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Your GPU history?

X1650 Pro 512 mo
8800 gt 256 mo
HD 4870
Gtx 460
HD 7950
r9 290
980 TI
Rtx 2080
Rtx 3080
RTX 4090
 
My history is not that long, at least my history building my own PCs, but here I go:

XFX HD 4350 512MB DDR2 (2009-13)
Sapphire HD 7770 GHz Edition 1GB (2013-16)
Sapphire RX 460 OC 4GB (2016-19)
Zotac GTX 1070 Mini 8GB (2019-21)
Zotac RTX 3070 Twin Edge OC 8GB (2021-23)
Sapphire PULSE RX 7900 XTX 24GB (2023-current)
 
cirrus Logic 1mb
s3 virge
s3 virge + voodoo 1 4mb
voodoo 2 12mb
voodoo 3 16mb
geforce ddr 32mb
geforce mx 400 64mb i think
geforce 3 ti 128mb
ATI 9700 pro forgot
geforce gtx 260 320mb
geforce 750ti forgot
geforce 770 forgot
geforce 970 4gb
geforce 1070 8gb
geforce 3060ti 8gb
geforce 4070 12gb
geforce 960 2gb ( given to me for free) so is now a spare
 
This is where you show how old you are.... I will point out some of these upgrades were freebies / swaps

2D:
Western Digital WD90C31 (technically ISA, integrated with motherboard)
Trident 8900D ISA
S3 Vision 864 VLB
S3 Vision 968 PCI
Videologic Grafixstar 600 (Tseng ET6000) PCI.... eventually paired with a...
PowerVR PCX2 PCI (3D has entered the chat)
S3 Savage4 AGP (which I actually had very few issues with)
Nvidia TNT2 Pro AGP
Geforce DDR AGP
Radeon 9000 AGP
Radeon 9700 Pro AGP
Geforce 7600GT x2 (SLI - gave it a go... really not worth it... lesson learned)
Geforce 9600GT PCIe
Radeon 5770
Geforce GTX 570 **About when this thread was first created **
Geforce GTX 660 (not much of a performance upgrade, but boy was it cooler and quieter)
GTX Titan X
GTX 1080Ti

Gotta admit.... getting that itch... Radeon 7900GRE looks tempting although RT performance (which ultimately I'm not too bothered about) would be a problem later on....

On a side note: things I got to test and play about with when building things that were most memorable (things like Cirrus Logic and ATI Rage Mach2/64/Rage2/3D Pro really not that special):

Original IBM AT EGA 8-bit ISA card.. full length as well, Trident 8900C (first Trident card), S3 928 (first S3), S3 Trio64 PCI (might have actually been the first PCI graphics card I ever handled - it was so tiny), SiS 6326 (one and only SiS - wasn't bad in terms of compatibility but s l o w), S3 Savage (interesting, worked well when it worked - S3 MeTaL in Unreal was great), S3 Savage 2000 (the bugs...), S3 DeltaChrome (cheap, slow, but at least not buggy), 3Dfx Voodoo Banshee (not that good so got replaced with the following...), ATI Rage 128, ATI Rage Fury Maxx, Geforce 5200 (eeewww), Quadro FX5800 (basically a GTX280 with 4GB ECC RAM... A beast... Still have that on a shelf somewhere)
 
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The family PC had a Voodoo 2 in it thanks to my older brother, but that wasn't really mine.
Some were in other rigs, most were sold off unless backups and/or bricked:

- 6800 GT
- X1950 Pro
- HD 3870 (2x)
- HD 4670 (still works!)
- HD 4870
- HD 4890
- HD 5770 (RIP)
- HD 5850 (flashed to unlocked 5870 BIOS)
- HD 7950
- GTX 780 (RIP)
- GTX 1060 6G
- GTX 1070 Ti
- RTX 3060 Ti
- GTX 1660 Super (backup)
- RTX 4070 (current)
 
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Looked back a few pages, not sure I posted on this topic back in the day. Here's what I remember.

