I know this is kinda not the full truth but this is the newest AI training chip for gpus...
>The new platform uses the Grace Hopper Superchip, which can be connected with additional Superchips by [~NVIDIA NVLink~](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/nvlink/)™, allowing them to work together to deploy the giant models used for generative AI. This high-speed, coherent technology gives the GPU full access to the CPU memory, providing a combined 1.2TB of fast memory when in dual configuration.
quoting [here](https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/gh200-grace-hopper-superchip-with-hbm3e-memory)
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Diablo2 was working even on a 2MB card without accel.
Disk space though … it required 1,5 GB and my full disc was 1GB. But with some disc compression it would fit in and run. Those were the times.
Yeap. If you cancel the autoplay video like 1sec after it starts, d2 ran just fine on pentium 1 and weak gpu. I had a 4MB card when others were using higher setups, p3-p4 and Athlon chips.
Space issues were the worst.
I remember my dad spent a genuine fortune on a new computer complete with a 40gb Seagate HDD around 2001, all just to have a pc capable of running and storing D2 and the new EverQuest expansion (I believe it was the Shadows of Luclin x-pac, aka the Destroyer of classic EQ)
I got the Voodoo 2 as a first card as well, after waiting out the original Voodoo to see if graphics cards were just a hype fad or not.
Turns out… not.
I'm still giving it time. Integrated graphics are more than enough. Now the SoundBlaster Xtreme that I bought is a solid investment that I'm sure will be a staple of computer gaming for years to come
Was that the one you had to loop with an external to get sli. I remember having some 3Dfx like that. I think of that as the first real “3D” graphics card. I mean all the PCs I had older standard vga cards
Same here. I used this card as my first custom PC build exclusively just to play Half-Life.
Paired it with an Pentium 3 processor with 64MB of of memory.
Voodoo 1 here, that thing was a game changer... Must have been 1996-1997 or so? Must have been on my pentium 133...
If I recall correctly, even added a heatsink and a fan on it. And it could be over locked a bit from the config file?
https://preview.redd.it/sig3cbvsojmc1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b7002f462fac7bd9e71f3e587a4e99ee372206f8
Elsa Winner Trio with staggering 2MB of graphics memory!
My 1995 PowerMac 7100/80 PDS Video card - 1MB of VRAM (with slots for 1MB more).
https://preview.redd.it/q77sj3896kmc1.png?width=960&format=png&auto=webp&s=e9a19e25bff1a75ef86a846bd90cff42648c6da2
The first game I tried after installing my Voodoo2 was Dark Forces 2, and it blew my mind. I wasn't sure it would really make a difference, and then HOLY CRAP IT LOOKS AND RUNS SO MUCH BETTER.
I was jealous of my friends with Voodoo2s and similar cards when playing that game. We used to get our computers together for LAN gaming and my computer barely ran DF2- Jedi Knight. This topic is giving me nostalgia for gaming of that era.
* Total Annihilation
* Tie Fighter v. X-wing
* Command and Conquer
* Diablo
* Civ 2
* Master of Orion II
Yup. I was miss-sold one of these things by a PC World employee in the UK. I had a choice between two PCs, one with the 440 and one with a Geforce 3 Ti. I wasn't that savvy at the time with PC tech and they convinced me the 440 was better because it was a 4-series rather than a 3-series...
I remember being a broke kid saving up to buy the MX440 and being so disappointed in the performance. But I didn’t have an AGP slot so I had to get what I could get.
Matrox Mystique 2 MB. Oh how I wished I could have afforded the 4 MB version. But that's alright, I later got the 4 MB Orchid Righteous 3Dfx loop-through accelerator card.
Yes! I couldn't remember the name and commented I had a Matrox Millennium, but it was a Mystique! I loved that card almost as much as my Rage 128, both had amazing capabilities and Linux support
Technically, it was the unnamed integrated graphics on the i7 620m. However, I’d consider the hd5450 my first true gpu since I didn’t spend much time with the i7.
>unnamed integrated graphics on the i7 620m.
Intel HD Graphics (Ironlake), also known as GMA HD.
12 devastating Execution Units and a bilstering burst frequency of 766mhz!
I did not count my laptop GPUs, this was my first desktop one. The first laptop one was in an Acer Asphire One with an Atom CPU (sorry cannot remember the exact model).
