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Your GPU history tree and potential next card

pagepack said:
I remember benching my 9700 pro with my nvidia loving mate. He was like wtf. Epic card.
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It really was. I got the non pro for £180 as I recall and flashed the bios and made it a pro which was a lot more expensive. The jump from my previous card was huge. I consider it my first proper graphics card. That and the 4870 are probably in my top three favourite cards of all time :D
 
Thinks...

ATI Rage Pro 1x 2MB (onboard)
Failed attempt to install NVIDIA Riva TNT2 PCI of some sort, had to return it.
3DFx Voodoo 3 2000 16MB PCI
ATI Radeon 7000 32MB PCI
Gave up on PC for a bit and mainly gamed on original XBOX
NVIDIA Geforce 4 MX 440 (onboard, this lasted about a week, because I was so disgusted how much worse Battlefield 1942 ran than the Ti 4200s in the LAN cafe I frequented at the time)
ATI Radeon 9500 Pro 128MB AGP
NVIDIA Geforce 6600 GT 128 MB AGP
NVIDIA Geforce 6800 GT 256 MB AGP
ATI Radeon X1800 XT 512 MB (All PCIe from here)
NVIDIA Geforce 8800 GT 512 MB
ATI Radeon HD 4850 512 MB
NVIDIA Geforce GTX 460 1GB
NVIDIA Geforce GTX 660 Ti 2GB
NVIDIA Geforce GTX 970 4GB
NVIDIA Geforce RTX 2060 6GB
And soon to be NVIDIA Geforce RTX 3050 8GB

I guess no Radeons have appealed much since the AMD rebrand.
 
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Voodoo 3 PCI
Geforce 2 MX
GeForce4 Ti4200
Radeon 3850
Radeon 4830
Radeon 5850
Radeon 7950
Radeon 290
Vega 56
3060Ti Founders Edition


My favorite card has to be a close tie between the 5850 and the 290, My god did I do some gaming on them!

Not going to be upgrading for a very long time, happy to have snagged a 3060Ti and not have to worry about this GPU mess which will go on for years I reckon.
 
Those that I remember:

Kyro II
GTX 460
GTX1070
GTX1080

There was an AMD card before the 460 and a laptop for a while but don't recall the type. The 1080 was given to me, hence the small jump. Waiting out the current supply situation then a rig upgrade is due.
 
Hi,

Voodoo 3
AMD Radeon 9000
GEForce 5200
GEForce 8800
GEForce 670 (current)

All my kids have 1650s

potential next card, I am very undecided.
 
S3 Virage 4MB
Geforce 256 32MB
Geforce 4400 Ti 128MB
ATI 970 128MB
ATI 980 Pro 128MB
ATI X800 256MB
ATI 1800X 256MB
M18X Laptop with 2 * AMD 6990M 4GB in crossfire
AMD 290 Pro 4GB
AMD 290X 8GB
AMD FuryX 4GB
AMD RX 480XT 8GB in second pc
AMD RX 5700XT 8GB
AMD RX 1900XT 16GB (current)

Also had a few Geforce 5200 cards as place holders between upgrades.
Still have RX480, FuryX, M18 laptop and 1900XT.
 
BBC Micro then Amiga 500 followed by A1200, then …

Matrox Mystique
+3DFX Voodoo Graphics
GeForce256 DDR
GeForce4 Ti4600
Radeon 9800Pro
GeForce 6800GT

Big break from PCs

Radeon R9 280X
Vega64
1080Ti
3080 FE
 
smr said:
I started gaming on an Atari, Floppy disk days... and for PC I had the very first ever graphics card that came out, voodoo banshee era I remember being a big leap at the time. There's no way I can remember all the gfx cards I've had since then lol!
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I concur. Currently using a 1050ti and was close to buying a 3060ti but have seen rumours of the 40 series becoming available in October so will hold out for a 4060ti and continue with the 1050ti in the meantime.

https://www.gpu-rumors.com/rumors-rtx-4090-costs-2999-rtx-4080-costs-1199-rtx-4060-costs-399/
 
