB 4060Ti is the best gpu that fits my budget. I just can't justify that upgrade. 8 years later I should get at least a 100% performance uplift for 400 dollars.

[@Invid72]

I went from a 1080 to a 7900XT and the upgrade was massive. I bought a year ago before the price drop and I'm still satisfied. It was a huge upgrade.

[@mikakorhonen5715]

980 - > 4070 Ti Super = no more pain with 3D softwares.

[@WavveBoi]

Sick card. I just got the 7900xtx. You should try HZD 2 if you haven't. Really fun and you probably won't have to run fsr to have a good frame rate.

[@oRicardoHetfield]

same, from a 1080ti to a 7900xt... best decision over the 4070ti!

[@majrmeltdown4902]

1080 ti to a 6950 xt, 1 year ago for 525GBP new. don't care about RT, that's still a few years off as far as im concerned, my TI is boxed up and retired gracefully as it should be.

[@theastarion]

Similar, 1080ti to 7900XTX, no way I was gonna settle for such a tiny vram bump for the same price bracket on Team Green. And hey, I'd still be using it if it hadn't shorted and started killing motherboards!

[@liamcarroll1993xx]

I had a 1070 from new and my friend gave me his MSI Gaming X 1080 TI about 4 years ago and I've used it daily since. Replaced the thermal paste and had 0 issues since, it still runs pretty much everything so long as you turn a few settings down on newer titles - it's epic

[@Shockz_BE]

Still running the 1080Ti to this day. The G.O.A.T Card for normal 1080p gaming and still runs all games decent that are coming out today. Not upgrading anytime soon, and i will NEVER Throw away this card even if it dies it will serve as decoration.

[@Vss077]

how does alan wake 2 run? good 30-40fps on lowest 1080p settings. doubt it will be a long term card when games start using mesh shaders. for older or indie titles it will be still a great card though & tbh all 80 cards are kinda strong, i used my gtx 980 for 4 or 5+ years without a problem & only upgraded to a rtx 3080 since i wanted to try out ray tracing

[@neca93pk]

​@@Vss077What are you compensating for? It's one title with a really specific requirements, this card runs everything else just fine.

[@Vss077]

@@neca93pk just heard mesh shaders will be prob a more used thing in the future. so for now its 1 game like DX12 or raytracing was just 1 game back then, in the future it will be more. u will be fine for another year till many titles with it arrives. upcoming Capcoms RE Engine games will be using Mesh Shaders aswell. dw i was there too, thinking that i will be fine till i realized i needed a new gpu for a game i waited for.

[@xpodx]

​@neca93pk many titles really. 1080 ti is nice for older titles or newer at lower res and fps. It was a nice card. But extremely weak compared to the fastest options.

[@dreyga2]

@@Vss077 who cares about alan woke 2? The game has to be amazing to draw in people to upgrade. The game is worse than trash.

[@CaptainOvias]

Great video! Thanks Steve, and the team! So happy with my 3080 Ti I got a year ago, from second-hand market, at 600€. Next is 4080 Super at around 700-750€ after the 50 series comes out. Not giving a penny to Nvidia with this modern price gouging.

[@disasterarea6084]

Love your enthusiasm for this card and well placed, I just sold my "second rig" which had a 1080 in it, and I was very sorry to see it go, heartbreaking, but I wasn't using it and now live on a 6800XT

[@ZeroPageX]

I still use an EVGA 1080 Ti SC2. Everything I run today runs really well at 1440. The downside though has been the lack of excitement around GPU releases since, and not many benchers include it in their charts. Thanks for keeping them in yours, and thanks for doing this research! It's really helpful! It looks like I'll finally be upgrading this year or next year so I can get high FPS on a 4K monitor. RT looks great, and I'm rooting for it, but I've been around since the software rasterization days, and I'm running all of my games right now at >100 FPS at very high resolution and detail! I can't give that up now!

[@DGOmega]

I am still using my MSI GAMING X 1080 ti with 7700k still going strong even after 7 years of gaming on it!

