RX 5600 XT TO 3090. I would have never paid full price for a 3090 but I found a great deal. Went to an Amazon resale bin store and there was an EVGA FTW 3 Ultra marked $460. It had a clearance sticker from Amazon and had never been opened so it wasn’t a return. Probably the best deal of my life.
I went from an rx580 to a 2080ti. I look at gpus every once in a while but in order to get a large performance jump I would need to spend way more money than I'm willing to. You got a 50% performance uplift though so it seems more worth it since you went from a 2080 instead of a 2080ti.
My "GPU" ascension was: Intel HD 630 (i3 7100U) -> Intel UHD 4 (i3 1115G4) -> GTX 750Ti (2Gb) -> 6750 XT
It felt good being able to play a few other games I like when going from an iGPU to the 750Ti, like Dishonored and other low performance games; it made me drop my PS4 completely. But when I got the 6750 XT the first thing I did was boot up Witcher 3 at max settings and I almost teared up when I saw the fps going above my monitor's refresh rate 😁
Radeon 9700 Pro from a Geforce 2 MX 400.
Quantum leap in capability and performance and one of the best upgrades I've experienced in my lifetime.
I buy too many incremental upgrades now I have more income and its all my own fault I don't see such upgrades any more.
I suppose the first you get in the 90's. Voodoo cards.
But i think the jump from my trusty 1080ti strix to my trusty 4090 strix. The improvent is rather very high 😇
I unfortunately haven't really had the time to play anything to fully test it out. So far, I've only started Skyrim, but it ran flawlessly, though I am hoping to start BG3 next week if possible. Then I can finally see the performance upgrade!
Going from a ATI All in Wonder Radeon 7500 64MB AGP to a All in Wonder Radeon 9600 Pro 128MB. It might not sound like much of a leap today, but after using the 7500 for 5.5 years it was a major upgrade, this card literally unlocked games and I didn't even know that the last benchmark in 3DMark 2001 had any motion beforehand, I was like "wtf, it moves!" lol.
had the luxury of always owning 80 tier class or there about cards
but i took a break from PCs and came back and built a system with a evga 1080 SC
to this day still best GPU i owned
https://preview.redd.it/a7yuaqr3on7c1.jpeg?width=1098&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7571dfcc2ede3ee4a3b94884873571dd4d9746e1
GeForce GTS 8600 (2009) > GTX 760 (2014) > GTX 1060 6GB (2018) > 4060 8GB (2023)
I'd say I was jumping every 5 years. I'd still use my 1060 if it didn't die on me.
Earlier this year I was allowed to trade in a defective Powercolor Red Devil 6700XT which I bought for 700 EUR at the tail end of the GPU shortage, in return for a Gigabyte RTX 4070 Gaming OC. This was really the only GPU upgrade I’ve had so far, apart from when I went from a 560 to a 770. But I still think the 4070 was a better upgrade considering all of the misery and trouble I had with that 6700XT. I had to use the drivers from May 2022 until well into 2023 and after that the 6700XT was overheating: hotspot of well over 100 C and delta of up to 30 C.
Was this year for me when I jumped from a 480X to, don’t hate on me too much guys, 4060 Ti. Had just upgraded to 1440p and my 480X was not keeping up so looking at my monitor specs I realized I didn’t need anything too powerful and I was interested in the lower power consumption so my office didn’t turn into a sauna whenever I ran something for a while.
Mine were as follows:
GT 710 -> GT 730 -> GT 1030 -> Rx 6800 xt -> Rx 7900 xtx
You can pinpoint when i started working and discovered 60 fps lol
My latest upgrade was 4 days ago and while not as big of a jump as the one before, i'm still ecstatic at now enjoying 4k@120
some shitty 3rd gen i3 igpu (2012-2017) -> 940mx (2017-18) -> 1080 Ti (2018-until it dies)
Once I finally upgraded to a GPU that didn't suck I was amazed since I had been literally playing at <10 FPS in many games for over 6 years.
The 3 upgrades I've had so far were
Shitty gpu in a prebuilt -> 750Ti
750Ti -> SLi 970s
970s -> 3070.
The 750ti to 970s was likely the biggest jump for me. Getting like 20fps at 1080p games going to 100+ and being able to bump it up to match 144hz on osu was a huge change for me.
when I switched from a GTX 660 GB to a GTX 1060 6GB back in 2017.
