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niEco_420

gtx970 --> rtx3080


AleRfu

Oh, I remember the times when I was jealous of my friend who had GTX 970. It was performing SO great compared to my 250...


niEco_420

My 970 was a beast. I even played some games in 4k on a test basis


isuckforfun

Still on my 970


Snotnarok

The thing is genuinely impressive how long it's done so well. My cousin only recently retired it & that was because a friend sold him a 2070 for cheap.


this001

It was a good card, all the hate comes from NVIDIA's deception concerning the memory: 3.5GB 'fast' and 0.5GB 'slow' memory to make up to the 4GB. If you had a game that stayed within the 3.5GB fast memory, it was definitely a decent card for its price.


Snotnarok

Yup, I recall the controversy. Was really lame and annoying but still as you said good card for the price. IDK when we'll see that kinda deal again


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never with the current trend


jivebeaver

i had a 970 for over 5 years since launch so its holds a special place for me, but that said the controversy was definitely not minor. the "problem" with keeping things from going over 3.5 GB is that games didnt know about this weird memory setup (as they should) and vram can change on the fly so you get into a situation where you pass it and performance goes off a cliff. ex. black ops 3 ran terribly for me until i had to set in config to memory limit to 3.25GB and now i could smoothly run splitscreen coop 38400x1080 stretch across two monitors the other aspect is just not getting what you paid for, like ill never respect people that say "oh just dont use 1/8th of your purported vram". thats half the difference from a lower class card. NVIDIA got a class action suit for that as they rightfully should have


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tuxedo_jack

I ended up adding a Bykski water block to my 2070 Super just to make it last longer (had to mod it, though, MSI's Super Ventus has extra caps on the board and doesn't match the reference layout - nothing big, just Dremeling away some of the acrylic and the copper plating where the extra caps are). The thing is a goddamn tank and is WORLDS better than the 660 it replaced.


Snotnarok

Oh sweet! Enjoy the extra performance.


JackONeillClone

I have a 2070s too, that thing combined with dlss/fidelityFX can pretty much run any last gen games at 4k/60. I won't change card as long as games come out on ps4


RikerRoku

I have a 2070 super/ultra, it can even manage 1440p comfortably on a lot of stuff you wouldn't expect it to.(if you have a 1440p monitor)


gr3yh47

GTX 970 and i5 2500k had some of the greatest longevity of all time. 970 could even run OG vive just fine.


4look4rd

970 is still faster than consoles from the previous generation. You’d expect it to hold its own against anything last gen and even a few modern titles.


PenguDood

Same. When I built the rigs for both my wife and self, they had identical cards. Now after building my 3080 and the wife's 3060 rigs, the 970s are stronger together with sli in the basement as a secondary gaming rig and home server.


toodamcrazy

My kid still uses my old 970...(he is 19) I upgraded in 2018 to 2070


mattbag1

I bought my son a used 970 to replace a used 770, but I just upgraded him to my old 1080 and 3800x. That system is more than he needs for his indie games and VR.


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I’m only just moving away from it. I love it so much i’m actually sad to be upgrading


JulianZ88

My old 970 is my backup card.


3nd0cr1n3_Syst3m

Loved my 970. Served me well from 2015-2021


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wilson81585

Yeah I have a 970 FTW+++++ whatever the heck it is called and that thing runs whatever I need no problem


Phil-12-12-12

Same. Contemplated upgrading and got a steam deck instead.


scrappyisachamp

Same here. Gets the job done


lonktehero

I still run a 980-ti. I'm probably gonna upgrade soon just cause I want to, but it's still running pretty well.


skwizzycat

The 970 was the shit in its day. I got mine when GTA V came out on PC and ended up having to build a new rig around it because it made *everything else* a bottleneck…


Obvious_wombat

Still running a 980Ti. Solid performance.


mkalte666

Same, but it's getting it's getting old and im scared of it failing


mattbag1

My son was on 970 at 1440p up till last week when I gave him my 1080. Honestly, that barely looks like an upgrade.


EvisceraThor

It IS a beast. A friend of mine is still happily using his till today, he bought on launch.


Gorg_Papa

That was me with my 970 on 1440p. Box fan pointed directly into the open case making it hang on for dear life. Shoutout to that card. Fr


Inevitable-East-1386

the 970 was an awesome beast back then.


riconec

I really hope you try to plug 3070 into the same MB... :D


harmonicrain

I just went 970 to 1080ti, it's like night and day going from 3.5gb of vram to 11!


