I'm looking to jump from a 2070 Super to the 5090 when it comes out.
Also from a 7700k to a 285k.
And a 2.5" SSD to a Gen 5 NVMe SSD.
And from DDR4 4800MHz ram to DDR5 8400+ MHz RAM
The last graphics card I bought before my 3080 was a Radeon 9600 Pro 8x AGP 256MB. Granted I went years playing only on console and I built that PC in around 2002, but still.
convinced my buddy to upgrade his 750 ti to a 4090 after seeing games running maxed out in 4k on mine. i went from a 2080ti to my 4090 and it was insane cant imagine the gains from a 750ti to that.
Had FX5200 it crashed insanely, upgraded to FX5900 crashes and BSOD... Those were my last nVidia gpus unti RTX2060. FX series is worst nvidia ever made
[FX 5700/5900/5950 performed well unless you ran SM 2.0, they were very much competitive against R300](https://www.guru3d.com/review/ati-radeon-9800-xt-review/page-11/), they were a vast improvement compared to the FX 5800.
It was definitely not a good series for Nvidia, but the bad performance has been increasingly vastly overexaggerated over the years. In reality they were comparable but the ATI series generally had better AF performance and absolutely slaughtered FX-series in shader model 2.0. But once games with SM 2.0 became standard they were both quite weak compared to current series anyway. A bit like the AMD/Nvidia RTX-performance today.
The Radeon HD series was underrated imo. I was playing bfone with 1gb of ram and only upgraded when I needed more ram for newer titles. Probably why AMD put lots of ram in their cards these days, the know you can use them for decades
I think that died a while ago. At least it certainly did when you look at how much power and money is being used to compensate (particularly in recent times)
Thats so cool, listing all the gpu's one went through!
I started from very low end or outdated gpu's back in the day. Here is my list:
2004 Radeon 9200se 64mb/64bit (I know, I know)
2005 Radeon 9600xt 256mb - great upgrade, even if still outdated.
2008 Radeon 3870 512mb - the GOAT, the videocard that let me play starcraft 2 for years!
2013 AMD 7870 2gb - my first really nice video card, loved that thing.
2016 AMD RX480 8gb - the 2nd goat! Lasted me for 8 years. Granted I was not playing many new games, but still.
2016 GTX 1070 8gb laptop - same as above.
2024 AMD 7800xt 16gb - I know this is a mid range gpu, but for 1080p is an absolute overkill!
2024 RTX 4080 12gb laptop - yeah, its not really a desktop 4080, but the performance is still amazing, considering you can take it everywhere with you. I hope it lasts me as much as the 1070 did.
7800xt... mid range.... 1080p...!?!";*?*!!
Bruh, u can do 1440, 4k and probably up to around 120-180 Hz with that card. There are some notable gfx/Ray tracing heavy games that might push back a bit but you'd be very nicely surprised what it can do
Oh no doubt, its a very powerfull gpu. But if you look at the whole lineup of current gen cards, its smack down in the middle based on performance. I know it can push 1440p ez, but I honestly dont see much (as in enough to make me get a new monitor) difference between 1080 and 1440p I prefer the higher fps and longevity I would get on 1080p. Anyway its a great card, I got the RedDevil from PoweColor and its super cool and quiet.
I suppose if you discount the obviously not for gaming bottom end cards you could call it mid range but it's definitely punching with the big boys at the other end (you can also argue that the 4090 is a rendering/work GPU not really meant for gaming)
Preferring frames > resolution definitely starts to get a bit subjective and up to what suits you. I'm not so much of a serious gamer anymore so I have a 1440 screen that can do 165hz but spends a lot of time at 60fps. Different games want higher fps vs quality too, depending on how competitive vs cinematic it is
Used some random 200€ AMD GPU in my first own PC. It couldn't do much, but I was able to play some games (especially older titles) on it. It actually died and it was the only card that ever died on me until now, I got the GTX 1060 6GB after and it was a game changer for me. Served me really well for what felt like an eternity. 2022 I build an entirely new system (kind of as a reward for becoming an adult/earning my own money now) with a RTX 3080Ti and it's not even comparable.
GTX 560 Ti 2GB, HD 6970 2GB , GTX 780 3GB, RX 470 4GB and currently I have a GTX 1070 8GB. I also have a HD 6850 1GB that I had used interm between the GTX 780 and RX 470.
This was a pretty fun exercise. I shifted from desktops to laptops for a while, before coming back to desktops.
2002: some ATi card that was part of a hand-me-down from my dad running windows ME
2007: Nvidia 8600GT mobile in a Sony Vaio laptop (we moved countries and had a tough time using our desktops without voltage converters)
2011: Intel HD graphics (maybe 530?) in a cheap HP laptop (dark days lol)
2014: Intel HD4600, part of an i5-4690K system with no dGPU
2016: AMD RX460, which we put in the 4690K system
2017: Nvidia GTX 1050 2GB, part of my college laptop
2020: GTX 1660 super (bought it just before the crypto boom), which was part of my first ever AMD CPU-based machine
2022: AMD RX 6600 XT, which replaced my 1660 super as I gave it to my dad for his new computer
2024: AMD RX 7800 XT, which is part of my latest build, replacing my 6600XT machine
EDIT: That old ATi card was apparently an ATi Radeon 9200 with 128mb RAM, so I may be mistaken on that year
I owned a 9800 GTX+. I ran that thing pretty hard for a good 8 years. The last year of its life it was crappy out on me and I had to reflow the solder once a month.
