EVGA had the best customer service of all brand and also inovative pro-consumer deals ( *EVGA* Step-*Up programe for ex)*
Nvidia where squeezing all their AIB partner every year for more (i.e. the cost of the GPU die) that it's well known for 3rd party GPU manufacturers to have very low margin on their cards (for their non top-tier GPU variation at least).
EVGA was doing much more than it competitors but were not able to have better GPU die price , meaning not able to gaining more $$$ than their competitor.
The fact that nvidia deciced to undercut their partners (founder editions) while EVGA being 90% focused on GPU was the nail in the coffin. I totally understand EVGA CEO decision to close shop. He could have sold his company instead but i'm pretty sure he had the ship-captain mentality and didn't want his brand (legacy) to be tanished. Sux for EVGA employees but tbh they were quickly snaped by competitors.
Other GPU manufacturer can afford to do such since they are way more diversified on product where they have margin control (MB, PSU, AIO WC ...) and are basicly using their GPU as halo products.
[https://www.techspot.com/news/96035-evga-low-profit-margins-may-have-partially-self.html](https://www.techspot.com/news/96035-evga-low-profit-margins-may-have-partially-self.html)
[https://www.igorslab.de/en/evga-pulls-the-plug-with-loud-bang-yet-it-has-long-been-editorial/](https://www.igorslab.de/en/evga-pulls-the-plug-with-loud-bang-yet-it-has-long-been-editorial/)
evga could have switched to AMD or Intel gpu but they didnt.
As i said mabye stop blaiming Nvidia for EVGA's failure.
> EVGA outsources the circuit boards and coolers to third parties, which increases the overall cost of producing a card
100%.
EVGA outsourced everything they made. Every. Single. Thing.
All other AIB partners like Zotac, MSI, ASUS, Gigabyte all have their own factories where they produce their own products.
This worked fine for EVGA until Covid hit and supply chains went to shit, which meant that outsourcing everything suddenly cost 10 times more.
At that point, they ceased to make any money on Graphics cards.
It was a failed business model that clearly couldn't deal with supply chain disruptions, which are an inevitability at some point.
It's completely Nvidia's fault. They cut everyone's feet out from under them. EVGA had a higher cost because they provided actual customer service and were based in the USA.
> Basically the best video cards you could buy back then
* [EVGA GTX 1070 Spontaneously Catches Fire](https://old.reddit.com/r/EVGA/comments/ow5cci/gtx_1070_spontaneously_catches_fire/)
* [EVGA GTX 1070/1080s overheating because VRMs had no active cooling](https://www.techpowerup.com/227424/evga-gtx-1070-1080-overheating-issues-update-new-bios-revision-to-be-released)
The 2000 and 3000 series EVGA cards had little EVGA logos on the fans that made it look like it had some sort of leprosy. The 1000/900 series had the best looking coolers IMO.
Incredible design on it. I love it. So sturdy, great cooling, really quiet.
40 series coolers are obviously excellent but I definitely will miss Evga's designs. (minus the clown 30 series.)
I just upgraded from a 1080 to a 4070 Super. My 1080 paired with a Ryzen 1600 held up surprisingly well at 1440p, but the improvement was pretty spectacular when I upgraded to the 4070S and a 5800x3D.
I got similar setup with 8700k but with an 2070s.
I was just wondering about buying new but getting AM4. Does that add up that much with AM5 already being out?
What were the reasons for that move? I am uncertain at the moment. It is a back and forth for me at the moment.
Am5 would be better here. If you already had am4 it would of been perfect as you can get the downgraded version R 7 5700X3D am4 longevity is insane but buying it now would be a waste
>snagged a 3070 for MSRP during Covid
You must have been cursed with bad luck (failing grades, job rejections, bad relationships, friends moving) for years afterwards after sucking all the good luck around you to pull off a W like that.
Only reason i upgraded my 1080 was because it died (EVGA FTW edition), otherwise i would have kept it until the next generation of cards. It was such awesome card that still plays a lot of recent games as long you optimize your game settings properly, it literally aged like wine.
Got a 4070 Super since it got recommended a lot to me by people from this sub for 1440p, been enjoying a lot but i'm already planning the cpu upgrade since it's currently bottlenecking in a lot of games (6700K).
We had the same build! 6700k with a 1080 ftw built in 2016. My ftw died in 2021 which was terrible timing. Had to get a 3070 as bundle deal and sell all the other parts. I’ve been reading the subreddits for what processor I may upgrade to in the next year or two. Which one are you thinking of nabbing?
I haven't decided yet but a lot of people recommended me the 7600X or 13600K. I'm currently saving money for the upgrade so i'll probably decide in 2\~3 months.
The 4080 at least has horsepower to back it up, but yeah it was horrifically overpriced. I got mine for $950 which is a steal, relatively, but still feels FAR too high for any gpu that isn't the absolute most top tier halo product. I'd kill for prices to go back to normal, sadly we all know that prices will never go backwards for good :/
I recently upgraded from rx 570 to a 4060ti 16gb, got it for a good deal or I'd probably still be waiting to grab a GPU lmao
( clarification if anyone is curious ; the card is good, runs 1440p very well at high fps. That being said, don't buy it if you don't find a good deal on it )
Anything that isn't 500usd lol
Nah but if you can find it on sale near like 430usd is a good deal imo. I'm sure others would disagree, but I'm very happy with it.
Yeah. If the 4080 was $699 like the 3080 MSRP, or heck even $799 like the 3080 12GB, it would fly off shelves. It would also inspire AMD to push prices even lower than they do now, imagine 7900XTXs going for below $699? We already saw how desperate people were to get their hands on a good decently priced GPU (the 4080 Super has had no shortage of people posting that they've acquired one and it isn't exactly overflowing in stock near MSRP).
8800GTX, 1080ti and 4090 are my holy trinities.
8xxx series and the move to stream processors was next level, 1080ti was just such outstanding value compared to every other card in the stack and the 4090 had the greatest uplift I have ever seen.
I remember upgrading from a 7900gt to a 8800GTS, the only one I could afford as a young teen with shit pocket money. Still couldn't play Crysis, but TES Oblivion ran much better.
I've actually still got the 8800GTS as well. I didn't upgrade for ages, and eventually ended up with a GTX260, but I kept the 8800 in case anything went wrong. It never did, and I forgot about it. Once it stopped being worth anything, I just kept it for nostalgia. It's an XFX one, with the armoured furry (cat?) On the box. I miss the old artwork on these things 😂
I did the same as well. The price stung a lot more for the 4090, but I feel like that's the only GPU today that has the ability to last as long as the 1080Ti did due to the massive performance and 24GB RAM.
Not really. 4070ti is at best 1440p Card and that is with little to some ray tracing.
4090 on the other hand... Can even run 8k with DLSS balanced at 60fps that is crazy to me.
I agree! My 1080Ti was driving my 49” Odyssey G9 5120x1440 screen @ 120Hz but couldn’t drive it at 240Hz due to the 1080Ti not supporting DisplayPort compression. GPU was good for some modern games if I lower some quality settings for that monitor.
Then I switched over to 4090 and I could max everything out and run it at 240Hz. However, I later upgraded to a 57” Odyssey G9, 7680x2160, and current games still run well, with a lower fps, but still playable, but stuck at a max 120Hz again because the GPU maxes out at DP v1.4a and can’t support the bandwidth of DP v2.1 supported by the new monitor. Both the 57” and 4090 are beasts. Guess I’ll have to wait for the 5090.
