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Your graphics card history tree?

My partial list:

4mb AGP card (2d)
Voodoo 3 3000
Radeon 8500
Radeon 9800 pro
Radeon x700
Radeon x600 mobile
Geforce 6800 Ultra
Radeon x1950gt
Radeon 3870
Radeon 4850
Radeon 4870
Geforce GTX 280
Radeon 5770
Radeon 4850x2 (dual GPU card)
Radeon 5850
Radeon 5870
Radeon 5850 + Radeon 5870
Geforce GT240M
Radeon 4850 mobile
Radeon 5770 mobile
Radeon 5850 mobile
Geforce GTX 560M
Radeon HD7970M
Radeon 7770 mobile
Geforce GTX 680M
Geforce GTX 780M
Geforce GTX 780M x2
Radeon HD7970M (again)
Geforce GTX 980M x2
Geforce Titan X
Geforce GTX 1080 x2 (mobile)
 
Geforce 7300 (laptop- until the gpu fried and destroyed the mainboard)
Geforce 8600m
Palit GTX260 SP216
Gigabyte 7950
XFX 7870 Tahiti LE edition
GTX 960m
Sapphire R9 Fury
* GTX 1080TI or Vega likely- (I have a feeling I should have pulled the trigger and bought the Zotac Arctic storm 1080ti last week when it was on offer) for my latest build.
 
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Geforce 7300 (laptop- until the gpu fried and destroyed the mainboard)
Geforce 8600m
Palit GTX260 SP216
Gigabyte 7950
XFX 7870 Tahiti LE edition
Sapphire R9 Fury
* GTX 1080TI or Vega likely- (I have a feeling I should have pulled the trigger and bought the Zotac Arctic storm 1080ti last week when it was on offer) for my latest build.
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Actually just bought a 1080ti (MSI EK X) for £674.99 new.
 
ati 9800 pro
ati x1800 mobility
7900gtx mobile dell lappy which had an overheating fault (at least i think it was the 7900gtx)
ati hd4850 lappy (great advent laptop bargain i got)

r9 280x
r9 290
Gigabye Gaming G1 gtx980
Asus Dual gtx1060
gtx1080 *Possibly
 
Only started building PC's back in 2015, was a console lover prior to that and on laptops mostly.

ATI Sapphire 1800XL (or 800XL)
Intel iGPU's
GTX 660M
GTX Titan X Superclocked (3 Way)
GTX 1080 FE (3 Way)
GTX Titan XP (2 Way)
GTX 1080Ti (3 Way) (Current)

HPTC build
GTX 970
AMD R9 Fury X
AMD R9 Fury
AMD R9 Nano (current)
 
Don't know exact order or remember them all but here goes

Voodoo 3
Geforce 4 Ti
X800 gto2
Nvidia 860m
7770
Nvidia 770
Nvidia fx5700 ultra (loved this card)
Nvidia 960
Nvidia 8800gts 320mb
Rx470
Rx480

There is more but that's all that I remember right now

Currently on nvidia 1070
 
Can't really remember mine in the early days and then had several years with laptops, so:

HIS AMD 7850
EVGA GTX 780 Ti
Then added another so SLi GTX 780 Ti
Asus GTX 970 mini
EVGA GTX 980 Ti
EVGA Titan X Maxwell
Then added another so SLi Titan X Maxwell
nVidia Titan XP (died)
Current: EVGA GTX 1080 FTW Hybrid

Now waiting for Volta although I keep toying with the idea of getting another 1080 FTW!
 
  • Creative Labs Graphics Blaster 3D 4MB (Cirrus Logic Laguna3D)
  • Asus V6600 Deluxe 32MB (Geforce SDR)
  • Hercules 3D Prophet 4500 64MB (PowerVR Kyro II)
  • PowerColor Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB (ATI R350)
  • HIS X1600Pro IceQ 512MB AGP (ATI RV530 - temporary replacement when the 9800 Pro failed before migrating to a PCI-E system)
  • Gigabyte Radeon 4850 512MB (ATI RV770)
  • XFX Radeon HD 6950 2GB (Cayman)
  • XFX Radeon R9 280 3GB (Tahiti)
  • Zotac Geforce 980 Ti 6GB (Maxwell GM200)
Performance wise at the time of purchase the 9800Pro, 4850 and 980Ti really stand out for me (although the 980Ti was 2x as much as my usual graphics card budget). Value wise it has to be the Radeon 6950; I think I paid £225 for mine a month after launch and given that the 6970 was pretty much neck and neck with nVIDIAs latest offering at the time if I recall and the 6950 wasn't too far off the 6970 it offered a lot of card for the money.

