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r7 1700 and GTX 1080 was my setup for a long time. still is, just relegated to an htpc (albeit not a very power friendly one). the 1080 in particular was (and remains) such a reliable card.

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The 1080 was quite amazing when it came out. I still have one here that I use as a test card. Of course it can't do anything useful for the amount of power that it consumes but still, the amount of horsepower in there was very impressive.

"Of course it can't do anything useful for the amount of power that it consumes"

Until about the top-end of the 3000 RTX series released, the GTX 1080 was still king of raster performance.

I'm playing modern games like Marvel Rivals at 1440p no problem. Risk of Rain 2 4k no problem. STALKER 2 1080p no problem. It even runs most of my VR games perfectly fine, with me only needing to switch to my RTX 5060 machine for Into the Radius 2.

Even today, it is a very capable card, despite the power draw.

Ah yes, my bad, for gaming it is still usable depending on the games but I don't play games. A lot is expensive, it needs power and you only have so much of them. Currently running 2x modded 4090 with 48G VRAM each, 2x 3090 and 4x RTX 4000. Adding a 1080 would be silly :)

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