It was designed and sold for gaming. Gaming only. That’s why it’s objectively better than all recent GPUs.

The 1080 and 1080ti was where Nvidia realized “oh fuck, we’re building cards too good for too cheap. We could be scamming our customers WAY harder right now.”

The 1080 is also when the crypto gpu shortage began and nvidia’s profits began their exponential trajectory. Of course mr “have more babies” leather jacket up there would have it as his favorite.