RTX 2060 vs GTX 1080

[ItzSwezy]

Hey!

 

I own two graphics cards, one is the RTX 2060 and the other one is the GTX 1080. Right now I'm using the RTX 2060 in my system. My question is, should I use the RTX 2060 or GTX 1080 for better performance in gaming? I also do some video editing. The RTX 2060 is the ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 2060 OC EVO 6GB and the GTX 1080 is a blower-style GPU from an Acer prebuilt gaming PC.

 

My most important specs are:

i5-11400F

RTX 2060

16 GB DDR4 3200 MHz RAM (2x8)

650W PSU 80+ Bronze

 

Thank you!

//ItzSwezy

[filpo]

2 minutes ago, ItzSwezy said:

My question is, should I use the RTX 2060 or GTX 1080 for better performance in gaming?

the gtx 1080, not by much but it is better. However it'll probs lose driver support earlier than the 2060 so it's your choice. They're both basically the same

[Agall]

2 minutes ago, ItzSwezy said:

Hey!

 

I own two graphics cards, one is the RTX 2060 and the other one is the GTX 1080. Right now I'm using the RTX 2060 in my system. My question is, should I use the RTX 2060 or GTX 1080 for better performance in gaming? I also do some video editing. The RTX 2060 is the ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 2060 OC EVO 6GB and the GTX 1080 is a blower-style GPU from an Acer prebuilt gaming PC.

 

My most important specs are:

i5-11400F

RTX 2060

16 GB DDR4 3200 MHz RAM (2x8)

650W PSU 80+ Bronze

 

Thank you!

//ItzSwezy

GTX 1080 8GB, simply for the higher VRAM. 6GB isn't cutting it in 2023 for a lot of games.

[ItzSwezy]

1 minute ago, filpo said:

the gtx 1080, not by much but it is better. However it'll probs lose driver support earlier than the 2060 so it's your choice. They're both basically the same

Thank you for your advice!

[ItzSwezy]

1 minute ago, Agall said:

GTX 1080 8GB, simply for the higher VRAM. 6GB isn't cutting it in 2023 for a lot of games.

Thanks for the advice!

[Middcore]

They're virtually neck and neck in terms of performance, although of course the 2060 theoretically has more features.

 

2060's 6GB of VRAM could become an issue.

 

On the other hand I am expecting Nvidia to announce end of driver support for Pascal literally any day, there are a lot of 1060/1070/1080/1080 ti users out there they've never convinced to upgrade.

 

I would expect a blower 1080 to be annoyingly noisy.

 

If you're using the 2060 now, and you don't see yourself bumping into the VRAM cap, I don't think you're going to notice any improvement in anything by putting the 1080 in.

[ItzSwezy]

2 minutes ago, Middcore said:

They're virtually neck and neck in terms of performance, although of course the 2060 theoretically has more features.

 

2060's 6GB of VRAM could become an issue.

 

On the other hand I am expecting Nvidia to announce end of driver support for Pascal literally any day, there are a lot of 1060/1070/1080/1080 ti users out there they've never convinced to upgrade.

 

I would expect a blower 1080 to be annoyingly noisy.

 

If you're using the 2060 now, and you don't see yourself bumping into the VRAM cap, I don't think you're going to notice any improvement in anything by putting the 1080 in.

Thanks for the help! Yeah, I was wondering about the RTX 2060 having only 6GB of VRAM, it's not that much when newer triple A titles are requiring much more VRAM nowadays unfortunately.

[FloRolf]

I also had both (albeit a 2060KO) and they were really very close but like the others already said, the extra vram gave the 1080 the edge in modern titles at high resolutions. 2060 uses less power though obviously. 

[ItzSwezy]

1 minute ago, FloRolf said:

I also had both (albeit a 2060KO) and they were really very close but like the others already said, the extra vram gave the 1080 the edge in modern titles at high resolutions. 2060 uses less power though obviously. 

Thank you! Yeah, I noticed in some games that 6GB of VRAM is not that much. I only game in 1080p but I like to crank up my settings and get a nice experience and that uses a lot of VRAM.

[Bagzie]

6 hours ago, Middcore said:

They're virtually neck and neck in terms of performance, although of course the 2060 theoretically has more features.

