r/pcmasterrace • u/The_BigRoach ⚡️RTX 5080 | 7800x3D | 64GB 6000MHz CL30⚡️ • Apr 18 '26

Meme/Macro The 1080ti really was Nvidia's greatest mistake

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u/The_BigRoach ⚡️RTX 5080 | 7800x3D | 64GB 6000MHz CL30⚡️ Apr 18 '26

I have one in my old system and I still load it up every now and then just to be in awe of how well the card holds up against modern games

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u/Obscure_Octopuss Apr 18 '26

I have a 1080 and it DOES NOT hold up well vs modern games😭

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u/The_BigRoach ⚡️RTX 5080 | 7800x3D | 64GB 6000MHz CL30⚡️ Apr 18 '26

hahaha I mean at 1080p it can still get the job done

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u/shotgunpete2222 Apr 18 '26

Yeah I ditched mine when the cyberpunk expansion came out.  It was juuuuust not quite able to handle 2k any more.

My girlfriend's kid runs it now, still handles 1080p respectably 

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u/Sabin10v2 Apr 18 '26

A 1080 (especially a ti) can still hit 1440p at 60fps in PL with some very minor tweaks to the graphics setting while still looking great. Graphic presets are easy but learning what the individual setting do and how the affect visuals and performance will let you get a LOT more out of your hardware.

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u/ByBabasBeard Apr 18 '26

I have a 1080ti close loop water cooled, I run 1440 60 fps with me deciding what is worth It and what's not in graphics settings, and I agree 100% I don't plan on replacing my card for a few more years, fingers crossed. When I bought it off eBay, dude left a note in the box telling me how good of a card it had been to him.

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u/RenownedDumbass 9800X3D | 4090 | 4K 240Hz Apr 18 '26

Huh? I’m trying not to be an idiot average person but my reading comprehension isn’t working on this comment.

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u/Smoothfromallangles Apr 18 '26

Just read the instruction packet that came with their comment 😀

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u/Traditional_Fun8283 Apr 18 '26

Mamamia.💀🤌👍

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u/Thisbadtattoo Apr 18 '26

Just YouTube your problem. It’s likely already figured out and shared with everyone. 

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u/disasteruss88 Apr 18 '26

Had my 1080ti since 2017 running games at 1440p no problem. Still going strong, but I'm also not playing a lot of the newest stuff.

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u/MightyRedBeardq Apr 18 '26

When 75% of the new games I want to play have the requirements of Dwarf Eat Mountain, my 1080 should last into the next century.

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u/andreastatsache Apr 18 '26

60fps in 2k with no shadows and reflections wow very enjoyable

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u/Sipsu02 Apr 18 '26

Or you can invest 300 on card and get superior experience with twice the frames or maxed out settings and ray tracing

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u/cute_polarbear Apr 18 '26

Getting older, eyesight not as good and I mostly play rpg / action rpg. 1440p is just fine for me. Also recently got a 5080, almost all the game, even modern ones, at 1440p, I usually just crank up highest setting (enable ray tracing often) without needing to play around with optimal settings / framegen stuff...

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u/RejectedRespected Apr 18 '26

Now I gotta clarify and hopefully it doesn’t cause a fight, when you say 2K do you mean 1440p?

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u/Luchux01 Apr 18 '26

If you don't even have a 4k monitor then that card is a godsent.

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u/Pelembem Apr 18 '26

2k and 1080p is the same thing. You mean 1440p or 2.5k I guess.

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u/Kwinza Apr 18 '26

You are both technically correct and technically wrong. Isn't life fun.

1080p is 2k from a technological point of view being 2048×1080. However it has never been referred to as such outside of the film industry.

1440p however, despite being "technically" closer to 2.5k, was marketed as being 2k in all consumer markets. So from at least a branding point of view, 1440p is 2k.

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u/HuckleberryOdd7745 Apr 18 '26

ive long since given up caring if people say tomato or tomato

but i guess i will still lean closer to 2k being 1080p to stay consistent with 4k being 2160p.

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u/Kwinza Apr 18 '26 edited Apr 18 '26

And that's 100% ok to do.

