Should i upgrade to a 1080 ti?

[aune]

Currently using a 1080 gaming z 2075 mhz on oc mode. Was thinking about grabbing myself a 1080 ti aorus extreme edition? is it worth? I am looking at the clocks of the aorus and it doesnt seem worth it. im not a big pc guy so i wouldnt know if it mattered alot. Its boost clock is 1746 mhz, considerably lower than my 1080. Need some advice

[Scott Macbeth]

Personally I'd advise against it. Im running at 1080 right now and an upgrade to the Ti for the price wouldn't be worth it, if your really looking for an upgrade perhaps look into the 2080 super or 2080 Ti depending on your budget or wait for the next series of RTX cards to come out which is what I'm doing. Currently my 1080 doesn't have issues running any game on very high settings.

[flashiling]

your 1080 is still very good.

i'd suggest waiting and buying a 3000 series

[AndrewB121]

The 1080 is still pretty high end, I don't think an upgrade to a 1080ti is either necessary or worth the money. The only real upgrades for you would be the 2080super and 2080ti, and even then it wouldn't be worth the money. I suggest waiting for now. 

[Fasauceome]

8 minutes ago, aune said:

Its boost clock is 1746 mhz, considerably lower than my 1080.

GPU boost will be taking the speed way higher. The boost clock advertised for your 1080 gaming Z is only 1911, so it's doing a lot more work for higher speed. 

 

However, if the 1080 is doing the job for you, no need to swap it out. If you do want a 1080 ti, a reasonable used price is closer to $400, maybe $450, but it has to compete with the $500 of the 2070 super because performance is hot on its heels 

[Stu_Bear]

Well, it all depends.  Only reason a 1080 ti would be optimal is if you have too many hz/pixels to push with the 1080.  My egva 1080 sc powers my 1080p ultrawide @ 75hz flawlessly...it's the bee's knees.  If I had a 1440p ultrawide...i'd seriously have to consider at least a 1080 ti...

 

What's your monitor of choice?

[aune]

really? seen videos that it increases performance up to 35% was thinking it would be a catch getting one for 500 bucks

[aune]

23 minutes ago, Stu_Bear said:

Well, it all depends.  Only reason a 1080 ti would be optimal is if you have too many hz/pixels to push with the 1080.  My egva 1080 sc powers my 1080p ultrawide @ 75hz flawlessly...it's the bee's knees.  If I had a 1440p ultrawide...i'd seriously have to consider at least a 1080 ti...

 

What's your monitor of choice?

I am currently using a 60hz, but i will be buying a 144hz one

[Stu_Bear]

Ummm...if 144hz @ 1080p standard width...I'd just keep the gtx1080 till something better comes along.  I'm waiting for AMD to crank out something better than "gtx1080 ti power" for $400...think their next flagship will do at least that.  

 

Another idea for upgrades...have you considered getting a 2nd 1080 and going the SLI route?  Never done it myself, but if by some slim chance your mobo supports it...it would cost less, ~$325, and get you very near to 2080 ti performance...food for thought.    

[Stu_Bear]

To the OP...watch this video if you got time: 

 

[aune]

10 minutes ago, Stu_Bear said:

Ummm...if 144hz @ 1080p standard width...I'd just keep the gtx1080 till something better comes along.  I'm waiting for AMD to crank out something better than "gtx1080 ti power" for $400...think their next flagship will do at least that.  

 

Another idea for upgrades...have you considered getting a 2nd 1080 and going the SLI route?  Never done it myself, but if by some slim chance your mobo supports it...it would cost less, ~$325, and get you very near to 2080 ti performance...food for thought.    

doubt my 650w psu could handle that, thats why im looking into a cheap 1080 ti

[Mick Naughty]

I was going too. I don’t have enough cpu for a 1080ti to play on 1080p like normal. 

Hope it could do decent frames on 1440p to make it worth it. 

 

Price wise it’s the only viable option. Money left over to put a block on it. 

[Stu_Bear]

Ummm...depends how lean you run things...this would be my system in SLI if I had the mobo to support it...rated at 574 watts total...and I got a lot of power wasteful items I could remove...

