Jensen Huang: Nvidia CEO sees Geforce GTX 1080 Ti as one of his favorite graphics cards
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A little over nine years ago, the Geforce GTX 1080 Ti caused a stir, and now Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has fondly looked back on the high-end graphics card.
Nvidia's "Pascal" generation marked its 10th anniversary last month, and a little over ten months later at the time, another notable graphics card arrived in the form of the Geforce GTX 1080 Ti, one that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang also appears to remember fondly. As an X post with a video from the @MilGrauNews channel at Computex shows, Huang was recently handed a unit of the graphics card to sign and described the model as one of his "favorites." "Oh my God. This is one of the best. This changed everything," Huang said.
Indeed, the graphics card was something special at the time in that it dethroned the Titan X Pascal, which had only been released a few months earlier for 1,199 US dollars. The GTX 1080 Ti, being a GP102-based graphics card, likewise featured 3,584 shaders, with just 1 GiB less GDDR5X memory, and did so for only 699 US dollars, or 819 euros in Germany. Alongside the lower price, it also had faster memory chips than the Titan card, which meant it even offered more bandwidth for significantly less money.
Nvidia eventually launched the Titan Xp in April 2017, using a fully enabled GP102 GPU with 3,840 shaders at the same price as the first Pascal Titan card. However, because the 1080 Ti was so strong and so much more attractive in terms of pricing, relatively few people were interested in it. As PC Gamer reports on the matter, Pascal marked the end of an era for Nvidia in many respects, as its successor, "Turing", was the first RTX generation equipped with Tensor cores and ray-tracing units. From then on, an RTX 2080 Ti also cost 999 US dollars, while today, the 699 US dollars of the GTX 1080 Ti only get you an RTX 5070, according to the report.
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Source: @MilGrauNews auf X via PC Gamer
