2017's Best GPU in 2022: GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Revisit

Today we're taking a fresh expect at the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, because every time we exercise one of these GPU revisits, we get dozens of requests to check out the 1080 Ti, so hither y'all become. Thankfully, I really enjoy looking at these previous generation GPUs, running them through a few dozen games to meet how they're holding up.

As a quick refresher, Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1080 Ti was released back in early 2022 for $700 (see our original review), which at the time was considered an enormous amount of coin for a gaming graphics card. Oh, how times have changed.

Despite the price tag though, the 1080 Ti still offered gamers impressive value, packing unrivaled performance and a fat 11GB VRAM buffer.

If we have a look at our most recent criterion data used across our GPU reviews, including the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, RTX 3080 Ti and Radeon 6600 XT, nosotros come across that the GTX 1080 Ti remains a capable gaming graphics card at 1440p, delivering 93 fps on average across the 12 games used for day i reviews.

That'due south vi% faster than the Radeon 5700 XT, but eighteen% slower than the 6700 XT. Then, when compared to electric current generation of so-called $700 parts, which would include the RTX 3080 and 6800 XT, the 1080 Ti is over 60% slower, merely that's to be expected four years later on.

That information was recorded using our Ryzen 9 5950X test system with 32GB of DDR4-3200 CL14 dual-rank, dual-channel retention. For this revisit we'll be using the same test system, only covering 31 games at 1080p, 1440p and 4K.

This is a follow up from the Radeon RX 5600 XT, 5700 XT and RTX 2060 Super testing that we recently posted.

We'll be using those GPUs for comparison and while it would take been dainty to include a few more than relevant parts such as the RTX 2070 Super and RTX 3080, for sake of time efficiency (it takes at least a few days to add together a single GPU to this 31 game benchmark), we're posting these now with more than to exist added over the coming weeks.

Benchmarks

Allow's now have a look at how these iv GPUs compare in a dozen games before nosotros check out the boilerplate gaming performance across all 31 tested titles, forth with a few caput to caput comparisons.

We'll start with Biomutant which tends to favor GeForce GPUs. The game uses Unreal Engine 4 and it appears every bit though picayune optimization has been made for Radeons, as a result the 2060 Super and 5700 XT are comparable here and that means at 1440p the GTX 1080 Ti was a massive 28% faster, offering an entirely different tier of performance.

Whereas the 2060 Super and 5700 XT at times dipped below 60 fps, the 1080 Ti was expert for well over lx fps throughout our testing, so a great consequence for the old GeForce flagship.

In Red Dead Redemption 2, the 5700 XT performed a lot better, matching the GTX 1080 Ti at all resolutions. Using the slightly dialed down 'loftier' settings the 1080 Ti struggled to deliver sixty fps at 1440p, and therefore is better suited to 1080p using these quality settings.

The GTX 1080 Ti was able to flex its muscle in Hitman ii, pumping out 98 fps at 1440p, making it 23% faster than the 5700 XT, and 27% faster than the 2060 Super. Like margins were besides seen at 1080p and 4K.

Resident Evil Village is a 2022 release and here the 5700 XT does go the better of the GTX 1080 Ti, delivering 7-8% greater performance at 1080p and 1440p. That said, the 1080 Ti was all the same very impressive, rendering over fourscore fps at all times when testing at 1440p.

Star Wars Jedi Fallen Gild is another Unreal Engine iv championship, though the Radeon GPUs do slightly meliorate when compared to what we saw with Biomutant. Even so the GTX 1080 Ti was 6% faster than the 5700 XT and a massive 21% faster at 1440p.

Days Gone besides favors the GTX 1080 Ti and this is notwithstanding another Unreal Engine iv championship. Although the 5700 XT and GTX 1080 Ti were comparable at 1080p, the GeForce GPU runs away with it at 1440p, pulling ahead by a 15% margin with over 70 fps at all times in our testing.

Next upward we take Cyberpunk 2077, and please note we've updated our criterion laissez passer for this title, moving from a densely NPC populated expanse. Here these GPUs actually struggled at 1440p and certainly weren't able to deliver a 60 fps experience, for that you'll need to drib downwards to 1080p, and please note we're not using the maxed out graphics either. Interestingly, the GTX 1080 Ti was slower than both the 2060 Super and 5700 XT, losing to the Radeon GPU by a 13% margin.

Moving on to Flight Simulator 2022, we've updated all our results for this championship after a new patch improved performance across the board. The game'southward all the same not silky shine on older hardware using the ultra quality preset, but we did see a large xxx%+ comeback for all GPUs.

This allowed the 5600 XT to evangelize playable performance at 1080p and now the 5700 XT is very smoothen with 51 fps. That said, the GTX 1080 Ti was faster averaging 56 fps at 1080p, which is enough for this simulator.

