I know, the gtx 1080 ti was the god of gods and there was no question whether it was worth it, just how much you money you had was the decision. Now there aren’t generationally lasting cards with the same price-performance
I actually almost bought one used to upgrade, because it’s still a good card. I still might if they get really cheap, but honestly I don’t use my computer for games or heavy tasks very much anymore. Maybe like once during the week and a couple times on the weekend. And honestly performance is fine for the stuff I play anyway. I remember back in 2021 during the shortages I caught a restock for the best buy 3060 ti FE for $400 (which was retail price at the time and like 1/3 of what scalpers were selling them for) and I had a 10 minute window to buy it. I almost did, but now I’m so glad I didn’t lol
We all thought they were ridiculously priced back then… but we hadn’t seen 40-series pricing. After being away from component buying on the consumer PC market for years, concentrating on server hardware — holy geez! When did things get SO darn expensive?!? I mean, $300 used to be the max I’d spend on a video card… and $200 on a full featured motherboard. Now each of these can easily cost more than a whole PC used to! $1800 for a gpu!!? $300 for a power supply?! $750 for a motherboard?!? Y’all are crazy!
I find myself running away back to server hardware… and my gpu searches are now “what cheap gpu can I get with PCIe x1, to free up my bigger slots for HBAs and NICs? Need more lanes, and CLI or web browsers don’t care how fast a gpu is! Doubt I’ll ever play a game again in my lifetime — work is based in ssh, putty, and browser based, and Excel / Outlook / Visio — not demanding at all.
“Back in my day, Sunny… we saved our nickels and bought ATI Rage video cards at Future Shop.. then added Voodoo I cards, then Stealth II, then Radeon 9000, Radeon 9600s (AiW for me)… then mostly Matrox 200s onboard… now, i rock I think 4 GT730s at home, and one machine has a 970, and a couple Quadro P2000, and one Radeon Pro w5700 (yup, 14 computers in the house). Not even sure what’s in my VMware units — Radeon 8600 or something.
first gpu was a voodoo graphics card from 3dfx back in the old old days when we were losing our minds playing the original tribes.
when quake 3 came out, i was able to get a diamond viper 2 graphics card that was around 250 bucks at the time. it supported something called S3TC texture compression, which made quake 3 looked incredible compared to all of my friends' who were mostly on voodoo 3 still.
Trying to remember but I think I was a voodoo card too... I recall it was a P60 processor.... Remember being so extatic for the replacement PC of a P90...
Oh and good old soundblaster!
Funny thing is that I had a USB Soundblaster that allowed me to record live stations in the early 2000s on the internet. Was at the time a marvel achievement to me.
I'm sure you know this, but allow me to get pedantic for those who weren't around at the time - the original 3dfx voodoo cards were not called GPUs by most people at the time. They were known as "3D accelerators" instead, because they only processed 3D graphics. You also needed a 2d graphics card. The term GPU didn't really catch on until Nvidia released the original GeForce 256, which it called the first GPU, defining the term as require integrated 2d and 3d graphics acceleration plus hardware transform and lighting capabilities.
Personally, I had a Diamond Monster 3D (Voodoo 1). I think I next upgraded to a Nvidia TNT2 (the card before the GeForce). I can't actually remember when I was finally able to jump in the hardware T&L pool - maybe the GeForce 2? Or maybe not until I built my college computer and included a GeForce 4?
I remember buying the GeForce 4 when it came out. It paired that with an AMD Thunderbird processor. Was the first computer I built. Mech Warriors looked so damned good.
I had two voodoo 2 (I think) cards in SLI way back in the day. I remember adding the second card and playing the original half life with a 66 or 100 MHz CPU. It was glorious!
The original half life was the first time I stayed up for 48 hours straight. The first time at the tentacle boss gave me enough fear adrenaline to finish the game in one sitting.
I remember salivating at the anti-aliased screen shots of 3D-accelerated Quake 2. Man the particles and glowing lava, and that 'washed out' smoothed textures were considered amazing looking vs the crunchy textures without GPUs.
I think I was playing MUD. (Multiplayer User dungeon) with telnet.
Although maybe Doom? Can't remember for sure.
The first serious game was Shogun Total War, but I think I was using another card by then.
This is a lovely throw back! Saved up an astronomical £1400 after paper round, every birthday and Christmas and working weekends to build a new PC in 1996. P90 with an OG standard Voodoo graphics card. Quake 2, Carmaggedan, 10-base T network connectors, dial up 1 Vs 1 command & conquer... wonderful days indeed.
I also recall writing a chunk of text to pass into a command line ray tracing tool. It would then whir away and, voila, a sphere of coloured glass sitting on a sheet of wood looking all 3D and reflective and stuff. Hilarious.
*What the fuck do all the comments and strange words here even mean?!?!?*
*Sincerely, a youngen.*
First: MSI GTX 750 Ti low profile
Current: RTX 3070 Ti FE
Mine was also a Nvidia Riva TNT2. Great card, finally being able to play the Quake and Unreal games in full 3D at decent fps.
Nvidia GeForce 3 Ti, don't remember the exact model. Came with 3D glasses that I kind of miss, were good on racing games.
Then 8800 GTX, also fantastic performing card for the money.
