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What is your GPU history

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Trident (can't remember which)
Cirrus Logic 5465 AGP + Orchid Righteous Voodoo
ATI Rage + Diamond Monster Voodoo 2 12MB
Pallit Geforce 2mx
Gainward Geforce 4 4200
Leadtek Geforce 5900lx
Geforce 6800
Gainward Geforce 7800GS+ AGP
Sapphire Radeon 4850
Asus GTX 480 Reference
MSI GTX 970 4G
MSI GTX 1080 X
 
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From my desktops...

IBM MDA, 8-bit ISA with parallel port (in an IBM PC my dad rescued from a skip at work, 1992) - 4KB
IBM CGA, 8-bit ISA (in an IBM XT, 1992, same source as the above, text looked far worse due to lower res) - 16KB
Paradise VGA, 8-bit ISA (in the same XT, 1993) - 256K
Cirrus Logic GD5428 VESA local bus (in a Hyundai 486SX, 1994) - 1MB
Diamond Stealth Trio64 (in an Evesham P100, 1996) - 2MB
Diamond Stealth 3D (Virge, in a P200 MMX, 1997) - 4MB
Matrox Millennium G200 LT (in a P3-450, 1999) - 8MB
(Also Orchid Righteous Voodoo card, 4MB, swiftly followed by 2x Diamond Monster Voodoo2 cards in SLI, 12MB)
GeForce 2 GTS - 32 MB (in an Athlon "Thunderbird" 1.3GHz PC, 2001)
upgraded to GeForce 3 Ti200 to play Morrowind with pixel shading - 64 MB
changed to GeForce FX 5500 (awful choice!) - 128 MB
GeForce 6800 (in a Dell P4 3.2GHz, 2005) - 256 MB
GeForce 9800 GT (in a Core2 Duo 8400 PC, 2008) - 512 MB
GeForce GTX 460 (in a Core i7-2600K PC, 2011) - 1 GB
upgraded to GeForce GTX 670 - 2 GB
GeForce GTX 980 (in a Core i7-5930K PC, 2015) - 4 GB

Probably time for an upgrade, thinking about it, but I'm loathe to buy a 1080 when they've been out for over a year already!
 
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Intel 2D 740 (I think)
Voodoo 1 (mixed with the above)
Voodoo banshee 2D/3D
Voodoo 5 5500
Nvidia GeForce 3
ATI 970
ATI X800XT
ATI X1800XT (rma replacement for the x800xt)
GeForce 8800GTX
ATI 4870X2
Nvidia 480GTX
NVIDIA 680GTX
NVIDIA 980GTX

...I think.
 
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From my desktops...

IBM MDA, 8-bit ISA with parallel port (in an IBM PC my dad rescued from a skip at work, 1992) - 4KB
IBM CGA, 8-bit ISA (in an IBM XT, 1992, same source as the above, text looked far worse due to lower res) - 16KB
Paradise VGA, 8-bit ISA (in the same XT, 1993) - 256K
Cirrus Logic GD5428 VESA local bus (in a Hyundai 486SX, 1994) - 1MB
Diamond Stealth Trio64 (in an Evesham P100, 1996) - 2MB
Diamond Stealth 3D (Virge, in a P200 MMX, 1997) - 4MB
Matrox Millennium G200 LT (in a P3-450, 1999) - 8MB
(Also Orchid Righteous Voodoo card, 4MB, swiftly followed by 2x Diamond Monster Voodoo2 cards in SLI, 12MB)
GeForce 2 GTS - 32 MB (in an Athlon "Thunderbird" 1.3GHz PC, 2001)
upgraded to GeForce 3 Ti200 to play Morrowind with pixel shading - 64 MB
changed to GeForce FX 5500 (awful choice!) - 128 MB
GeForce 6800 (in a Dell P4 3.2GHz, 2005) - 256 MB
GeForce 9800 GT (in a Core2 Duo 8400 PC, 2008) - 512 MB
GeForce GTX 460 (in a Core i7-2600K PC, 2011) - 1 GB
upgraded to GeForce GTX 670 - 2 GB
GeForce GTX 980 (in a Core i7-5930K PC, 2015) - 4 GB

Probably time for an upgrade, thinking about it, but I'm loathe to buy a 1080 when they've been out for over a year already!

Same here...investing in stake tech, which is ridiculously overpriced.
 