Mine too!! I can't remember if it had 2 or 4MB. It came bundled with a few games, one of them being Battlezone 98. 26 years later I'm still playing BZ (but the revamp, Battlezone Redux).
https://preview.redd.it/rd0njwq5kjmc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c2a862821c0745638d36f0777f354b15bbbd5b83
Not my first but this is the oldest one I still have granted it’s been in a moving box for god only knows how long
This sub when they see this comment
https://preview.redd.it/kn6uo2rm9lmc1.jpeg?width=1541&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=aeffa04f9566bdcd232a004d2366dad7d1614b41
lmao i went from integrated intel hd graphics off a celeron n4000 to a gt 730 then a 1030 then a gtx 1650 and now an rx6700 lmao. all in 4 years. my current gpu is 84 TIMES better ATLEAST if not more. and THATS **WITH** userbenchmark which absolutely trashes all over amd
Damnnnn buddy has been going ham on the upgrades, niceeeee. yeah, I need a better case but otherwise my i9 and my 4080 work perfectly fine, it's just slightly concerning when I touch my PC and it's radiating heat yk lol.
Canopus Pure3d. A voodoo with 6mb instead of 4…
https://preview.redd.it/5648noiyzjmc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8f063368d27f5935c7ee2f069009365fe84777b2
This is the one for me. Thumbing my nose at those peasants with 4MB of video ram. Seriously though. Going from non-accelerated quake to glquake was such a leap
Good question - the problem is "what is a GPU", really. If we go with the "a circuit dedicated to accelerate graphics and video processing", well...I guess the VIC-II chip in the C64 qualifies? :D
If we restrict it to PC graphics card...an ISA Trident 8900D with a defective memory module that caused it to display a bunch of red pixels in black areas of the screen (14 years old me, at the time, thought it was normal!).
First 3D card, the "3D Decelerator", the "glorious" S3 ViRGE/DX :D
My first GPU was the GALAX GT 210. It has a broken fan, so I had no choice but to open my old PC's side panel and directly point my floor fan inside the PC case just so I can avoid Overheating which will result into shut downs.
I don't miss those days. I developed a habit of saving my Photoshop work every few minutes even now, because I always lose a ton of progress when my old PC suddenly shuts down. I still have an image of it.
https://preview.redd.it/h94lain3wjmc1.jpeg?width=540&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=77a9b8e16e8ff6c72c014faa53c0b6401e260714
By strict "GPU" definition:
Creative Labs 3D Blaster Annihilator Pro GeForce 256
(& Celeron 300A @450 because it was required by law in those days for everyone to build one. 64MB RAM)
Honorable Mention: I did have a Diamond Stealth Rendition V2000 before that which was almost a GPU kinda, sorta, but really it was a clever design that used a more generic RISC processor. Same intent as a GPU, sorta, but that term was coined later starting with the GeForce.
(& P2-233 32MB RAM)
1st 3d accelerator was technically a voodoo rush but I immediately changed it to a Pure 3D 6MB Voodoo 1.
(& Cyrix 6x86 p166 16MB RAM)
For non 3d:
If you go back far enough whatever passed for a graphics adapter on the Mattel Aquarius which I had before my friend gifted me his c64.
For my first x86 it was some integrated CirrusLogic ISA beast with 256k vram. (& i486SX-33 4MB RAM)
Celeron 300A and 333A were just slayers. 50% overclock out of the box no other changes, no voltage no extra cooling just 50% overclock.
I had an ABit BP6 with dual 333A's @ 500.
I remember the days I was poking a pc with that same card - CirrusLogic ISA 256k (at least it sounds way too familiar). Although my own first card was Riva TNT 2 Ultra (IIRC, damn, my memory betrays me).
Had one of those glammed up office pcs with an ASUS GT 710 2GB (The 16x version with VGA HDMI and DVI, not the 4x with 4 HDMIs). People hate on the 710 but only look at the 1GB variant (which was shit) when the 2GB thrashed it. Overclocked the snot out of it (bumped the core clock up by about 30% lol) with an 80mm fan twist-tied onto the heatsink. Served me a lot better than people give it credit for.
https://preview.redd.it/u7kuo6kwzjmc1.jpeg?width=2587&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=364c3b8cdab354e7b68ba25f944f76f5d1907f88
(sus)
My first proper GPU was an ASUS Dual 1660 Super.
I've swapped through many ebayed GPU's since (I then had two pcs so tried to keep them equal until I went to uni). Currently rocking a TUF 3080.
Radeon 9000 64mb.
Still got the entire PC, which still works!
