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The Greatest GPU of all time

I member having to hit Fermi 470s in sli wasn't great until the top card died and that was that no more sli for me was great when it worked and crap when it didn't lol.
 
Personally I'm leaning towards the 8800GT - IMO it did a lot of unnoticed heavy lifting being a relatively affordable card with a big jump feature wise and even when enthusiasts moved on to bigger and better things it still managed to stay relevant for a long time in the used and budget markets helping to boost PC gaming.

scubes said:
I member having to hit Fermi 470s in sli wasn't great until the top card died and that was that no more sli for me was great when it worked and crap when it didn't lol.
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I had decent results with 470 SLI, latterly had them running at 900MHz which was a pretty significant performance boost over the stock 607MHz IIRC, became VRAM limited before anything else sadly.

Something which nVidia never really made much effort with though - SLI worked much better with the NF200 bridge chip in the equation which was able to shortcut transactions between the GPUs, etc. which a small number of motherboards and most of the SLI on a stick GPUs used. The average performance uplift over SLI without it was only about 5-10% but the consistency of frame times, etc. improved a lot.
 
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For myself it’s a close call between the original 3DFx Voodoo (MW2 with the glide patch…) & the 9700 Pro.

I recall the 9700 Pro being the first card that actually made AA & AF feasible options; I imported mine from Canada as I was too impatient to wait for their release over here which was an upgrade for my Radeon 8500 (honourable mention but I think early driver issues let it down)
 
Scott C said:
I recall the 9700 Pro being the first card that actually made AA & AF feasible options
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You recall correctly. Before then, AA was a real performance killer on all cards. The 9700 Pro was the first where you could have no jaggies and smooth frames.

The Nvidia cards of the time, I think they were the 5000 FX series, still ran like crap with any form of AA enabled.

Knowing this history and having seen what AMD did with Ryzen made me keep hoping they'd be competitive in the graphics card market again one day soon.

But doesn't look like they're interested in doing that.
 
Dunno about the 1080Ti being the GOAT. Yeah it's a great card, and it's had quite good innings, but a lot of cards actually last a while these days. GOAT still has to be Radeon 9800 pro.
 
The 8800GT was the first time that I bought a card & it had a real 'wow' factor. I had the BFG version and it had a tiny, whiney fan (maybe they all did?) but it was still great. It ended up in a mate's PC long after I was done with it & I think he's still got it somewhere!
 
My 8800gt is my backup card. It still boots and plays Civ4.

That fan is horrible, mind. I had to get a waterblock to deal with that...


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Grim5 said:
What makes you say that? Is it value, performance or something else? I never owned it, I was broke back then and only had a 6600gt. When I look at benchmarks, on average both the 1080ti and 8800gtx are double the performance of the cards they replaced so I'm unsure why some people say the 8800gtx is better
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Given the maturity of fabrication technology the 1080ti left me blown away after it replaced my 780ti, earlier generations were boosted by much larger node shrinks and the widespread adoption of FinFETs. I looked up my old OcUK invoice and I paid about the same for the 3GB 780ti as I did the 1080ti.

I only replaced it as I managed to win the 3090 Founders Edition lottery during the crypto boom, paying just £1399, whilst still getting a very good price selling the 1080ti made it a cheap upgrade.
 
i think mines was a red 8800gts blower edition. Cant remember what make it was but i deffo bought it of ocuk. and my 2 280 gtx one was a bfg and the other was a ocuk one i think but from memory my sli 280gtxs kept freezing and hard locking after exiting a game.
 
For me it would be the gtx 780 ti and gtx 1080ti ftw3, owned both and they could overclock to high heaven, when i got around to waterblocking both my gtx 780ti could push almost 1300mhz core clocks which at the time was insane, 1080ti ftw3 was a monster too, clock decently on air but when under watercooling it flew, acheaving close to 2.1ghz which again was pretty quick. very fond memories of both.

I would put the 3080 fe in too but the mining craze, obliterated what charisma the card had, dont get me wrong launch price was amazing, really made nvidia look like the good guys, until things went south (fast)
 
wookiee87 said:
I would put the 3080 fe in too but the mining craze, obliterated what charisma the card had, dont get me wrong launch price was amazing, really made nvidia look like the good guys, until things went south (fast)
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I'm still loving that card and the 649 quid cost still looks good now. I would like an upgrade, but prices still need to become more sensible.

So happy with my LG 55 inch OLED though, that was definitely the right choice last June.
 
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