If you care about refresh rate it matters, not a lot of people can stand 30-40fps with hard drops to single digits just to be able to play a game.
If you care about refresh rate it matters, not a lot of people can stand 30-40fps with hard drops to single digits just to be able to play a game.
I'm curious. What game do you think drops to single digits fps on medium settings with a 1080TI?
I was playing Darktide on a 1060 with minimum 30fps recently, and that game is optimized like absolute trash.
Starfield.
1080 is the minimum card, the TI is decently more powerful (30%), but you’ve got to make concessions on medium to get 30fps, and there’s drops.
To be fair though, that's a VERY new game and they cared so little about optimizing it that they went out and said "you're probably going to need a new computer to play this" ..
I hear the 1080ti runs Doom just fine 😛
Cod MW2/3 are total crapshoots with frame rates, even on a 3080 and set to performance it can still just turn to crap. It seems to run more stable and on higher settings on 2070 laptop. I don't understand. (I tried to get as much hardware running DMZ as possible for friends and family, lots of machines)
That's how I akways played games :(
I actually prefer the crisp edges without as much post-processing effects sometimes. Source engine games look great to me, just minimal crisp and clean geometry. I find a lot of modern graphics distracting, but it depends on the game. I do love really pushing graphics for a game like Skyrim.
Modern game engines don't use the amazing SSAA (super sampling anti aliasing). Most have post processing anti aliasing like FXAA or TXAA which always makes edges look fuzzy. Source engine is one of those that still supports super sampling
Yeah that's exactly it, MSAA isn't too bad but FXAA makes edges look pretty blurry. Temporal anti aliasing is also really blurry looking sometimes but gives the impression that the edges could be crisp.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, when humanity is wiped out future species will find a Nokia on half battery and a fully working 1080Ti.
1070ti gang here. no problems playing anything on medium/high.
I don't do 4k though but VR is fine.
I feel like I'd need a display that can do 4K before I upgrade
Same, but I also don't really care about 4k; 1440 is just fine for me.
I have a 3060, which is a bit faster overall, and it struggles sometimes with my reverb g2. It's a pretty high resolution headset though.
yeah my VR headset is a couple years old as well and not the highest quality it's the Odyssey.
I guess I practice good enough gaming lol.
1080ti is still a beast
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I have never felt more called out.
Honestly I have a gtx1080 and I can run BG3 at close to ultra settings for around 30-60fps. I think my actual issue is my CPU I have an i7 3770 which came out in like 2012. And I have like ddr 3 ram from 10 years ago as well.
My SO upgraded to a Ryzen 5600 and 6600 GPU from a 1050TI and some integrated old CPU and saw massive improvements for BG3. I don't know the integrated CPU but I think that made the difference for this game. Loading in went from crashes or naked people to no issue at all.
Same here but with an i7 6700K. If I happen to find a decent deal on something like a 12th gen i5 or i7 and chuck in an extra 16gb ram then I think I'd be all set for another couple of years. Although I still don't desperately need an upgrade, everything works well enough except for maybe that one nightclub map in Ready or Not with more npcs than my cpu can keep up with.
My 960 runs Unity games like Overcooked at 4k, so I probably won't be upgrading any time soon. With a toddler I don't have time for AAA games anymore, but I'm guessing the frame rate would be painful.
1070 gang
1070 is comfy AF, been on one for so long now and I haven't seen any reasons to switch yet
I finally bit the bullet and upgraded to a 3060ti. I'll move the 1070 into a different PC.
I thought it was driver problems at first because it happened so infrequently, but it has gotten worse this year.
It took ages to narrow it down to memory faults since I've been running stock settings forever. Stumbled upon this tool: https://github.com/GpuZelenograd/memtest_vulkan/
Found a load of errors, which went away after the down clock and it's been stable since. It must be just age related degradation, temps were never high but I know the repeated temp changes have an impact.
I bumped the power up on mine, I might be wrong but I assumed more power but less speed would allow it to keep stable and it seems to be working so far.
https://github.com/GpuZelenograd/memtest_vulkan/ - was the tool I used to confirm the memory issues. Just need it to hold on till the 50xx series!
It's still a decent card, probably can still do well at 1080p max settings in most games. Very similar to a 3060 in terms of performance, which is the card I have.
1080 here, got to use for like 220, before the graphics card nightmare. I may be looking to try to get a 2080 or 2070. I wonder if I can do that on 550 at 600 watts
Me and my 1060 ain't going anywhere
I had a 1060 3G version and it just couldn't hack it anymore. Picked up a 20 series this year and it was such an improvement.