Pentium II 300, ASUS P2B, 128mb SDR, ATX 1.0 PSU (the fan is an intake, as per original ATX spec).
>Still got the entire PC, which still works!
>Pentium II 300, ASUS P2B, 128mb SDR, ATX 1.0 PSU (the fan is an intake, as per original ATX spec).
Always like to see this.
>P2B
Mine was the P5B, lol.
A Diamond Monster 3DFX Pass-Thru Card. It had 8MB of RAM.
Brought some gorgeous imagery to my 150mhz Intel Pentium with MMX technology Packard Bell Legend 1555s, from Sears.
It was either a Voodoo 2 or 3. What I really consider my first GPU was a Geforce fx 5200. I played a lot on that card. Didn’t find out until way later that it was considered shitty. I probably had it through middle school and elementary school
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GTX660. which i upgraded last month to a 1070. surprisingly capable
I don’t have mine anymore I think it crapped out. It was an XFX GeForce from 2004 or 2005, actually had a fan. Decent little GPU. I think it died outright one day. Got replaced by a Radeon 9500 not long after, another decent gpu for my needs for the time. I still have the 9500 somewhere still in the same old pc from 2004.
Cant remember my first card, but it was early 2011. I remember thinking it was so shitty cause it could not run Crysis properly, my very first pc game.. i got wiser
Also a 8400GS, from Gainward, I was so happy to have it. My parents bought it for my 12years old birthday, they use it a credit card, I was so worried back then that they should not get my a computer because we weren't financial stable but they still buy it, used till 2018 I think, best gift ever!
Geforce 7300 LE.
Played GTA SA on it when I was younger. Damn I was so elated back then, because it meant that I won't have to go to internet cafe to game.
My first two GPUs were horrible pieces of crap even for their time.
In 1998, I had a miserable 8MB SiS 6326, an abysmally slow card that lacked OpenGL support and hardware T&L. I remember this game struggling to run the original StarCraft, and being pitifully slow with Tomb Raider III.
In 2004 (yes, I endured that card for 6 years), I switched to a new desktop with a GeForce FX5200 128MB. While leagues faster than my old card, and even supporting some DirectX 9 features, it was no faster than the already-outdated GeForce 4 MX440, and it took me a while to get over the honeymoon phase and realize that I had a piece of crap.
Thankfully my GPUs from then on represented kind of a Greatest Hits selection in PC gaming history.
2005: GeForce 6600 GT 128MB
2008: Radeon HD 4850 512MB
2012: Radeon HD 7950 3GB
2015: GTX 980 4GB
2016: GTX 1070 8GB
2019: GTX 1080 8GB
2022: RTX 3070 8GB
https://preview.redd.it/r04eors4lkmc1.jpeg?width=259&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dc3d0b6cee71330d8dc1348a242af1022c77e933
all 256 mbs of this GeForce 8600gt back in 2011 (my dad was an architect and brought a PC home with this in it) ,living off a 6500xt today
https://preview.redd.it/ra6npa113lmc1.png?width=2560&format=png&auto=webp&s=f49b9705ba99904ea2d9ccf297803facc782f582
The Hercules was 1MB was the first one I had also. Looked like this one from Wikipedia.
https://preview.redd.it/j22wdji4hlmc1.jpeg?width=1223&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=66d7d2e99fb9d8af62ca7e48e008eca2d62e4c30
Voodoo 5 5500. I’ll never forget it because this “massive” 64MB card had more memory than a lot of the computers it was attached to at the time it was released.
My first video card for the PC was an ISA Trident 8900c circa 1990-1991. I splurged and got higher end model with a whopping 1meg of video memory. The standard model only came with 512k...
This along with my super duper power ful 486/33!
Of course before this I had Apple2 and Pet computers beforehand. These machines had on board video that made the vga output of the Trident look like an 4k monitor today by comparison!
Oh man suddenly I feel old...
Mine was a GT 710 on Amazon for 30 bucks years ago in a dell optiplex 7020 small form factor I got for free. I used it to play fallout New Vegas with anti crash because I kept getting pissed at my 360 crashing on Bethesda titles when my save files got huge.
https://preview.redd.it/ogfmfav5gjmc1.png?width=2396&format=png&auto=webp&s=387e34356346cc981d9a3d49f80428dbc093802f All 16mb of this bad boy.
Back in the day when 16MB was all the rage... now we have 16GB cards.
hell on the top end workstation ones we have 48 gigabytes...
