• Competitor rules

    Please remember that any mention of competitors, hinting at competitors or offering to provide details of competitors will result in an account suspension. The full rules can be found under the 'Terms and Rules' link in the bottom right corner of your screen. Just don't mention competitors in any way, shape or form and you'll be OK.

Your GPU history tree and potential next card

GTS 250
HD 6950
HD 7950
GTX 980
Vega 56
3080 next

Very small list compared to you chaps, I only started gaming properly on PC around 08 although I did play WoW in 06/07 on integrated laptop graphics at 30fps :D
Also had a PC with a dgpu around 03 but I wasn't into hardware back then and had a mate build it for me, left it behind when moving from Ireland to UK.
 
I can't remember my first but it was a strange layout, it took the VGA out from the board and fed it into the graphics card then out to the monitor.
CPU at the time was a Cyrix 166mhz or something like that.
 
Started with S3
S3 Trio
S3 Virge
S3 Savage
S3 DIED as company making GPUs
Moved to ATI
Cant be asked to check but had Ati cards till AMD took over
Had AMD in gold Xfire days upgrading every 2 years
Fav cards
7870 played Wow on that LOADS OF WOW
images


4850x2
6950x2 flashed to 6970 :]

Last AMD card I had was 290x BF4 edition affter that FuryX came out and since then for me AMD had nothing interesting.
Buying NA since 980ti

Maybe One day AMD pulls rabit out of hat and beats NV across the board
 
ATi Rage
Voodoo Banshee
Geforce 2MX
Geforce 4200ti
Geforce 6600 forget which
Geforce 8800 GT sounded like a hairdryer, so got waterblocked- scary first one
Geforce GTX 460
Radeon 280x
Radeon 290x
back to 8800gt due to cooking the 290x, so several weeks of only Civ4
Geforce 970

Might have forgotten one along the way.

Very tempted by a 3070, depending on reviews.
 
HD4350 - Came with my first prebuilt desktop
GTX 460 - Massive upgrade
2x GTX 460 SLi - Same performance as a 480 when overclocked. I could finally play Crysis.... Ran ridiculously hot!
6950 - Bios flashed to unlock shaders to 6970 spec
RX580 4GB
GTX 1070

Very tempted by a 3070 next month :D
 
Its sparse as I know I had a few more chopping and changing builds in the days when building PC's for people you could do as a side-earner.

Voodoo3 3000
Geforce 2 GTS
Geforce 3 Ti
Radeon 9700 pro
Geforce 6600GT
Geforce 8800GTX
Geforce GTX 460
AMD 7770 (x2)
AMD 7990
AMD 290X
Geforce GTX 1060 6Gb
Vega 56


I will probably buy what @humbug gets as he is the local authority on neutral new releases! :D
 
7300LE
8500GT (OC'd like a beast!)
GTX260
5850
6950
670
670 SLI, eventually WC
780ti WC
1070 currently

Waiting for everyone to show their hands and hoping big navi will be good, otherwise will be a 3070 I think, after things settle.
 
I'm only including GPUs here. 2d cards are left out.

PowerVR SGX (VideoLogic Apocalypse 3D)
3Dfx Voodoo (Orchid Righteous)
12MB 3dfx Voodoo2 (Diamond)
Riva TNT2 Ultra (Diamond)
Geforce SDR (Creative)
GeForce 2 Ultra (Creative)
GeForce 3 ti500 (Creative)
ATI Radeon 7500
GeForce 4 Ti4400
GeForce 6600GT
Geforce 8800GTX
GeForce GTX670
GeForce GTX970
GeForce RTX2070 Super

Future upgrade
GeForce RTX3080
 
8800 GTX
GTX 570 SLI
7970
GTX 970
R9 390 8GB
RTX 3080/3070 or AMD depending on price/performance price/vram lol. Don't really want to buy a 8/10GB VRAM card in Q4 2020 when my 300 pound card from 2015 had 8GB VRAM.
 
Radeon X800
Radeon X1800
8800GT 640MB
4870 1GB (i think)
5850 Crossfire
7950 3GB
R9 290 4GB
Geforce 970
Fury-x AIO edition
Vega 64 AIO edition

Looking back at my history I seem to be very AMD sided, although I like to think it's because I mostly buy on a price/performance basis. However when I bought my 970 my monitor died and I bought a 1440p freesync replacement because the gsync version was over £200 more expensive for the equivalent, I almost upgraded the 970 to a 980ti but ended up with a fury X because nvidia refused to support freesync, and this decision carried over into my decision to buy a vega64 instead of a 1080.

Now that nvidia has removed the arbitrary software restriction on my monitor I would consider an nvidia card again at this point, my next upgrade is going to be to whichever card has the best performance and a pre-installed waterblock in the £700-£800 range, the evga hydro copper looks like a good potential candidate, but I'm going to hold off and see what AMD brings to the table, I'm hoping there is a 6900 liquid devil close to launch. Exciting times.
 
Geforce 2 GTS
Geforce 2 Pro
ATI Radeon 9800
ATI Radeon X800 GTO
.... gap ....
Radeon R9 390
2x R9 390 XFire
Geforce GTX 1080Ti (current card)

No idea if I'll upgrade over the next few months, the 1080Ti has still got legs yet, even at 4K 60fps.
 
bounced back and forward since the original TNT, will buy whatevever is sensibly priced and gives me an upgrade when it's needed. current 5700xt at 1440p seems fine tbh
 
Lokken86 said:
I'll go first:
Click to expand...

Noob! :)

I started with a Hercules and CGA cards. Not sure which order, mind. Over the past 30+ years I've had cards from Nvidia, ATI, Cirrus Logic, Trident, IBM, Matrox, 3dfx, S3, and more I cannot recall. In the 90s I think I was buying a new video card every year.
 
Oh boy, I've not had a ton of gpus but it's not easy to remember.

Random old cards I got when very young, S3 verge and 3dfx kind stuff. Too young to really remember exactly though.

GeForce 2 (First brand new PC I had bought by my dad. Just as Windows XP came out).
Various assortment of low end AGP era cards picked up into builds I did as a kid.
XFX 8800GT
6950 (Flashed to 6970)
MSI 280x
MSI 280x Crossfire
GTX1080
GTX1660 Super (ITX Gaming Pc)

As it stands I'm very interested in the RTX 3080, but I'm in no rush to upgrade. I'd rather wait and see what rdna2 brings to the table.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom