GTX 1080 Ti worth?

[Handsonic]

For example, the card has 11 GB GDDR5. Do you guys think that this card will suck in let's say 3~5 years?

 

Ps. I know games that look fairly well and are certainly old e.g. Burnout Paradise (2009 Release date) and run well on a 1060. But do the 1080 Ti worth for now? Or is it better wait to see something better regarding price x performance? (including 1080 Ti variants)

[Andreas Lilja]

Would be really surprised if you didn't max out everything for at least three to four years in 1440p.

 

 

[yathis]

no it will be fine 15 or 20+ years down the road, easy

[Droidbot]

1 minute ago, yathis said:

no it will be fine 15 or 20+ years down the road, easy

god fucking dammit yathis 

[Princess Luna]

VRAM hardly is an issue, people overestimate it, by the time 11gb of VRAM is no longer enough for mainstream gaming the cards too slow way before.

[Light-Yagami]

Buy a 1080ti with aftermarket cooling and you'll be good for 4k for 2 years and 1440p for 4 years. It's legit the strongest GPU for the money.

[yathis]

What? The OP did not even specify usage, so my statement is FACT!!!!!!!!!!

 

1 minute ago, Droidbot said:

god fucking dammit yathis 

 

Oh the OP edited and added the PS part.

[rn8686]

At what resultion and settings? It may well be still viable for 1080p gaming, perhaps even 1440p, but this depends on how hard devs push their games and what settings and fps you are comfortable to play at. 

3 minutes ago, yathis said:

no it will be fine 15 or 20+ years down the road, easy

Not for gaming, the card wont even be supported. Thats assuming you can find one anymore or yours still works. 

[yathis]

Just now, rn8686 said:

Not for gaming

Yes it will be excellent for gaming bro, trust me. DND ASCII

 

[rn8686]

Just now, yathis said:

Yes it will be excellent for gaming bro, trust me.

 

Perhaps current titles, nothing of that generation. 

[Handsonic]

2 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

VRAM hardly is an issue, people overestimate it, by the time 11gb of VRAM is no longer enough for mainstream gaming the cards too slow way before.

 

That is exactly my main concern.  

[yathis]

Any gen bro any.

 

Once we get an idea as for what the OP actually wants to do............ our convo will be more meaningful wont it, but I will continue to play along.

 

 

[othertomperson]

7 minutes ago, Handsonic said:

For example, the card has 11 GB GDDR5. Do you guys think that this card will suck in let's say 3~5 years?

 

Ps. I know games that look fairly well and are certainly old e.g. Burnout Paradise (2009 Release date) and run well on a 1060. But do the 1080 Ti worth for now? Or is it better wait to see something better regarding price x performance? (including 1080 Ti variants)

It depends on what you're doing with it. The exciting thing about this current generation of GPUs is that moving forward support for low level APIs will reduce the dependency on future driver revision (which would not be cost effective for Nvidia to provide for legacy products). Imagine if Directx12/Vulkan existed back in 2011, the GTX 580 would still be a force to be reckoned with.

[yathis]

Just now, othertomperson said:

It depends on what you're doing with it.

No Shit!

[rn8686]

1 minute ago, yathis said:

Any gen bro any.

 

Once we get an idea as for what the OP actually wants to do............ our convo will be more meaningful wont it, but I will continue to play along.

 

 

You think OP wants to buy a 1080ti just to power a display? 

[Princess Luna]

Just now, Handsonic said:

That is exactly my main concern.  

Take the 980ti for instance, it is from 2015 so it has 2 years of life already, it still is a perfectly capable 1440p card that still maxes all game on 1080p.

 

The 1080ti is even stronger, you gonna be pretty much on the "high end" for 3 ~ 4 years only then you gonna feel the slow down... it is a safe bet in my opinion, the card is a beast for actually acceptable price the way I see it.

 

3 minutes ago, rn8686 said:

Perhaps current titles, nothing of that generation. 

I am pretty sure this card gonna be maxing out e-sports here in a decade just fine yet.

[yathis]

1 minute ago, rn8686 said:

You think OP wants to buy a 1080ti just to power a display? 

Bro the OP did not say shit. We suppose to read minds?

fuck im logging off

[rn8686]

Just now, Princess Cadence said:

I am pretty sure this card gonna be maxing out e-sports here in a decade just fine yet.

I was thinking more graphically intensive AAA games (Perhaps I should have made my self more clear, but that isnt what you should be looking for if you are buying a 1080ti). 

[Handsonic]

1 minute ago, Princess Cadence said:

Take the 980ti for instance, it is from 2015 so it has 2 years of life already, it still is a perfectly capable 1440p card that still maxes all game on 1080p.

