Not really, in terms of pure power 1080Ti still holds the advantage against those cards until Ai tech gets into the competition such as DLSS and frame gen and even then 1080Ti can use those features thanks to AMD.
For example I can easily play Marvel Spiderman’s 2 on ultra settings with mods on 60+ FPS constantly because of AMD DLSS and Frame Gen.
RTX 5050 is still better than 1080ti in pure rasterization, but not by that much though.
You’d need to define what struggling is first.
They weren’t basic back then, true.
Nowadays high refresh rate monitors are pretty much the best bang for the buck when it comes to improving your gameplay experience, especially if you’re into games that aren’t taxing to your system.
The only competition when it comes to that are Ryzen CPUs.
The main downside for the 1080Ti right now is it is no longer getting driver updates which sucks. I used mine for 6 years before getting a 7800XT in my new pc
I think that having more than 8GB of VRAM on those really low-end GPUs in 2026 isn’t that beneficial.
I’d say that 5050 only having PCIe x8 is a much bigger problem, as I’m sure many buyers of that card already have budget specs that might be limited to PCIe gen3, which might come with the performance penalty in the end.
It’s more like our current GPUs are a disgrace, especially low-end ones.
The 8gb vram thing is super overblown
I was able to run this game at max settings for years with only a 6gb 2060 at 1080.
With dlss4 you can bring that fps number even higher for basically free