What do you think was the most influential card in the last few years.

[triss]

Older card i'd vote 5870 great cards ,had a reference one at 1ghz core for years
In the last few years i would have to agree titan takes the cake ,great cooler nice look and still preforms in the top say 4cards? out there atm

 

[=XDC=FluphyBunny]

Well if we are looking so far back then I think you could add the voodoo cards simply on the basis that nvidia bought some of their assets and took on quite a few of their employees.

More recent years I would rule out the Titan as a niche marketing product by nvidia. I believe all the Titan did was pave the way for the overpriced 780 and delay the release of faster 780's/ti's. Great card but its influence was primarily RRP.

AMD have had some solid cards in the 7950/7970 but I see nothing influential about them.

Going back again and the 8800GTX was an epic card. It was expensive but it was cheaper than AMD's best cards in CF and quicker. Its what people think the Titan was

 

[drunkenmaster]

MjFrosty said -

ti4600... not even the slightest chance. GF3 was an epic card, the ti's were such a small boost.

I had a GF3, epic, I got a ti4200(barely slower than the 4600), sent it back because the improvement was crap, got a 9700pro instead... blew my mind.

Of all cards to pick I would say a refresh type card is by it's nature going to be majorly disappointing from a lifespan, cost, increase over previous gen, how badly spanked it will get by the next gen.

GF3/9700pro/8800/4870-4870x2/5850/7970/290 are all brilliant cards.

 

[ubersonic]

ti4600... not even the slightest chance. GF3 was an epic card, the ti's were such a small boost.

I had a GF3, epic, I got a ti4200(barely slower than the 4600), sent it back because the improvement was crap, got a 9700pro instead... blew my mind.

The ti4600 and ti4200 were completely different cards, they didn't even look alike (ti4200 was noticeably smaller). Performance wise the 4200 was actually closer to the GF3 500 than it was to the ti4600

Going from a GF3 Ti to a ti4200 was like going from a HD7850 to a R270X today. The 9700 Pro was a legitimate badass though

Of all cards to pick I would say a refresh type card is by it's nature going to be majorly disappointing from a lifespan, cost, increase over previous gen, how badly spanked it will get by the next gen.

GF3/9700pro/8800/4870-4870x2/5850/7970/290 are all brilliant cards.

I do however agree with most of that but with the exception of the 7970 (at launch it was <10% faster than a GTX580 due to driver issues and took it a while to catch the GTX680 after it's launch) and the R290 (if you include that you have to include Titan).

 

[jh30uk]

G-Force 3 did not sell due to high cost (and not on financial climate then), that is why they made a cut down Ti 200 then once things picked up a faster Ti 500.

 

[jh30uk]

290, Mantle, /thread

 

[Sasahara]

I would say the 8800 GTX (mine is now in my work PC) and HD 5870 are the standout cards.

The 5870 in theory has made me money, well 5 Bitcoins for 1 month of mining (yes I should have done more :/ ), if I cash them in.

 

[pugheaven]

+1 for Voodoo

Yep, 3Dfx Voodoo 1 (I had the Orchid Rightous version) matched with my Matrox Mystique 2mb card... OMG... epic... both of these running Quake OpenGL mode... I wet myself... yeah... I'll add..

3Dfx Voodoo 1
8800GT
5800Ultra (metal cooker tin hahaha)

 

[Five.Stars]

Lol. Not a bad shout.

Was this that card?

I had a 5800 Ultra. Paid over £400 for it. What an utter disaster. The FX series had been hyped up beyond belief as revolutionary! Dearie me!

To this day, I have only had 1 other nvidia card since, which was pretty good tbf. Galaxy Glacier 6800gt.

Still got the 5800 Ultra. Wonder if it is a collectors item? Lol

 

[melmac]

You don't really need to be either of those things, I think your confusing being influential with being popular or being a leap in technology. Influential just means it has had a big impact on the course of the GPU industry and I think it's fair to say that Titan had a bigger impact than anything since probably the HD5870.

If Nvidia hadn't decided to push the boundaries just for the sake of it (at the time they had no idea Titan would outsell the GTX690 so well and spawn the 780/780Ti) and just stuck with the GTX680 perhaps tweaking it to compete better with the 7970GHz, then AMD would never have changed their mind about producing a HD7990, and probably not launched the 290/290X either.

We could have been sitting here today waiting on Maxwell and AMD's equivalent, with the HD7970 GHz and some GTX680ti as the two flagships with just the stupidly priced GTX690 out above them. But instead we have a whole tier (or two depending on how you look at the gap between the 780/290 and 780ti/290x) available to us, that is down to the influence Titan had on the direction of the industry.

sorry, but no, The 780 was always due for release. The Titan didn't influence anything. The AMD 290/290x were always aimed at the 780 not the Titan. The only thing the Titan did was allow Nvidia to raise the price of the 780. So maybe in that way it was influential.

I still say the most influential was the AMD HD 4870/4850. They actually sparked real change. First cards to use GDDR5, first cards with a small die stragegy and amazing price/performance ratio. These were real benefits to the graphic card industry and the to the consumer going forward.

