How Does the GTX 1080 Ti Stack Up in 2019? 39 Game Benchmark

[slamscaper]

I definitely don't agree with your assessment about the price of a used 1080Ti having to be $350 to get you interested. I honestly doubt someone is going to be that thick to sell a 1080Ti for that cheap. It's certainly worth $400-$450 considering it's speed. I understand you're talking about a used card here and warranties do matter. The 2070 Super likely makes more sense at $500, if of course you can find it for that, which right now you can. But for a while there they were price gouging on them a bit.

Let's also not forget about the fact the 1080Ti has 3GB more of VRAM, which does matter in some cases. It may be a little bit slower VRAM, but not THAT much slower that an extra 3GB isn't appealing.

I think if you're going for a used 1080Ti, then you should look for one of the really nice third-party ones. Like EVGA's SC2 1080Ti or the FTW3. ASUS Strix 1080Ti or EVGA's Classified are other examples. I mean if you're gonna buy used, by the best ones. That way the performance gain over the 2070 Super widens.

 

[hahahanoobs]

I bought my 1080Ti just as the prices started to settle down in the UK (August 2018) and I haven't played a single game that runs badly at completely maxed settings. I have absolutely no regrets.

I will say I haven't played any games that have ray tracing enabled in them (metro went to epic games store so didn't bother, BF:5 is a train wreck so didn't bother and Lara Croft I'm waiting for it to drop in price).

I'm in the middle of downloading Gears 5 that looks phenomenal, from what I've read. It'll run at maxed out settings happily at 1440p. Still no reason to even look for an upgrade.

Wait, what?! LMAO!!!
I can't believe what I just read.

 

[Burty117]

Wait, what?! LMAO!!!
I can't believe what I just read.

Out of all the crazy comments in this thread, mines the one that blew your mind? Cool I guess...

 

[hahahanoobs]

Out of all the crazy comments in this thread, mines the one that blew your mind? Cool I guess...

Yours drew my attention, because you seemed so surprised a $1000 GPU was still good two years later at 1440p. I've never seen that before.

 

[Burty117]

Yours drew my attention, because you seemed so surprised a $1000 GPU was still good two years later at 1440p. I've never seen that before.

I mean, it was £640 when I got it, it was never $1000 was it? And yeah, of course I'm shocked, my 780Ti didn't slay in games 2 years later flawlessly.

 

[neeyik]

I mean, it was £640 when I got it, I mean, it was never $1000 was it?

With today's exchange rate, £640 is $800; at launch (March 2017), it would $750 - not that it stayed at that price!

 

[GettCouped]

I wouldn't be at all surprised to see people hang onto these cards for another year.

Absolutely my plan, I'll keep it until a proper replacement comes out that doesn't require me to get a mortgage out to afford one.

Slightly off topic but if Nvidia's next cards (Ampere) are destined for 7nm, It's worth waiting that year anyway as there's potential for quite a change in performance compared to going to the 2080Ti.

I'm hoping that AMD can be competitive at all levels and drive these ridiculous prices down.

 

[Burty117]

With today's exchange rate, £640 is $800; at launch (March 2017), it would $750 - not that it stayed at that price!

Yeah a couple of months after launch the price hike kicked in. That £640 was during the time the price started settling down again! I'm sure I checked how much my card was a couple of months after and it got down to £580 before the RTX cards got officially unveiled.

I'm hoping that AMD can be competitive at all levels and drive these ridiculous prices down.

I sure hope so, I really am rooting for AMD here, they really shook up the CPU space. I hope they can do the same in the GPU space.

The problem I have is, Nvidia always seem to have something to counter and they hit hard. AMD could really do with getting close to 2080Ti levels of performance out of the 5800 series when they launch in order to lower prices for the higher end.

 

[neeyik]

I can remember feeling really cheesed off when the 1080 Ti came out, because 6 months earlier I had forked out £1200 for a Titan X (Pascal). The fact that the 1080 Ti was virtually half the price as the Titan, but performed the same or better, just made the whole point of the Titan range meaningless (and it still is, of course, with the exception of the Titan V for FP64 compute work).

With respect to this particular article, we're probably going to see the same again with 2080 Ti - I.e. it'll still be highly competitive in 2021/2022.

 

[m3tavision]

What a bunch of hooplah.

Here's what is not hoopla.