[@Maddog00427]

Aorus Extreme 1080ti with a 7700k (5ghz) here and I have only JUST started thinking about upgrading.. Mostly because I want to go 1440p/240hz.. For a PC that is 7 years old it still packs a punch on the games I play. Looks like we got our moneys worth out of them. 😄

[@loneskullkid]

6700k with a msi gaming x

[@yavuztezcan8684]

Same here dude

[@tostadorafuriosa69]

​@@Maddog00427i had the same rig but with a 1070. I upgraded mainly for 1400p because if i was still on 1080 it wouldnt be so necessary. That rig is still going strong on my friends house

[@matdan2]

Still going strong? More like slowly crawling along in a wheelchair

[@StayReactin]

Had my 1080ti for 7 years now. Still going strong

[@newearth9027]

Still using mine

[@Groovewonder2]

In the middle of the shortages, my brother built his first PC and managed to nab not only a 1080Ti for $400, but the guy he bought it from even repasted it and put new pads on it before selling it. Thing still rips to this day.

[@knerduno5942]

You can now get the 12GB founders edition for only $200 now

[@coldbreezeproductions]

@@knerduno5942if you don’t care about RT that’s a beast for the price

[@Eleganttf2]

I thought you're a girl looking at your pfp from a distance 😂

[@bwadden9021]

I also built my first PC during the shortages, and scored a $400 barely used 1080ti as well! It's been bulletproof.

[@hannesbaum9318]

Got a 1070ti for the last 5 years and still 0 problems with 144hz performance in games. Just a good card series, how it should be.

[@GamersNexus]

Basically a GTX 1080! Not bad.

[@Hamborger-wd5jg]

unfortunate how nvidia locked the voltages on the 1070 Ti, because i bet if they didnt, it would blow past a stock GTX 1080 a few percentage points. They didnt want to repeat the same "mistake" they did with the 1080 Ti vs the 1080

[@SweHam]

Honestly my experience with my 1070 Ti. The only issues I have is that gaming in VR isn't as smooth as it should be

[@pfmcdermott1]

Same here also at 1440. Not competitive gaming but playing Boulders Gate and Helldivers. +1 1080ti. Just couldn’t swing the cost then but damn it was and is still a good card.

[@kirkanos3968]

@@SweHam And this is why will never sell mine even tho i did get a 3070 ti for kinda cheap still can't give up my evga 1070 ti.

[@UnknownUser-fg3fs]

NVIDIA will never make the 1080Ti mistake again. Also RIP EVGA's 1080Ti FTW3, one of the best GPUs I ever owned. I miss EVGA.

[@m8x425]

what mistake was that? you do know the 1080ti was way, way cheaper to make than a 2080ti, 3080, or 4080, right?

[@phoenix7289]

Same. My ol FTW3 Hybrid died last summer. Diablo 4 finally did it in. :(

[@jemery3]

my FTW3 is still running flawless!

[@zzavatski]

They did. It is called 3060/12.

[@quwarq]

@@m8x425 Exactly. That is nvidia correcting "the mistake".

[@reneagac4739]

Its not just 1080Ti. The entire 10 series was mind blowing. 1070s efficiency and the amount of VRAM you get in comparison to previous generation felt like jumping into to future not to mention the price. 1080 was a king for a year and again super power efficient smashing the previous gen cards like nothing else. Then Ti came along and yes it was a beast and I haven't upgraded since. Jump to 10 series back then felt like a jump from Pentium I to Celerons 300A (with OC to 450 of course). A completely new experience.

[@Derek-mg2le]

Didn't upgrade my 1080ti until the 3080 and still have it in my second PC. Fantastic card.

[@Dracossaint]

I used my 1080 to build my nephew a computer for Christmas. Still going strong for 1080p

[@ivann4512]

@@smet145 wow amount of ignorance in this comment is gigantic

[@ronaldchristensen8260]

Hey awesome, I had the 1080 until I got my 3080TI :D Gifted my old PC to my best friend, who does not have the coin to buy a new one every 5 years or so. 1080 still running :)

[@Rain1]

lol this is pretty much the same jump i made. Except from 1080 to 3080, whew what a difference

[@josephmills9031]

Just in the last week I went from "keeping mine also" 1080 ti founders to a asus tuf rtx 3080 10gb. With dlss it is better, but running both 4k 60hz I get 60fps on both no problem.