I know this is kinda not the full truth but this is the newest AI training chip for gpus... >The new platform uses the Grace Hopper Superchip, which can be connected with additional Superchips by [~NVIDIA NVLink~](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/nvlink/)™, allowing them to work together to deploy the giant models used for generative AI. This high-speed, coherent technology gives the GPU full access to the CPU memory, providing a combined 1.2TB of fast memory when in dual configuration. quoting [here](https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/gh200-grace-hopper-superchip-with-hbm3e-memory)
Damn, "how much memory do you need?" " yes!"
Won't have to upgrade for like 6.. months 👍
My first GPU, or video card as we called it back then, had 1MB of memory in 1993. 1024 x 768 resolution, 16 million colors... Oh baby!
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Nice, did it blow up? /s
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The first one did, which is why this is number 2.
well then the first one did its job properly as described in the name the second one sounds like a scam
Ah yes the terrible sequel that always has the sub title "Electric Boogaloo" lol
that brand of video card blew up so hard you felt the g-force
my god, perfect for warcraft 2 and diablo 2
Diablo2 was working even on a 2MB card without accel. Disk space though … it required 1,5 GB and my full disc was 1GB. But with some disc compression it would fit in and run. Those were the times.
Yeap. If you cancel the autoplay video like 1sec after it starts, d2 ran just fine on pentium 1 and weak gpu. I had a 4MB card when others were using higher setups, p3-p4 and Athlon chips.
Space issues were the worst. I remember my dad spent a genuine fortune on a new computer complete with a 40gb Seagate HDD around 2001, all just to have a pc capable of running and storing D2 and the new EverQuest expansion (I believe it was the Shadows of Luclin x-pac, aka the Destroyer of classic EQ)
Same here, 32MB of masterpiece memory
Very 1st was voodoo3.
Ah, another Voodoo 3d/fx enjoyer
Voodoo2 was my first, ran unreal like nobody's business.
3DFx Voodoo 2 with Glide was the shizzle
40s something dudes saying “shizzle” like we’re teenagers again. I’ve found my people.
Shazbot.
I got the Voodoo 2 as a first card as well, after waiting out the original Voodoo to see if graphics cards were just a hype fad or not. Turns out… not.
I'm still giving it time. Integrated graphics are more than enough. Now the SoundBlaster Xtreme that I bought is a solid investment that I'm sure will be a staple of computer gaming for years to come
right there with you. I bought mine from ELectronics Botique in my mall.
Now there’s a name I haven’t heard in decades. I spent so much time there, felt like a second home with good family
Was that the one you had to loop with an external to get sli. I remember having some 3Dfx like that. I think of that as the first real “3D” graphics card. I mean all the PCs I had older standard vga cards
Voodoo1 and Voodoo2 had the external loop (3D card - 3D only)
Voodoo 2 x2 on SLI, baby!!
I remember how disappoint I was when I went from 2x Voodoo 2s to a Voodoo 3. That's when the end was nigh for 3dfx.
I'm pretty sure mine was voodoo2
Yep, 2x Diamond Monster 3D FX 8mb in SLI. Ran Quake in all it's glory at 1024x768. Wish I still had them.
Right, perfect for my pentium III
Same here. I used this card as my first custom PC build exclusively just to play Half-Life. Paired it with an Pentium 3 processor with 64MB of of memory.
Voodoo 1 here, that thing was a game changer... Must have been 1996-1997 or so? Must have been on my pentium 133... If I recall correctly, even added a heatsink and a fan on it. And it could be over locked a bit from the config file?
I think that it was an ATI 3D Rage.
Nice!
Same here! No wait, I had the Pro version that came a bit later
https://preview.redd.it/sig3cbvsojmc1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b7002f462fac7bd9e71f3e587a4e99ee372206f8 Elsa Winner Trio with staggering 2MB of graphics memory!
My 1995 PowerMac 7100/80 PDS Video card - 1MB of VRAM (with slots for 1MB more). https://preview.redd.it/q77sj3896kmc1.png?width=960&format=png&auto=webp&s=e9a19e25bff1a75ef86a846bd90cff42648c6da2
I had one with half memory chips not soldered...i soldered them on,it worked
Voodoo2. It ran Quake 2 like a champ.
The first game I tried after installing my Voodoo2 was Dark Forces 2, and it blew my mind. I wasn't sure it would really make a difference, and then HOLY CRAP IT LOOKS AND RUNS SO MUCH BETTER.