Next in line would be the 8800GT and 8800GTX, amazing cards that stood the test of time and were the undisputed kings for a long, long time.

Seriously, I don't know how people can choose the Titan or any other modern card over the 4870 or the 8800gt. The Titan hasn't brought anything new to the table at all, and was only the most powerful card for a very short time. The 290 from AMD has nothing really new either. Mantle is been developed on GCN but it's not part of the card.

 

[Kaapstad]

sorry, but no, The 780 was always due for release. The Titan didn't influence anything. The AMD 290/290x were always aimed at the 780 not the Titan. The only thing the Titan did was allow Nvidia to raise the price of the 780. So maybe in that way it was influential.

Without the Titan there would have been no GTX 780, once NVidia started producing the Titan in large numbers they needed somewhere to offload the GK110 chips that did not make the grade hence the GTX 780.

 

[Orangey]

GF3 was an epic card, the ti's were such a small boost.

I had a GF3, epic

I had a GF3ti500, Asus deluxe pack that came with 3D goggles (never used them!) and at some point Asus were going to release wallhack drivers for use on their cards, dunno if they ever did but people were up in arms.

IIRC that cost £350 back when money was still worth something. I don't think I read reviews back then but it served me well for years.

If those wallhack drivers ever did come out it would've been VERY influential, but not in a good way.

 

[melmac]

Without the Titan there would have been no GTX 780, once NVidia started producing the Titan in large numbers they needed somewhere to offload the GK110 chips that did not make the grade hence the GTX 780.

Nope not true. The 780 was always coming and most of the rumours that were going around were saying that it would be based on the GK110 but without all the SMX units enabled. And these rumours were before the Titan was even been discussed back in October 2012.

You think Nvidia weren't going to release a card in 2013 if they hadn't released the Titan? They always do refreshes and the Kepler refresh was coming in 2013, even if we didn't do exactly what specs it didn't take a genius to figure out that it would be based on the GK110.

 

[Kaapstad]

Nope not true. The 780 was always coming and most of the rumours that were going around were saying that it would be based on the GK110 but without all the SMX units enabled. And these rumours were before the Titan was even been discussed back in October 2012.

You think Nvidia weren't going to release a card in 2013 if they hadn't released the Titan? They always do refreshes and the Kepler refresh was coming in 2013, even if we didn't do exactly what specs it didn't take a genius to figure out that it would be based on the GK110.

The card you describe is the Titan, before it turned up it was any ones guess as to what it was going to be called, one of the names being GTX 780.

 

[Davedree]

The card you describe is the Titan, before it turned up it was any ones guess as to what it was going to be called, one of the names being GTX 780.

Surely they are all variations of gk110 which dates back to the k20/x.
Its all a game of die harvesting in my opinion for the 780,titan etc 780ti. Showing that both Amd and Nvidia played it conservative on their first 28nm highend 680(really higher mid range) gpu/s due to yield issues, with Amd more conservative than Nvidia on their 7970 shader config.

 

[Besty]

7970 for me, it battered everything on release and only got quicker As time went on. The Titan was a good card but needed to be hacked to death out of the box and remains crippled by nvidias approach to the chip.

A Titan classified could have been on the best cards ever made but they screwed it up imo.

the 780ti classified is awesome, it could become a future classic.

 

[Kaapstad]

Surely they are all variations of gk110 which dates back to the k20/x.

+1

 

[dyonisis007]

nvidia 8800gt, amazing card, great price, great performance.

 

[ibpalle]

I'd have to say the Titan.

All cards mentioned here influenced the markets in some way, shape or form. The Titan introduced branding on a specific model - basically NVIDIA made the equivalent of the Intel Extreme Edition processor and succeeded in creating a new market as well as a new price point.

They capitalised on their reputation and created an exclusive brand product that we all wished we could have.

 

[dyonisis007]

I'd have to say the Titan.

All cards mentioned here influenced the markets in some way, shape or form. The Titan introduced branding on a specific model - basically NVIDIA made the equivalent of the Intel Extreme Edition processor and succeeded in creating a new market as well as a new price point.

They capitalised on their reputation and created an exclusive brand product that we all wished we could have.

I don't think releasing a card called the Titan at an exorbitant price point that only the most enthusiastic affluent gamers could buy, shortly to be rendered redundant by cheaper faster SLI solutions (680/770 SLI) and a new design (780 etc..) at a cheaper price point overtaken buy its peers was influential, if anything it alienated a crowd. What is the word.. Titan. What is it now... OMG you paid that much when you can get this now. If anything having a special top tier name is a negative and in no way influential, I'm sure nvidia marketing realise this now(My bad...In fact they WANT suckers to get the TITAN TOP TIER!!). Never give a brand a final name, there will always be better sooner rather than later....marketing and suckers though

I still stand, 8800 GT is the most influential GPU of the last few years.

But seriously, if you really want influential. You need to look at 3Dfx, Voodoo 3!!! or the nvidia Geforce 256/2!! OMG!!! These molded the whole state of gaming today!!

Nothing is influential or ground breaking now, just a race for money, a faster GPU and faster/more vram!!