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Which gen cards have given the best increase over last gen

chaparral

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Guys who can remember which GPU's have given the best performance increases and by how much over the previous gen
Plus which ones gave you the worst performance :D

The best one I can remember would be the 7800gtx to 8800gtx which gave you about double the performance
 
Believe I was running a 6400 LE and then dumped an entire 35 quid on a 8400GS .... Massive single digit improvements :D
 
I was also going to say that they 9700pro was a pretty big jump. Those were the days eh.

Always loved my 8500le first card I had.
 
Voodoo 1 to Voodoo 2. I'm pretty sure I saw like a 400% improvement in some games. I also remember the importance of cpu back then. That Voodoo 2 just got better and better with each cpu upgrade. Today I am always gpu bottlenecked, back then I was always cpu bottlenecked.
 
7850 2gb - £150 6 years and still going strong in one of the kids pcs for Fortnite etc at 1080p.

Even spending £120 on a gtx 1050 is barely an upgrade.


Almost double the performance of a 6850 iirc
 
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chaparral said:
Guys who can remember which GPU's have given the best performance increases and by how much over the previous gen
Plus which ones gave you the worst performance :D

The best one I can remember would be the 7800gtx to 8800gtx which gave you about double the performance
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i agree with this, as someone who owned a 7800 i was hugely jealous of my mate with an 8800 (arguably the next gen was correspondingly the worst 8800GT to 9800GT!)

other worthy mentions.....

S3 virge level to 3DFX voodoo (arguably not apples with apples as voodoo 1 was a separate card)
TNT2 to geforce 256DDR (tho i am ignoring the geforce 256SDR)
 
Lokken86 said:
The x800xt was the top dog when I started PC gaming. Huge increase over the last gen.
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Was the last gen the ATI 9800pro before the xt800xt ?
I remember the 9700pro & 9800pro being great cards back then but I don't think there was much between them..

If i remember right I was playing the first Far Cry game on my 9800pro AIW at the time
 
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Was the last gen the ATI 9800pro ?
I remember the 9700pro & 9800pro being great cards back then but I don't think there was much between them..
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Yep x800 followed 9800 was also the first high end card available in pcie (although there were still agp versions iirc).

9700-9800 was essentially just a few process tweaks to increase clock speed, similar to say the rx400 to rx500 series, or Geforce 600 to 700 series.
 
Difficult to say what we mean by 'generation' and still make it a fair comparison i.e. do you compare top-tier card vs top-tier card, mid-range vs mid-range etc... I guess you have to go with the former really to avoid debates about what 'midrange' actually means, especially in more recent years with numerous variants, refreshes etc doing the rounds.

I would say two Voodoo2 12MB cards in SLI was a MASSIVE improvement over a Voodoo1 which didn't support SLI, not only in terms of raw performance but also bearing in mind the Voodoo1 had a max resolution of 640x480 in nearly all games (except the very rare 6MB variant that could do 800x600) compared to 1024x768 on the V2.

If you look at these benches, the Voodoo1 is getting utterly annihilated by even a single V2 in Quake2, roughly 4x the performance on a 450mhz cpu: https://www.anandtech.com/show/197/9
 
For me Fermi and the GTX 480 was an absolute game changer. I had SLI XFX 8800GS cards which did quite well at the time and inspired me to buy two 480’s. Hugely tweakable, ended up putting them under water and later buying more for smaller projects.

Single card BF3 on my HTPC at 1080p with high/ultra settings - buttery smooth. Would be interesting to see if that’s still the case lol.
 
I seem to remember the voodoo cards having big jumps also although never actually owned one myself. The geforce 3 also was a fairly big upgrade from memory. 680 to 780 must be pretty big in certain scenarios as the 680 was gimped with memory at 2gb. 8800s were good as mentioned although I was satisfied with Crysis at 30fps back then.
 
HangTime said:
(except the very rare 6MB variant that could do 800x600) compared to 1024x768 on the V2.
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the canopus pure 3D card... that was the one i had, it cost me a small fortune to import and i got stung with the tax and handling fee on top.

if i am honest... total waste of money, the standard 4mb one was fine.;
 
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