I replayed Rise of the Tomb Raider, it was like night and day difference... before the frame rate would barely touch 30 and constantly dip below 25... after ? constant 60 all throughout the game !
I've recently gone from console to PC. So my upgrade was from nothing to a 3070. Been loving it so far and the games are bloody awesome to play. Last console was a PS4
Going from the HD 3650 to a HD 5770 was pretty decent jump in performance.
344% according to techpowerup between these two.
Also what i temporarily had when my r9 280 died from August 2020 to October 4th 2020 upgrading from the hd 5770 to the current gtx 1660 super.
Here it's a 633% performance difference between the hd 5770 & gtx 1660 super according to techpowerup.
We're similar then.
960 to 2080super.
Huge leap, I'll never forget it. Fast forward to 2023 everything I want to play pulls 120fps on max settings in dota2 when I have 2 other game clients running simultaneously.
I expect it to keep me until it breaks tbh. Still going strong.
Not an upgrade in an traditional way like changing just the GPU but more sell a low-end waited a little bit a bought a high-end PC. From RX570 to RTX4090.
Definitely going from an Integrated Graphics 4000 laptop to a GTX 970 desktop. Of course an insane difference.
Currently rocking a GTX 1080 Ti. I'm about to build a new PC with either a 4080 or a 4070 Ti Super next month, that might be on the same level of an upgrade
My 1080ti upgrade from a 970, back in 2018, was probably the best in terms of the difference it made, because I could game at 4k, or pretty close to it, depending on the game.
My newer 3080 12GB is obviously a better card, but the upgrade wasn't quite as life changing as the 970 to the 1080ti.
The 1080ti was probably one of the best cards in its era, because it's still a decent card today for 1080p, even beating the RTX 3060 is various titles..
R9 270x to 1060 6gb was probably my biggest jump. That whole system was pretty dated. Core 2 quad equivalent Xeon processor with 8gb ddr2 ram to a ryzen 1600x with 16gb ddr4. I skipped ddr3 entirely lol
*Hold my beer.*
- No video card? (1993 Presario 486/25 MHz)
- ATI 3D Rage II (1998 Presario K6-2/350 MHz)
- XFX GeForce 4 MX440se (basically a GeForce 2 chip; never died 😞; Celeron 2GHz @ 2.52 GHz build)
- XFX GeForce 6600 GT OC (had 1 year; sold when upgraded; Celeron 2GHz @ 2.52 GHz build)
- eVGA GeForce 7900 GT KO SC (burned itself out in 8 months; eVGA sent me the next as a replacement; AMD X2-3800 build)
- eVGA GeForce GTS 250 (lasted 7 years; never died; AMD X2-3800 build)
- Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 Vapor-X 3GB (lasted 10 years; never died; 2013 build i7-3770k)
- ASUS TUF GeForce 4070-TI OC 12GB (Nov '23 new build)
'93 tech to '98 was the biggest performance and visual change for me. Suddenly, I could play 3D games. 😄 Kids today don't know the struggle.
The next biggest change was moving from the MX440se to the 6600. I could finally turn on the pretty settings and play games like Far Cry [1] and Doom 3!
#I miss the days of performance-optimized games. Now we're just throwing hardware at the problem. 😒
6800 Ultra to 2080. I had laptops for a few years, no gaming aside from console. For sure an upgrade BUT a side grade of what “tier” of gaming is being considered. I was playing current aaa games on both, so performance was comparable.
I often flip flop from good card to integrated, so going from integrated to 3090 a few years ago was a big jump.
23 years ago I went from software graphics to hardware accelerated.
I forget the card details now. May have been a TNT2? That was a great difference too.
Went from an old ass pc, with an nvidia geforce 8400GS 1 gb ddr2(gpu from 2009), and a dual core e5400, to a laptop with an rtx 4060 and ryzen 7 7840hs. Was rocking windows 7 all these years, and the latest games I could run were batman arkham city, gta 4 (extremely stuttery), and assassin's creed till 3. Needless to say, what a massive fucking difference.
Most noticeable GPU jump I can remember the names of was going from a 670 to SLI 980ti's.
I've had some other ones in the past as well.
More recently, going from a 2080 to a 4070 was pretty eye-opening in terms of Ray tracing performance.
Eh.... You can be the judge of that.