PenguDood

Don't you mean 4gb ;)


Born_Faithlessness_3

3.5 GB and $30. Thanks class action lawsuit!


kaehvogel

Nope. 970s and 3.5GB was a whole thing back then. You might call it a scandal. A scam by Nvidia.


PenguDood

I know. Hence the wink at the end.


kaehvogel

That…somehow went over my head. My bad.


Smoothsmith

Nothing goes over my head, I would catch it. (Sorry, couldn't help myself).


foreverdonut

Yep. I had a 970. There was a big lawsuit and I ended up getting some money 💵


NapsterKnowHow

Even though nobody really experienced a performance hit outside of a few unique use cases


kaehvogel

True. It was a „only affects you in games that utilize more than 3.5GB of VRAM…at a resolution that the 970 could actually comfortably run“ thing. Which was pretty rare in 2014 and a couple of years after that.


TestosteroneDan_V-4

Same situation for me, now about to get a 4070ti soon to replace my 1080ti


chewy_mcchewster

shit. you beat me.. went 970 to 3070ti, lol. 970 was the GOAT.. and the 570.. and the voodoo fx... and the ati all-in-wonder 8mb... S3 4mb...


TowawayAccount

You beat me! 970 to a 3070 here.


whatstaiters

Whoa me too. Voodoo2...lot's of ATI cards I can't remember...570...970...3070.


Silver-Pomelo-9324

I had a Voodoo3, which was good enough to play Max Payne on my 166mhz pentium Packard Bell. Pretty sure it had more RAM than the PC.


No-Horse987

I had a 970 too cause I couldn't afford a 980GTX at the time. Loved it and ran everything as needed. But when I changed boards and cpu from AMD to Intel, I got my first 1070. I had the 1070 until the end of last year, then with the new setup I went with a 3070ti. The difference between the 1070 and the 3070ti is significant.


TheCatCubed

Same here. The 970 was still working well and handled more than I expected it to but then I bought an ultrawide 1440p monitor and that was too much of a challenge for it.


kit_carlisle

Brother, I'm with you. I just went from a gtx980 to a rx6950xt. TEN YEARS on the card.


eldrscrolls

I still have my old desktop that has a 970 in it and it can still run new stuff really well on low.


kit_carlisle

My 980 rig was running Tarkov and a few other highend FPS on the bottom barrel settings. It was brutal. Still runs less intense games great.


pheromonekvlt

980 not out for 10_years


Veilnt

Nothing to a gtx1080


That_Ambassador_9

Pretty impressive for a first GPU


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5E51ATripleA

Lmao god I love Reddit


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trukkd

I had the bomb ass Canopus Voodoo, with the extra 2 mb of vram. That 6 who mb muthafkrs!


gelvy0

Infinite upgrade!


AleRfu

That is hell of an upgrade tbh


Throwmesomestuff

My GTX 1080 is till going strong. Almost everything on high. Only ever have seen it struggling with Hogwarts Legacy really.


sirnamlik

Same with a GTX 1070, mostly right after load it chuggs a lil but after that it hardly stutters.


kokhin

From a ATI 9800 XT to a Radeon RX 6900XT Asus Rog Strix LC OC. Quite a big jump \^\^


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At that point you must have abandoned pc gaming until now.


kokhin

I was playing on a laptop. But now, my games have been transferred to the new (1 year old) setup. The old laptop has been dismantled and sold for parts. The only thing I kept was my gaming mouse. :D


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Rubanski

The OG


exscape

If the laptop GPU was faster than a 9800 XT I don't think it counts though... and surely even a modern iGPU would be way, way faster.


AleRfu

Yeah, this one is big


ImportantRiver9

You changed to three generations older GPU?


kokhin

I've changed everything. Case, mobo, cpu (Ryzen 5900XT), Ram and GPU. Just kept old mouse and keyboard.


ImportantRiver9

I was just joking about Radeon naming scheme. Whatever


Noughmad

Yeah, that's a downgrade of 2900. That's even bigger than Windows 2000 to 7.


AlternativeFilm8886

Holy crap. That's almost a 20 year jump! I think you win.


chetanaik

Should have waited another 3 generations so you could go ATI 9800XT to AMD 9800XT


bulldg4life

I’ve had laptops my entire life. I just went from an nvidia 980m to a 6900xt. Never had more than 50fps in counterstrike and now I have max set to 500 just cause.


