A walk through the past

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Limp Gawd
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Checked out my old 3DMark stuff and decided to list my videocard "evolution" just for fun:

2001: NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS/Pro/Ti
2003: NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200
2004: ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
2006: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS
2007: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT
2009: ATI Radeon HD 4870

:cool:
 
I went something like

STB Velocity 128 (4MB NV3)
Voodoo Banshee
Voodoo 3 3500
Voodoo 5 5500
Geforce 3 Ti 200
Geforce 4 Ti 4200
ATI 9600 Pro
ATI 9500 (SOFTMOD to 9700)
ATI 9800 Pro
Geforce 6800 mobile
Geforce 7800 mobile
Geforce 8800GT 512MB
ATI 4850
2x ATI 4850 in Crossfire
 
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I went...

6600gt 128mb agp
7800gs 256mb agp
8800gts 640mb
8800gt 512mb
hd4850 512mb
8800gts 512mb
hd4870 512mb
gtx260 192 896mb
hd4890 1gb
gtx275 896mb
gtx295 1792mb
 
My evolution was:


3dfx Voodoo 1 w/ Virge
3dfx Voodoo 2
Geforce TNT2
Geforce 2 GTS
Radeon 9800 SE soft modded to 8 shaders
2x 7600 GTS EVGA sli
Nvidia 9600GT
Nvidia GTX 275
 
RIVA128 (Diamond Viper V330)
TNT2
Geforce2 GTS
9700 Pro (paid too much for it retail too late in its life cycle)
X800 XL
X1950 Pro
HD3850
HD4670 (Didn't have a desktop for about a year and recently picked this up to game on)
 
Unknown 4MB (Pentium 1 100 system)
Intel 810 Integrated
Voodoo 5 5500 PCI (3d games)
Geforce 4 Ti 4200 (NWN compatible)
Geforce 6 6600GT (Needed PCI-e)
Geforce 7 7900GT (Run games maxed)
Radeon HD4850 (New generation, good deal)
Radeon HD4850 CFX (Run games maxed, great deal)

And I think i have 3dmark scores for all these somewhere. I'll come back and add them if I remember to.
 
Ah, memory lane...

Trident VGA - isa
Rendition Verite 1000 - pci
Vanta TNT64 - pci
Voodoo2 - pci
Geforce 2 MX - agp
Geforce 3 ti200 - agp
Geforce 5200 FX - agp (yeah I know, downgrade, woops)
Geforce 6600GT - agp
Geforce 6800 - agp
Geforce 7600GT - pci-e
ATI 3850 - pci-e
Geforce 8800GT - pci-e
GTX260 core 216 - pci-e
 
ATI 7500
ATI 9200
Nvidia 5200 256mb
ATI 9600xt
Nvidia 6600gt
ATI x800pro
Nvidia 7600gt SLI
ATI x1900gt
Nvidia 8800gts 320mb
ATI 4780 512mb
 
Cirrus Logic i just remember the name,,,16 colors! :D
Trident TVGA9000 512k ISA
S3 virge VX 4m PCI lol
VooDoo
VooDoo II SLI 2x8mb
TNT 16mb
TNT2 32m
GeForce
GeForce 2
GeForce 3
ATI 9600 AIW
GeForce 4 4600 128m
6800 Ultra 256m
x1950xt 512m
8800GTS 320m
9600GT 512m

slowed down on playing and only play occasionally now, my rigs fold more than game currently :cool:

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Dont remember the non 3D cards...

Voodoo Rush
Voodoo Banshee
Voodoo 5 5500
Geforce 3 Ti500
Radeon 1900xt
Radeon 800XT (returned after 3 days and got the 7800, hated this card)
Geforce 7800 GT
Geforce 8800 GTS
Geforce 260 GTX
 
Intel i740
GeForce 2 MX/MX400
GeForce 7800GTX
Quadro NVS 140M (got a laptop for university)
 
I remember my first CGA video card. It was AMAZING at the time. I remember the first cards I spent mucho doneros on. Matrox M3D and the Matrox Mystique for my Cyrix Pentium Killer then K6 CPU.... I wrote a review for my site for the Cyrix CPU, too, WAY BACK WHEN! I still have my dual Voodoo 2 card SLI setup. And the TNT1, TNT2 Ultra, GeForce256 up to the 4600, then ATI 9700 Pro.... And then up from there...
 
Lots of cards from an 8 bit ISA MGA card through GT200 and RV770, heavy on 3D cards from 1997-present.

The oldest video card I still have is an ATI EGA Wonder with TV out, vintage 1988.
 
Oh man, some memories...

Voodoo 1 4MB
Voodoo 2 8MB
2x SLI Voodoo2 12MB
Geforce 2 MX
Geforce 2 GTS
Geforce FX 5600 Ultra
Radeon 9600
Geforce 8600M (laptop)

...and that's where I stopped. The new cards, especially those coming in a few weeks, are some four generations ahead of the fastest card I've owned. Can't wait.
 
My 3DMark results probably start with the Voodoo 3 3000. I did run the Final Reality benchmark on my Voodoo 1 however.

