Nvidia released Pascal, with tremendous performance and reasonable pricing. Nvidia realised its mistake, and said "never again." These 10 series cards were really something, and the fact they can still hold it together today says a lot about them. Maxwell was another quite impressive release from team green. So sad that those days of reasonable price:performance are well and truly gone.

It's amazing that this Nvidia generation has aged so well even after half a decade. It's a real shame that the current 40 series offer is so terrible in terms of price to performance.

And here we see the GTX1080 in its natural habitat, quite at ease on a bed of gravel and now moving over to catch some sunlight amongst the garden flowers. Lovely!

1080 will always hold a special place in my heart as it was the first card in the first PC I built. I'll always watch 10 series reviews

I still have my Asus Strix 1080 i bought 5 years ago. Its stupid how good this card aged despite it being 7 years old.

I just bought an RTX 2080ti for 300 used, I think Nvidia gpus truly shine in the used market

I have a EVGA GTX 1080 FTW and it's still great for 1080p. I have no reason to upgrade yet. Awesome video showing off what the Dell OEM card is capable of!

Long live the 10 series and 16 series. Even being on an RTX 3060 Ti, I still have fond memories of my 1060 and 1660 Ti; my friends who still run them have no complaints either

The GTX1080 has a TDP of 180W. The RTX3060 8GB has a TDP of 170W. It makes you wonder about how much improved the new generations really are, the performance is often almost the same. The prices are hiked a lot now, thats the biggest change.

Still got my msi gtx 1080. Recently played The Callisto Protocol everything on high and some ultra settings. 70 - 80 fps in 1080p was no problem for this true BEAST! The 1080 still holds up in 2023. 👍👍❤️

Time really flies, I still remember watching videos about the 9800 gtx in 2016 and saying that's an old gpu, now the gtx 1080 is considered an old gpu...

80's always aged so well even after a half decade, i used to have 980 back then and it's still game till now.

The 1080 is still a great high fps 1080p esport card, and a capable 60FPS 1440P card because the 8GB of DDR5x has aged very well.

I'm still using my old Palit gtx1080 gamerock .. it boosts a bit higher than that dell card maintaining at least 2ghz ..often a little bit higher. ..it's still only a 1080p card as you said..for £135 that dell card is good value ...love these older more attainable hardware videos ..most of us can't afford a 30 or 40 series rtx card.

i use this exact card in my personal rig with a triple 1080p monitor setup for sim racing/trucking. Funnily enough i actually had a founders edition 1080 (I got for £200 at the start of 2022) before it and swapped it for the dell 1080 (i I got for got for £120), as i wanted to use the better looking gpu for a PC i was flipping as i do a lot of PC flips. I still use it even though im constantly buying rtx 2070s and other 20 series cards for flips as i personally dont need much more performance. Great video as always :)

I still rock this card (but one from Gigabyte with a standard 3 fan blower cooler) on a daily base for 1080p 60Hz Gaming. Paired with an i7 7700k and 32GB of DDR4. Just awesome! I actually still have no need to upgrade. It runs everything I want absolutely fine!

Unbelievable. I've had a 1080 ti since 2017 and it's been a 4K card the entire time. On most games I get between 40-60 with everything turned up. To think how much different the 1080 runs everything is astounding. Just for example at 4K I get 79 fps in Call of Duty MW 2 with most things at high settings. Thanks for the video, love your stuff been watching for years.

Hard to call the 1080 "outdated" when it's pretty much identical to the current consoles GPUs. Still a great card and since the prices of the newer cards just go up and up there's no budget replacement for it.

held up much better than i thought. what a legend. it's also insane how much GPU power draw has gone up across the SKUs since the 10-series. they're just blasting them with Watts now

GTX 1080 (and 1070) is a great value buy today. The most weird thing, is the 1650 cost about the same on the 2nd hand market, as the 1070 these days. (*hint, get the 1070, if you have a PCI-E connector, it is a LOT better). The 1080 in the video for £135 is a great deal. I got a few 1070s for £100-115, which Im pretty satisfied with for some builds.

