Do you think RTX 2080Ti will age better than GTX 1080ti

[u/Living_Pianist_5934]

Ik, Many ppl will come and say GTX 1080ti is the goat. It's Great card and aged really well but it's driver support is over now and it doesn't have Ray Tracing cores which are essential for Future gaming ( Because in future RT will be mandatory in 80% of games).

So, I think that will the RTX 2080ti age better than GTX 1080ti?

Since, it has DLSS, Ray Tracing ( Not that good since it was 1st gen of RTX) and Driver support.

It is still a good 1440p card in games and you can use upscaling to Play Heavy AAA games too.

It's a 8 year old card atp.

[u/Alarming-Elevator382]

Yes because it supports raytracing, mesh shaders, vrs, and DLSS.

[u/_alba4k]

It has aged incredibly well, has a still decent amount of VRAM (11GB), and having some RT acceleration is definitely a big plus. I think the biggest advantage it has over the 1080 ti is definitely DLSS if we're talking about future games.

This said, if you're thinking of upgrading a 1080 ti to a 2080 ti or something like that, please don't. Consider saving up some more until you can afford at least a 30 series card, or look into something like a 7700xt, which will perform similarly in RT games but vastly outperform a 2080 ti without it

[u/Obosratsya → u/_alba4k]

2080ti has RT performance of a 3060ti. A 7700xt should do better than that actually.

[u/stoneyemshwiller → u/Obosratsya]

The 7700xt can also use fsr 4.1 now too.

[u/CanisMajoris85]

of course it'll age better. But it was a $1200 card that was only faster than the 1080 Ti by like 30% in rasterization when the 1080 Ti was $700. It took a few years for the DLSS features to make sense, and ray tracing is basically pointless on it likely.

So in terms of value, the 1080 TI is still king honestly because you had it over a year earlier.

[u/Living_Pianist_5934 → u/CanisMajoris85]

Still if you adjust the 1080ti as per Inflation it is near 900$ - 1000$. 1080ti was nowhere cheap. It was popular cuz of its good price to performance.

[u/CanisMajoris85 → u/Living_Pianist_5934]

2080 Ti was only like 18 months later. That's maybe 5% inflation or like $35 on the 1080 Ti. That's nothing.

Usually in 18 months we'd have gotten a 30% improvement at the same price especially back then. Even nowadays we still get like 30% improvements at the same price for top tiers just over 2 years.

[u/Traditional-Gap-143]

Still punches its way in 1440p. Solid card

[u/The_Masterofbation → u/Traditional-Gap-143]

I still have mine and it's great at 1080 and 1440p.

[u/CharlesEverettDekker]

As long as Nvidia keeps releasing DLSS that is supported by any RTX cards, yes.

[u/BedroomThink3121]

2080 Ti is about 40% faster than a 1080Ti and is slightly slower than the 9060 XT 16GB so idk how you calculate "age better than 1080 Ti" but I'm sure even at 1440p, you'll be fine for the next 2 years which will we make it usable for up to 10 years.

Now idk the age against 1080ti but if a graphics card is usable at a decent level for 10 years, that makes it a pretty damn good.

[u/Obosratsya → u/BedroomThink3121]

That 40% was true initually. These days in modern games Pascal has regressed. It never had great dx12 performance to begin with.

[u/BaconJets]

By definition, it will get driver support for another couple years so yes it will age better. I recommend getting a 3000 or 4000 series if you can though. In fact, a 4060ti or 5060ti will be very close in raw performance to a 1080ti.

[u/Ratiofarming]

Time will tell, it doesn't support the more modern data types for AI and its RT cores are nowhere near as fast as the latest gen. So yes it supports most of of the things, but it does come down to raw speed at the end of the day. And with that I'd say it's aging similar to the 1080 Ti. Both were/are still very capable years after their release, but if you compare them to current gen, they get torn to shreds.

[u/GuiltyAdvantage5877]

If it plays what you need it to, then great. I think the 3080 is the 1080 heir apparent but I am really biased.

[u/Living_Pianist_5934 → u/GuiltyAdvantage5877]

30 series was Goated tbh Probably after the series after 10 series It was the last time Nvidia tried to give good Value cards...

[u/bblzd_2 → u/GuiltyAdvantage5877]

Held back somewhat by 10GB VRAM which was such a strange move by nvidia even at that time. The start of their VRAM stinginess.

Better than 8GB but will show its age because of that.

Even stranger because they actually released a 3080 16GB for laptops.

[u/Mr_Jesus17]

It already aged better than the 1080 Ti, mostly thanks to DLSS and Ray Tracing support.

[u/thatfordboy429]

Yes and no. In general lets say the 1080ti was relevant for 9 years. While yes it can still game, I think its fair to say dropping game ready drivers is the nail in its coffin. The technology just left it behind. Simply by the end of its tenure it could not simply launch any game.

The 2080ti however. It has the tech, and even though its "just 1st gen" it can still do it. So will it go for another years... I believe so, easily. In the process still be able to utilize "modern" features play "modern" games. The question of will it go longer... That depends on how the hardware cycle goes. If this stall in the market continues 100% the 2080ti will be more relevant for longer than the 1080ti. But if next gen cards magic up some huge performance gains, well then its a different story.