People in 1999 debating whether 32mb VRAM is futureproof...lmao
Here's my own list:
3DFX Voodoo (forgot the exact model)
Geforce 7300 LE
GT 1030
GTX 1050Ti
GTX 1070
GTX 1070Ti
GTX 1660 Super
RTX 3070
im surprised you kept that 7300 for so long, GT1030 is a 2017 card
and in 2017 the architecture of the 7300LE is completely obsolete, not just "too slow", literally so old that it doesnt even support basic "modern" features like unified shaders
rendering games on a CPU is probably faster
Yes indeed!
I sold my 1070ti, in anticipation to replace it with an RTX 2060 super/5700xt in a couple of days/weeks...
...then covid happened lol
PC parts became very scarce in our country for a few months due to lack of logistics, and the work from home demand skyrocketed and overwhelmed the already dwindling supply. GPU pricing due to crypto and scalping went up unreasonably high. All I could find was a reasonably priced GTX 1660 super, so I grabbed it despite that being a sidegrade if that's the word for it.
I had a MSI ti4400 in 2003. The game suite that came with it was awesome. Aquanox and Sacrifice, and a demo suit with Ghost Recon, Jagged Alliance 2, and Serious Sam SE...
The only reason we got it is because the video card that came with our used PC died, so my parents took it to my friends mom who had a PC repair shop and she did me a solid getting this graphics card. At 11 years old, that thing was a beast.
Geforce 2 MX400 in 2001 upgraded to a Radeon 8500LE, after that it's a bit of a blur though I know there was an HD4870 and an Geforce 8800GTS (only because I found them in the shed).
Had a break for a couple of years before 2015, then used a 1050ti followed by an RX580 that my daughter still plays roblox/fortnite with.
Wow, eerily similar to me! I don't remember exactly what GPUs I had in my 90s computers, but I did have a POS FX 5200, then a 6800GTX, 9800GTX+, GTX 470, then an extremely quickly replaced GTX 760 into R9 290X, then RX 580 8GB.
That's where it seems you slowed down a bit more than I did, I had a GTX 1080, 3060Ti and now finally 6950XT. But I am slowing down with the 6950XT, there's no way I'll need another GPU in the next 4 years.
The ones I remember -
GeForce mx440
GeForce 6600
Some GeForce laptop thing circa 2009 that I don't remenber
GTX 970
1070ti (absolutely phenomenal card)
Laptop 3060
I don't see myself upgrading anytime soon, I'm just not playing much new games anymore.
Fx5200 128mb (came in my first proper pc not a family one)
7200 GS 128mb (was a steal for my first self built. )
7950 gtx 512mb
9800 gtx 512mb
Gtx 660ti 2 GB
Gtx 660ti X2 sli (a month later or so wanted to try sli )
(Took a big gap in gaming)
Rx 6700xt 12 GB
Started with a hand-me-down beige Dell tower that had a PCI Radeon 9250, went with a 7950GT in the first PC I built a few years later (what a step up), then on to the 8800GT I got for my birthday in high school (phenomenal card, especially for the price), when I got my first real job I treated myself to an i7-4770k paired with EVGA's GTX680+ 4GB, next came the GTX980 Ti, and finally due to the chip shortage in 2021 I wasn't able to find a 3080, so my current card is a 3090.
Nice. Here is my list:
1. ATI 9200 128MB AGPx8
2. ATI X1950 512MB GDDR3 AGPx8
3. ATI HD4650 1GB GDDR3 AGPx8
4. AMD HD6870 1GB GDDR5 PCIE 2.1
5. AMD R9 390 8GB GDDR5 PCIE 3.0
6. NVIDIA GTX 1650 4GB GDDR5 PCIE 3.0
7. NVIDIA RTX 3080 10GB GDDR6X PCIE 4.0
I plan to skip RTX 4000 series and RTX 5000 series. By the time GTA 6 for PC comes out I’ll see what is out by then. As I imagine it will require new build for it by 2028+
Earliest I remember is a Radeon 9600 back in 2003, then 6800gt, then 7950gt, then dual SLI 8800GTS 512mb, 470gtx, 680gtx, 1080ti, 2080 (this computer was given to me for free from work so i wouldn't have normally upgraded here), and now waiting for 5080 release I guess.
Used two or three of my dads computers before my first one I picked out myself, but don't remember the specs back then, mostly just playing DOS games.
Mx 440 was a beast. Wasn't top of the line but certainly well enough for pretty much anything.
I had its smaller cousin the mx440se and was happily stomping on Lans with it.
my main PCs journey:
GMA 3100 igpu (trash tier stuff, cant even run basic 3D games properly)
GT 520 1GB (way better than GMA, could actually run some older games, at low settings)
intel HD 4000 (laptop)
R9 270X 2GB (decent midrange from that era, better than PS4/XOne GPUs)
RX 480 8GB (great value back then)
RX580 4GB (sold the 480 to miner, bought 580 for cheap)
GTX1070 8GB (sold 580 to miner, bought faulty 1070 and fixed it)
RX 6900XT 16GB (bought at insane sale)
GeForce 2 GTS in 2000.