Super interesting stuff, I’ve just bought a system with a 1080 in for work and play, as my gaming laptop was getting a bit toasty with its 1060. It’s nice that the 1080 keeps up so well in modern games, I’ve been pleasantly surprised in my limited testing

I own a ZOTAC 1080 FE, got it for 120$, its a legend

1080 is about like a 6600 so still very good 1080p high/ultra card and alot of games at 1440p. Driver support for new games not as good is the only downside in my opinion.

still own my two originals. theyre keeping my kids enetertained on their pcs. still chugging along all these years. great cards.

I have a ROG Strix 1080 Ti in my #3 system which is usually hooked up and ready to go. Still a solid card, esp at 1080p. It shares a 1440 monitor with another system and some games I'll run at 1080p and some at 1440. I have an MSI 1080 non-Ti in another system and is also still a decent option. Basically in the ballpark of a 2070 Super or 3060, but available for quite a bit cheaper, at least in the US. These are still both very usable cards for almost any game at 1080p or many games at 1440. I still think the 9xx to 10xx jump is the greatest single step in GPUs, discounting the ability to run DLSS.

2016-2017 were the birth years of several legends that still hold to this day. GTX 1080/1070, Rx 480/580 and first generation of Ryzen 1600/1700. I don't know if we'll see anything like that anytime soon. The price to performance was just in the right spot.

Value of a life time. I just ordered a RX 6800 used on eBay for $370 after shipping and tax. I play 1440P and hope this will last as long as the 10 series did for me.

Still using my EVGA GTX 1080 SC for 5 years now. 1080p and 144Hz is the perfect setting! Recently upgraded from an i7 7700k to an r7 5700x and got massive performance gains. Love it!

Grabbed a used GTX1080 with EKWB black and unused refence cooler for just 99 euro last week. Amazing the best value for my R5 3600 pc!

My OC'd 1070 Ti Advanced Binned is around stock 1080 performance and I still love it. Yes it was the all Ultra card but I've been enjoying tinkering with different graphics settings again to find the optimal fps/eyecandy ratio :P

Almost 7 years old and still hitting 60fps at medium-ultra 1080p for new games is pretty great.

I love when you do these videos a friend of mine has a GTX1080 in his PC (arquitect work) but he occasioonaly plays some games... I can just show him this video to see how well he could tweak his settings

this card is so good, it's still comparable with 3060 in raw performance. it's a sub flagship 2 generations old and yet as capable as a new entry level.

This is one of the greatest GPU's of all times!! The 1080TI is actually the greatest!!

Actually at that 1080p resolution is still very good, it was born and bought by owners to play games at high refresh rate 2k even 4k nearly 7 years ago. Even now, the minimum required for some new games just reaching GTX 1060 at 1080p, so i think there is no reason why GTX 1080 is not enough, even at 2k.

you making this video right now is hilarious, since my gpu gave out luckily its under warranty and i had to go back to my old gtx 1080

If you bough a 1080 / 1080Ti when they came out, you had many years a great GPU! 🙂

I love the design of the Founder's Editions form the 900 and 1000 series with the silver. Still rocking an MSI FE 1080 Ti and the only real sign of age is the green dye of the Nvidia glowing logo is fading unevenly so it doesn't look quite as crisp anymore with some letters more mint green and others lime green.

Hey I had this card, specifically a watercooled version of it. Bought it for $100 from a miner. It ran REALLY well. Only issue was the green PCB, that was a little bit of an eyesore.

These are showing up in my local market for $100-$150 now, along with 1070's. It's good to have your video as reference.

At 2:57 "Remember, switching to your pistol is always faster than reloading."