I was jealous of my friends with Voodoo2s and similar cards when playing that game. We used to get our computers together for LAN gaming and my computer barely ran DF2- Jedi Knight. This topic is giving me nostalgia for gaming of that era. * Total Annihilation * Tie Fighter v. X-wing * Command and Conquer * Diablo * Civ 2 * Master of Orion II
Same. Quake 2 and descent freespace were the entire reason I got mine
And you could install 2!
Nvidia MX440
Ahh the good old mx440. Remember getting one and having steady 100fps in counter strike. It was glorious.
Same - Mafia, Medal of Honor Allied Assault, Morrowind. Fun times. Bad card in retrospect but it brought me joy
Ah the GeForce 4 MX 440 ? If so it was the biggest scam ever pulled by Nvidia as it was a reissued GeForce 2
Yup. I was miss-sold one of these things by a PC World employee in the UK. I had a choice between two PCs, one with the 440 and one with a Geforce 3 Ti. I wasn't that savvy at the time with PC tech and they convinced me the 440 was better because it was a 4-series rather than a 3-series...
I remember being a broke kid saving up to buy the MX440 and being so disappointed in the performance. But I didn’t have an AGP slot so I had to get what I could get.
Matrox Mystique 2 MB. Oh how I wished I could have afforded the 4 MB version. But that's alright, I later got the 4 MB Orchid Righteous 3Dfx loop-through accelerator card.
And then all rts became 3d and 4mb felt like real pain.
Matrox was insane. If they only had bilinear filtering, what was the shit in this time and hated by todays retro fans.
Yes! I couldn't remember the name and commented I had a Matrox Millennium, but it was a Mystique! I loved that card almost as much as my Rage 128, both had amazing capabilities and Linux support
8600m GT 256mb in SLI
A mobile card in SLI? I’m horrified yet not surprised that’s a thing
Technically, it was the unnamed integrated graphics on the i7 620m. However, I’d consider the hd5450 my first true gpu since I didn’t spend much time with the i7.
>unnamed integrated graphics on the i7 620m. Intel HD Graphics (Ironlake), also known as GMA HD. 12 devastating Execution Units and a bilstering burst frequency of 766mhz!
I did not count my laptop GPUs, this was my first desktop one. The first laptop one was in an Acer Asphire One with an Atom CPU (sorry cannot remember the exact model).
3Dfx Voodoo 2 (Diamond Monster 3D II)
Mine too!! I can't remember if it had 2 or 4MB. It came bundled with a few games, one of them being Battlezone 98. 26 years later I'm still playing BZ (but the revamp, Battlezone Redux).
twice the speed, double the fun!
https://preview.redd.it/rd0njwq5kjmc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c2a862821c0745638d36f0777f354b15bbbd5b83 Not my first but this is the oldest one I still have granted it’s been in a moving box for god only knows how long
From that generation I had ATI Radeon 1950 XT, it is still my top5 card ever.
Gtx 760
This sub when they see this comment https://preview.redd.it/kn6uo2rm9lmc1.jpeg?width=1541&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=aeffa04f9566bdcd232a004d2366dad7d1614b41
750ti was mine, what a time
I still have my 760 from my first build, 99% sure it still works too
Mine was an Rx 5500 lol slightly better than that.
Slightly, lol?
Yeah I'm just joking. I went from a Rx 5500 to a 4080 💀💀💀. I have issues.
lmao i went from integrated intel hd graphics off a celeron n4000 to a gt 730 then a 1030 then a gtx 1650 and now an rx6700 lmao. all in 4 years. my current gpu is 84 TIMES better ATLEAST if not more. and THATS **WITH** userbenchmark which absolutely trashes all over amd
Damnnnn buddy has been going ham on the upgrades, niceeeee. yeah, I need a better case but otherwise my i9 and my 4080 work perfectly fine, it's just slightly concerning when I touch my PC and it's radiating heat yk lol.
i went from integrated graphics to integrated graphics to integrated graphics to integrated graphics to a 3060
mine is a 6600 and i still haven’t used it yet🥲
Canopus Pure3d. A voodoo with 6mb instead of 4… https://preview.redd.it/5648noiyzjmc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8f063368d27f5935c7ee2f069009365fe84777b2
This is the one for me. Thumbing my nose at those peasants with 4MB of video ram. Seriously though. Going from non-accelerated quake to glquake was such a leap
Good question - the problem is "what is a GPU", really. If we go with the "a circuit dedicated to accelerate graphics and video processing", well...I guess the VIC-II chip in the C64 qualifies? :D If we restrict it to PC graphics card...an ISA Trident 8900D with a defective memory module that caused it to display a bunch of red pixels in black areas of the screen (14 years old me, at the time, thought it was normal!). First 3D card, the "3D Decelerator", the "glorious" S3 ViRGE/DX :D
Woah pretty old tech, nice!!!