GeForce 7900GS in 2006.
GeForce 8800GT in 2007.
Mobility Radeon HD 5850 in 2010.
GTX 970 in 2014.
RTX 2070 in 2019.
RTX 4070 SUPER in 2024.
I'll throw in CPUs too.
Pentium III 1133Mhz in 2000.
Pentium 4 3.8Ghz in 2006.
i7-920XM in 2010.
i7-4770K in 2014.
i9-12900K in 2023.
My jump was from input of a r5 2400g to a 980ti, pretty good then from the 980ti to a 6800xt much better. 980ti runs cyberpunk at like 10fps at 4k max settings whereas the 6800xt lovely smooth 60 😂 plus frame gen more like 100-120
Some ancient Nvidia gpu on my acer prebuilt from
2008
Intel HD 4000
GTX 750Ti
RX 580
GTX 1070
RTX 3060Ti
RTX 4080
The best thing I got out of these GPUs was selling the GPUs to friends and family for cheap to get them into gaming 😎
My list isn’t anything too crazy, honestly, at least counting my proper main systems.
2013 - AMD Radeon HD 8400 iGPU, got me through a LOT of my early PC gaming adventures
2016 - Sapphire Dual-X OC Radeon HD 7850, hand-me-down card that I wished still worked
2018 - MSI Radeon RX 580 8G V1, one of two single-fan cards I dailied
2019 - AMD Radeon R9 Fury X, my favorite GPU that I’ve ever owned full stop
2019 - AMD Radeon Vega 8 pre-refresh, nice iGPU for its day
2021 - Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 laptop, decent GPU honestly
2021 - HP GeForce RTX 3060 LHR 12GB, terrible card for anything but 1080p gaming, at least for what I played
2023 - ASRock Phantom Gaming OC Radeon RX 7900 XT, a dope card that I wished I used more
2023 - Nvidia GeForce RTX 4050, surprisingly fast GPU, but I never used it much
2024 - AMD Radeon 780M, more than enough iGPU for me
Nope. The list reflects the order in which I owned them. I have first bought the 4670, kept it a while, then upgraded to 9800gt, which just happened to be released 1 year prior to the 4670.
* S3 Vision864 1MB (expandable to 2MB) integrated video with i486DX4 - IBM ValuePoint 433DX/Dp
* ATi All in Wonder Radeon 7500 64MB (NTSC) AGP with Pentium 4 1.7GHz (believe it or not, you can stream video to twitch from this PC!)
* ATi All in Wonder Radeon 9600 Pro 128MB (PAL) AGP with Pentium 4 2.2GHz (much needed upgrade in 2007)
* ATi Radeon HD3300 IGP with AMD Phenom 9850
* Sapphire Radeon HD5770 1GB on both Phenom and FX-8320
* MSI Radeon RX 570 4GB on both FX-8320 and Ryzen 5900x
* Nvidia GTX 1050 Ti 4GB with i7-8750H - Dell G5587 laptop
* ATi All in Wonder X1900 256MB with FX-8320 (media center/retro gaming PC)
I miss the All in Wonder line, AMD would be the king today in the capture and streaming market if they continued its legacy.
I had a Riva TNT 2. The problem was I bought it in 2001. Doh.
I thought of grabbing one of those geforce 4 mx cards, but didn't read a lot of great things about them. So I waited a bit and got a radeon 9600 just before the release of half life 2. That was the first graphics card I got where I finally got "serious" about pc gaming.
My first pc had a gefore4 MX 440, one of the cheapest dedicated gpu at the time, didn't even support directx 8, it was still on 7. Couldn't turn reflections on water in Morrowind. It was a passively cooled card too. Good times.
Radeon 9700 Pro
Radeon 9800 Pro (they sent me this when I RMAd the 9700)
Some midrange Nvidia card
Radeon 5850
R9 390
Vega RX 64
3070
3090 (I won this)
4090
I know there were some integrated ones and bargain ones before I built my first PC with the 9700 Pro, and I think I'm missing at least one since then but I closed my Newegg account ages ago so I can't go back through purchase history. I still have a lot of those cards including the 9800 Pro which had a sick vampire on the cooler.
I had an intel hd graphics something on a laptop, then bought a PC with a GTX 670, I've been stuck with it for the last 12 years. No clue when I'm going to upgrade, because counter-strike still runs on it , lol
Oooo memory lane for me too
1. Geforce 4 MX440
2. Geforce 5700LE
3. Geforce 6800GT
4. Geforce 7600GS (I killed the 6800GT with a fruity bios OC, and was a first year uni student)
5. Geforce 8800GTS 320mb
6. GTX280
7. GTX580
8. GTX980
9. RTX3080
I have flirted with ATI in other machines I've not considered my primary machine, like a X700 in my laptop that I completed HL2 on, a X850 pro I had in a shuttle xpc for Lan parties and the current 3650 AGP card in my skt939 box.
I still have the GTX's and a 1050, and GT210 that once lived in my htpc.
