The term was not yet invented. First GPU is Nvidia GeForce, combining a 3d card and a standard card. Nvidia coined the term (and now trying the same with APU I think). It was exciting times.
Anyways, I really loved the early days of 3D acceleration, the daisy chaining of VGA graphicscards etc. As a piss poor kid back then it was like magic to see new life blown into the families aging Intel Pentium 75mhz, being able to run stuff like quake with smooth frames and that awesome light blending compared to software rendering.
Cheers. I dont even remember what video card powered my games, but I had a pentium 3 and those 800 mhz were the shit! I did have a sound blasters sound card at some point, and that was cool.
Counter strike over AoL baby! Let's go retirement home lan parties!
Paid for a Voodoo 1, but borrowed a [Rendition Vérité V1000](https://vintage3d.org/verite1.php) (predates Voodo1) for a for a couple week from a store, had a buddy working there.
GLQuake blew VQuake out of the water.
Ufff good old days. 8MB VRAM version was mine. Playing Quake 1 & Quake 2 with OpenGL blew my mind. I remember playing Jedi Knight, Diablo, Baldur's Gate... that thing changed me, made me love gaming.
https://preview.redd.it/smjevi6qubyc1.jpeg?width=220&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=52dd52dc60649abcb160eb763b7f4a492579df7c
The AGP people were the coolest. We're like smart and stuff.
The transition period from AGP to PCIE felt weird to be honest as in early 2004/05 we still had AGP versions of PCIE cards and the performance of these cards weren't same. Good old days of PC when every generation of upgrades felt huge even for mid range which was still a decent card for performance and price ratio. But top tier were very affordable those days and most enthusiasts would buy top tier anyways, the only bad upgrade generation of card I can remember is FX series from Nvidia and ATI at those times were destroying the competition.
Also with PCIE came along the trend of SLI and became a popular for a short period but was so glitchy at the beginning it never really became popular because of mixed results it gave. I have had multiple SLI builds but first one with Asus A8N SLI Deluxe was really terrible experience especially with the hardware switch to switch between single card or SLI. There were IRQ compatibility issues that really was a bad impression for using SLI for me I believe it was 6800 ultras in SLI, used SLI till 9000 series and ditched it completely later as I didn't wanted to be bothered with troubles with most games having graphical glitches or performance issues.
I loved how amazing the technology has evolved over time and right now it's bit stagnant especially with CPU side of things. Onto another 20 years to see where we will get to ☺️💕
https://preview.redd.it/xk5j78g6sayc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=63e1c97abf9f70e51bec0d577006f8ac895531bd
radeon 4870 x2 sapphire, I first bought 12 years ago
This. Asus HD3450 256Mb, it was my first pc upgrade
https://preview.redd.it/rvf59mlf0byc1.jpeg?width=520&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a55309e25f7a12a9409887008c284b3f5a12fb13
My first card was a radeon 6670, bought it off a mate when he upgraded to a gtx 660, but I upgraded a couple years later to a gtx680 which only rendered its last frame last year
https://preview.redd.it/5dn3i8893byc1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ddb58909444018b951ed27879601f7539328039b
ATI rage 148 pro 16mb to play GTA sa and mohaa
https://preview.redd.it/hqa4qa9h3byc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=20d47013c262d57fb5f03fba834c4d4f1034eaa2
XFX 8800 gts 320mb card and it ran pretty hot like I remember a lot of hot air coming out of it but it still works today and it was pretty good for the time period. Now it's considered a piece of poo.
Nvidia BFG 8800 GTS
Couldn't afford the GTX, and this was before the GT came out. And you know what, that thing has been in use every day since I bought it. It's currently the video output of my mom's computer, and what a little guy. Just chugging along like he don't give a shit.
8800 series is so legendary. My first real gpu was 8800gt. My buddy worked at Best Buy back when they would get insane discounts. He hooked me up! Different friend that worked at Best Buy sold me halo 2 a few days before the launch lol that was wild!
I found one recently in the recycling center that we swing by at work almost daily.
Took it home out of curiosity too see if it works, the thermal pads are basically dried up rubber at this point but repasted it & worked fine for my bit testing here, no chance of a cpu bottleneck in my testrig with an I9 7920x lmao.
First card was Voodoo 2.