Yeah. I'm about 90% sure that if I had gotten the 1060 6G and I hadn't gotten a really good deal on a 2080, I'd probably still be using the 1060.
For now though, I don't suspect I'll be replacing the 2080 anytime soon.... So when the 50 series comes out, this meme will be me with my 2080.
I just upgraded from my 1060 6g. Got a 7800xt.
My 980ti still holds up pretty well at 1920x1440 (high-end CRT monitors were beautiful things, restart production you cowards) for most 3d games I play on Linux, but it is starting to have performance issues in some games, and I'm getting real sick and tired of the dumb shit Nvidia keeps pulling with their Linux drivers. The current driver gives me horrible black flickering in a lot of games, and of course they arbitrarily lock me out maxing out my CRT monitor (which don't have a fixed resolution, only a balance of resolution vs refresh rate, and it keeps blocking me from a whole range of refresh rate/resolution combinations). So I confess I am starting to eye the higher-end AMD 6xxx GPUs, and I would definitely try and grab one as cheaply as I could if I ever got a 3440x1440 ultrawide.
Incidentally, how are ultrawides for having two or three windows open side-by-side at the same time?
Incidentally, how are ultrawides for having two or three windows open side-by-side at the same time?
Awesome. For work (even if I am a Linux system engineer) I need to use W11 due to corporate policy. I have two 34" in landscape and a 27" in portrait. I split the screens with FancyZones.
Time for my bad drawing skills, lol.

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I'm debating getting a 3440x1440 monitor for coding and because I hear they work well with tiling window managers (hence the question), it's just annoying that I have almost no chances to try them out for free, and also the cost is enough that I wouldn't get one without serious consideration first. Although you have nudged me a bit closer to "maybe I could get one without testing them first, if it's second hand and cheap(er)".
Also I'd be replacing my existing 27 inch LCD with it, and keeping the 4:3, 21 inch CRT, for a highly cursed monitor setup, where everything gets letterboxed or pillarboxed. And then to make things worse, I could grab a 16:10 monitor to put in portrait besides one of the other two, for maximum "what is 16:9 and why do I have black bars on everything".
I have a friend that's always "waiting for the next one" who finally got a 3080 and meanwhile I play games with him on my trusty 1050
I was considering upgrading to 1070ti but would probably go with the 2070super so I can use dlss (I also have a 1050ti)
Check your regions rx6600(xt) pricing, both cards are much faster than a 1070.
Source in the relative performance section: https://www.techpowerup.com/...
I will replace my 1060 tomorrow for a 4060 ti. Really looking forward to it!
Congratulations! My 1060 6gb was a trooper and my favorite card ever
Same one I ordered for my new build, 4060 ti 16gb oc. Hope it can last as long as my current build I've had for over a decade with minimal upgrades.
I just went from a 3770k with a vega 64 to a 7800x3d with 7900xtx. Pretty big jump!
Running Cyberpunk with Ray tracing on high settings was pretty neat. I could only get medium at best before. The 3770 is still pretty solid for a medium teir hpu even after a decade. But will bottleneck pretty much most cards over the 1080.
I think that's my experience as well playing modern games as well. Seems CPU is a bottle neck. Hogwarts Legacy gets 25-40 frames no matter if I put the graphics on high or medium, BG3 is similar. I think the CPU is holding it back
Literally the same thing I did, switched from 1060 6gb to rx 6600 just for wayland.
It's not worth it tbh
My 660ti is finally showing its age...
Still got life in her yet
Gave up my 980ti for a 6700xt and am very glad. My i7 2600 (non-k) will be used till it truly shits the bed, going to frame it
I spent more time with my 2600k than I did with my threadeipper 1950x.
I remember when a new generation came out (I forgot which) and I just overclocked the 2600k till it matched the stock benchmarks for the new chip. It truly was a monster.
I overvolted it a few times, but that ain't pretty. Wish I had the k version
My 1050ti wont ever leave my side. I am going to die with that card beside my death bed.
I gifted that card to my SO mid scalping days to relieve their integrated CPU some work and it held the entire time (3 years). They got a great deal on a CPU and GPU and accessories for like 400 USD this year. Ryzen 5600 and the AMD equivalent of a 3060 (6600?) and with some PC building tools on top of it. BG3 went from a mess at act 3 to buttery smooth. i think it went from low to high settings as well. Great card all in all. The CPU made the difference in this case (I think).
My old 1080 still handles a stream now and again.
Watch his other videos, he's a fucking legend.
The context for the Lola video was when the internet lost its shit when the new Space Jam came out and Lola had no tits.
Why is no one talking about FSR3 and frame generation here?