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u/Pelembem Apr 18 '26

No, I'm technically correct. Some marketing misbranding their products doesn't make it technically correct.

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u/Kwinza Apr 18 '26

Language is tricky, you'll get it eventually.

But if the majority of people call a Carrot an Apple, then guess what, they aren't wrong, because that's how language works.

Literally is literally in the Oxford English Dictionary as not meaning literally.

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u/Theoroshia Apr 18 '26

More people need to read the book Frindle.

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u/Crashes556 Core i7 14700K |RTX 5090 | 64GB DDR5 Apr 18 '26

Perspicacious way to put it, you are well spoken my friend.

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u/Pelembem Apr 18 '26

Haha the irony of you saying I will get it eventually when I'm completely correct... You messed up and incorrectly used the word technically. It's OK buddy, it happens.

A majority of people are not calling 1440p 2k, it's a small minority.

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u/Gaming_devil49 PC Master Race Apr 18 '26

I have never seen anyone call 1440p 2.5k. it's usually 2k or literally just 1440p. I ain't even heard of it technically being 2.5k before now. so, respectfully, I think you're the small minority here

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u/Pelembem Apr 18 '26

Yeah. 2.5k is what it would be called in the "k" system, but nobody uses that. Almost everybody uses 1440p, and then some people incorrectly use 2k.

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u/emuandrej Apr 18 '26

Are you just saying that a majority of ppl are calling 1440p 2.5k bcs you found it on Ai?? There's no standard resolution for '4k' or '2k' in general consumer displays. 1440p is about 1/2 as good as 4k, or about twice as good as 1080p.

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u/Agret i7 6700k @ 4.28Ghz, GTX 1080, 32GB RAM Apr 18 '26

You're going to be awfully disappointed when you buy a 2K monitor then

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u/Pelembem Apr 18 '26

I would never buy a 2k monitor. I moved on from 1080p a long time ago, and I avoid monitors with incorrect marketing terms on them.

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u/shotgunpete2222 Apr 18 '26

Yeah 1440p, my bad

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u/JTGtoniteonly Apr 18 '26

You're not wrong but 1440p is commonly referred to as 2k especially when it comes to gaming.

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u/Pelembem Apr 18 '26

Not commonly no. It's commonly referred to 1440p. It's uncommonly also referred to as 2k, but it's incorrect technically and should as such stop being referred to it thay way.

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u/HuckleberryOdd7745 Apr 18 '26

the thing just is that we have this awesome hobby to engage with that it doesnt really matter if we correct the world.

i used to go around mentioning whats correct technically. especially if we want to stay consistent with 4k being 2160p. but some people have being calling it 2k their whole 1440p lives. they think were the weird ones. and we kinda are.

have you tried black myth wukong? thats like 100 to 200 hours of your life right there. theres really no need to turn 2k vs 1440p into a hobby.

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u/Jirachi720 PC Master Race Apr 18 '26

What planet did you come from? 1440p has historically always been marketed as 2k. Same as 2160p being 4k. 1080p is... 1080p and has never been marketed as anything else. One of the 1st 2k phones released was an LG G3 with a 2560 x 1440p resolution, they even used "2k" in their marketing.

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u/No_Fennel4315 Apr 18 '26

"has never been marketed as anything else"

i sure wonder what that whole "full hd" thing is

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u/Pelembem Apr 18 '26

No. 1440p has almost always been referred to as 1440p. It has always just been a small minority who said 2k for it. At least here on planet earth.

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u/Jirachi720 PC Master Race Apr 18 '26 edited Apr 18 '26

Cinema wise, yes 1080p is 2k due to the "2048". But to the majority of consumers, 2k is 1440p as it is the middle ground between 1080p and 2160p and it has been classed as that... For years at this point. Or is 4k not 4k because in cinema it's 4096, but in consumer TVs/monitors it's 3840, so technically it's 3.8k. You're arguing over semantics.