AGP:
FX 5200
FX 5500
GeForce 6800
GeForce 7800

PCIE:
FX 5200
FX 5500
7600 GT x2 (SLI)
8800 GTS 640MB x2 (SLI)
8800 GTS 512MB x2 (SLI)
GTX 280 x2 (SLI)
GTX 280 + GTX 285 (flashed with a GTX 280 BIOS because the card wouldn't run without crashing with its 285 BIOS) in SLI
GTX 570
Picked up a second 570 for SLI about a year later.
GTX 980Ti x2 (SLI) for a few months, then moved to just running a single 980Ti for 6 years.
RTX 3060
RTX 3080
RTX 3080Ti

I might have forgotten a card or two during the AGP days.
 
Some of you guys that think you missed this thread didn't. You just forgot. It was started almost 12 years ago so no wonder.
 
Oh man what a blast from the past... I love these threads.

I started with a voodoo banshee (amazing)...
then long break where i tried (and failed) to game on laptops because travel/living on suitcase
then 9550 pencil modded
then 7800GT (first "real" gaming card where I could play most things)
then 8800GT (favorite card of all time)
then 4870/ gtx 260 (sent the radeon back because of frame pacing issues)
gtx 260 SLI
gtx 460
gtx 780 FE (second favorite and first itx build)
gtx 1080
gtx 1080ti
rtx 2080ti
rtx 3080 (needed hdmi 2.1)
rtx 4090 (third favorite)

added top 3 favorites.
 
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Diamond Viper V770 (Riva TNT2)
GeForce MX 440 SE
Radeon 9600XT
GeForce 6600GT PCIe
GeForce GT210 512MB
GeForce GTX 980
Radeon 6600XT
Radeon 7800XT
 
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Diamond Viper V770 (Riva TNT2)
GeForce MX 440 SE
Radeon 9600XT
GeForce 6600GT PCIe
GeForce GT210 512MB
GeForce GTX 980
Radeon 6600XT
Radeon 7800XT
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MX440 SE - was it as bad as evryone said it was?
 
Going to try and add onto post #70, since that was 2013, but not sure how I'll do.

#70

GTX 980
GTX 980 Ti
GTX 1080 Ti
RTX 2080 Ti
RTX 4070 Ti Super
 
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My graphic cards from 1998-2024. Still got the "bold" ones. Red means they blew up!

ATI Mach64 - PCI (Given away)
Diamond Monster 3Dfx Voodoo 1 - PCI (Given away)
Diamond Monster Fusion 3Dfx Banshee - AGP (Given away)
3Dfx Voodoo 3 - AGP (This was a blast, but I abused the hell out of it)
3Dfx Voodoo 4 4500 - AGP (Given away)
3Dfx Voodoo 5 5500 - AGP (Was stolen twice)
ATI Radeon 9600 Pro - AGP (Should have got the XT version)
Nvidia GeForce 3 Ti (Titanium) 500 - AGP (Hated this card)
ATI Radeon X850 - AGP (Sold)
ATI Radeon X1950 Pro - AGP (Given to a friend)
ATI Radeon 3650 - AGP (Still have this 2024)
ATI Radeon 3850 - PCI-E (Given away)
ATI Radeon 4850 Crossfire - PCI-E (Sold)
ATI Radeon 4890 - PCI-E (Given to a friend back in 2010)
ATI Radeon 5970 (Liquid Cooled) Quad-Crossfire - PCI-E (Still have it/ Not in use/ The most irritating card setup)
AMD Radeon 7970 Gigahertz (Liquid Cooled) Crossfire - PCI-E (Still have it/ Not in use)
AMD Radeon R9 Fury Nitro Crossfire - PCI-E (Both Given to friends)
AMD Radeon R9 Fury X Crossfire - PCI-E (Still have it/ Not in use but still works with the right game)
Sapphire Nitro+ Vega56 - PCI-E (Sold)
Sapphire Nitro+ Vega64 - PCI-E (In my Son's Computer)
EVGA GeForce 660 OC - PCI-E (Was a test card that did not last long)
EVGA GeForce 2080 Super - PCI-E (My first RT card that still works today)
Gigabyte RTX 3060 12GB - PCI-E (Sold)
MSI RX 470 4GB - PCI-E (In Daughter's Computer)
Gigabyte RX 570 4GB - PCI-E (In Wife's Computer)
AMD Radeon PRO W5700 - PCI-E (In a Linux Testbed)
Power Color 6700XT - PCI-E (In a backup computer)
Power Color 7900GRE - PCI-E (In the Daily / The best card I have now)
 
