I didn't have enough money for a 1080 Ti so I went with the 1070 (this was towards end of the generation). It's unlikely we'll ever get a card of the same value as the 1080 Ti.

It still does OK at 1080p and is able to hold ~60 FPS with relatively decent 1% lows and this is at Ultra.

With some tweaking you could probably even get it to work OK at 1440p.

UE5 exists to obsolete these GPUs

I only upgraded from my 1080 Ti back in June of this year. It was still doing pretty well at 1440p high settings in many games

My 1080 Ti has been a legend and has carried my last two builds. That 11 GB of VRAM was huge back in 2017 and certainly helped it to remain relevant over the years, particularly since we've seen newer cards with much stronger GPUs and less VRAM struggle lately due to being VRAM limited.

I finally replaced it with a 9070 XT earlier this year, and while this thing buries it in performance and features, I'm questioning if it will see the same kind of longevity my 1080 Ti had since I've a feeling that its 16 GB of VRAM will eventually be what obsoletes it first.

I was hoping to see real world gaming scores