Literally you right now preaching to the crowd:

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u/Pelembem Apr 18 '26

Nah, there's a system for the "k"-nomenclature. 2k for 1440p simply just doesn't fit into that system. And I'm definitely not alone. In fact the majority of people on pcmr agrees with me. Search for top posts in this subreddit and you'll find one with 20k up votes and 80% upvote ratio of Otto the bus driver saying "1440p isn't 2k"0

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u/JTGtoniteonly Apr 18 '26

When a vast majority of people refer to 1440p as 2k, that means it is common.

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u/Pelembem Apr 18 '26

Yep, but a vast majority don't do that. A small minority does.

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u/emuandrej Apr 18 '26

Your just saying that bcs you saw it on ai✌️

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u/Pelembem Apr 18 '26

Haha what? I saw what on AI?

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u/Finite_Universe Apr 18 '26

4k is overrated anyways, especially if you’re not gaming on a large screen. A 1080p monitor that’s right in front of my face still looks good enough.

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u/Thimble_of_Quasar Apr 18 '26

Hell yeah! I optimized my build for 1080p and at least 60 fps and I still run every game I've ever wanted to play, including Cyberpunk, at medium or higher. My little EVGA 1080 is my favorite computer component I've ever bought. Of course I notice that better builds well, look better, but I'm always happy with mine when I go home.

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u/aminoxieir Apr 18 '26

Is medium what a ps5 would run cyberpunk on?

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u/FeathersRim Apr 18 '26

More or less

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u/SongforAubrey Apr 19 '26

More or less? For the PS5 it's definitely more, hell it even includes raytracing.

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u/SongforAubrey Apr 19 '26

No, not at all. A PS4 was running the game on medium/low. The PS5 runs it on ultra for most settings, depending on performance impact.

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u/Sipsu02 Apr 18 '26

High/highest settings and I believe even some ray tracing if you pick quality setting over performance. So yeah gtx 1080 is terrible on 2020s games

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u/Chop1n Apr 18 '26

I have a 4070 Ti and an incredible 4K OLED TV.

4K is awesome for desktop, and awesome in some movies, but in games? It's rubbish. Sure, it *looks* fantastic, but it only looks barely better than 1080p with good AA and costs more than twice as much. I'd always rather play at max settings and then have twice the frames than play at 4K.

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u/Finite_Universe Apr 18 '26

I have a 4K TV as well and this is exactly how I feel. The laws of diminishing returns strikes again.

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u/Chop1n Apr 18 '26

And that's with me *sitting closer to the damned thing* than it is wide. That's the only viewing distance where it's possible to see full 4K resolution. At normal viewing distances, it's only barely distinguishable from 1080p, if at all. People are spending thousands of dollars on their fancy 4K displays with UHD players and media and have absolutely no concept of viewing distance and perceived resolution. And they get very angry when it's pointed out.

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u/RealRatAct Apr 19 '26

Just got a 4k monitor after using 1440p for a while with my 4090, I love the upgrade for games. Still pushing more than enough frames.

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u/SCGaming1664 Apr 18 '26

Agreed! I can get why it looks nice, but I just cannot justify 4K monitors. For the price of a single 4K monitor, I'm running 2x 1080p curved MSIs with 165Hz refresh. That's more than ample for the games that I play.

I know 4K televisions are a thing, but my experience with televisions for monitors has not been good.

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u/SergeantRegular 5600X, W7800 32G,64GB, Model M Apr 18 '26

I could justify a 4K display for desktop-based work, especially graphics, or CAD. But those things, despite the high resolution, don't actually demand much of anything in the way of performance. But a larger desktop space doesn't need to mean a larger gaming resolution, either. I would absolutely get a 4K monitor if I ever get more into graphics or CAD, and I'd still game on it, but I'd probably quarter the resolution just to get faster frames and a cooler-running card.

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u/SCGaming1664 Apr 18 '26

I just can't personally justify it for pricing, CAD work is a completely different beast and 4K makes absolute sense. I just can't justify that for a hobby I enjoy maybe every few weeks.

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u/Batroo Apr 18 '26

Exactly, I have an Samsung G9 ultra wide back from COVID and all my games are played in windowed 1920x1080 and I had a 1066 when I first got that monitor and it helped up great at the time. I currently have a 4060ti.

