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[-] Cogency@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Own one and I keep trying to justify the upgrade but without ray tracing it can still crank out a lot of games on ultra. And quite realistically ray tracing quality in games hasn't justified the cost.

[-] MightyCuriosity@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 months ago

On what resolution and refresh rate though? For 1080p it might be able to do ultra on some games but above that I feel like it's starting to struggle? No wonder, it's getting quite old at this point but still.

[-] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

My 2070s is not able to do ultra on anything fancy from even it's release year on my ultra wide monitor at full resolution. It's also a 144hz monitor. Cyberpunk took a lot of fiddling to get to consistently around 50-60FPS at 3440x1440

[-] Cogency@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

100mhz ultrawide LG at 1080x2560. It's not always at ultra for everything. But it still crunches polygons.

[-] Owljfien@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

100,000,000hz refresh rate? Surely must be some diminishing returns /s

[-] Cogency@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

🤦🏼‍♀️ Good catch 100 hz

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 12 points 6 months ago

I’m still on my 1080 from 2016. It was such a huge leap for the era. I stopped having a lot of time for intense gaming to where I haven’t needed an upgrade (tho I would like to for LLMs, but I would also like to switch to AMD for being less hostile to Linux but those machine learning nerds never bothered to leave the walls of CUDA).

[-] vox@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

... even though vulkan offers decent gpu compute support nowadays

[-] breakingcups@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

Somehow it took this look back to make me realize that considering to spend 2000 dollars on a GPU is insane. I'm actually on a GTX 1080 now and I'll try to stick with it for as long as it's practical.

... Those LLM and SD urges still lurk though...

[-] GhostTheToast@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Buy used my brother. Tesla p40s are like $170

[-] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

1080 was awesome but the original Titan was something else entirely.

[-] Willy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 months ago

nah. voodoo

[-] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

To be honest, if a company produced cards as solid and stable as the 1080Ti I'd buy one as a spare today.

I live in fear of mine dying of old age; when it does nothing seems to compare on the market at the moment in terms of vram, size, and power usage.

[-] Ninmi@sopuli.xyz 5 points 6 months ago

I'd vote for RX 480, personally.

[-] altec@midwest.social 1 points 6 months ago

Nah, the R9 290 is where it's at.

[-] CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago

I enjoyed my 1080Ti as much as I could, but NVIDIA drivers are trash and Pascal got the shit end of the stick with reclocking aince it doesn't use GSP firmware like newer cards do. Turing and newer are getting FOSS drivers which will only get better over time but while these drivers technically work with Pascal, the lack of GSP means no reclocking. Pascal was a great piece of hardware but it's been kneecapped by bad firmware and driver nonsense.

[-] lowleveldata@programming.dev 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Why can't they just make better cards

[-] Cort@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Price. If the 4090 cost $899 they wouldn't be writing this article

[-] UnpluggedFridge@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

I'm still gaming on my 1080ti. One of the fans has a mind of its own and accelerates/decelerates randomly, but I remain impressed with the settings it can run on modern games.

[-] Psychodelic@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

I had the 980 SC so I was pretty bitter when I found years later that I'd kinda fucked it

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