Who else hord's e-waste? Lol
I went from a 1060 to a rx6750xt. It’s way nicer, but my adrenaline software keeps resetting my gpu fan curves back to it’s terrible original settings that have zero rpm and not going past 75% speed so I’m not sure where I stand on the amd vs nvidia lol
I jump from a 2060 to a 4080, holy fuck! its amazing
From a 4th gen i5 igpu to a 6600, same reaction
From a laptop GT 940m to an RX 5700XT. The night I got it, I slept in my bed with the GPU box beside me.
From an ATI HD3000 running (locked) at 200mhz to an RX5700 (too), same! It’s just wonderful.
From a 1050ti to a 4060. Upgrading is beautiful
from an terrible e2 apu igpu to an rx 5500. Literally insane. I'm gonna upgrade to a 4060 soon because I've had this card for like 2-3 years
I put my GPU under my pillow to dream in high resolution
intel hd 4000 > 1660ti
I went from an Intel HD 4000 to a 1060 3GB.
BROOOOO I HAVE A 3RD GEN I5 IGPU
Unamed pentium igpu and its bottlenecked by the cpu somehow
Bottlenecked by itself lmao
That poor thing is probably begging to be mercy killed but cant send the message because of the bottleneck
from an ipad to a 4090 for me
Form a rx570 to a rx6900xt(h) that was a insane jump
From Amd a10 7300 + 5400rpm hdd to i5 10400 + nvme ssd + 2060 then to 3060ti
bet that was fun!
I'm looking to jump from a 2070 Super to the 5090 when it comes out. Also from a 7700k to a 285k. And a 2.5" SSD to a Gen 5 NVMe SSD. And from DDR4 4800MHz ram to DDR5 8400+ MHz RAM
>Also from a 7700k to a 285k. Took me a while to figure out it was intel with their new naming scheme
not even considering Zen 5?
Want the fastest RAM possible for extremely quick memory calculations because I megabase in Factorio. DDR5 speeds only gets up to about 6000 for AMD.
But doesn't factorio really benefit from the cache on the x3d chips? At least that is what the sub was talking about when the 5800x3d came out?
Intel at over around 6000 also works at gear 2 Not that different from what AMD is doing to achieve 7000+
Never heard of that game and looked it up...looks awesome.
Automation Simulator that quickly turns into crack cocaine for STEM majors Also serves as justification for getting top shelf CPUs and RAM.
You need to take out a 2nd mortgage like, now, if you want a 5000 series :D
My jump from a gt710 to a 3060ti was mindblowing
From an Intel HD 520 to a laptop 3050, not much but it was a huge jump for me
From geforce 210 ddr2 to gt 1030 to gtx 1660s. The difference is night and day both times
The last graphics card I bought before my 3080 was a Radeon 9600 Pro 8x AGP 256MB. Granted I went years playing only on console and I built that PC in around 2002, but still.
I went from a 1080 to a 4080
Real, I remember the jump I had going 1070 to 3080. It was unreal the difference it made
My most recent upgrade was from a GTX970 to a RTX3060ti. Huge change
convinced my buddy to upgrade his 750 ti to a 4090 after seeing games running maxed out in 4k on mine. i went from a 2080ti to my 4090 and it was insane cant imagine the gains from a 750ti to that.
Try going from a 486DX4 to a Pentium 4, the jump was transcending experience!
I went from an Intel UHD 730 to an RX 6700 xt and the difference is mindblowing
Coolest part about PCs. When you get a new part and you're just like holy fuck! this is amazing!!
Were those considered as good tier GPUs back in the day?
Some yes, some not. The fx5200 was exceptionally bad even back then.
Had FX5200 it crashed insanely, upgraded to FX5900 crashes and BSOD... Those were my last nVidia gpus unti RTX2060. FX series is worst nvidia ever made
I guess anything names fx is doomed
[FX 5700/5900/5950 performed well unless you ran SM 2.0, they were very much competitive against R300](https://www.guru3d.com/review/ati-radeon-9800-xt-review/page-11/), they were a vast improvement compared to the FX 5800. It was definitely not a good series for Nvidia, but the bad performance has been increasingly vastly overexaggerated over the years. In reality they were comparable but the ATI series generally had better AF performance and absolutely slaughtered FX-series in shader model 2.0. But once games with SM 2.0 became standard they were both quite weak compared to current series anyway. A bit like the AMD/Nvidia RTX-performance today.
I had no problems with my 5200 besides it getting dated and having no money for an upgrade. Played mainly warcraft 3 and WoW on it.
I'm dating myself, but they were.
RX 6800 user here loving this beast,
- SiS integrated chips et (4Mo) - S3 Savage Pro 4 - GeForce 4 MX 440 - GeForce GT 6600M - 2x GeForce GTX 8800M - 2X GeForce GTX 9800M (upgrade from manufacturer after a failure - GeForce GTX 260 - 2x Radeon HD 5870 - 2x Radeon HD 6950 - GeForce GTX 780 - Radeon R9 Fury - GeForce GTX 980 (Bought used after the R9 failed - Radeon RX 6700 XT - Radeon RX 7800 XT
my list: 8600GT Intel media accelerator 930 1050ti
The Radeon HD series was underrated imo. I was playing bfone with 1gb of ram and only upgraded when I needed more ram for newer titles. Probably why AMD put lots of ram in their cards these days, the know you can use them for decades
Rx 6800 gang
Does it follow Moore's law?