 

[aune]

10 minutes ago, Stu_Bear said:

Ummm...depends how lean you run things...this would be my system in SLI if I had the mobo to support it...rated at 574 watts total...and I got a lot of power wasteful items I could remove...

 

what program is that?

[Stu_Bear]

It's the https://pcpartpicker.com/ website.  You build your current, future and/or fantasy pc on it by adding the items.  It tells you the price and project power draw of the system...much fun to play with when you are suppose to be doing work...at work

[Stu_Bear]

FWI...I only have a 600w power supply...i'd not be scared in the least of running 1080 sli with it.  

[Zando_]

1 hour ago, aune said:

 Its boost clock is 1746 mhz, considerably lower than my 1080. Need some advice

They aren't equivalent. The 1080 Ti has way more CUDA cores. 3,584 vs 2,560, that's over a 1K difference. It's lower clocked because of that, but they still regularly hit 1950-2000 or higher on the core, both auto-boosting (I've never seen a Pascal card ever sit at the rated boost, GPU boost 3.0 always takes them much, much higher) or manually OCing. The 1080 Ti is a more powerful card for both gaming and rendering tasks. 

What are you doing that the 1080 can't, or are you just looking to upgrade for the heck of it? I've had both 1080s and a 1080 Ti, they're all amazing cards. 
 

22 minutes ago, aune said:

doubt my 650w psu could handle that, thats why im looking into a cheap 1080 ti

I ran my SLI GTX 1080 SCs at 2100Mhz on the core, along with an 8600K OCed to 5Ghz at 1.34v or so, off an EVGA 650W G3. Provided it's a decent PSU, that's enough power. 

I still moved to a 1080 Ti though, I was noobier then and not down to get SLI to behave. If you can get it to act properly and play games that scale though, you can push some eyeball searing fps. SLI 1080s at decent scaling are far, far more powerful than a 1080 Ti. 

[Stu_Bear]

Yeah I see videos where 1080 SLI surpasses 2080 ti performance in AAA titles in 4k!  I just need an SLI mobo and 2nd EVGA 1080 SC to be gaming in 4k now

[aune]

10 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

They aren't equivalent. The 1080 Ti has way more CUDA cores. 3,584 vs 2,560, that's over a 1K difference. It's lower clocked because of that, but they still regularly hit 1950-2000 or higher on the core, both auto-boosting (I've never seen a Pascal card ever sit at the rated boost, GPU boost 3.0 always takes them much, much higher) or manually OCing. The 1080 Ti is a more powerful card for both gaming and rendering tasks. 

What are you doing that the 1080 can't, or are you just looking to upgrade for the heck of it? I've had both 1080s and a 1080 Ti, they're all amazing cards. 
 

I ran my SLI GTX 1080 SCs at 2100Mhz on the core, along with an 8600K OCed to 5Ghz at 1.34v or so, off an EVGA 650W G3. Provided it's a decent PSU, that's enough power. 

I still moved to a 1080 Ti though, I was noobier then and not down to get SLI to behave. If you can get it to act properly and play games that scale though, you can push some eyeball searing fps. SLI 1080s at decent scaling are far, far more powerful than a 1080 Ti. 

yeah, was thinking of upgrading cause i can, all the games i play i have zero issues with. kinda worried about cyberpunk 2077 tho, maybe thats whats pushing me

[Zando_]

Just now, aune said:

yeah, was thinking of upgrading cause i can, all the games i play i have zero issues with. kinda worried about cyberpunk 2077 tho, maybe thats whats pushing me

Hmmmmmm... safest bet would be to yoink a 1080 Ti now, or sell your 1080 and pick up a 2080 (Cyberpunk 2077 is supposed to support RTX if you wanna mess with that for extra eye candy). Although if they bother to support SLI, you'll get better performance with two 1080s. Can't say till it releases. CD Projekt Red seems to be the type of company that cares about that kind of thing, but the last game they made (The Witcher 3), came out in 2015, back when SLI was much more supported overall. Both game devs and OEMs have been dropping support for it (though of course any games made back when SLI was a bigger thing still run fine, and many newer ones like the Battlefield series still scale well), so can't really say for sure. 