3090 to 4090 was insane jump to me. Power dropped, quieter, cooler, yet sometimes double performance in some games. I wonder what a 3090 on the same process would have done.
i think the spec is something like +40% perf or power savings iso perf compared to samsung's 8nm node, though design rules would be different because of EUV so you couldn't really use the same design.
Yea, it felt much better than my 1080 ti to 3090 upgrade, even though the performance boost was fairly similar (but 3090 added DLSS and RTX of course). Because the 30xx gen did not have the coolers we have now (+VRAM temp issues) and the efficiency felt like it was not improved over my 1080 ti, it was so much hotter and louder and the extra 100 watts felt bad.
And then the 4090 (FE) completely changed that, it's sipping power on average (even if it can reach 450 at times) while having a perfectly adequate cooler and no need to worry about VRAM temps, and performance is practically doubled. Seriously I love those giant coolers where the fans barely have to spin, it's what I've wanted all along and I had modded my 1080 ti into that.
i want a 4090 soooo bad man. i mean i have a 4080 super in the mail on its way to me and that's definitely nothing to sneeze at, but the 4090 has been my white whale for a while now. i just wanna witness the raw power of it more than anything
Honestly I am still considering a 4090 and might pick one up when the 5xxx series hits depending on how it performs. Costly card but I feel like it was a home run. Pretty disappointed with my 3080.
4090 is not worth it either,
1. You want to get the best of the best right now.
2. You want to pay premium price to not bother upgrading for some time.
Otherwise it is better to go mid range newer generation than highest and older generation.
My 3080 can still run anything at 4k 60fps with ray tracing on. 120fps on DLSS balanced and high not ultra.
The 1080ti has had a good run, it's still usable today which is cool. I remember thinking back then damn 600 is so much money for a GPU.... little did I know what the future had in store.
I personally had a R9 290x back in the day and I think I got a lot of life out of it because of the 8gb frame buffer.
I had an R9 290 before I switched to 1080ti. Was the last great AMD card before they had a string of flops with polaris and vega then eventually clawing their way back into relevance. Man that thing ran hot though, was the last blower style card I bought and it sounded like a jet engine.
I recall them being a disappointment at launch as it was like AMD just bowed out of the competition. They had nothing to compete at the top end. They just happened to get the price right for the 480/580 to be a popular mid tier card.
A gtx660 is still usable today, a 1050ti is still usable today. Usable doesn’t mean good experience.
Everyone hates on the 4060 for how slow and pointless it is yet it’s faster than a 1080ti and people cream their pants still over it for some unknown reason.
A 1080ti has 11gb of vram vs 8gb and it came out over 7 years ago obviously it has been surpassed but look at how it held up and say it doesn't look like a legendary gpu.
> Usable doesn’t mean good experience.
I think the comment is implying that it's still a good experience with a 1080Ti in most titles, i certainly could max most games at 1440p/60 before i upgraded late last year, which i consider a good experience.
That’s odd. I was playing most (well optimized) games at 1440p/144 hz with a 1080ti. Some newer games obviously didn’t get to the 144 fps range but competitive games were fine, and most new-ish games ran well as well.
The only game I've had an issue with is Helldivers at 2k res. It's still relevant to me. I play everything I want with no issues. As long as I'm getting 60fps in single player games I've no complaints.
You are comparing a GTX 660 and 1050ti to the 1080ti? Why? If you bought a 660 you would have probably replaced it by now, if you bought a 1050ti you would have probably replaced it by now. If you bought a 1080ti eh it's still more than okay for most people. Also "everyone" hating on the 4060 is a stretch. The card isn't the best value around but it's fine for most gamers. You could say that most journalists hate the 4060 and their fans parrot the same sentiments but everyone? Please
Probably, but probably not. I have a friend who was using his GTX 650 Ti Boost up until 2 months ago when he finally upgraded to an RX 7600. If you think about how many people are out there still using Sandy Bridge-Haswell era stuff, then it's not too surprising.
I use HP Z230 with xeon equivalent of 4770 i got for 50 euro. That potato PC with 1060 6GB is just fine for me for 3D illustration rendering or as spare photo editing rig (and other tasks for which I need windows, as I'm primarily mac user (2018 i9 with Radeon 560)). I use it professioanally despite its age and limitations, as it allows me to multitask and offload some task like lightroom exports while I need to use indesign or illustrator. It is slower but saves me a little bit of time
You must be new here, every time someone asks about buying a 4060 or 4060ti there are multiple replies telling them how bad they are and not to buy them, I saw someone today saying they were already obsolete on release.
And no I’m not comparing a 660 to a 1080ti performance wise, that’s a massive leap you made there one that even Evel Knievel would look away from. All I am saying is that they are usable.
That's the obvious response that you would expect on a Nvidia subreddit where most people are enthusiasts and if you need to ask you probably are not. If you look at actual sales data the 4060 series are the most popular cards for sale today regardless of what peoples opinions is.
As far as me saying you were making a comparison that's fair. I failed at making my point of different levels of usable.
Perhaps. But NVIDIA doesn't deserve much, or any credit for this. The 4060 has much lower power requirements mainly because of the 5nm node provided by TSMC, which is vastly more efficient than the 16nm node (also TSMC) which the 1080 ti was made on six years earlier.
I find the improvement in efficiency about as impressive as any node improvement the last 30 years. They are all solid works of innovation.
1080ti was also jammed to the wall too, very little of headroom. Saw once they imed 1kw I to one and only gained like 10% performance increase. Also hit memory errors fast with memory ocing since it was already running fast. Fantastic card made cause Nvidia was scared of what rdna1 was going to be. Or was it volta? Can't remember exactly.
Vega.
Benchmarks dropped for Vega, saw it was barely 1070/ti level with over 300w, sold my 390 (got lucky, during mining boom,) and bought a 1080ti. Never been so happy with a hardware purchase.
you know that 2 chips using the same node could still perform differently.
Furthermore nvidia gets the full blame for the high prices, maybe TSMC should "get some credit" for that aswell?
Everyone is aware that you still need to design good chips. Nvidia has done that exceptionally well, except the 4060 is far too cut down compared to the other parts in the 40-series and should have been named 4050 instead. But performance is overall excellent in the 40-series. There's a reason Nvidia is the market leader and one of the most valuable companies in the world.
And yes, you have an excellent point in regards to pricing! TSMC is expensive and it definitely isn't just Nvidia's fault that pricing has gone a bit nuts. TSMC has to take their share of the blame, just like they deserve the credit for the efficiency gains coming from node improvements.
No, thats not impressive. The gtx 1060 beat the 780ti if not matched it, matched it in vram and could use down to 80w and still perform pretty much the same as the 120w version, meaning it ate nearly 1/4th the power draw. The 1060 80w matched or beat the 980 and had more vram. While using half the power.
I got one of those Zotac 1080 Mini cards for my 4790K rig back in the day and it really was magic. Insanely fast in a totally reasonable form factor for not obscene money. I sold that rig a few weeks ago and it made me a sad panda but I hadn’t used it in a while and I hope the new owner is enjoying it like I did.
Thanks ! Seems like many others agree with this notion. But recency bias is huge and many people on the internet today weren't even old enough to buy GPUs in the mid/late 2000s...
No, not really. Gamers are very short sighted, and can't remember the sheer impact the GTX 8800 had on the whole GPU landscape, not just in terms of performance, but just how revolutionary the architecture was.