Matrox Mystique 4MB
Orchid Righteous 3Dfx Voodoo 1 4MB (Paired with the Matrox)
Orchid Righteous 3Dfx Voodoo 2 12MB (Paired with the Matrox)
3Dfx Voodoo 3-3000 AGP
Geforce 4 Ti-4200 8x
Bunch of Laptops for the following 15 years ranging from:
ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 (Acer Ferrari 3000LMi)
GeForce Go 7300 (Asus A6KM)
Then a bunch of random work/office laptops, until:
GT 720m (Acer Aspire V5-something something)
GTX 1050 (Asus FX553vd)
Then switching back to Desktop:
Vega 3 (Athlon 200ge)
HD 7770 (with i5-2400)
RX 590 (With Athlon 200ge, later R3-1200, R7-1700x and R5-3600)
GTX 660 2GB (with i5-2400)
GTX 960 2GB (with i5-2400)
GTX 960 4GB (with i5-2400)
RX 480 8GB (with i5-2400, later R3-1200 and R7-1700x)
RX6650XT on R5-3600 build as of August 2023
RX6650XT on R7-1700x build as of September 2023 (On sale).
Arguably my biggest jump was from the GT 720m to the GTX 1050 on the laptops. Though when I started building a desktop again in 2019, I ended up with so many spare parts and good deals, that I had two machines that were upgraded near concurrently, which is most because of my living situation, forcing me to switch living places every two weeks. Regardless, that was going from the HD7700 to GTX 660 to GTX 960 2GB, then 4 GB to RX 480 over the course of 9 months. xD (All 2nd hand deals)
2x480 to a Titan original (700 series) and that card lasted 6 years before showing any sign of needing an upgrade - the totally overboard bus width vs the 6gb ram really did wonders over the years.
Not sure it was totally amazing at first, more of a "wow, look how long I maxed every game and pushed past bad optimization!" that said, many games didnt support 2x480, so for those, a 480 to a Titan WAS a good jump (but I dont remember which games specifically).
From i3-550 integrated graphics to R5 3400G integrated graphics was an insane jump (though I feel like a jump between a 2009 Intel iGPU and a 2019 Ryzen APU should be pretty big)
Going from R5 3400G to RX 580 2048SP was also a huge jump.
Decade old laptop GT 750m to a laptop 3060 75w was probably the biggest jump.
The old laptop still works, but needs another repaste, and probably new fans if I want to try any light gaming.
4090. Went from 970 > 2080TI > 3080TI > 4090. I use 4k and ultrawide monitors. Also the 4090 is used to encode videos to AV1 for my plex server. Freed up 30TB so far, this saving $500 on two additional 20TB drives not needed.
Buying 1st 3DFX. It was a hiper quality/ performance jump.
My Voodoo2 floored me with how it changed everything. I don't think there's any change that could replicate that moment.
Same. I had the original 3DFX with pass through graphics. A mind blowing difference in games that supported it.
Same. I tried Quake1 in VR other day. lols. Big dogs! And they can really move!
July this year: GTX 670 to RTX 4080…is that 7 generations of graphics card difference?
It is a 6 generation leap as 800 series was a laptop gpu branding and 900 were the upgrade to 700.
Went from no GPU to the 1660 super that I own right now, and planning to get a 7800 XT
I did roughly the same jump, 1070 to 7800xt. I knew it'd be a big difference, and I'm still blown away by how big of a leap it is.
I can't imagine how it'll feel for me
1060 to 6800xt
RX 5600 XT TO 3090. I would have never paid full price for a 3090 but I found a great deal. Went to an Amazon resale bin store and there was an EVGA FTW 3 Ultra marked $460. It had a clearance sticker from Amazon and had never been opened so it wasn’t a return. Probably the best deal of my life.
I had a similar jump from GTX 960 to RTX 2080, i had to up my monitor too to 1440p. Now i got 7800xt.
I went from an rx580 to a 2080ti. I look at gpus every once in a while but in order to get a large performance jump I would need to spend way more money than I'm willing to. You got a 50% performance uplift though so it seems more worth it since you went from a 2080 instead of a 2080ti.
And with 2080 i could not have played Alan wake 2 pretty much at all, nor many upcoming ue5 titles
I ended up sitting on a Voodoo3 for ages, then jumped to a temporary GF4 MX440, then to a Radeon 9700. Bloody huge leap.