G-sync is superior to Freesync.
PhsyX (albeit different tech is out now...my point is, this was just another feature Nvidia had, and AMD did not)
AMD doesn't offer Ray Tracing support (yet, again, another tech brought to life my Nvidia for AMD to copy, just like G-Sync)
AMD has more issues, bugs and stability issues across the board, from old to new games.
AMD has more issues with sound and video. A recent poll on overclock.net had overwhelming results for AMD users with various little hiccups, latency, stability issues amoung other things, compared to folks on Nvidia cards.
There is a reason Nvidia GPUs, from low-mid-high range absolutely wipe the floor with AMD in steam results. They are superior, in every way. And its more then just about raw FPS.


AMD has less features that matter, and the comparative features are always years/months behind, or not as polished.
https://www.techradar.com/news/comp...idia-who-makes-the-best-graphics-cards-699480

Still, GeForce Experience boasts the game optimization features we’re all crazy for. So when you don’t know what settings are best for your computer in The Witcher 3, Nvidia takes care of the heavy lifting for you.

AMD users can download and install Raptr’s Gaming Evolved tool to optimize their gaming experience. However, the add-on is less than ideal considering its biggest rival’s audience can accomplish nearly everything from within GeForce Experience. That includes using Nvidia Ansel to take way cool in-game photos at resolutions exceeding 63K (16 times that of which a 4K monitor can display).

Nvidia also has a leg up when it comes to streaming games whether it’s to another gaming PC with at least a Maxwell-based GPU, as well as the company’s self-made tablets and set-top box. Not to mention, Nvidia also has a cloud-based gaming service call GeForce Now available to Windows 10 and MacOS users.

And, of course you can’t talk about Nvidia in 2019 without mentioning ray tracing. When Team Green announced its Turing line of graphics card, it made huge claims about revolutionizing gaming with real-time ray traced lighting, shadows and reflections. Games with these features have been out for a while now, and while they certainly look great, these effects drain performance, even from cards designed for them

AMD has MORE features packed into it's drivers by far.

Yeeeessss they do.

Because it delivers driver updates and optimizes games in addition to letting you broadcast gameplay and capture screenshots as well as videos directly from its easy-to-use interface, Nvidia GeForce Experience is posited as the one PC gaming application to rule them all.

Meanwhile, AMD’s newly announced Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition aims to overtake Nvidia’s solution. The latest update is stacked features including automatic overclocking (that doesn’t need tensor cores) and stream games to your mobile device.

Ohh look AMD is copying Nvidia's Geforce Experience.
Shocker.
They must be copying/replicating/reacting to Nvidia's move once again because their drivers are packed with MORE features by far.
Hey, AMD has come along way, I will admit.
But when it comes to the overall gaming experience, if your gaming on AMD, your gaming on 2nd fiddle. It is what is is.

Yeah, you full of hot air.
Nothing you are saying is really true, it is marketing drivel from nvidia.

GPU PhysX was an utter flop. Everyone knows this including Nvidia, that is why they made a CPU SDK for PhysX, so everyone could use it. So PhysX didn't fall on it's face and fade away. People with AMD still use PhysX in games, because it is not GPU driven.

Not sure if you are serious about Nvidia's drivers... but the GeForce experience is utter garbage and the regular drivers don't even have an auto-update feature. Every single install of new nvidia drivers, breaks my audio set-up & color/gamma.

I have not had a single issue with my AMD drivers... and their software suite has everything Nvidia does, and more. Sounds to me like you are bringing up the past, because the present and future looks dim for you..?

 

[amstech]

Not sure if you are serious about Nvidia's drivers... but the GeForce experience is utter garbage

This is all I needed to read from your post to clarify the rest is just mush as well.
AMD drivers have improved, but you get what you pay for.

 

[m3tavision]

Correct, you are about the only person who loves the G-Force experience? Most just use the card drivers and forgo Nvidia's G-force experience, because it is so horrid.

Are you actually defending Nvidia's "experience"...? (You must of drank all the coolaid.)

 

[Shadowboxer]

Nvidia software, drivers and features are miles ahead of AMD’s. I recently switched to Nvidia from 5 years of using AMD and the difference is like night and day. Less crashes, smoother experience, game ready drivers out very quickly on release. AMD have improved a lot though, at one point they were only releasing one WHQL driver per year.

I would say that the 5700XT is a return to form for AMD though, traditionally AMD have always been able to sell you a slightly worse card for a lot less money. The trade off that it runs hot and the drivers and extras aren’t as good. The 5700XT needs to be a little bit cheaper though, the forums appear to be filing up with heat issues on that card and it’s not quite cheaper enough than a 2070S to make that worth it if you’ve ask me. I’d pick a 2070S personally. But a tier down and the 5700 (non XT) is the winner over the 2060S imo.

Oh and the 5700XT is AMDs current flagship. Since they discontinued the Radeon VII it’s the fastest card they do, ergo it’s the flagship.

