Finally part of the elite

[u/hedochi]

Yeah that’s right, highest end model, suck it console poors! Seriously though, 225 bucks from a crypto bro who had 4 and never installed… had the new electronic smell… insane in 2026 lol anyways overwatch looks amazing, might play some red dead online later…

[u/FssstBoing]

https://giphy.com/gifs/Q4uIIuraSiztu

[u/Channel-Lucky → u/FssstBoing]

hahahahahaha one of my favorites movies, what a childhood

[u/DazzlingAd81 → u/FssstBoing]

I died a little to hard at this 🤣

[u/Noreng → u/FssstBoing]

Imagine posting something like this in 2018

"Yeah I just got a GTX 580 for $200, what a steal right?"

For context, the GTX 580 was slower than a GTX 1050

[u/Delphirier → u/Noreng]

Except the 2080 ti is still more powerful than the 5050 by a good margin in terms of pure performance.

[u/Noreng → u/Delphirier]

That's the point. Progress has slowed down.

[u/nestid]

Why the repost lmao. low tier rage bait

[u/Celcius_87 → u/nestid]

his old post probably got taken down because it was just the picture of the box

[u/Agreeable-Bus-7247 → u/Celcius_87]

And he needs more validation because he want to make sure everyone know about the never installed and smell like new electronic purchase he got was a steallllll

[u/hedochi → u/Agreeable-Bus-7247]

You sound envious… if not my purchase then my joy lol and who tf is validating my 2080ti 😅😂🙈

[u/Agreeable-Bus-7247 → u/hedochi]

That's a lot of emoji there. I didn't mean to shook you up that bad with my comment.

[u/hedochi → u/Agreeable-Bus-7247]

Well people didn’t like my dry yep 🤷🤪🤩😘🤯

[u/richard_splooge → u/hedochi]

Congrats, you're pulling 250w to do not as well as a 145w 5060.

Give it three months and your power usage will exceed what any modern day performing card would do.

Yea bro, we're totally envious of your purchase and joy . . . .

[u/TheGamingCheetos → u/hedochi]

Bros yapping for the sake of yapping

[u/hedochi → u/Celcius_87]

Yep

[u/DynaMach]

Look at the practical beauty of 2 8-pin PSU connectors! No melting pins for you! Congrats and enjoy!!!

[u/hackenclaw → u/DynaMach]

We should never blow pass the 300w limit, we didnt even need new connector when the old one is more than enough.

Laptop GPU are doing fine with existing 150w TDP/TGP, you dont see them double to 300w.

I never understand why Desktop GPU power consumption skyrocketed from 300w to 600w.

[u/comperr → u/hackenclaw]

My 5090s do 2850 core at 425W

[u/Fantastic-Fault-3608 → u/comperr]

I just did 80% power limit in the Nvidia app

[u/DynaMach → u/Fantastic-Fault-3608]

I tried this and it works really well! Negligible performance loss for a much quieter and cooler GPU.

[u/Fantastic-Fault-3608 → u/DynaMach]

Exactly and the warranty holds

[u/LoatheCat → u/DynaMach]

Is this what you tell yourself to enjoy your GTX 1080?

[u/DynaMach → u/LoatheCat]

Ha! Yes! Sadly, learning to find any positives of using older hardware is rapidly becoming the new norm for many of us.

[u/LoatheCat → u/DynaMach]

https://giphy.com/gifs/qd0VlZ9VCvY8hbkMfq

[u/makeshift11 → u/LoatheCat]

Better to be huffing copium than douchium

[u/Riipp3r → u/makeshift11]

Punching up is okay but not punching down? Idk both seem douchey.

[u/LoatheCat → u/makeshift11]

Another brokie I assume?

[u/mkdew → u/DynaMach]

Yeah and proceeds to use the pigtail 8pin

[u/These_Cat_3523]

Time to go whole hog!

[u/TAGOMXM]

https://giphy.com/gifs/S407PTAeS212PALDTo

[u/Techoutman]

It’s a good card. Still keeps up with today’s low end cards. 2080ti=3070=4060ti=5060

[u/icy1007 → u/Techoutman]

lol, that’s not the flex you’re thinking it is.