Voodoo 3 3000 AGP 16MB
Geforce 256 DDR 32MB
Voodoo5 5500 AGP 64MB
Radeon 64MB DDR 64MB
Geforce 3 Ti500 64MB
Radeon 9700 Pro 128MB
Radeon X800XT 256MB
Geforce 8800GT 512MB
Radeon 4850 512MB
 
haha! This is great. I have waaay to many to list though since I've been around since the Apple IIe days from the early 1990's (yeah, they were all phased out by 1993 or so, I'm old).
 
Red Falcon said:
haha! This is great. I have waaay to many to list though since I've been around since the Apple IIe days from the early 1990's (yeah, they were all phased out by 1993 or so, I'm old).
Click to expand...
So can I include my extended 80 column card from the mid-80s? :p

I wish I would have kept my IIe. :(
 
I had VooDoo cards as well.

Anyone remember the company "Canopus"?
They were great.

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DX Virge
Voodoo1
Voodoo2 8mb
Voodoo3
Geforce 2 GTS
Geforce 4 TI 200
9700Pro
7800GT
1900XTX
8800GT
4870 1gig
 
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ATI Rage 128 Pro (Came with a 1.6ghz p4 system that dell accidently shipped along with my mom's new computer, nice upgrade from the 500mhz hand me down I was going to get)
Hercules 3D Prophet 4500 Kyro II (Uncle gave it to me)
Geforce 4 Ti 4200 (First piece of hardware I bought and installed myself)
Radeon 9700 NP (First Item I bought on hardforums, Sold it dirt cheap to friend)
Radeon 9800 Pro (Vantec Iceberg Pro 4, Had to make it look awesome for first Lan Party)
Geforce 7800 GT (Accelero x1, First time I couldn't stand stock heatsink noise)
Radeon HD4830 (Died after 4 months, Asus sent 4850)
Radeon HD4850 (Accelero S1 Rev.2)
 
From my main computers:

3DFX Voodoo Banshee PCI
S3 Savage4 8MB AGP
Nvidia TNT2 Ultra 16MB AGP
Nvidia Geforce 256 32MB AGP
Nvidia Geforce2 Ultra 64MB AGP
ATI Radeon 8500 64MB AGP
ATI FireGL X1 128MB AGP (same as 9700 Pro)
ATI Radeon X800XT-PE 256MB AGP
Nvidia Geforce 8800GT 512MB PCI-E
ATI Radeon 4850 512MB PCI-E
ATI Radeon 4850 512MB PCI-E (2nd card for Crossfire)

Though my first graphics card upgrade came about 5 years before the banshee, upgrading the monochrome videocard in an old 286 to a CGA videocard to play a game on 5 1/4 floppies that had color.
 
wow this hurts the brain to remember....

Unknown 8mb PCI in pentium 1 machine

Geforce 2mx 32mb in Pentium 3 machine
voodoo 3 3000 16mb in same rig

Radeon 9000 in AMD for almost 4 years?
Upgraded to 7600GS

8800 gts 320 X2 SLI in q6600
upgraded to 8800gtx

large gaps in tech huh??!?!?

now 8800gtx in Core i7
 
Something with 16mb vram
Geforce MX 2 64mb
Radeon 9800SE softmodded to Pro
Geforce 6610XL overclocked to GT
Geforce 7900GS
Geforce GTX 260

I think there's a good chance that my next card will be a Radeon 5870 but I'll be waiting to see benchmarks of both ATI and nVidia's DX11 cards first.
 
Cirus logic something (1mb memory, VL local bus) - 486 DX2 66
Voodoo 3 2000 - AMD something 466
Geforce 2 200MX - Radeon 900
Geforce 3 - same Radeon
Geforce 4Ti 4200 - P4 northwood 2.4 @ 3.2
Quadro something (equivalent of Geforce 5800) that I borrowed - same P4
Geforce 6800GT - same P4
Geforce 7900GTO - core 2 [email protected]
Geforce 8800GT - core 2 [email protected]
Geforce 260GTX 216 - same Q6600

Can't say I had a bad card - even that quadro (5800 equivalent) - it was free, silent (quadro's got much better coolers then geforces) and a big step up on my Geforce 4.
 
ATI Rage 128 Pro
Geforce 2 mx
ATI Radeon 9700
Geforce 6800 gt
2x Geforce GTX 280 in SLI

Plannin on lasting me a few more years
 
Number Nine piece of crap
Riva TNT
Voodoo5 5500
Geforce ti4200
Radeon X1900XT
Nvidia 8800GT
AMD 4870
 
