When will my 1080ti stop running games so well?

[Archon]

It's so hard to justify upgrading when I'm getting 80-120 fps with max settings on current games. Is ray tracing worth it? In a lot of games I see people complaining that it tanks their fps to <30.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

I guess whenever you get off 1080p

[Shaggy]

We can't really say. Whenever you become unhappy with its performance..

Originally posted by Freeman:

Is ray tracing worth it?

No. Not in my opinion.

[ZeekAncient]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

I guess whenever you get off 1080p

lmao, I was just thinking the same.

Sure, if you are at 1080p, and don't give a sh!t about ray tracing, no need to upgrade.

But if you are playing at 1440p, or hell 4K really, and play demanding games, and DO want to play with ray tracing, and play the latest games, sorry to say, but the 1080 Ti just won't cut it.

My 3070 Ti won't cut it soon for what I am doing.

[ZeekAncient]

Originally posted by Freeman:

Is ray tracing worth it?

No. Not in my opinion.

I beg to differ. When implemented well, ray tracing is awesome.

Go play Quake II Ray Tracing or Portal Ray Tracing, and you will see the potential that it has for current games. Sure, these are old games, but they are completely rendered using ray tracing, and you can see what ray tracing and path tracing holds for the future of games.

I personally would much rather play with it on than off. Like I said, in games that implement it well, you don't want it off, once you have had it on. Sure, it still maybe a little ways off before the tech truly catches up, and it is not so detrimental to performance. Ray tracing is here to stay.

And that is a big reason that I am solely looking at the 4080 as opposed to a 7900XTX when I upgrade GPU. 7900XTX has phenomenal rasterization performance, but if I am going to pay $1000 or more on a GPU, I don't want mediocre ray tracing performance. Not that 7900XTX's ray tracing is mediocre, but at this price point, let's face it, the 7900XTX can't do what the 4080 or 4090, hell even the 4070 Ti, can do when it comes to ray tracing.

[Illusion of Progress]

Only you will know, and only when that point has already occurred for you.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

You also don't have to spend a lot to over come what a 1080 Ti can do in Gaming and still add some very good support for yourself for things like Ray Tracing, DLSS2/FSR2 just by moving up to a 3060 Ti

[Illusion of Progress]

Why though? If OP is fine with the performance the GTX 1080 Ti provides and says they are fine without ray tracing, why make an upgrade to something that has a worse value than its closest performance competitor? Either get that other thing instead, or ideally, stay with the GTX 1080 TI while it still suffices.

[Ice Robertson]

A GTX 1080 Ti would probably last you until your next system if you stay on 1080p.

If on anything lower than a 8th gen i5 for example.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Well like I said... I guess when you are done looking at 1080p

[Archon]

Oh sorry is 4k standard in gaming nowadays? I'm running 1440p currently.

[Ð₳Ɽ₭★𐌔Ŧ₳Ɽ]

as a person who has a strix gtx 1080ti and upgraded to a strix rtx 4080, and still game at 1080p, its night and day.

[Masque]

What I asked in a thread on Off Topic:

I wonder how mnay years from now a 4090 will be commonly listed in most games' Minimum Specs. Like, when will that tech be the "lowest common denominator" for PC gaming? How many years before people balk when you say you're running a 4090, because it's the old, underpowered tech that only poor people have?

[Masque]

Thanks for the answer, nullable. That makes sense.

I guess then, I'll re-word it and wonder when *something* in the 4-series will be the lowest card on the Recommended specs lists.

[Preacher]

I wouldn't bother upgrading until you can get a better GPU at a reasonable price (anything $400 and below lmao, screw Nvidia and their $1k cards). Also, you should consider looking into AMD cards.

[Begal]

Originally posted by Freeman:

Is ray tracing worth it? In a lot of games I see people complaining that it tanks their fps to <30.

This only happens to those who jumped on the RTX hypetrain too early and bought a 20XX series card. And now they cry becase those can’t even run raytraced games properly.

But my RTX 4080 absolutely eats everything that I throw at it.

I had a 1080ti before and switching to a 4080 (in a new system) is like night and day. Absolutely blown away by it’s performance.

Also playing on 1080p, because 4k makes no sense to me personally.