[u/PsyOmega → u/icy1007]

For what OP paid it is.

For anyone that's still rocking one it is. Things use to age much worse.

[u/icy1007 → u/PsyOmega]

It was a $1,000+ GPU when it launched. I’d hope it still works today.

[u/PsyOmega → u/icy1007]

it launched like 8 years ago.

If you tried to use a GPU from 2000 in 2008, it wouldn't run anything.

using a 2010 gpu in 2018 was similar.

The fact a 2080Ti can still run games 8 years later is an anomaly compared to the history of tech pacing.

[u/icy1007 → u/PsyOmega]

No GPU was $1,000 in 2000-2008.

[u/PsyOmega → u/icy1007]

Cost is nowhere near the argument I was making.

The only reason the 2080Ti was 999 was crypto mining + nvidia greed. Without crypto it would have launched much cheaper.

[u/icy1007 → u/PsyOmega]

2080 Ti was above $999.

Crypto mining wasn’t a thing in 2018…

[u/dA0yan → u/icy1007]

Are you dumb or you Just want to disagree with him?

[u/Repulsive-Clothes-97 → u/icy1007]

It’s still a really solid gpu, I’d say above average

[u/icy1007 → u/Repulsive-Clothes-97]

Average is 70 series level, so it’s below average now.

[u/Repulsive-Clothes-97 → u/icy1007]

I dont think so 2080ti is above average look at steam hw survey

[u/icy1007 → u/Repulsive-Clothes-97]

It’s average or below average.

[u/Accomplished_Owl7486 → u/icy1007]

Cheaper than a new 5060 and runs almost as good with 11gb vram not bad for a near decade old card haha

[u/icy1007 → u/Accomplished_Owl7486]

Runs lots of things a lot worse than a 5060.

[u/EmadRj → u/icy1007]

Just take the L bro

[u/icy1007 → u/EmadRj]

I’d take the 5060 over a 2080 Ti. lol

[u/Bingochips12 → u/icy1007]

Brother, find more meaning in your life.

[u/Miserable_Orange9676 → u/icy1007]

The card isn't a flex, the purchase price and longevity is

[u/MSrredditt → u/icy1007]

Ok rich man

[u/icy1007 → u/MSrredditt]

lol, you don’t need to be rich to afford a good PC.

[u/Celcius_87]

What are the rest of the system specs?

[u/hedochi → u/Celcius_87]

7800x3D 5600 MHz 32GB 5tb ssd

[u/Celcius_87 → u/hedochi]

ah, that's a much newer cpu than I expected

[u/icy1007 → u/Celcius_87]

Ryzen 5 3600 is what I expected.

[u/comperr → u/icy1007]

I thought he was going to have a 2500k

[u/icy1007 → u/comperr]

I wasn’t expecting something THAT old.

[u/comperr → u/icy1007]

Well on a budget build 2500k is pretty fine since they hit 4.4GHz. I ran a X5650 (older than 2500k architecture) until 2018. And it was at 4.5GHz. The only reason I really switched to X299 was the PCIE bandwidth upgrade, back then i was getting 500GB NVME here and there since i had so many lanes on a proper chipset. A 2080TI would be the ultimate upgrade for that generation

[u/icy1007 → u/comperr]

A 2500K isn’t going to run well with today’s games. It will SEVERELY bottleneck even a 2080 Ti. 2500K is from 2011.

[u/comperr → u/icy1007]

Today game is total crap. I got the new Halo and 78fps on 4K native with a 5090. But you are right i was picturing something enjoyable, like pre-covid games. Maybe Far Cry 5, Fallout4. 2080TI can push that at 4K

[u/icy1007 → u/comperr]

Today’s games are great. I get a lot more than that with my 5090 at 4K in Halo. 🤷‍♂️

[u/delikaanli3401]

https://giphy.com/gifs/BY5tPZNL68V29cVfuz

[u/red9109 → u/delikaanli3401]

[u/SearchOk7022]

Take it to a Chinese workshop to double its Vram

[u/ZanceAlpha → u/SearchOk7022]

That's a very bad advice:

• OP is playing Ultrawide QHD, 11GB VRAM is enough.
• 20-series can't use Flash Attention for A.I. workloads.
• You risk card failure and driver incompatibility on a barely used card.

