I still have my 1080 powering in my Plex media server. That thing lasted me until the 4080 Super and was still going strong. While my friend struggled to play Cyberpunk on his Xbox, I was playing near release with next to no real game breaking issues. Also was still strong enough to play Half Life Alyx and other VR titles at decent performance. I and my friends couldn’t believe the levels of detail we could see in my VR headset with that GPU.
My 1080ti also retired to the server last year. I only upgraded to get more VRAM to play around with Ai stuff and the fact that support was getting dropped. It took 9 years for a worthwhile upgrade.
I have a 2070, which is similar in performance to the 1080.
I’ve not yet encountered a situation where the GPU was the cause of the drop below 60fps.
It was either a CPU issue (doing excessive stuff in simulation-heavy games) or a developer issue (not even the most powerful GPU could handle such bad optimization)
That’s why Nvidia is coming up with bullshit technology like DLSS to justify selling new GPUs. You don’t need that much power to play games nowadays. A GTX-1080 is good enough for gaming, even in 2026.
I still have my 1080 powering in my Plex media server. That thing lasted me until the 4080 Super and was still going strong. While my friend struggled to play Cyberpunk on his Xbox, I was playing near release with next to no real game breaking issues. Also was still strong enough to play Half Life Alyx and other VR titles at decent performance. I and my friends couldn’t believe the levels of detail we could see in my VR headset with that GPU.
My 1080ti also retired to the server last year. I only upgraded to get more VRAM to play around with Ai stuff and the fact that support was getting dropped. It took 9 years for a worthwhile upgrade.
My 1080ti is now serving in the kids’ rig.
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I have a 2070, which is similar in performance to the 1080.
I’ve not yet encountered a situation where the GPU was the cause of the drop below 60fps.
It was either a CPU issue (doing excessive stuff in simulation-heavy games) or a developer issue (not even the most powerful GPU could handle such bad optimization)
That’s why Nvidia is coming up with bullshit technology like DLSS to justify selling new GPUs. You don’t need that much power to play games nowadays. A GTX-1080 is good enough for gaming, even in 2026.