If you have to upgrade right now, I'd either go for a used 1080 Ti, or sell the 1080 and get a 2080 if you wanna mess around with RTX. Better guarantee of performance, since we can't test SLI with games that aren't out yet. 

[aune]

just bought myself the strix oc, im set for a couple of years now i think

[Midnitewolf]

It all depends on cost.  If someone is selling you the 1080 Ti for $50-$100, then sure.  If you have to pay $500 for the 1080 Ti used, then I think your better off just buying a 2070 Super or sticking with your 1080.  If your thinking of paying retail for a 1080 Ti, don't bother because I haven't seen one for under $700 anywhere and in this case, upgrading to a 2080 Super would make sense. 

[Otto_iii]

6 hours ago, aune said:

doubt my 650w psu could handle that, thats why im looking into a cheap 1080 ti

note: i wrote this thinking you meant a 400-500$ 1080ti, so even more firm in my opinions after looking up card you mentioned in op:

don't listen to people who suggest SLI, basically every tech-tuber i know has made it clear SLI is dead, Even JayzTwoCents who up until recently has only been building his main rigs as SLI for 1/2 a decade.  You'll only get support in a very small handful of recent titles (BFV, COD BO4 but not the more recent MW) and its likely if any of those titles have a significant update to the API (graphics engine) SLI support will be dropped.  For over half a year nobody is officially supporting it anymore for gaming and forcing it to work via tricks in Nvidea Inspector have outright stopped working in titles like Apex. 

Likewise i probably wouldn't upgrade to 1080ti from 1080, both are going to require you to turn down settings a bit for consistent 144hz, neither will be great at Ultra settings, if your focus is making games run at 144hz the difference between the 1080ti and 1080 is going to basically be how much fidelity for things you won't usually notice as much as frame-rates, stuff like setting shadows, reflections, post processing one notch lower (like high vs ultra, or medium vs high in more demanding titles)  
 

7 hours ago, aune said:

grabbing myself a 1080 ti aorus extreme edition? is it worth?

holy cow just looked up this card, thats a huge ripoff, 1080ti shouldn't go for more then 400$, maybe 450$ these days.
If you were genuinely going to spend 1100$ on a 1080ti, don't, get a 2080 Super and overclock it, or likewise a 2080ti, that price is insane for a 1080ti

With either of those you'll atleast actually notice a difference you are looking for.  Don't get swindled into buying old tech for 3x what its worth.

[Mick Naughty]

Hz isn’t FPS. 

[aune]

20 hours ago, Otto_iii said:

note: i wrote this thinking you meant a 400-500$ 1080ti, so even more firm in my opinions after looking up card you mentioned in op:

don't listen to people who suggest SLI, basically every tech-tuber i know has made it clear SLI is dead, Even JayzTwoCents who up until recently has only been building his main rigs as SLI for 1/2 a decade.  You'll only get support in a very small handful of recent titles (BFV, COD BO4 but not the more recent MW) and its likely if any of those titles have a significant update to the API (graphics engine) SLI support will be dropped.  For over half a year nobody is officially supporting it anymore for gaming and forcing it to work via tricks in Nvidea Inspector have outright stopped working in titles like Apex. 

Likewise i probably wouldn't upgrade to 1080ti from 1080, both are going to require you to turn down settings a bit for consistent 144hz, neither will be great at Ultra settings, if your focus is making games run at 144hz the difference between the 1080ti and 1080 is going to basically be how much fidelity for things you won't usually notice as much as frame-rates, stuff like setting shadows, reflections, post processing one notch lower (like high vs ultra, or medium vs high in more demanding titles)  
 

holy cow just looked up this card, thats a huge ripoff, 1080ti shouldn't go for more then 400$, maybe 450$ these days.
If you were genuinely going to spend 1100$ on a 1080ti, don't, get a 2080 Super and overclock it, or likewise a 2080ti, that price is insane for a 1080ti

With either of those you'll atleast actually notice a difference you are looking for.  Don't get swindled into buying old tech for 3x what its worth.

no way i would spend that much. everything is more expensive where i live so i think i got a great deal with the card i bought.