Cirrus Logic ISA integrated, 1MB
S3 Trio64 V+ 2MB
S3 ViRGE 86c325 4MB
S3 ViRGE VX 8MB
ATi RAGE II 4MB with PowerVR PCX2 4MB
Rendition Verite V1000E 4MB
nVidia RIVA128 ZX 8MB with 3dfx Voodoo2 8MB, later upgraded to 2 12MB cards in SLI
3dfx Voodoo3 3000 16MB AGP
nVidia RIVA TNT 16MB AGP
ATi Rage 128 16MB AGP
3dfx Voodoo5 5500 64MB AGP
nVidia GeForce 2 MX 400 64MB
nVidia GeForce 4 Ti 4200 128MB
ATi Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB
nVidia GeForce 5900 XT 128MB
nVidia GeForce 5900 128MB
ATi Radeon X1600 Pro 128MB AGP
nVidia GeForce 6600GT 128MB AGP
nVidia GeForce 6800GT 256MB PCIe
nVidia GeForce 7950GT 256MB
nVidia GeForce 8800GTS 320MB
nVIdia GeForce 8800GT 512MB
nVidia GeForce 8800GTS 512MB
nVidia GeForce GTX260 896MB (current)
 
STB Velocity
TNT2
Geforce 3 ti (in retrospect I should of saved for a Ti4400)
Radeon 9600
Radeon 9800 pro
x800
Geforce 3 ti
7900GT
x800XT
 
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XFX GeForce FX 5200
XFX GeForce mx 440 SE
ATI Radeon 9200
Voodoo 3 3000
Nvidia GeForce 6800
 
1997- 2MB Diamond Monster 3D
1999- 16MB Diamond Viper V550
2000- Voodoo 3 3500
2001- Voodoo 5 5500
2002- Visiontek GeForce 3 Ti 200
2003- PNY GeForce 4 Ti 4400
2004- Radeon 9800 Pro
2005- BFG GeForce 6800 GTS
2006- EVGA GeForce 7950 GT
2007- EVGA GeForce 8800 GTS
2008- MSI GeForce GTX 260
 
It's about time one of these threads popped up.

ATi Radeon Mac Edition (something) 32MB
GeForce 3 Ti 200
GeForce 4 Ti 4600
ATi 9800Pro
ATi X800XT-PE
GeForce 8800GTX
GeForce GTX 285 SC
Next? Dunno. Probably gonna do a new rig for W7 next year. We'll see what's on the table round spring/summer.
 
From what i remember:

TI 4600
9800
9800 pro 256
x850
7950gx2
8800gts 512
9800gtx
gtx280
 
GeForce mx i think
GeForce fx 5200
GeForce 6600 or 6800 forgot
GeForce 8600 gt
GeForce 9600
ATI 4870 <--- 1st ati card for me after several years with nvidia
 
? CGA card on ISA
? EGA card on ISA
? VGA card on ISA
? VGA card on VESA
S3 Virge 4M AGP
Voodoo 1 PCI 4M w/ S3 Virge AGP
Voodoo 2 PCI 8M w/ S3 Virge AGP
Voodoo 2 PCI 8M w/ TNT 16M AGP
Voodoo 2 SLI PCI 2x8M W/ TNT 16M AGP
Voodoo 2 SLI PCI 2x8M W/ TNT2 32M AGP
Geforce 32M AGP
Geforce 2 GTS AGP
Geforce 3 Ti500 AGP
Radeon x700 PCIe
Geforce GTX260 192 shader PCIe
Geforce GTX260 216 shader PCIe

There is an ATI Rage Pro in there I can't place, and I briefly used a Voodoo 3 which sucked compaired to my Geforce card at the time.

Can't run my 2 GTX260's (listed in my Sig) in SLI cause of my intel chipset, but that's OK 'cause 1 is enough for 1680x1050, and I use the second for physx and both fold for the horde rather nicely

 
hmm think it went like this:

Radeon 7000 AGP
Geforce FX5200 AGP
Geforce 6600 AGP
Ati X800xl pcie
Geforce 7900gs pcie
Radeon x1950xt pcie
current: HD3850 pcie
 
these are always cool

mine went

ATi Rage Pro
Nvidia Vanta LT
Radeon 7500
Nvidia PCX-5300
Radeon 9700 Pro
Radeon X800xl
Radeon HD3870
Nvidia 8600gt
Radeon HD4830
 
I remember Canopus, my first real 3d (Open GL) card with 6mb ram instead of the usual 4. Quake never looked so good. The striking difference!

Ran a few comparisons between a Rendition Verite 2100 (1997) and Radeon 4890. the 4890 is 680 times more powerful in Texture fillrate! Astounding! 17 times faster clock, 1088 times the Z-fillrate, 250 times the memory, 155 times more memory bandwidth........and on and on.

All this in just 12 years. Ridiculous!
 
16MB Voodoo 3 2000 PCI
32MB Pine TNT2 PCI
64MB ATI Radeon 7500 AGP
64MB ATI Radeon 8500 AGP
128MB ATI Radeon 9800 Pro AGP
256MB Nvidia EVGA 6800GT PCI-E
256MB Nvidia EVGA 6800GT SLI PCI-E
512MB ATI Radeon X1900 XTX PCI-E
512MB Nvidia EVGA 8800GT SSC PCI-E
768MB Nvidia BFG 8800 GTX OC PCI-E
768MB Nvidia BFG 8800 GTX OC SLI PCI-E
768MB Nvidia BFG 8800 GTX OC TRI-SLI PCI-E

:)
 
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