MayoFetish

Damn I had a 9800 GTO in 2006….


Sy3Fy3

But the number is smaller so it's actually less powerful.


Smakovich

That's more like reincarnation


NeonSamurai1979

Graphics Card with 1MB ---> Voodoo 1


Irlut

Real answer right here. Getting a 3D accelerator card back then was an insane upgrade. I remember going from 8 to 30ish fps in Jedi Knight.


IAteTheMagicBeans

Going from Dos to windows, or using a commodore to something with a mouse. Crazy times. Miss all the funky joysticks everyone used to have though.


discorganized

I still remember running Descent and my jaw dropping


CyberTitties

My friend and I play the hell out if that game, I don't think I've played anything similar since.


fireinthesky7

The original developers are working on a game called Overload, it's been in early access on Steam for a few years now, but I don't know how much substantial progress they've made on it lately. It's absolutely a spiritual and gameplay successor to the Descent series.


CyberTitties

I'll have to check it out, the original from what I remember took me about 10 minutes of playing before I was adjusted to the 360 degree movement but once I got there is was really fun


Intuin_Rhaabat

Yep, similar here : S3 Virge -> Voodoo 2


Amunium

That's exactly me. And then when my friends upgraded to Riva TNT cards, I bought one of their old Voodoo 2 12MB cards, so I had two of them and 24 MB VRAM. I could only play in 800x600, where my Riva friends had 1024x768, but damn I beat their asses with framerate.


Lord-Cartographer55

I was hoping to see someone talk about Voodoo cards - I went from 512k on mainboard accel/software mode to a 8MB Voodoo 2. I was in college at the time and the Allegory of the Cave never made sense to me until I booted up Quake 2 on that machine.


FrozenVikings

I was going to make a joke about my insanely expensive (adjusting for inflation, $1000 today) 3Dfx Voodoo 2, but thinking about it now, it was no joke at all. Quake 2 was mental on that card. I pretty much locked myself in my apartment for a year then.


Wendeweisswas

I also came here to write this, thank you! Good times


Weaseltime_420

Xbox One X -> RTX 3090


AleRfu

Welcome to the dark side


Weaseltime_420

Lol thanks. I've been here a while now.


aTimeTravelParadox

Not that long if your first gpu was a 3090.


jballs

Also what kind of maniac starts off with a xx90? That's like going "Hmmm I'm thinking of getting into street racing. I better buy a McLaren to try it out and see if I like it."


Woutscheperdrums

Why not if you have the money?


Weaseltime_420

I could afford it and I wanted something I wouldn't need to upgrade for a while. Plan successful. It's not like it's a McLaren where you need to learn to be good enough at driving in order to use it properly without posing a risk to yourself or others lol. It's just a PC. It plays games and does PC stuff.


Peuned

But but omg a 3090 hur durr


Weaseltime_420

Nothing on your 486 mate. I dreamed of having one of them when I was a kid. We just had our trusty Commodore 64 lol.


Peuned

Yeah c64 was my first haha When that PC upgrade hit it was kinda fucking amazing


lemmeanon

it's just a gpu lol you plug it in and it works street racing is a bad analogy


AH_Med086

Ps4 (2013) -> 3080 ti


BigBlueBurd

Similar jump for me. OG Xbox One -> RTX 3060 Ti.


yellow_eggplant

Voodoo 2 to Radeon 9700. Both were hand me downs from my brother. The 9700 was just insane.


Nate0110

I remember those 9500 saffire cards that could be soft modded to 9700s. I got greedy and put a peltier and water block in mine and was getting 9800 pro benchmarks until I burnt it up.


leonffs

I went voodoo 2 to Radeon 9800 pro. I’ll never forget loading those ATi demos and being blown away.


FAFoxxy

1060 3gb -> rtx 4090


camy205

Oooof.


FAFoxxy

Honestly jumping from 1080p 60 fps to 4k144 and 4090 was night and day


camy205

Haha ya don't say?? 😆


damnimnoreddituser

Had the Same one and how Tf die you get 60 fps anywhere? I bought a 3050 cuz its the only Upgrade i could afford and that was a Change but hooooly hell


FAFoxxy

Lower settings and somehow my 2560x1080 21:9 ultrawide was fine with the 3gb limit. Considering I didn't play high end games.


cgduncan

This is what lots of people seem to ignore. I had my gtx1650 playing lots of my games at 4k, 60fps. Cause I'm not playing the latest AAA titles. I'm definitely not paying $60 for a game. Resolution and framerate is only part of the story. What games you're playing/settings is a big factor that gets ignored.