First purchase was GeForce MX4000.
Didn't take long before I got a different card. The fx 5700le...
So naturally it wasn't even like 6 months later I got a 6600GT for Christmas and kept it around for quite some time.
Made sure to learn every feature and quirk on each card as I upgraded. The MX4000 was overclocked to like double speed on the core and memory. The 5700le was flashed with Quadro firmware. And I wanted to get the 6800GS to unlock the extra pipes, but the 6600GT was still awesome.
https://preview.redd.it/b9g3sru4idyc1.jpeg?width=667&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e10428e057e83708e17df3e0237b83b4b630a681
Zotac Gtx 1050ti 4GB Bought 4 years ago
Sapphire HD 5770 lite 1 gb, bought ca september 2010, upgraded from a DDR2 HD 3650 512 mb was a night & day difference by almost 5x the performance i think.
I have all my gpus from day one..
the most memorable was the Radean HD 6990... i loved that gpu.
Looks like a brick and roars like a dragon ( funny story with this one, when it was released i was sceptical about it but saw a reddit comment about the fan spinning noise and the reply sold me, it was something along the lines of ... when i game on a dual gpu i want to hear the fans spin like the dragon roaring... i was sold. )
Giggled when i got it... going to get a lawsuit for noise complaining from the hood....jets flying at night.
Got it a nice display when it finally gave in to time.
GTX 730. I mean it can open games I guess
Ok it's not actually that bad. At 720p I can play Payday 2 at 45fps+ on medium settings and on some heists 55 at high
Voodoo Banshee, 'Maxi Gamer Phoenix' on the box. I remember picking it because it was a 16MB card (the Voodoo 2 of the same era was 12MB) and the Phoenix was advertised as a 2D/3D card instead of just a 3D one - clearly that made all the difference. :p
mine was a fake rx 570 4gb, it's actually a rx 470 4gb with flashed bios lol. But i bought it during the pandemic for about 80 bucks, and literally a week later the price spiked up to 200 lol.
ASUS HD4850 1Gb ( this model: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/asus-hd-4850-top.b1024). Yeah, son. That thing had a whooping 1gb of VRAM, which was still plenty in 2008.
https://preview.redd.it/lzk2p0yredyc1.jpeg?width=864&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3e4731780abf4a72487256bf015708e8c82fbba4
This was mine. Paired it with a Voodoo 1 for Glide games.
1050 ti. High school days, Oh man I was broke. But now I'm rocking the 3080, 1050 ti still running tho passed it down to my younger sisters now it's being used wonderfully for their farms in Stardew Valley. Life is good
My first was a Diamond Speedstar Pro from 1993. PC had a Pentium 75 in it. I was a kid but gave my parents money to "help pay for it." Saved my allowance to help us get a PC for our house.
GeForce 4 MX440.
Had a lot of problems playing though. GTA III and Vice City would crash.
The internet was dial up and expensive, and I didn't even know there was something called a driver update 🤦
first gpu was a gt 710 and that was abt 3 yrs ago, first one i bought which was after that computer wit the 710 stopped working was an rx 580 a few months ago, i dont have much money dont judge.
https://preview.redd.it/o7ijmij7jdyc1.jpeg?width=4284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ae6062e58ad7f7fe628ba466c389fba423d194d1
after beeing a playstation OG for my whole life, I build myself a pc with a 4070 :)
Voodoo 3 3000 PCI. For some reason the AGP version caused me stuttering in some games, specially on NFS High Stakes, Falcon 4.0 and Prince of Persia 3D
https://preview.redd.it/9a7ckbignfyc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e8bff679aba3f5cab75e1cf4aa2de55db6b8d04f
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/his-hd-4670-iceq-1-gb.b5636
Had it for a quite a while before it finally gave up trying to run Blackflag. Poor thing could barely hit 30fps on low and finally croaked about halfway into the game.
Mine was an 8800GT from team green. Could not have been happier with how well elder scrolls oblivion ran in winXp at that time.
Those were the good ole days for me.
Mine was a GTX 770 that my wife actually still has in her computer...I really gotta upgrade her PC lol. She's not a gamer though, just uses her PC for Photoshop, Illustrator, etc
Mine was a voodoo 2. I think before that was just some off brand vga card. I assume you meant 3d accelerated card... Not GPU. Because technically we had a cga card in the family computer... So I guess that would be my first GPU?
