ATI 2600XT – ATI 2900 XT – GTX 760 – GTX 1060 – RTX 3070 – RTX 3080TI
The 760 was the first I ever bought myself. Now I’m just waiting for the 5090/5080.
I remember the 2600XT overheating all the time. I could only play at the lowest resolution for 2 hours max before the computer crashed. The 2900XT worked great until it randomly died and I had to go back to the 2600XT.
I can still picture the blurry mess of dead space at the lowest setting and resolution. Still a great gaming experience.
GABE_EDD
* GT 630 (I didn’t know how shit it was, I was new to PC hardware)
* GTX 660
* GTX 1070 Ti
* RTX 3070 Ti
* RX 7900 XTX
-Laffi-
My first (Medion) PC there is no way I can know. I didn’t care. I picked up the computer from the store in a box, and paid for it, just like that. The computer wasn’t even build in the store.
Then:
-NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra (artifacts) -> Replaced to something 200-300 series CUDA. Was half the size
-Nvidia 250M (laptop)
-555 something (laptop)
-GTX 1080 strix gaming (worked well, but was the noisiest part of my computer. Some shadows on the monitor while using it)
-RTX 4060 ti Ghost -> Quiet and reliable! Current.
No idea about before the 280, as I had a pre-built and was young.
Throwaythisacco
not a super long list but
GT 730 –> GTX 1050 –> RX 580 –> Vega 64 –> RX 7700 XT –> ??? (likely to replaced in the near future)
Nika299p
ATi HD 4350, Intel hd4400(integrated), EVGA GTS 250, gigabyte gtx 770, Asus RX 5700
QuuxJn
That’s easy. RTX 4070… I have just recently built my first PC, so that’s all I have.
Well technically there is GPU in the CPU in my Laptop, a Intel UHD Graphics, but that doesn’t count.
badablahblah
For sure. Back in the late 90s early 2000s you almost NEEDED to upgrade every six months. Generations did not last long, the 3D visuals improved by leaps and bounds so fast. The last 10 years GPU upgrades have seemed more like habit than necessity.
My journey goes all the way back to 1997 with the Rendition. I somehow made that thing last my late teenage years and skipped all 3DFX cards.
Rendition Verite V1000
Riva TNT 2
GeForce 2 Ti
GeForce 6800 Ultra
GeForce 8800 GTX
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
GeForce RTX 2080 Super
GeForce RTX 4090
KindlyReality6155
Rx 580 and rx 6600 lmao
Jigabit
Yes. The upgrade progression has been:
Ati x1950xt
Nvidia 9800gtx+
AMD HD 6870
Nvidia gtx560ti x2
AMD R9 290x x2
AMD Rx 5700xt
Nvidia GTX 1080Ti
AMD Rx 6900xt
From all of those my fondest memories are of the r9 290x.
AAAAAAAAAAHsendhelp
my first was a gainward 8600 GT, gtx 760 (I think), gtx 1050ti, then another 1050ti, then rtx 2060
KrazyKryminal
Oldest cards I can remember.
Voodoo 3 and Voodoo 5 5500.
After that I only remember a R9 290. 1660ti and now a 3080ti.
builder397
Yup, got a fairly similar progression actually.
First one is forgotten, but it was a 16MB one on a 133Mhz Pentium PC, so pretty much overkill. Then goes:
1.2Ghz Athlon with Geforce 2 MX/MX400; 1.8Ghz Intel 2 Duo with 8500GT, Pentium D with 9800GT 1GB, later 9800GT 1GB eco, 4x3Ghz Athlon II X4 640 with GTX 570, Ryzen 5 2600X with GTX 1060 3GB and now Ryzen 5 3600 with RX6600.
Got happy memories with all of them, but I gotta admit, two of those were serious missteps.
Michaloslosos
i5-3470 iGPU -> GT 710 -> Ryzen 7 5700G iGPU -> GTX 1660 SUPER -> RTX 4070 SUPER
The_Metroid
GTX 1050, RX 6600. Hopefully RX 7800XT or 7900 GRE in the future.
Laptop: Amd HD3650, Amd HD7650M, Nvidia 1050ti. I no longer buy laptops with discrete graphics so this is the end of the list.
normllikeme
Riva128zx. Voodoo banshee. Tnt2 ultra with a pair of voodoo 2s. Voodoo 3 3000. Not sure for a while there in my early 20s lol. Then 3850 ati. 760 gtx. Rx480. Rx580. 5600xt and now 5700xt. Not new I know but does 1080 just fine
z0nk_91
I think it was: GeForce 4 (MX 440 iirc), Radeon X800 (not sure which version), GeForce 8800GTS, Radeon HD6990(that dual GPU one), GeForce GTX 780, GeForce GTX 1080 and now GeForce RTX 4080 Super.