The quirkiest has to be the Kyro II. I knew what I was getting into opting for it but wanted to support PowerVR in the hope they'd be able to market a high-end Series 4 or 5 product in the future. The Kyro II would compete quite well with the big boys in games with heavy overdraw like Serious Sam even though it was basically a souped up DX6 card without hardware T&L or the early DX8 pixel and vertex shaders on ATI and NVIDIA cards. It was a real shame that PowerVR could not secure a partner to get a high-end Series4/5 chip to market. A 4/8 pipeline TBDR with PS/VS shader support would have been extremely competitive with the IMR GPUs of ATI and NVIDIA and the prevalent game engines at the time. The worst card was definitely the Graphics Blaster 3D - about the only game I can remember it "accelerating" was Jedi Knight and even then it used to crash all the time!
 
My GPU history:

- Some ATI card (2003) (it was that **** i don't even remember it's name)
- Nvidia Geforce 3 Ti 500 (2003)
- Nvidia 8800 GT (2007)
- Nvidia 275 GTX (2010)
- Nvidia 970 GTX (2015)

When i buy a card, i want it to last me. I won't be upgrading again until 2020/2021. By this time HDMI 2.1 will be implemented on 4K TV's and you'll have single GPU's that can drive 4K (properly) at a decent price.
 
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BlizzardVisionPPC gfx card for my Amiga1200 was my first gfx card :D
HD5450 for my current system, upgraded to an HD6850 (from here) which was then upgraded to an XFX GTR RX480 XXX (also from here) before AMD cards went silly priced.
 
oohhhh,

- 8400GS (proper turd)
- 8600GT 512MB
- 9800GSO 768MB
- 5770 1GB
- 6850 1GB in crossfire
- 7970 - later had a 7950 that I used along side this.
- 1080

I'd say my 7970 was my favorite card, got it in 2012 at launch and put it under water. Clocked stupidly well and just ate through games for a long time!
 
Crazy to see people with 10+ GPU history :D

Mine is:

Radeon HD6570 1GB
Gigabyte HD7850 2GB
ASUS HD7970 DCUII TOP
Gigabyte GTX970 Gaming G1 (3.5GB :p)
Palit GTX980 Super Jetstream
Zotac GTX980ti reference

Looking to jump to a 1180 once available. Should have a much better monitor by then.
 
Im an old Amiga owner but I had quit for pc by '93. So was the BlizzardVisionPPC a big deal for games or video processing, slotted into the HDD bay on the left ?

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AMD cards went silly priced.
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Have you considered the idea of selling for said silly price then trying for Vega. Miners will prefer the lower watt 480 I think
 
In 2001, my first tower was just for the internet which had a Riva TNT2, it was the FX 5200 onwards that i was starting to play games :) It all started in 2007 when the FX 5200 wasnt cutting it in Second Life, then an upgrade to the 7600S wasnt doing a good job either. A friend recommended an AMD 3850 and from that point i started seeing good framerates. Although the 4850's were a good card i had to RMA the first one here with OcUK, the replacement wasnt much better, had to underclock the factory OC to stop crashes, freezing and black screens. I sent that to a friend in Alabama and decided to stick with Sapphire cards from that point on, Sapphire have been solid cards for me and thats why i stick with em :)

Riva TNT2
Nvidia FX 5200
Nvidia 7600S
AMD Sapphire 3850
AMD XFX 4850
AMD Sapphire 1900XT (bought off ebay while RMA'ing the first 4850)
AMD XFX 4890
AMD Saphhire 6870
AMD Sapphire 7950
AMD Sapphire RX 480
 
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