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

The NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti is the Greatest GPU of All Time thanks to a mix of value, performance, and timing on a market teeming with excellent choices. It was an era when the AMD RX 580 was largely competing in the mid-range with the GTX 1060, Vega hadn't yet launched, and Intel Arc didn't even exist as a thought in anyone's mind. In this 2024 revisit & benchmark of the GTX 1080 Ti & GTX 1080 (non-Ti), we're looking at performance today and how it compares to modern graphics cards. Upgrades on the NVIDIA side might include the RTX 4070 Ti Super or RTX 4070 Super if spending less, or maybe an RTX 4080 Super for more; on the AMD side, that is more likely an RX 7900 XT or RX 7900 XTX, or possibly the "new" GRE (with its global launch). The GTX 1080 Ti and 1080 Pascal architecture GPUs can't reasonably handle real-time ray tracing, so obviously those charts are absent. A modern card is effectively infinitely better. But for rasterization, they still hang in there.

This video gives some of the history and some personal thoughts, opinions, and memories on the Pascal era.

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TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - NVIDIA's Mistake
02:10 - What Made the 1080 Ti So Good
08:29 - Inflation Adjusted GPU Price Comparison
10:55 - GTX 1080 Ti vs. GTX 1080 in 2024 (Benchmarks)
12:23 - GTX 1080 Ti Equivalent Performance Today in Modern GPUs
15:00 - Most Likely Upgrades from GTX 1080 Ti in 2024
16:42 - NVIDIA GTX 1080 Upgrades in 2024
18:19 - Ray Tracing Commentary
19:01 - FFXIV Benchmarks in 2024 (GTX 1080 Ti Revisit)
19:49 - Dying Light 2 (GTX 1080 Ti & GTX 1080 2024 Benchmarks)
21:06 - Starfield GTX 1080 Ti & 1080 Comparison in 2024
22:07 - Rainbow Six Siege NVIDIA Pascal GPU Benchmarks
24:08 - Resident Evil 4 GTX 10 Comparison
25:43 - GTA V GPU Benchmarks in 2024
25:59 - GTX 1080 Ti Power Consumption
26:33 - Conclusion

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[internetman]

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

[dnserror]

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

[mka]

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 :)

[VBigBlock]

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...

[matteo]

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.

[Apex.AP]

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 💪

[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.

[acethemechanic]

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.

[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

[WilliamAndRose]

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) 😊

[acecashman]

used my 1080 from 2018-2023, such a great card. Even before that I had the 1070 and it was a champion. Been in my editing rig but now that I've upgraded my main rig to a 7900 XT, my 6700 XT is now gonna take its place. Thank you for the memories Pascal.

[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!

[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.

[soaddude]

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.

[MrJimmy]

I have both of these exact cards hanging up on my wall. I usually sell my old GPUs but they were truly impressive, and really still are! I've got 1080s in several of my family's computers and they are all still going strong!

[SpinStar]

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

[theblackpixell]

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

[dylanherron]

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.

[deesul]

I absolutely loved this and I felt like you got inspired from a previous comment of mine. Thank you

[WHJBill]

I had an EVGA 1080Ti FTW3 and a couple years ago upgraded to the EVGA 3080Ti FTW3 and put the 1080Ti in my wife's computer. It still plays EVERYTHING she plays, even at 1440 resolution with settings on High. Odds are, she'll still be running it 3-4 years from now.