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What was the most "successful" Enthusiast Card ever?

kylew said:
9700/9800 pro, pretty much the same card really.
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Agreed but the 9700 was the daddy of DX9 in its time, and the only card that could play Farcry semi maxed at playable framerates.

The 9800 Pro/R350 came after Farcry and was nothing more than a tweaked 9700 Pro/R300. Hardly ground breaking.

So yeah, to answer the op's question, the 9700 Pro was the most successful, IMO. Not to mention the 9500 Pro's which could be softmodded to 9700's.

Edit - I could well be wrong about the 98 coming after Farcry. Makes no difference though, the 97 was the real daddy out of the two. :p
 
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8800GT - look at the steam hardware surveys, etc. tho the 9800/9700 cards weren't far behind if you scale them both to fit some kinda constant - as they were released at different times into different markets, etc. you can't compare directly.
 
8800GT was midrange, 9700 was high end. That makes it a win for the 9700/9800 because of that as you'd expect a midrange card to sell a lot more than a high end one.
 
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Probably the POS that was the Matrox G200, everyone bought them because they thought they were 3D enthusiasts cards, when in fact they werent, made a good 2D card for your 3dfx though :)
 
In terms of performance, consumer value and profit I dunno how anyones can hold anything over the 8800GT, it was only a few frames behind the 8800GTX at a lot less cost and made nVidia some serious money... even if you adjust the 9700/9800 profit to be relevant in the same period as the 8800GT or vice-versa it doesn't have anything close to the profits as the 8800GT.
 
Wow, no ATIs??!?!

That's a surprise... oh wait it's not at all.

8800GTX gets my vote. How that card played games at such a good resolution for so long is beyond me, all the console ports still work a charm on it. I guess it was since we haven't had any progress in consoles, being stagnant with PS3 and 360 for many years now. So the 8800GTX has been a die hard raining champion for a very long time.
 
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Nothing can compare to voodoo 1 for having the biggest impact, all other cards are insignificant in comparison

Aside from that other cards that were significant were: GF1 DDR, 9700PRO, 6800, 8800GTX
 
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