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Re: GTX 1080s: Testing a Legend

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Post by Argonaut998 » Sat, Jul 18, 2026, 6:01 PM UTC

Mine is still going strong, it can run Gemma 4 26b. It can still play all the games I care about at near max settings at 1440p at 60 FPS (like Elden Ring).#

My PC did coincidentally die today (not GPU related) so I think it's time for an upgrade, what do you recommend?

Re: GTX 1080s: Testing a Legend

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Post by embedding-shape » Sat, Jul 18, 2026, 6:04 PM UTC

gdevenyi wrote: post #8

My 1080ti is my local inference machine now. With the release of the Bonsai 27B models I can run a genuine dense model with usable context. GOAT card.

What exact runtime are you running Bonsai 27B with right now and what variants of the weights are you using?

Re: GTX 1080s: Testing a Legend

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Post by embedding-shape » Sat, Jul 18, 2026, 6:05 PM UTC

Argonaut998 wrote: post #11

Mine is still going strong, it can run Gemma 4 26b. It can still play all the games I care about at near max settings at 1440p at 60 FPS (like Elden Ring).# My PC did coincidentally die today (not GPU related) so I think it's time for an upgrade, what do you recommend?

> so I think it's time for an upgrade, what do you recommend?

Without knowing what you'll use it for, probably a 9970x + RTX Pro 6000 would do the trick, YMMV.

Re: GTX 1080s: Testing a Legend

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Post by jandrese » Sat, Jul 18, 2026, 6:08 PM UTC

fishgoesblub wrote: post #5

It's amazing how great the 10 series was. The 1060, a budget card, had the same amount of VRAM as the previous generations top tier card (6GB) with the 1080Ti having 11GB ! the 5060 for example has only 8GB, the same as the GTX 1070 and 1080.

The RAM crunch has been a quiet victory for those older cards. I have a 10 year old video card in my rig that had at the time a decent but not chart topping 8GB of RAM. Developers are still targeting 8GB because so many of the cards released today still have that. Since I'm still using 1080p the performance is usually acceptable too. Surprisingly the biggest problem is becoming the CPU, with the i5-3570k lacking a few of the later SSE instructions and being completely unable to run some titles.

Re: GTX 1080s: Testing a Legend

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Post by epolanski » Sat, Jul 18, 2026, 6:08 PM UTC

What's legendary about the 1080? It's a smaller 980ti on a much smaller node.

Re: GTX 1080s: Testing a Legend

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Post by iammjm » Sat, Jul 18, 2026, 6:49 PM UTC

Funny enough, I have the 1080 and I tested qwen 3.5 9b on it today. I was positively surprised with the experience. It's no Opus but it did OK on the couple of queries and tasks I gave it. It's pretty impressive for a 10 year old gpu!

Re: GTX 1080s: Testing a Legend

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Post by muro » Sat, Jul 18, 2026, 7:14 PM UTC

Those were great and 1070 was a great deal. Upgraded to a 3080 from 1070 last year, they are quite reasonably priced now.

Re: GTX 1080s: Testing a Legend

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Post by mrandish » Sat, Jul 18, 2026, 7:21 PM UTC

gdevenyi wrote: post #8

My 1080ti is my local inference machine now. With the release of the Bonsai 27B models I can run a genuine dense model with usable context. GOAT card.

I have a 1080ti currently not plugged in. More info please.

Re: GTX 1080s: Testing a Legend

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Post by steinvakt2 » Sat, Jul 18, 2026, 7:21 PM UTC

fishgoesblub wrote: post #5

It's amazing how great the 10 series was. The 1060, a budget card, had the same amount of VRAM as the previous generations top tier card (6GB) with the 1080Ti having 11GB ! the 5060 for example has only 8GB, the same as the GTX 1070 and 1080.

To be fair, the 5060 with 16GB is not that much more expensive than the 5060 8GB.

Re: GTX 1080s: Testing a Legend

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Post by surcap526 » Sat, Jul 18, 2026, 7:43 PM UTC

fishgoesblub wrote: post #5

It's amazing how great the 10 series was. The 1060, a budget card, had the same amount of VRAM as the previous generations top tier card (6GB) with the 1080Ti having 11GB ! the 5060 for example has only 8GB, the same as the GTX 1070 and 1080.

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