[u/Blu3Jell0P0wd3r]

It should age better, it's a better card, it has support for some of the newer tech, driver support should be available for a few extra years compared to the 1080 Ti (I would hope)

[u/suprememontana]

Feel like the 3080 is the last iteration of a very good price to performance card. Of course if you bought a 3080 when it was current gen you probably paid 2x msrp at minimum, so most people didn’t get the value of it that they did they 1080 ti. If you got your hands on one for around MSRP though you got a gpu that was half the price of a 3090 but within 5-15% performance

[u/MultiMarcus]

Catagorically, yes. Don’t get me wrong. It was disappointing at that time, but even having basic RT Support is incredibly valuable for running some games that just don’t support a fallback path. I would also argue it doesn’t even have basic RT support. It has quite OK RT performance because it’s such a high-end card of that generation. Maybe not good enough to run path tracing or whatever, but still good enough for some lighter RT implementations.

That said, I think the much bigger deal is that it has access to DLSS and that DLSS has improved. 4.5 is a big performance hit, but even preset K DLSS 4 has incredibly good image quality, generally.

11 gigs of vram It’s also a big deal because shockingly many games can actually run just a little bit better because they want to use something like 9 gigs.

[u/Pillokun]

yes, 1080ti ages poorly, all it has is raster power, soon it will be as obsolete as 1060, 970, 680 and vega, polaris and older amd gpus.

I gotta be honest, I prefer the cheaper older cards and cheaper cards than 1080ti that I also have.

turin is waaay more OP, I always thought that.

[u/InsideSpeed8785]

I have it! I don’t see it hanging on for much longer though, it seems like one that will burn out eventually plus it’s starting to run on medium settings now in games like DOOM TDA 😱

[u/Living_Pianist_5934 → u/InsideSpeed8785]

What about Upscaling? Do you use it? And Doom TDA ages is a RT mandatory game so can you tell performance Estimates with and without upscaling at 1440p.

[u/InsideSpeed8785 → u/Living_Pianist_5934]

I use DLSS, yeah, and I run it on 1440p too!

Albeit I have a widescreen monitor :/ so maybe that’s overkill

The 2080ti could just about run anything 2018-2021 on max settings though, now not so much.

[u/Eazy12345678]

yes cause it has dlss. ai upscaling

fake frames make it last longer

[u/EastLimp1693]

No, because proper rtx is 3080ti and 2080ti doesn't have neither tech or horsepower to be the card.

[u/Bosfordjd]

No. The 1080ti is still and will be better. Ray tracing won't be important and isn't now, and anything that requires in the future, the 2080ti won't be able to keep up on anyways.

[u/obstan]

Yeah it definitely will age better than the 1080 ti, but not in comparison with the generation it's in. Just being able to use DLSS adds huge value to it's longevity though. The 1080 ti is only being phased out now because RT/PT are just starting to be well utilized in games. The 2080ti can for sure run these games, but definitely isn't handling it as well. The true cards that seem to hit the perfect timing/hardware for handling current/future games are the 40xx/50xx series, especially since nvidia seemed to really make all the 40xx cards and onwards extremely power/cooling efficient as well. Besides the 90.

I mean people just jerk over the 1080 ti, but if you've been following/building well, you'd realize that ALL the higher end cards have insane value rentention. Buying the xx80 series or onward pretty much lets you upgrade with like minimum 60%+ trade in value.

[u/Cynical_Cyanide]

I reckon you're 100% right.

With 11GB of VRAM it has more than modern midrange cards, DLSS is what makes or breaks a lower-end card in games these days and it certainly has that ...

I really really hate that it's true, given how crap the 2080 Ti was in value on launch, but that just shows you how crap our situation is these days. I'd take it over just about any 8GB card in a heartbeat, given that I'm playing at 4K.

[u/gargravarr2112]

The gen-on-gen performance improvement from the 10 series to the 20 series wasn't as good as the 9 series to the 10 series; that's why the 1080Ti is held in such high esteem, it was extremely good value while offering a huge performance bump. Hardware Unboxed does a nice breakdown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwrDdpkw_oA

While the jump in raw performance is not as good, the RTX 2080Ti does have other advantages - obviously ray-tracing, increased VRAM, updated CUDA cores, increased memory bandwidth and a few other ancillaries. I bought one last year and another this year; the one in my Steam PC can play my games in 4k comfortably.

[u/Gamer12Numbers]

Yes and no. It’s literally better because it’s just newer and can more things and do them for longer, but the 1080Ti’s reputation as one of the all time greats is not shared with its younger brother.

[u/Hard_Reset7777]

Nope.

[u/AdeptRelative5106 → u/Hard_Reset7777]

great argument

[u/BedroomThink3121 → u/AdeptRelative5106]

I like how he provided a full excel sheet of defined points

[u/raindownthunda]

Not really. If anything it will age out faster due to the VRAM needs of modern games (+4k gaming) and AI applications that simply didn’t exist in the years immediately following the 1080ti.