[@VaporeonCompilations]

Clicked and watched this the moment I saw it on my feed. Me and my best friend absolutely love this card, and like you Steve, remember when it released and how much of a goat it was. I only very recently upgraded from my 1080 Ti to a second hand RTX 3090. I had a thing for the old 8800 GTX Ultra and modded the cooler shroud onto my 1080 TI, as I loved the design of that card but wished that when it was released was like the 1080 ti of its time, where it was much faster over the standard 8800 GTX. If anyone wants pictures I do have some - great video! Thanks!

[@Avarthas]

Bought a used 1080ti on ebay back in the GPU apocalypse era (was an upgrade from a long running 690), de-shrouded it, upgraded the thermal paste/ pads & OC'd it. Runs beautifully with optimized/ debloated windows & nvpanel adjustments/ MSI (message signal interrupt) edits for extra performance. Don't see a need to upgrade until the next GPU series. I highly doubt, sadly, that nvidia will release a banger like this again. Glad to see GN making a video about this beast.. another reason to love this channel. Thanks, Steve!

[@CromulentEmbiggening]

You know, I used to like to doing "flagship" build every 5 to 10 years, sometimes sooner than 5 years if I'm feeling wasteful. I decided (stupidly) to do it in late 2020. I went from a 7700K, 32GB RAM 1080Ti to an Ryzen 9 5950X, 64GB of RAM, and an RTX 3090. Not worth it at all and I wish I kept my money. The 1080 Ti kicked ass for the games I was playing and the resolution I was using. Getting the 3090 is what got me to upgrade from 1080p 144Hz to 1440p 144Hz, go multi-monitor, and drive a 4K TV which the 1080 Ti would've struggled with. But it was the upgrade that drove me to more uneccessary upgrades and now really feels like a post-hoc justification of the PC upgrade. If what you have works, stick with it. In 2025 it'll have been the 5 year mark and I am so happy to hold on to what I have now. My philosophy going forward is no longer to build a flagship machine every 5 or even 10 years. Instead it will be to wait until the midrange can far and away beat what I currently have AND it's available in decent condition used. EDIT: I still have that 1080 Ti system in pieces and boxed up in the original parts and I'll never get rid of it because it marks a really nice era in PC building and means even more to me than the previous flagship PC (3770k, Radeon HD 7970 GHz edition, 16GB DDR3). Usually I sell the old parts to upgrade but this time I didn't need to and I'm so glad to hold on to it.

[@Demopans5990]

Meanwhile, a my old system of a 8700k+1070 is sitting around as a game and NAS server.

[@tenchi71]

Still running my 1080ti + 8700k setup. Not sure I will ever get rid of this combo, keep it forever. It’s been so good for all these years. Just keep it for when these games are “retro”.

[@MrLogi32]

This combo to me is the definition of "future proofing".

[@Ridiric]

Sadly my 1080Ti died on me, but that was my system until last year as well! I ended up getting a 3080Ti cheap and upgraded to that but found the 8700k was holding it back, so ended upgrading to a 7800X3D, still not really all that happy with the 3080Ti, sure it was a major upgrade but it just didnt feel worth it for the cost, the 7800X3D however i am very happy with, very low power usage for the performance and super easy to keep cool cant see myself upgrading that any time soon.

[@ArtisChronicles]

​@@Ridiric Yeah the price of the 3080 ti was completely crazy. I figured Nvidia was out of their minds with those prices, but when someone really needs a card I guess they proved they were right to figure they could take advantage of the situation.

[@HazewinDog]

Do it, there's gonna be tons of 1080 Ti + 8700k/8086k retro builds coming in the future.

[@Tealc2323]

My 1080 Ti still works for 1440p High+ 90-120FPS Avg in Diablo 4, NFS Heat, Last Epoch and 450FPS Avg with 240FPS 1% Lows in Valorant maxed out. Upgraded recently from 5600X to 5800X3D which helps a lot with the fluidity of the games. Lows and Avg are a lot more consistent! I don't think I will upgrade anytime soon if invidia is keeping the prices like this.