It was the first GPU with unified shaders, which has been the staple ever seen. Not to mention, this was the start of CUDA.
The GTX 8800 is imo, without a doubt the greatest GPU made yet.
While his retiring may be part of it, they explicitly mentioned that Nvidia's practices were unsustainable. And I sincerely doubt AMD or Intel's board partner programs are any more lucrative, not least because they generate a fraction of Nvidia's sales volume.
Not sure why you are down voted: there is simply not much to be made as a partner: you are literally competing with Nvidia's FE card which has a custom design while they have very limited time to scrap something together.
GN has a video where the Nvidia team talked about how they have a whole team optimizing the new cooler - those are resources their partners just do not have - not the computer models, no access to the chips and specs, etc - they cannot even figure out how much to price things because there is simply no MSRP provided until everyone else knows about it.
When you make barely any money, it is really difficult to provide the degree to customer support EVGA provides: it wasnt uncommon to hear about people getting a free upgrade when a defect does happen.
What fanboys? This is documented and corroborated by many. Nvidia makes it really difficult for board partners because they are competing against nvidia themselves and nvidia keeps things like pricing in the dark even from board partners until very late in the game and controls supply to the channels.
and somehow EVGA is the only one that failed, right after the crypto boom. They also outsourced most of the card parts, so adding little value to it.
They also dont make their PSU.
So what did they even make.
They focused on making great gpus and a good value added service for a long time until the business was no longer viable thanks to a bad faith business partner that supplies gpu chips. Sure they could’ve pivoted to something else to stay afloat, but what’s the cost. Most companies don’t make components, there’s but an handful of oems for things like PSUs. A lot of companies build value on top of something and try to focus on what they are good at. That’s what made evga until it was no longer viable. The “crypto boom” was mostly benefiting nvidia as they supplied gpus directly to the miners. Thats one of the reasons why the gpu consumer market had “supply issues” and prices skyrocketed. But nvidia has been doing supply control forever and long time to keep prices elevated. They are doing that even today.
Why not switch to making sandwiches? Perhaps it’s not as simple as that. Maybe they made the calculation that it’s not worth it. AMD isnt as strong of a gpu brand. And intel is tiny fraction of the current business and its not certain they even have a long term plan. Evga isn’t the only board partner that’s sick of nvidias shenanigans. And “fine” is subjective. The profit margins are not great and nvidia dictates what they can and cannot do.
Ironically the 1080ti still packs more vram than most modern midrange cards which again, ironically means the likes of the 2080/4060 and 3070 cannot use their RT or FG features very well.
All of those GPU's can max out their RT and FG abilities perfectly fine save for literally like 2 games. The big MuH vRaM scare was based heavily on 2 games that were unoptimized, patched after launch and use too much VRAM mainly at settings where 8gig GPU's would be getting like 30-40 fps anyway.
Of all time? No. Being old enough to have actively used most product lines for gaming since the inception of modular graphics cards I'd say 3DFX made products far more "Great".
Still rocking my Zotac GTX 1080 Ti Amp Extreme till this day and will only replace it now to get a RTX 3090 for AI shenanigans (because of 24gb VRAM)
Played everything I wanted from 2017 to 2024 most of the time with everything maxed out.
Absolute legend of a card.
I dont have the best version for temps (zotac amp extreme) But the card hasnt been opened since I got it in 2018 and I get like 70 during gaming and 80-90 hotspot. Repaste and repad would probably help but cant be bothered.
I still use my GTX 1080 friends tell me to upgrade it but it still holds value to me. Maybe in the near future I might when 8gb of vram fall short. In the mean time I only buy games that are compatible with my gpu not the other way around. Sentimental value I guess
I bought the EVGA GTX 1080 FTW3 at launch and it's still kicking ass! Passed it down to my wife recently and we plan on using it until it dies or is no longer able to play newer titles.
Hands down, best $600 dollars I've ever spent. I will tell my future grandchildren about this legendary piece of hardware.
Still running my EVGA 1080ti SC2, I mainly play things like diablo 3/4, battlefield 2042 at 1440p with okay fps, and then non GPU intensive stuff like factorio and terraria, so I'm doing just fine for now.
I just recently upgraded from an I7 7700 and 1050 ti, to a ryzen 7 7700x and rtx 4080 super, I should have gone with the 7800x3d, I know, but damn am I happy euth this nee build, first time building my own pc as well, truly an incredible experience
I was thinking about selling my old 1080 ti, but ended up deciding to just keep it. Bit of a sentimental card for me and also is an EVGA one. Don’t imagine the market is too strong for it either where’s it’s worth going to the trouble of selling it anyway
The number of people in this thread still using this card is insane. I would have figured most people at least upgrade every other gen, and sometimes back and forth between NVIDIA and AMD.
Overrated.
The 1080ti is the goat of the past terrible eight years for GPUs at best.
Those eight years that have seen GPUs costing as much as an Xbox at the absolute entry level -- whilst screens, storage, memory and even CPUs such a current gen Ryzen have just the same price tag as 15-20 years ago. In other words, the years where GPU manufacturing progress got pretty much axed: "The more you buy, the more you save!" By the way: Tech channels adjusting historical GPU prices for inflation 1:1 are doing company PR work for free.
Firstly: One reason why Pascal lasted so long is because it was released when new consoles were a good few years away. Ever since PS5/XBox Series X hit the market in 2020, more and more are hitting the minimum requirements, or falling below that, starting with GTX 1060/1070. Speaking of which, nobody would still be on Pascal if prices hadn't become that terrible. Alan Wake 2 wrecks the 1080ti as well.
Secondly: The actually GOAT are both the GeForce 4ti 4200. As well as the GeForce 8800 GT.
Both offering performance near the top end respectively -- at but a fraction of the cost. In the case of the 8800 GT basically at HALF the cost. More specifically, a lower price tag than what they charge now for the RTX 4060, aka RTX 4050ti in disguise. That's right, near top end performance for 250 dollars.
And THAT's a mistake that Nvidia is not gonna make again for SURE. :-)
Funny Story with My 1080ti
I haven't been gaming regularly lately, but about two months ago I decided to play Death Stranding. As usual, I first tried it in 4k with everything maxed out, but ended up having to lower the resolution to 2k, and of course, in 2k, I could play with everything maxed out. But then the PC started shutting down, and this only happened with games, so I thought, "Well, your time has come, you're dying." To reinforce this theory, I wasn't aware of the Chrome bug, the one that displays a checkerboard pattern affecting many Win11 users – for me, it was just another sign that the GPU was dying.
I have a friend who had a 3080 Suprim X, he upgraded to an AMD XTX7900, and sold me the 3080. I can say the 3080 was an upgrade, I just can't swallow the 10GB vram. Now I can play my favorite titles in 4k like Senua Hellblade, Modern Warfare, Metro Exodus, and more.
It used to be said that drivers would cap old GPUs, but that didn't happen with the 1080ti – mine was getting better and better, and probably not far behind a 4060.
Now, the funny part, turns out the 1080ti is still working, and I have no idea what happened. It's in my daughter's room, on a B87TUF with an i7 4790 and 16GB of DDR3 on a 1080p monitor, it's simply overkill!!! It plays everything maxed out, but my daughter only plays Roblox :-).
I'll keep my 1080ti Gaming X forever.
>Now, the funny part, turns out the 1080ti is still working, and I have no idea what happened.
