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The Greatest GPU of all time

In my opinion the 3dfx voodoo is a contender using a different variable. Based on the vast difference it made to what was available at the time. Few other gfx cards made such a generational leap to what we get visually. Even the 4090 as amazing as it is offers virtually no significant visual boost to lower end or competitive technologies (I still want one). At the time 3dfx was a huge game changer. Apart from SSD's we haven't had many significantly noticeable improvements in a long time by changing up a component, just marginal improvements trickle fed at a vastly increasing cost.
 
Radeon 970 Pro by a mile. It put ATI/AMD on the map and gave big green a proper kicking.

Radeon HD5850 also deserves a special mention due to outstanding launch pricing and performance.
 
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I had an OG GTX 980 which lasted 4 years. That sort of service is not possible these days from anything but the top end cards of which there is basically one. Those were different times back then.
 
1080ti undoubtedly.

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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.
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Still rocking two 1080ti's in SLI to this day, the vast majority of what I play supports SLI still, anything that won't run well at 4K I just drop down to 1440p.

No desire to upgrade at all.
 
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1080ti undoubtedly.


Still rocking two 1080ti's in SLI to this day, the vast majority of what I play supports SLI still, anything that won't run well at 4K I just drop down to 1440p.

No desire to upgrade at all.
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They were magnificent cards SLI worked a treat for me I also had 480GTX and 680GTX in SLI as well.
 
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In my opinion the 3dfx voodoo is a contender using a different variable. Based on the vast difference it made to what was available at the time. Few other gfx cards made such a generational leap to what we get visually. Even the 4090 as amazing as it is offers virtually no significant visual boost to lower end or competitive technologies (I still want one). At the time 3dfx was a huge game changer. Apart from SSD's we haven't had many significantly noticeable improvements in a long time by changing up a component, just marginal improvements trickle fed at a vastly increasing cost.
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Yeah, very true. I remember installing a Voodoo 2 into my Pentium 2 400Mhz that had the Intel 810 chipset, commonly known at the time as the Intel 810 crapset :cry: The Voodoo card totally transformed my gaming experience.

9800 Pro was great too, although the 9700 pro was the real bargain being so close to the 9800 in performance. They brought out a lesser card later, the 9800 SE, which was slower than both the 9700 and 9800 Pro. Some of those would flash to a Pro. My mate had one, but unfortunately his was a proper duff core or memory and showed checkerboard squares so had to be flashed back. And you had those very few lucky people, one in this thread, who went from 9500 Pro to 9700 Pro to 9800 Pro. I did try this but with a Radeon X800 GTO, you could flash that to a Pro and I got around a 25% uplift, my 32 frames per second in the game I was playing at the time became 40 frames per second.

Nobody that I have seen has yet mentioned the GeForce 4 4200ti, which was close to the performance of its bigger brothers the 4400ti and 4600ti..
 
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3080 was the GOAT imo, what other gpu in history managed to last over 3 years without without being beaten by a newer gen card costing the same or less, even the mighty 1080ti didn’t manage that feat.
 
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