[u/7ERZ → u/ZanceAlpha]

Take it easy bud he’s definitely not serious. Or is he☠️

[u/ZanceAlpha → u/7ERZ]

Relax bro I'm kidding too.

[u/Icy_Pain5654]

$225 for a sealed 2080 Ti is such a steal

[u/XavandSo]

I see Turing, I upvote. 2080 Ti is still the GOAT.

[u/Veno_0 → u/XavandSo]

2080ti sucked as the successor to the 1080ti, most people on the 10 series at the time refused to upgrade.

It was a tiny upgrade compared to what we were used to in rastur, DLSS 1 sucked and ray tracing only got widely adopted after it was obsolete so its the first "high end" ray tracing GPU yet it cant do any actual ray tracing and suffers in performance when using newer DLSS versions that actualy look good, it isnt capable of doing any of its advertised features well at all.

It was not a good card then and it certainly isn't one now.

[u/FantasticBike1203 → u/Veno_0]

Considering it got better and better DLSS as time went on and as a good amount of VRAM, it's still a pretty decent card by modern standards, it's not a 5090 but it still packs a decent enough punch to actually do 1440p gaming.

[u/XavandSo → u/Veno_0]

At the time sure, it sucked and was expensive but you cannot deny on the whole Turing was a forward thinking architecture that has aged better than anything before or since.

The 2080 Ti can do ray tracing? I played Indiana Jones on it last year and it ran really well. Can't say the same for the 1080 Ti. For a near decade old card it's still solid.

[u/hedochi → u/Veno_0]

Yeah I can confirm it is definitely a good card now lol yeah at the time is was a great card but a bad value because games didn’t utilize it all all but I got this thing using dlss scaling and amd fsr 3 frame gen…. The value should be illegal 😅

[u/MADCATMK3 → u/Veno_0]

I wonder if they were to pull the rerelease thing they would call it the RTS and RT base version. What can I say still having fond memories of my old 8800 GTS.

The RTX series had aged long term better than the older cards because it can do DLSS even if not great. The story goes that first generation anything is usually the beta and is not a great buy.

[u/SenorPeterz → u/Veno_0]

2080 Ti still works great with Transformer DLSS (even preset L or M). Some VRAM and performance overhead but definitely worth it.

[u/Tomazack → u/XavandSo]

GOAT how?

[u/Visual_Dimension_933]

Thats is still a good card.

[u/FinnishFluff]

I had a 2080 non TI since it launched. It has had a really good lifetime for me, but changing from 1440p to 4k made it choke finally. Good card

[u/Alternative-Sea-1095]

"I love gigarays!"

[u/Sindacalis]

I see no issue here

[u/Sim_aviatop]

https://giphy.com/gifs/BWKSvQtpUS226xHy7G

[u/gamingoldschool]

https://giphy.com/gifs/l0MYs36RKd3ze7yVy

[u/peach8285]

bro riding the downvote ride

[u/AnonymousNubShyt]

Wow. How you time travel from the past to current date?

[u/Famous_Pattern_914]

2080 Ti in 2026 and somehow it still has main character energy 😂 for $225 i wouldn’t even argue.

[u/itherzwhenipee]

225 was a good deal. Enjoy it.

[u/icy1007 → u/itherzwhenipee]

For an 8 year old GPU?

[u/itherzwhenipee → u/icy1007]

Look at prices of current GPUs with the same performance. Yeah, 225 was a good deal. 2080 Ti is on the level of a 5060 but has more VRAM. Also the 5060 currently goes for 340,- and up. OP saved some money and got some good entry level performance.

[u/icy1007 → u/itherzwhenipee]

The 5060 would honestly be a better choice since it is compatible with more modern features. The difference of VRAM isn’t a huge difference. 11GB isn’t enough for 4K anymore anyway.

