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GeForce GTX 1080 Ti bottleneck & FPS

Ranked 53 of 126 desktop graphics cards in our database (58th percentile). Paired with a Core i3-8350K it lands near 59 fps at 1080p and 10 fps at 4K in a typical AAA title at high settings.

SpecificationsPascal · 2017
ArchitecturePascal
Shading units3,584
Boost clock1,582 MHz
Memory11 GB
Memory bandwidth484.4 GB/s
Board power250 W
Released2017
Frame rate by resolutionwith Core i3-8350K, high
ResolutionEst. FPSGPU loadLimited by
1920 x 1080 59 98% Balanced
2560 x 1440 35 99% Graphics card
3440 x 1440 27 99% Graphics card
3840 x 2160 10 99% Graphics card
Best matched processors1080p, high

Ranked by how little performance the pairing wastes, not by which processor is fastest. The fastest chip pairs well with everything, which makes it a useless recommendation.

ProcessorEst. FPSUnused
Core i3-8350K 59 0.4%
Core i3-9100 59 4.4%
Core i3-9100F 59 4.4%
Core i3-9300 59 6.6%
Core i3-8300 54 7.9%
Core i3-9320 59 8.7%
Estimated FPS by game1440p, high, Core i3-8350K
GameEst. FPSVRAM
Cyberpunk 2077 22 11.5 GB needed
Fortnite 48 OK
Counter-Strike 2 95 OK
Baldur's Gate 3 35 OK
Red Dead Redemption 2 27 OK
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 29 OK

Who a GeForce GTX 1080 Ti is actually for

This is mainstream 1080p hardware. At that resolution it is usually the component doing the limiting, which is good news for pairing — it will not be held back by a modest processor, so there is no need to spend heavily on the chip beside it.

Pushing it to 1440p is possible in lighter titles, but expect to drop settings in demanding ones.

Is 11 GB enough?

11 GB is adequate for most of what we model, but falls short in 1 of 16 titles at 1440p and high settings. Running out of video memory does not degrade gracefully — frame times spike rather than the average simply dropping, so it feels considerably worse than a small average loss would suggest. Dropping texture quality one step almost always recovers it.

A note on age

Released in 2017, this card is 9 years old. Beyond raw speed, older hardware misses features newer engines increasingly assume — mesh shaders, hardware ray tracing, and the newest upscalers. A modern title may run worse than these numbers suggest, or refuse to launch, for reasons the model cannot see.

Where it sits

Ranked 53 of 126 desktop cards we model. Nearest faster: Radeon RX 6750 GRE 10GB, Radeon RX 6700. Just below: GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X, GeForce RTX 3060 Ti. Full method on the methodology page.