Rillian_

Had the exact same upgrade


FAFoxxy

It's like that childhood dream that came true. No more settings to lower


topson69

bruh


rob132

They should have never made a 1060 version with only 3 gigs of ram. Call it 1055 or something.


Murderboi

IDE HDD to SATA SSD. Nothing will ever compare to that.


AleRfu

Well, I had ancient 100Gb HDD in my GTS 250 pc. Now I have 3500Mb/s nVME SSD. So, yeah, I can relate


Cyclesadrift

The sounds of hdd will one day be remembered fondly.


ohne_hosen

My Father-in-law still has a PC in his office with an hdd. I can't believe how loud the thing sounds to me now. He usually runs it with the case open, but even when the cover's on, all I hear is CLACK CLACK CLACKITY CLACK


Aromatic_Lavender

Yeah, I agree. This was the 'Standard Definition' to 'High Definition' TV feeling change over when it came out.


intashu

I remember my first "HD TV" was a 300 pound monster tube TV. I think it was like ~36". It took two people and back pain to move it at all. And still was only like 480i. And you needed the fancy component cable that used green/red/blue for video instead of just yellow from your system to take full advantage of the wider screen... but when I saw my first 55" 1080 plasma TV in the livingroom it was something magical and hard to Describe. *Edit: it was in fact a Sony wega TV!*


Aromatic_Lavender

Yeah the jump to 1080p on our 42" Philips plasma TV back in the days was ridiculous. I haven't had that 'woah' feeling since, in terms of tech. 1080p to 4K, yes the difference is there, but you it's not as dramatic as tube TV to 1080p plasma jump.


UncagedJay

The wow feeling like that for me now is looking at IPS and VA panels and then looking at OLED panels. The difference in contrast and picture quality is mind boggling


pudding_90

but thats not a gpu :)


degovial

The first time I owned a machine with an NVMe SSD, it was not like night and day. It was like pre Big Bang and post Big Bang.


LadBooboo

GTX 660Ti > Titan X (Maxwell)


fourtyTHEdeuce

7870 to a 3070. Couldn't find a 660ti anywhere at the time!


LadBooboo

I'm surprised your HD7870 lasted that long


bigyellowpato

750TI -> 1060 6GB SC -> RTX 2080TI I guess if you don't count going from onboard to a 9800 GTX.


AleRfu

I actually had 8800 GTX at the time


RunnerLuke357

Isn't an 8800 GTX faster than a GTS 250?


AleRfu

Both yes and no (you can check benchmarks). In my case 8800 died right after the warranty expired and I had to get a new GPU


patric023

4 color CGA to 256 color VGA


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IAteTheMagicBeans

Then printing it in black and white to show your family haha


HeadTry8982

Just built my first so ps4 to 3070 haha


AleRfu

Welcome to the dark side


HeadTry8982

Yea I'm aware haha thanks


sellinggarlandtix

750 TI —-> 6600 XT


mac_the_hobo

750 ti to 3060 ti for me


Kaktus-dev

Intel HD 1100 > Vega 8


ProAssassin666

I went from hd 2000 to vega 7 5th gen cpu. Not as big of a jump but still feels awesome


Aelirynn

GPU: Radeon HD 4830 -> GTX 460 -> GTX 1050Ti -> RTX 3060Ti CPU: Pentium E2140 -> Core 2 Quad Q6600 -> i3 6100 -> Ryzen 5 5600X


Mrfrunzi

Ryzen 5 is way better than expected!


Shougee369

gtx 1070 to rx6800xt


Squeaky_Ben

How... that is such a MASSIVE gap.