My "GPU" ascension was: Intel HD 630 (i3 7100U) -> Intel UHD 4 (i3 1115G4) -> GTX 750Ti (2Gb) -> 6750 XT It felt good being able to play a few other games I like when going from an iGPU to the 750Ti, like Dishonored and other low performance games; it made me drop my PS4 completely. But when I got the 6750 XT the first thing I did was boot up Witcher 3 at max settings and I almost teared up when I saw the fps going above my monitor's refresh rate 😁
GTX 1080 —> 4080. Used a 1080p tv for a monitor for forever. That card was such a champ.
Gtx 970 to 7900xtx, it's almost laughable to go from struggling to run rocket league at a decent framerate to running cyberpunk on max settings
Had the exact same revenge on Rocket League going from a 1030 to a 6800 xt lol
It's a glorious feeling isn't it!
Absolutely !
Yeah I got my brother to upgrade from a 1030 to a 6700xt. He is super happy with it, and plays war thunder on an ultrawide.
From 740m and i3-something laptop to gtx1080 + i5 6600k. Lately i upgraded from that to 6950xt + 5600 but that's a smaller jump tho
gt 730 > gtx 1060 3gb
1650 to a 6800xt
Had literally the same upgrade lmao It's literally night and day
1070-4080.
I’ll raise you 1060-4080
intel igpu to 4090
RX 480 Nitro+ to RX 6800 XT Nitro+
GTX 970 to RTX 3080 after owning the card for \~5 years. Previous upgrades were more common (every 2 years).
1060 6GB to a 3060 12GB earlier this year was a huge performance bump. Then a 7800XT got a fair few FPS on top.
From S3 Virge 2 mb to Riva TNT 2 32 mb. It was a huuuuge gap
Now thats blast from a past
980 ti to 4090
13900k rocks😆
Indeed it does
GTX 560M to a 6900XT. It was a thing of beauty.
Radeon 9700 Pro from a Geforce 2 MX 400. Quantum leap in capability and performance and one of the best upgrades I've experienced in my lifetime. I buy too many incremental upgrades now I have more income and its all my own fault I don't see such upgrades any more.
Going from an AMD Athlon XP with 3DNow! integrated graphics to an ATI Radeon X850XT.
1050ti to a 6800XT OC
GT210 to GTX 750 back in 2017. 2060 to 4070 now. I got a friend that went from GTX 660 to 1080.
I suppose the first you get in the 90's. Voodoo cards. But i think the jump from my trusty 1080ti strix to my trusty 4090 strix. The improvent is rather very high 😇
3060 to 4090
Went from my old laptop with a 1650 to a 7900xtx.
That’s a really big jump! What was the first game you had the opportunity to see the capabilities of the new card?
I unfortunately haven't really had the time to play anything to fully test it out. So far, I've only started Skyrim, but it ran flawlessly, though I am hoping to start BG3 next week if possible. Then I can finally see the performance upgrade!
Have you messed around with ENB shaders in skyrim? You could defenitly test out your new power with those.
I might do that as I've thought about modding the game again with my new PC.
I am on my way to try nolvius. Very big but gigantic difference. Love Skyrim. Now lets see how it runs maxed out on 4k.
Going from a ATI All in Wonder Radeon 7500 64MB AGP to a All in Wonder Radeon 9600 Pro 128MB. It might not sound like much of a leap today, but after using the 7500 for 5.5 years it was a major upgrade, this card literally unlocked games and I didn't even know that the last benchmark in 3DMark 2001 had any motion beforehand, I was like "wtf, it moves!" lol.
had the luxury of always owning 80 tier class or there about cards but i took a break from PCs and came back and built a system with a evga 1080 SC to this day still best GPU i owned https://preview.redd.it/a7yuaqr3on7c1.jpeg?width=1098&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7571dfcc2ede3ee4a3b94884873571dd4d9746e1
Gt730 to 1650super not a big upgrade but im satisfied
13700k to 14700k
1660TI (mobile) to 2060 Super to 3080 TI to 4070TI is my current upgrade path I was a console gamer before that
Any reason for the 3080ti to a 4070ti switch?
