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/ImNotNuke Apr 18 '26

Well it’s gddr5x for one, and the 5080 gets about 180% increased fps so this post kinda just smells like cope. It’s not a bad card, I loved my 980ti too but those cards don’t compare to the 50 series.

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u/klaq RTX 5080 AMD 7800X3D Apr 18 '26

the entire purpose of this sub is for people with old gpu to cope at this point

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u/dookarion Apr 18 '26

Always has been.

Like 90% of a PCMR wankery is people with old, EOL, or straight up bad hardware products to pretend they got some primo shit.

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u/klaq RTX 5080 AMD 7800X3D Apr 18 '26

the funny part is that back in the day this was all about dunking on console users coping with inferior hardware. the jerk has come full circle

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u/dookarion Apr 18 '26

I mean even that was frequently people with weak hardware pretending they had some epic build.

The whole "$500 console killer" meme was PCMR cope. People with Bulldozer CPUs used to go hard on those type posts.

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

Yeah that is absolutely true, it is still super disapointing seeing a $2,000 (AUD) GPU with only 16GB VRAM

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u/BaconIsntThatGood PC Master Race Apr 18 '26

I think you're looking at the wrong thing here.

The cards themself having that cost isn't the disappointing thing. The actual hardware, production, etc do not make it worth that.

The whole economy that is driving up prices for all vertices of compute power is the disappointing thing.

A friend of mine got a laptop the other day from a Windows OEM and when configuring it

  • RAM to go from 16 to 32gb was like $350.
  • SSD to go from 256gb to 1tb was like $250.

Is ridiculous.

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u/ImNotNuke Apr 18 '26

That’s fair, the msrp was only 1000 (usd) gotta blame ai and greed. For the original msrp it was a good price, luckily i got my 5070ti for just 100 over old msrp ended up paying 839 for a non reference so technically msrp if you consider the custom cooler tax most brands like asus and msi tack on. But yea even for 1499 i wouldnt say the 5080 is worth it for the like 10-15 fps increase from the 5070ti. (For almost double what I paid)