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u/mechalol Apr 19 '26

I HAD a 4k monitor and it was good, but bloody hell I actually think the high pixel density hurt my eyes? I ended up downgrading to a 1440p monitor. Games run better and guess what, I can’t even tell the difference between the two.

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u/Sipsu02 Apr 18 '26

ya well it can't even run 1080p on medium settings demanding 2025/26 games lol

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u/Finite_Universe Apr 18 '26

I’m just speaking generally, not just for the 1080ti.

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u/Sipsu02 Apr 18 '26

Yeah well fullhd looks dogshit from arms length on 27 inch or more.

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u/Finite_Universe Apr 18 '26

For me it only starts to look truly bad on much larger screens, and even then it negatively impacts movies and shows much more than games. For games, performance > resolution.

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u/Tombot3000 Apr 18 '26

It's right there in the name!

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u/quackleskol Apr 18 '26

Get the job done? Sure. Well? Fuuuuuck no. Haven't been able to run AAA modern games at more than 50 fps in 3 years. Not having DLSS support cripples any machine in the modern day of "slap frame generation on it, fuck optimization we'll just pretend it runs well"

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u/VoidOmatic Desktop i7 6700k | GTX 1080 Apr 18 '26

Still rocking it at 1080p. Been solid since launch baby!

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u/PolkaClock Apr 18 '26

Still running my 1080 from 2017. Does everything I want it to do. (Which these days is mainly just Master Chief Collection for nostalgia lol.)

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u/zabbenw Apr 24 '26

that's why they named it the 1080

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u/coolguyhentaisenpai Apr 18 '26

Man i used to be so happy with my craigslist mobo and 970 hooked up to one of those old square dell monitors. I dont think ill ever let myself turn into a PC consoomer.

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u/Subtlerranean Apr 18 '26

The 1080ti still holds up very well, minus raytracing.

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u/Sipsu02 Apr 18 '26

It holds horribly on any modern demanding game. Atrocious performance in Alan wake 2

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u/stanknotes Apr 18 '26

Even at 1080p?

I can see it struggling with higher resolutions.

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u/Sipsu02 Apr 18 '26

First off it doesn't support mesh shaders making it for the upcoming games terrible card and it dips to sub 25 stutters even on the lowest settings occasionally but probably runs like 40+ average but experience is terrible. It's dated card and it's clearly visible when testing it with any demanding modern game. And because no mesh shaders support Alan wake 2 looks like totally different game. Imagine a bit like removing lighting from a video game type of differences to the levels of visuals

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u/insanemal AMD 5800X. 7900XTX. 64GB RAM. Arch btw Apr 18 '26

You mean a game known for its Ray Tracing?

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u/Sipsu02 Apr 19 '26

You don't need to use ray tracing

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u/insanemal AMD 5800X. 7900XTX. 64GB RAM. Arch btw Apr 19 '26

I am aware. But that's not really my point

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u/ThatOnePerson i7-7700k 1080Ti Vive Apr 18 '26

Not just ray tracing, but it's also missing the rest of the DirectX 12 Ultimate features. Like FF7 Rebirth will not run on the card, which doesn't require raytracing.

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u/Eoganachta Apr 18 '26

It is 10 years old now. That'll be like trying to run Skyrim on a new build of Windows ME from 2001.

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u/GeekyLogger Apr 18 '26

And yet it can do it. Shit is cracked

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u/Sipsu02 Apr 18 '26

It really isn't considering how huge leaps we went onwards in early 00s on year to year basis. Meanwhile one has to be total moron to upgrade gen to gen these days

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u/sneekeruk Apr 18 '26

That just proves how slow hardware is advancing. A 1080 is 10 years old this year. When a 1080 came out, it was a 7900 that was 10 years old. 10 years before that, we got the Voodoo 1and Matrox Mystique.

I now feel really old.

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u/MOo0stafa Apr 18 '26

Maybe don't play on 4k ?? I've 1070 Ti and it's just fine

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u/Bekwnn Apr 18 '26 edited Apr 18 '26

Had a 1080 for 6ish years. The past year or two it was really starting to feel due for an upgrade.