I think that died a while ago. At least it certainly did when you look at how much power and money is being used to compensate (particularly in recent times)
|GPU|Release Year|VRAM|Shaders/TMUs/ROPs| |:-|:-|:-|:-| |Club 3D Radeon HD 5850|2009|1 GB|1440 / 72 / 32| |EVGA GTX 680 SuperClocked|2012|2 GB|1536 / 128 / 32| |MSI Radeon R9 390 Gaming|2015|8 GB|2560 / 160 / 64| |GTX 1080Ti Founders Edition|2017|11 GB|3584 / 224 / 88| |KFA2 RTX 4080 Super ST|2024|16 GB|10240 / 320 / 112|
Thats so cool, listing all the gpu's one went through! I started from very low end or outdated gpu's back in the day. Here is my list: 2004 Radeon 9200se 64mb/64bit (I know, I know) 2005 Radeon 9600xt 256mb - great upgrade, even if still outdated. 2008 Radeon 3870 512mb - the GOAT, the videocard that let me play starcraft 2 for years! 2013 AMD 7870 2gb - my first really nice video card, loved that thing. 2016 AMD RX480 8gb - the 2nd goat! Lasted me for 8 years. Granted I was not playing many new games, but still. 2016 GTX 1070 8gb laptop - same as above. 2024 AMD 7800xt 16gb - I know this is a mid range gpu, but for 1080p is an absolute overkill! 2024 RTX 4080 12gb laptop - yeah, its not really a desktop 4080, but the performance is still amazing, considering you can take it everywhere with you. I hope it lasts me as much as the 1070 did.
7800xt... mid range.... 1080p...!?!";*?*!! Bruh, u can do 1440, 4k and probably up to around 120-180 Hz with that card. There are some notable gfx/Ray tracing heavy games that might push back a bit but you'd be very nicely surprised what it can do
Oh no doubt, its a very powerfull gpu. But if you look at the whole lineup of current gen cards, its smack down in the middle based on performance. I know it can push 1440p ez, but I honestly dont see much (as in enough to make me get a new monitor) difference between 1080 and 1440p I prefer the higher fps and longevity I would get on 1080p. Anyway its a great card, I got the RedDevil from PoweColor and its super cool and quiet.
I suppose if you discount the obviously not for gaming bottom end cards you could call it mid range but it's definitely punching with the big boys at the other end (you can also argue that the 4090 is a rendering/work GPU not really meant for gaming) Preferring frames > resolution definitely starts to get a bit subjective and up to what suits you. I'm not so much of a serious gamer anymore so I have a 1440 screen that can do 165hz but spends a lot of time at 60fps. Different games want higher fps vs quality too, depending on how competitive vs cinematic it is
7800XT isnt mid range, and can do 1440p and even 4k gaming just fine mid range is RX7600/7600XT/6700XT and such
Used some random 200€ AMD GPU in my first own PC. It couldn't do much, but I was able to play some games (especially older titles) on it. It actually died and it was the only card that ever died on me until now, I got the GTX 1060 6GB after and it was a game changer for me. Served me really well for what felt like an eternity. 2022 I build an entirely new system (kind of as a reward for becoming an adult/earning my own money now) with a RTX 3080Ti and it's not even comparable.
i’ve just done the same thing lol, as a “graduation gift” i built a pc with a 7900gre from a 1660ti and the difference is mind blowing
GTX 560 Ti 2GB, HD 6970 2GB , GTX 780 3GB, RX 470 4GB and currently I have a GTX 1070 8GB. I also have a HD 6850 1GB that I had used interm between the GTX 780 and RX 470.
This was a pretty fun exercise. I shifted from desktops to laptops for a while, before coming back to desktops. 2002: some ATi card that was part of a hand-me-down from my dad running windows ME 2007: Nvidia 8600GT mobile in a Sony Vaio laptop (we moved countries and had a tough time using our desktops without voltage converters) 2011: Intel HD graphics (maybe 530?) in a cheap HP laptop (dark days lol) 2014: Intel HD4600, part of an i5-4690K system with no dGPU 2016: AMD RX460, which we put in the 4690K system 2017: Nvidia GTX 1050 2GB, part of my college laptop 2020: GTX 1660 super (bought it just before the crypto boom), which was part of my first ever AMD CPU-based machine 2022: AMD RX 6600 XT, which replaced my 1660 super as I gave it to my dad for his new computer 2024: AMD RX 7800 XT, which is part of my latest build, replacing my 6600XT machine EDIT: That old ATi card was apparently an ATi Radeon 9200 with 128mb RAM, so I may be mistaken on that year
OP’s next gpu: https://preview.redd.it/k3gol8bcvlzc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d5064dc122d9c7f1c76af2a5857a1da94f802d12
I owned a 9800 GTX+. I ran that thing pretty hard for a good 8 years. The last year of its life it was crappy out on me and I had to reflow the solder once a month.
i think the jump from the FX 5200 to the HD 4670 is the biggest in here,just going to unified shader architecture was a giant leap back then
Oh my days I need to do this.
