1080ti worth it?

[anskaz]

i currently have rtx2060 6gb, is it worth ”upgrading” to 1080ti or switching? Its more powerful but its a lot older so tell me is it worth it

[It's Chase]

No.

[Introverted Gamer]

That's like a downgrade from a 2060 to 1080 Ti .

[nullable]

Publicado originalmente por dougieB:

i currently have rtx2060 6gb, is it worth ”upgrading” to 1080ti or switching? Its more powerful but its a lot older so tell me is it worth it

I mean the 1080 ti is more powerful, the only thing you're giving up with the 2060 is ray tracing and DLSS. And arguably the 2060 isn't good enough to do more than bare minimum ray tracing. And while I love DLSS, the 1080 ti can run AMD's FSR2 and that's pretty good too.

So I gotta give the nod to the 1080 ti.

I ran a 1080 ti for years, and upgraded to a 2080 Super (so I could replace the wife's 1070) so I have experience with the hardware. And the 2080 Super wasn't some big huge upgrade, barely an upgrade. The 20 series was pretty ho-hum for performance gains. The only reason you'd go with the 2060 is if the 1080 ti was broken, or had some very specific reasons.

[Rod]

1080ti is kinda obsolete hardware. No mesh shaders alan wake could of had mesh only and that would of been the signal. Keep saving up for a deal on a 4060/4070 with 16gb of vram.

[Digideath]

Look I just found second hand 3060 ti's going on ebay for between £140 - £250 ($170-$304). They're all fully working. Any one of those will destroy the 2060 or the 1080 ti and gives decent ray tracing performance. It also has 8gb of gddr 6 and support for dlss 2.5. You can also mod it to run dlss 3 frame generation.

I had a 3060 ti till a couple of months ago. The one I had was highly overclockable. I used msi afterburner to lower the voltage curve a little the put +150 on the core, +750 on the vram and bumped the power limit up 5%. The performance of the card exploded when I did and from there on the 3060 ti traded blows toe to toe with the 3070. It actually out performed it in certain scenarios. That card ran like that 24/7 without problems. My brother has it now and he's got it running at the exact same settings I used.

That's how good a deal it is if you shop around and use your head. Why get a 1080 ti when you can throw a few extra bucks on it and get a 3060 ti that destroys it.

[Lord Flashheart]

Publicado originalmente por dougieB:

i currently have rtx2060 6gb, is it worth ”upgrading” to 1080ti or switching? Its more powerful but its a lot older so tell me is it worth it

I think a card with recent features is a better idea, unless you only play really old games that need the 11GB of VRAM. There are few old games that need 11GB I can think of.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Any non RTX NVIDIA GU is rather pointless now. Especially when can grab a 2080 Super or TI for what a 1080 Ti goes for or less. Even the 2080 Ti isn't that powerful by today's standards

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

No, its time is over. Decent upgrade for you would be RTX 4070 or RX 7800 XT.

[AllergicToBrainRot]

Why would you downgrade? Instead of upgrading? GTX cards are paperweight. If you looking into rtx 30 series cards. Don't. They suck. Either AMD gpus or rtx 4090.

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

Publicado originalmente por smallcat:

Rumpelcrutchskin , you mean RX 7800 XT

Yep.

[r.linder]

No, the 1080 Ti has long since become effectively obsolete because it has support for newer technologies and has rather unremarkable performance, the 3060 12GB is effectively the same but better because it has the support that the 1080 Ti lacks.

Doesn't mean you should buy a 3060 either though, it's not much of an upgrade at all. I wouldn't suggest buying less than a 4070 or 7700-XT

[MonkehMaster]

1080 ti is a good card, anywho... that raytracing is nonsense, no need for it, games run perfectly fine and look good without it.

[anskaz]

Publicado originalmente por MonkehMaster:

1080 ti is a good card, anywho... that raytracing is nonsense, no need for it, games run perfectly fine and look good without it.

yes, i dont need ray tracing when i play tf2, fivem, gta, cs2 or any other thing that those new gpus offer

[r.linder]

Publicado originalmente por dougieB:

Publicado originalmente por MonkehMaster:

1080 ti is a good card, anywho... that raytracing is nonsense, no need for it, games run perfectly fine and look good without it.

yes, i dont need ray tracing when i play tf2, fivem, gta, cs2 or any other thing that those new gpus offer

Still doesn't mean it's a good idea to buy a card that's been out for 7.5 years that won't have any kind of useful warranty since they haven't been produced in years. It's a really stupid idea.

Newer GPUs also offer better performance, the 1080 Ti's performance these days is considered low end, unremarkable. You can get better performance out of a 6700-XT, with a warranty, and at a decent price.

The only instance where buying an old 1080 Ti makes any sense at all is if it costs like 100$. I wouldn't pay a cent more than that for such an old card with the associated risk and the last of newer features like DLSS, mesh shading, etc.

You shouldn't base all of your hardware purchasing options based solely on what you're doing right now, because your mind can change later or something can happen and you can end up regretting it. When mesh shaders become more widespread, older cards like the 1080 Ti will be absolutely useless.