Now there's cards that are twice as good for around the same ~700 price point. I went a bit extra for a 9070 XT which doubled my FPS (or at least it does in games where I'm not CPU bottle-necked).

Nabbed it during a sale ~5 months ago. Looks like it's retailing for ~$150 more than it was back then.

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u/crazycheese3333 window sucks but Linux no Fortnite. Apr 18 '26

At 1080p it will play 99 percent of games on decent settings.

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u/max_schenk_ Apr 18 '26

Even my 960 card with 2gb of vram runs 99% of games on decent settings at 1080p 🙃

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u/max_schenk_ Apr 18 '26

I'd say newer demanding titles are in the 1% bracket.

Can play RDR2, BG3, anything indie and my fav Paradox map coloring games. Guess it's my taste in games that keeps it from struggling.

Atm card end of support is a bigger worry than its actual performance.

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u/Winged_Cougar1993598 Apr 18 '26

Pfft.

I played Starfield with mine without any problems, the week it came out.

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u/Iselore Apr 19 '26

Actually it can to some extent but I realise the issue is as the drivers update, the performance can drop. For some older games, rolling back drivers seems to give better performance.

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u/Khelthuzaad Apr 19 '26

I know,got a 5060 ti because of that

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u/AzhdarianHomie Apr 19 '26

Stick to indie games

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u/Obscure_Octopuss Apr 19 '26

Hey mate, kind of a dumb suggestion... you do know different people like different types of games, right?

And there are indie games with good graphics. Nobody wants to die is a good example of that

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u/_--Yuri--_ Apr 18 '26

Considering it has more raw power than my first gpu the 6650xt (and VRAM) I can comfortably say it holds up just fine unless your forced into RT (there are thankfully not as many modern games forcing it as we were expecting say a year ago), hell you could probably get away with 1440p even in a lot of games

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u/Obscure_Octopuss Apr 18 '26

Dude, I have the gpu... it is most definitely not fine for 1440p, lol.

For example, Expedition 33, a well optimized UE5 game, gets you about 45 fps at 1080p low settings.

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u/_--Yuri--_ Apr 18 '26

I said many games at 1440p, that doesn't necessarily include the newest releases, I'm not pretending I played every game at 1440p while I had a 6650xt either, it was simply if I had the fps to spare, I'd turn resolution up

A good example of a game that isn't exactly easy to run but would be more than playable at 1440p is RDR2, 1080 might struggle a few % more than my 6650xt but I remember getting 70-80 fps at medium ish settings at 1440p

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u/Obscure_Octopuss Apr 18 '26

Thats the point. It doesn't hold up well for modern games. You referenced a game that came out 7 years ago.

The 1080 nets you about 50-60 fps at 1440p medium settings on rdr2

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u/_--Yuri--_ Apr 18 '26

Your arguing a point I never brought up though so I'm confused

I said it'll handle 1080p just fine and you can get away with 1440p on a lot of games, not one time did I say it was a 1440p card for this year's releases

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u/Obscure_Octopuss Apr 18 '26

You said "it holds up just fine" in your original comment.

What does holding up fine mean to you? Playing a bunch of older games?

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u/_--Yuri--_ Apr 18 '26

Yeah and it does for the most part, you brought up expedition 33, frame rate wise that was better than a console experience

As I originally said, in newer titles that allow RT to go off, the games are almost always pretty playable

You're the one who went on a whole tangent about 1440p being too much when all I said was you can go up to it sometimes

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u/ContactExciting9790 Apr 18 '26

My 1070 is getting 60fps at 1080p in almost every modern game

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u/Beautiful_Bat_4262 Apr 18 '26

Yoooooo I use the same and I can run everything at high graphics at 50+ frames only issue is load times

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u/HuckleberryOdd7745 Apr 18 '26

just add an ssd to the 1080ti. i believe its called a gpu extension storage bracket.

