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Your graphics card history tree?

Nvidia RIVA 128 4MB
3DFX Velocity 100
Nvidia TNT2 Ultra
Geforce 2 MX
Geforce 3
Radeon 970 Pro
2x Geforce 6800GS in SLI
Geforce GTX 260
Radeon RX480
Nvidia GTX 970
Geforce GTX 1070
Geforce RTX 3060Ti
Radeon RX6800
Radeon RX 7900 XT
 
S3 Virge
some Permedia2 based card
S3 Savage
Nvidia TNT2
Geforce2 Ti
PNY Geforce6800GT (also picked up a 5800 cheap for a second rig)
Asus Geforce GTX260-216
Gigabyte Geforce GTX670
Quadro M4000 8G (equiv performance to a down clocked 970)
Gigabyte RTX3080 10G plus now i'm buying GPU's for the kids, they started on a GT730 each, now they are on 1650's.
picked up a Asus Tuf RTX 3080ti, so if i can get that working, my 3080 will migrate down to one of the kids.
 
I vividly remember posting in this thread already, but perhaps I imagined it :confused:

Anyways, here is me:
  • MSI Geforce 4 Ti4200 128MB
  • Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB
  • Asus Radeon X800 XL 256MB
  • Asus GeForce 7900GT 256MB
  • XFX GeForce 8800GTS 320MB
  • XFX GeForce GTX260 896MB
  • nVidia GeForce GTX765M 2GB
  • Sapphire Radeon R9 380 4GB
  • nVidia GeForce GTX960 4GB
  • Sapphire Radeon RX Vega 64 8GB
  • AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT 16GB
 
Geforce 4 MX440 64MB - 2003 (13 year old me was just happy to have a PC to begin with)
Palit Geforce 7300GT 256MB - 2007 (potato tier, by 2013 it was just painful to use)
Gigabyte Windforce Radeon HD7950 3GB - 2013 (first time I experienced 60FPS gaming in FHD. Not looked back since)
EVGA Geforce GTX 1070 8GB - 2016 (GOAT, I liked it the most out of all card cards I had)
Sapphire Nitro Radeon 6900XT 16GB - 2021 (I really wanted 3090 and this was just a stopgap)
MSI Suprim Geforce RTX 3090 24GB - 2021 (absolute beauty. Great 4K experience but it ran so hot)
FE Geforce RTX 4080 16GB - 2022 (FOMO purchase, moved onto 4090 in a matter of few days)
PNY XLR8 Geforce RTX 4090 24GB - 2022 (ploughs through everything I throw at it, no complaints after 2 years of use)
 
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I started in the 90s with a Matrox Mystique then onto the 3DFX voodoo 2 and 3 offerings, flipped between Nvidia/AMD since but too many to remember tbh. Now rocking a RX 6800 with one eye on the new crop coming soon.
 
Onboard graphics - 1999 (Parents got ripped off buying a PC for my Christmas present which they thought had a Voodoo installed lol)

3DFX Voodoo 4500 PCI - 2000 (Aforementioned PC didn't have an AGP slot)

Hercules Kyro 2 - 2001ish (Absolutely loved this card. It was cheap as chips and in many games did very well against the big boys)

Radeon 9700 Pro - 2002 (Had to buy this because the Kyro 2 had no hardware based T&L - and I REALLY wanted to play Battlefield 1942)

Geforce 7900GS - 2006ish (Have no recollection of this beyond having some issues playing Dawn of War)

Sapphire Radeon 3870X2 - 20008 (Spent an absolute fortune buying all new parts with massive loan - I was dumb - Still couldn't run Crysis on high)

Radeon 5850 - 2009 (Lovely little card this was, I still have it as a backup although I can't imagine it would be up to much)

Gigabyte Radeon 7970 - 2012 (First thing I bought when I got my first job after uni. £350 for a flagship GPU - those were the days!)

Palit GTX 980Ti - 2015 (The 7970 struggled with The Witcher 3 so I splurged on this)

EVGA 2080 - 2019 (the 980Ti died :( )

RTX 3070Ti FE -2022 (Spur of the moment buy - was a pointless "ugrade" honestly.)