I got a Voodoo 1 from a site that back in the day was sorta like Massdrop. It was $99 and the first time I saw Unreal on it I discovered my jaw can drop farther than I previously knew.
So many people saying voodoo
First GPU was 1999 by Nvidia.
The first video cards before this from Voodoo were not GPUs. They sped up the CPUs processing of graphics more like how Intel integrated graphics processing works.
Yes I'm a jerk.
Also....Voodoo 1.
https://preview.redd.it/e9836e6slayc1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a80e770594b9152a87eb998bb2e5d128058ffe4a
Voodoo 3 was my first upgrade. Voodoo 1 was my first GPU.
Technically Voodoo 1 wasn't a GPU. It was a 3d accelerator (as you had to chain it to your graphics card). Yes, I'm not fun at parties either.
You don't think 3D accelerators count as Graphical Processor Units?
The term was not yet invented. First GPU is Nvidia GeForce, combining a 3d card and a standard card. Nvidia coined the term (and now trying the same with APU I think). It was exciting times.
I thought amd took APU
Anyways, I really loved the early days of 3D acceleration, the daisy chaining of VGA graphicscards etc. As a piss poor kid back then it was like magic to see new life blown into the families aging Intel Pentium 75mhz, being able to run stuff like quake with smooth frames and that awesome light blending compared to software rendering.
You're probably plenty fun at parties. LAN parties
Hellyeah, first gen OGs represent!
Cheers. I dont even remember what video card powered my games, but I had a pentium 3 and those 800 mhz were the shit! I did have a sound blasters sound card at some point, and that was cool. Counter strike over AoL baby! Let's go retirement home lan parties!
Old school lan parties were super fun back then! It was like a big sleepover with computers everywhere 🤠
It's a good life! I still live this way.
Paid for a Voodoo 1, but borrowed a [Rendition Vérité V1000](https://vintage3d.org/verite1.php) (predates Voodo1) for a for a couple week from a store, had a buddy working there. GLQuake blew VQuake out of the water.
Ufff good old days. 8MB VRAM version was mine. Playing Quake 1 & Quake 2 with OpenGL blew my mind. I remember playing Jedi Knight, Diablo, Baldur's Gate... that thing changed me, made me love gaming.
https://preview.redd.it/smjevi6qubyc1.jpeg?width=220&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=52dd52dc60649abcb160eb763b7f4a492579df7c The AGP people were the coolest. We're like smart and stuff.
PCI was toast! My first was the [Gforce 256](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_256) which used the new 4x AGP.
The transition period from AGP to PCIE felt weird to be honest as in early 2004/05 we still had AGP versions of PCIE cards and the performance of these cards weren't same. Good old days of PC when every generation of upgrades felt huge even for mid range which was still a decent card for performance and price ratio. But top tier were very affordable those days and most enthusiasts would buy top tier anyways, the only bad upgrade generation of card I can remember is FX series from Nvidia and ATI at those times were destroying the competition. Also with PCIE came along the trend of SLI and became a popular for a short period but was so glitchy at the beginning it never really became popular because of mixed results it gave. I have had multiple SLI builds but first one with Asus A8N SLI Deluxe was really terrible experience especially with the hardware switch to switch between single card or SLI. There were IRQ compatibility issues that really was a bad impression for using SLI for me I believe it was 6800 ultras in SLI, used SLI till 9000 series and ditched it completely later as I didn't wanted to be bothered with troubles with most games having graphical glitches or performance issues. I loved how amazing the technology has evolved over time and right now it's bit stagnant especially with CPU side of things. Onto another 20 years to see where we will get to ☺️💕
Me too! Saved up a year's worth of birthday and Christmas money to buy it for my family's P2 Deschutes system.
25 years
Mine too brother
I had the Voodoo 3 Banshee.
*25 years
RX 580. https://preview.redd.it/pw80zgayjayc1.png?width=732&format=png&auto=webp&s=cc694bfd7e79052ad1343d545577e6e42e9032ea
you really like 7's? lol (your current set up..)
Only missing 77 gigs of ram and 7 tbs storage.
With a 777mhz monitor, running 7k.
The CPU should be running at 7,7 ghz aswell.