[@JackDisturber]

Same build actually. Although upgraded from 3700x to 5800x3d. I feel like modern cards are very lackluster when it comes to cost per frame. Also seeing 8GB RAM on some of them 7 years later is just painful. I've been contemplating 7900XTX and even though I'm sort of AMD fan I feel like AMD is still underdelivering... I actually almost exhanged my GPU to Radeon VII back when it launched but God protected me I guess

[@NicolasGarel1201]

similar story here. upgraded to 3900X in 2020 then to 5800x3d end of 23. but 1080ti here since 2018.

[@Thinbird]

Thanks for teaching me so much about PCs. Much appreciated

[@GamersNexus]

Glad you're learning here! Thanks for sharing.

[@FlightOverRio]

@@GamersNexus now do bash scripting tutorial

[@thealien_ali3382]

Can you teach me something in Ur bedroom 😜

[@MikkoRantalainen]

Unless you need more than 11 GB of VRAM or must have RT, upgrading from 1080 Ti doesn't make much sense even today, especially when second hand price for 1080 Ti is pretty low so you cannot sell the card and expect to see lots of money to partially offset the cost of getting a new GPU.

[@pr0wnageify]

It does make sense, if you want to play new games with high settings at high refresh rate (the purpose of the card to begin with) :)

[@stomarat]

I'm still running EVGA 1080 Ti FTW3. Love it.

[@balanzed5713]

I just upgraded from 1080 ti to 4070 and gave the 1080 ti to my dad (he had a 1070). He does some cad and video rendering on his computer, he said he immediately noticed a big bump in GPU perfomance in his daily workload. Goes to show how this card was in a league of it's own.

[@D71Gaming]

How are you liking the 4070 ?

[@GFClocked]

I used an already used 1080ti for like 5-6 years. No coil whine, absolute legend. Only upgraded to a used 3080 ti, but the coil whine is so insanely loud..

[@marcuscook5145]

I got 5 years of excellent service out of mine. Switched to Radeon and went with a 6900XT a couple of years ago and that's been great as well. The 1080Ti is the new 8800 GTX. I suspect that the 5800X3D will obtain the same sort of long term GOATed status for CPUs.

[@TrevorReaStewartnexus]

I clicked on the video and got exactly what I expected. Which is awesome!! If anyone I know is curious as to the state of things. This is the video I"ll encourage them to watch. Great stuff again GN.

[@BurntFaceMan]

Thank you for doing this. I've been that guy asking for this for some time, so I really appreciate this. I upgraded from a 1080TI to a 3080TI last year when they finally settled on a decent prices (after 40 series came out). My partners PC is now rocking the 1080ti (and upgrade from her GTX Titan first gen)

[@TrinityRDS1]

do you feel like the jump from the Titan to 1080ti was worth it, I am considering getting my partner a 1080ti who is on a Maxwell Titan

[@AznUzer]

@@TrinityRDS1what games do you mainly play and at what resolution?

[@NanoAugur]

I'm still running a GTX 1080 and I'll run it for as long as I possibly can. I did have to replace the fans twice already - after the first replacement got wonky again, I de-shrouded the card and slapped 2x 120mm quiet-yet-powerful fans on it. I'm still thankful that I got a model back then which had two extra 4-pin fan headers on it - made using those 120mm fans a much easier process.

[@balynevil]

having my 1080ti blow up on me was one of my saddest days of all time... it ran strong for 7 years. Had it paired with an i-7700k. I "downgraded" to a 3060... but got it practically for free.

[@AndTecks]

Steve and Team, Thank you for the work you put into this. Extremely impressive

[@GewelReal]

Thanks Steve!

