The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, a Pascal-generation GPU that is fondly remembered by enthusiasts for delivering what was “Ultimate GeForce” performance despite its (now-relatively) cheap $699 MSRP, is now officially seven years old. NVIDIA released the GPU on March 10, 2017, calling it the most powerful and efficient hardware that it had ever designed at the time.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti specs:
- GPU Specs
- CUDA Cores: 3584
- Graphics Clock (MHz): 1480
- Processor Clock (MHz): 1582
- Graphics Performance: high-20000
- Memory Specs
- Standard Memory Config: 11 GB GDDR5X
- Memory Interface Width: 352-bit
- Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec): 11 Gbps
- Supported Tech
- SLI, CUDA, 3D Vision, PhysX, NVIDIA G-SYNC, Virtual Reality, DirectX 12, Ansel
- Power Specs
- Maximum Graphics Card Power (W): 250
NVIDIA on the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition:
…the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition features a new high-airflow thermal solution that’s cooler and quieter than previous designs, maximizing the potential of GPU Boost and enabling overclockers to achieve even faster speeds. And under the hood efficiency is improved thanks to a new 7-phase power design with 14 high-efficiency dualFETs that deliver better power efficiency at the highest usage and power levels.
The original announcement video:
Discussion (19 replies)
Join Discussion →I got friends who are still using this card. I would still be on this card myself if @Peter_Brosdahl hadn't hooked me up with an RTX 3090 just over a year ago. I bought my EVGA 1080 Ti brand-new in 2019 (so a couple years after launch) for $430. A Titan Pascal with 1GB less vRAM and faster clock speeds for the memory and GPU. Good gawd the thing was a monster. One of nVidia's best if I do say so myself. Definitely one of the best cards I've used in my entire life.
Yep, I've still got a Strix OC edition up in the closet that I touched base with Kyle and David on how to fine tune my OC settings. One of the best, and most used, cards I've had to date. It's always a "moment of silence" kind of thing anytime someone posts about retiring any 1080 Ti on Reddit. I've got a 2080 Ti that got a ton of hours on it as well.
The 1080 Ti was also the card that set me straight on that it can often be better to bite the bullet and pay more for the top tier card and enjoy it for many more years than to aim lower and have to upgrade sooner, or get used to lowering more settings sooner. I haven't really had any regrets with that line of thought since, other than it hurts the wallet a bit more with each release. It was also the card that served as a launching point for me to break away from years of SLI and shift to single GPUs.
This happened to me too. In the past I always bought the card that was one step below the flagship. Getting a 1080 Ti was first time in my life I got a flagship card (well that's not true cuz a friend gave me a Radeon 9800 Pro once, but that was after the 9800 XT had come out). Sure I didn't pay full MSRP, but still, I got to experience what living with such a card was like. And yeah man, those things got staying power. Not that I was unhappy with how long I stayed on the step-below cards I was using before. But the flagships card can really be stretched out. And that got me thinking about my future purchases.
I built my friend a PC a few years back and that included my old 1080 Ti MSI Duke card. It's still going strong.
I think that was one of the best nvidia made. That and the 8800 GTX were two of their best. I had a 1080 Ti in a VR machine until this past winter.
In fact I skipped the RTX 2000 series because the 1080 Ti was just that much better at the time.
Just dropping this here.
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I gave away my 1080ti to a friend 2 months ago, and it upgraded his 1660 Super. That card is probably going to live another 3 years in his machine - almost certainly the longest lived card I’ll have ever used.
The 10k series was nice from Nvidia. I had the 1070 back then. No regrets at all.
Still have a Gigabyte 1080 Ti in a spare rig. Bought new at launch. Still a great 1080/1440 card.
I got a 1080Ti somewhere I think. Its a EVGA Hydro series but the AIO has gone bad in it. Pretty sure the liquid is low and/or empty so it doesn't cool worth a damn.
I wish I kept at least one 1080 Ti and special cards like it down the line, instead of giving them all back to Kyle. I shoulda kept at least one, regret that, I'd love to re-test one, and other GPUs that were special or iconic, in 2024.
I only had a regular 1080, and I wasn't that impressed by it. This prompted me to make a tier list of all the video cards that I owned.
HAHAHAHAHAHA I like how 290X is in the GOAT section, but 290X Crossfire is in the Garbage section!
I had a pair of Gigabyte OC 1080's in SLI in my last SLI build. They did okay and were an entry point for me with 4K gaming back in the day but were only roughly 20% more powerful together than the 1080 Ti Strix OC after I overclocked it a bit further.
In reverse comparison, a single 1080 was around 20% slower than the 1080 Ti. Just did a quick search and it appears I wasn't the only one who saw that.
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I think PASCAL overall but particularly the 1080Ti is the best series of nvidia cards. I had a 1070 and 1070Ti myself and they were awesome.
I have fond memories of most of my nvidia cards (even the 5900) but pascal is in thr top of the list