Is It The 1080 TI The Best GPU Ever?

[#22]

A few memorable cards of their time for me personally, either for outright crazy performance at the time, or value offered, special mention for efficiency.

• GeForce 4 Ti 4200 - value and performance
• Radeon 9700/9800 Pro - value and performance
• GeForce 6800 Ultra - performance - this is my personal favorite GPU of all time, such a rich story to be told in that era
• GeForce 6600GT - value
• GeForce 8800 GTX/GT - performance / value
• Radeon 4870 - value and performance
• Radeon 5870 - value and performance
• GeForce GTX 460 - value
• GeForce GTX 750Ti - efficiency
• GeForce GTX 970 - value
• GeForce GTX 1080/Ti - performance and efficiency
• GeForce GTX 1060 - value
• GeForce RTX 3080 - value and performance (for those few who got it at launch at MSRP like me)
• GeForce RTX 4090 - performance

It's totally subjective, but I mostly like this list and it highlights especially recent sad tendency with every next generation being harder to find value in anything other than top products (btw tending to last well for longer and longer) and value in general shifting toward scaling with raising prices, so total upselling. Or more like let's make the best flagship as we can and then add more and more dissapointments with every other model going down - to the point it's hard to imagine arrival of next rock solid midrange card with potential to became legendary like e.g. 1060. The worse is tendency already lasts for years (imo last solid lower-end offerings were 970, 1060 or 16XX Super cards), so it doesn't look like Nvidia and rest experimenting with offer obviously unattractive for us, but such selling well...

 

[Keullo-e]

It's totally subjective, but I mostly like this list and it highlights especially recent sad tendency with every next generation being harder to find value in anything other than top products (btw tending to last well for longer and longer) and value in general shifting toward scaling with raising prices, so total upselling. Or more like let's make the best flagship as we can and then add more and more dissapointments with every other model going down - to the point it's hard to imagine arrival of next rock solid midrange card with potential to became legendary like e.g. 1060. The worse is tendency already lasts for years (imo last solid lower-end offerings were 970, 1060 or 16XX Super cards), so it doesn't look like Nvidia and rest experimenting with offer obviously unattractive for us, but such selling well...

2060 would've been an okay card with a lower price tag as well.

 

[#22]

2060 would've been an okay card with a lower price tag as well.

I agree, but price bump and no VRAM uplift imo makes it not worthy successor of 1060. It's exactly the thing - we just don't get anymore in lower end of the stack cards being value performance-wise and overally solid, so without mentioned dissapointments like feeling low on VRAM, having insultingly narrow bus or cut-down PCIe. Cheap or heavily discounted Radeons used to be something recently, but sadly mostly as an answer to Nvidia's offer. Not AMD being nice guys giving you nice cards, but only ones seeming a little better than what Nvidia has proposed first. And I personally find a turn off lack of DLSS and RT capabilities no matter what range of cards we talk about.