Saying goodbye to Nvidia’s retired GeForce GTX 1080 Ti — we benchmark 2017’s hottest graphics card against some modern GPUs as it rides into the sunset

Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 1080 Ti shook the world of gaming like few other products have when it arrived over eight years ago in March 2017. I personally reviewed it at launch, and I was astounded by how smoothly and fluidly it handled the most challenging games of its time, even at 4K (and without the benefit of DLSS or FSR).

The 1080 Ti’s arrival also marked the beginning of nearly four years of unchallenged GeForce dominance at the very top of the PC gaming hill. Sure, the RX Vega 64 chased the…