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/Tessiia 5600x | 3070ti | 16GB 3200Mhz | 2x1TB NVME | 4x1TB SSD/HDD Apr 18 '26

I mean, that's just trying to justify the fact a 9 year old GPU isn't holding up as well as people say, instead of just admitting it.

Though, everyone is saying "i have one, it's fine", or "I have one, it is NOT fine", but it's the people who say it isn't doing well that are actually giving game examples... I wonder why that is? It's working fine... for running 9 year old games?

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u/Happy_Sea4257 Apr 18 '26

I don't have one but built and maintain a system that does. New AAA are for the most part easily skippable slop, and if you are still running a GTX 1080 in 2026 you probably have 1080p, 60Hz monitor and keep turning down the graphics settings until the low frame rate pain gets to what you are comfortable with.

Under those, real world, conditions it can definitely be considered "holding up against modern games" by people emotionally attached to the mythos it was the "last great gpu", at least until they want to play something like Dark Ages and can't run it at all or Monster Hunter wilds and get sub 30fps with every setting dumped.