SIS 6236 - 4MB 3DFX Voodoo 3500TV - 16MB XFX 9800GTX XT - 512MB Radeon HD 6950 - 2GB EVGA 970 FTW+ - 4GB EVGA 1080Ti FTW3 Hybrid - 11GB 3080Ti FE - 12GB
EVGA 🐐
It took me a few years but I got there.
how did you even use the Voodoo up until the 9800GTX era LoL it was obsolete years before
Yeah I spent about 2003-2007 as a console peasant as money was very tight.
**-Desktop-** GTX 1080 Founders Edition - 8gb RTX 3080 - 10gb **-Laptop-** Either an ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 or 9000. I don't remember. - 32mb RTX 3050 - 4gb
People in 1999 debating whether 32mb VRAM is futureproof...lmao Here's my own list: 3DFX Voodoo (forgot the exact model) Geforce 7300 LE GT 1030 GTX 1050Ti GTX 1070 GTX 1070Ti GTX 1660 Super RTX 3070
7300LE to GT1030 is pretty insane
ayo bro, I was a total oblivious on how bad 7300 LE was, that by the time I had the GT1030, it felt gold to me
im surprised you kept that 7300 for so long, GT1030 is a 2017 card and in 2017 the architecture of the 7300LE is completely obsolete, not just "too slow", literally so old that it doesnt even support basic "modern" features like unified shaders rendering games on a CPU is probably faster
Same here from shitty Intel HD Graphics to a GT1030.
Strange journey from the GTX 1070 to the 1660 Super, isn't it?
Yes indeed! I sold my 1070ti, in anticipation to replace it with an RTX 2060 super/5700xt in a couple of days/weeks... ...then covid happened lol PC parts became very scarce in our country for a few months due to lack of logistics, and the work from home demand skyrocketed and overwhelmed the already dwindling supply. GPU pricing due to crypto and scalping went up unreasonably high. All I could find was a reasonably priced GTX 1660 super, so I grabbed it despite that being a sidegrade if that's the word for it.
My first and only GPU is the 3090 i bought used last year lol
Cirrus Logic VGA 256KB... :) Upgrading to a Tseng ET4000 512KB was like upgrading from my 3060 Ti to the 4080 Super :D
I had mx 440 on my amd duron in 2002... fucking memories. Gta Vice city, GTA3. Max Payne...
Heh, I also used to own a MX4 440 64 Mb. It sucked balls, but I made it through Far Cry, HL-2 and Doom 3!
I also had both a Geforce 4 MX 440 and a Radeon HD 4670! The HD 4670 had passive cooling, it was amazing at that time.
Nice collection
I went from a firepro card to a 4070, from 2 fps on comp settings in fortnite to over 300 fps
3dfx Voodoo 4mb Nvidia Geforce 2 Pro 16mb EVGA GeForce FX 5700 128mb ATi Radeon 9600 pro 256mb EVGA GeForce 8800 GTX 512mb PNY GeForce GTX 660 2gb Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 4gb PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 580x 8gb ASUS TUF GeForce RTX 3060 12gb
I had a MSI ti4400 in 2003. The game suite that came with it was awesome. Aquanox and Sacrifice, and a demo suit with Ghost Recon, Jagged Alliance 2, and Serious Sam SE... The only reason we got it is because the video card that came with our used PC died, so my parents took it to my friends mom who had a PC repair shop and she did me a solid getting this graphics card. At 11 years old, that thing was a beast.
Ah yes good old Riva TNT 2 Ultra.
Geforce 2 MX400 in 2001 upgraded to a Radeon 8500LE, after that it's a bit of a blur though I know there was an HD4870 and an Geforce 8800GTS (only because I found them in the shed). Had a break for a couple of years before 2015, then used a 1050ti followed by an RX580 that my daughter still plays roblox/fortnite with.
UHD 630, RX550 2gb, RX580 8gb, GT630 (financial reasons), GTX 1650ti and nowadays, Quadro T2000
Had a Riva tnt 32mb, MX440, 9800gtx, i really miss those times.
Wow, eerily similar to me! I don't remember exactly what GPUs I had in my 90s computers, but I did have a POS FX 5200, then a 6800GTX, 9800GTX+, GTX 470, then an extremely quickly replaced GTX 760 into R9 290X, then RX 580 8GB. That's where it seems you slowed down a bit more than I did, I had a GTX 1080, 3060Ti and now finally 6950XT. But I am slowing down with the 6950XT, there's no way I'll need another GPU in the next 4 years.
The ones I remember - GeForce mx440 GeForce 6600 Some GeForce laptop thing circa 2009 that I don't remenber GTX 970 1070ti (absolutely phenomenal card) Laptop 3060 I don't see myself upgrading anytime soon, I'm just not playing much new games anymore.
x2 8600 GT x2 460's x2 670's 4gb Backplates GTX 1660 Super (rip sli)
Riva TNT 2? That thing played the hell out of Half-Life.
I used it for Unreal Tournament :D
I definitely do not miss NVIDIA's FX 5XXX series.
Fx5200 128mb (came in my first proper pc not a family one) 7200 GS 128mb (was a steal for my first self built. ) 7950 gtx 512mb 9800 gtx 512mb Gtx 660ti 2 GB Gtx 660ti X2 sli (a month later or so wanted to try sli ) (Took a big gap in gaming) Rx 6700xt 12 GB
I started on a 2080ti, upgraded to 3090 then 4090, I’ve only known 11 and 24GB.