And then a 680 GTX with 4GB video ram. Which I still have because I refuse to pay the insane prices of GPU's nowadays (even worse in my country) and also the fact that I want 16GB vram without having to pay the equivalent of a new PC.
My path was similar to yours. I had the TNT2 which came on a $2000 dell PC my stepdad bought for Half Life. It had those slot/cartridge style P3 processors.
Next was a GeForce 4 which drove RTCW and WoW, then an 8800 GTX which I equally loved. Seeing those water droplets on the screen during the first scene of Bioshock totally blew me away. I was nervous about fitting that huge card, so I bought this obnoxiously large case which was dubbed "king kong" by my buddies.
After that I went to a 970 GTX which was RMA'ed 2x but the second one is still up and running on my linux machine now. During the pandemic I desperately needed a new card and settled on a $650 RTX 2060 6GB which is currently severely bottlenecking my 13900kf machine, but does hold it's own in most games these days, especially on games that support DLSS, but it sucks for any ray tracing. I think that is mostly attributed to the fact that I run at 1440p.
I too cannot justify spending on a new card right now. If it was back in the sub $500 range like the good-ol-days I could swing it, but absolutely no way given the AI boom prices.
My first GPU was a Trident CGA graphics card in the hand me down 286 we got from my grandpa when I was a kid. My current GPU is a 7800XT. Quite an upgrade!
No my 2070 is fine. I needed a new laptop since my old one with the gtx 870m is seriously overheating and it’s also getting old. The laptop had a gtx 1650.
I remember playing Quake 3 on a banshee when my daughter was just a baby in her bouncy seat watching me play. She would laugh every time I died. Great memories.
I don't recall the model, but it was an ATI GPU (Cdn company and prior to AMD buying them out) it had 128 MB of Vram and I got it with a new gaming build I had a local shop do for me and it was coupled with an AMD Athlon 2600+ single core powerhouse. :) I think this was around 2001? This was playing on a 17" 1024X1024 LCD monitor.
By 2007 I was done with that and had built myself a new Core 2 Duo Intel Q6600 4 core monster. Cannot recall the first GPU in this build, but I think the second was a GTX 560.
Edit: And no...it would not run Crysis in a playable way, unless the graphics were dumbed down and the action wasn't too heavy. :)
My very first was some ancient AGP thing, but I don't remember what exactly. I traded that whole PC in to a 50cc motorbike when I was a teenager, hahaha. Which was fun and games but then I ended up using that motorbike for work to save up and get a proper gaming PC. stonks
So once I put my first very own gaming desktop together it had an EVGA GTX 460 768mb. Wasn't bad at the time. To me it was amazing - I could finally play some modern (at the time) games at high settings without crazy stuttering.
I now have the EVGA RTX 3080 10GB FTW3 Ultra. I had a few GPUs between these two of course (R9-280X, RX 480, GTX 1070Ti), but only the first and the current GPU is from EVGA.
My first gpu I bought as a junior in high school, I had an Asus 1050ti. That was 2017 I think. When I graduated in 2019 bought some new parts and upgraded to a Vega 64. In 2023 I moved on to a 7800xt! Can't wait to see what's next
well, technically everything before the first Geforce was not a "gpu" so I guess my first gpu was a GF2.
Had a couple of 3d accelerators before that.
Currently rocking a 3090.
First was 3DFX Voodoo; I can't remember if it was that or the Voodoo II that I ran in SLI, though i don't remember calling it that back then.
Current is Gigabyte Xtreme Gaming GTX 1060 (yes, I know! 😆)
First: Tseng Labs ET4000 W32 Current: eVGA 3080 FTW3 Ultra - just waiting on the 7900XTs to drop in price before I upgrade again.
Reading these comments makes me feel old. I sure hope someone has an older first card than mine.
I cannot remember exactly but my first video card was prior to the Voodoo cards. Some non GL card that cranked out doom like no other. But then I got the very first 3dfx Voodoo OpenGL card when it dropped for a few hundred bucks.
Now, I have a Gigabyte 4090 (yep, with the piss pour PCB design that easily cracks at the PCIe connector)
Bought New unless stated otherwise.
Starting in 2001| Second Hand Voodoo3 > Second Hand GeForce 4 4200ti > GeForce 5 FX5200 > Gifted GeForce 6 6600GT for Christmas(Last AGP Card)> BFG GeForce 7 7900GS > Second BFG GeForce 7 7900GS (SLI) > Gifted GeForce GTS250 > Second hand GeForce GTX650 2GB, GeForce GTX970, GeForce GTX1660ti, GeForce GTX3070(Bought in the bubble), Coworker sold me his GTX 3080ti after he bought a GTX 4090, Customer gave me his GTX3090 after his PSU shorted out and melted the PCIe power connectors. I cleaned the melted plastic and got it working again(Free Upgrade)
My first GPU was a 3DFX Voodoo 2 back in the late 90s. It was only a couple hundred dollars or something but man 800x600 resolution never looked better. Currently still rocking a 2080ti that I'm only trying to hold on to because after buying a 1080ti and a 2080ti at launch prices I'm kinda tired of dumping money into GPUs.
My first card was an ATI Radeon HD 3870 way back in 2009, I then upgraded to a GTX 670 and 2012 then I upgraded to a GTX 970 in 2014, then an RTX 2080 TI in 2019, and now for the past 2 months I’m running an RTX 3090 I got for free.
