Published Oct 27, 2026, 4:30 PM EDT

After a 7-year corporate stint, Tanveer found his love for writing and tech too much to resist. An MBA in Marketing and the owner of a PC building business, he writes on PC hardware, technology, and Windows. When not scouring the web for ideas, he can be found building PCs, watching anime, or playing Smash Karts on his RTX 3080 (sigh).

I've written about Nvidia's Pascal lineup being their best one yet, and most gamers seem to agree. The iconic GTX 1080 Ti has a lot to do with that acclaim. The community fondly remembers it as the best GPU produced by Nvidia, possibly by any company. Its unmatched longevity and excellent performance per dollar made it a benchmark for flagship GPU performance.

Three and a half years later, Nvidia launched the RTX 3080, coincidentally at the same MSRP. It many not have been apparent at the time, but the 80-class Ampere card was destined to repeat what the GTX 1080 Ti did in the last decade.…