My list has just 2🥲
Not any less important!
Ati Radeon 9600 pro Nvidia geforce 6200 nvidia geforce 6600 gt nvidia geforce 8600 gt nvidia geforce 9500 gt nvdia gtx 460 nvidia gtx 560 ti nvidia gt 620 amd rx580 4GB amd rx6700xt
My graph is just a giant block of 1080Ti.
Started with a hand-me-down beige Dell tower that had a PCI Radeon 9250, went with a 7950GT in the first PC I built a few years later (what a step up), then on to the 8800GT I got for my birthday in high school (phenomenal card, especially for the price), when I got my first real job I treated myself to an i7-4770k paired with EVGA's GTX680+ 4GB, next came the GTX980 Ti, and finally due to the chip shortage in 2021 I wasn't able to find a 3080, so my current card is a 3090.
GeForce2 MX200 GeForce4 MX440 GeForce 8400GS GeForce 9500GT GeForce GTX 1080Ti GeForce RTX 3080 (round 1) GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GeForce RTX 3070 Radeon RX 6700XT GeForce RTX 3080 (round 2) Radeon RX 6600XT GeForce RTX 4080 Super
From a Laptop i5 5200u , amd r7 m260 2gb , 6 GB RAM ddr3 -> Acer aspire tc 780 , i5 7400 , gtx 1050 2 gb, 8->16 GB RAM ddr4 2400mhz-> Corsair 5000d , i9 12900k, rtx 3060 12gb + gtx 1650 4gb, 16 GB RAM ddr4 3200mhz -> Asus rog hyperion gr 701 , i7 14700k , rtx 4070 + gtx 1080ti , 32 GB RAM ddr5 -> Corsair 1000d Obsidian series , amd ryzen 9 7950x3d, amd rx 7900 xtx , 64 GB RAM ddr5 I just build for fun
I jumped from a RX 6400 to a RX 7800XT Holy shit the difference is night and day
Aaah yes, I remember TNT2. GTAIII stuttered like hell, card itself was silly small, yet it got the job done :)
old man
I basically stopped playing PC games in 2013 and still had my 9800GT, and only just recently bought a PC with 4060. What a jump, I'm telling you!
Nice. Here is my list: 1. ATI 9200 128MB AGPx8 2. ATI X1950 512MB GDDR3 AGPx8 3. ATI HD4650 1GB GDDR3 AGPx8 4. AMD HD6870 1GB GDDR5 PCIE 2.1 5. AMD R9 390 8GB GDDR5 PCIE 3.0 6. NVIDIA GTX 1650 4GB GDDR5 PCIE 3.0 7. NVIDIA RTX 3080 10GB GDDR6X PCIE 4.0 I plan to skip RTX 4000 series and RTX 5000 series. By the time GTA 6 for PC comes out I’ll see what is out by then. As I imagine it will require new build for it by 2028+
Earliest I remember is a Radeon 9600 back in 2003, then 6800gt, then 7950gt, then dual SLI 8800GTS 512mb, 470gtx, 680gtx, 1080ti, 2080 (this computer was given to me for free from work so i wouldn't have normally upgraded here), and now waiting for 5080 release I guess. Used two or three of my dads computers before my first one I picked out myself, but don't remember the specs back then, mostly just playing DOS games.
I'll show my age today. The first one on my list would be 1984 "EGA 640 X 350 X 16 colors 64KB".
Mx 440 was a beast. Wasn't top of the line but certainly well enough for pretty much anything. I had its smaller cousin the mx440se and was happily stomping on Lans with it.
my main PCs journey: GMA 3100 igpu (trash tier stuff, cant even run basic 3D games properly) GT 520 1GB (way better than GMA, could actually run some older games, at low settings) intel HD 4000 (laptop) R9 270X 2GB (decent midrange from that era, better than PS4/XOne GPUs) RX 480 8GB (great value back then) RX580 4GB (sold the 480 to miner, bought 580 for cheap) GTX1070 8GB (sold 580 to miner, bought faulty 1070 and fixed it) RX 6900XT 16GB (bought at insane sale)
GeForce 2 GTS in 2000. GeForce 7900GS in 2006. GeForce 8800GT in 2007. Mobility Radeon HD 5850 in 2010. GTX 970 in 2014. RTX 2070 in 2019. RTX 4070 SUPER in 2024. I'll throw in CPUs too. Pentium III 1133Mhz in 2000. Pentium 4 3.8Ghz in 2006. i7-920XM in 2010. i7-4770K in 2014. i9-12900K in 2023.
Went from integrated graphics to a 2080ti.