[@graxxor]

This video honestly made me feel a touch emotional... about a fricking graphics board of all things. Just sold my Zotac AMP Extreme GTX1080Ti which I bought the Monday morning following its release, after offloading my previous 1080 to an office machine. I reluctantly sold it for $200 bucks and was surprised at how attached I had become to it, TBH. What an absolute UNIT of a graphics card that was (tho small by RTX4090 standards)... But I am happy to say that it has found a loving and appreciative owner who has reported they are super satisfied with its performance and I hope they will get MOAR years' use of of this GLORIOUS BEAST and that it will bring them as much joy as it did me! It's sad to think that NVIDIA will never again give gamers such a generous gift! Althoug the 3080 came close (except for the inexcusable 10Gb RAM)

[@kingsleyabrokwah3930]

That was the exact model I had and sold when I got a 3090. It really was a great card and makes me miss the good old days.

[@mattforeman4508]

I came across a broken 1080Ti on FB Marketplace last fall. Cost me $50 CAD. $40 at a local electronics shop, new fans for $20 and that card roared back to life. Will go into my son’s first gaming PC. Plus side - has all the RGB ROG Strix features needed for an 11 year olds gaming needs :)

[@streetrider1001]

great find! love the resourcefulness. He's lucky to have a dad like you.

[@razorsz195]

@@streetrider1001 My dad gave me an FX5200 🤣 but i suppose a jump from a 2MB 2D GPU made it look a lot more impressive than the card really was :P

[@MsPirolino]

My Zotac 1080Ti AMP Extreme, which I bought in May 2017 for €830, still runs daily in my X99 system. Some games like Battlefield 2042 run on UHD low settings with 50-70FPS depending on the situation. I have grown very fond of this card. Many testers of the AMP Extreme back in 2017 predicted that it would soon have a hardware defect due to the cooling, which I cannot understand. I have changed the thermal paste three times in all this time and replaced the thermal pads with Thermal Putty 6 months ago.

[@Rain1]

I had a 1080 for about 7 years. Never replaced the thermal paste, never had any issues and gave it to my brother after not needing it anymore. What a beast. Moved on to a used 3080 (works perfectly thank goodness)

[@johnathanw2565]

I got an MSI DUKE 1080 OC at launch... JUST last month upgraded... had NO issues.. LOVE that card... was actually sad to have to upgrade.. Upgraded to 6750XT cause of crazy good deal! Great vid!

[@_Yeeted_]

Thanks Steve!

[@SupremeRuleroftheWorld]

yeah, thanks steve. now i feel bad for replacing my 1080 last month.

[@Netico-m7b]

My 1080Ti is still doing great. Most games are playable in 4K with some sacrifices and for 1080p gamers it will probably last another 7 years ;-) Best buying decision I ever made.

[@cooleyzz]

I had a 1060 when they first released then got a 1080. Sold my friend the 1060. Years later hit hardship and had to sell everything. He gave me back my original 1060. New thermal paste and that thing still works - it's retired now but the 10 series were just too good.

[@Apollo-Computers]

My ssc 1060 is in my mom's rig now :)

[@dave7474]

you guys sound like good friends. lucky to have people like that

[@ericbaker8807]

1080 Ti and 1080 are the GOAT cards, but I think 1060 is in the conversation as well from a budget stand point. At least top 5. It was a really good card for a decent price. I built my first PC with a zotac 1060! My wife's little brother still runs it in a hand me down system I built for him!

[@tomferguson9250]

The OG 1000 series cards were pretty amazing, reminded me of the jump from NV's early 5800 series to the 6800GT/Ultra. I still have a backup PC that's a 4790K with a SFF Zotac 1070, I was able to play most games at 1080 ultra or 1440 high without problems.

[@ffwast]

Didn't even the 6200 beat the 5800 because the fx 5000 series was a dumpster fire?

[@M_CFV]

980 ti was almost just as good too tho, just didnt have gsync support which sucks

[@tomferguson9250]

@@ffwast Wouldn't shock me, those 5800 cards were loud, hot & lousy 😂

[@donnierussellii4659]

Even the 1070 Ti kept me going pretty well until last year.

[@Rjwubs]

1070 is still keeping me going, helldivers and the Finals run great.

[@jinxterx]

What did you replace it with?