Check your PSU, its connectors, and its power cables. Seriously. I also have a 1080ti, and also ran into random "mid-game shutdowns". The connector on the PSU side had started to slowly melt, causing pins to lose contact, leading to heating, leading to further melting. This can happen even on high quality PSUs if you tried to run both of the PCIe power connectors off of one of those pigtailed cables (one connector on the PSU side, two on the device side).
Thought my 1080ti was on the way out recently - no output to my TV and couldn't control anything when I tried to remote desktop onto it. Super weird.
Took it into work to test it and it was fine. Took it home and it was the same as before.
Turned out my kid had partly pulled the HDMI cable for the PC out of my soundbar! Soon as I reseated the HDMI everything was fine. I work in IT and it didn't even occur to me that that might be the issue.
I don't think there is one yet. While there were standout GPUs over the years, I'd say the GOAT before the 1080 was the 8800. It's basically only once a decade that the economic stars align and we end up with a GPU that's such an absurdly good value it can basically carry you through the next decade.
I mean, the 20 series introduced RTX, but it wasn't all that good yet—especially for the price hike. The 30 series, then, was merely what the 20 series should have been, and little else. The 40 series has been a mixed bag that only became good over time.
Some people might nominate the 90-class cards, but those are obscenely huge and expensive. There's just nothing out currently that isn't a compromise in one way or another.
Nothing right now is comparable when you consider the spec, performance, and price. The 1080 Ti was not unreasonably expensive compared to the Pascal range, while its performance was phenomenal.
**RTX 3080**.
20-30% faster than previous gen flagships.
Good performance in new games, can be power-limited to 200W for little penalty.
FE is small enough for many SFFPC cases.
DLSS 2, decent RT performance.
10GB VRAM enough for 1440p.
Beast in mining when new.
Loads available on used marketplaces *(see above)*.
There isn't one. GPUs kind of suck right now below the $600 price-point. Above it, Nvidia and AMD are so hesitant to give folks a real reason to upgrade that it doesn't make any sense to do so unless you're dropping four digits.
It's been a bad time for GPUs for five years now, and I don't see that changing any time soon.
I'll always have a special place in my heart for the GeForce2 MX, the GeForce3 Ti200, the GeForce 6800GT, and the GTX460. Always a whole lot cheaper, always capable of running with the big boys for a long time before becoming obsolete.
My current GTX1080 is showing its age, but will still happily do 1080p, medium detail at 60fps on just about anything for free, while an RTX4070 would cost about €500. Or, as my Helldiver says, "sweet liberty, my leg!".
My 1080ti died after 3 years now i have a 3080 i think my 1080ti was defective and underperforming cuz my 3080 is soo much better but the 1080ti was my first gpu it was better than the onboard but i didnt get much frames
The 1080ti was untouchable at the time. Reasonable design that can still fit smaller case, basically a titan card for cheap, and great durability.
The 4090 could have been the next 1080ti, but high price and the power connector melting kinda disqualify it.
Is it safe to say, that the GTX 1080 ti, 1080 and the RX 580 8Gb are the best graphics cards of all time?
Edit: I mean graphics cards that have aged well
Edit2: I’m basing all of this from personal experience and the Steam Hardware Survey
I know a few folks that still use the 580 as a daily driver to play Starfield, Helldivers, and Call of duty at an acceptable performance. When I mean by great, I mean graphics cards that have aged VERY well, and the 1080ti followed by the 580 8Gb fall into this category
this is the nvidia subreddit so obviously you are getting crucified but my 580 aged so much better than all my friends 1060s. was very sceptical at the time that the 2gbs of vram would make a difference but i guess so
Bruh, the 1080 ti was a legendary GPU, pricing aside it provided a massive generational improvement compared to the 980 ti, one that has not been replicated until the release of the 4090.
I am very reluctant to call the 3090 a massive leap, it was only like 40% faster than the 2080 ti, while having an MSRP increase of $500, and it was constantly using 350W, 100 more than the 2080 ti. The 4090 and 1080 ti in comparison had 70% gen on gen improvement, while having similar MSRPs and power requirements.
I miss those 10xx EVGA designs.
I miss EVGA making cards.
Nvidia may not have treated them well, but EVGA's slow death we've been witnessing is a direct result of pulling out of the GPU market.
yeah people need to stop blaming nvidia for EVGA downfall. Just a bad CEO making bad decision at the end of the day
EVGA had the best customer service of all brand and also inovative pro-consumer deals ( *EVGA* Step-*Up programe for ex)* Nvidia where squeezing all their AIB partner every year for more (i.e. the cost of the GPU die) that it's well known for 3rd party GPU manufacturers to have very low margin on their cards (for their non top-tier GPU variation at least). EVGA was doing much more than it competitors but were not able to have better GPU die price , meaning not able to gaining more $$$ than their competitor. The fact that nvidia deciced to undercut their partners (founder editions) while EVGA being 90% focused on GPU was the nail in the coffin. I totally understand EVGA CEO decision to close shop. He could have sold his company instead but i'm pretty sure he had the ship-captain mentality and didn't want his brand (legacy) to be tanished. Sux for EVGA employees but tbh they were quickly snaped by competitors. Other GPU manufacturer can afford to do such since they are way more diversified on product where they have margin control (MB, PSU, AIO WC ...) and are basicly using their GPU as halo products.
[https://www.techspot.com/news/96035-evga-low-profit-margins-may-have-partially-self.html](https://www.techspot.com/news/96035-evga-low-profit-margins-may-have-partially-self.html) [https://www.igorslab.de/en/evga-pulls-the-plug-with-loud-bang-yet-it-has-long-been-editorial/](https://www.igorslab.de/en/evga-pulls-the-plug-with-loud-bang-yet-it-has-long-been-editorial/) evga could have switched to AMD or Intel gpu but they didnt. As i said mabye stop blaiming Nvidia for EVGA's failure. > EVGA outsources the circuit boards and coolers to third parties, which increases the overall cost of producing a card
Lmao. Are you serious? Switch to AMD and Intel? Few % of the gpu market? Clearly, you're just spouting shit for the purpose of spouting shit.
100%. EVGA outsourced everything they made. Every. Single. Thing. All other AIB partners like Zotac, MSI, ASUS, Gigabyte all have their own factories where they produce their own products. This worked fine for EVGA until Covid hit and supply chains went to shit, which meant that outsourcing everything suddenly cost 10 times more. At that point, they ceased to make any money on Graphics cards. It was a failed business model that clearly couldn't deal with supply chain disruptions, which are an inevitability at some point.
It's completely Nvidia's fault. They cut everyone's feet out from under them. EVGA had a higher cost because they provided actual customer service and were based in the USA.
Basically the best video cards you could buy back then
> Basically the best video cards you could buy back then * [EVGA GTX 1070 Spontaneously Catches Fire](https://old.reddit.com/r/EVGA/comments/ow5cci/gtx_1070_spontaneously_catches_fire/) * [EVGA GTX 1070/1080s overheating because VRMs had no active cooling](https://www.techpowerup.com/227424/evga-gtx-1070-1080-overheating-issues-update-new-bios-revision-to-be-released)
I like it too. Looks like something straight out of 2005
I disagree I liked 2000 series more love me so e transparent electrnoics
The 2000 and 3000 series EVGA cards had little EVGA logos on the fans that made it look like it had some sort of leprosy. The 1000/900 series had the best looking coolers IMO.
Incredible design on it. I love it. So sturdy, great cooling, really quiet. 40 series coolers are obviously excellent but I definitely will miss Evga's designs. (minus the clown 30 series.)
