Tier of Nvidia GPU release

[BUDFORCE]

Must admit I don't watch a ton of his stuff, but this popped up and gave it a view.

I've mostly been an ATI/AMD fan boy over the years, but of the three Nvidia cards I have bought, the first was an 8800 GTX/GTS (honestly not sure which), a 1070, and a 3070, all of which happen to be in Linus top tier.

This was pretty much by accident/coinsidence over anything else.

I also had it in my mind Nvidia had been going longer than they had, as I was buying ATI cards before there first series was released.

Anyway thought it was interesting and you can clearly see where GPUs went through that phase of having the cool artwork which I miss if I'm honest.

 

[rare]

TNT2 ultra was the first graphics card I purchased with my own money for my first pc. Good times. Wish I could go back to my younger self and show him the 4090 I have now and watch his brain explode.

I’m surprised they skipped so much of the earlier stuff to be honest, and even cards like the 1080Ti were glossed over? Weird.

Still, it was an enjoyable trip down memory lane.

 

[Iron Man]

Reminds me how bad technology used to be

 

[Grim5]

8800gt/GTX and gtx1080ti are the best GPUs Nvidia ever made. They brought a perfect combination of incredible performance gains, good pricing and didn't use too much power or run too hot


The video was entertaining and eye opening because you can see that rtx2000 and rtx4000 isn't the first time Nvidia has decided to completely screw over consumers. Nvidia has never missed an opportunity to take a dump on the consumer when lack of competition from AMD has allowed for it.

There have being multiple generations from Nvidia where they even sold xx104 mid range chips as GTX0080 series high end parts for high end pricing and they did this whenever AMD fell too far behind. If the 7900xtx wasn't as fast as it is, Nvidia no doubt would have been selling the 4070ti as a 4090 for 4090 money

 

[Purgatory]

TNT2 ultra was the first graphics card I purchased with my own money for my first pc. Good times. Wish I could go back to my younger self and show him the 4090 I have now and watch his brain explode.

I’m surprised they skipped so much of the earlier stuff to be honest, and even cards like the 1080Ti were glossed over? Weird.

Still, it was an enjoyable trip down memory lane.

His brain would explode for sure after seeing the price too

 

[Rroff]

His brain would explode for sure after seeing the price too

My dad had a 286 with a ~£3000 video card back in the late 80s or so (near £10K in today's money) - whole system was over £6000. That was for work rather than personal purposes though (it interfaced with a high end digital microscope).

 

[andybird123]

My dad had a 286 with a ~£3000 video card back in the late 80s or so (near £10K in today's money) - whole system was over £6000. That was for work rather than personal purposes though (it interfaced with a high end digital microscope).

The first 3d accelerators were £200-300, so as you say that would have been a professional interface card rather than a "graphics card" as anyone would understand it today - it would be more like the equivalent of something like an A100 these days

My first PC was a 486DX2

 

[Rroff]

The first 3d accelerators were £200-300, so as you say that would have been a professional interface card rather than a "graphics card" as anyone would understand it today - it would be more like the equivalent of something like an A100 these days

My first PC was a 486DX2

I can't find anything which quite matches with it now but AFAIK it was a Diamond card they soldered a couple of extra bits and an extra 1MB VRAM on to and charged like 10x the price.

 

[BUDFORCE]

The first dedicated graphics card I ever had, had 16mb of memory, passive cooling, would have been AGP. I honestly can't remember the brand, but it definitely wasn't 3DFX/vodoo and I don't think it was ATI either.

The next one after that was a Radeon 9000 pro, then mostly bought ATI (as they were) cards over the years, other than the three Nvidia cards as per my first post.

 

[SPG]

My 1080Ti plays everything I need to tbh. Mainly down to having a water cooled system and lost interest in PC building to do something about it. Mainly cost

 

[ph123uk]

The first dedicated graphics card I ever had, had 16mb of memory, passive cooling, would have been AGP. I honestly can't remember the brand, but it definitely wasn't 3DFX/vodoo and I don't think it was ATI either.

The next one after that was a Radeon 9000 pro, then mostly bought ATI (as they were) cards over the years, other than the three Nvidia cards as per my first post.