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Cambridge, UK.
GF 2MX
GF 4400 Ti
GF 5200 FX (I think, the one that sounded like a vacuum cleaner anyway..)
GF 6600 GT
GF 8800 GT
GF 570 GTX (bought about 3 years old from MM)
GF 960 GTX
 
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I have gaming rigs at my place and my G/Fs, plus workstations at home and the office.

Radeon Vega 64
Radeon Vega 56
Nvidia Titan-X
Geforce GTX1080ti
Geforce GTX1080
Geforce GTX980ti
Geforce GTX980
Geforce GTX970 SLI
Radeon Fury Nano
Radeon RX480 crossfire
Radeon R9 290 crossfire
Geforce GTX780
Radeon 280X crossfire
Geforce GTX680
Geforce GTX670
Radeon 270X
Radeon HD7950
Radeon HD7850
Radeon HD6950
Radeon HD5870
Geforce GTX460
Geforce GTX260
Radeon HD4890
Geforce 9800-GX2
Geforce 9600GSO
Geforce 8800GTX
Geforce 7900GTO
Geforce 7800GTX
Geforce 6800GT
Radeon X850 XT PE
XGI Volari
Radeon 9800XT
Geforce TI4600
SIS Xabre
Geforce MX460
Radeon 8500
PowerVR Kyro II
Riva TNT2 Ultra
3DFX Voodoo 2 Banshee
S3 Virge GX2
Trident SVGA
Paradise VGA
 
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My journey from 2MB to 11GB - Moore's law in action.

1995 Diamond Stealth64 Video VRAM PCI (S3 Vision 968 2MB VRAM)
1997 Diamond Multimedia Monster 3D (3Dfx Voodoo1 4MB EDO)
1998 Matrox Millennium G200 (8MB SGRAM)
1999 Diamond Viper V550 (Riva TNT 16MB SDRAM)
2000 Creative Labs 3D Blaster Annihilator Pro (GeForce 256 32MB DDR)
2002 NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti200 (64MB DDR)
2004 Crucial Radeon 9800 Pro (128MB DDR)
2005 PNY GeForce 6800 GT (256MB DDR3)
2006 XFX GeForce 7900 GT (256MB DDR3)
2007 BFG GeForce 8800 GTS (512MB DDR3)
2008 Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 (512MB DDR5)
2010 Asus Radeon HD 5850 (1024MB DDR5)
2010 KFA2 GeForce GTX 570 (1280MB DDR5)
2012 Gigabyte GeForce GTX 670 Windforce 3X (2048MB DDR5)
2013 Gigabyte GeForce GTX 780 Ti (3072MB DDR5)
2015 EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti SC+ ACX (6144MB DDR5)
2017 Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti FE (11264MB DDR5X)
 
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Stoke-on-Trent
Voodoo 2, forget what it was paired with
ATI Rage Fury
Geforce 4 MX440
Geforce FX 5700 Ultra
Geforce 6800 Ultra AGP
Radeon 6670 (wasn't a gaming rig)
Original GTX Titan
Radeon 5770 while the Titan is being repurposed
 
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Location
Planet Earth
Geforce Go440
Geforce 4 MX440
Geforce 4 TI4200
Radeon 9500PRO
Geforce 6200
Geforce 6600LE
Geforce 6600GT
Geforce 6800LE X2
Radeon X300
Geforce 7300GT
Geforce 7600GT
Geforce 7900GS
Radeon X1900GT
Geforce 8800GTS 320MB
Geforce 8500GT
Geforce 8800GTS 512MB
Radeon HD3870 512MB GDDR4
Radeon HD4830 512MB
Radeon HD5670 GDDR5
Radeon HD5850 1GB
Radeon HD6870 1GB
Geforce GTX660 2GB
Radeon HD7850 2GB
Geforce GTX960 4GB
Radeon RX470 4GB
Geforce GTX1080FE
 
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ATI Rage Fury
Geforce 8800GTS 320MB
Radeon HD5870
Radeon HD6950
GeForce GTX6680 2GB Came with pc lol never use it gave it to my son.
Radeon HD7950
GTX 970 4GB
GTX 1070
 
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s3 savage 4
GeForce 2 mx
GeForce 4 mx (very briefly)
GeForce 4 ti 4200
GeForce 7800 gtx with 2nd added later for sli
GeForce 8800GT sli
GeForce 650m
GeForce 780 gtx
GeForce 1070 GTX
 
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