 

The 1080ti is even stronger, you gonna be pretty much on the "high end" for 3 ~ 4 years only then you gonna feel the slow down... it is a safe bet in my opinion, the card is a beast for actually acceptable price the way I see it.

 

I am pretty sure this card gonna be maxing out e-sports here in a decade just fine yet.

 

I'm wondering, why people are actually mad about a new Titan X(p) release? Will it be better than the 1080 ti? 

[rn8686]

Just now, yathis said:

Bro the OP did not say shit. We suppose to read minds?

fuck im logging off

Just please, you can infer what OP is asking for. It doesn't take a genius to work out that OP is gaming or rendering (Something very GPU intensive at least, otherwise that's just a waste). 

[rn8686]

1 minute ago, Handsonic said:

I'm wondering, why people are actually mad about a new Titan X(p) release? Will it be better than the 1080 ti? 

Likely a little, but obviously really bad value as you can get something performing the same for half the price. 

[Princess Luna]

Just now, Handsonic said:

I'm wondering, why people are actually mad about a new Titan X(p) release? Will it be better than the 1080 ti? 

Yes it is better than the 1080ti by 15% but costs 40% more.

People got upset at it because originally the Titan X would be the best card for each line up, Titan was best for 600 line up, Titan Black the best for the 700 line up, Titan XM best for 900 line up and then the Titan XP best for the 1000 series... however this time nVidia released TWO Titan X in the same line up, so every one who paid the very salty price for the best end up not getting the best as there were a second one later.

[othertomperson]

7 minutes ago, yathis said:

Bro the OP did not say shit. We suppose to read minds?

fuck im logging off

I understand your frustration, but I think we can reason about how the 1080 Ti will perform as a gaming GPU in coming years.

 

The temptation is to look at the GTX 580, in its day an equivalent GPU, and consider how that looks 5 (ish) years on. And on the face of it, not good. However, that ignores the fact that it relied heavily on a lot of Dx11 driver optimisations to allow that high level API to perform well. A more appropriate card to look at is the HD 7970. An equivalent tier GPU on release, but unlike the 580 it was rebranded and re-released as a current GPU into the 200 series, meaning it kept the optimisations that the 580 didn't have, which is why the 280X ended up wiping the floor with the 580. Dx12/Vulkan will reduce the need for optimisations so at last the more powerful card will perform better.

 

So this is my prediction: if you want to know how a 1080 Ti will have aged in five years' time, just look at how a 7970 (or 280X) performs right now.

 

2 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

Yes it is better than the 1080ti by 15% but costs 40% more.

People got upset at it because originally the Titan X would be the best card for each line up, Titan was best for 600 line up, Titan Black the best for the 700 line up, Titan XM best for 900 line up and then the Titan XP best for the 1000 series... however this time nVidia released TWO Titan X in the same line up, so every one who paid the very salty price for the best end up not getting the best as there were a second one later.

 

If that's their complaint then they don't really understand what happened the first time around. The 780, 780 Ti, Titan and Titan Black were all the exact same GPU. The Titan (and the 780) was the cut down flagship, and everything Nvidia expected to be sufficient to beat AMD at the time. These were very much the Titan X(P) and 1080 Ti of their day. It was only when AMD released the full Hawaii R9 290X and beat this chip that Nvidia released the full version of this, the 780 Ti and the Titan Black.

 

tl;dr anyone who is annoyed at the Titan Xp for reasons other than its dreadful name cannot cite the Titan Black as anything better, or indeed different.

[smokefest]

NOP gtx 1080 ti only good until the 1180 ti

 

After that, 1080 ti aint worth shit

 

(joking)

[Princess Luna]

7 minutes ago, othertomperson said:

If that's their complaint then they don't really understand what happened the first time around. The 780, 780 Ti, Titan and Titan Black were all the exact same GPU. The Titan (and the 780) was the cut down flagship, and everything Nvidia expected to be sufficient to beat AMD at the time. These were very much the Titan X(P) and 1080 Ti of their day. It was only when AMD released the full Hawaii R9 290X and beat this chip that Nvidia released the full version of this, the 780 Ti and the Titan Black.

 

tl;dr anyone who is annoyed at the Titan Xp for reasons other than its dreadful name cannot cite the Titan Black as anything better, or indeed different.

While the Titan and Titan Black were the same architecture, like I said the Titan was the 680 big brother and the Titan Black the 780 big brother, it was the same chip but for different line ups like I stated.

 

Nobody thought there would be another Titan while still inside the 1000 series line up... a second big brother to the 1080 thus why they felt betrayed, every one still expected a Volta Titan to come next year for instance.