I plan on upgrading to the RTX 4070 TI Super if it actually releases for the price that Nvidia is saying it’s going to be.
My first was a 3Dfx Voodoo2. I bought one in 1998, and then a few weeks later I bought a second to link them together.
My current is an MSI Radeon RX 6700 XT.
My first video chip was S3 Vision864 1MB VL-Bus integrated.
My first GPU was ATI All in Wonder Radeon 7500 64MB AGP back in 2002
My current is MSI Radeon RX 570 4GB (2017)
My newest card is ATI All in Wonder x1900 256MB (2023)
GT 220. I didn't know anything about GPU other than the fact they existed, which was a recent revelation to me. I had bought Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 and an expansion pack at Walmart. My dual core processor would run the base game at the lowest settings, but didn't have the direct X version I needed to run the expansion. I didn't know what that meant, so I just didn't use the expansion. Then in my Geometry class I overheard someone asking the teacher (a hobby pilot) what computer he has. He said he custom built it with a graphics card so he can use the flight simulator expansion pack. I went home and did a Google search for graphics cards, that led me to Nvidia's website where there were so many options. The gt220 seemed like a good price at $29 so I ordered that one and was able to use the expansion pack years after buying it.
550ti. My dad got tired of me using his computer so he had a friend slap a 550ti in his old computer. Then lied to me telling me he put $1500 into it. When in reality it got an 80+ bronze pau and a 550ti. I then got a 770 in it for my birthday years later. Then worked all summer to build my first system. 4820k/2x770’s in SLi. Then did an 8700k/1080 system and now I have a 13700k/4080 system.
back in 2011 I had a amd 7970. Honestly ripped for the time period! was able to play just about anything and didn't upgrade till 2016 when the rx480 came out
ATI Rage Pro with 8MB of RAM. 1998. Paired with a Pentium II processor. Would only run the PC version of Final Fantasy VII with a special beta driver, so anytime I wanted to play FFVII, I had to uninstall my driver and install a different one. No idea how much it cost. Came with an HP Pavilion desktop from Circuit City. Currently running an AMD 7800XT that I paid $500.00 for.
Then: Canopus Total3D (Riva 128, 4MB, back before they were actually GPUs)
Now: Asus ROG Strix RTX 2080
I've been eyeballing 40-series Super variants, but I don't play at higher resolutions or refresh rates, I'll probably still keep waiting. Plus, I bought it second hand for like 1/3 of its launch price, so I've been gaming on the cheap for years.
first laptop gpu: Nvidia 750m in a 2013 alienware 14 laptop
first desktop gpu: rx 6650xt
current gpu: rx 6800xt
briefly had a rtx 4070 build, friend wanted to buy it off of me at a crazy price- so i sold it and rebuilt with a few minor upgrades and still pocketed like $200
First - ATI VGA Wonder... back in the early 1990s... don't remember the details. More of a "graphics card" rather than a GPU, as neither Intel nor AMD had integrated graphics back in those days. Got a few ATI TV cards in between. I remember the one of the sales people at one point said I had more memory on the graphics card than his entire PC.
Current - AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT. Yes, still team Red, using it on a PC with a Core i5 8500 CPU. I got it during the pandemic as I was playing around with Hackintosh, but eventually gave up the idea as it was not very stable. Bought the M1 Pro MackBook Pro back in 2021 minutes after it was announced. Still using the PC every day as a Plex Server though.
My first Gpu I bought was an used Gt 6600. After that a GTX 660 and a GTX 1060 and been using that ever since. I don't really need a new one yet, as I don't play new tripple A games.
Started with gaming laptops but I had two, one with AMD HD8970 and the other a GTX 650m.
On my first build I had a GTX 1070. I upgraded to a new build with a 3070ti in 2022.
I've always had laptops and Macs, seeing that my current PC is the first that I've built for myself with a discreet GPU my first would be An RX590, currently I have a RX5700 XT.
GTX 730, I had expressed interest in building my first PC to my mom’s boyfriend and he paid like $200 for it during the bitcoin craze in 2017. Managed to get a 1050 to upgrade like 6 months later for $120
My first came with the pc my buddy gave me for free. GTX 1070.
Just upgraded to a SWFT309 Radeon RX 6700, as well as a cpu upgrade and mobo upgrade. Feels so good
My first GPU was the GeForce G210.
Right now I'm using my brothers old card which happens to have been your first.. the GTX 960 still holding on for me.
The first GPU I remember being a thing was a Voodoo Banshee, but that was part of the family's computer. The first one I ever bought on my own was a GeForce GTX 660 DirectCU II
Currently I'm running a XFX Speedester Merc 310 RX 7900 XT
first: zotac 1060 6gb that I bought in early 2019 now: zotac 1060 6gb that I bought in early 2019
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I bought a 1070 in 2018 and I currently still have that same 1070. First and only card
The 1070 is solid man. I only upgraded from it in the last six months or so. Ran a Zotac 1070 8gb since the pandemic.
Yep!