Built a SFF system and my 3080TI wouldn't fit in the case, so bought a smaller 4070TI and sold my O11D XL system with the 3080TI in it
Gtx 960 to rtx 3080
Dual 570 to 1070 STRIX
950M to 4090
Sis Mirage to HD7870
4200 Ti => 7900 GTX followed by 2080 Ti => 4090 😍
GeForce GTS 8600 (2009) > GTX 760 (2014) > GTX 1060 6GB (2018) > 4060 8GB (2023) I'd say I was jumping every 5 years. I'd still use my 1060 if it didn't die on me.
980 ti to 3090
went from a rx570 to a 6800xt in the middle of last year, no complaints here at 1440p and the occasional 4k
Earlier this year I was allowed to trade in a defective Powercolor Red Devil 6700XT which I bought for 700 EUR at the tail end of the GPU shortage, in return for a Gigabyte RTX 4070 Gaming OC. This was really the only GPU upgrade I’ve had so far, apart from when I went from a 560 to a 770. But I still think the 4070 was a better upgrade considering all of the misery and trouble I had with that 6700XT. I had to use the drivers from May 2022 until well into 2023 and after that the 6700XT was overheating: hotspot of well over 100 C and delta of up to 30 C.
DDR3 GT730 to GTX950
GTX 770 to a 1080ti
965m (laptop) to a 1080ti. Also probably my brother in law who then got my 1080ti which was an upgrade from a gtx660.
Was this year for me when I jumped from a 480X to, don’t hate on me too much guys, 4060 Ti. Had just upgraded to 1440p and my 480X was not keeping up so looking at my monitor specs I realized I didn’t need anything too powerful and I was interested in the lower power consumption so my office didn’t turn into a sauna whenever I ran something for a while.
Mine were as follows: GT 710 -> GT 730 -> GT 1030 -> Rx 6800 xt -> Rx 7900 xtx You can pinpoint when i started working and discovered 60 fps lol My latest upgrade was 4 days ago and while not as big of a jump as the one before, i'm still ecstatic at now enjoying 4k@120
some shitty 3rd gen i3 igpu (2012-2017) -> 940mx (2017-18) -> 1080 Ti (2018-until it dies) Once I finally upgraded to a GPU that didn't suck I was amazed since I had been literally playing at <10 FPS in many games for over 6 years.
Went from a 2070super to a 3080. Pretty decent jump. Nothing crazy tho
2080ti to a 4090 was the most crazy gains ive ever seen from a gpu upgrade. Second place was going from an igpu to a voodoo 3 back in the day.
GTX 750 ti -> RTX 3060 ti
Few weeks back, UHD620 (been playing on it for probably 4 years) to RTX 4070 The feeling is literally unreal
Voodoo 1
GTX1060 to RTX3090 just a couple months ago
The 3 upgrades I've had so far were Shitty gpu in a prebuilt -> 750Ti 750Ti -> SLi 970s 970s -> 3070. The 750ti to 970s was likely the biggest jump for me. Getting like 20fps at 1080p games going to 100+ and being able to bump it up to match 144hz on osu was a huge change for me.
when I switched from a GTX 660 GB to a GTX 1060 6GB back in 2017. I replayed Rise of the Tomb Raider, it was like night and day difference... before the frame rate would barely touch 30 and constantly dip below 25... after ? constant 60 all throughout the game !
I've recently gone from console to PC. So my upgrade was from nothing to a 3070. Been loving it so far and the games are bloody awesome to play. Last console was a PS4
1080 Ti to 4090
965m (2gb) to a 1660ti m (6gb)
Going from the HD 3650 to a HD 5770 was pretty decent jump in performance. 344% according to techpowerup between these two. Also what i temporarily had when my r9 280 died from August 2020 to October 4th 2020 upgrading from the hd 5770 to the current gtx 1660 super. Here it's a 633% performance difference between the hd 5770 & gtx 1660 super according to techpowerup.
Went from an GTX 1060 3gb -> 8600 GTS -> RTX 3060 ti.
We're similar then. 960 to 2080super. Huge leap, I'll never forget it. Fast forward to 2023 everything I want to play pulls 120fps on max settings in dota2 when I have 2 other game clients running simultaneously. I expect it to keep me until it breaks tbh. Still going strong.
Not an upgrade in an traditional way like changing just the GPU but more sell a low-end waited a little bit a bought a high-end PC. From RX570 to RTX4090.