 

2060's 6GB of VRAM could become an issue.

 

On the other hand I am expecting Nvidia to announce end of driver support for Pascal literally any day, there are a lot of 1060/1070/1080/1080 ti users out there they've never convinced to upgrade.

 

I would expect a blower 1080 to be annoyingly noisy.

 

If you're using the 2060 now, and you don't see yourself bumping into the VRAM cap, I don't think you're going to notice any improvement in anything by putting the 1080 in.

Alot of people still using the GTX970 aswell to be fair.

 

If I was OP I would try to sell both and see what's out there on the market.

 

Might be able to grab a 2080 or something along those lines.

[Middcore]

16 minutes ago, Bagzie said:

Alot of people still using the GTX970 aswell to be fair.

Maxwell is in the realm of "surprised they haven't pulled support already." 

[corrado33]

22 hours ago, Middcore said:

there are a lot of 1060/1070/1080/1080 ti users out there they've never convinced to upgrade.

Because there still aren't good enough reasons to upgrade.

 

The 1080TI is still a great card today (even at 1440p for most games), so long as you're ok with no DLSS or ray tracing. Mine hovers around 60-70 fps in cyberpunk at decent (mostly high, some medium) settings. 

 

I just did a comparison the other day thinking about an upgrade, and I would have to spend ~$500 for any thing WORTH upgrading to (used!). Sure, I could "side grade" to something of roughly equal performance, and get to use the newer feature sets, but that's not really worth spending money on IMO. 

The 1080TI was (is) a HELL of a card. Still relevant 3 generations later. (For what it's worth, you can find 1080 TIs for less than $200 nowadays.)

[Middcore]

2 hours ago, corrado33 said:

Because there still aren't good enough reasons to upgrade.

 

You don't need to make this argument to me. I'm not anything about whether people should or shouldn't have replaced those cards by now. The point is Nvidia wants to sell new cards to those people.

[Dedayog]

2 hours ago, corrado33 said:

Because there still aren't good enough reasons to upgrade.

 

The 1080TI is still a great card today (even at 1440p for most games), so long as you're ok with no DLSS or ray tracing. Mine hovers around 60-70 fps in cyberpunk at decent (mostly high, some medium) settings. 

 

I just did a comparison the other day thinking about an upgrade, and I would have to spend ~$500 for any thing WORTH upgrading to (used!). Sure, I could "side grade" to something of roughly equal performance, and get to use the newer feature sets, but that's not really worth spending money on IMO. 

The 1080TI was (is) a HELL of a card. Still relevant 3 generations later. (For what it's worth, you can find 1080 TIs for less than $200 nowadays.)

My kid just got done with BG3 and the 9900K/1080Ti was great he said.  Only real issue was outside Ktheric Thorm's castle.

 

When he upgrades, the 1080Ti is going on the wall under Best GPU Ever plaque.

[starsmine]

18 hours ago, Middcore said:

Maxwell is in the realm of "surprised they haven't pulled support already." 

I think because of the switch honestly. 

First I noticed Kepler stopped being supported was RE8. 

I dont think there is much game engine API-wise that pascal added. All the new architecture features are compute or encoding-based. Maxwell added a quite a bit over kepler. 

[ewitte]

- 1080 doesn't have DLSS, mesh shaders (will be a big issues if more games require this), RTX (not that big a deal the 2060 is too slow to handle it good).

- 6GB can be a problem but may be able to work around it at 1080p.

[starsmine]

14 minutes ago, ewitte said:

- 1080 doesn't have DLSS, mesh shaders (will be a big issues if more games require this), RTX (not that big a deal the 2060 is too slow to handle it good).

- 6GB can be a problem but may be able to work around it at 1080p.

Pascal has DLSS* and RTX, It just doesn't have Tensor or RT cores to accelerate it. You can run some DLSS technologies on just shader cores (Control)

You are correct, it doesn't have mesh shaders. 
 

[ewitte]

36 minutes ago, starsmine said:

Pascal has DLSS* and RTX, It just doesn't have Tensor or RT cores to accelerate it. You can run some DLSS technologies on just shader cores (Control)

You are correct, it doesn't have mesh shaders. 
 

Technically but not in practice.  If you want 10-15fps in even first gen RTX titles...