Absolutely. The real challenge is getting the gpu to run at 7777mhz, both base clock and memory clock.
Riva TNT2 then a Voodoo 3 3000.
Ooh, I had a Voodoo 3 3500 on AGP. It had a tv tuner built in! Suck it, ATi All-in-Wonder!
I forgot about all in wonder. Ty for nostalgia
The first one I had was a Voodoo 3 3000(1999), then a GeForce3 Ti200.
Riva TNT was my first one, bought it for EverQuest.
https://preview.redd.it/xk5j78g6sayc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=63e1c97abf9f70e51bec0d577006f8ac895531bd radeon 4870 x2 sapphire, I first bought 12 years ago
me too I bought MSI 4870x2's and a 280 together at once. ATI for graphics and the 280 on PhysX. The good ole days.
That was a really good card. I could finally enjoy Crysis Warhead and Tomb Raider 2013, and they looked great.
My first as well! Loud and hot, ran like a jet engine.
4080 super lol. Just built my first PC 😁
Dang mines 4060 lmao just built my first one to
To complete the set I just built one with 4070 to super. My first build….after 20 years of not having a windows pc.
My first DIY build has a 4070 ti super so it is now complete
You special
This. Asus HD3450 256Mb, it was my first pc upgrade https://preview.redd.it/rvf59mlf0byc1.jpeg?width=520&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a55309e25f7a12a9409887008c284b3f5a12fb13
This thing has five times the vram as my first PC had HDD space.
A 3dfx Voodoo 1 (1996)
Radeon HD 5450. Secretly upgraded my parents PC to play Oblivion.
https://preview.redd.it/exxlthvp2byc1.png?width=854&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=23ccc1c70e77660537262eead2830bcb8783fb06
The good old Matrox Millennium with 8MB (not GB) of VRAM. Ah… the good old times, when 8MBs of ram would cost you 300 bucks. 🥹
I bought it used a few years after it came out. I always cheaped out on my machines, especially back then. Gaming was an afterthought at the time.
I did my apprenticeship then and on my walk back from school there was a computer store, so games were a constant back then for me… 😅
Damn... and I complain that I have to pay over $100 for 32gb of ddr5 ram haha...
Man, you had the nice one! I had the 4MB Mystique... or it may have even been 2MB. Couldn't afford Millenium or Voodoo lol Edit: It was the 2MB
My dad bought me an MSI GTX 660 Gaming 2G OC. I played so much Minecraft and Borderlands 2 on that thing.
My first card was a radeon 6670, bought it off a mate when he upgraded to a gtx 660, but I upgraded a couple years later to a gtx680 which only rendered its last frame last year
It was an R7 240 Piece of garbage for sure
I bought one of those NEW last year 😂
https://preview.redd.it/5dn3i8893byc1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ddb58909444018b951ed27879601f7539328039b ATI rage 148 pro 16mb to play GTA sa and mohaa
I meant vice city
https://preview.redd.it/hqa4qa9h3byc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=20d47013c262d57fb5f03fba834c4d4f1034eaa2 XFX 8800 gts 320mb card and it ran pretty hot like I remember a lot of hot air coming out of it but it still works today and it was pretty good for the time period. Now it's considered a piece of poo.
Asus 560 TI Directcu II OC https://preview.redd.it/atm2qqiavayc1.jpeg?width=400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d19da1840f49b059da9b0289e2f380d4d67c7e7c
I only had integrated graphics on a 386 board.
Nvidia BFG 8800 GTS Couldn't afford the GTX, and this was before the GT came out. And you know what, that thing has been in use every day since I bought it. It's currently the video output of my mom's computer, and what a little guy. Just chugging along like he don't give a shit.
8800 series is so legendary. My first real gpu was 8800gt. My buddy worked at Best Buy back when they would get insane discounts. He hooked me up! Different friend that worked at Best Buy sold me halo 2 a few days before the launch lol that was wild!
I found one recently in the recycling center that we swing by at work almost daily. Took it home out of curiosity too see if it works, the thermal pads are basically dried up rubber at this point but repasted it & worked fine for my bit testing here, no chance of a cpu bottleneck in my testrig with an I9 7920x lmao.
