Ten years later, the iconic GTX 1080 Ti still holds up in 1080p gaming, but not without showing its age — Redux testing highlights the wonders of 11GB VRAM & the woes of time

GTX 1080 Ti.

Few names echo in the aisles of tech cathedrals like the legendary GTX 1080 Ti, released by Nvidia all the way back in 2017. The GPU it's based on, GP102, actually debuted a year earlier, in 2016, which is why this story is titled as a decade-old hindsight. German outlet PC Games Hardware just retested all three cards based on the GP102, pitting them against far more efficient modern offerings to answer a simple question: how well does the 1080 Ti hold up in 2026?

At its launch, the GTX 1080 Ti cost $700 and used a cut-down version of the GP102 called "GP102-400," while the Titan Xp that released a month later enjoyed the full-fat GP102-450 silicon. Built on the Pascal architecture, the 1080 Ti featured 3,584 CUDA cores that could boost up to 1.58 GHz, 11GB of GDDR5X memory saturated across a 352-bit wide bus, and a 250W TDP. It was the last (consumer) flagship Nvidia made with pure rasterization in mind.