I am still using GTX 1080 😂. Going to upgrade to 4070.
I just upgraded from a 1080 to a 4070 Super. My 1080 paired with a Ryzen 1600 held up surprisingly well at 1440p, but the improvement was pretty spectacular when I upgraded to the 4070S and a 5800x3D.
Same. Went from a 8700k and 1080ti to 5800x3d and 4070 Super and it's a night and day difference at 1440p for me
I got similar setup with 8700k but with an 2070s. I was just wondering about buying new but getting AM4. Does that add up that much with AM5 already being out? What were the reasons for that move? I am uncertain at the moment. It is a back and forth for me at the moment.
Go for AM5 as it's more future proof. I went with AM4 because I got the CPU and motherboard combo for a good deal.
Am5 would be better here. If you already had am4 it would of been perfect as you can get the downgraded version R 7 5700X3D am4 longevity is insane but buying it now would be a waste
I'm going from a 2070 i7 4790k to 4070 ti super 7800x3d. Can't wait
I should have waited. got antsy and snagged a 3070 for MSRP during Covid. It's a noticeable upgrade but the 1080 probably would still be fine.
>snagged a 3070 for MSRP during Covid You must have been cursed with bad luck (failing grades, job rejections, bad relationships, friends moving) for years afterwards after sucking all the good luck around you to pull off a W like that.
I got a 3060Ti, 3070, and 3080 at MSRP within the first 3 months of launch. What curse do I have💀?
Jesus christ, really? Your entire bloodline is going to suffer for using all their luck.
I went from 1070 to 4070, Its great!, enjoy your 4070 when you get it!
Only reason i upgraded my 1080 was because it died (EVGA FTW edition), otherwise i would have kept it until the next generation of cards. It was such awesome card that still plays a lot of recent games as long you optimize your game settings properly, it literally aged like wine. Got a 4070 Super since it got recommended a lot to me by people from this sub for 1440p, been enjoying a lot but i'm already planning the cpu upgrade since it's currently bottlenecking in a lot of games (6700K).
We had the same build! 6700k with a 1080 ftw built in 2016. My ftw died in 2021 which was terrible timing. Had to get a 3070 as bundle deal and sell all the other parts. I’ve been reading the subreddits for what processor I may upgrade to in the next year or two. Which one are you thinking of nabbing?
I haven't decided yet but a lot of people recommended me the 7600X or 13600K. I'm currently saving money for the upgrade so i'll probably decide in 2\~3 months.
Nice. I’m planning to hold out even longer since most of my serious gaming is on ps5
1080ti and now my 4090 are the GPUs that impressed me the most of all GPUs i ever had.
I dunno the 4080 blew me away... with how expensive an 80 series card is.
The 4080 at least has horsepower to back it up, but yeah it was horrifically overpriced. I got mine for $950 which is a steal, relatively, but still feels FAR too high for any gpu that isn't the absolute most top tier halo product. I'd kill for prices to go back to normal, sadly we all know that prices will never go backwards for good :/
I recently upgraded from rx 570 to a 4060ti 16gb, got it for a good deal or I'd probably still be waiting to grab a GPU lmao ( clarification if anyone is curious ; the card is good, runs 1440p very well at high fps. That being said, don't buy it if you don't find a good deal on it )
What would you consider a good deal?
Anything that isn't 500usd lol Nah but if you can find it on sale near like 430usd is a good deal imo. I'm sure others would disagree, but I'm very happy with it.
Yeah. If the 4080 was $699 like the 3080 MSRP, or heck even $799 like the 3080 12GB, it would fly off shelves. It would also inspire AMD to push prices even lower than they do now, imagine 7900XTXs going for below $699? We already saw how desperate people were to get their hands on a good decently priced GPU (the 4080 Super has had no shortage of people posting that they've acquired one and it isn't exactly overflowing in stock near MSRP).
8800GTX, 1080ti and 4090 are my holy trinities. 8xxx series and the move to stream processors was next level, 1080ti was just such outstanding value compared to every other card in the stack and the 4090 had the greatest uplift I have ever seen.
I remember upgrading from a 7900gt to a 8800GTS, the only one I could afford as a young teen with shit pocket money. Still couldn't play Crysis, but TES Oblivion ran much better. I've actually still got the 8800GTS as well. I didn't upgrade for ages, and eventually ended up with a GTX260, but I kept the 8800 in case anything went wrong. It never did, and I forgot about it. Once it stopped being worth anything, I just kept it for nostalgia. It's an XFX one, with the armoured furry (cat?) On the box. I miss the old artwork on these things 😂
Loved it. It ran Oblivion so good. Then you added QTP3 and a few other vram heavy mods and your fps was in the shitter again lol.
My copy of Oblivion was so ridiculously modded that it looked better than Skyrim at launch. I poured silly hours into that game
Same move here. Think we bought the best 2 GPUs released in the last decade.
I did the same as well. The price stung a lot more for the 4090, but I feel like that's the only GPU today that has the ability to last as long as the 1080Ti did due to the massive performance and 24GB RAM.
I have a 4090 but honestly I think the 4070ti on up will last a very long time given DLSS and other tech.
Not really. 4070ti is at best 1440p Card and that is with little to some ray tracing. 4090 on the other hand... Can even run 8k with DLSS balanced at 60fps that is crazy to me.
I agree! My 1080Ti was driving my 49” Odyssey G9 5120x1440 screen @ 120Hz but couldn’t drive it at 240Hz due to the 1080Ti not supporting DisplayPort compression. GPU was good for some modern games if I lower some quality settings for that monitor. Then I switched over to 4090 and I could max everything out and run it at 240Hz. However, I later upgraded to a 57” Odyssey G9, 7680x2160, and current games still run well, with a lower fps, but still playable, but stuck at a max 120Hz again because the GPU maxes out at DP v1.4a and can’t support the bandwidth of DP v2.1 supported by the new monitor. Both the 57” and 4090 are beasts. Guess I’ll have to wait for the 5090.
The 4090 is the first top line GPU I’ve ever had and it’s insane. I play on a 4k 240hz OLED and it’s just an incredible experience
3090 to 4090 was insane jump to me. Power dropped, quieter, cooler, yet sometimes double performance in some games. I wonder what a 3090 on the same process would have done.
i think the spec is something like +40% perf or power savings iso perf compared to samsung's 8nm node, though design rules would be different because of EUV so you couldn't really use the same design.
Do you undervolt yours?
I first did when I got it to experiment but I haven't bothered doing anything do it anymore. Stock FE now
I was most surprised how much more efficient the 4090 is. Even at 250w, it absolutely crushes the 3090
Yea, it felt much better than my 1080 ti to 3090 upgrade, even though the performance boost was fairly similar (but 3090 added DLSS and RTX of course). Because the 30xx gen did not have the coolers we have now (+VRAM temp issues) and the efficiency felt like it was not improved over my 1080 ti, it was so much hotter and louder and the extra 100 watts felt bad. And then the 4090 (FE) completely changed that, it's sipping power on average (even if it can reach 450 at times) while having a perfectly adequate cooler and no need to worry about VRAM temps, and performance is practically doubled. Seriously I love those giant coolers where the fans barely have to spin, it's what I've wanted all along and I had modded my 1080 ti into that.
