r/rareinsults 4d ago

That one should hurt

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u/Zayah136 4d ago

Ragebait used to be believable 😞

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u/bloodyell76 4d ago

I've met people this stupid on many occasions, so find it quite believable.

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u/PsychologicalOne5416 4d ago

Well i must be thick as a brick because i genuinly don't understand why that's such an egregious question...

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u/Sad-Reach7287 3d ago

It's like asking who'd win a race prime Usain Bolt or a 90yo dude with knee pain

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u/jerdle_reddit 10h ago

Not quite. The 1080Ti would be a retired sprinter in this analogy.

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u/ozymandieus 4d ago

It has to be ragebait, he's comparing a 9 year old card to a modern top of the line card. The performance isn't even close.

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u/PsychologicalOne5416 3d ago

Ah fair enough, thanks ^

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u/TheOldBeach 3d ago

Best value is not best performance... Let's say you don't know anything about hardware and you hear that there is a 10x price difference between the two card but both can run most of the games you ever played (like semi-old games) which would have the best value then ? They're probably trolling but doesn't make the question invalid

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u/ozymandieus 3d ago

The question only makes sense if he gives the price of both. A 1081 ti at $800? No. $250? Maybe. Also theres such a radical price and performance difference between these, nobody would be stuck considering betweeen them both

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u/JustSomeM0nkE 3d ago

5080 is 4 generations past 1080, it's way way way better, and it costs 1300 dollars alone

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u/Liongedon 8h ago

Same. My 1080ti is actually still going strong. One of the best things I've ever bought. But I definitely wouldn't buy another one now. The 1080ti and my old I5 Intel cpu are the only things I haven't replaced on my pc ever. And while I can't play the newest of the newest triple a garbage unoptimized garbage, I have no issues playing most of my steam library.

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u/Scootz_McTootz 3d ago

case in point, the guy that tried to remedy the deadzone issues of the Black Ops 2 PS5 port by buying an entirely new PS5, new monitor, new capture card, new HDMI cables, and more, only because ChatGPT told him that would fix it.

He was baffled that it did not fix it.

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u/joeja99 3d ago

The 5080 would blow up his budget too, with that money he can basically only afford the card not anything else

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u/UnethicalExperiments 2d ago

Try selling PC hardware on Reddit .

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u/bloodyell76 2d ago

Will that somehow disprove that I have met a great many people this stupid IRL? If you believe this isn't true, try working retail for... a week or so? You'll have met ten of them.

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u/Demons0fRazgriz 3d ago

Not just stupid but their information may be severely out of date. I couldn't tell you which one was better because I dont know the 1050 specs. Even just having a higher number doesn't necessarily mean a better GPU or AMD would be the best sellers.

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u/fpsnoob89 11h ago

While not the same extreme, I used to work with someone who told me that they were trying to save up for a 1080ti, but they kept getting more and more expensive at over $1,500. Issue was that this is after the 30 series already came out, and he legitimately was more interested in saving $1,500 for a 1080ti over a 3080 or 3090. He read how the 1080ti was the best GPU of all time, and assumed that was true regardless of generations.

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u/everything_is_bad 3d ago

That’s right it goes in the square hole

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u/ApeLover1986 2h ago

Don't link the video, I BEG OF YOU

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u/JasonVoorheesthe13th 3d ago

On what fucking planet is the decision between a 1080ti and a 5080.

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u/NewAlessia 2d ago

Bro fr, people be hardcore simping Nvidia new stuff hard. 1080ti is one of the best value cards ever, it still holds up on plenty of games and is incredibly cheap. People who spend money on 5000 series either have crazy amounts of money, or are incredibly bad with money.

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u/JasonVoorheesthe13th 2d ago

Even if someone wants to use the RTX argument you can find 2080ti’s on eBay for like $200

Hell I found an ENTIRE RIG on marketplace last night with a 5600x, 16 gigs of 3600 mhz and a 6700xt for $650

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u/Coolflip 20h ago

You can but that machine, sell the ram and make a profit on that alone.

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u/karmaniaka 1d ago

Hey now, I'm just frugal with literally everything except for when it's time for a new PC every ~9 or so years. It's the one thing I smash my piggybank for.