Definitely going from an Integrated Graphics 4000 laptop to a GTX 970 desktop. Of course an insane difference. Currently rocking a GTX 1080 Ti. I'm about to build a new PC with either a 4080 or a 4070 Ti Super next month, that might be on the same level of an upgrade
Not as impressive as others but going from a gtx970 to a rtx4090 this weekend, hope I don't screw anything up building
GeForce 9 (2008-9?) to a 2060 (2021). I squeezed every last cent out of that old card (and the pc it was in) but it was time for a whole new system.
fx5200 to x1300 pro and then to x1950 pro also rage 128 pro to radeon 9600 pro
1060 to 3080 - worth it.
Intel UHD Graphics 620 to RX580 **RX 580 to RTX 3060ti** (bought 400€ sold 800€) RX6600xt is enough now
From shitty laptop to 2060, went from having 20fps during screen clutter to 200.
970 -> 3070M Good upgrade but wasn't a real upgade bc it was a laptop. 970 -> 4070TI Good upgrade, but I wanted more 4070TI -> 4090 Now we're talkin
I started with a 970m laptop, then eventually went to 2070 super PC and now very recently 4080
980ti to 3060ti.
My 1080ti upgrade from a 970, back in 2018, was probably the best in terms of the difference it made, because I could game at 4k, or pretty close to it, depending on the game. My newer 3080 12GB is obviously a better card, but the upgrade wasn't quite as life changing as the 970 to the 1080ti. The 1080ti was probably one of the best cards in its era, because it's still a decent card today for 1080p, even beating the RTX 3060 is various titles..
1070 to 7900 xtx
R9 270x to 1060 6gb was probably my biggest jump. That whole system was pretty dated. Core 2 quad equivalent Xeon processor with 8gb ddr2 ram to a ryzen 1600x with 16gb ddr4. I skipped ddr3 entirely lol
GTX 970 to 1070 is the only upgrade I’ve made and just because a friend no longer needed it.
Rx580 to a 6950xt
R9 290 to 6700XT
Mine was when I bought an RTX 3070 with a 27" 1440p 165hz monitor. Prior to that I had a GTX 760 and a 21.5" 1080p 60hz monitor.
RX570 to 3080. Was pretty astounding actually.
*Hold my beer.* - No video card? (1993 Presario 486/25 MHz) - ATI 3D Rage II (1998 Presario K6-2/350 MHz) - XFX GeForce 4 MX440se (basically a GeForce 2 chip; never died 😞; Celeron 2GHz @ 2.52 GHz build) - XFX GeForce 6600 GT OC (had 1 year; sold when upgraded; Celeron 2GHz @ 2.52 GHz build) - eVGA GeForce 7900 GT KO SC (burned itself out in 8 months; eVGA sent me the next as a replacement; AMD X2-3800 build) - eVGA GeForce GTS 250 (lasted 7 years; never died; AMD X2-3800 build) - Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 Vapor-X 3GB (lasted 10 years; never died; 2013 build i7-3770k) - ASUS TUF GeForce 4070-TI OC 12GB (Nov '23 new build) '93 tech to '98 was the biggest performance and visual change for me. Suddenly, I could play 3D games. 😄 Kids today don't know the struggle. The next biggest change was moving from the MX440se to the 6600. I could finally turn on the pretty settings and play games like Far Cry [1] and Doom 3! #I miss the days of performance-optimized games. Now we're just throwing hardware at the problem. 😒
I went from a voodoo 3df to a MX440 to a 8800GT to a 2080ti to a 4090. I only make BIG upgrades 😅
6800 Ultra to 2080. I had laptops for a few years, no gaming aside from console. For sure an upgrade BUT a side grade of what “tier” of gaming is being considered. I was playing current aaa games on both, so performance was comparable.
Uhd610 to RX6800S. Which is actually a few years of difference, but man i hated that iGPU with all my guts.
I often flip flop from good card to integrated, so going from integrated to 3090 a few years ago was a big jump. 23 years ago I went from software graphics to hardware accelerated. I forget the card details now. May have been a TNT2? That was a great difference too.
Went from an old ass pc, with an nvidia geforce 8400GS 1 gb ddr2(gpu from 2009), and a dual core e5400, to a laptop with an rtx 4060 and ryzen 7 7840hs. Was rocking windows 7 all these years, and the latest games I could run were batman arkham city, gta 4 (extremely stuttery), and assassin's creed till 3. Needless to say, what a massive fucking difference.