Just a reminder that the VRAM figure shown by MSI Afterburner displays how much VRAM the game has allocated, NOT how much it is using. Hardware Unboxed did a really good video about this with one of the earlier RE games/remasters. Some games are really aggressive with allocation, so you may actually have a lot more headroom than that figure would lead you to believe.

I think this card looks great, and I’m impressed with the performance. Could you please include Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 in some of your videos?

I still use a 1080ti till today. It is capable of running every modern game I want to play (Cyberpunk, Hitman 3, WatchDogs Legion and many more). Sometimes even at the highest settings and always at 1440p. Together with my i7-8700k, the PC is "old" but still usable as a good gaming PC. I don't see the point in spending any money for new PC parts in the near future.

Your background image of thmbnail pic is always awesome ...and you always show me the best content!

I have the Asus Strix retail version of this card, its still a champ for 1440p 165hz gaming in my opinion.

what an amazing card, im still rocking a palit gtx 1080 gamerock and this thing was worth every single penny when i got it used 4 years ago for 300eu. Im getting fixed 144fps on pubg with low-med settings, around 70-90 fps on cod warzone 2.. on 1440p i may add..!! still waiting for a worthfull upgrade. around the same price point.

The comical thing about this is I just sealed a deal for a founders edition 1080 for $100 USD locally where I'm at

I'm not a fan of any blower style cards, mainly because of the higher temps you mentioned. Minus the lack of a backplate, I do like the look of the card.

Know what the insane thing is? The mobile gtx 1080, had almost the same TDP as the proper full fat desktop 1080. 150w (mobile 1080) vs 180w (desktop 1080). This means, you could very well overclock the mobile 1080 and get some nice boost to FPS. They also shared the same exact specifications since they were literally the same card. And it was during pascal, that the ultra high end GPU's packed SLI gtx 1070's and gtx 1080's. Sure, even back then SLI was basically dead, but you have to admit, that laptops were far more insane back then. I mean they were cooling like 300w + total in laptops (dual 150w 1080's and OC'd i7's or dual 115w 1070's and oc'd i7's). Infact, the highest TDP mobile GPU's ever were the 200w rtx a6000 in the asus studiobook pro art and the 200w rtx 2080 super laptops. The 200w rtx A6000 actually was within 10% of a desktop rtx A6000, despite being put in a thin and light chassis. And the 200w rtx 2080 super was basically as fast as the desktop rtx 2080. Nvidia could've put a desktop 2080ti into laptops as is at the same 200w TDP and would've gotten insane performance. Now, you might wonder, why don't we put 200w+ GPU's into laptops today, when we have MUCH better cooling and way more efficient and stronger CPU's. Its greed. Nvidia and AMD realised that they can lie to you and you'll still buy and defend their GPU's on laptops. Thats why nvidia decided that with ampere they won't put a desktop rtx 3080 die into laptops at give it at least 200w. Nvidia could've given this mobile rtx 3080 GA102 die more cuda cores too to compensate for a lower power limit and used better binning. I mean they're not gonna sell a lot of these anyways. Same with AMD. Could've given us a 175w rx6800 as a rx6800m but noooo.... AMD has to be greedy.

Just overhauled my PC. Upgraded my Ryzen 7 2700 to a Ryzen 7 5800x. Still rocking my Strix Gtx1080. Have no reason to replace it yet.

I just got a msi 1080 used for 100$. Its a nice upgrade for me since i was using a 1060.

Found one of those at a garage sale a couple summers ago and the guy didn't know what it was or if it worked, and neither did I at the time, so he gave it to me $5. Works great and my son has it in his PC to this day. I bought a bunch of other PC parts from that guy that day but that was the the best score.

So many friends still holding onto their 1080 and 1080ti's. Whats funny is so many of the cards now that have similar performance to a 1080 (2060, 5600xt) will eventually have a lack of vram and 1080 users will still have better cards.