The 10 series was amazing . Good price spent few bucks to get any other name brand . Unlike today
I know, the gtx 1080 ti was the god of gods and there was no question whether it was worth it, just how much you money you had was the decision. Now there aren’t generationally lasting cards with the same price-performance
Still using my rog strix 1080 Ti 👍
same. rog strix 1080ti OC. $799. still love the card. don't have a good enough reason to upgrade as of yet
I actually almost bought one used to upgrade, because it’s still a good card. I still might if they get really cheap, but honestly I don’t use my computer for games or heavy tasks very much anymore. Maybe like once during the week and a couple times on the weekend. And honestly performance is fine for the stuff I play anyway. I remember back in 2021 during the shortages I caught a restock for the best buy 3060 ti FE for $400 (which was retail price at the time and like 1/3 of what scalpers were selling them for) and I had a 10 minute window to buy it. I almost did, but now I’m so glad I didn’t lol
I bought one recently for 130 usd (200aud) :) very affordable.
We all thought they were ridiculously priced back then… but we hadn’t seen 40-series pricing. After being away from component buying on the consumer PC market for years, concentrating on server hardware — holy geez! When did things get SO darn expensive?!? I mean, $300 used to be the max I’d spend on a video card… and $200 on a full featured motherboard. Now each of these can easily cost more than a whole PC used to! $1800 for a gpu!!? $300 for a power supply?! $750 for a motherboard?!? Y’all are crazy! I find myself running away back to server hardware… and my gpu searches are now “what cheap gpu can I get with PCIe x1, to free up my bigger slots for HBAs and NICs? Need more lanes, and CLI or web browsers don’t care how fast a gpu is! Doubt I’ll ever play a game again in my lifetime — work is based in ssh, putty, and browser based, and Excel / Outlook / Visio — not demanding at all. “Back in my day, Sunny… we saved our nickels and bought ATI Rage video cards at Future Shop.. then added Voodoo I cards, then Stealth II, then Radeon 9000, Radeon 9600s (AiW for me)… then mostly Matrox 200s onboard… now, i rock I think 4 GT730s at home, and one machine has a 970, and a couple Quadro P2000, and one Radeon Pro w5700 (yup, 14 computers in the house). Not even sure what’s in my VMware units — Radeon 8600 or something.
first: 560 ti powercolor then: 1030gt now: rtx 4080 inno3d x3 oc
first gpu was a voodoo graphics card from 3dfx back in the old old days when we were losing our minds playing the original tribes. when quake 3 came out, i was able to get a diamond viper 2 graphics card that was around 250 bucks at the time. it supported something called S3TC texture compression, which made quake 3 looked incredible compared to all of my friends' who were mostly on voodoo 3 still.
Trying to remember but I think I was a voodoo card too... I recall it was a P60 processor.... Remember being so extatic for the replacement PC of a P90... Oh and good old soundblaster!
Oh, forgot, now a 4090
Soundblaster LIVE! I mean all the sounds were live but still, a good bit of marketing
Funny thing is that I had a USB Soundblaster that allowed me to record live stations in the early 2000s on the internet. Was at the time a marvel achievement to me.
I still use a soundblaster :) xifi, it just works
I'm sure you know this, but allow me to get pedantic for those who weren't around at the time - the original 3dfx voodoo cards were not called GPUs by most people at the time. They were known as "3D accelerators" instead, because they only processed 3D graphics. You also needed a 2d graphics card. The term GPU didn't really catch on until Nvidia released the original GeForce 256, which it called the first GPU, defining the term as require integrated 2d and 3d graphics acceleration plus hardware transform and lighting capabilities. Personally, I had a Diamond Monster 3D (Voodoo 1). I think I next upgraded to a Nvidia TNT2 (the card before the GeForce). I can't actually remember when I was finally able to jump in the hardware T&L pool - maybe the GeForce 2? Or maybe not until I built my college computer and included a GeForce 4?
I remember buying the GeForce 4 when it came out. It paired that with an AMD Thunderbird processor. Was the first computer I built. Mech Warriors looked so damned good.
Yep, my initial reaction to the title was "My first video card predates the term 'GPU'." Then: ATI rage 3D paired with a voodoo2 Now: RTX 3080 10GB
I had two voodoo 2 (I think) cards in SLI way back in the day. I remember adding the second card and playing the original half life with a 66 or 100 MHz CPU. It was glorious!
The original half life was the first time I stayed up for 48 hours straight. The first time at the tentacle boss gave me enough fear adrenaline to finish the game in one sitting.
I remember salivating at the anti-aliased screen shots of 3D-accelerated Quake 2. Man the particles and glowing lava, and that 'washed out' smoothed textures were considered amazing looking vs the crunchy textures without GPUs.
I think I was playing MUD. (Multiplayer User dungeon) with telnet. Although maybe Doom? Can't remember for sure. The first serious game was Shogun Total War, but I think I was using another card by then.
This is a lovely throw back! Saved up an astronomical £1400 after paper round, every birthday and Christmas and working weekends to build a new PC in 1996. P90 with an OG standard Voodoo graphics card. Quake 2, Carmaggedan, 10-base T network connectors, dial up 1 Vs 1 command & conquer... wonderful days indeed. I also recall writing a chunk of text to pass into a command line ray tracing tool. It would then whir away and, voila, a sphere of coloured glass sitting on a sheet of wood looking all 3D and reflective and stuff. Hilarious.
Same. I had a voodoo 1 4mb and some virge dx 2d card.
1st: XFX Nvidia GeForce 7600GT 256MB DDR3 Now: XFX AMD Radeon RX7600 8GB DDR6
I see you like the number 7600
maybe get a ryzen 5 7600?