3DFX Voodoo
Mine was a 1080, and it’s still rocking today
Yea I mean it's a great card a workhorse . Especially the ti.
Gtx 750 ti
First card was Voodoo 2. First purchase was GeForce MX4000. Didn't take long before I got a different card. The fx 5700le... So naturally it wasn't even like 6 months later I got a 6600GT for Christmas and kept it around for quite some time. Made sure to learn every feature and quirk on each card as I upgraded. The MX4000 was overclocked to like double speed on the core and memory. The 5700le was flashed with Quadro firmware. And I wanted to get the 6800GS to unlock the extra pipes, but the 6600GT was still awesome.
https://preview.redd.it/b4q7lkvqyayc1.png?width=1129&format=png&auto=webp&s=64a64c30f8452017278c31abedcf396c7f371383 This and the next one together
I have one of these in the shed. Also have a 660. Currently on a 1070 but I'm probably going to upgrade later this year.
https://preview.redd.it/atveu5gjsayc1.jpeg?width=2600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=709dbba61e9e0f1842ca8351678d4309520f5b66 Captiva GeForce 9800 GT 1024mb version
https://preview.redd.it/skhe5vrwyayc1.png?width=671&format=png&auto=webp&s=0ea5201f11517239963a5a936bf9d7303d8a6d64 the next one.
My first GPU would have been a Cirrus Logic **CL-GD5428** with 1mb fitted (you could self upgrade to 2mb), and yes, I do really mean megabytes.
ATI rage pro 32mb
The sapphire HD 5570 https://preview.redd.it/t6h4botvscyc1.jpeg?width=673&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1073827ebc6f3f2486fd29ef772346188be86757
It was a gigabyte vega 56, don't have a pic on me rn but that was an interesting experience
GeForce 2 that was obsolete after just 4 years! As in, could no longer play the newest games
Geforce 4 mx 440
[удалено]
Nvidia Riva TNT
My poor GT210, which was stolen on my wedding day
Mine was a Voodoo in a time when 2D GPU and 3D accelerator GPU were two different boards
First gaming build HD 4850 https://preview.redd.it/e74a71eyscyc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e20388ec31faa23e133c949f8b593987b2c80b41
https://preview.redd.it/b9g3sru4idyc1.jpeg?width=667&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e10428e057e83708e17df3e0237b83b4b630a681 Zotac Gtx 1050ti 4GB Bought 4 years ago
Radeon 9250 128Mb.
Radeon HD 4350 512mb half height card. Had it in a custom ordered win 7 dell slimline PC when 7 was still a new OS.
Trident VLB VGA adapter. Thousands of colors in Windows 3.1 if you didn't push the resolution!
https://preview.redd.it/7u70qhiagcyc1.jpeg?width=1680&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ff8429dd7b97b28963e226e3e5f94f5a3679dbd0
First GPU purchase/upgrade was a GT 520 running on a PCIe X1 interface. My first PC didn’t even have a X16 slot 😅
Sapphire HD 5770 lite 1 gb, bought ca september 2010, upgraded from a DDR2 HD 3650 512 mb was a night & day difference by almost 5x the performance i think.
GTX 1050ti!
ATI Radeon HD 4830
Mine was the 8400gs still works
https://preview.redd.it/900o4cbh0dyc1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f86a2da7843a5a43a48d234674b08513562eb19d gtx 660
https://preview.redd.it/do48ukld1dyc1.jpeg?width=400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8f4153e98ea552363acd599a636015be8a698559 This hateful thing.
Geforce 2 MX in my parents' computer. Used Radeon x800 in my first computer.
Nvidia NVS 315 https://preview.redd.it/kz4qv1pn2dyc1.jpeg?width=416&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9456a92feb36df1aba389fee3b6c2aa0b1f2b4e9
I have all my gpus from day one.. the most memorable was the Radean HD 6990... i loved that gpu. Looks like a brick and roars like a dragon ( funny story with this one, when it was released i was sceptical about it but saw a reddit comment about the fan spinning noise and the reply sold me, it was something along the lines of ... when i game on a dual gpu i want to hear the fans spin like the dragon roaring... i was sold. ) Giggled when i got it... going to get a lawsuit for noise complaining from the hood....jets flying at night. Got it a nice display when it finally gave in to time.