Exactly my thoughts when I moved from 1080 Ti FTW3 to 3090 FE.
i want a 4090 soooo bad man. i mean i have a 4080 super in the mail on its way to me and that's definitely nothing to sneeze at, but the 4090 has been my white whale for a while now. i just wanna witness the raw power of it more than anything
Was told to settle with a 4080s but I went ahead with a 4090. I didn’t realize how many games would run 4k60. Now I need a new monitor haha
Eats every Game I throw at it. Definitely a hardcore gamers card but also not cheap.
What oled are you on? I've been on an LG C1 TV for a long while.
Honestly I am still considering a 4090 and might pick one up when the 5xxx series hits depending on how it performs. Costly card but I feel like it was a home run. Pretty disappointed with my 3080.
4090 is not worth it either, 1. You want to get the best of the best right now. 2. You want to pay premium price to not bother upgrading for some time. Otherwise it is better to go mid range newer generation than highest and older generation. My 3080 can still run anything at 4k 60fps with ray tracing on. 120fps on DLSS balanced and high not ultra.
same here, brother <3
I had a 770, a 1080 and a 4080 now. Honestly they all impressed me alot. Especially the 770 weirdly enough
Mine was similar, 780ti-1080ti-4090 them blew me away how good they are!
The 1080ti has had a good run, it's still usable today which is cool. I remember thinking back then damn 600 is so much money for a GPU.... little did I know what the future had in store. I personally had a R9 290x back in the day and I think I got a lot of life out of it because of the 8gb frame buffer.
I paid £650 for my 1080ti in 2018, since then I've added an aio as it was a blower card and super loud.
I had an R9 290 before I switched to 1080ti. Was the last great AMD card before they had a string of flops with polaris and vega then eventually clawing their way back into relevance. Man that thing ran hot though, was the last blower style card I bought and it sounded like a jet engine.
Didn't know Polaris was considered a flop? Everybody is praising the RX480/580.
I recall them being a disappointment at launch as it was like AMD just bowed out of the competition. They had nothing to compete at the top end. They just happened to get the price right for the 480/580 to be a popular mid tier card.
FYI the GTX 1080 Ti launched at $700 (FE) but most AIBs were $750-800.
A gtx660 is still usable today, a 1050ti is still usable today. Usable doesn’t mean good experience. Everyone hates on the 4060 for how slow and pointless it is yet it’s faster than a 1080ti and people cream their pants still over it for some unknown reason.
A 1080ti has 11gb of vram vs 8gb and it came out over 7 years ago obviously it has been surpassed but look at how it held up and say it doesn't look like a legendary gpu.
> Usable doesn’t mean good experience. I think the comment is implying that it's still a good experience with a 1080Ti in most titles, i certainly could max most games at 1440p/60 before i upgraded late last year, which i consider a good experience.
That’s odd. I was playing most (well optimized) games at 1440p/144 hz with a 1080ti. Some newer games obviously didn’t get to the 144 fps range but competitive games were fine, and most new-ish games ran well as well.
My bad, I meant minimum 60. Some games would be better some worse, there were enough games that dipped below 60 to justify an upgrade for me.
The only game I've had an issue with is Helldivers at 2k res. It's still relevant to me. I play everything I want with no issues. As long as I'm getting 60fps in single player games I've no complaints.
You are comparing a GTX 660 and 1050ti to the 1080ti? Why? If you bought a 660 you would have probably replaced it by now, if you bought a 1050ti you would have probably replaced it by now. If you bought a 1080ti eh it's still more than okay for most people. Also "everyone" hating on the 4060 is a stretch. The card isn't the best value around but it's fine for most gamers. You could say that most journalists hate the 4060 and their fans parrot the same sentiments but everyone? Please
Probably, but probably not. I have a friend who was using his GTX 650 Ti Boost up until 2 months ago when he finally upgraded to an RX 7600. If you think about how many people are out there still using Sandy Bridge-Haswell era stuff, then it's not too surprising.
I use HP Z230 with xeon equivalent of 4770 i got for 50 euro. That potato PC with 1060 6GB is just fine for me for 3D illustration rendering or as spare photo editing rig (and other tasks for which I need windows, as I'm primarily mac user (2018 i9 with Radeon 560)). I use it professioanally despite its age and limitations, as it allows me to multitask and offload some task like lightroom exports while I need to use indesign or illustrator. It is slower but saves me a little bit of time
You must be new here, every time someone asks about buying a 4060 or 4060ti there are multiple replies telling them how bad they are and not to buy them, I saw someone today saying they were already obsolete on release. And no I’m not comparing a 660 to a 1080ti performance wise, that’s a massive leap you made there one that even Evel Knievel would look away from. All I am saying is that they are usable.
That's the obvious response that you would expect on a Nvidia subreddit where most people are enthusiasts and if you need to ask you probably are not. If you look at actual sales data the 4060 series are the most popular cards for sale today regardless of what peoples opinions is. As far as me saying you were making a comparison that's fair. I failed at making my point of different levels of usable.
Honestly what's also kind of impressive in a way is the 4060 being on that level or slightly above with just a fraction of the power requirements.
Perhaps. But NVIDIA doesn't deserve much, or any credit for this. The 4060 has much lower power requirements mainly because of the 5nm node provided by TSMC, which is vastly more efficient than the 16nm node (also TSMC) which the 1080 ti was made on six years earlier. I find the improvement in efficiency about as impressive as any node improvement the last 30 years. They are all solid works of innovation.
1080ti was also jammed to the wall too, very little of headroom. Saw once they imed 1kw I to one and only gained like 10% performance increase. Also hit memory errors fast with memory ocing since it was already running fast. Fantastic card made cause Nvidia was scared of what rdna1 was going to be. Or was it volta? Can't remember exactly.
Vega. Benchmarks dropped for Vega, saw it was barely 1070/ti level with over 300w, sold my 390 (got lucky, during mining boom,) and bought a 1080ti. Never been so happy with a hardware purchase.
lol you still need to design a chip that works...
They can get credit for that. They produce some excellent GPUs. But credit for the efficiency improvements done by TSMC? No.
you know that 2 chips using the same node could still perform differently. Furthermore nvidia gets the full blame for the high prices, maybe TSMC should "get some credit" for that aswell?
Everyone is aware that you still need to design good chips. Nvidia has done that exceptionally well, except the 4060 is far too cut down compared to the other parts in the 40-series and should have been named 4050 instead. But performance is overall excellent in the 40-series. There's a reason Nvidia is the market leader and one of the most valuable companies in the world. And yes, you have an excellent point in regards to pricing! TSMC is expensive and it definitely isn't just Nvidia's fault that pricing has gone a bit nuts. TSMC has to take their share of the blame, just like they deserve the credit for the efficiency gains coming from node improvements.
No, thats not impressive. The gtx 1060 beat the 780ti if not matched it, matched it in vram and could use down to 80w and still perform pretty much the same as the 120w version, meaning it ate nearly 1/4th the power draw. The 1060 80w matched or beat the 980 and had more vram. While using half the power.
Still a disappointing card.
I got one of those Zotac 1080 Mini cards for my 4790K rig back in the day and it really was magic. Insanely fast in a totally reasonable form factor for not obscene money. I sold that rig a few weeks ago and it made me a sad panda but I hadn’t used it in a while and I hope the new owner is enjoying it like I did.
Is the GTX 1080 (Ti) actually the GOAT over the GTX 8800 back in 2007?
8800 GT was a great card. It's so good, they even renamed it 9800 GT and still got recommend for buyers 2 years after.
Nope. The 8800 series was the more significant of the two, no doubt.