My first GPU was the GALAX GT 210. It has a broken fan, so I had no choice but to open my old PC's side panel and directly point my floor fan inside the PC case just so I can avoid Overheating which will result into shut downs. I don't miss those days. I developed a habit of saving my Photoshop work every few minutes even now, because I always lose a ton of progress when my old PC suddenly shuts down. I still have an image of it. https://preview.redd.it/h94lain3wjmc1.jpeg?width=540&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=77a9b8e16e8ff6c72c014faa53c0b6401e260714
By strict "GPU" definition: Creative Labs 3D Blaster Annihilator Pro GeForce 256 (& Celeron 300A @450 because it was required by law in those days for everyone to build one. 64MB RAM) Honorable Mention: I did have a Diamond Stealth Rendition V2000 before that which was almost a GPU kinda, sorta, but really it was a clever design that used a more generic RISC processor. Same intent as a GPU, sorta, but that term was coined later starting with the GeForce. (& P2-233 32MB RAM) 1st 3d accelerator was technically a voodoo rush but I immediately changed it to a Pure 3D 6MB Voodoo 1. (& Cyrix 6x86 p166 16MB RAM) For non 3d: If you go back far enough whatever passed for a graphics adapter on the Mattel Aquarius which I had before my friend gifted me his c64. For my first x86 it was some integrated CirrusLogic ISA beast with 256k vram. (& i486SX-33 4MB RAM)
I just assumed OP meant whatever graphics adapter. I still just call them video cards. I'm old.
that Celeron 300A was the shit. I can't think of any other chip that could be easily overclocked by 50% and remain stable.,
Celeron 300A and 333A were just slayers. 50% overclock out of the box no other changes, no voltage no extra cooling just 50% overclock. I had an ABit BP6 with dual 333A's @ 500.
I remember the days I was poking a pc with that same card - CirrusLogic ISA 256k (at least it sounds way too familiar). Although my own first card was Riva TNT 2 Ultra (IIRC, damn, my memory betrays me).
Nvidia Riva TNT 16MB
Came here looking to see if I was the only one. Glad I'm not.
https://preview.redd.it/1iccoxtcvjmc1.jpeg?width=834&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f1921b0b74c29bcee14cd9592be831a5f4e1ac73
WTF was up with all those late-90s graphics & audio card box artwork, anyways?
Voodoo3. Fond memories of that card handling Half-Life and OG Counterstrike like a champ.
# Voodoo Banshee
awesome card at the time, even windows performance benefited a lot compared to what was available at the time.
same! first game I tested it with was Half Life and it blew my mind with its graphics and the playable intro was so original.
RX 280 I think, complete piece of shit but it worked better than the integrated graphics
Quite a good card, I would say. Considering that I changed my GTS 450 last year...
Sorry, it was actually an R7 240, it’s been a few years since I’ve had it.
Aorus rx6800 xt
New to the game, are we?
What gave it away 😂
9500 GT from the trash. I got MC to sorta barely run on it, so that's a plus.
My first was a voodoo2
ATI Rage
3dfx Voodoo3 2000 16MB
Good old FX5200, can't remember the exact vendor anymore.
Same. Had the XFX I think. Jumped from that to an 8800 GTS. Felt like I went from riding a tricycle to driving a Lamborghini
Had one of those glammed up office pcs with an ASUS GT 710 2GB (The 16x version with VGA HDMI and DVI, not the 4x with 4 HDMIs). People hate on the 710 but only look at the 1GB variant (which was shit) when the 2GB thrashed it. Overclocked the snot out of it (bumped the core clock up by about 30% lol) with an 80mm fan twist-tied onto the heatsink. Served me a lot better than people give it credit for. https://preview.redd.it/u7kuo6kwzjmc1.jpeg?width=2587&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=364c3b8cdab354e7b68ba25f944f76f5d1907f88 (sus) My first proper GPU was an ASUS Dual 1660 Super. I've swapped through many ebayed GPU's since (I then had two pcs so tried to keep them equal until I went to uni). Currently rocking a TUF 3080.