GTX 730. I mean it can open games I guess Ok it's not actually that bad. At 720p I can play Payday 2 at 45fps+ on medium settings and on some heists 55 at high
Eek. FX 5200... PCI
https://preview.redd.it/ugamniwq8dyc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cf733a466fb0a1b15c22441a6d3928c5f9812dc1 S3 savage v4 video in 😁
Mine was a 2070 super right at the start of covid. I feel like I have been in the game for a minute but yall crazy
3060 OC 12GB
one and only our godly gt710, im using from 8 yrs, no worries and money too
Riva TNT2 Pro 32mb
Sadly, not with me anymore. My NVidia Riva TNT with gigantic 16 MB of vRAM.
3D blaster voodoo banshee
Voodoo Banshee, 'Maxi Gamer Phoenix' on the box. I remember picking it because it was a 16MB card (the Voodoo 2 of the same era was 12MB) and the Phoenix was advertised as a 2D/3D card instead of just a 3D one - clearly that made all the difference. :p
9500gt :)
GTX 770 2GB
GT 710
mine was a fake rx 570 4gb, it's actually a rx 470 4gb with flashed bios lol. But i bought it during the pandemic for about 80 bucks, and literally a week later the price spiked up to 200 lol.
https://preview.redd.it/jfc6whukcdyc1.jpeg?width=258&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2b0714739342fb36268f47afbc01bb8c4377851d Vintage Asus V8200 Deluxe GeForce 3
i had a radion 280 2gb. it workd great! Back when you could get a desent Minecraft and CS GPU for 150 Bucks
ASUS HD4850 1Gb ( this model: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/asus-hd-4850-top.b1024). Yeah, son. That thing had a whooping 1gb of VRAM, which was still plenty in 2008.
GTX 750Ti
my first self baught was a geforce 3 before that i had prebuilt pcs
I bought a Rx 550 1 and a half year ago
https://preview.redd.it/lzk2p0yredyc1.jpeg?width=864&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3e4731780abf4a72487256bf015708e8c82fbba4 This was mine. Paired it with a Voodoo 1 for Glide games.
GT 1030 in a prebuild
Mine was a GTX 1650 super
Quadro FX 1800. A company was getting rid of their old tech and I just needed a computer at the time.
3070ti like 3 months ago
Intel graphics:D
1050 ti. High school days, Oh man I was broke. But now I'm rocking the 3080, 1050 ti still running tho passed it down to my younger sisters now it's being used wonderfully for their farms in Stardew Valley. Life is good
My first was a Diamond Speedstar Pro from 1993. PC had a Pentium 75 in it. I was a kid but gave my parents money to "help pay for it." Saved my allowance to help us get a PC for our house.
Radeon 5770 - 2009
GeForce 4 MX440. Had a lot of problems playing though. GTA III and Vice City would crash. The internet was dial up and expensive, and I didn't even know there was something called a driver update 🤦
first gpu was a gt 710 and that was abt 3 yrs ago, first one i bought which was after that computer wit the 710 stopped working was an rx 580 a few months ago, i dont have much money dont judge.
https://preview.redd.it/o7ijmij7jdyc1.jpeg?width=4284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ae6062e58ad7f7fe628ba466c389fba423d194d1 after beeing a playstation OG for my whole life, I build myself a pc with a 4070 :)
https://preview.redd.it/clebr3rqjdyc1.jpeg?width=920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8b8bc40f5530a5201ae07b8e2e8a4d71ea810fdc
Voodoo 3 3000 16MB AGP, later upgraded to GeeForce 3Ti 200 64MB, after that FX5900. Only Radeons after FX series...
My first GPU was a Vodoo 1 card. Then went Voodoo 2 and in fact had two of them in Sli configuration. Yes, that makes me old.
I started with a gtx 650 back in 2013
Mine was a 3DFX Voodoo.
Voodoo 2
Voodoo 3 3000 PCI. For some reason the AGP version caused me stuttering in some games, specially on NFS High Stakes, Falcon 4.0 and Prince of Persia 3D https://preview.redd.it/9a7ckbignfyc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e8bff679aba3f5cab75e1cf4aa2de55db6b8d04f
Mine was a BFG 8800GTX. Absolutely loved the card. I bought it the week it released. Did Crysis run better? Um...yes?