How time flies…
Aul0s
Intel HD Graphics – GeForce 330M – MSI Twin Frozr HD 7870 – MSI GTX 970 (as basic a cooler you could get away with) – EVGA GTX 1080Ti SC2 – AMD RX 6950XT Reference
I don’t even remember the one I currently am using.
vakantiehuisopwielen
I only don’t know the first one in an 80486..
Riva128 Diamond Viper V330 AGP
GeForce 2 mx200 AGP
Ati Radeon 9600tx (medion branded, actually a 9500pro) AGP
GeForce 6600GT (Asus) AGP
AMD hd4850 (Club3d) PCI-e
GeForce GT 755m
My wintersleep
AMD rx 6600 (XFX) as it was affordable in 2022.
Still need to buy a replacement
Hopeful-Bowl3352
I used almost all
TheHandSFX
I do! Here’s the long list:
1060 3GB
Master_Ad_5590
( note: all these cards I dealt with during pandemic times and prices were insane. I also flew through cards as I was working with my first build during my first job)
Timeline consists of
XFX Rx 580
EVGA Gtx 1080ti
EVGA 2060 KO
MSI 2070 Super
Currently on a GIGABYTE RX 7700xt
egor769
Oh hell no!!! HP PAVILION G6 GT -520m i3-320m
LordJambrek
ATi 3D Rage 2, Matrox Millenium G450, GeForce 2 MX 400, GeForce 3 Ti 200, Radeon 9000, GeForce 7800GT, ATi HD4850. Switched to laptops: GeForce 600m, GeForce 720m, GeForce GTX 765m Back to desktop: GeForce GTX 750Ti, Ge Force GTX 760 4GB and now my current GeForce RTX 3060Ti
unabletocomput3
I’m much newer, but I remember my main ones
First one was an hd 5450, gt710, rx 580, Vega 8 (ryzen 3 2200g), rtx 3060ti, rx 6800xt, rtx 3080 12gb, and finally a 4070ti
There’s a lot of “downgrades”/side grades that I won’t list because I kept buying cards and throwing them in PCs to either sell or give to friends.
Hopeful-Bowl3352
3dfx Ahhhh 🥺 GeForce 3Ti GeForce 4 Nvidia ❤️ Ati rage savage 4 alot i remember i used
i used to resell used parts a lot so my gpu was changing constantly. some i even had multiple versions of but my fav has to be the ASUS gtx580 MARS II.
nmathew
Let’s see… I feel like I have to be missing one. No possible way I went through college and grad school with only 4 cards, is it?
You’ll notice I lived low on the poll most of my time. Always searching for great value, though the 8800 GT and HD 7950 Boost were splurges for that time in my life. I wanted to do a HD 7950 to 7900XT “downgrade” but couldn’t hold out. Major PC upgrade planned for late this year or early next year.
S3 Savage 3d (S3)
Nvidia GeForce 2 MX (Hercules 3d Prophet 2 MX)
ATI 9200SE (Maybe the 9100, was Powercolor)
Nvidia 8800 GT (EVGA?)
AMD HD 7950 Boost (Sapphire)
AMD RX6600 XT (AsRock)
Suckmyunit42069
Grandpa get off Reddit
Bitter_Perspective51
There is one that I wanted the most, the 980 TI, wanted to buy it as a temporary GPU for my new build, but ended up buying RX 5700 and few weeks later upgraded to 4080 super, man I love my PC
Drummer61190
I bought a VooDoo2 from an extended cousin but it kept shutting down my PC. We couldn’t figure out why but after all these years, my PSU clearly wasn’t strong enough lol. After that my stepfather gave me his PC with I think it was a 460 GTS. All I remember about it was card was blue and the box that had some kind of wolf on it. Damn I’m old.
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ATI 2600XT – ATI 2900 XT – GTX 760 – GTX 1060 – RTX 3070 – RTX 3080TI
The 760 was the first I ever bought myself. Now I’m just waiting for the 5090/5080.
I remember the 2600XT overheating all the time. I could only play at the lowest resolution for 2 hours max before the computer crashed. The 2900XT worked great until it randomly died and I had to go back to the 2600XT.
I can still picture the blurry mess of dead space at the lowest setting and resolution. Still a great gaming experience.