Maxi Gamer 3D Voodoo
Some kind of appalling sawn off SE which came with a PC World computer
9800XT which died and was with Asus on RMA and when their warehouse burned down I got the below instead sent
X800Pro
5900Ultra
Gainward 6800 GT
X1900XT
ATI 3870
ATI Radeon 5850 MSI Twin FrozR II 1024MB - have found the OcUK order for that in my emails - £146.87 shipped in 2011 - and I seem to think that was a pretty good card at the time which shows the more recent price inflation even before the recent great drought
Big gap due to offspring
Palit 2070 Super
and now 3080 FE no plans for changes anytime soon

I seem to remember agonising over what seemed to be an impossibly expensive x800xt for around £300 back in the day and not getting it
 
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Riva TNT 16mb
MX440
5200
x800xtpe
xfx 7950GX2
8800GTS
bfg GTX280
2x asus GTX480
Powercolor 4870X2
2x asus GTX 780ti (from this point on upgrading has always cost me over £1000 which sucks)
sapphire 295X2
2 x evga 980ti
2 x evga 1080ti
msi 2080ti
msi 3090

I feel like I lead such a wasteful consumer life after looking at my list.
 
Cannot remember too far back however pretty short list despite gaming for many years.

Nvidia 8800GT
Nvidia 970 GTX
Radeon 290X
Nvidia 970 GTX (Again, and current card which has been un-used over the last couple of years)

I never chased the latest and greatest as spending the majority of my time playing WoW > Battlefield 4, 1, 5 and CSGO never felt the need too.

Tempted to build a new system and hang onto the 970 until I can find a new GPU without a horrendous mark up attached to it.

Cannot justify over spending when the system only gets casual use since adulthood and parenthood :mad:
 
Wow hard to remember....

3dfx Voodoo
Riva TNT
Riva TNT Ultra
Geforce 2 Ultra
Radeon 9800XT
Radeon XT850
Nvidia 8800GT
Nvidia GTX480
Nvidia GTX980
Nvidia GTX1080Ti

Next card will be either the 4080/ti class or RDNA3. I suspect this will be the first time in a very long time where the decision will be very difficult. Or maybe not depending on availability. :p Given the costs though I am definitely on the 5-6 year+ gpu upgrade cycle for the future I think (I'm already on the 6-8 year cpu upgrade cycle)
 
Matrox G200
NVIDIA Riva TNT2
Kyro II
NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX400
ATI Radeon 9200
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
ATI Radeon X1900XT
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX
ATI Radeon HD 6800
AMD Radeon HD 7950 crossfire
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

I have been back and fourth between AND and NVIDIA over the years.
 
Desperately trying to remember

Nvidia NV1 Diamond Edge 3D (possibly Nvidias first ever GPU?) - Slower than software rendering but it showed the future, unfortunately I returned it afte a few weeks as it was too slow
Videologic Power VR - Higher resolution than the 3Dfx
3Dfx Voodoo in SLI - Does anyone else remember the "click" as it went into 3
Nvidia Geforce 256
NVidia Geforce 2 GTS
Nvidia Geforce 3
NVidia Geforce 8800 GTS - between my friend and I we managed to prove these were "failed" GTX cards so if you were lucky you could SLI and overclock them with a bit of manipulation.
AMD Radeon 9800 Pro (I think?)
AMD ?? (sorry can't remember this one - it's still sitting in my loft as a spare in case my current GPU breaks in the current crypto environment)
AMD Vega 64 - Donated to my son
AMD Radeon 7 - Absolutely love this card although I know most people don't tend to

I really wish I'd kept the Nvidia NV1 for the history of it, and the Videologic Power VR and 3Dfx for my own personal nostalgia of playing Quake and Quake 2 on them.
 
Trick said:
BBC Micro then Amiga 500 followed by A1200, then …
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More or less how I started (though C64 -> A500 -> A1200). As amazing as some GPUs have been since I got into PCs in the mid-90s, I think the original A500 chipset is still (in my mind) the graphics that were most ahead of their time.
 
Orcid Righteous 3DFX
3Dfx Voodoo 3 2000
GeForce 256
GeForce 2 MX
GeForce 3 Ti 200
GeForce 7600 GT
ATI 5770
ATI 7850 Twin Frozr III OC 2GB (the only card to ever die on me)
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB
GeForce RTX 3070

Until my last card, I'd always gone for bang-for-buck cards, that market seems dead!
 
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