When buying a graphics card, most people will probably look for a graphics card that was launched within the past year or two, and will not choose an old graphics card that is more than three or four years old. Although it is basically true, if it is a high-end model three or four years ago, it is actually worth considering. A few days ago, foreign media restarted the actual test of the once popular GTX 1080 Ti. Even though it has been launched four years ago, the results show that it is still one of the best GPU graphics cards in 2021.
Foreign media restarts GTX 1080 Ti actual measurement
In addition to testing the GTX 1080 Ti, foreign media Techspot also tested the RTX 2060 Super, AMD RX 5700 XT and RX 5600XT, and compared them together. A total of 31 games were run. Below I will pick out a few that everyone knows better.
The first is the performance-hungry Cyberpunk. You can see that the GTX 1080 Ti in the 1080p image quality setting still has an average of 62FPS and a minimum of 56FPS. Although it loses to the RTX 2060 Super and AMD RX 5700XT, it is not much different:
The performance of “Assassin’s Mission 2” GTX 1080 Ti is quite impressive, with 1080p image quality reaching 136FPS, which not only beats the other three graphics cards, but the 1440p image quality setting can also maintain an average performance of 98FPS:
The GTX 1080Ti can easily handle “Evil Castle Village”, which was only launched this year. The average FPS at 1080p reaches 134, and it also has 92FPS at 1440p, slightly losing to the opponent’s AMD RX 5700XT:
In the “Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020” test, the GTX 1080 Ti also performed best, with an average FPS of 56 at 1080p and 42 at 1440p:
The picture below is the average FPS statistics table of 31 game tests. The GTX 1080 Ti also won all the victories, and we can also know that this card can smoothly run 1440p image quality settings in most games:
Therefore, Techspot also concluded that even now in late 2021, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti graphics card still performs very well, thanks to the large 11GB VRAM.
But like other graphics cards, GTX 1080 Ti now has an obvious problem, that is, it is too expensive, even second-hand. The average selling price is $600, which is only $100 lower than the recommended selling price four years ago.
Techspot also admitted that at this price, it makes no sense to buy this second-hand graphics card in 2021, and it will be worth considering until the market returns to normal. But I think it will take a long time until graphics card prices stabilize. After all, the recent cryptocurrency rally has revived, and it has been really difficult to change graphics cards in the past few years…
Source: KOCPC Chinese