GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

The GeForce GTX 1080 Ti is NVIDIA's highest-performance Pascal graphics card, released in March 2017 as the generational flagship and successor to the Maxwell-based GTX 980 Ti. It held the title of fastest consumer single-GPU card for well over a year, until the Turing RTX series arrived in 2018.

It carries 11GB of GDDR5X on a wide 352-bit memory bus, providing substantially more bandwidth than the GTX 1080. The GP102 die — derived from the professional Titan X Pascal — is manufactured on TSMC's 16nm FinFET process, and the card requires significant power at 250W via dual 8-pin connectors. Pascal's architecture supports DirectX 12 and Vulkan, but predates hardware ray tracing and DLSS.

The GTX 1080 Ti is capable of demanding 1440p gaming at high frame rates and delivers playable 4K performance in many titles at high settings. Its 11GB VRAM buffer remains a practical advantage for high-resolution textures and content creation workloads. On the used market, it continues to appeal to buyers building high-performance rigs on older platforms who need a card with genuine 4K capability.