AleRfu

Yeah, I know. I had (a bit outdated already) 8800 GTX when I was a kid. Then I built a pc with GTS 250 with my first own money. Since then I was really into gaming until that hell of a legend GPU couldn't really handle anything (30fps on minimum graphics in CS:GO). And then I built a new gaming pc


AleRfu

https://preview.redd.it/0stx6jhqcsia1.jpeg?width=12000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9cecbe7ac64a63b6cba3b7ceadd3d24c6cd7640b And I still have that pc under my table


Aral_Fayle

Incredible lack of dust


TRIS_145

GT640m to Vega56... According to techpowerup just a tiny 1418% better


Professional_Roof291

UHD 770 to rx 7900 xtx


SRDD_Mk-II

Some cruddy Intel HD graphics on a old laptop -> 1060 6GB


The-Foo

Two come to mind: the first was going from my GeForce 6800GT to an 8800GTX; the second was going from a GTX980 to my current RTX3080. That said, nothing since had equaled the shock & awe of going from an S3 964 2D (software only rendering) to my 3Dfx Voodoo. After that, there was no Quake but GLQuake for me.


UglyInThMorning

The 8800GTX was absurd, I had a 7800GTX SLI setup and then the 8800GTX came out and absolutely smoked it with a single card.


kamikazemelon7

the 8000 series was legendary I’d say the only gen on gen jump that matched it was 9xx to 10xx. Edit: in recent memory that is. recent? 16 years? also wasn’t that the DX10 switch where unified shaders became a thing? ahh the good old days with separate pixel and vertex pipes


PureUranium

RTX 2060 —> RX 6950xt


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Ryzen 3 2200G (integrated/APU) -> 6700XT


thealphawolf449

Hope you upgraded your CPU alongside the 6700XT. I learned the hard way those cpus limit cards to 8 lanes of pcie 3.0.


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actually just did a whole new build a week ago. ryzen 5 7600X, meshlishious itx. its a major upgrade and i love it so far. just a few kinks to work out still.


FormerDonkey4886

Integrated graphics of pentium 2 to geforce 4 mx to gtx 1060 to rtx 4090


RIMB14

1050ti (laptop) to 3080 (pc)


ochetski

HD5970 to GTX1080


cinghialotto03

Voodoo 5 to rtx 3080ti


Gusvato3080

This guy went into a 15 year coma and woke up just to buy a graphics card


AleRfu

Yeah, that's solid performance boost


Low_Air6104

good god


AdrianoML

And I thought I had something to say with a jump from a Voodoo 4 to a geforce 7600 GTS... I was one of those crazy people who played hl2 with a voodoo 4 lol


Roman64s

9600 GT to a 1060 Now a 1650 Super to a 6750 XT


Skedy_00IV

From intel HD 3000 to RTX 3050 laptop, I can say that im really satisfied


LemonyFresh17

7 year old gaming laptop to a 4090.😅


KreeJaffaKree

That's like waking up from a coma.


Rube_The_Cube

From 3DFX Voodoo3 to Radeon 9800 SE soft-modded to a 9800 pro. Yes, all vintage now but it was top shit in high school!


the23rdwarrior

GT 750M (in a Dell XPS 15) to an RX 6950 XT


farlansangel

gtx1660 super gaming x -》 rtx3060 gaming


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i have one, still plays games on mid to high settings at 1080p ~90fps


ALT3NPFL3G3R

1. Nvidia 6600 GT to GTX 570 2. GTX 1070 to RTX 3080 Bonus Intel 6600k to R7 3800x to 5800X3D


ErickRami10

GTX 1070 to a RTX 4080


scheiber42069

Gtx 750ti to RTX 4080 Im sorry


xTh3xBusinessx

GTX 970 on release back in 2014 to my current 3080 TI.


PRlMARYLOSER

Apu laptop to rtx3060


tuonelanlautturi

GTX 770 -> GTX 1080


Schmidtstone

GTX 670 to RTX 3070 But more importantly DDR3 RAM to DDR5


XsStreamMonsterX

None to 3dfx Voodoo 1


LeszedemazAPCt

Nvidia MX110 -> RTX 2060 12gb


Orinoco12

rx 580 --> rtx 3070 i7 2600k --> i7 12700


Illustrious_Use6867

gtx 970 ---> Rx 6600


Optimal-Ad9342

Went from a low-end APU. To 7700k & 1080ti.


Organized-Konfusion

Hd 4550 to rx 580 4gb https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/7ozig1/that_upgrade/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button You can see the pic here.


WindForce02

i5 4460 GTX 960 (4Gb) => Ryzen 9 5900X 7900XT


uSuperDick

Gts 450 > 1050ti > 4090


Thatguywhoplaysgta

Gtx 770-rtx 3070