GTX 1080 Ti Reddit Verdict: Legend or Liability in 2025?

1080Ti, the infinite hardware content generator. Youtubers have also been drawing on it since 2017 and continue to do so. Great card with great longevity, not even that bad 8 years later.

I love my 1080Ti and have had it since new, but honestly it just doesn't make sense in late 2023 to buy.

I'm sure you can find a 3060, 3060 Ti, or 4060 for less than that. 1080 Ti is worth $150-200 American.

What a legendary GPU, I remember back when I build my PC for the first time I had this GPU as my dream GPU. It's kind of surreal to see it being slower than even the RTX 3060 nowadays, likely due to games that requires DX12 Ultimate feature set and has Ray Tracing turned on by default, but on old fashioned rasterized focus games, this thing AFAIR is even faster than the RTX 3060.

Just ignore the upgrades and put your money away, if what you have runs every game you want to play to your standards on your monitor. Then why are you looking. Keep stacking that money and when you find yourself not capable of running a game to your expected standard. Then upgrade to the best available at the time with all that money you have saved.

Ray tracing mandatory games sucks but that's the inevitable future, and that card is fucked.

I can see the GTX 1080 living on within the very low end regions for a little longer, as it is not a bad card for around £80-90 if all you want is older AAA games, esports titles or indie games, though with cards like the 2060 being in the £100 region, that may become the better choice due to DLSS, DX12U & Ray Tracing for modern AAAs.

It only shows us how much progress has stalled after that era. A 8800 Ultra had no chance running demanding 2015 games at all.

Just looking at some benchmarks, a new 4060 has slightly better FPS than a 1080ti. I think the price is more for the rarity than the performance at this point. A 4060 is also the same price and has newer technology.

I wouldn't buy a 1080ti in 2023.

Power draw, no RT, and no DLSS. Driver support is also ending soon.

This is just for optimisation updates for games. It will still get security updates. Pascal GPUs are still very much receiving updates. We should stop spreading misinformation.

I'm still able to get over 60FPS at 1440p with some settings tweaks in most games. BF6 and Arc Raiders run amazing.

Meanwhile plenty of indie games continue to release that play perfectly fine with a Geforce 1070Ti (60+FPS).

The 1080ti is still supported by the latest driver, it has basic DX12 support (only lacking RT), and the 1080ti is roughly 30% faster in 90% of games. 1080ti is still the better bargain. Also, better chance of getting a 1080ti that hasn't been used for mining, too.

No chance, I got a 3080 suprim x for £350 which is around $420 dollars. You would be better off getting a 2070 over a 1080ti as you still get dlss.

Truly a legendary card, and much more deserving of the Ti designation than some of its newer counterparts.

1080ti is ancient in 2023. Don't... Unless you have a friend that wants to hand it down to you as a gift.

I bought the 1080 Ti in 2017, two years later, I was tempted to buy a 2080 because RT, and then 2080 Super came which made me itch again, and then 3080 came during the GPU shortage and made it like a holy relic, and then 40 series and now 40 Super. The truth is, I am still using my 1080 Ti and it is still able to handle new games well without RT. Will I upgrade one day? Sure, when it can't run anymore. But I've paid for 1080 Ti already so I am gonna use the whole 1080 Ti.

I wouldn't buy a 1080ti in 2023 period. That being said, I am thoroughly enjoying Starfield on my 1080ti + i7 8700k + ssd. Playing in 2K (75%) and graphics look sweet. FPS around 45-55 normally. Totally worth it - for me at least.

I built my first rig last year from a donated waterblocked 1080ti. Overclocked the fuck out of it and managed amazing fps in cyberpunk at 4k and hasn't struggled with a single VR title. I see zero reason to upgrade, especially now that Lossless Scaling is a thing.

Good card for its time. But it's like asking a 50 year old retired athlete to play in the big leagues.

I wouldn't pay more than $150 USD for a 1080ti these days. Yeah it has great raw power but even a 2070 with dlss can beat it in some games.

You can buy a lightly used RTX 3080 on Ebay for $380 USD. Do not buy a GTX 1080 Ti for $333 USD. You can do so much better for that amount of money.

8 years of performance update is a lot already. AMD does 3-4 years sometimes going as low as 2-3 years and everyone loves and praises them.

Great, maybe they should release some GPUs that are fucking affordable and available then so I can upgrade in peace.

3060 12gb can be got for $200. The 1080 TI is awesome. Very awesome if you find one for just over $100. However, as noted by others, at $175-$200 RTX 2080s and RTX 3060 12gb might be better choices. It's still awesome though. I run a 1080. Couldn't be happier.

1080ti will probably be the best GPU you ever had, what a beast, such value for money.

The fact that 1080ti has no DLSS puts it beneath every RTX card.

Will forever miss my EVGA 1080 Ti Hydrocopper, and not just because it was the best value proposition that won't be seen in GPU markets again. It also marked the last EVGA card I'll ever own and it will be the last GPU I own to have a 10 year warranty, which ironically I never needed to use.

The GOAT for a reason, scooping up a used mining card for $350 was one of the best purchases I ever made. Still kickin out frames in my sister's PC.

Not for everyone. If you use 1080p or 1440p without Ray Tracing and DLSS, it's okay. It's one of the longest living cards out there. For me, it's not worth because: No Ray Tracing. No DLSS. No AV1 encoding or decoding. Not good at 4K for newer titles. Older memory type and low memory.

I am in a very similar boat with a 1080ti and a 5700x. Like you I struggle with should I upgrade and what to (4070, 4070ti, 4070ti super, 7800xt, etc) but tbh my rig can still run most of the stuff I regularly play just fine. The GPU market still sucks imo.

For that amount of money? That is way too much. The 1080ti can still hold its weight in some regards. But it is an old card at this point and not getting any younger. There's probably no warranty of any kind left on it, and it lacks capability for any DLSS/DLAA/etc. I wouldn't pay more than $100 USD.

Driver support stops for the card this year so any new game will not have optimised drivers going forward. If you mainly play games from before 2025 or indies then you won't have any problems but any larger games coming out next year will suffer without proper driver support.

No. A 1080ti is a fucking BEAST at 1440p. Wait for the 5000 series.

I've had my 1080ti for 5 years now, and still it compares to modern mid-range GPUs. If you game in 1080p, and can live without the practically irrelevant eye-candy that RTX can bring, then keep it a while longer.

This card is still cranking out enough horsepower to run just about anything that doesn't require RTX explicitly. I'll hang on for at least another GPU cycle.

1080Ti is still a great card, for sure. It's about even with a 4060 and with 3GB extra RAM. Fine for High 1080p or Med 1440p. But the jump to a 5080 will be immense.

Hot old flagship with big vram amount and bandwidth that somehow survived 2 waves of mining. What can go wrong? Imo there are a few newer counterparts that are a lot better here and there. It's not worth the risk over something like a 6600 or 3060 used.

The 1080/1080ti were so amazing. I just upgraded my gtx 1080 to a rtx 4080 super last year. It was Helldivers 2 that finally made it feel so incompetent I had to upgrade my system, that and trying to game at 4k with it still.

1080 Ti is still capable at 1440p with medium/high settings, and with FSR, you could easily hit 60 fps if you don't mind the image quality. However, you are missing all RTX features, I upgraded from 1080 Ti to 4090 a year ago, it's like 3 to 4 times faster.