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10 Year Old GPU vs Brand New GPU

2026-10-09

There was recently the 16th birthday of the legendary GeForce GTX 1080Ti and we thought this would be a good opportunity to test it against the current generation of GPU's.

 

Seeing as it's the absolute legendary flagship of the 10-series, we decided to test it against the most entry level 50-series, the RTX 5050 to be exact.

The reason for this, is that the RTX 5050 costs roughly three times the price of a second hand 1080Ti, so my theory is that it should actually be three times better.

I was surprised to see that the 1080Ti was still able to hold its own in this duel, but has the RTX 5050 actually got the muscle to fight back?

Check out the video below to see exactly what happened and to see the results.

 

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YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/cfRWPwNUWQI


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