Biggest video card leap?

ATI Radeon 2600 Pro to the Radeon X800 Pro.

That was by far my biggest jump. Aside from that I normally upgrade each generation. The only time I don't is when the next generation offers only around 10% more performance. I didn't make the jump from the 8800GTX to the 8800 Ultra for that reason. Replacing two or three cards with two or three more cards for so little performance made no sense to me.
 
(insert whatever card you owned at the time here) -------> GeForce 256 32mb


When the first generation GeForce 256 cards came out they almost instantly doubled or even tripled the performance of any card currently on the market. I upgraded from a TNT2 Ultra card and couldn't believe the difference. I've had one of nearly every generation of new video cards since then and all upgrades have paled in comparison.
 
Pitbully said:
(insert whatever card you owned at the time here) -------> GeForce 256 32mb


When the first generation GeForce 256 cards came out they almost instantly doubled or even tripled the performance of any card currently on the market. I upgraded from a TNT2 Ultra card and couldn't believe the difference. I've had one of nearly every generation of new video cards since then and all upgrades have paled in comparison.
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I think we are talking about personal leaps in graphics cards, not industry or technical jumps.
 
It would have to be going from NO acceleration into a Voodoo 2 (which I latter put in SLI)
Or from that Voodoo 2 SLI into a ATI Radeon 7500.
Each time felt like entering a whole new ball game.
 
GeForce 3 to GeForce 8800GTX

Some lousy SiS integrated graphics to Voodoo 2 SLI.
 
Hmm... Probably my GTX 460 to the 770 GTX... yeah, thinking back that's probably right.

GF3 TI200 > GF4 TI4600 > 5900U > 7800GTX > 7800GTX SLI > 860 GTS > 8800 GTS > 8800 GT > 460 > 770 > 980

Ok maybe it was most recently, the 770 to the 980. Sometimes I'd go up and down due to current needs or build/etc..
 
Problyr a old ati 9200 to 6800 or form 6800 to gtx 8800 that thing was a beast
 
My old nvidia 7600gt to a 260gtx 216 core BFG.. It's too bad BFG went under :(
I've had a nvidia 285gtx for awhile now and I'm thinking about getting one of the new 970gtx or an AMD card maybe (a first). This 285 has served me for awhile now and still works on lots of things but I wanna see some new beautiful graphics. I'll be skipping the whole directx11 gen :p
 
An old 8600GT 256mb to a GTX460 1gb was huge for me. I also jumped CPUs from a P4 3.0Ghz w/HT to an i5-2500K at the same time. It was legendary!
 
7800 GT SLI to 8800 GTX SLI. Night and day 120% performance increase.
 
Intel Integrated Extreme 1 to 9700Pro. Went from 15-20FPS on minimum settings at the lowest resolutions to 40-60 at max settings at max resolution :D

Or SIS 620 to 3D Prophet Kyro 1 card, that was a huge jump for me too.
 
8800gts 512 to 5870

gf did the 5850 to a 7970 so that was pretty big as well.

everything else i have done has been sort of incremental or already overkill (like 6970 up to 7970 on single monitor 1080p)
 
I would have to say it was going from an FX 5200 to a 7900 GTX, but the full effect was in part because of the platform jump from an Athlon XP 3000+ to an Athlon 64 x2 4800+. It felt like a pretty similar jump going from that 7900 GTX to the GTX 260 Core 216, which also involved a major platform overhaul to a Phenom II 940. Sadly, everything since then has felt more incremental and less like a huge leap.
 
Biggest leap? Nvidia 5500 PCI to 6800GT PCI-E.
Most recent big leap was 8800GT to 5850 which I still have - so I'm about due for my second biggest leap...
 
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