Your GPU progression?

ET4000
Voodoo 3D
Riva TNT2
radeon 32MB
Geforce2 64MB
Leadtek 5600 Ultra
ATI 9600 Pro
HD5450
HD6850
MSI 560Ti
Asus Strix 390
Zotac 980ti Amp! Extreme (Current in Home Servers)
Asus Strix 1070 OC SLI ( Current in Wife )
Asus Strix 1080 (Mine)
 
Number 9 Imagine 128 Series II
Diamond Monster3D (3Dfx Voodoo)
Voodoo3 PCI
Voodoo5 5500 (man, was I a fan boy)
Leadtek Winfast A250 Ultra TD (GF4 Ti 4600)
BFGTech 8800 GTX Water-cooled Edition (x2)
Asus (reference) GTX 580 (x2)
EVGA GeForce GTX 690
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 980ti G1 Gaming OC Edition (I'm done with SLI)

I have a GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 XTREME Gaming Premium Pack on the way, which I will now sell (at newegg price, any takers?) since I have enough money to waste on a Pitan X.
 
This is taking a trip down memory lane
Can't get an exact model but the Trident TGUI9680-1 was probably my first GPU 1MB memory and 135Mhz
GeForce 2
GeForce 4 Ti or MX
ATi Radeon 9700 Pro (quite the upgrade)
Ati Radeon X1900XT
AMD FirePro V4800 (work)
AMD Radeon R9 290X (2x)
AMD FirePro w5170m (work)
 
I have no idea how you guys remember some of this s**t, pretty sure I'm forgetting at least 2 o 3 vgas I've owned. I can barely remember the stuff I bought when I was a teenager.

1998: 3dfx voodoo2 (Borrowed for 1 month to play NFS III with the glorious "glide" graphics)
2003: GeForce FX5200
2006: GeForce 7600GT
2008: GeForce 9800GX2 KO
2010: 2xRadeon HD 5870 CFX
2013: GeForce GTX 680
2016: Pitan X (Soon?)
 
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Nvidia TNT 2 (Came with my very first computer)
Nvidia FX5200
ATi Radeon X800 GTO
ATi Radeon X1900 GT
ATI Radeon HD 3870
ATi Radeon HD 4850
ATi Radeon HD 5870
ATi Radeon HD 7970
AMD R9 290 CF
Nvidia GTX 1070 (First GPU I bought that wasnt reference, literally only realized that when I was typing out this list - Gigabyte GTX 1070 Extreme Gaming)
 
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Matrox Mystique 220
Matrox M3D (PowerVR)
Creative Labs Voodoo2 8mb
3dfx Voodoo 3 3000
Leadtek Geforce 2 GTS
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
ATI Radeon X800XL
Gainward Geforce 7800GS+
Gainward Geforce 7800GS (volt modded the previous one to an early retirement!)
Point of View Geforce 8800GT
PNY Geforce 8800GTS
Inno3D Geforce 470
EVGA 580 Hydro Copper
Asus Geforce 680
Asus Geforce 780ti
Asus Geforce 980
 
Matrox millenium
Riva TNT
geforce
geforce 3
ATI something
nvidia 8800
460sli
radeon 5490 cf
gtx680
radeon 290 cf
radeon 290


I wish Matrox came back as a new gpu gaming option.
 
I love this topic and photoshop it every year to keep it updated (also do it with phones and laptops). It's amazing to see how things evolve. Here's my GPU history. Essentially:

1998 - 3dfx Voodoo Banshee
2001 - Nvidia Geforce 2 MX400
2002 - Nvidia Geforce 4 TI 4200
2003 - Nvidia Geforce FX 5600
2005 - Nvidia Geforce 6600
2007 - Nvidia Geforce 8600
2009 - Nvidia Geforce GTX 260
2010 - Nvidia Geforce GTX 470
2014 - Nvidia Geforce GTX 770

Currently I'm trying to decide between the RX 480 or the GTX 1060 as I'm staying at 1080p for the foreseeable future. We'll see how they perform in this fall's big games and then I'll make a purchase.
 
Rage Pro
Voodoo 3 3000
Geforce 2 Ultra
Geforce 4 TI 4400
Radeon 9700 Pro
Geforce 6600 GT
Geforce 7800 GT
Geforce 9600 GT
Radeon 4890 Crossfire
Radeon 6950
Geforce GTX 680
Radeon RX480
 
Wasn't into PC gaming much until 2010:

470
A bunch of cards when I was messing around with SLI and CF and the 6950 BIOS flashing craze and determined it was all crap.
560 Ti
580
680
680 SLI, realized SLI was still crap.
780
980 Ti
1080
 
Ti 4400
6800 LE
(Was in school and poor student between these two cards)
BFG GTX 275
EVGA GTX 470s in SLI
EVGA GTX 670s FTW in SLI
EVGA GTX 1070s FTW in SLI

Once I started going SLI, I can't go back to single card configuration. Case looks and feels so empty.
 
