294: The God-Tier GPU

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🗓️ 6 July 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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We're back with another installment in our (annual?) series of Products That Changed Everything (cue the theme music). This time it's the venerable Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, which we chose on the occasion of Nvidia recently announcing that it's preparing to wind down driver support for the 10 series and end-of-life the card. We get into why this was a killer bang-for-the-buck GPU with such unusual longevity, how it ushered in 4k gaming, what set it apart from previous Ti cards, how it changed expectations for PC gaming hardware going forward, some viable upgrade paths for people still looking to replace a 1080 Ti on the cheap, and more.

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0:00.0	Okay, I got a problem.
0:01.3	Well, we are nothing, if not problem solvers around here.
0:03.4	So my desk was messy and I was like, I'm going to clean up my desk.
0:09.9	And then I got part way through cleaning at my desk and I had to do some other stuff.
0:14.3	So now the cleaning up my desk process is mid mid completion.
0:18.5	Okay.
0:18.9	And has made my office a literal disaster zone.
0:21.8	How long has it been in this particular state?
0:24.2	I don't want to talk about that.
0:25.2	It's been longer than I'm comfortable with.
0:27.6	That's the important question.
0:29.5	How long has it persisted?
0:30.9	I've been there before.
0:32.4	Are we talking?
0:33.0	Okay.
0:33.6	It's been more than a week.
0:34.9	Oh, wow.
0:35.5	It might have been more than a week. Oh, wow. It might have been more than two weeks. I was literally about to ask her, will be talking hours or days?
0:41.0	I was expecting you to just hit me with weeks off the bat, but all right.
0:43.8	Look, okay, so I started working on it.
0:47.2	I think before the last, not this week's peak stream, but the peak stream before that.
0:52.9	Okay.
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