Haha that’s amazing. I thought these things were practically worthless. Gave mine away for free on Reddit.
GTX 1080s: Testing a Legend
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Re: GTX 1080s: Testing a Legend
#22What's legendary about the 1080? It's a smaller 980ti on a much smaller node.
Less energy usage, more vram, faster in games (see https://www.pc-kombo.com/us/benchmark/games/gpu/compare?ids%...).
But it is even more about timing. Nvidia shifted to RTX afterwards, opting to go for raytracing and upscaling instead of making strictly faster cards. Which made the last GTX cards very competitive for regular usage, raising its status.
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#23I have 3 3090s, all in various gaming computers. I’m not sure what to do with them- the VRAM is only 24GB so doesn’t seem worth the power costs to run an open weight model. Any suggestions on how I can run them as some type of cluster? Is it worth exploring NVLink?
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#24I have 3 3090s, all in various gaming computers. I’m not sure what to do with them- the VRAM is only 24GB so doesn’t seem worth the power costs to run an open weight model. Any suggestions on how I can run them as some type of cluster? Is it worth exploring NVLink?
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#25Mine 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?
Ryzen 5000 cpus are extremely cheap right now. I bought a 5900xt (16 cores) to upgrade a server a few weeks ago for ~$250. If you already have DDR4 you could put together a system for pretty cheap if you need it soon.
The downside is that AM4 is basically EOL, so no upgrade path.
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#261080 is a great card but the 1060 is an absolute king for its price back in the day, owned one and used it for quite a long time really. golden era of gaming and nvida
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#271080ti is a remarkably great card that landed at just the right time - by far my longest used card before I needed an upgrade
Re: GTX 1080s: Testing a Legend
#28What's legendary about the 1080? It's a smaller 980ti on a much smaller node.
Less energy usage, more vram, faster in games (see https://www.pc-kombo.com/us/benchmark/games/gpu/compare?ids%... ). But it is even more about timing. Nvidia shifted to RTX afterwards, opting to go for raytracing and upscaling instead of making strictly faster cards. Which made the last GTX cards very competitive for regular usage, raising its status.
Something I can't fault nvidia for is long term vision. If you ignore all the non-gaming uses, I can't see significant gains to be had by keeping evolving rasterization based rendering, which presumably would hit diminishing returns, upgrades would be less exciting, and be easier for AMD and others to compete against them. The trouble is a variety of reasons has meant that long term is likely going to be over a decade from when it was introduced before it's really commonplace or part of the furniture for the majority of games.
Re: GTX 1080s: Testing a Legend
#29I have 3 3090s, all in various gaming computers. I’m not sure what to do with them- the VRAM is only 24GB so doesn’t seem worth the power costs to run an open weight model. Any suggestions on how I can run them as some type of cluster? Is it worth exploring NVLink?
You can put dual 3090's into one system.
https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1m5fkts/my_prac...
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#30I'm still using a 1080ti in my main PC, though I don't play as many games as I used to. Control is the last title I picked up where I really felt like I was pushing the graphics capability of my rig. I remember when I built my PC I was surprised when I'd come across a post of someone running ancient (at the time) chips like the i7-870, and now I'm realizing I am one of those people. My 2700X and 1080ti do plenty of w…
I still run a 2014 Mac mini and a 2012 MacBook air