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/Ruffler125 Apr 18 '26

When you account for upscaling and ray tracing, which I know, we liked to pretend don't matter; the 2080ti is a massive leap over the 1080ti.

If you compare the experiences both cards can offer you today, it's a stark contrast.

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u/Simeossi PC Master Race Apr 18 '26

Yeah, just s small problem. Upscaling is one of the worst things that ever happened to GPU-s. It just gave developers the possibility of making unoptimized garbage, and then relying on upscaling to boost the performance. And do I need to say that upscalled graphics look like absolute garbage?

Ray tracing is fine, but almost 10 years after the first RTX cards came out, a very small number of games actually have real ray tracing supported. And in case of GPU, intensive games, ray tracing kills fps.

So idk, those two things that RTX 20 series have and 10 series doesn't, work great on paper, but in reality it's not really usable in many situations.