If you check how 1080 Ti fares in most NEWER GAMES, we are talking RTX 2060 levels more often than not. Far from high-end. Barely considered mid-end if you ask me. If the game supports DLSS, the 2060 will beat the 1080 Ti by 50% or so, using less than half the watts. An absolute monster? Not at all. Simply a mid-end card at best.
I don't get why people still praise the 1080 Ti, if we were able to buy GPU's at MSRP, we would not even be talking about 1080 Ti in 2021 tbh... It's 2016 architecture
Yeah still a decent GPU for many people, far from high-end tho. Especially not if you're a 1440p/144+ Hz gamer.
I had both 980 Ti and 1080 Ti and I think 980 Ti overall was the better card. Mine overclocked like crazy, running 1650 MHz 3D clocks using custom firmware and performing like a GTX 1080.
Turing was a pretty bad release and my 1080 Ti did not come close to RTX 2080 in comparison, regardless of OC. Maxwell overclocked way better than Pascal. Especially true for 980 Ti.
Problem with both cards today, is lack of optimization from Nvidia and game dev's. Maxwell and Pascal is pretty much forgotten at this point, all focus is on Turing/Ampere. And this is why Maxwell and Pascal drops lower and lower on new game benches.
In a year when 4000 series launch, it will be even worse. When you get 3 gens behind = close to no support/optimization (even tho products is still in support "on paper"). It works if it works. I know plenty of people who are already seeing this happen on Maxwell (visual artifacts in newer games, like Warzone for example) and wonky performance in general, drivers not fixing issues - Nvidia/AMD does not bother -, neither does the game devs (not testing much with old obsolete hardware, they typically test with current and last gen stuff)
Glad I sold my 1080 Ti a few weeks before 3080 came out, and I recieved mine for MSRP. Upgrade cost me 225 dollars lol. Night and day difference in performance, especially when I output to my OLED TV at 4K/120Hz (made possible with HDMI 2.1, which my 1080 Ti did not have). DLSS is the true magic on RTX cards. Could not care less about ray tracing.