I'll be showing my age, or rather lack thereof here lol
GTX 960 2GB (mid 2018-late 2020, first GPU I bought, $86 from ebay, still have it in a secondary PC today for accelerating video encoding)
GTX 1060 6GB (late 2020-mid 2021, $155 from ebay, switched because I sold it on ebay)
GTX 750 Ti 2GB (briefly used in mid 2021 after selling the 1060, $42 from ebay when I bought it in 2019)
GTX 970 4GB (mid 2021-mid 2022, taken from someone's PC I bought when they got a new one, sold it after buying the next card in the list)
GTX 1070 8GB (mid 2022-late 2023, $242 from ebay, gave to a friend after buying the next card in the list)
RX 5700 XT 8GB (late 2023-current, $100 from facebook marketplace)

and that's the extent of my GPU history in my daily driver desktop xD it would be much less if I wasn't prone to impulse purchases.
 
ATI Radeon 4850 512MB (OEM)
AMD Radeon R7 240 2GB (OEM)
NVIDIA GTX 1060 6GB (ZOTAC AMP! Edition)
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti 11GB (EVGA FTW3)
NVIDIA RTX 3080 Ti 12GB (Founders Edition)
 
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RTX 3050 Ti
AMD Radeon RX 6750 XT
 
Theres so many, order may be messed up too
  • ATI rage card that was on my old IBM p2 desktop
  • Handful of matrox cards
  • Handful of voodo cards
  • Geforce 2 MX 200
  • Radeon 9000
  • Radeon 9700 AIW
  • Radeon 9800
  • X700
  • X800XT Toxic
  • X1900GT
  • 6600GT
  • 6800U
  • 8800GTS 320
  • 8800GT
  • Radeon 3850
  • Radeon 4870
  • Radeon 6870
  • Radeon 7950
  • Radeon 7970
  • Radeon 290
  • Radeon 290X Vapor X & Lighting
  • R9 Fury
  • GTX 780
  • Vega 64
  • Geforce 970
  • Geforce 1070
  • Geforce 1080
  • Radeon 7
  • Geforce 2070
  • Geforce 2080S
  • Radeon 6800XT
  • Geforce 3070
  • Geforce 3080
  • Geforce 3080 12GB
  • 7900XTX from XFX and Nitro
  • 4080S
Majority of Radeon cards have all been Sapphire which HIS, XFX or MSI. Majority of Geforce cards have been EVGA with BFG, XFX, MSI, and Gigabyte on ocassion.
 
Let me dust off the cob webs and see if I can remember haha!
  1. Nvidia Riva TNT2
  2. ATI 9600XT
  3. Geforce 6600GT (AGP)
  4. Geforce 6800GT (AGP)
  5. Geforce 7900GT -> Later 7900GT SLI
  6. Geforce 8800GTS 320MB -> Later 8800GTS SLI
  7. Geforce GTX 260 SLI
  8. Radeon HD 5870 -> Later HD 5870 Crossfire
  9. Geforce GTX 560Ti SLI
  10. Geforce GTX 680 SLI
  11. Geforce GTX 780 SLI
  12. Geforce GTX 980 Ti
  13. Geforce GTX 1080
  14. Geforce RTX 2080 Super
  15. Radeon RX 7900 XTX
 
Generic Cirrus Logic PCI
Diamond Stealth 3D 2000
Matrox G400
Gainward GeForce 3 Ti200
ATI 9500 Pro
ATI AIW 9800 Pro
ATI AIW X800XT
MSI GTX 560Ti SLI
MSI GTX 670 Power Edition SLI
MSI GTX 980 SLI
MSI GTX 980Ti SLI
EVGA RTX 3080Ti FTW3 (replaced stock cooler with EVGA AIO kit)
MSI RTX 4090 Suprim X Liquid
 
Some Voodoo 16mb PCI card
8500
9000 pro
9800 se
X1950XT AGP
HD 3870
HD 5850
HD 7870
HD 7970
HD R9 Fury
Radeon VII
7900XTX

The3870 :p
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ShrimpBrime said:
Nah. Just can relate with many generations lol.

