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[Krappadizzle]

One of the best cards I've ever owned. Still getting used in my wife's PC to this day. It ranks ahead of the 8800 and the 2xx series in my books even though I thought those were amazing cards for their times. I miss the days where Nvidia offered actual value to the consumers.....

 

[Alexios]

It was okay, my 7970 was used much longer what with all the revisions to 280X or whatever else keeping it supported like a new product.

 

[Zheph]

Mine was solid af to be honest

 

[rodrigolfp]

No lies detected.

 

[Holammer]

Still rocking the 1080. Gives me 1440/60 in most games, recently Helldivers 2, Ratchet and Clank, Returnal and a few others. With some toned down settings of course.
I'll grab a 5080/90 when they release.

 

[OverHeat]

Raster beast!!!!!

 

[demented waffle]

Ain't lying. That card will do a 2017- to probably a 2030 clip.

 

[Kuranghi]

I still use mine today, waiting on a reasonably priced upgrade that's never coming. Will just buy a 5080 and be done with it.

 

[Buggy Loop]

I felt the price was high back then but compared to nowadays, it was a fucking deal

 

[demented waffle]

I felt the price was high back then but compared to nowadays, it was a fucking deal

Considering the raster is around a 3060 and with 11 gb of memory? Ya, one hell of a deal. I upgraded last year, but peeps who don't should be good as long as they don't care about raytracing and dlss.

 

[King Dazzar]

Last flagship GPU I bought for keeps. And last GPU I bought at a fair price. Was a cracking 1080p card.

 

[cyberheater]

Still very useable today

 

[Gaiff]

I felt the price was high back then but compared to nowadays, it was a fucking deal

Yeah, the 780 Ti starting at around $650 angered a lot of people because the 680 was only $500. At the time, the pricing wasn’t that popular lol. It’s just that looking back, $700 for a top of the line GPU seems like a steal now.

 

[Gaiff]

Considering the raster is around a 3060 and with 11 gb of memory? Ya, one hell of a deal. I upgraded last year, but peeps who don't should be good as long as they don't care about raytracing and dlss.

It’s sad how the performance gradually decreases. It used to go toe-to-toe with a 2080.

 

[Diddy X]

But could it run Crysis? (at 1080/60)

 

[BennyBlanco]

I slapped this in my wife’s work from home PC and it’s still good. Nvidia 900 series and 1000 series were value kings.

 

[Gaiff]

But could it run Crysis? (at 1080/60)

Yes. Easily.

 

[Fredrik]

I have a Lightning Z packed away in a box. Is it worth it to swap out a 3070ti for a 1080ti in a Cubase and Unity PC? Then I can sell the 3070ti. Should be worth more money.
More VRAM is good.

 

[diffusionx]

The 1080ti from Nvidias POV was literally too good of a GPU, to the point where it basically solved graphics for games at the time. It just blew through everything no problem. The price was also reasonable for the massive boost you got from it.

hence why they moved to gimmicks with the 2xxx series. I doubt they’ll ever make that mistake again, of providing too much performance at a reasonable price to make gamers happy.

 

[Celcius]

I upgraded from a 1070 Ti to an 1080 Ti and could finally play my games in native 4K at the time. The card was a beast.

Spoiler

 

[StereoVsn]

The 1080ti from Nvidias POV was literally too good of a GPU, to the point where it basically solved graphics for games at the time. It just blew through everything no problem. The price was also reasonable for the massive boost you got from it.

hence why they moved to gimmicks with the 2xxx series. I doubt they’ll ever make that mistake again, of providing too much performance at a reasonable price to make gamers happy.

Yep, I moved from 980 to 1080Ti and it was such a great jump in just one generation, it was crazy. Heck, 11GB of VRAM was more than 3080 at release.

 

[Shuko]

Loved it, lasted me many years.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Got lots of years out of mine. Alan Wake 2 was it's breaking point. RIP 11/2023.
Replaced with a rtx4070.

edit-and by RIP I mean it's resting in it's old HTPC case not being used, It still works.

 

[LectureMaster]

What I miss most is the value. Feels like a far distant past when you could buy the flagship card for 500 ~ 600 bucks.

 

[LavitzSlambert]

1070 still going strong, probably best value but the 1080ti was probably the best flagship.

 

[acm2000]

voodoo 2 is 1st
1080ti is maybe 2nd

 

[bender]

Voodoo 2 is easily the best GPU ever.