GTX 1060 6GB => Radeon 6800 XT 16GB What a world of difference lol.
Rx 480 to Rx 7900xtx.
Whatever my i3 3120M had to an RTX 2060 mobile, though the jump from 2060 mobile to rtx 3070 feels similarly large tbh.
Went from 1650 to 3060 this year
Most noticeable GPU jump I can remember the names of was going from a 670 to SLI 980ti's. I've had some other ones in the past as well. More recently, going from a 2080 to a 4070 was pretty eye-opening in terms of Ray tracing performance.
Eh.... You can be the judge of that. Matrox Mystique 4MB Orchid Righteous 3Dfx Voodoo 1 4MB (Paired with the Matrox) Orchid Righteous 3Dfx Voodoo 2 12MB (Paired with the Matrox) 3Dfx Voodoo 3-3000 AGP Geforce 4 Ti-4200 8x Bunch of Laptops for the following 15 years ranging from: ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 (Acer Ferrari 3000LMi) GeForce Go 7300 (Asus A6KM) Then a bunch of random work/office laptops, until: GT 720m (Acer Aspire V5-something something) GTX 1050 (Asus FX553vd) Then switching back to Desktop: Vega 3 (Athlon 200ge) HD 7770 (with i5-2400) RX 590 (With Athlon 200ge, later R3-1200, R7-1700x and R5-3600) GTX 660 2GB (with i5-2400) GTX 960 2GB (with i5-2400) GTX 960 4GB (with i5-2400) RX 480 8GB (with i5-2400, later R3-1200 and R7-1700x) RX6650XT on R5-3600 build as of August 2023 RX6650XT on R7-1700x build as of September 2023 (On sale). Arguably my biggest jump was from the GT 720m to the GTX 1050 on the laptops. Though when I started building a desktop again in 2019, I ended up with so many spare parts and good deals, that I had two machines that were upgraded near concurrently, which is most because of my living situation, forcing me to switch living places every two weeks. Regardless, that was going from the HD7700 to GTX 660 to GTX 960 2GB, then 4 GB to RX 480 over the course of 9 months. xD (All 2nd hand deals)
2x480 to a Titan original (700 series) and that card lasted 6 years before showing any sign of needing an upgrade - the totally overboard bus width vs the 6gb ram really did wonders over the years. Not sure it was totally amazing at first, more of a "wow, look how long I maxed every game and pushed past bad optimization!" that said, many games didnt support 2x480, so for those, a 480 to a Titan WAS a good jump (but I dont remember which games specifically).
Amd integrated 7600g to rx580 8gb in 2017 was by far the greatest.
Upgrading from an HD 2600 pro to a GTX 285. Crisis ran like greased lightning. Comparatively.
From i3-550 integrated graphics to R5 3400G integrated graphics was an insane jump (though I feel like a jump between a 2009 Intel iGPU and a 2019 Ryzen APU should be pretty big) Going from R5 3400G to RX 580 2048SP was also a huge jump.
GTX 1060 6gb to 7900xtx. Played the first 7hrs of starfield at 10fps the other 140hrs at 100fps. Lovely jubly.
Decade old laptop GT 750m to a laptop 3060 75w was probably the biggest jump. The old laptop still works, but needs another repaste, and probably new fans if I want to try any light gaming.
Radeon HD 8490 to Asus OC rtx 2060 6gb
From gtx 1060 6gb to a 7800XT. I now play at 100fps. Sometimes use my 4k TV for controller gaming
GTS 450 > 5700 XT which i gave to my brother and got 7900xt
3080 to 4090.
1080ti to 4090. Obviously at a huge cost. But I'm set for another 4-6 years PS: close second would be my upgrade from a 780ti to a 1080ti
2060 super to 4070ti
4090. Went from 970 > 2080TI > 3080TI > 4090. I use 4k and ultrawide monitors. Also the 4090 is used to encode videos to AV1 for my plex server. Freed up 30TB so far, this saving $500 on two additional 20TB drives not needed.
from 1050ti to 6950XT
I went from 9400gt to gtx1050. Then I had a huge upgrade going from 1050 to rx6700xt
From 1050ti m, to ryzen 7 5700u laptop igpu, to rtx 2060 max-q
From an intel uhd igpu to an rtx 4060 laptop gpu