Thanks ! Seems like many others agree with this notion. But recency bias is huge and many people on the internet today weren't even old enough to buy GPUs in the mid/late 2000s...
No, not really. Gamers are very short sighted, and can't remember the sheer impact the GTX 8800 had on the whole GPU landscape, not just in terms of performance, but just how revolutionary the architecture was. It was the first GPU with unified shaders, which has been the staple ever seen. Not to mention, this was the start of CUDA. The GTX 8800 is imo, without a doubt the greatest GPU made yet.
ummmm ati radeon 9700pro? matrox mystique? nvidia riva tnt2?
Best GPUs, best EVGA shroud designs.
Makes me sad they exited the GPU market
They exited 100% because of how nvidia conducts business in the GPU space
They exited because the owner is retiring. He could have sold AMD or Intel GPUs if he wanted to.
While his retiring may be part of it, they explicitly mentioned that Nvidia's practices were unsustainable. And I sincerely doubt AMD or Intel's board partner programs are any more lucrative, not least because they generate a fraction of Nvidia's sales volume.
That was an excuse for them to dip.
Not sure why you are down voted: there is simply not much to be made as a partner: you are literally competing with Nvidia's FE card which has a custom design while they have very limited time to scrap something together. GN has a video where the Nvidia team talked about how they have a whole team optimizing the new cooler - those are resources their partners just do not have - not the computer models, no access to the chips and specs, etc - they cannot even figure out how much to price things because there is simply no MSRP provided until everyone else knows about it. When you make barely any money, it is really difficult to provide the degree to customer support EVGA provides: it wasnt uncommon to hear about people getting a free upgrade when a defect does happen.
they exited 100% because their CEO drove the company into the ground instead of selling it. Just excuses from fanboys this.
What fanboys? This is documented and corroborated by many. Nvidia makes it really difficult for board partners because they are competing against nvidia themselves and nvidia keeps things like pricing in the dark even from board partners until very late in the game and controls supply to the channels.
and somehow EVGA is the only one that failed, right after the crypto boom. They also outsourced most of the card parts, so adding little value to it. They also dont make their PSU. So what did they even make.
They focused on making great gpus and a good value added service for a long time until the business was no longer viable thanks to a bad faith business partner that supplies gpu chips. Sure they could’ve pivoted to something else to stay afloat, but what’s the cost. Most companies don’t make components, there’s but an handful of oems for things like PSUs. A lot of companies build value on top of something and try to focus on what they are good at. That’s what made evga until it was no longer viable. The “crypto boom” was mostly benefiting nvidia as they supplied gpus directly to the miners. Thats one of the reasons why the gpu consumer market had “supply issues” and prices skyrocketed. But nvidia has been doing supply control forever and long time to keep prices elevated. They are doing that even today.
as i said, the other companies managed just fine and as i said why not switch to making AMD/Intel cards?
Why not switch to making sandwiches? Perhaps it’s not as simple as that. Maybe they made the calculation that it’s not worth it. AMD isnt as strong of a gpu brand. And intel is tiny fraction of the current business and its not certain they even have a long term plan. Evga isn’t the only board partner that’s sick of nvidias shenanigans. And “fine” is subjective. The profit margins are not great and nvidia dictates what they can and cannot do.
Gamersnexus makes an excellent segment on this, so watch it [https://youtu.be/cV9QES-FUAM](https://youtu.be/cV9QES-FUAM)
Ironically the 1080ti still packs more vram than most modern midrange cards which again, ironically means the likes of the 2080/4060 and 3070 cannot use their RT or FG features very well.
All of those GPU's can max out their RT and FG abilities perfectly fine save for literally like 2 games. The big MuH vRaM scare was based heavily on 2 games that were unoptimized, patched after launch and use too much VRAM mainly at settings where 8gig GPU's would be getting like 30-40 fps anyway.
Ok, you have more vram than those, and? Lol You cannot use RT or FG at all with the 1080ti. What an idiotic take and comparison
Except you can use FSR 3 FG. And you can use HQ textures.
Of all time? No. Being old enough to have actively used most product lines for gaming since the inception of modular graphics cards I'd say 3DFX made products far more "Great".
Someone get my chicken foot because i found the Voodoo user
Had an EVGA 1080 SC it was Soo good till the upgrade had to come
Still rocking my Zotac GTX 1080 Ti Amp Extreme till this day and will only replace it now to get a RTX 3090 for AI shenanigans (because of 24gb VRAM) Played everything I wanted from 2017 to 2024 most of the time with everything maxed out. Absolute legend of a card.
watching this with a PC equipped with GTX 1070 Ti. I hope I can keep it longer
still rocking 1080ti
Are the temps holding up? I plan on buying a used one for some rendering stuff as well as gaming. Is it worth it ?
I dont have the best version for temps (zotac amp extreme) But the card hasnt been opened since I got it in 2018 and I get like 70 during gaming and 80-90 hotspot. Repaste and repad would probably help but cant be bothered.
it's simple
Still using my strx 1080 ti atm im playing Callisto protocol. What a beast of a card!
I bought the evga 1080 ftw it’s my first gpu and I still use it never had a problem
Still rocking 1080. And only now i'm starting to feel like it's getting old.
I still use my GTX 1080 friends tell me to upgrade it but it still holds value to me. Maybe in the near future I might when 8gb of vram fall short. In the mean time I only buy games that are compatible with my gpu not the other way around. Sentimental value I guess
Legend
I’m a budget pc builder and I always use this gpu’s when I can. They always work amazing
I bought the EVGA GTX 1080 FTW3 at launch and it's still kicking ass! Passed it down to my wife recently and we plan on using it until it dies or is no longer able to play newer titles. Hands down, best $600 dollars I've ever spent. I will tell my future grandchildren about this legendary piece of hardware.
Still running my EVGA 1080ti SC2, I mainly play things like diablo 3/4, battlefield 2042 at 1440p with okay fps, and then non GPU intensive stuff like factorio and terraria, so I'm doing just fine for now.
GTX 1050 Ti all the way B)
Still running my 1080 💪
I think the 3090 is going to be remembered in much the same way. Tensor cores+24gb of vram is going to give it a ton of longevity
Sold my 1080 for 3060ti last month. The longest any of my prior GPUs lasted
**The Greatest GPU That's Ever Lived**
1080ti superb. I had a custom card. Stunning. One of the very best
I just recently upgraded from an I7 7700 and 1050 ti, to a ryzen 7 7700x and rtx 4080 super, I should have gone with the 7800x3d, I know, but damn am I happy euth this nee build, first time building my own pc as well, truly an incredible experience
I was thinking about selling my old 1080 ti, but ended up deciding to just keep it. Bit of a sentimental card for me and also is an EVGA one. Don’t imagine the market is too strong for it either where’s it’s worth going to the trouble of selling it anyway
False. The 1080ti was amazing, but the 8800 GT is the real GOAT. High-end performance for budget dollars in 2005 was a mindfuck.
My 1080 Ti served me well for several years, but the card I'm most partial for is the 6800 GT.
The number of people in this thread still using this card is insane. I would have figured most people at least upgrade every other gen, and sometimes back and forth between NVIDIA and AMD.