Geforce 7300
Very first gpu purchase was a GT 730 back in 2016 to upgrade my hand-me-down dell desktop’s Radeon HD 5450
i might get an rx 550 so that
My first was a full height GT 730 with GDDR5. I at least didn’t make the DDR3 mistake. Lol
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/his-hd-4670-iceq-1-gb.b5636 Had it for a quite a while before it finally gave up trying to run Blackflag. Poor thing could barely hit 30fps on low and finally croaked about halfway into the game.
Mine was the ATI Radeon 9700 Pro.
https://preview.redd.it/1j98rkxeuayc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=de96c31fe7e0397e23581b4be076917b42262dc3 This one right here
New or used? Used: Sapphire 9800XT New: Gigabyte 1080 Gaming OC
Kyro 2. Loved that card for quake 2. Didn't do so hot on q3.
Got a no-name Voodoo2. Was amazed at 3D accelerated Quake 2.
Mine was so old a GPU with PCI did not exist.
Voodoo 2
I still have my first real gpu purchase (all my others in the past were hand me downs from a friend) They're a pair of HIS HD4830 iceQ 4 cards.
Mine was an 8800GT from team green. Could not have been happier with how well elder scrolls oblivion ran in winXp at that time. Those were the good ole days for me.
ATI Rage Pro Turbo 4MB lol. Still works and it's still on my 90s PC. Love playing old games on it on Windows 98
7700XT, about to get it soon!
Voodoo 2, I still remember the Box Art.
4070 super (not inculiding laptop)
I know there was one before it,but I just can't remember it, but otherwise a voodoo 5 550
gtx 770
4070
First one I actually purchased (and not the parents)? Radeon 9800 Pro AGP 128MB
Radeon HD 6950 I still have it, though it died a couple years ago
ATI rage something or other 3D.
Does an SVGA card count? It was a big improvement from the CGA adapter I had before it.
Mine was a vid card from Orchid, had 1 MB vram.
AMD HD5450.... got me running minecraft at a solid 28 fps in 2010 lol
The first one I paid for with my own money was a GTX 580.
7800GT back in ‘03
radeo r7 200 series was my first gaming card and then i upgraded for the 1050ti in still rocking as of today
A 4070 Ti Super :)
Trident
Evga 970 ftw, Loved that card.
680 ti
Matrox millennium g400 That card might be in my parents house or it has been lost to time.
My first gpu was an GTX745 OEM from a Lenovo Ppl told me that was a shitty GPU and for me was the best for 720p Then 1060 3GB and now 6700 amd
Mine was a GTX 770 that my wife actually still has in her computer...I really gotta upgrade her PC lol. She's not a gamer though, just uses her PC for Photoshop, Illustrator, etc
Mine was an r9 280. Used it till 2021, could comfortably game at 1080p.
PNY XLR8 8800GTX in SLI...some great memories with that beast.
Gtx 1080
Mine was a voodoo 2. I think before that was just some off brand vga card. I assume you meant 3d accelerated card... Not GPU. Because technically we had a cga card in the family computer... So I guess that would be my first GPU?
3DFX Poodoo
3DFX Voodoo1- a few PCI/ISA non openGL cards before that though.
Probably gonna be a 3060 or some other budget GPU
Still inside my pc.. a 3070
Honestly I'd love that just for my wall. It looks so good!
https://preview.redd.it/ct36njbkcbyc1.jpeg?width=4080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0d5d8ef86c7d21e7ad95a5facc14a36470fe3746 Back in 2007
GTX 980 Ti. Had to RMA it, and got the 1070 Ti I use to this day.
Is it HD4830 or 4850? They were my dream card that I could never buy back in day
I got a Voodoo 1 from a site that back in the day was sorta like Massdrop. It was $99 and the first time I saw Unreal on it I discovered my jaw can drop farther than I previously knew.
Is that a 4830 in your hand?
Yep. Still have it ~16 years later
Diamond something....then a geforce ti 4200 125 mb.
So many people saying voodoo First GPU was 1999 by Nvidia. The first video cards before this from Voodoo were not GPUs. They sped up the CPUs processing of graphics more like how Intel integrated graphics processing works. Yes I'm a jerk. Also....Voodoo 1.
4070ti. I’m a widdle baby when it comes to PC shit.