One of my favorite cards I did game and use very daily was a Sapphire 4850x2. Ageia Physx and UTIII physx maps. :)
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X1950 pro handled ut3
 
  • Geforce 4 MX 440
  • Geforce 5200
  • Geforce 6300
  • 7900GX2
  • 8800 GTS 320mb
  • 9800 GT
  • HD 4850
  • HD 7850
  • R9 290
  • Vega 56
  • RX 5700
Usually I wait until the upgrade performance matches the price (e.g. 100% of the card cost for 100% more performance). I also really wish i kept my 7900GX2 as it has become something of a collector's item.
 
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Creative Blaster Savage 4
BFG Geforce 4 MX 440
PNY Verto FX 5200
EVGA Geforce 8600 GTS
EVGA GTX 260
EVGA GTX 470
PNY GTX 780
EVGA RTX 2080 XC Gaming
Zotac RTX 4070 TI Super Trinity Black
 
I had some really old macs in 90s and I had no idea what their GPUS were, if they even had any.

But I had imac g3 333mhz around 2000 which google says had a "ATI Rage Pro Turbo 6MB"

My mac mini g4 after that I'm pretty sure just had integrated graphics, but it was still more capable than the imac for gaming. Still it pissed me off so much that apple ditched ppc the moment after I spent money it took me a year to save up for. Then they released a new OS too (this was back before they were free, I was just a kid with no money). In a year I couldn't even run new software anymore. I said f you apple went to the dark side.

My first PC video card was AMD. I can't quite remember what it was though. But I remember it was low profile, I wanted to put it in a pc I bought at walmart but it was super small. I googled what the best low profile gpu you could get was and got it. It was something like the Radeon HD? 5550? I can't quite remember. It wasn't bad, I remember playing starcraft II on it and some hitman game. I just googled it and I only see one with an HD? But I swear I don't remember any HD there, but I could be mistaken. I didn't keep it for long regardless......

Okay then my first real computer and real video card that I remember clearly was a:

Zotac gtx 560
Gigabyte gtx 760
Asus Turbo gtx 1070 blower style ( had for like 7 years)
then I went rapid fire through a bunch of cards which all had either problems or disappointing performance, this was all within like a year at most:
Gigabyte? rtx 3060 12GB (Too slow)
Zotac twin edge 3070 (Just glitchy and bugged to heck, would randomly just stop outputting video, stuttering, nonstop problems)
Gigabyte 3070 Vision OC (Overheated, not enough vram)
Gigabyte Windforce 4070 (Only had it for a week - disappointing performance)
Finally said f-it and just bought what I have now, even though I couldn't afford it:
Asus Tuf 4090 ( non oc)
 
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iameatingjam said:
I had some really old macs in 90s and I had no idea what their GPUS were, if they even had any.
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Various Chips & Technologies chipsets for menial 2D acceleration. Standard onboard Apple video until the G3 era.

iameatingjam said:
But I had imac g3 333mhz around 2000 which google says had a "ATI Rage Pro Turbo 6MB"
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64-bit ATi Rage Pro. Lol at the 'turbo', not sure it even had an OC.

iameatingjam said:
My mac mini g4 after that I'm pretty sure just had integrated graphics, but it was still more capable than the imac for gaming. Still it pissed me off so much that apple ditched ppc the moment after I spent money it took me a year to save up for. Then they released a new OS too (this was back before they were free, I was just a kid with no money). In a year I couldn't even run new software anymore. I said f you apple went to the dark side.
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PPC CPUs never had integrated graphics, that would have required even more effort than their already antiquated designs. The G4 Minis had AGP ATi Radeon 9200 which was OK except for the paltry 32MB. At least my PCI Radeon 9200 had 128MB, which was decent for the time.
 
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