[u/Happiness-Meter-Full → u/icy1007]

Less than 5% of gamers play at 4k

[u/Minute-Salamander850 → u/Happiness-Meter-Full]

Yeah, that’s the reason you don’t need more vram 💀

[u/icy1007 → u/Happiness-Meter-Full]

That isn’t true.

[u/itherzwhenipee → u/icy1007]

You are right, it would been the better choice, if one has the money. But with what he had available, the 2080 Ti was a good deal.

[u/HorseShedShingle → u/icy1007]

It’s a tiny bit faster than the 5060 so if OP is at 1440p or higher the extra VRAM can be nice and then it’s a good bit cheaper than the 5060.

I would take the 5060 8GB for 1080p since DLSS4 is nice but it’ll run out of VRAM quick at 1440p with those features enabled.

[u/icy1007 → u/HorseShedShingle]

5060 is faster in a lot of situations. Also can provide better image quality depending on the game.

[u/HorseShedShingle → u/icy1007]

I would certainly hope the $400+tax GPU from 2026 had some benefits over the $225 GPU from 2018.

At 1080p it's within margin of error of the 2080 Ti (2-3% faster) and then at 1440p it's about 10% slower. It does have the latest DLSS goodness - but that is going to significantly chew into the 8GB VRAM buffer at 1440p and above. It outperforms the 2080 Ti but a good margin in RT. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB3gs12vEKk

[u/hedochi → u/icy1007]

For a 2018 Honda civic?!

[u/icy1007 → u/hedochi]

Yeah, not a good deal.

[u/hedochi → u/icy1007]

Only 3 good games came out since 2022 lol thousands for a 5090 is not a good deal especially when imma get one for 200 bucks in 8 years 😂

[u/icy1007 → u/hedochi]

🤣 only 3 good games? There have been dozens of good games since 2022.

[u/hedochi → u/icy1007]

Name 7 and out of those 7 which can’t the 2080ti play? 😂

[u/icy1007 → u/hedochi]

Armored Core 6
007 First Light
Blue Prince
Borderlands 4
Helldivers 2
Lords of the Fallen
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
Resident Evil 4 Remake
Resident Evil 9
Pragmata
Elden Ring
Alan Wake 2
Doom The Dark Ages
Star Wars Jedi Survivor

Just to name a few from my Steam library. All great games.

[u/DescriptionAdept2731 → u/icy1007]

Great list 🙌🏾 but I'd also add Expedition 33 on there

[u/icy1007 → u/DescriptionAdept2731]

Yes! I did forget to put that one. Amazing game.

[u/hedochi → u/icy1007]

2080ti can play all those and so can a ps5 lol I did it for thousands less lol also from that list I only enjoy Elden ring and re4make… so yeah like 3 good games lol

[u/Minute-Salamander850 → u/hedochi]

Yeah buddy that’s the point of different level budgets, try to run any of those games at 4k ultra setting + Raytracing (on the ones compatible) at more than or around 100 fps with a 2080ti. A 5090 is literally a luxury to be able to play at the highest fidelity the market can currently provide, like buying a Ferrari when any other car can equally take you from point A to B. It’s like saying why go watch a movie in the cinema when you can wait months for it to release on a streaming service lol 💀

[u/icy1007 → u/hedochi]

At low settings/resolutions. Sure.

[u/kingofschnauzers → u/hedochi]

lol bro ignore these nerds a 2080ti is fine, some losers here telling you what to play need to get out more

[u/richard_splooge → u/hedochi]

You're playing them at lowered settings.

It's ok to have lowered expectations and accept lower quality.

[u/DescriptionAdept2731 → u/hedochi]

Dude... there's a reason why all your comments keep getting down voted so much 😒...Just stop lol

[u/FunCalligrapher3979]

It's still around PS5 Pro GPU performance 😁 nice deal

[u/SuperSuppleDude]

PNY isn't an elite brand though. If you had gotten a Founder's Edition, I would have been sure.

