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Your GPU history tree and potential next card

I won't be able to recall them all but...

Diamond 32mb thingy... not sure what it was... RIVA TNT?
Geforce 2MX Tornado 32mb
Hercules Prophet 64mb
Voodoo 5 5500 AGP 64mb
ATi 8500 LE 64mb
ATi 9800 SE 128mb
ATi X800 Pro Vivo 256mb
7800GTX 256mb
XFX 8800GTX 768mb
Powercolor 4870 512mb
HIS 4870X2 2GB
4890 1GB? (only used this very briefly)
260GTX 216 (as above)
Gigabyte SOC GTX480 1.5GB
Gigabyte SOC GTX570 1.3GB
Asus Matrix 7970 3GB
KFA2 980Ti
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Looking to get either a higher VRAM variant of the 3070/3060 or possibly a 10GB 3080 (at the most)...
I shan't decide until things sort themselves out & both Nvidia/AMD have all their cards on the table, Ba Dum Tish, so likely next year.
 
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Fairy short history for me

9800 GTX
Radeon 5870x2
GTX 970
GTX 970 SLI
2070 Super - (Bought used while I wait for 3080 pre-order)
Soon(ish)... 3080
 
Tseng Labs et4000/w32i
SIS530 (tried a Voodoo 3 but couldn't get it to play)
9200se
5500
6800 (even unlocked the extra pipelines)
7800 Ultra (died before its time)
Hd4870 (turned out the 8800gt wasn't compatible with my mobo)
480
680 (think I made the jump to 1440p here?)
780
780 SLI (huge mistake)
1070
1080 (upgraded after the price drop)
2070S (fine for UW 1440p but useless when I went 4k)
2080S
3080 (on order)

I think that's everything. Standouts for me were the 6800 (absolute beast of a card), the 4870 (incredible value for money) and the 1080. Oh and the Tseng Labs - some of my earliest gaming memories and was still going strong when I went to uni nearly 10 years later.
 
  1. Some ATI card from 2004ish that I can't remember
  2. Intel integrated for a while
  3. Palit 8500 GT Super+ 1GB
  4. XFX GTS 250 512MB
  5. ASUS GTX 460 DirectCU 1GB
  6. EVGA GTX 780 3GB
  7. EVGA GTX 970 (RMA'd and was replaced by EVGA with the card below)
  8. EVGA GTX 1060 6GB SSC DT GAMING
  9. (soon) EVGA RTX 3080 FTW3 Ultra
 
Geforce 2 Ti
Radeon 9800 Pro
GTX 280
GTX 1070
GTX 1080Ti (traded my GTX 1070 for this for £250)

I am sure i'm missing a card somewhere
 
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Quite a few, the 1st real one was the Diamond Stealth 3D 32, the TNT 128, Geforce GTS 256, GTX 570, GTX660, GTX 1070, RTX 2070 (watercooled). In a pro environment virtually every nvidia card since 2005 from single to quad sli. Plus way to many ATI rage cards that I still have nightmares...
 
s3 virge
Voodoo 2
Riva TNT
Riva TNT2
Geforce 256
Geforce 2
Think there was something here but my memory fails me.
8600GTS SLI
480GTX
Zotac Amp Extreme 980Ti
Sapphire Nitro + Vega 64
Radeon VII
Asus 3080TUF / Strix OC 3090 (depending which arrives first)
 
Oh my days! I haven't has a many cards as most here but here goes.....

Nvidia TNT2 Ultra
Geforce 2 GTS
Geforce 4 MX440
Geforce FX 5200
Radeon 9800 PRO
Geforce 6800 GT
Geforce 7800 GTS
Geforce 8800 GTS X2 in SLI
Geforce 580 X2 in SLI
Geforce 780ti
Geforce 1080 (Current card)
ASUS Strix OC 3090 on order
 
Cant remember my earlier ones, and my list is not very impressive, but here goes.
6950
6950 crossfire
RX-290
RX-290 crossfire
R9-570
R9-570 crossfire
(the 570 and 570 crossfire is a result of a failed attempt of a gaming/Eth mining rig, don't ask..)
GTX-1070ti

Ill upgrade in the future when I have desire to play something new on PC, or when Star Citizen comes further along in development, which ever comes 1st..
 
3Dfx Voodoo 1
Riva Tnt
Geforce MX 64 mb
Geforce MX 128 mb
Geforce 6800
Geforce 7800GS
AMD 3870x2
Geforce GTX 580 Sli
Gtx 980 Ti
1080 Seahawk MSI
and waiting for 3080 yet :) Pre ordered in queue :(
 
1mb cirrus vlb
matrox millenium - added ram upgrade when they went end of life and cheap
voodoo
voodoo2
voodoo2 sli - bought another when they went end of life
8800 gts
HD 4850
GTX960 - turned up with a dead fan so went back
GTX970
1080 after the 20 series came out
2080ti bought a new in box strix this week when someone dumped their 20 series inventory
Next one will be in a couple of years, possibly.
 
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