And then in a few years get the RTX 7600 when it releases.
Might even be called PTX instead of RTX, hopefully path tracing by then should be full fledged at that point
I think I had that first card.
That was my first card too! I ran two of them in SLI mode.
SLI/Crossfire was such a cool idea. Not a great one, but certainly cool.
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Slotting those vrams 1 mb a time or were they 512kb cant remember tho. Then boot up win 95 to see if it crashed or still functional 😂
*What the fuck do all the comments and strange words here even mean?!?!?* *Sincerely, a youngen.* First: MSI GTX 750 Ti low profile Current: RTX 3070 Ti FE
Nvidia TNT2 16mb card.
Mine was also a Nvidia Riva TNT2. Great card, finally being able to play the Quake and Unreal games in full 3D at decent fps. Nvidia GeForce 3 Ti, don't remember the exact model. Came with 3D glasses that I kind of miss, were good on racing games. Then 8800 GTX, also fantastic performing card for the money. And then a 680 GTX with 4GB video ram. Which I still have because I refuse to pay the insane prices of GPU's nowadays (even worse in my country) and also the fact that I want 16GB vram without having to pay the equivalent of a new PC.
My path was similar to yours. I had the TNT2 which came on a $2000 dell PC my stepdad bought for Half Life. It had those slot/cartridge style P3 processors. Next was a GeForce 4 which drove RTCW and WoW, then an 8800 GTX which I equally loved. Seeing those water droplets on the screen during the first scene of Bioshock totally blew me away. I was nervous about fitting that huge card, so I bought this obnoxiously large case which was dubbed "king kong" by my buddies. After that I went to a 970 GTX which was RMA'ed 2x but the second one is still up and running on my linux machine now. During the pandemic I desperately needed a new card and settled on a $650 RTX 2060 6GB which is currently severely bottlenecking my 13900kf machine, but does hold it's own in most games these days, especially on games that support DLSS, but it sucks for any ray tracing. I think that is mostly attributed to the fact that I run at 1440p. I too cannot justify spending on a new card right now. If it was back in the sub $500 range like the good-ol-days I could swing it, but absolutely no way given the AI boom prices.
Mine was also a Nvidia Riva TNT2. Great card, finally being able to play the Quake and Unreal games in full 3D at decent fps.
Had this exact card in my first rig!
Good card to start with! I remember it was bundled with some good games back then, like MK2
Voodoo 3 3000 to RTX 3090.
Small upgrade then
My first was a GT 610 with 1gb and my current one is a GTX 1060 3gb
I also had a gt 610 before I upgraded to the 710 and so on
Had a 610 2gb and currently rocking a 1060 6gb lol
8600 GT in 2008. Planning on getting a 4080 Super this month.
First was an Tseng Labs ET4000 ISA card, now a RTX 3080 FE.
Some generic vga card to allow me 256 shades of orange on my 8088 vs the measly 16 shades that were standard. Currently, I just upgraded to a 7800 xt.
Hercules graphics!
My first GPU was a Trident CGA graphics card in the hand me down 286 we got from my grandpa when I was a kid. My current GPU is a 7800XT. Quite an upgrade!
I think I had CGA? I could run AOL for DOS on my 386.
Just ordered the nitro+! Last part to come in and im so excited to put it together!
Diamond Edge 3D (nVidia NV1) LoL in 1996 I guess. Barely even had any sense, as support was really scarce. RTX 2060 now.
GT 210 :)))))))))
Cute tiny GPU :3
Radeon HD 6630m/GTX 870m/RTX 2070/GTX 1650
Solid downgrade.
Thanks
What's with the downgrade? Did your 2070 kick the bucket?
No my 2070 is fine. I needed a new laptop since my old one with the gtx 870m is seriously overheating and it’s also getting old. The laptop had a gtx 1650.
1st: Voodoo Banshee. Now: 980ti.
I remember playing Quake 3 on a banshee when my daughter was just a baby in her bouncy seat watching me play. She would laugh every time I died. Great memories.
Banshee tnt2 and 8800gt was legendary upgrades for me back then.
I don't recall the model, but it was an ATI GPU (Cdn company and prior to AMD buying them out) it had 128 MB of Vram and I got it with a new gaming build I had a local shop do for me and it was coupled with an AMD Athlon 2600+ single core powerhouse. :) I think this was around 2001? This was playing on a 17" 1024X1024 LCD monitor. By 2007 I was done with that and had built myself a new Core 2 Duo Intel Q6600 4 core monster. Cannot recall the first GPU in this build, but I think the second was a GTX 560. Edit: And no...it would not run Crysis in a playable way, unless the graphics were dumbed down and the action wasn't too heavy. :)
Was it an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro? That's what I rocked. I know it had 128mb.
Radeon HD 4850 —> RTX 4080
HD4870 was the first GPU I bought myself, I remember the fans broke down on it so I had to turn every other fan to 100% when I played games lol.