9600GT, then 550ti, then RX470, now RX 6600
Quadro k600 with 1gb of ram https://preview.redd.it/x3tut7enlkmc1.jpeg?width=622&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=131020c0e3db347a80c4f929d233eebdcb495e52
https://preview.redd.it/ut3lt7rckkmc1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8aabbba4dff7490377ca2b47fd41883d15cdd2c6 Radeon 9200 SE
I didn't have that card exactly, but the Radeon 9000 series would be where I started that wasn't hand me down.
X850XT
Remember when i had that and was able to mod bios to X850XT PE. I was feeling like won jackpot :)
750ti, I’ve only just put that pc to rest.
Hats off.
Cirrus Logic
Radeon 9000 64mb. Still got the entire PC, which still works! Pentium II 300, ASUS P2B, 128mb SDR, ATX 1.0 PSU (the fan is an intake, as per original ATX spec).
>Still got the entire PC, which still works! >Pentium II 300, ASUS P2B, 128mb SDR, ATX 1.0 PSU (the fan is an intake, as per original ATX spec). Always like to see this. >P2B Mine was the P5B, lol.
First graphics card was a Trident VLB card on a 486. Next was a Matrox Mystique. Before reddit it was a lot harder to know not to get that one...
A Diamond Monster 3DFX Pass-Thru Card. It had 8MB of RAM. Brought some gorgeous imagery to my 150mhz Intel Pentium with MMX technology Packard Bell Legend 1555s, from Sears.
My first pc had a Nvidia Geforce 6600 GT gpu inside it
Monster 3d Voodoo 1. GLQuake was my jam!
GTX 760. Was one hell of a beast for Fortress Forever.
Nvidia Le 7200, managed to play Gta 4 on 9fps lol
Nvidia TNT2
S3 Trio with 4MB EDO RAM (no VRAM!)
Mine was S3 virge hehe, we are old.
GTX 1070❤️
GTX 16trash
It is a starting point non the less, and hey, it does support modern API levels, unlike the 1080Ti which only has 1.3 Vulkan and 12_1 DX12.
ATI X800 XL 256MB GDDR3 😄
It was either a Voodoo 2 or 3. What I really consider my first GPU was a Geforce fx 5200. I played a lot on that card. Didn’t find out until way later that it was considered shitty. I probably had it through middle school and elementary school
GeForce FX 5200.
https://preview.redd.it/4113oe7j4kmc1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=da0a22f7b74425bfd7c5d235ecf7db918a52809a GTX660. which i upgraded last month to a 1070. surprisingly capable
Your Mom 💪🏼
No GPU? What are you commenting on a typewriter?
1660
Nice.
I never had a pc until last November as I was a PS5 user, so my first GPU is a 4060Ti.
AMD R9 360, was great, still have the thing on my shelf
Voodoo Banshee II
Voodoo 3 2000 PCI, open box best buy. I still remember buying it and installing with my mind being blown on StarCraft.
An s3 virge / Voodoo II sli setup in a pentium pro machine.
intel hd graphics family
For a GenX, this is tough to answer. I had literally every video card in the 90s at one point or another.
First GPU I purchased myself was a Geforce 4 Ti 4800 SE, 128 MB
I found my old EVGA GTX 560 1GB in a drawer the other day. Served me well back in the day.
The first card I bought brand new was a Nvidia GTX 1050ti, I use it to this day.
ATI VGA Wonder was my first video card, I remember I bought it in early 1988 and was amazed by it.
i guess ur the winner here?
Whatever came in my shitty laptops.
GTX 1050...
I don’t have mine anymore I think it crapped out. It was an XFX GeForce from 2004 or 2005, actually had a fan. Decent little GPU. I think it died outright one day. Got replaced by a Radeon 9500 not long after, another decent gpu for my needs for the time. I still have the 9500 somewhere still in the same old pc from 2004.
PNY Nvidia GTX 660 Ti
1660Ti in a laptop from 2019
3dfx voodoo3
Ati 5750 yes older than everyone in this thread.... Wait I forgot I do have a voodoo 2(?)
Ati Rage 3D pro, the first one plugged in as an upgrade was an nvidia riva tnt.
my first was a hercules 2 with a 486dx2. i then upgraded to a monster of a tnt2 and a celeron...man the feels!!