Gainward 4070Ti - 2024 (Another bit of madness. Got a great deal from the b-grade section though)
 
Some ATI one I don't remember (I was too young)
GT520
GT740
R9 380
RX 580
Vega 56
1080ti
2080ti
3080ti
4090
 
ATI Rage 128
Voodoo 2
Geforce 2 256
ATI 9500
Geforce 7 7800GTX
Geforce 7 7900GTX (3 broke! Worst card ever)
Geforce 7 7950GX2 (bought another 7950GX2 a few months later for effectively quad SLI).
ATI 4870X2
AMD 5970
AMD 6990
AMD 7990
AMD 295X2
GeForce GTX 1080Ti AMP Extreme
AMD 7900XTX
GeForce RTX 5090 TUF Gaming OC
 
30 Years Anniversary Post!
Shortest service: MSI Geforce FX 5900 myVIVO (1 month)
Longest service: Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 FE (3 years, 9 months)

??/1995 Diamond Stealth64 Video VRAM PCI (S3 Vision 968 2MB VRAM)
08/1997 Diamond Multimedia Monster 3D (3Dfx Voodoo1 4MB EDO) £127
08/1998 Matrox Millennium G200 (8MB SGRAM) as part of a custom built PC £1879
01/1999 Diamond Viper V550 (Riva TNT 16MB SDRAM) £219
02/2000 Creative Labs 3D Blaster Annihilator Pro (GeForce 256 32MB DDR) £188
12/2001 NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti200 (64MB DDR) £158
05/2003 Sapphire Radeon 9700 Pro (128MB DDR) £144
08/2003 MSI Geforce FX 5900 myVIVO (128MB DDR) £313
09/2003 Crucial Radeon 9800 Pro (128MB DDR) £263
07/2004 PNY GeForce 6800 GT (256MB DDR3) £271
03/2006 XFX GeForce 7900 GT (256MB DDR3) £235
02/2007 BFG GeForce 8800 GTS (512MB DDR3) £195
07/2008 Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 (512MB DDR5) £180
03/2010 Asus Radeon HD 5850 (1024MB DDR5) £214
12/2010 KFA2 GeForce GTX 570 (1280MB DDR5) £250
05/2012 Gigabyte GeForce GTX 670 Windforce 3X (2048MB DDR5) £340
11/2013 Gigabyte GeForce GTX 780 Ti (3072MB DDR5) £541
06/2015 EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti SC+ ACX (6144MB DDR5) £591
03/2017 Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti FE (11264MB DDR5X) £699
09/2020 Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 FE (10240MB DDR6X) £649
06/2021 Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 FE (24576MB DDR6X) £1399
03/2025 Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 FE (32768MB DDR7) £1939
 
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Slightly more fuzzy on my earlier ones but I think the list is accurate.

- Some laptop with a bad Intel on board gpu chip. Couldn't play much, maybe the sims at best. Might have been a Intel GMA 900, think I remember seeing it in my 3dmark history, lol.
- 7600GT (can't remember the make on this one, it was a prebuilt)
- Zotac 260GTX
- Asus 660 TI GTX
- MSI 970 GTX twin frozr
- Gigabyte 1080 TI GTX Gaming OC
- 3080 FE
- Zotac Solid 5090
 
tamzzy said:
TNT2
Radeon 7500
Radeon 9600 pro
Radeon 3650
7950
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12 years later...time for an update :D

2000-2004 Riva TNT2 M64 (dad's desktop)
2002-2008 Mobility Radeon 7500 (my first laptop - IBM R40)
2004-2007 Radeon 9600 Pro (dad's desktop)
2008-2014 Mobility Radeon 3650 (laptop - Lenovo T500)
2012-2014 Radeon HD 7950 (my first desktop)
2014-2017 Radeon 7990 + quadfire
2017-2022 GTX 1080ti (the GOAT)
2020-2024 Radeon Vega 8 (laptop integrated - Lenovo Ideapad 5)
2022-2024 RTX 3080

2024-current Radeon 7900XT (main rig)
2024-current RTX 4070 Super (portable rig)
2024-current RTX 3070 mobile (laptop - Lenovo Legion 5 Pro)
 
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Sin_Chase said:
Started with an ARK Logic 2d board with a Diamond Voodoo 2 Monster 3D II strapped onto it. Used it to play half Life and TFC combined with a beastly 4x8mb of EDO ram and a 850MB Drive :p

Next card was a Creative MX, cant remember exact model.

That got upgraded to a 9800 Pro.

Next up was an x1800xt.

Following shortly after was an X800XTPE

And then onto my current card, an 8800GT.

My hardware lasts me a while ;)
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Didnt realise I last posted in here in 2008!

To continue the list it was all green from this point onwards!

GTX285
780Ti
980Ti
980Ti SLI
2080
5090
 
3DFX Voodoo 3 (Beast!!)
*Something here, but I forget. ~Sapphire card~
Nvidia GeForce FX 5500 (awful!)
Nvidia GeForce GTX 460
Radeon HD 7790 (it died on me!)
Nvidia GeForce GTX 750Ti (still have it!)
Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 (A GoaT, still have it)
Nvidia GeForce GTX 980Ti (ran non-stop clocked for 6+ years!)
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070Ti (meh, still have it)
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060Ti (feels like the 970 of it's time. Getting a founders at RRP was great value)

:)
 
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