Shadow of the Tomb Raider is i of the older titles we're testing with, but it'southward even so very enervating and looks quite skilful. The GTX 1080 Ti spat out 90 fps at 1440p, while the 5700 XT was good for lxxx fps, making the GeForce GPU 13% faster.

F1 2022 is the newest game in this benchmark, and although it supports ray tracing and enables it by default on GPUs that support it, we've gone and disabled it on the RTX 2060 Super every bit it's the only RT enabled GPU hither and rather than identify it at a disadvantage we've simply disabled information technology for an apples to apples comparison.

The 5700 XT was 25% faster than the RTX 2060 Super at 1440p, and despite that huge margin, the GTX 1080 Ti was vi% faster than the 5700 XT. And so a strong result for the Pascal GPU.

Unsurprisingly the GTX 1080 Ti powers through Rainbow Six Siege, delivering 193 fps on average at 1440p to match the 5700 XT, it'south even capable of pushing upward around 100 fps at 4K.

Finally, let's take a expect at Assassinator's Creed Valhalla which uses the AnvilNext two.0 game engine and is well optimized for Radeon GPUs. The 5700 XT had no issue brushing aside the 1080 Ti, at least when looking at the 1080p and 1440p results where information technology was 14% and 11% faster respectively.

31 Game Average Performance

Hither's a await at the average performance seen across the 31 games tested. The GTX 1080 Ti remains six% faster than the 5700 XT at 1440p, which is the same margin seen in our smaller 12-game sample used for solar day-one reviews.

That means the GTX 1080 Ti is ~xx% faster than the 2060 Super and with 100 fps on average, it'due south still a very competent 1440p gamer for the near part.

For those of you interested in how the 5700 XT and GTX 1080 Ti compare head-to-head in the games tested, well hither's a look at simply that.

The GeForce GPU is pushed alee by massive wins in half a dozen of the games tested, those games include Valorant, PUBG, Biomutant, Hitman 2, Star Wars Jedi Fallen Society and Resident Evil iii.

Of those games, iv use Unreal Engine 4 which isn't a surprise, and while information technology's possible for Radeon GPUs to perform quite well in UE games -- accept Borderlands iii for example -- it seems the programmer really has to become out of their mode to optimize for AMD hardware when using this pop engine, which continues to be a trouble for Team Red.

If we await at the games where the 5700 XT does well and manages to vanquish the GTX 1080 Ti, you won't notice whatsoever Unreal Engine 4 titles. Forza Horizon 4 uses the Forzatech engine, Assassin'southward Creed Valhalla uses the AnvilNext two.0, Resident Evil Hamlet the RE Engine, Cyberpunk 2077 REDengine 4, Doom Eternal id Tech 7, and Dota ii the Source two engine.

What We Learned

In late 2022, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti is hanging in actually well. The GPU has aged well partly thanks to its large 11GB frame buffer, and will keep to be able to take advantage of HD texture packs for some time to come up.

Talks well-nigh Nvidia abandoning older architectures and not optimizing newer games, at to the lowest degree for now that certainly hasn't been the case with Pascal, as the level of optimization for modernistic titles looks peachy.

The simply issue with the GTX 1080 Ti today is the same issue faced by all GPUs: price and availability. The average selling toll we've seen for the 1080 Ti over the by few months is around $600, which is simply $100 less than the MSRP four years ago.

Basically yous're looking at GeForce RTX 2070 money with the 2070 Super typically selling for around $50 more than, though it's well worth that pocket-sized premium given you choice upward some really cool features such as DLSS.

That being the case, the GTX 1080 Ti makes no sense in 2022 to buy used. It's certainly miles better for gamers than the 5700 XT which is selling for ~$800, probably because that GPU is improve for mining, and then if y'all happen to have 1, you will want to sell it and upgrade to a faster gaming card similar the 6700 XT.

The GTX 1080 Ti has been an interesting GPU to runway over the years, especially on the second hand market. Fifty-fifty during times when the market place was flooded with discounted 5700 XT'southward and readily available 2070 Super's, the GTX 1080 Ti held its value well, never dipping below ~$400 at places similar eBay.

For now nosotros can only dream of $350 GTX 1080 Ti's, but if and when the market returns to more normal conditions, you lot tin look the flagship Pascal GPU to tumble in price on the second hand market place.

For now the 6600 XT looks like your best shot at achieving GTX 1080 Ti-like performance, though pricing and availability however looks messy depending on where you live. In the Us, you tin can pick one up on eBay for a picayune over $600. While in Australia we've been able to buy an RX 6600 XT graphics card for around $700 AUD, while GTX 1080 Ti typically sells for well over $800 AUD.

And so every bit much as we disliked the 6600 XT in our solar day-ane review, it'south turning out to be the better bachelor choice for those seeking this level of gaming functioning.