[@lyingcorrectly]

@@jinxterxI also kept my 1070ti until last year and replaced it with an ARC A770. Not so much because the 1070ti was slow, but more because the A770 was interesting and new. The 1070ti is in my backup/guest PC and still gets used regularly, and is, in my opinion, still perfectly fine.

[@jinxterx]

@@lyingcorrectly Yeah I'm still using my 1070ti, haven't found a reason to upgrade yet, lol. Interesting you got the A770. I still wish there was more competition in the GPU space like there was in the old days though.

[@bjornroesbeke]

It feels like yesterday that i bought my "Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1080 Mini ITX 8G" because it was the only gaming card to fit in my < 25cm depth case. I want to have the best results in games, but at the lowest cost, since i don't play games that often anymore. It's probably not going to be replaced soon.

[@zodwraith5745]

It's rare that I upvote a video before watching it on the title alone. I liked my 1080ti so much I bought 2 of them, but by that point SLI support was getting so terrible I ended up selling the second one. It's the one card that when it finally gets too slow running games for my kids I'll proudly display it on a shelf. It truly is and fulfills everything that comes with the meaning of the term GOAT. I also loved the VooDoo2 shoutout as that was my first ever SLI setup as well.

[@thealien_ali3382]

I touch my poop hole and it smells like poop what shall I do

[@hanswurst3811]

SLI runs never as it should i tried it back than with a dual 580 setup .... EVERY game runs worse then with one card ...... very annoying

[@zodwraith5745]

@@hanswurst3811 Then you either had it set up wrong or tried very few games. _Most_ games saw a sizeable increase in FPS but sometimes the same or worse 1% lows that no one paid attention to back then. You just needed to pay attention to forums to setup profiles on what methods worked best with different games. If all you did was turn it on or off you were doing it wrong. In the early days SLI gave massive boosts because latency wasn't as critical as it is with today's bandwidth needs, and developer support was much more prevalent. I ran dual VooDoo 2s, 8800GTs, 280s, 480s, 970s, and 1080TIs. It was only with the 970s and 1080TIs that I ever had to disable a card with certain poorly optimized games.

[@InderjeetSingh-im3eh]

Missed a trick with the seagulls from Finding Nemo and dubbing "Tie" over the "mine" 😂

[@JaconSamsta]

What an amazing generation of video cards. The 10XX series is probably the last time I actually got excited for a hardware launch, which is mind boggling seeing as it is been almost 8 years. It's a bit of a shame that all the 20XX series had over the 10XX series was ray tracing. Something I, to this day, can't help but feel like is little more than a gimmick. I'm convinced that, if that technology hadn't been pushed as mindlessly as it was, we'd have seen at least a few more generations of mind-blowing performance improvements for rasterization. Instead they decided to waste massive amounts of die area for stuff that is hardly any better than the tricks we've used to fake it so far. Of course the 1080(ti) looks good in comparison. There hasn't actually been a card that competes with it, instead pushing the false value proposition of ray tracing!

[@EddyA1337]

Ya I agree with you ray tracing is overrated. Sheesh looking back it was touted like the second coming of Christ. Nvidia at the time said RT was as big an improvement as Cuda cores. Meanwhile I'm sitting there thinking, "G-sync > Cuda cores and RT"

[@tostadorafuriosa69]

​@@EddyA1337well that is just classic nvidia

[@keco185]

I bought the 1080ti when it came out and I still use it in my desktop today

[@shortshins]

Ive often said the 1080ti was the best card nvidia has ever made , it was so far ahead of its time it still holds up, it was cheap in comparison to current 80 series cards and the 2080 made the 1080ti look goat tier.

[@squanchy474]

I bought my 1080 non ti, for $400 brand new in 2017, sold it for $600 in 2021, 4 years later and it went up in value, it’s my GOAT!

[@JJFX-]

I was really tempted to do the same but just couldn't bring myself to sell it. It felt like getting ready to sell off a favorite pet just to make a couple hundred bucks. I can't blame you though, practically speaking that's a great move.

[@SamuraiAxil]

I'm still on my 1070 haha, can't afford to upgrade at the moment, but one day I will haha, seeing this video is giving me a lot of hope since so many people are still on the 10xx series cards.