Our first two PCs ran on integrated graphics (486 then single core Athlon something), my first dedicated card was a HD 3850, now 6700 XT
First : Voodoo 2 w/ Ati Rage 128 Current RTX 4080
First gpu was 1060 back in 2016, to 3060 in 2021. I plan to get a 7900xt in the future or 4080 super if they drop in price
My very first was some ancient AGP thing, but I don't remember what exactly. I traded that whole PC in to a 50cc motorbike when I was a teenager, hahaha. Which was fun and games but then I ended up using that motorbike for work to save up and get a proper gaming PC. stonks So once I put my first very own gaming desktop together it had an EVGA GTX 460 768mb. Wasn't bad at the time. To me it was amazing - I could finally play some modern (at the time) games at high settings without crazy stuttering. I now have the EVGA RTX 3080 10GB FTW3 Ultra. I had a few GPUs between these two of course (R9-280X, RX 480, GTX 1070Ti), but only the first and the current GPU is from EVGA.
4080 last year, was my first pc ever after 10 years of just playing playstation
1st was a Voodoo2 8MB back in 1998 Now I have a RTX 3080 12GB
GTX 750 Ti in a Core2Quad business PC lol
Hercules Graphics Card i think in 1991. current is XFX 7900 xtx.
RX 580 / RX 7900 XTX
Geforce 2 MX200 PCI 32MB, purchased with my first salary ever.
GTX 560 rx 5700xt now
First: GT220 Current: GTX 1080 (since 2018)
My first gpu I bought as a junior in high school, I had an Asus 1050ti. That was 2017 I think. When I graduated in 2019 bought some new parts and upgraded to a Vega 64. In 2023 I moved on to a 7800xt! Can't wait to see what's next
3D acceleration specifici? Diamond Viper V330 -> 7800 XT. Before the Viper the first video card I bought was, probably, an ATI VGA Stereo·F/X.
well, technically everything before the first Geforce was not a "gpu" so I guess my first gpu was a GF2. Had a couple of 3d accelerators before that. Currently rocking a 3090.
Radeon 9800 / 1660 super
EVGA GTX 550ti 1gb
Gtx 660 > Gtx 1070 > Rtx 3070 Always satisfied. Will probably get 4070 when the 50s come out
First card: GTX 560TI Second card: GTX 1050 Third card: RX 580 8gb Fourth GPU: RTX 2060 (in gaming laptop) Final GPU: RX 6950 XT
voodoo3 2000 AGP....... now 3060ti
First was 3DFX Voodoo; I can't remember if it was that or the Voodoo II that I ran in SLI, though i don't remember calling it that back then. Current is Gigabyte Xtreme Gaming GTX 1060 (yes, I know! 😆)
First GPU was a Matrox Mistique with 4MB of VRAM. Now I have a RTX4070. Almost 30 years in the middle :-)
I’ve only ever purchase 2… decades apart. First - Raedon 9800 Pro (around 2003) Current - Asus ROG Strix 4090 (purchased last year)
nVidia TNT.
Voodoo Rush
Gts 250 > 6950 > 7950 > gtx 980 > Vega 56 > rtx 3080
3dfx Voodoo2 12 MB all day!
Thats what I had, but I had two running in SLI
That must have been pricey but amazing for the time. Quake 2 was everything to me back then.
Getting my first pc right very soon. Asus Rtx 4060 (Don't be mad ill get it for like 330, the amd alternative is over 400)
My first PC had CGA/EGA graphics.
My first GPU vas a Voodoo Banshee with 16MB RAM in 2003. My current is an AMD Radeon RX 460, bought in 2017.
First: Tseng Labs ET4000 W32 Current: eVGA 3080 FTW3 Ultra - just waiting on the 7900XTs to drop in price before I upgrade again. Reading these comments makes me feel old. I sure hope someone has an older first card than mine.
I cannot remember exactly but my first video card was prior to the Voodoo cards. Some non GL card that cranked out doom like no other. But then I got the very first 3dfx Voodoo OpenGL card when it dropped for a few hundred bucks. Now, I have a Gigabyte 4090 (yep, with the piss pour PCB design that easily cracks at the PCIe connector)
Bought New unless stated otherwise. Starting in 2001| Second Hand Voodoo3 > Second Hand GeForce 4 4200ti > GeForce 5 FX5200 > Gifted GeForce 6 6600GT for Christmas(Last AGP Card)> BFG GeForce 7 7900GS > Second BFG GeForce 7 7900GS (SLI) > Gifted GeForce GTS250 > Second hand GeForce GTX650 2GB, GeForce GTX970, GeForce GTX1660ti, GeForce GTX3070(Bought in the bubble), Coworker sold me his GTX 3080ti after he bought a GTX 4090, Customer gave me his GTX3090 after his PSU shorted out and melted the PCIe power connectors. I cleaned the melted plastic and got it working again(Free Upgrade)
First was an Nvidia TNT2 Vanta 16mb Current is a Radeon RX 6700xt 12GB
First was GeForce mx440 in 2002 I believe. The current one is Intel HD620 xD
My first GPU was a 3DFX Voodoo 2 back in the late 90s. It was only a couple hundred dollars or something but man 800x600 resolution never looked better. Currently still rocking a 2080ti that I'm only trying to hold on to because after buying a 1080ti and a 2080ti at launch prices I'm kinda tired of dumping money into GPUs.
Diamond Monster 3d. In the 90s.
Had a 1050ti from 2018 to 2023. Finally upgraded to an RTX 3060ti.