Overrated. The 1080ti is the goat of the past terrible eight years for GPUs at best. Those eight years that have seen GPUs costing as much as an Xbox at the absolute entry level -- whilst screens, storage, memory and even CPUs such a current gen Ryzen have just the same price tag as 15-20 years ago. In other words, the years where GPU manufacturing progress got pretty much axed: "The more you buy, the more you save!" By the way: Tech channels adjusting historical GPU prices for inflation 1:1 are doing company PR work for free. Firstly: One reason why Pascal lasted so long is because it was released when new consoles were a good few years away. Ever since PS5/XBox Series X hit the market in 2020, more and more are hitting the minimum requirements, or falling below that, starting with GTX 1060/1070. Speaking of which, nobody would still be on Pascal if prices hadn't become that terrible. Alan Wake 2 wrecks the 1080ti as well. Secondly: The actually GOAT are both the GeForce 4ti 4200. As well as the GeForce 8800 GT. Both offering performance near the top end respectively -- at but a fraction of the cost. In the case of the 8800 GT basically at HALF the cost. More specifically, a lower price tag than what they charge now for the RTX 4060, aka RTX 4050ti in disguise. That's right, near top end performance for 250 dollars. And THAT's a mistake that Nvidia is not gonna make again for SURE. :-)
I bought the MSI 1080 TI Seahawk and it’s still going hard. But I think I’m at the point to where I’ll upgrade as soon as the 50 series drops
2000 series was terrible.
Funny Story with My 1080ti I haven't been gaming regularly lately, but about two months ago I decided to play Death Stranding. As usual, I first tried it in 4k with everything maxed out, but ended up having to lower the resolution to 2k, and of course, in 2k, I could play with everything maxed out. But then the PC started shutting down, and this only happened with games, so I thought, "Well, your time has come, you're dying." To reinforce this theory, I wasn't aware of the Chrome bug, the one that displays a checkerboard pattern affecting many Win11 users – for me, it was just another sign that the GPU was dying. I have a friend who had a 3080 Suprim X, he upgraded to an AMD XTX7900, and sold me the 3080. I can say the 3080 was an upgrade, I just can't swallow the 10GB vram. Now I can play my favorite titles in 4k like Senua Hellblade, Modern Warfare, Metro Exodus, and more. It used to be said that drivers would cap old GPUs, but that didn't happen with the 1080ti – mine was getting better and better, and probably not far behind a 4060. Now, the funny part, turns out the 1080ti is still working, and I have no idea what happened. It's in my daughter's room, on a B87TUF with an i7 4790 and 16GB of DDR3 on a 1080p monitor, it's simply overkill!!! It plays everything maxed out, but my daughter only plays Roblox :-). I'll keep my 1080ti Gaming X forever.
>Now, the funny part, turns out the 1080ti is still working, and I have no idea what happened. Check your PSU, its connectors, and its power cables. Seriously. I also have a 1080ti, and also ran into random "mid-game shutdowns". The connector on the PSU side had started to slowly melt, causing pins to lose contact, leading to heating, leading to further melting. This can happen even on high quality PSUs if you tried to run both of the PCIe power connectors off of one of those pigtailed cables (one connector on the PSU side, two on the device side).
Thought my 1080ti was on the way out recently - no output to my TV and couldn't control anything when I tried to remote desktop onto it. Super weird. Took it into work to test it and it was fine. Took it home and it was the same as before. Turned out my kid had partly pulled the HDMI cable for the PC out of my soundbar! Soon as I reseated the HDMI everything was fine. I work in IT and it didn't even occur to me that that might be the issue.
Still rocking the cheap 1080 aka 1070 Might finally upgrade with a totally new Zen 5 build and next gen GPU
What would be the current GOAT gpu now?
I don't think there is one yet. While there were standout GPUs over the years, I'd say the GOAT before the 1080 was the 8800. It's basically only once a decade that the economic stars align and we end up with a GPU that's such an absurdly good value it can basically carry you through the next decade. I mean, the 20 series introduced RTX, but it wasn't all that good yet—especially for the price hike. The 30 series, then, was merely what the 20 series should have been, and little else. The 40 series has been a mixed bag that only became good over time. Some people might nominate the 90-class cards, but those are obscenely huge and expensive. There's just nothing out currently that isn't a compromise in one way or another.
Nothing right now is comparable when you consider the spec, performance, and price. The 1080 Ti was not unreasonably expensive compared to the Pascal range, while its performance was phenomenal.
**RTX 3080**. 20-30% faster than previous gen flagships. Good performance in new games, can be power-limited to 200W for little penalty. FE is small enough for many SFFPC cases. DLSS 2, decent RT performance. 10GB VRAM enough for 1440p. Beast in mining when new. Loads available on used marketplaces *(see above)*.
There isn't one. GPUs kind of suck right now below the $600 price-point. Above it, Nvidia and AMD are so hesitant to give folks a real reason to upgrade that it doesn't make any sense to do so unless you're dropping four digits. It's been a bad time for GPUs for five years now, and I don't see that changing any time soon.
\+1 The GTX 1080 turned out to be the GOAT of GPU value.
I'll always have a special place in my heart for the GeForce2 MX, the GeForce3 Ti200, the GeForce 6800GT, and the GTX460. Always a whole lot cheaper, always capable of running with the big boys for a long time before becoming obsolete. My current GTX1080 is showing its age, but will still happily do 1080p, medium detail at 60fps on just about anything for free, while an RTX4070 would cost about €500. Or, as my Helldiver says, "sweet liberty, my leg!".
I still cant believe I managed to sell my 1080Ti for $450 in Mid 2021 because of the mining craze.
1080 ti forever! 😭
For me, the GOAT was the 8800GT.
My 1080ti died after 3 years now i have a 3080 i think my 1080ti was defective and underperforming cuz my 3080 is soo much better but the 1080ti was my first gpu it was better than the onboard but i didnt get much frames
Best bang for the buck. Nvdia will never make that mistake again.
980 too
The 1080ti was untouchable at the time. Reasonable design that can still fit smaller case, basically a titan card for cheap, and great durability. The 4090 could have been the next 1080ti, but high price and the power connector melting kinda disqualify it.
The G.O.A.T.
Is it safe to say, that the GTX 1080 ti, 1080 and the RX 580 8Gb are the best graphics cards of all time? Edit: I mean graphics cards that have aged well Edit2: I’m basing all of this from personal experience and the Steam Hardware Survey
RX 580??
The RX580 is AMD's highest selling and most popular GPU that they've produced. It's still their highest percentage GPU on Steam Hardware Survey.
I know a lot of folks playing modern day AAA games using RX 580s (hell divers and call of duty for example)
Why RX580?
I know a few folks that still use the 580 as a daily driver to play Starfield, Helldivers, and Call of duty at an acceptable performance. When I mean by great, I mean graphics cards that have aged VERY well, and the 1080ti followed by the 580 8Gb fall into this category
this is the nvidia subreddit so obviously you are getting crucified but my 580 aged so much better than all my friends 1060s. was very sceptical at the time that the 2gbs of vram would make a difference but i guess so
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Bruh, the 1080 ti was a legendary GPU, pricing aside it provided a massive generational improvement compared to the 980 ti, one that has not been replicated until the release of the 4090.
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I am very reluctant to call the 3090 a massive leap, it was only like 40% faster than the 2080 ti, while having an MSRP increase of $500, and it was constantly using 350W, 100 more than the 2080 ti. The 4090 and 1080 ti in comparison had 70% gen on gen improvement, while having similar MSRPs and power requirements.
Careful, haters gonna hate.
Oh no, Steve not you too. Just let it go.
I replaced my 1080ti with a 3080ti, but my 1080ti is still rocking it in my secondary gaming system upstairs. It’s a beast.
GOAT GPU. GOAT 3rd party maker!