PowerVR? Thats what i got to enable me to have see through water XD

 

[BUDFORCE]

PowerVR? Thats what i got to enable me to have see through water XD

Im really not sure its bugging me a bit actually trying to find it.

I remember my first was a pentium 75 PC having 8mb RAM (system not VRAM) which we upgraded to 16 eventually, it was a compaq pressario (peive of **** to be honest) but that one definintely did NOT have a dedicated GPU.

The next one was a pentium 500 and I think....it was that one that had the GPU. Google says the pentium 500 was released in 1999 and there were 16mb GPU's knocking about around that time so stacks up.

For the life of me I cannot remember which brand., it might............ have been an S3 Savage, and as per the dates would more or less match up, but I am still not sure.

I mean this was nearly 25 years ago.

 

[scotty38]

The first 3d accelerators were £200-300, so as you say that would have been a professional interface card rather than a "graphics card" as anyone would understand it today - it would be more like the equivalent of something like an A100 these days

My first PC was a 486DX2

I remember someone at work getting a 486 when we were lucky to have a 386.... PC envy of the era..... Having said that I was a Systems Engineer providing services for a Local Authority at the time and they had an IBM Model 80 file server running NetWare with a 300MB drive and 4MB of RAM. That was providing all the storage etc for an IT team of 30+ people.... Simpler times

 

[Pyr0m@nI@]{]

Anyone remember Matrox G200 cards?
I remember having a 3dfx voodoo rush card at some point
The first Nvidia card I had was a Geforce 256.

 

[BUDFORCE]

Yup doing more research the Radeon 9000 pro was released mid 2002, 9800 pro was release late 2003 and I remember having both of those - not necessarily upon release of course.

So I guess the dates do sort of match for the savage S3.

 

[dave28]

1080 Ti still a wanted gpu by many gamers 6 years later.

nothing really comes close does it, many of the older gpu in his list went out of fashion faster than elton johns glasses

 

[Toekiller]

My first was the Virge. It was so bad it was slower than rendering the game in Software.

S3 ViRGE - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

2D PC performance was also a big thing back then. Matrox was great but 3D was poor. The the best combo at the time was a Matrox and 3DFX Voodoo. Though my memory and timeline is fuzzy

 

[HRL]

Im really not sure its bugging me a bit actually trying to find it.

I remember my first was a pentium 75 PC having 8mb RAM (system not VRAM) which we upgraded to 16 eventually, it was a compaq pressario (peive of **** to be honest) but that one definintely did NOT have a dedicated GPU.

The next one was a pentium 500 and I think....it was that one that had the GPU. Google says the pentium 500 was released in 1999 and there were 16mb GPU's knocking about around that time so stacks up.

For the life of me I cannot remember which brand., it might............ have been an S3 Savage, and as per the dates would more or less match up, but I am still not sure.

I mean this was nearly 25 years ago.

Matrox Mystique - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Probably. I had one.

Think I ended up with a Voodoo card after that.

 

[Marine-RX179]

TNT2 ultra was the first graphics card I purchased with my own money for my first pc. Good times. Wish I could go back to my younger self and show him the 4090 I have now and watch his brain explode.

I’m surprised they skipped so much of the earlier stuff to be honest, and even cards like the 1080Ti were glossed over? Weird.

Still, it was an enjoyable trip down memory lane.

The TNT2 Ultra was also my first graphic card which I bought with my own money as well (a mate from school that worked part-time at Electronics Boutique helped me to knock 20% off with his staff discount, and ended up only paying £99.99 instead of £124.99).

The graphic card might have became very powerful nowadays, but I do not wish to show my younger self how insane the price has gotten, or how the state of the games other than looking amazing graphic wise, in general they have became creativity bankrupted and lack variety (each year mostly being sequels after sequels of big titles except for few exceptions), and is far more about milking the gamers for more money and pushing them toward doing chores for completions/achievements rather than delivering (more) fun content to play

 

[rare]

My first was the Virge. It was so bad it was slower than rendering the game in Software.

S3 ViRGE - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I remember these, my mate had one, he was gutted about it