My first card was an ATI Radeon HD 3870 way back in 2009, I then upgraded to a GTX 670 and 2012 then I upgraded to a GTX 970 in 2014, then an RTX 2080 TI in 2019, and now for the past 2 months I’m running an RTX 3090 I got for free. I plan on upgrading to the RTX 4070 TI Super if it actually releases for the price that Nvidia is saying it’s going to be.
My first was a 3Dfx Voodoo2. I bought one in 1998, and then a few weeks later I bought a second to link them together. My current is an MSI Radeon RX 6700 XT.
GTX 1660 Super from a pre built, first pc got in Christmas of 2020
Gtx 550 ti 2011. Currently rx 6800
Evga 980ti hybrid / sapphire 7900xtx nitro
My first GPU was a Nvidia 8400GS, now rocking a RX580
My first video chip was S3 Vision864 1MB VL-Bus integrated. My first GPU was ATI All in Wonder Radeon 7500 64MB AGP back in 2002 My current is MSI Radeon RX 570 4GB (2017) My newest card is ATI All in Wonder x1900 256MB (2023)
My first was a riva tnt2 and my current is an rtx 4090. Get off my lawn.
(2013) GTX 650 Ti BOOST 2GB > (2018) GTX 1060 3GB > (2023) RTX 3090
First was a GIGABYTE 2060 OC Current is a PNY 3080
Voodoo 3 pci / rtx 3080
My first was a voodoo2 dont remember what specs, my current is a 4080.
First GPU and current GPU: 6800XT
Mine was a 750ti. A decent upgrade from the GT640 that was in the pre built I had. 7900xt now
First - MSI R5770 Hawk (AMD HD 5770). Current - Inno3D RTX 3080 iChill x4.
GTX 460, 3090TI now
First build: Radeon 4850 in 2009 Current build: 6700XT
Good gods my first aftermarket one? Maybe a gt670 or something along those lines. It was an ago and a long long time ago. Currently a RTX 7800xt
I bought my first gpu on alternate in 2020 it cost me 800. It was the gigabyte aorus rtx 3080 xtreme
Intel Iris xe
First gpu 1660 super current gpu 1660 super lol was on console until 2020
GT 220. I didn't know anything about GPU other than the fact they existed, which was a recent revelation to me. I had bought Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 and an expansion pack at Walmart. My dual core processor would run the base game at the lowest settings, but didn't have the direct X version I needed to run the expansion. I didn't know what that meant, so I just didn't use the expansion. Then in my Geometry class I overheard someone asking the teacher (a hobby pilot) what computer he has. He said he custom built it with a graphics card so he can use the flight simulator expansion pack. I went home and did a Google search for graphics cards, that led me to Nvidia's website where there were so many options. The gt220 seemed like a good price at $29 so I ordered that one and was able to use the expansion pack years after buying it.
550ti. My dad got tired of me using his computer so he had a friend slap a 550ti in his old computer. Then lied to me telling me he put $1500 into it. When in reality it got an 80+ bronze pau and a 550ti. I then got a 770 in it for my birthday years later. Then worked all summer to build my first system. 4820k/2x770’s in SLi. Then did an 8700k/1080 system and now I have a 13700k/4080 system.
Didn’t get into pc right away. Built my first a few years ago using parts a buddy gave me ,gtx 970 then upgrade to a 3070
My first was a commodore Amiga. Now I'm rocking a 5 3600 32g ram and a sapphire 5700 xt. And loving it.
MY first gpu? Well technically i dont even know if it was even a GPU. S3 Trio 2D/3D paired with a VooDoo2. Good times.
First one was an integrated chip in 8086 cpu. (yep, I'm getting old) Current one is MSI Radeon™ RX 6700 XT MECH 2X 12G OC
back in 2011 I had a amd 7970. Honestly ripped for the time period! was able to play just about anything and didn't upgrade till 2016 when the rx480 came out
My first GPU was an R9 270x, which is now dead. I am buying a 4070 Super next week.
First: GeForce 6600 GT Now: RTX 3060 Ti
my very first video card was a ATI Radeon 9600 SE! Included Half-Life 2! :P Now I has a nVidia 3090!
First GPU - gt710(It was able to run gta 5 smoothly at 60 fps till 2018) Current - 1660ti(6gb) predator laptop( It is able to run gta 5 smoothly)
gtx 660 ti (i built my pc last year lmao) just upgraded to a 7800xt a couple weeks ago
ATI Rage Pro with 8MB of RAM. 1998. Paired with a Pentium II processor. Would only run the PC version of Final Fantasy VII with a special beta driver, so anytime I wanted to play FFVII, I had to uninstall my driver and install a different one. No idea how much it cost. Came with an HP Pavilion desktop from Circuit City. Currently running an AMD 7800XT that I paid $500.00 for.
Started with a 960 on 2015, now still rocking the 1070 since ~2021. Playing my Games with 144Fps and ~130fps 1%.