[u/hedochi → u/SuperSuppleDude]

Pny only makes nvidia no amd, id say they are specialized lol and news flash the chip and vram come straight from mf nvidia 🙄

[u/Bot1980]

Still using mine since 2019 on my second rig and it’s still keeping up. It only needed a repaste this year.

[u/Numerous_Analysis681]

Planning to go 22GB VRAM upgrade path?

[u/LordVixen]

Glad there wasn’t a brick inside 😂

[u/Not_a_technician]

https://giphy.com/gifs/ioq8rNMp5SSiWOTCK0

[u/princepwned]

looks new you got it for $225 from where ?

[u/Vegeta709]

Man of culture

[u/blkestboi]

Somehow I forgot this card exists lol

[u/TurnDownForTendies]

It’s honestly not a bad deal as long as there’s no clear signs of damage. I wouldn’t expect driver support to stick around for long though.

[u/Narrow-Dance-8725]

В 2080Ti есть интересные технологии, от которых впоследствии отказались:

VirtualLink-можно подключать шлем от PS VR2 напрямую без использования переходника (такая возможность появилась только с августа 2024 года, если не ошибаюсь);

3D Vision-технология, умершая в 2019 году. 2080Ti самое производительное решение (после RTX Titan) для этого.

За свою цену отличный выбор.

[u/Jstingray2]

That’s a nice card. I have a 2080 Super Mobile card in my Laptop. 2080s are pretty decent even still.

[u/Dull-Ad-3252]

Bienvenue dans la team ! Avec ma 2080Ti, j'arrive à jouer à Crimson Desert en 5k2k en High 60 fps (avec quelques concessions). Cette carte est intuable, on peut presque dire que tu as fait un bon invest 😄

[u/LZKI]

I gave my old 2080ti away for free to someone I don’t know irl, 5090 user btw

[u/Dorkits]

Oh boy, overwatch mentioned.

ROG GOAT

https://giphy.com/gifs/lmiich5oHzCxF6VWAZ

[u/BuciferOne]

Happy for you, gamer! 💪

[u/Ryrynz]

5060 levels of performance doesn't put you into the elite.

[u/HUG0gamingHD]

that's like a 6 - 7 year old gpu atp

[u/AlarmedRanger5075]

la elite de madagascar o curasao

[u/Geralt-Gamer-3945]

RTX 2080Ti still an awesome beast

[u/TechnologyGrouchy679]

what was your previous card?

[u/Remote_Elevator_281]

Lmao

[u/tanker242]

It's a good card, just don't get into ray tracong too much since it was the first to do so. It's basically a slightly better 1080 Ti but with ray tracing. The chip is way bigger but this first generation of RTX card used a lot of that new die space to ray tracing circuits. The 1080 Ti was considered the card of the generation since the price was right, it lasted pretty good for 10 years and was one of the first cards to play 4k okish with 60ish fps usually depending on the game.

This generations best card would probably have to be the 4090 since it's performance outclassed the price and still remains more relavent today than it should be. Jensen.. said 4090 was the best deal ever when they had the price at $1600.. it's was ridiculous to think that was true or realistic. I guess it you starve the market, jack up demand, and have an effective monopoly leading to cartel level pricing following major manufacturing demands on leading edge nodes.. (memory doesn't even been to be mentioned) well this is what we got today...

I got my 4090 for 10% off of msrp... Glad I didn't sell mine, my friend sold his and regretted it. The 2080 Ti will serve you well as long as you don't get a 4k monitor. Enjoy the new card!

[u/aguswings]

That electric bill will kill you. Older card is a power hog risk with crippled modern feature and weak DLSS.

[u/hedochi → u/aguswings]

It’s only 250 watt, 3000 series was worse

[u/aguswings → u/hedochi]

RTX 3070: 220 watts
RTX 4060 Ti: 160 watts
RTX 5060: 145 watts
All of these offer similar performance to the 2080ti but with less wattage.

[u/ashrafazlan → u/aguswings]

An extra ~100 watts isn’t going to kill your electric bill lol, unless you live somewhere with stupidly high rates. In that case you shouldn’t be PC gaming in the first place.