7900 go GS
GTX 285
GTX 580
GTX 780
GTX 1080

I try to wait both a few generations and until it's double the performance. The generations thing is tricky because of the Ti versions now. A 980ti would've also been a good upgrade from 780.
 
S3 Trio64 1mb PCI
Matrox Millenium G200 with a Canopus Pure3DII
Voodoo3 3000
Riva TNT2
GeForce256
Geforce2 Ultra
Radeon 9700 Pro
Radeon 9800 Pro
Geforce 6800GT SLI
Geforce 7900GTX SLI
Geforce 280 GTX
Radeon 7970 Xfire
Geforce GTX 690 SLI
Geforce GTX 780 Tri-SLI
Geforce GTX 780Ti SLI
Titan X
 
Rage 128 pro
Geforce 256 DDR
Radeon 8500
Radeon 9800
Radeon X800GT
Geforce 8800GTS
Radeon 5850
Geforce 560 Ti 448 Cores FTW
Geforce GTX 950
Radeon RX480
 
MX 440
Go 7300
XFX 9800 GT
EVGA GTX 260
HIS HD 4890
HIS HD 4890 + ASUS Radeon HD 4890 CFX
EVGA GTX 570
MSI GTX 770 TwinFrozr
MSI GTX 970 GAMING4G
EVGA GTX 980 Ti Hybrid

next will probably be 1080 Ti.
 
Nvidia 5500GT (PCI)
Nvidia 6800GT
Nvidia 8800GTS 320
Nvidia 8800GT
ATI 4830
ATI 4870
AMD 5870
AMD 5970
AMD 6970 (x2)
Nvidia GTX 780
Nvidia 980ti
Nvidia 1080
 
All nVidia cards for me and not very many of them:

PNY GeForce 4 MX440
BFG GeForce 6600 GT
BFG GeForce 7800 GTX
MSI GeForce GTX 1070
 
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Voodoo 3 2000 PCI
GeForce 256 SDR
Radeon 8500
Radeon 9600 XT
Radeon X850 Pro
Radeon X1950 Pro
Radeon Radeon 3870
Radeon 4870
Radeon 5870
Radeon 7970
 
Hmmm,
Diamond voodoo banshee (pretty sure it was diamond, GLQuake 3wave ctf, omgz)
voodoo 5500pci
fx5900 ultra agp
sapphire HD3850 agp (stopgap solution before going pci-e)
Diamond HD7970


Cpu's
386?
pentium 90 (packard bell)
some intel celeron 500mhz or so
some amd 800mhz or so
amd 64 (forget clock socket 939, newcastle?)
and now bulldozer

And I just bought a Dell 7559 laptop which performs about as well as my desktop it seems

May have missed a few cpus/gpus above, but that seems right as I wait forever between upgrades
 
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Some 256K VGA adapter for a 386
ATI Expert@Work, completely sucked at 3D
Voodoo 1 (Orchid)
Riva TNT2 Mach64
Voodoo 2
Sparkle Geforce 3
Gainward FX5700
Asus 6600GT
Palit 9800GTX+
a second 9800GTX+ for SLI
EVGA 560TI
Asus 670 DCUII
Asus 780 DCUIIOC
Gainward 1080 Pheonix GLH
 
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It starts will a TTL mono adapter.

First FUN third party adapter I bought was ATI's Small Wonder... their EGA Wonder was GODLY at that time and the VGA wonder was good but not earth shattering. Basically I can't list that many adapters. My daily driver is an HD 7770 (I love it because it found so many LTC blocks - nostalgia) but there's also a 750Ti, RX 480, GTX 1070 and a whole bunch of GT 210's (got em all free). My favourite card at the moment is the 480 because it does so much so cheap but I'm not the one using it.
 
silent-circuit said:
So... You have more money than sense. Got it.
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Or he wants the absolute best performing rig without having to mess with overclocking or anything. I get where you're coming from but this is [H] after all. I have friends who build rigs like that, one in particular would rebuild every 18-24 and he'd always just purchase whatever the current Intel EE was and 2x of the latest Radeon flaghship 4870x2, 5970, 6990 etc. (also would always purchase some shitty ass $50 PSU which would always drive me nuts but I stopped caring / trying).