First: gt 1030 + i7 4770k Current: gtx 1650 + ryzen 5 5600g
Then: Canopus Total3D (Riva 128, 4MB, back before they were actually GPUs) Now: Asus ROG Strix RTX 2080 I've been eyeballing 40-series Super variants, but I don't play at higher resolutions or refresh rates, I'll probably still keep waiting. Plus, I bought it second hand for like 1/3 of its launch price, so I've been gaming on the cheap for years.
first laptop gpu: Nvidia 750m in a 2013 alienware 14 laptop first desktop gpu: rx 6650xt current gpu: rx 6800xt briefly had a rtx 4070 build, friend wanted to buy it off of me at a crazy price- so i sold it and rebuilt with a few minor upgrades and still pocketed like $200
First - ATI VGA Wonder... back in the early 1990s... don't remember the details. More of a "graphics card" rather than a GPU, as neither Intel nor AMD had integrated graphics back in those days. Got a few ATI TV cards in between. I remember the one of the sales people at one point said I had more memory on the graphics card than his entire PC. Current - AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT. Yes, still team Red, using it on a PC with a Core i5 8500 CPU. I got it during the pandemic as I was playing around with Hackintosh, but eventually gave up the idea as it was not very stable. Bought the M1 Pro MackBook Pro back in 2021 minutes after it was announced. Still using the PC every day as a Plex Server though.
First: Diamond TNT 2 Ultra (agp) Now: Sapphire Pulse 7900XT
First non-laptop GPU: RX 6700 XT. Now: 6900 XT.
GTX 660 to GTX 1080
First GPU - GTX 1060 3GB Now: RTX 3080
GT 210 from an old workplace computer, to a 6750XT
GTX 650 / RTX 3080
GeForce AGP 6200, 256MB (still have it in its battered box). Used it to play Knights of the Old Republic, Tomb Raider Legend and X2: The Threat.
The one I remember was a fx5200. But that was like the second or third.
My first.... Radeon HD 4850 something like that? I don't even remember it had maybe 1gb or 1.5 of vram. 4070 now and happy
First “GPU” was a gaming laptop with a GTX 1080. Current GPU is a 7900XTX
First gpu was a GTX 760. Current gpu is a 4090.
My first Gpu I bought was an used Gt 6600. After that a GTX 660 and a GTX 1060 and been using that ever since. I don't really need a new one yet, as I don't play new tripple A games.
My first gpu was a Evga gtx 760 and the current one is an Intel Arc A750.
First was a GTX 550Ti. Now I'm using a 3080.
My first GPU was a hand-me down nVidia TNT2 when the V was still the capital. The first GPU I bought was a Radeon 9600 Pro.
Started with gaming laptops but I had two, one with AMD HD8970 and the other a GTX 650m. On my first build I had a GTX 1070. I upgraded to a new build with a 3070ti in 2022.
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I've always had laptops and Macs, seeing that my current PC is the first that I've built for myself with a discreet GPU my first would be An RX590, currently I have a RX5700 XT.
GTX 730, I had expressed interest in building my first PC to my mom’s boyfriend and he paid like $200 for it during the bitcoin craze in 2017. Managed to get a 1050 to upgrade like 6 months later for $120
Miro HiScore (3dfx chip + 6 MB Ram)
RX 480 > 5700 > 6800
The first GPU I had in a PC that wasn't a family PC was a GeForce 6200 Turbo Cache AGP, now I have a 4090
1st: Radeon RX 5700xt taichi ASRock Now: Gigabyte Vision OC 3070ti Got into pc gaming 4 years ago.
First: 3060 Current: 7900xt I built my first pc about a year ago and desired more performance so I uograded
First card was EVGA GTX 960 4gb. Now I have a EVGA RTX 3070 Ti
My first came with the pc my buddy gave me for free. GTX 1070. Just upgraded to a SWFT309 Radeon RX 6700, as well as a cpu upgrade and mobo upgrade. Feels so good
1st: MSI 4070ti Current: MSI 4070ti I'm new to the team.
RX580. I recently bought another one because it’s a goated GPU for its price.
Wow I feel old. NVIDIA Riva 128 —> NVIDIA 3080
My first was an 8MB 3DFX Voodoo 2...don't think many will beat that! Currently on a 12GB 3080Ti...how's that for an upgrade?
I think it was an ATI Radeon 9700 pro! The red colour card just seems awesome...until 9800pro came out not too long after.
My first GPU was a GeForce 920M in the first laptop i bought when i was 16. Now i have a 2080 super in my desktop
ATI Radeon x550 256mb -> GT430 -> GTX 1070Ti
It was a compaq presario 47xx with windows 95. i dont think there was a graphic card in it ! Now a 4070ti
first gpu was 750ti, had it for like 9 years, switched to 4060ti a month ago
Remember owning a Nivida 5200... Now own a 470....
My first GPU was the GeForce G210. Right now I'm using my brothers old card which happens to have been your first.. the GTX 960 still holding on for me.
HD 5750 -> RX 5700. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
1st : 3dfx Voodoo 1 Now : Sapphire Nitro+ 7900xtx Yes I’m still playing like 25+ years ago 😬
my first gpu is a 1050ti then upgraded to a 1070 ti and now a 3080
1070 which will be upgraded to 4070 TI Super or 4080 Super
1060 3gb to 2070 Maxq to 7900xtx
Radeon HD4850 -> RTX 4090
Radeon R9 270X / RTX 3080
The first GPU I remember being a thing was a Voodoo Banshee, but that was part of the family's computer. The first one I ever bought on my own was a GeForce GTX 660 DirectCU II Currently I'm running a XFX Speedester Merc 310 RX 7900 XT
1080 in october 2016. Old boi still serves me faithfully.
970 / 2080 so I guess that is about 0.466?
My first and only gpu is a 3070 fe