* GT 630 (I didn’t know how shit it was, I was new to PC hardware)
* GTX 660
* GTX 1070 Ti
* RTX 3070 Ti
* RX 7900 XTX
My first (Medion) PC there is no way I can know. I didn’t care. I picked up the computer from the store in a box, and paid for it, just like that. The computer wasn’t even build in the store.
Then:
-NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra (artifacts) -> Replaced to something 200-300 series CUDA. Was half the size
-Nvidia 250M (laptop)
-555 something (laptop)
-GTX 1080 strix gaming (worked well, but was the noisiest part of my computer. Some shadows on the monitor while using it)
-RTX 4060 ti Ghost -> Quiet and reliable! Current.
Nvidia GT610
MSI R9 290
EVGA GTX 1660TI
– zotac 750ti
– sapphire pulse rx570 4gb
– sapphire nitro+ 6700xt
GTX 280
GTX 780
GTX 1080TI
RTX 4080
No idea about before the 280, as I had a pre-built and was young.
not a super long list but
GT 730 –> GTX 1050 –> RX 580 –> Vega 64 –> RX 7700 XT –> ??? (likely to replaced in the near future)
ATi HD 4350, Intel hd4400(integrated), EVGA GTS 250, gigabyte gtx 770, Asus RX 5700
That’s easy. RTX 4070… I have just recently built my first PC, so that’s all I have.
Well technically there is GPU in the CPU in my Laptop, a Intel UHD Graphics, but that doesn’t count.
For sure. Back in the late 90s early 2000s you almost NEEDED to upgrade every six months. Generations did not last long, the 3D visuals improved by leaps and bounds so fast. The last 10 years GPU upgrades have seemed more like habit than necessity.
My journey goes all the way back to 1997 with the Rendition. I somehow made that thing last my late teenage years and skipped all 3DFX cards.
Rendition Verite V1000
Riva TNT 2
GeForce 2 Ti
GeForce 6800 Ultra
GeForce 8800 GTX
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
GeForce RTX 2080 Super
GeForce RTX 4090
Rx 580 and rx 6600 lmao
Yes. The upgrade progression has been:
Ati x1950xt
Nvidia 9800gtx+
AMD HD 6870
Nvidia gtx560ti x2
AMD R9 290x x2
AMD Rx 5700xt
Nvidia GTX 1080Ti
AMD Rx 6900xt
From all of those my fondest memories are of the r9 290x.
my first was a gainward 8600 GT, gtx 760 (I think), gtx 1050ti, then another 1050ti, then rtx 2060
Oldest cards I can remember.
Voodoo 3 and Voodoo 5 5500.
After that I only remember a R9 290. 1660ti and now a 3080ti.
Yup, got a fairly similar progression actually.
First one is forgotten, but it was a 16MB one on a 133Mhz Pentium PC, so pretty much overkill. Then goes:
1.2Ghz Athlon with Geforce 2 MX/MX400; 1.8Ghz Intel 2 Duo with 8500GT, Pentium D with 9800GT 1GB, later 9800GT 1GB eco, 4x3Ghz Athlon II X4 640 with GTX 570, Ryzen 5 2600X with GTX 1060 3GB and now Ryzen 5 3600 with RX6600.
Got happy memories with all of them, but I gotta admit, two of those were serious missteps.
i5-3470 iGPU -> GT 710 -> Ryzen 7 5700G iGPU -> GTX 1660 SUPER -> RTX 4070 SUPER
GTX 1050, RX 6600. Hopefully RX 7800XT or 7900 GRE in the future.
First one and GeForce FX 5200
Ati 7000 > Ati x300 > Nvidia 7950 > Nvidia 9600 > Nvidia 250 > Nvidia 670 > Nvidia 1070 > Nvidia 4070ti
Laptop: Amd HD3650, Amd HD7650M, Nvidia 1050ti. I no longer buy laptops with discrete graphics so this is the end of the list.
Riva128zx. Voodoo banshee. Tnt2 ultra with a pair of voodoo 2s. Voodoo 3 3000. Not sure for a while there in my early 20s lol. Then 3850 ati. 760 gtx. Rx480. Rx580. 5600xt and now 5700xt. Not new I know but does 1080 just fine
I think it was: GeForce 4 (MX 440 iirc), Radeon X800 (not sure which version), GeForce 8800GTS, Radeon HD6990(that dual GPU one), GeForce GTX 780, GeForce GTX 1080 and now GeForce RTX 4080 Super.