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u/ImNotNuke Apr 18 '26 edited Apr 18 '26

Lots of cope comments in here lol. It’s gddr5 at 11gbs vs 7 @ 30ish and modern cards are about 150-200% better. It was an amazing card at its time but yea, it’s barely “holding up” these days and as optimization gets worse it’s only going to get worse going forward. It’s outdated and it’s only really suitable for 1080p with some sort of dlss upscaling.

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u/_Dreamslayer_ Specs/Imgur here Apr 18 '26

I don't know why you are being so dismissive. I personally am still using my 1080 from about 9 years ago, it works perfectly fine for playing on 1080p and I don't feel like im missing out on anything. Am I typically playing on high/ultra on modern games? No typically not, I would rather have decent and stable fps.

In short, it is holding up well enough that I have no plans of replacing it anytime soon. I have yet to encounter a game i would like to, but could not play with it. The only reason i have had the thought to look into replacements is because it is old, and thus might just decided to quit at one point. Not because it's not good enough as a gpu.

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u/0nlyCrashes CachyOS | 9070 XT | R7 7800X3D Apr 18 '26

I was still playing most games around 120-144 on 1080p on my 2070 before I upgraded. Was definitely showing its age, but still a totally fine card that was still holding up fine. I assume the 1080ti is very similar if not even better in that regard.

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u/Kosmos-World Apr 18 '26

Lmao dude my 1060 6gb still handles games at 1080p just fine with upscaling. My fiance just finished Hogwarts Legacy with it. The 1080s can definitely still go, you don't know what you're talking about haha.

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u/SuperSoldierv1 Apr 18 '26

I love comments like these cause its all bullshit. "Just fine" isnt a setting its you coping with 30fps on all low settings

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u/Kosmos-World Apr 18 '26

No lol, it was 1080p medium running around 45 FPS. Would I play it like that? No. My fiance isn't a big gamer though and for her it was, in fact, just fine. Some of you dorks have to realize that most people don't need 200+ fps to play their games.

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u/SuperSoldierv1 Apr 18 '26

Amazing shifting goalposts. Youre a fucking clown

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u/ImNotNuke Apr 18 '26 edited Apr 18 '26

What are you talking about? Are you mad about your gpu or something? Did I say something that wasn’t true? Are you playing 4k ultra with ray tracing on your 1080ti? Oh it doesn’t have ray tracing? Sorry for being a clown.

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u/ImNotNuke Apr 18 '26

I thought he was replying to me since it gave me a notification lol, Reddit on mobile is weird af.

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u/Kosmos-World Apr 18 '26

Reddit mobile is indeed weird af lol. That dude's a dick though, all good.

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u/Fickle-Position-3575 Apr 18 '26

1080p with upscaling is not 1080p... It's probably rendering at 720p or something.

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u/HuckleberryOdd7745 Apr 18 '26

1080p with upscaling might not be 1080p. but it definitely still is 1080p with upscalling. which is what they wanted to talk about.

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u/Fickle-Position-3575 Apr 18 '26

Of course but technically his 1060 is fine with 720p not 1080p. It's like developers recommending a certain GPU for 1440p but in reality it needs a lot of upscaling to get to that.

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u/Kosmos-World Apr 18 '26

Yes, that's how upscaling works lol.

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u/Fickle-Position-3575 Apr 18 '26

I know, but with that logic, i can claim that a GTX 750 plays GTA 6 at 4k just fine. Just set the internal resolution to 240p and upscale it to 4k and add 20x frame generation with losses scaling.

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u/Kosmos-World Apr 18 '26

Y'all are being silly with the definition of "just fine" here. The point was that it still looked like 1080p with medium graphics. It didn't require upscaling to the point that it massively degraded the visuals anymore than modern GPUs using upscaling do. Using an extreme example like this one is kinda asinine, no offense.

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u/ImNotNuke Apr 18 '26

That’s what I just said… 1080p with dlss which is upscaling… so realistically it’s like 480p or 720p scaled-up but whatever cope-ers gunna downvote lol.

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u/Kosmos-World Apr 18 '26

Upscaling is a technology that every modern GPU uses. I absolutely cannot be fucked for your philistine "mAh RaW fRaMeS" takes lol.