--- title: GTX 1080s: Revisiting Legends | daily.dev description: A retrospective benchmark of the GTX 1080 and GTX 1080 Ti in 2026, testing them on period-correct hardware (i7-8700K and Ryzen 7 1800X), modern hardware (Ryzen... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/gtx-1080s-revisiting-legends-o7hrglvfc twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: GTX 1080s: Revisiting Legends | daily.dev og:description: A retrospective benchmark of the GTX 1080 and GTX 1080 Ti in 2026, testing them on period-correct hardware (i7-8700K and Ryzen 7 1800X), modern hardware (Ryzen... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/gtx-1080s-revisiting-legends-o7hrglvfc og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/O7HRgLVfc.png og:image:alt: GTX 1080s: Revisiting Legends og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # GTX 1080s: Revisiting Legends **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 15 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A retrospective benchmark of the GTX 1080 and GTX 1080 Ti in 2026, testing them on period-correct hardware (i7-8700K and Ryzen 7 1800X), modern hardware (Ryzen 7 7800X3D), and against newer GPUs. Gaming results show the 1080 Ti can still hit 1080p 60 FPS in many titles at max settings, but ray tracing requirements in newer games render both cards obsolete for those titles. The piece also benchmarks LLM inference using llama.cpp, comparing the GTX 1080 Ti against the RTX 3060 12GB across Gemma3 12B, Mistral Nemo 12B, and Qwen3 8B models. The 1080 Ti is severely outpaced in prompt processing due to lacking Tensor cores, while token generation is more competitive thanks to its 484 GB/s memory bandwidth and DP4A integer support. Hamstrung FP16 throughput and growing CUDA deprecation further limit the card's future viability. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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