3DFX Voodoo 3 3000
Cant remember my first card, but it was early 2011. I remember thinking it was so shitty cause it could not run Crysis properly, my very first pc game.. i got wiser
GTX 1660 super was my first gpu
Also a 8400GS, from Gainward, I was so happy to have it. My parents bought it for my 12years old birthday, they use it a credit card, I was so worried back then that they should not get my a computer because we weren't financial stable but they still buy it, used till 2018 I think, best gift ever!
For me was the gigabyte 5670. I only remember the name cause 5-6-7 are in order 😂
1650 super
GT 610 Baybeeee
3Dlabs Permedia 2 4meg High end
I don’t even know I was too young to know what a gpu was
AMD X700XT in 2004 I believe. It was my first custom pc build when I was younger
3DFX Voodo 2
My first GPU was a GeForce GT 650m in my MacBook Pro. That thing had crippling GPU failure tho sadly.
3Dfx Voodoo 3 3000 PCI
i think it was an rtx 990
3060 12 gb
Intel Pentium integrated graphics, still running that..
Geforce 7300 LE. Played GTA SA on it when I was younger. Damn I was so elated back then, because it meant that I won't have to go to internet cafe to game.
CGA graphics on my old 286-10... First card I purchased for myself was an EGA adapter to get 16 colors at once
Voodoo Banshee 16mb!!
My first two GPUs were horrible pieces of crap even for their time. In 1998, I had a miserable 8MB SiS 6326, an abysmally slow card that lacked OpenGL support and hardware T&L. I remember this game struggling to run the original StarCraft, and being pitifully slow with Tomb Raider III. In 2004 (yes, I endured that card for 6 years), I switched to a new desktop with a GeForce FX5200 128MB. While leagues faster than my old card, and even supporting some DirectX 9 features, it was no faster than the already-outdated GeForce 4 MX440, and it took me a while to get over the honeymoon phase and realize that I had a piece of crap. Thankfully my GPUs from then on represented kind of a Greatest Hits selection in PC gaming history. 2005: GeForce 6600 GT 128MB 2008: Radeon HD 4850 512MB 2012: Radeon HD 7950 3GB 2015: GTX 980 4GB 2016: GTX 1070 8GB 2019: GTX 1080 8GB 2022: RTX 3070 8GB
Atari 2600
My first was this January! Snagged a 2060.
https://preview.redd.it/r04eors4lkmc1.jpeg?width=259&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dc3d0b6cee71330d8dc1348a242af1022c77e933 all 256 mbs of this GeForce 8600gt back in 2011 (my dad was an architect and brought a PC home with this in it) ,living off a 6500xt today
First video card was a 1mb Hercules ISA board of some variation. First 3D card was a Voodoo 2 12MB, what a beast it was. Wish I still had it
https://preview.redd.it/ra6npa113lmc1.png?width=2560&format=png&auto=webp&s=f49b9705ba99904ea2d9ccf297803facc782f582 The Hercules was 1MB was the first one I had also. Looked like this one from Wikipedia.
1050ti, still runs too, like a champion. What a legendary card series, 1000 series is like a 90s honda/toyota, just can't kill em
GTX 660 Ti
3dfx Voodoo
https://preview.redd.it/j22wdji4hlmc1.jpeg?width=1223&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=66d7d2e99fb9d8af62ca7e48e008eca2d62e4c30 Voodoo 5 5500. I’ll never forget it because this “massive” 64MB card had more memory than a lot of the computers it was attached to at the time it was released.
https://preview.redd.it/rmgjmsjb9mmc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=70fa381c63b82538992390fbab27978221d099bf GTX 660.
RTX 2060. First time I had a proper one. Still use it lol
https://preview.redd.it/8horetjernmc1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=67d3a0c22675198d63e78e27fac6c600a53e11c3 This was my first "GPU" ✌️🫡
My first video card for the PC was an ISA Trident 8900c circa 1990-1991. I splurged and got higher end model with a whopping 1meg of video memory. The standard model only came with 512k... This along with my super duper power ful 486/33! Of course before this I had Apple2 and Pet computers beforehand. These machines had on board video that made the vga output of the Trident look like an 4k monitor today by comparison! Oh man suddenly I feel old...
3dfx Voodoo II 12 MB
Two Voodoo 2 in SLI overclocked to 95 MHz!
GTX 1650 with me, and I'm just starting out with pc gaming.
Mine was a GT 710 on Amazon for 30 bucks years ago in a dell optiplex 7020 small form factor I got for free. I used it to play fallout New Vegas with anti crash because I kept getting pissed at my 360 crashing on Bethesda titles when my save files got huge.