Discussion Best GTX GPU?

[Order 66]

I just saw the news thread where the GTX branding is dead. My question is what is the most powerful GTX GPU? My first thought was the gtx 1080 ti, but then I remembered that it struggles in AW2 because it lacks mesh shaders, the next most powerful GTX GPU would probably be the GTX 1660ti, which does support mesh shaders. I suppose my other question is, which GTX GPU will last the longest the 1080 ti because of it's VRAM, or the 1660ti with its support for mesh shaders? I suppose AW2 is a moot point as both GPUs don't seem to provide playable frame rates even at 1080p lowest settings.

 

[Eximo]

In name, certainly the 1080Ti for its core count and memory bandwidth. Also the Titan Pascal cards which would be your 1090 and 1090Ti if they had gone with that branding instead.

But even the RTX cards are still Geforce. You take the RT and Tensor cores away and you have the latest GTX card. The 16 series is just 20 series without ray tracing and tensor cores. Still Turing.

It appears that AW2 will be patched soon and has greatly improved Pascal GPU performance.

 

[Order 66]

Also the Titan Pascal cards which would be your 1090 and 1090Ti if they had gone with that branding instead.

Which titan cards are you referring to? the Titan x pascal apparently loses to the 1080 ti by 3% according to TPU.

 

[Eximo]

Which titan cards are you referring to? the Titan x pascal apparently loses to the 1080 ti by 3% according to TPU.

Clock speed based. You just have to overclock it and/or provide better cooling.

 

[Order 66]

Clock speed based. You just have to overclock it and/or provide better cooling.

Ok, but I would still like to know what would be the 1090 ti if they had used that naming scheme.

 

[punkncat]

There are a lot of various ways to look at that.

It could be said that the 1060 was one of the most widely adopted platforms of all considering how long it stayed on top of the Steam survey.

IMO the 1080ti was certainly (among) the most powerful of them. I don't know if the Titan cards were better or not?

The plain 1080 was pretty legendary for its price to performance and it alongside its ti bigger brother remain relevant cards to this day.

From a personal perspective I have a lot of love for the 960 as well in a certain respect. It was the first 'modern' non AMD graphics card I ever purchased. It was an EVGA, who made some really nice cards. It led to me staying with Nvidia almost exclusively until late last year when I got a 7800 XT. The only bothersome aspect was the "cool and quiet" lie which I later found to be easily overcome with a custom fan curve in Afterburner.

 

[Eximo]

Ok, but I would still like to know what would be the 1090 ti if they had used that naming scheme.

Titan branding went away, they replaced it with 90 and 90ti class cards. So the Titan Xp would be the 1090 Ti while the Titan Pascal would have been the 1090. Though they would have really needed to double the VRAM like the Quadro version of that card.

24GB VRAM fully enabled chips (though the 4090 isn't fully enabled) But the 3090Ti was.

Sort of. It doesn't quite work because they have since added another GPU class.

 

[Eximo]

There are a lot of various ways to look at that.

It could be said that the 1060 was one of the most widely adopted platforms of all considering how long it stayed on top of the Steam survey.

IMO the 1080ti was certainly (among) the most powerful of them. I don't know if the Titan cards were better or not?

The plain 1080 was pretty legendary for its price to performance and it alongside its ti bigger brother remain relevant cards to this day.

From a personal perspective I have a lot of love for the 960 as well in a certain respect. It was the first 'modern' non AMD graphics card I ever purchased. It was an EVGA, who made some really nice cards. It led to me staying with Nvidia almost exclusively until late last year when I got a 7800 XT. The only bothersome aspect was the "cool and quiet" lie which I later found to be easily overcome with a custom fan curve in Afterburner.

The reduced price after the 1080TI launched was quite enticing, but then so was the 1080Ti itself.

I paid the launch price for a GTX1080. Used it for like 6 years, which is saying something.

 

[punkncat]

I picked up an MSI Gaming X 1080 for $600 right amidst the first crypto boom. I was a little put off by the price for a moment, right up until I realized how well it performed. I personally used that card in one of my own systems until I purchased the above mentioned 7800 XT. It is now in use alongside an R5 3600 in a build I did for my son and is working very well for him.

To be fair in relation to that. The above mentioned EVGA 960 is still in use in a system alongside the first Ryzen I bought (R3 1200) which I sold to a friend of mine for school work, media consumption and very light older title gaming. I actually got the opportunity to get hands on with that system a few months back because the buyer caught some herpecyphilitus messing around with torrents.

 

[stonecarver]

I agree the end of the heap pile for the GTX branding was the GTX 1080ti and the Titan X Pascal. Pretty much the same with very little different under the hood. Biggest difference was the 11 Gb to the 12 Gb's on the Titan.

Nvidia did the same memory shuffle also on the GTX 780ti that is the same as the original Titan 6Gb vs 780ti had 3Gb .

Between the GT and the GTX naming Nvidia got about 20 years out of that branding naming.

Yeah a few newer game have started to edge out these once king of the hill cards but they still have lots of life if one does not ask it to do what it was never intended to do.

 

[Joseph_138]

I just saw the news thread where the GTX branding is dead. My question is what is the most powerful GTX GPU? My first thought was the gtx 1080 ti, but then I remembered that it struggles in AW2 because it lacks mesh shaders, the next most powerful GTX GPU would probably be the GTX 1660ti, which does support mesh shaders. I suppose my other question is, which GTX GPU will last the longest the 1080 ti because of it's VRAM, or the 1660ti with its support for mesh shaders? I suppose AW2 is a moot point as both GPUs don't seem to provide playable frame rates even at 1080p lowest settings.

1660ti is in the same performance class as a GTX 1070. I don't think you're going to find a GTX card that does what you want it to do, at an acceptable speed. Have you considered an RTX 2060 Super, or 2070 non-Super? I would consider those to be the bare minimum now, and they're not very expensive on ebay. They also weren't popular mining cards, so you don't have that to worry about as much as some other cards.