Random, I'm definitely a believer of Pascal and a Proud own of my MSI Gaming version. I recently switched to ARC A770 LE on my 1440p panel and switched to using my GTX 1080 @ 1080p res. ( 2K was struggling with my old Pascal) I would personally stay away from the blower style versions of this card. (More FPS's with MSI oc, runs cooler as well) Thanks for the upload and review of this legendary beast of a GPU.

Nice! I actually have one of these. Came in my Dell XPS 8930 Special Edition. For 2018 it was pretty well specced out. i7 8700K, 16GB DDR4, GTX 1080, BluRay Burner. Optional Killer NIC Wifi and Ethernet.

im buy 1080 when mining booming 3 year ago after selling my vega 56 serving me playing mw 2019 like champ love this gpu

7 years old card and it is still going so strong:) well done 1000 series card I'm sure nVIDIA will never release something like this ever again

I had a dream of owning this beauty years ago, now I have the 2060 to live the 1080 dream.

That card will still be good years from now honestly

I main one of these (though not the Dell version) pushing a 1440p high refresh monitor. Plays everything I play at framerates and settings that make me happy. The PC it's in has developed a PSU problem (shuts off under high load), but the GPU remains reliable and capable, and still makes me happy. It was an AIO model before, but the prior owner ripped off the questionable and old AIO and installed an Arctic Accelero IV right before selling it to me.

Just picked up an old Alienware Aurora and tossed this exact card in it. No regrets! Great card

The 10 series, especially 1050ti, is definitely going down in history as one of the best product lines from NVIDIA, and for GPUs in general.

this card is great using MSI afterburner: remove 300 mhz on core clock open "curve editor" and at 900 mV push up the line to 1900 mhz ,add more 300 mhz to memory and push power limit to max and boom you give around 10% more with lower power consumption and temperature

I must say, I had GTX 1080 and I mixed Ultra with Medium (volumetric fog, clouds and some other unnoticable stuff) in Cyberpunk and got 30-40 FPS in 1440p and about 50-60 with FSR 2.1 Quality

You can still buy one of these for less than 200€, a Ti version for slightly more. For raster graphics, they offer so much more value than any new card out there.

Cart driver: vibin RGHD: scooch over we have a card to test

I was actually using a dell 1080 with a aftermarket cooler and a moderate overclock for a long time

If you have a modest fan in the front of the case sucking in and blowing cool air into the blower inlet, these things work just fine, and run cool.

I bought one at launch... still rocking it today lol.

Great gpus I sold a gigabyte gtx 1080 OC In December upgraded my Strix 3060ti to a strix 3080 OC 12GB,and gave my wife the Strix 3060ti OC as she was using my old 1080

Very good video, but I think you should have added some games at 1440p with FSR to show how well this card can still do with more modern displays.

I’m still rocking one of these with my 7700k!

That is an MSI Aero GTX 1080 Cooler so what dell it was pulled from had been upgraded, the Aero use a Nvidia OEM green PCB. The did a sea hawk AIO water cooled model to which was the same PCB and cooler but with a stylist back plate and Corsair AIO pump replacing the stock fin stack, but kept the shitty Blow to cool Mem and VRMs. plus those was upgraded to better one which could handle more power ful OC's. MSI did supply OEM's but dell normal have all branding removed and that would include the Carbon fibre looking bits and MSI their brand white stripe. GTX 10 series was the last one's of great value and worth the price tags.

Great to see the 180 watt GPU from 7 years ago still being on par for a modern entry level. Mine runs most of my games at 100fps or higher at 1080p.

I still have one of these rds. It's a 1080p beast. I am going to build a midrange PC with it.

I still buy and use 1080 and 1080ti graphics cards. Great bargain. I rarely play modern games. Just need cuda cores for other purposes

10:18 - Wow! That level of performance at 1080p High with RT Reflections set to High! 😮 I always forgot that Pascal GPUs with more than 6GB of VRAM can run DXR. I have two questions: 1) Can you include Control in your benchmarks? 2) Can you include RT mode in your benchmarks (or sometime making a dedicated video) when you're testing RT capable GPUs? I'm very curious about the RDNA2/RDNA3 APUs on this aspect!