[@thealien_ali3382]

Just get a 4070 is very well priced and very good

[@Carstuff111]

The GTX 1000 series cards are all great. I had a Zotac GTX 1070 I bought used from my roommate and it served me very well till I upgraded to a RTX 2080 Super. A good friend of mine now has my GTX 1070, and it has been blowing his mind. At 1920x1080 resolution with an AMD Ryzen 9 3900X (He was using my old AMD Ryzen 5 1600X till my roommate gave him his 3900X as a late Christmas present) that card still belts out at least 60 FPS (my friend's projector is 60Hz). It plays God of War nearly maxed out, it plays Forza Horizon 5 with all high settings, including Ray Tracing and TAA, Cyberpunk 2077 plays on mostly high setting and to get a stable 60 FPS I just used AMD FSR 2.1 on Quality. You have to really know the game and look for the upscalling artifacts. The GTX 1000 cards still amaze me.

[@gstuart0770]

I am still running my GTX 1080Ti in my personal rig too. I have second one left over from the days of SLI.

[@SpinStar1956]

I followed the GN recommendation for the EVGA 1080ti FW3 and never looked back! Thanks GN !!!

[@Leonardogfa]

Still running my 1080ti strix + 9900k. Never repasted the card, temps still under control and running fine. Played through Cyberpunk with great graphics, very impressive stuff for a 7 year old card.

[@ziddship]

Everybody remember how crypto miners and scalpers ruined pc building for 3 years?

[@IMeanMachine101]

I'm still rocking 2 of these in sli not much it can't handle

[@tonymontenegro5982]

Same here, no major issues with SLI other than the latest Nvidia drivers often causes the video signal with my monitor to display no image unless the video driver is reverted or uses the windows display drivers.

[@hehe42069-k]

I bought a 1080 used recently to upgrade from my aging rx 580, I can't believe a near 10 year old GPU STILL isn't outdated, this thing still tears through stable diffusion and every game i want no problem. gonna cry when it dies one day =lol.

[@Derek8487]

I bought a used 1080 last month for my kids computer and it runs fortnite great in 1080p. Really is great!

[@m8x425]

Maxwell isn't even 10 years old yet

[@JohnDoe_333]

8 years at that point, 10xx series was released in late 2016. Still amazing, imagine using an 8 year old card like a gtx 280 back in 2016. Most games released around that era wouldn't even be playable with lowest settings.

[@hehe42069-k]

@@JohnDoe_333 and cards released now have identical vram capacity, shit's regressing and that's sad.

[@SebaztienHawke-ci5hm]

Wow… 8:55 You Americans got the 1080Ti much cheaper than in my market. I think it was $1800 back then, and the 3080 launched three years ago for $1500, so the 1080Ti was outrageously priced for most gamers. I eventually bought a STRIX 1080Ti second hand. It couldn’t boost as high as the STRIC 1070 it replaced, but it was like replacing a VTEC Civic with a Dodge Viper, it’s raw power felt effortless. Definitely a classic, and it was truly a big beefy boy in size compared to cards of the time.

[@noway9880]

This fucking thing had so much excess perf it's still honkin in 2024!! How insane. What a time to be alive. Look how nvidia makes these now

[@LukeValentino]

Great video, well done! Still rocking my dear 1080Ti

[@TheSnappy]

When I was building my first pc in 2017 my buddy recommended the 1080ti. It was $800 at the time and I didn't have the budget for it at the time and decided to get an MSI 1070 Gaming X. It was a great card and I still have it running in my old system. I built a new system, full AMD, in December of 2022.

[@PastafarianLemur]

Similar to you, I bought a 1070ti in late 2019 but for $250. What I loved about that card was it only took a small overclock to reach stock 1080 speeds. I loved how well it complemented the i7 5775c that I also had. Then I built a new all AMD system in August 2023 when the 5600X3D came out with a bundle deal that was too good to pass up at Microcenter.

[@MainUkraine]

My EVGA 1080ti SC Black Edition served me so well for 7 years that it made me sad to upgrade to the 7900 XTX since with the 7800x3d I was still getting great 1440p performance in most games.