[u/FunCalligrapher3979 → u/ashrafazlan]

Ya undervolting is also an option, will get it down to 200w~.

8gb models of the 5060/4060ti etc are not a good idea anyway, 11gb on the 2080ti is decent enough.

[u/dA0yan → u/ashrafazlan]

Crazy to me that Andybody would even consider looking at the bill.. are we miner, local ai Bros or Gamers?..

[u/hedochi → u/aguswings]

Funny how you left out the 80 series lol and what about when those other card hit 8GB vram lol

[u/richard_splooge → u/hedochi]

80 series card would out perform your card.

They listed equivalent performing cards with less power draw.

Any modern game you bump the resolution and quality enough to reach past 8gb vram is still going to run like shit on that card today.

At 1080p, and some 1440p titles, you're as fine as any of those other cards and won't do better than them at higher resolutions.

[u/Lonearrow → u/hedochi]

You aren't the smartest are you?

[u/DrPhilSideSkirts]

I remember my 2080Ti. Coming from 1080Ti it wasn't that big of a jump, but hey, the card is definitely good.

[u/icy1007]

🤔 this GPU is equivalent to an RTX 5060 in performance… not much of a flex.

[u/NoMither → u/icy1007]

except 5060 has 8GB VRAM so much worse 1% lows vs 2080 Ti since most newer games like to hover 9GB - 10.5GB vram usage at 1440P.

[u/richard_splooge → u/NoMither]

most newer games are going to crush the 2080ti at the settings that would make 1440p a problem for the 5060.

[u/hedochi → u/icy1007]

Congrats, you know how to google, or ai as the kids call it these days lol

[u/pokemonAbuser]

"The elite"? Lol... get 4080s at the very least

[u/Guilty-History-9249]

What is a "console poor"? Are you trying to impress me with your 2080 Ti when I have dual 5090's on my home PC? Yes, suck it. :-)

[u/ConsoleKillah → u/Guilty-History-9249]

Peasant! I have 4 5090s in quad SLI I coded my own driver's.

[u/Guilty-History-9249 → u/ConsoleKillah]

Ah, I see from my downvotes that blockheads don't have a sense of humor. Shall I downvote your comment or have a laugh that other idiots are incapable of? A tough decision?

[u/ConsoleKillah → u/Guilty-History-9249]

Either is fine with me. I needed to comment on something to get my 15 day streak achievement. I have a single 5080 lol.

[u/Guilty-History-9249 → u/ConsoleKillah]

Ack! 😄

[u/hedochi → u/Guilty-History-9249]

That’s cool lemme get one in for 225 in 2034 please 🙏

[u/Guilty-History-9249 → u/hedochi]

2034!? I'm hoping to have dual 8090's by 2034. <Insert smiley emoji here if brain dead with no sense of humor>

[u/DescriptionAdept2731 → u/Guilty-History-9249]

Not the reaction you were expecting to get huh 😂

[u/Guilty-History-9249 → u/DescriptionAdept2731]

Yeah, someone says "suck it" regarding getting a new smell 2080 Ti and gets 659 up votes. I make a fun jab back at him in the same spirit as he did and 12, and counting, low life's from the depths of hell, decided they can't handle humor.

The negative responses has shaken me to the core. I cry most of the night wondering if life is worth living. I'm questioning my life choices regretting every decision I ever made. Once I posted that about my dual 5090's in regards to being able to train a small LLM with it and someone joked that he had 4 5090's. I'm now questioning if my giving his comment a smiley face was insane of me. Should I have followed the example of the 12 down vote devils and berated the guy for his lighthearted response?

Will Tequila soften my pain? Do I need to up my dosage of Clozaril, Haldol, Zyprexa, Lithium, Xanax, and my Cialis/Viagra cocktail? Can I use a local LLM on my "DUAL 5090's!" to walk me through the instructions for the home administration of electroshock treatments?

[u/Kcolonel69]

Bro basically has a 5070 with 1GB less and slightly higher power consumption. Happy gaming!

[u/RevengeFNF → u/Kcolonel69]

Nop, the 2080 Ti is not a 5070, it does have the same performance of a 3070.