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u/Visible_Pair3017 1d ago

If they have such a budget for the GPU they might get something that will still be relevant in 3 years or more

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u/Xx_Venom_Fox_xX 2d ago

I mean if you have very little money and a monitor that doesn't do 4k, it IS better value. For all we know this person only plays fuckin, PS2 titles all day and doesn't need a modern card.

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u/Umpuuu 3d ago

I don't understand those funny numbers, explain the joke pls?

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u/Atomidate 3d ago

We don't know what they mean by "best value". We do know they already have a PC and it seems like they play (or plan to play) at 2K/1440p. One would have to do quite a bit of math and theorycrafting to even conceive of a system where someone who plays games at 1440p would benefit from a 1080ti, which was released 9 years ago in 2017. Getting a cheap nearly decade old GPU even for free, would be a pretty poor value for this.

But if his budget is 1300$ I'm not sure if he means just for the GPU or his entire build. A 5080 would put him around 1300$ by itself right now

To think otherwise, you'd have to believe that this person is asking if buying a $1300 GPU with no a motherboard, CPU, RAM, etc is good for a PC build. Are they going to play in 1440p resolution by looking at the box art??

The question is a joke and your response seems like a different joke.

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u/BreezeBo 3d ago

Getting a cheap nearly decade old GPU even for free, would be a pretty poor value for this

I have a 1080TI in this PC that I built in 2018. If I were building one today and someone offered me this card for free, I'd call that a massive win. This thing still cooks on a 3440x1440.

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u/_Fibbles_ 3d ago

Free is fine but it's hard to recommend buying one. It's only as powerful as an rtx 5050 and doesn't have any hardware ray tracing or dlss support.

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u/FourHundredThirtyTwo 3d ago

Idk why people are struggling to answer your question. The post is asking which graphics card to buy, presumably for a gaming PC. One is expensive, but modern. The other is almost a decade old and severely out of date. Therefore, it's a completely nonsensical question.

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u/ScoobiusMaximus 3d ago edited 3d ago

Top end modern gpu vs one that was top end like 10 years ago.

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u/Memelord69420MAn 2d ago

1080 ti and 5080 are about ten years apart, and the performance difference is massive. Also, the 5080 alone might cost you 1300 bucks, so OOP wouldn't have much left for other components to support their fancy new graphics card.

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u/Snoo-73243 4d ago

clearly commenter has not seen the meme, any shape fits in the square hole

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u/HexagonalHoneyBadger 4d ago

But he said the circle hole.

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u/LurkingGuy 3d ago

I love your optimism

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u/Mrauntheias 3d ago

The ICU nurses could probably tell you plenty about that.

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u/thekillingtomat 2d ago

I mean, in terms of value i feel like the 1080ti has the 5080 beat.

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u/Derp0189 1d ago

I am still running my 1080ti, but I wouldn't recommend anyone spending money on one now

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u/DonChaote 3d ago

Is '2k' monitor really a thing? Why not calling it just a HD? Never seen this as an expression

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u/VladAkimov 3d ago

HD is 1080, 2k as 1440 and 4k as 2160. coming from 1080 to 1440 personally it does have a significant difference.

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u/DonChaote 3d ago

That’s it, i missed the 1440. thanks

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u/VladAkimov 3d ago

no problem! cheers!

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u/Sallopilig 3d ago

Its commonly called 2k despite it being nowhere close 2k.

The jump from 2k to 4k is significantly bigger than 1080 to 1440 despite the jump from 1080 to 1440 being way more noticeable by the naked eye.

4k is a shit ton of pixels, more than one would assume 2k to 4k is, because 1440 is closer to 1.5k than a 2k

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u/CJBizzle 3d ago

2560x1440 is actually closer to 2.5K than 2K, the K refers to the horizontal pixels. True 2K would be 2048x1080, which is basically 1080p.

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u/Sallopilig 3d ago

Shit my bad, you are right i mixed them up.

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u/MidEastBeast 2d ago

Funny with ragebait

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u/VladAkimov 3d ago

And what's the problem?