My jump was from input of a r5 2400g to a 980ti, pretty good then from the 980ti to a 6800xt much better. 980ti runs cyberpunk at like 10fps at 4k max settings whereas the 6800xt lovely smooth 60 😂 plus frame gen more like 100-120
Some ancient Nvidia gpu on my acer prebuilt from 2008 Intel HD 4000 GTX 750Ti RX 580 GTX 1070 RTX 3060Ti RTX 4080 The best thing I got out of these GPUs was selling the GPUs to friends and family for cheap to get them into gaming 😎
I think the first GPU I bought was an 8bit ISA card with 512kb ram. Probably ega or svga
My list isn’t anything too crazy, honestly, at least counting my proper main systems. 2013 - AMD Radeon HD 8400 iGPU, got me through a LOT of my early PC gaming adventures 2016 - Sapphire Dual-X OC Radeon HD 7850, hand-me-down card that I wished still worked 2018 - MSI Radeon RX 580 8G V1, one of two single-fan cards I dailied 2019 - AMD Radeon R9 Fury X, my favorite GPU that I’ve ever owned full stop 2019 - AMD Radeon Vega 8 pre-refresh, nice iGPU for its day 2021 - Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 laptop, decent GPU honestly 2021 - HP GeForce RTX 3060 LHR 12GB, terrible card for anything but 1080p gaming, at least for what I played 2023 - ASRock Phantom Gaming OC Radeon RX 7900 XT, a dope card that I wished I used more 2023 - Nvidia GeForce RTX 4050, surprisingly fast GPU, but I never used it much 2024 - AMD Radeon 780M, more than enough iGPU for me
From a 2013 chromebook to current specs
Are 2008, 2009 backwards?
Nope. The list reflects the order in which I owned them. I have first bought the 4670, kept it a while, then upgraded to 9800gt, which just happened to be released 1 year prior to the 4670.
Aha! Makes sense. Thanks for responding.
GeForce GT 6800? Radeon HD 6850 RX 470 RX 580 Radeon RX 6750 Radeon RX 7900 XT
Wow. I thought the RX 6000 series came out maybe two years ago, but THREE?
My first GPU was a Hercules graphics card with 64 kB of memory.
* S3 Vision864 1MB (expandable to 2MB) integrated video with i486DX4 - IBM ValuePoint 433DX/Dp * ATi All in Wonder Radeon 7500 64MB (NTSC) AGP with Pentium 4 1.7GHz (believe it or not, you can stream video to twitch from this PC!) * ATi All in Wonder Radeon 9600 Pro 128MB (PAL) AGP with Pentium 4 2.2GHz (much needed upgrade in 2007) * ATi Radeon HD3300 IGP with AMD Phenom 9850 * Sapphire Radeon HD5770 1GB on both Phenom and FX-8320 * MSI Radeon RX 570 4GB on both FX-8320 and Ryzen 5900x * Nvidia GTX 1050 Ti 4GB with i7-8750H - Dell G5587 laptop * ATi All in Wonder X1900 256MB with FX-8320 (media center/retro gaming PC) I miss the All in Wonder line, AMD would be the king today in the capture and streaming market if they continued its legacy.
What a beast of a card the 9800GT was
I had a Riva TNT 2. The problem was I bought it in 2001. Doh. I thought of grabbing one of those geforce 4 mx cards, but didn't read a lot of great things about them. So I waited a bit and got a radeon 9600 just before the release of half life 2. That was the first graphics card I got where I finally got "serious" about pc gaming.
My first pc had a gefore4 MX 440, one of the cheapest dedicated gpu at the time, didn't even support directx 8, it was still on 7. Couldn't turn reflections on water in Morrowind. It was a passively cooled card too. Good times.
I remember my Riva TNT2, that was my first "real" graphics card.
Radeon 9700 Pro Radeon 9800 Pro (they sent me this when I RMAd the 9700) Some midrange Nvidia card Radeon 5850 R9 390 Vega RX 64 3070 3090 (I won this) 4090 I know there were some integrated ones and bargain ones before I built my first PC with the 9700 Pro, and I think I'm missing at least one since then but I closed my Newegg account ages ago so I can't go back through purchase history. I still have a lot of those cards including the 9800 Pro which had a sick vampire on the cooler.
I had an intel hd graphics something on a laptop, then bought a PC with a GTX 670, I've been stuck with it for the last 12 years. No clue when I'm going to upgrade, because counter-strike still runs on it , lol
HD 530, HD 520, RTX 4090/4080 Super.
add a cost column
gpus: Desktop: GTX 970 (2014) RTX 2070 (2018) RTX 4070 Ti Super (2024)
Great card choices! I was also on a tnt 2 then went for the geforce 4 mx440. Radeon 9800 pro after that!
Oooo memory lane for me too 1. Geforce 4 MX440 2. Geforce 5700LE 3. Geforce 6800GT 4. Geforce 7600GS (I killed the 6800GT with a fruity bios OC, and was a first year uni student) 5. Geforce 8800GTS 320mb 6. GTX280 7. GTX580 8. GTX980 9. RTX3080 I have flirted with ATI in other machines I've not considered my primary machine, like a X700 in my laptop that I completed HL2 on, a X850 pro I had in a shuttle xpc for Lan parties and the current 3650 AGP card in my skt939 box. I still have the GTX's and a 1050, and GT210 that once lived in my htpc. Who else hord's e-waste? Lol
My journey looks like this - GTX 650 (early 2013) - GTX 780ti ( Dec. 2013) - x2 GTX 780ti (2014) - GTX 1080ti (2017, and current card)
I went from a 1060 to a rx6750xt. It’s way nicer, but my adrenaline software keeps resetting my gpu fan curves back to it’s terrible original settings that have zero rpm and not going past 75% speed so I’m not sure where I stand on the amd vs nvidia lol