The Greatest GPU of all time

[Grim5]

 

[Cob]

Nvidia learned it’s lesson.

 

[muon]

I think the 8800 GTX was more important. It was so good they rehashed variants of it about 10 times.

Problem is it pre-dates gamersnexus.

 

[Rob_B]

It was a good card but I wonder how long it stayed relevant for? The 1080ti as shown can still keep up with some modern cards which is just nuts!

 

[dave28]

The 4090 would have been legendary but nobody could afford one to find out

 

[Gray2233]

I think the 8800 GTX was more important. It was so good they rehashed variants of it about 10 times.

Problem is it pre-dates gamersnexus.

I'd also argue the merits of the ATI 9700 and 9800 Pro back in the day. There were actually more companies available then, but the consumer market was swiftly narrowing into Nvidia dominance and had been ever since 3DFX was bought out by them.

The launch of the 9700 Pro saw ATI ahead, and damn did it cause a lot of arguments regarding image quality and other stuff. It even provoked Nvidia into launching the disastrous 5800XT leaf blower!

If ATI hadn't stepped up back then, starting with that product, we might not have had any other vendors to buy from other than Nv.

 

[ben1987]

I think the 8800 GTX was more important. It was so good they rehashed variants of it about 10 times.

Problem is it pre-dates gamersnexus.

My first self built pc had the BFG overclocked version of this card and it was sooo good at the time. Absolute beast. Paired with a core2duo

 

[Tediore]

I think the 8800 GTX was more important. It was so good they rehashed variants of it about 10 times.

Problem is it pre-dates gamersnexus.

I still remember ogling the 8800 GT in the college canteen with a mate. No chance we were ever affording the GTX, but the GT allowed us to dare to dream at a fraction of the price...

 

[muon]

From someone a little older than Steve Burke.

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They have a graph they use showing gen on gen increases, and the 8800 gtx wins by a mile.

The 6800 ultra was a leap for nvidia, but they didn't have the fastest GPU of the generation before, which was the 9800 pro.

 

[Grim5]

The 4090 would have been legendary but nobody could afford one to find out

Its the price, the 1080ti was cheap, the 4090 isnt

 

[Gerard]

Nah, not even close, as said the 8800gtx was a better contender for that throne.

 

[dave28]

Its the price, the 1080ti was cheap, the 4090 isnt

Its funny though because I remember when the 980 Ti and 1080 Ti was released, £700 odd felt expensive at the time for GPU`s.

And then the 2080 Ti price changed the game entirely, and yes then £700 looked like a bargain for top cards.

 

[Quartz]

It was a good card but I wonder how long it stayed relevant for?

My Titan X (glorified 980 ti) stayed relevant until a month ago when it was finally retired.

 

[Grim5]

Nah, not even close, as said the 8800gtx was a better contender for that throne.

What makes you say that? Is it value, performance or something else? I never owned it, I was broke back then and only had a 6600gt. When I look at benchmarks, on average both the 1080ti and 8800gtx are double the performance of the cards they replaced so I'm unsure why some people say the 8800gtx is better

 

[muon]

What makes you say that? Is it value, performance or something else? I never owned it, I was broke back then and only had a 6600gt. When I look at benchmarks, on average both the 1080ti and 8800gtx are double the performance of the cards they replaced so I'm unsure why some people say the 8800gtx is better

1080 ti was not double the 980 ti. 980 ti = 1070

The 1080 was also the card released initially (with 1080 ti coming quite a bit after), and that was not double the 980 either.

For both we are talking more like 50-60%. Pascal was a die shrink with higher clocks of the previous generation.

Not a brand new architecture like Tesla (8800 GTX).

The 8800 gtx was 130% better than the 7800 gtx.

 

[Grim5]

1080 ti was not double the 980 ti. 980 ti = 1070

The 1080 was also the card released initially (with 1080 ti coming quite a bit after), and that was not double the 980 either.

For both we are talking more like 50-60%.

The 8800 gtx was 130% better than the 7800 gtx.

Not sure what resolution, I was checking an old tpu review showing average gaming performance of the 980ti being 51% of the 1080ti, so just about double

 

[muon]

Not sure what resolution, I was checking an old tpu review showing average gaming performance of the 980ti being 51% of the 1080ti, so just about double

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti Specs

NVIDIA GM200, 1076 MHz, 2816 Cores, 176 TMUs, 96 ROPs, 6144 MB GDDR5, 1753 MHz, 384 bit

www.techpowerup.com

In their most up to date rankings it shows up as +67%.

980 ti is 10% behind the 1070, so my memory was a little hazy there. The 1080 ti was not anywhere close to double the 1070, more like +50%.

Eitehr way, well short of +130%.

 

[no_1_dave]

9800 Pro
8800 GT
980TI
1080TI
3080 (launch price)

These are what I would consider the best hi end cards as they all allowed you to skip the next generation without much sacrifice

9800pro was amazing and you could easily flash it to XT if you wished
8800 GT was very close to the performance of the 8800 GTX and could OC to GTX levels but was a lot cheaper
980TI Came so close to Titan performance at pretty much half the price
1080TI Insane performance for the price and made upgrading to the 2000 series pretty much an expensive side-grade
3080 at launch... People are still paying £650 today for the same performance as the 3080 which was £650 3 and a half years ago lol

 

[JediFragger]

Its the price, the 1080ti was cheap, the 4090 isnt

$700 is NOT cheap

 

[Quartz]

980TI Came so close to Titan performance at pretty much half the price

If memory serves it was the same or better IF you were not limited by VRAM.