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.
On triple A games with high settings and 60fps is not struggling in my book which my 1080ti can achieve most of the time.
As it should be considering its 5000 series, still 1080Ti holds advantage in certain areas.
That’s fine although AI help comes with some disadvantages when it comes to image quality.
Can’t think of any though.
Well its a 2017 card running modern Triple A games so compensation is must at some point.
Even VRAM is higher on 1080Ti which just a one advantage over 5050.
Aside from that you can check dedicated webpages to see what other advantages 1080Ti holds against 5050.
Do you read the forums…? Its mentioned not nearly as often as bigger issues and theres threads on it
While the 1080ti has more VRAM the 5050 has GDDR6 which is miles faster than GDDR5X which is what the 1080ti is stuck with
Despite having GDDR6 5050 barely beats 1080ti on most games which proves how 1080Ti was ahead of its time.
Its time to accept the defeat after many years tho.
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
Well last driver uptade works pretty smooth so I’m not gonna complain until it becomes unplayable.
Then again I’m planning to upgrade my system soon so this bad boy has to hold onto it until that time comes.
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.
Yea fair enough.
Couldn’t agree more.
Stop making fun of 8gb vram, I have a 5060
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
Me with 11GB VRAM while using my legendary 1080Ti.
I tested my backup 1070 on wt with same settings and couple other games and it was crashing due to insufficient video memory tho I suppose the main reason why Warthunder was crashing it’s because my 8K user skins :)
Frame generation is magical for some games
Really depends on what games you’re going to play and how long do you plan to keep your GPU.
We already have more than a few titles that even at 1080p eat up all 8gb of VRAM, so someone getting a GPU like that nowadays must think twice about it.
That’s even worse cause then high-end PC players can just use a virtual machine to cheat an advantage over others. Best solution imo is let anyone use ULQ, and just laugh at those who choose not to use it, and still complain it’s unfair.
You have noticed how RAM prices are skyrocketing right now, and how certain component parts are hard/impossible to get your hands on? Not to mention that upgrading a PC you already have, especially if it was a pre-build, is something a lot of players may not have the knowhow or confidence to do. Not to mention that there’s inevitably a lot of younger players who cannot routinely afford to buy a system (or whose parents might not wish to for their own reasons) but might have the money to afford premium content?
Slamming the door on a portion of the playerbase because “their performance isn’t good enough” is daft. I have two systems, a laptop and a PC. My Laptop can run ULQ and realistically that is it with a usable FPS, but my PC is running a 5070Ti which runs max settings with 180 fps. I play on my laptop because my work requires I am away from home a lot and I do not have the ability to move my PC, nor spend enough time away to make it worth moving my PC to my “at-work residence”.
Nevermind the other regions of the world where buying a mid/high-end PC is very much out of the question and reach of many.
I mean, don’t get me wrong, it is noticeably easier to see stuff in ULQ, but the flipside is my ULQ only system framerate will spontaneously implode when some in game events occur.
But it’s not as if people with a NASA Supercomputer are barred from using ULQ if they really want (why? The game looks gorgeous on max, if you can run it)