 

[neeyik]

Oh and the 5700XT is AMDs current flagship. Since they discontinued the Radeon VII it’s the fastest card they do, ergo it’s the flagship.

It's not been discontinued - it's a valid, current model on their website, just as the Vega series and Polaris-based models are.

 

[Evernessince]

Nvidia software, drivers and features are miles ahead of AMD’s. I recently switched to Nvidia from 5 years of using AMD and the difference is like night and day. Less crashes, smoother experience, game ready drivers out very quickly on release. AMD have improved a lot though, at one point they were only releasing one WHQL driver per year.

I would say that the 5700XT is a return to form for AMD though, traditionally AMD have always been able to sell you a slightly worse card for a lot less money. The trade off that it runs hot and the drivers and extras aren’t as good. The 5700XT needs to be a little bit cheaper though, the forums appear to be filing up with heat issues on that card and it’s not quite cheaper enough than a 2070S to make that worth it if you’ve ask me. I’d pick a 2070S personally. But a tier down and the 5700 (non XT) is the winner over the 2060S imo.

Oh and the 5700XT is AMDs current flagship. Since they discontinued the Radeon VII it’s the fastest card they do, ergo it’s the flagship.

Wrong. Vega 64 was a flagship and so was the Vega VII. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that a card with mid range pricing and mid range die size isn't a flagship. All the facts are there, you choose to ignore them.

"Less crashes, smoother experience, game ready drivers out very quickly on release."

Oh really, then why are Nvidia cards having stuttering and low performance issues in borderlands 3? Wolfenstein ring a bell? Less crashes, Nvidia had 2 system breaking bugs in 2018 alone. Please, no company is perfect.

 

[amstech]

"Less crashes, smoother experience, game ready drivers out very quickly on release."
Oh really, then why are Nvidia cards having stuttering and low performance issues in borderlands 3? Wolfenstein ring a bell? Less crashes, Nvidia had 2 system breaking bugs in 2018 alone. Please, no company is perfect.

AMD is still inferior when it comes to issues and bugs, Freesync isn't as polished as Gsync and overall Nvidia's drivers are more sound and feature rich.
It's not a knock on AMD, they are a solid bang for your buck purchase, but it is what it is.

Nvidia software, drivers and features are miles ahead of AMD’s. I recently switched to Nvidia from 5 years of using AMD and the difference is like night and day. Less crashes, smoother experience, game ready drivers out very quickly on release. AMD have improved a lot though, at one point they were only releasing one WHQL driver per year.
.

They [AMD drivers] definitely have improved.

 

[Shadowboxer]

It's not been discontinued - it's a valid, current model on their website, just as the Vega series and Polaris-based models are.

You are incorrect, the Radeon 7 is discontinued;

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www....eon-vii-less-than-five-months-into-launch?amp

This does make the 5700XT the flagship. But that doesn’t mean it should be compared to Nvidias flagship. I’d compare it to Nvidias midrange as they cost around the same.

 

[neeyik]

Okay, so that link says in the first few lines:

AMD has reportedly discontinued production of its flagship Radeon VII graphics card. According to a Cowcotland report, AMD no longer finds it viable to produce and sell the Radeon VII at prices competitive to NVIDIA's RTX 2080, especially when its latest Radeon RX 5700 XT performs within 5-12 percent of the Radeon VII at less than half its price.

Strictly speaking the website is stating that the report says that AMD no longer think it's possible to compete, price wise, against the 2080. Yes, there are a number of other websites reporting the same report and remarks by Puget Systems stating the same. However, the Radeon VII is still on AMD's website and they still give links to where you can buy it:

https://www.amd.com/en/products/graphics/amd-radeon-vii
https://www.amd.com/en/where-to-buy/radeon-vii

The list of retailers includes AMD themselves:

https://shop.amd.com/promo?promoID=4946292800

For a company that's allegedly not producing nor selling a product, because it has been discontinued, it seems odd that not only can you buy it directly from AMD, but you can also still buy it. Now it just may well be that AMD and all the listed retailers are just selling it until stocks have cleared, and that no more are being produced, but right at this moment in time, AMD have not publicly discontinued the product - they list it, they promote it, they sell it. To me that's not a discontinued model but I appreciate that for lots of other people, if a big retailer no longer offers it, then it could be classed as EOL.