 

[FinalBossWithTheMostPower]

1070 still going strong, probably best value but the 1080ti was probably the best flagship.

This is me.

Ran BG3 like a beast, though the 130 hours probably killed it.

Haven't fired up the PC since. Great series of cards.

 

[Buggy Loop]

voodoo 2 is 1st
1080ti is maybe 2nd

Death of glide basically removed any value the card could have gotten. Nowhere near the longevity of the 1080 Ti

 

[Bigfroth]

I got a Geforce 4 Ti4600 when Half-life 2 was released, it came in my brand new Gateway computer lol. I believe it had a Pentium 4 in it, good times.

 

[hinch7]

The 1080Ti can still comfortably play a lot of todays games, which shows how great of a GPU it is and was. Pascal was just a brilliant architecture.

Still have my 1070 packed away in its box, as a backup or spare.

 

[S0ULZB0URNE]

In my wifes PC.
Aorus Extreme Edition

 

[Dr.brain64]

Agree. Mine still works like new.

 

[SABRE220]

Thats a funny way of spelling the 8800gt. The best GPU launch ever in my opinion, it was nearly a 8800gtx in performance at 200$. It made everything else obsolete since its tech was groundbreaking and far ahead of the competition with unbeatable pricing. Looking back, I get sad seeing the transformation of Nvidia from the consumer's hero turning the the money-grubbing assholes of today.

 

[Boglin]

Looks like I'm upgrading to a 1080 Ti.

 

[ResilientBanana]

Still rocking the 1080. Gives me 1440/60 in most games, recently Helldivers 2, Ratchet and Clank, Returnal and a few others. With some toned down settings of course.
I'll grab a 5080/90 when they release.

I have one also, I’d love to know how you’re getting 1440/60 in Helldivers. Mine doesn’t.

 

[LordOfChaos]

.

 

[Holammer]

I have one also, I’d love to know how you’re getting 1440/60 in Helldivers. Mine doesn’t.

You probably have Render Scale set to Native, drop it down one notch to "ultra quality".
Rending it 1440 native gives me 44-45 fps.

 

[Leonidas]

The fact that it can't really do RT, a year before RT arrived disqualifies it from being the greatest GPU of all time IMO.

Its probably the greatest of the raster era though.

 

[Damigos]

I had a 970 until 3 months ago, i love it.
Now i have a 4070

 

[amigastar]

I had a 970 until 3 months ago, i love it.
Now i have a 4070

I changed from a 970 (which was awesome) to an RTX 2060 (which was mediocre) to a 4070 now (which is awesome again)

 

[ZehDon]

The true successor to the 8800GT. My wife is still using my 1080TI hand-me-down; card is an absolute beast.

 

[YOU PC BRO?!]

Incredible card! I was fortunate enough to get the Asus Strix OC which was one of the better 1080Ti aftermarket cards out there. Given the longevity of that GPU it certainly has to be regarded as one of the greatest graphics cards of all time...

Others on that top tier list for me include the ATI Radeon 9700Pro (I owned one of these) and Nvidia 8800 series cards. Both offered insane performance at the time and absolutely crushed the competition.

 

[omegasc]

Top performance at a nice price point. It was only upgraded for the 3080 that currently rocks my system.

 

[Pedro Motta]

I still have a Rack mount with 8 1080 Ti GPU server, still working constantly haha what a workhorse.

 

[Trogdor1123]

there are a couple greats imo, the 9700 pro, the 6800gt, the 1650, and the 1080ti. All of those were pretty awesome units.

 

[Brigandier]

1080ti was an absolutely incredible card and is still competent now.

 

[Come On Tars]

Still rocking. Was gonna buy a 3 series. Then 4. Might as well wait. I’ll be honest the new gpu prices is such a downer. Shit doesn’t seem worth it anymore. We’ll see how 5xx turns out.

 

[RickSanchez]

When i bought it for MRP in 2017 i thought i was being extravagant in my spending. Little did i know it would serve me like an absolute beast for 6+ years, and deliver back its value many times over.

I was gutted to sell it last year, but i had to, to fund my new 4090. But daymn, did it give me some good times. Comfortably killed at 4K 60 fps in its first couple of years. Nailed God of War at 1440p high settings a couple of years ago. Last year it finally started showing its age.

Now it is making a new gamer very happy. Keep chugging on my old friend, i will never forget you.

 

[Paasei]

Mine sadly died a while ago. Got a RTX 3070 as replacement due to warranty and there not being a new 1080ti.