Congratulations on 500,000 subscribers!

I bought this kind of gpu for 320€ in Hearthstone Packs from a rich friend in 2017. Packed a Watercooler on it some time later. Best Gpu Deal I ever made.

I literally just built my youngest a PC using an older Alienware Area 51 R5, and the only things I could use were the case, the PSU, and that exact GPU. It works extremely well, especially for the stuff she plays.

I just bought one of these as an upgrade aahah, won an auction for 110 pounds. Very solid performance even for 2k with FSR

Still rocking this exact GPU with a Corsair H55 strapped to it, works like a dream ♥️

Congrats!! for 500k 😄✌️

my turbo 1080 is still running like a champ. all new gen games 100+ fps still :D

I just bought one for 130 euros, to uplift my 1060, it'll do great for 1080p gaming before I do a proper upgrade.

Ultimate sweet spot in price to performance imo. I have recommended this and blower 1070s to anyone I know looking to get into a gaming PC

My ASUS ROG STRIX GTX 1080 Ti GAMING OC got "demoted" to my office PC not because of not being good enough but simply because I've got an offer for a RX 6900 XT I just couldn't miss... there was that guys selling it at the local site for about US$ 550 with shipping included. I am certain that the 1080 Ti can perform very well @ 1440p on my i9-9900k gaming PC with any of my games at high/ultra settings. It was by far the best graphics card I ever bought... period!

realizing that this card is 7 years old just turned me into the Matt Damon at the end of saving private ryan. I've had the 1080 for years but I'm sticking to my guns and not upgrading my GPU until raytracing actually becomes good hardware-wise. For raster games this card still plows through modern games at 1440p but eventually it'll get left in the dust if raytracing actually takes off. From this gen forward, the only way to make these modern GPUs obsolete is to make games as inefficiently and lazily as possible

What a coincidence that I bought a second/third hand 1080Ti FE just yesterday :D

10 series was great, the 1080 and 1080 ti are still beasts today. Shame we can't get another generation with the same performance, price and power efficiency...

I will be intresting see the strongest gtx 1080/1070 vs weak rtx 3050/2060

dude I love your videos

I think The Scalpocalypse has really taught us to appreciate these OEM cards. Yeah, sure, it's not the best, but it's a pretty good deal. I'd pay $150 for a GTX 1080 way more happily than dropping $1200 on an RTX 4080.

Ive got a few cards myself, one being a KFA2 Hall of Fame GTX 1080 I believe they are quite rare in europe.

The real MVP of Pascal was the 1080ti. It offered the highest or second highest (not sure anymore) performance increase over the previous 980ti in Nvidias history. Of course the other side of the story was that the regular 1080 even though it was the flagship at launch for flagship prices didnt get the best Pascal chip Nvidia could make. And that we only got the 1080ti the way it was because AMD made some ridiculous claims about how much faster the Vega 64 would be over the 1080. The 1080ti was so good that there was no use in upgrading to a 2080ti when it launched cause depending on the resolution performance gains in normale rasterization could be as low as 10% on average. Funnily enough Nvidia went from one of their best performance increases with the 1080ti to its third worst with Turing.

Hogwarts is actually much more gpu demanding in forests than in town

1080 is one of the best cost to performance gpus for 1080p gaming right now abd they take a good oc as well just run at 1080p crank everything up

Congrads on 500k subs

I had a EVGA FTW GTX 1080 from May 2020 to April 2022, BEAST of a card if you gamed at 1080p 144hz monitor and don’t care about ray tracing, I only upgraded cause I wanted to go 1440p while keeping above 60fps with high or max settings so I had to upgrade, but honestly if you game at 1080p and don’t mind high settings maybe something maximum, is still wonderful