How time flies…
Intel HD Graphics – GeForce 330M – MSI Twin Frozr HD 7870 – MSI GTX 970 (as basic a cooler you could get away with) – EVGA GTX 1080Ti SC2 – AMD RX 6950XT Reference
Some dual core Pentium integrated graphics, GT640, intel 620 integrated graphics, rtx 3080
You went from a 660 to a 4070? Sheesh, talk about an upgrade, lol
Mine were:
XFX 8600GT – XFX HD 5670 – Sapphire HD 7870 Dual-X – Sapphire R9 390X Tri-X – GTX 1080 – RTX 3080 – RTX 4090
I don’t even remember the one I currently am using.
I only don’t know the first one in an 80486..
Riva128 Diamond Viper V330 AGP
GeForce 2 mx200 AGP
Ati Radeon 9600tx (medion branded, actually a 9500pro) AGP
GeForce 6600GT (Asus) AGP
AMD hd4850 (Club3d) PCI-e
GeForce GT 755m
My wintersleep
AMD rx 6600 (XFX) as it was affordable in 2022.
Still need to buy a replacement
I used almost all
I do! Here’s the long list:
1060 3GB
( note: all these cards I dealt with during pandemic times and prices were insane. I also flew through cards as I was working with my first build during my first job)
Timeline consists of
XFX Rx 580
EVGA Gtx 1080ti
EVGA 2060 KO
MSI 2070 Super
Currently on a GIGABYTE RX 7700xt
Oh hell no!!! HP PAVILION G6 GT -520m i3-320m
ATi 3D Rage 2, Matrox Millenium G450, GeForce 2 MX 400, GeForce 3 Ti 200, Radeon 9000, GeForce 7800GT, ATi HD4850. Switched to laptops: GeForce 600m, GeForce 720m, GeForce GTX 765m Back to desktop: GeForce GTX 750Ti, Ge Force GTX 760 4GB and now my current GeForce RTX 3060Ti
I’m much newer, but I remember my main ones
First one was an hd 5450, gt710, rx 580, Vega 8 (ryzen 3 2200g), rtx 3060ti, rx 6800xt, rtx 3080 12gb, and finally a 4070ti
There’s a lot of “downgrades”/side grades that I won’t list because I kept buying cards and throwing them in PCs to either sell or give to friends.
3dfx Ahhhh 🥺 GeForce 3Ti GeForce 4 Nvidia ❤️ Ati rage savage 4 alot i remember i used
gt 9600
mx 330 laptop
gtx 460
3090
rx 570
* 6800 GT
* 8600 GT
* GTS 250
* GTX 560 Ti
* GTX 970
* RTX 3080
r9 380
rx 480
rtx 3060ti
gtx 590, gtx 580, gtx 660ti sli, gtx 680, gtx 690, gt 710, gtx 770, hd 7850 crossfire, hd 7970, r9 295×2, r9 270x, r9 280x, gtx 780, gtx 980ti, gtx 1070, rx 580 4gb, rx 580 8gb, gt 1030, gtx 1050ti, gtx 1080, rtx 2070 super, rx 6600.
i used to resell used parts a lot so my gpu was changing constantly. some i even had multiple versions of but my fav has to be the ASUS gtx580 MARS II.
Let’s see… I feel like I have to be missing one. No possible way I went through college and grad school with only 4 cards, is it?
You’ll notice I lived low on the poll most of my time. Always searching for great value, though the 8800 GT and HD 7950 Boost were splurges for that time in my life. I wanted to do a HD 7950 to 7900XT “downgrade” but couldn’t hold out. Major PC upgrade planned for late this year or early next year.
S3 Savage 3d (S3)
Nvidia GeForce 2 MX (Hercules 3d Prophet 2 MX)
ATI 9200SE (Maybe the 9100, was Powercolor)
Nvidia 8800 GT (EVGA?)
AMD HD 7950 Boost (Sapphire)
AMD RX6600 XT (AsRock)
Grandpa get off Reddit
There is one that I wanted the most, the 980 TI, wanted to buy it as a temporary GPU for my new build, but ended up buying RX 5700 and few weeks later upgraded to 4080 super, man I love my PC
I bought a VooDoo2 from an extended cousin but it kept shutting down my PC. We couldn’t figure out why but after all these years, my PSU clearly wasn’t strong enough lol. After that my stepfather gave me his PC with I think it was a 460 GTS. All I remember about it was card was blue and the box that had some kind of wolf on it. Damn I’m old.