 

[Shadowboxer]

Okay, so that link says in the first few lines:

Strictly speaking the website is stating that the report says that AMD no longer think it's possible to compete, price wise, against the 2080. Yes, there are a number of other websites reporting the same report and remarks by Puget Systems stating the same. However, the Radeon VII is still on AMD's website and they still give links to where you can buy it:

https://www.amd.com/en/products/graphics/amd-radeon-vii
https://www.amd.com/en/where-to-buy/radeon-vii

The list of retailers includes AMD themselves:

https://shop.amd.com/promo?promoID=4946292800

For a company that's allegedly not producing nor selling a product, because it has been discontinued, it seems odd that not only can you buy it directly from AMD, but you can also still buy it. Now it just may well be that AMD and all the listed retailers are just selling it until stocks have cleared, and that no more are being produced, but right at this moment in time, AMD have not publicly discontinued the product - they list it, they promote it, they sell it. To me that's not a discontinued model but I appreciate that for lots of other people, if a big retailer no longer offers it, then it could be classed as EOL.

I’m on AMDs (UK) website right now and top of the graphics card page is the flagship - the 5700XT. Under that is the Radeon 7 and it says “available for a short time” and then it says sold out if you were to click on it to buy. If you search google for sellers selling it, there are barely any and most want upwards of the cost of a 3rd party 2080 Super for it. I imagine you might have better luck on eBay.

 

[neeyik]

Yes, the 5700XT is top of the page for the US site too, but that makes sense as it's a new product. Don't get me wrong, I have no doubt that AMD want to move the focus away from the Radeon VII and other products, and shift everyone's attention to the 5700 series. I'd even agree that the newer model is indeed AMD's flagship product, given that it's the only thing sporting their new architecture and feature set; I certainly wouldn't ever recommend anyone buys a Radeon VII! I was only debating on the label of it being officially discontinued, which to me means "no longer promoted, manufactured, and sold" - the general stock levels, whether at AMD or third party retailers, suggest that the second of those two is almost certainly true, but the first and third are still valid. I wouldn't say somebody is wrong about that if, in their opinion, the Radeon VII is discontinued.

 

[Shadowboxer]

Yes, the 5700XT is top of the page for the US site too, but that makes sense as it's a new product. Don't get me wrong, I have no doubt that AMD want to move the focus away from the Radeon VII and other products, and shift everyone's attention to the 5700 series. I'd even agree that the newer model is indeed AMD's flagship product, given that it's the only thing sporting their new architecture and feature set; I certainly wouldn't ever recommend anyone buys a Radeon VII! I was only debating on the label of it being officially discontinued, which to me means "no longer promoted, manufactured, and sold" - the general stock levels, whether at AMD or third party retailers, suggest that the second of those two is almost certainly true, but the first and third are still valid. I wouldn't say somebody is wrong about that if, in their opinion, the Radeon VII is discontinued.

Well from the “available for a limited time” message on their website it looks like AMD have stopped making the chips. This would mean it’s discontinued. Of course there will still be retailers clearing out their old stock. I guess it depends on what you define “discontinued” to be. Personally I would say that if a company stops making a product then they have discontinued that product.

 

[harm9963]

Is clear the only way nvidia will sell rtx cards is to not support Pascal with new drivers for new games. This article makes that very clear.

Nvidia knows that they will get caught diminish performance on old titles, but anything new is fair game

Two nwell,Gow5 and

I've got the 1080ti. It's not even overclocked. The card is brilliant.
The 1080ti has on major major advantage. Its got 11gb vram. There are many games at 4k ultra that need over 8gb vram, Inc gears 5. Only two cards can run these games at this level. The 1080ti and the 2080ti
I am running gears 5 at insane settings at 4k with ultra textures pack at a solid 60fps.
All other cards apart from the 2080ti are physically unable to run gears 5 at these settings due to severe vram limitations.
The 2080 is unable to even run nodded gta 5 at ultra settings 4k because more than 8gb vram is needed
So for the present. If you game at 4k ultra and want access to all games then only the 2080ti and 1080ti will do that. Everything else is inferior.
The 2080 is a great card but it's not got enough vram for me.
If 4k is the future then a two year old card is better than anything new. Apart from the 2080ti.

I agreed. That's one of the reason I got a 1080Ti ,Gow5 and Borderlands 3 , 1080Ti does very well.

 

[hellomoto]

I'm still on a 970 and going strong.

 

[toooooot]

I'm still on a 970 and going strong.

But 1440, but 144hz.....
Remind me a youtube video about something, where while discussing techologies to smooth image in games the youtuber talked about resolution is getting higher and higher and this making those smoothing technologies less practical.

 

[birdy70]

Do u use standard gtx1080ti? I use the evga sc2 and mayby this card will be a little bit faster. but the different in 2019 was 800€ vs 1300€ to 2080ti. so with 11 gb the 1080ti is still very nice (-: some benchmarks very close to the 2080ti.