The Greatest GPU of all time

[Grim5]

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti Specs

NVIDIA GM200, 1076 MHz, 2816 Cores, 176 TMUs, 96 ROPs, 6144 MB GDDR5, 1753 MHz, 384 bit

www.techpowerup.com

In their most up to date rankings it shows up as +67%.

980 ti is 10% behind the 1070, so my memory was a little hazy there. The 1080 ti was not anywhere close to double the 1070, more like +50%.

Eitehr way, well short of +130%.

That ranking page doesn't have a GPU to compare the 8800gtx with

I'm trying to think of a reason why the updated ranking is different and it must be just different games, they are testing a more modern game set and the performance difference between older GPUs are getting compressed but because there is nothing to compare the 8800gtx with, it's a question mark

 

[Angilion]

I think the 8800 GTX was more important. It was so good they rehashed variants of it about 10 times.

Problem is it pre-dates gamersnexus.

I agree (or maybe the GT version, which was almost as fast and much cheaper), but I think there was a more important one that predates gamersnexus even further - 3dfx Voodoo. The first GPU (and cards) for home use. It was a far larger performance increase than anything else. So much so that it was a whole new thing. I bought one of the first model available (Orchid Righteous 3D) and it's by far the biggest upgrade I've ever had.

 

[Grim5]

Anyone here owned a GeForce 3? The first GPU with shaders or something like that. Did it make the GPU have better graphics in games that support it?

 

[cjgardens]

If memory serves it was the same or better IF you were not limited by VRAM.

Did the titan have slightly higher clocks out of the box? Think i read they were better binned chips so clock higher too

 

[PC777]

9800 pro was insanely affordable compared to many subsequent card releases.

Came out in late 2003, yet by Half Life 2's release in mid 2004 you could get used ones for £100 at CEX which is exactly what I did to play Half Life 2.

It was also the first GPU I ever used Steam on as a Half Life 2 prerequisite. Lieterally transformed a Dell Optiflex into something that could play, at the time an incredibly advanced feeling game, Phys x made it feel like a huge leap from game like Deus Ex and HL1 which were already amazing.

Also a mid range contender, the 1060 6GB, great value, nice ram increase from 900 series, still OK today. Will also mention 2070 Super, still using it today at 1440p, been amazing value, close to 1080ti but also offers weak RT, but still good enough to massively impress playing Quake and Portal RT versions.

Will wait till 5070ti or equivalent to upgrade it.

 

[Gray2233]

Anyone here owned a GeForce 3? The first GPU with shaders or something like that. Did it make the GPU have better graphics in games that support it?

I had a Geforce 3 Ti200, can't remember much about the specs though.

 

[mrbios]

The real goat, and by far the best value per £ i've ever spent on a graphics card and probably ever will, was an ATi 9500 that successfully bios flashed to a 9700pro and later a 9800pro. Truly a remarkable card way ahead of its time (Technically the 9700pro was the GOAT, but the 9500non-pro's that unlocked to the same capability, gave the greatest value of all)

 

[Rob_B]

Gone are the days when a pencil line or a bios flash will give you the next higher hardware model for free.

Aah they were fun times.

 

[mrbios]

Gone are the days when a pencil line or a bios flash will give you the next higher hardware model for free.

Aah thy were fun times.

what was the AMD cpu back in the day that a pencil drawn on it could unlock something? Was it the Barton series?

 

[Rob_B]

Christ, I'm old enough to remember but old enough to forget!

There were a couple I think, one when it was bare cores so XP days (?) and then the X3s could also unlock the 4th core

 

[MrMarvelous]

8800GTX or the 1080Ti.

 

[eeii]

8800GTX was a monster. What was better than the 8800GTX I hear you cry. That’s right, 2x 8800GTX in SLI. It worked a treat and I had those bad boys in my system for years. Please don’t tell me SLI was cr@p because it worked great for me. Aahh those were the days.

 

[Grim5]

 

[Stanners]

I really liked my TNT2 Ultra and the original GeForce 256 with T&L

 

[Stanners]

I was mainly playing Q3 TF in those days

 

[Gilbert89]

My first GPU was a PNY 8800GT - Taken a trip down memory lane

 

[Kirby Wurm]

The 9700 Pro was a special card indeed.

So too the 8800 GTX, however it was very expensive at the time, moreso than the 1080 Ti when compared to other cards of the era.

Nvidia clearly learned from that error, why charge $100 more for ~35% more performance when they could charge $300 more for the same uplift as they did with the 2080 Ti (or whatever the price difference to the non-Ti was).

We won't see that sort of value in product stack again most likely. I believe the 1080 dropped in price not long after, but still.

 

[mattyg]

I think the 8800 GTX was more important. It was so good they rehashed variants of it about 10 times.

Problem is it pre-dates gamersnexus.

The 8800GTX was so good i only upgraded when the 1080Ti came out.. Since then its been 3090 and 4090

 

[TNA]

The real goat, and by far the best value per £ i've ever spent on a graphics card and probably ever will, was an ATi 9500 that successfully bios flashed to a 9700pro and later a 9800pro. Truly a remarkable card way ahead of its time (Technically the 9700pro was the GOAT, but the 9500non-pro's that unlocked to the same capability, gave the greatest value of all)

Those were the days!

 

[TNA]

The 4090 would have been legendary but nobody could afford one to find out

Depends exactly what you mean by afford. My wallet could afford it. But a few inches away another area of my body couldn't.

Only so many inches could fit in there. Not sure how y'all do it