Idk fam FSR doesnt even look that great to me. Upscaling is OK but meh. Im on 1080P though, yet. Theres other cool tech though like sub-surface scattering, and its nice to finally be able to let all models load in a scene.
I mean youtube is flooded with videos of 1080Tis and RX570s getting to 60-70 frames with frame generation
I’m expecting some good build opportunities in Spring 2024. Plan is to build two desktops, one AMD-heavy with the Arch-based Steam OS and another Nvidia desktop with Nobara and space for windows 12.
Storage on a self repairing raid array on a PCIx16 adapter is looking amazing, but hardware raid configurations are still preferable to software configs and I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For.
Not any more. 3.0 is Arch based.
Yeah, wikipedia confirms. I guess Valve never bothers to update their webpages then, this one still says Steam only supports ubuntu
I mean, I dont often play games, but my 2016 laptop handles them (not very well). It has an i5 cpu and a radeon r7 m440 gpu (that has no updates since 2years ago) and I can somewhat play fortnite (its probably the most demanding game ny laptop can play, pubg runs at like 10fps).
I would think a pc with a 1080 can probably play games kinda well.
I replaced my 980ti two years ago. It was heartbreaking…
I just ordered parts for my first build since 2011. I've had my Sandybridge i5 at 4.5ghz most of this time... until the fans died and it overheated, replaced the fans and it was fine, brought it to 5ghz somehow so it could live out its last days in glory, it's been two years. That'll do pig, that'll do.
I'm still gaming on a 1070. That being said I don't play graphically demanding games much and my monitors are 2.5k 60fps.
980TI still going strong! I don't play anything too demanding anyway and Ive taken real good care of it so fingers crossed it'll keep going till I can afford a new rig!
I also have a 980TI. I think mine might be dying though, sometimes my PC shuts off and sometimes it doesn't start up. One particular time I got it started again by removing my GPU. I just want it to last another year but we'll see.
Only reason I recently moved from that very card was to play with stable diffusion, otherwise yeah the 'need' to boost things for games and whatnot just isn't there. Might be just that I''ve never been a major twitch type gamer though, more Civ/StarCraft style.
Edit: my dumb, was actually a 1650S I last switched from. Pretty sure the before that was a 760TI and probably mixed it up somewhere between them
The setups I saw kept demanding 8GB of vram at the time, the card I had was only 4 so it would constantly give an out memory state.
Yeah, I only have a 1080p monitor so the only times my 3060 feels limiting are with stable diffusion and in VR
Same but RX580 so a bit less behind.
I have one of these I ended up never using because I didn't realize my power supply wouldn't handle it. By the time I decided to build a whole new PC, I ended up having enough saved up to get an RTX 3080. Video cards were super hard to find at the time so I decided to hold on to the 1080 in case of emergency. Do graphics cards matter much in something like a dedicated Minecraft or 7 Days to Die server? If so, I might build one with it.
Sorry to say, it will do nothing at all for you in a server setup. You could run any game server without a graphics card at all and it would make no difference. Game servers would be better served by a good processor and lots of RAM.
The only thing a graphics card could do for you in a server is if you host a media library (e.g. Plex or Jellyfin) and then need to transcode video for a device that can't natively play it (e.g. TV can't natively overlay subtitles, so the server has to burn them into the video that streams to the TV). Another instance could be running image processing on a security camera feed for example.
My 1050ti is still working nicely for everything I play, but I would like some rendering speed improvements in blender so maybe I'll upgrade in some years
My 980 still plays anything I want fine
💀 what goshdarn movie is this from
It's from a video by the brilliant James Lee: https://youtu.be/A7PJQa1RfM0?si=_AAwpY_rJC1o-j4P
Kay
I was running a 1050 (it was a laptop, if I had a desktop I might have upgraded sooner) until a few months ago. I only wanted to upgrade if games just wouldn't run anymore even on low settings.
I was running a 750ti until a few months ago.
Finally had to bid it adieu this year. Probably should have years ago, to be honest.
I'm running a Radeon 6600 now. It does well enough, but my needs are modest.
i have some 2009 ordi prebuilt, but i very recently got an ThinkPad T495 (2026 Linux will be installed on my laptop)
Just replaced my trusty 1080 non TI with a 7800XT. Thanks for carrying me through the GPU drought, you were da real MVP. I even installed an extra case fan, directed at the GPU to support it's wee fans during the dark times.
My 1070 is doing fine, thank you very much. I haven't felt any need to replace it.
thanks for using Leebra!
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A 1080TI still plays every release at medium or higher settings. /shrug
Unless you're worried about 4k or VR, I wouldn't upgrade anyway.
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