There's really nothing wrong with that. However, I personally always try to build my rigs based on my specific needs. I could build a rig with that kind of hardware if I wanted but I'd rather spread that money over multiple systems with the most suitable hardware for my needs / their particular use cases.

Same thing kinda applied to my recent Ryzen build. I originally wanted an 1800X but after reading reviews and seeing results I realized that all three of the R7 chips are topping out around 3.9-4.1ghz. It didn't make much sense for me to spend the ~$200 extra on the 1800X for a potential 100-200mhz max clock increase. I put that money towards a larger SSD in this specific build. When the newer steppings of Ryzen come out and we see the current voltage wall / clock wall issues alleviated then I'll pick-up the better binned / oc'ing chip and throw the 1700 in one of my hypervisor rigs that currently have 8350's.
 
In my first PC I had some Ati 32mb back in 2000 and I have no idea what exactly it was. Any idea?

Then it was Ati 9600 pro
7600gs
X1600pro
8600gt
9800gtx+

And then a long gap till I got gtx 580
970

And now Gigabyte 1080 Xtreme which I really like. Pascal is definitely the best and most refined series. Nvidia at its top, to be honest.
It's gonna be interesting what Volta will bring, though I might skip first revision this time.
 
CAD4466HK said:
Holy necro! And I think he should reread the quote he put in his sig and follow its advice smh.
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He did follow its advice. Maybe you should read the whole thing or have someone translate it for you.

You think you're hurting his feelings with these posts? one of his video cards is worth more then your entire system, he's laughing at the hater posts and the authors behind them.
 
Haha this would be super hard for mw to remember all thr cards since 94..

Basicly to be quick.. i bought whatever was the fastest card out ea year since.

Wish i could remember my first card purchase! Prob some s3 virge model.

Monster voodoo 1,2 8mb,12mb x2. Tnt, tnt2, voodoo 3 tv.. never bought the v4 or 5 as i went to the geforce 2 cards. Then ati aiw 9700,9800.. then to nvidia for years.. then 4x amd 7970.. then back to nvidia with quad sli 480,580 for a year then just nvidia sli. Currently 1080 sli.

Next most lilely will be just a single nvidia card.. whatever is the fastest of course.
 
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RamonGTP said:
He did follow its advice. Maybe you should read the whole thing or have someone translate it for you.

You think you're hurting his feelings with these posts? one of his video cards is worth more then your entire system, he's laughing at the hater posts and the authors behind them.
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All I see is his e-peen, photo bombing a necro'ed GPU progression thread, populated with 2 different pics, showing random hardware with prices prominently displayed, that happens to include 2 different sets of Titan's X/Xp. Now unless those were his first GPU's, which they were not, what was the point of his post? I'll tell you, photo pimping his e-peen in a non photo thread is his point, hence my post regarding the quote in his sig.

And why are you so butthurt?
 
CAD4466HK said:
All I see is his e-peen, photo bombing a necro'ed GPU progression thread, populated with 2 different pics, showing random hardware with prices prominently displayed, that happens to include 2 different sets of Titan's X/Xp. Now unless those were his first GPU's, which they were not, what was the point of his post? I'll tell you, photo pimping his e-peen in a non photo thread is his point, hence my post regarding the quote in his sig.

And why are you so butthurt?
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Showing his current progression. Sounds like you don't like to be reminded of what you can't have. As far as the butt hurt comment, sounds like a bit of projection on your part.
 
Just like a woman that just bought a new pair! They always want to flaunt them out there for everyones viewing pleasure! Why else would they get them?

Its all good.. as the saying goes, "Got them, flaunt them!"

Id insert a pic or 2 (of cards of course) hahah if i was on the pc right now. ;)

Honestly.. to spend that much money and not show them off would be sad.. ive felt that in the past with my epic builds.. blow well over 10k and have no one come over that even knows what there looking at to appeciate it.. its ruff.
 
RamonGTP said:
Showing his current progression. Sounds like you don't like to be reminded of what you can't have. As far as the butt hurt comment, sounds like a bit of projection on your part.
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It's not a question of "can't" have, It's more like "won't" since I just dumped $6k into solar panels and another $4k on dual-paned windows for my house which will save me money in the long run, and not something that will be obsolete in 2yrs or less.

But different strokes for different folks, I'm not dissing on his hardware purchase, just questioning his desire to rub it in, which made me ask the question why your upset with my post. No projection here my man.
 
MSI AMD 7850 2gb
ASUS AMD R9 390
Zotac GTX 980 Ti AMP Extreme
EVGA Gtx 1080 Reference
 
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