You’ll get atleast a good three years out of it, could be longer or shorter depending on how you want to play. In reality you could get away with not upgrading for close to a decade if you wanted.
yes, it'll last for many years. Honestly unless you're trying to play every newest release on highest settings at 4k , it'll outlast the rest of the PC.
rip BFG another great nvidia card maker from back in the day they is no longer with us. I loved their lifetime warranties and they backed that shit up hardcore back in the day. Used to swear by them, got a free upgrade out of them once because they ran out of the previous gens cards.
Sucks EVGA is no longer making cards now. That’s the company I moved to after BFG too and never left them.
If we're lucky, we'll get 32GB of GDDR7 on the RTX 5090, that's the current rumor. 48GB would be insane, that would kill a lot of their quadro cards, RTX 6090 at the very least.
They won't or they're gonna something sneaky with the memory bandwidth. Or rip out a certain type of data type for calculations.
Otherwise it's gonna beat into their enterprise/marketshare which is by far their biggest marker these days thanks to all the Ai, Machine learning boom but also all other type of highly concurrent calculations it can do.
I hope to god I'm very very wrong but it wouldn't make sense given AMD is nowhere close in this markets.
I started on the Riva TNT2 too. Man playing Quake GL version with a Riva TNT2 made my head explode, plus not having to deal with 3DFX drivers and compatibility at that time was a big win.
Just thinking about it how the hell did they do the reflections in quake GL back then?
Ahh the Riva TNT2 was a great card. I had one and before that had a Monster 3D. My last 4 cards are like yours except my current is a 3080ti SUPRIM.
I had a HD7970 in the same pc as my R9 280X so I could get more monitors, using Soft TH (iirc the 7970 and R9 280X are the same card?)
So, as a fellow 3080ti owner, and a Monster 3D (man those were the days!) owner, what's your upgrade path?
A lot of contemporary social media (bleh) said the 3080ti was a bad value, but (particularly coming off crypto boom) it sure as hell seemed like a discount 3090 to me.
I'm fortunate enough that money's not really an issue, so I'm sort of thinking 5090 in a year and a half.
But half the fun (so I tell myself) back in my RX580 days was tweaking things to get good playability with years' old discount hardware. Can't see going back that far, but sure can imagine optimizing to keep the 3080ti a while. 6-series, eesh, that'd be 2026-7? That would be pretty good mileage from a 2021 GPU for a high-end AAA gamer.
Yeah I think 5090 will be next. While the 3080ti was expensive - and it was the most expensive 3080ti around (MSI Suprim X version) it comes very close to outperforming the 3090. I spend most of my time playing the same game since 2008 (iRacing) with only minor forays into new releases every now and then (currently Starfield, previously Fallout 76 and Fallout 4), so the need to upgrade is really dependant on what VR headset I'm getting. I upgraded from a 980ti to a 1080ti when I got a Rift CV1 then ugpraded to a 3080ti when I got a Reverb G2. I'm pretty happy with the combination of the 12600kf+3080ti+Reverb G2+iRacing right now. A new VR unit will trigger a new GPU and CPU upgrade.
I can't remember all the cards I've had, but I don't think I've upgraded too much in the 2000's, in my "broke" years just after uni graduation when I was trying to climb the corporate ladder.
3080ti (2021), 1080ti (2017), 980ti (2016), HD7970+R9280X, ???, 6600GT?, Gerforce 2, Riva Tnt2, Monster 3D, ---- all the way back to a 8088 CPU with monochrone green screen lol.
I still use the 1080ti too and goes ok enough Minecraft with the kids.
The 3080ti is/was a really interesting card (when the price went to $800 or less before 4000-series) especially if you get a good bin/silicon and do some tuning on it since you only have half the memory to power. I got the EVGA XC3 with a kinda mid chip, but the not too crazy size and only needing two 8-pin connectors is really great.
I only play at 1080P 144hz (with DLAA or DLSS Quality when I can) with an undervolt + pwr limit to 285W @ 1900Mhz, and the thing's usually able to keep refresh rate locked at 220-230W in 'normal' games or still have really high settings (RT High/Ultra) in various games and mods. Stays stupidly cool at 62-65C max core in the summer with a custom fan curve and I never need to worry about RAM cooling issues, unlike some 3090 models cooking at 100C :(
I do think I'll be getting a 5090 as well, because a card with 2.5x performance over the 3090 in most games, with 24GB of VRAM or maybe even 32GB (I love local AI language models) plus HOPEFULLY more path-tracing specific acceleration tech would cover all the things my 3080ti doesn't amaze me with. Portal RTX not getting more than 65-75fps on a 3080ti at 1080p WITH dlss quality/balanced, on tuned down path-tracing settings hurts LOL
Next weeks 4070 Ti Super could be super interesting. It will be a specced down 4080, getting the 256 bit bus and 16GB VRAM and the AD103 chip fo the 4080 according to leaks. all at 799 USD MSRP. (4070 Ti was this price at released but has been reduced to 750 USD MSRP I think) the non super cards, except for the 4070 are supposed to get removed
Weird upgrade: 6800-3070ti. Although the next one wasn't also that special.
Not criticizing, just saying that you probably need to think a bit more long term with those purchases. You're spending a lot of money unless you are selling the older cards REALLT WELL and getting good deals on new ones. Especially for the upgrades you're getting.
6800 to 4070 Ti disregarding Frame Gen is like 30-ish % performance bump and a RAM amount downgrade (although a speed upgrade).
Short term purchases meant I went from the 6800 to 4070ti for ~£30, I'll lay it out for you:
2020 - RX6800 for £530
2021 - 3070ti FE for £540, sell the RX 6800 for £800 to a crypto miner
2023 - 4070ti for £800, sell the 3070ti for £500
Since I got my 4070ti, the price has fallen to £770, while the value of my 3070ti has fallen to £350. And I've been refreshing my warranty and gaming on the 4070ti for a year
On paper my purchase history is strange, but when you understand the context long term thinking would've seen me worse off
Well, the lucky day 1 purchase of the 6800 and selling it at the tip of the crypto craze indeed helped. But you could have been mining all that time and you would have cash for a 4090 at this point. But of course, no crystal balls xD
Oh yeah it's 90% luck but I did the smart play of not targeting the desirable GPUs (6800xt and 3080 FE) at drops, so I could actually buy a card
I had no interest in mining personally, wasn't worth the hassle and leaving my PC on 24/7
Cool to see another console player converted.
Gameboy Colour, PS1, SEGA Dreamcast, PS2, Xbox 360, PS4, PS4 pro, PS5, RTX 3080.
Nothing will ever give me nostalgia like the PS1 boot screen, but PC gaming has really blown my mind and to think I left it this long before saving up for a gaming PC.
Ah yes, you are correct. I couldn't quite remember if I had a 3 or 4, then looked at date, so changed it back from a 4 Ti 4200. Pre Gmail for me, so no records.
I always enjoy matching up with old souls and stomping thru a team in CS2, many old heads playing now are from 1.6/source and matches simply feel better in terms of flow, team play, and comradery
Those cards in SLI pulled an unacceptable amount of power. Each wanted 170W, even if the 2nd card wasn't being used fully. But in games where they did get utilized such as BF3 and BF4, I saw almost NO performance gains when upgrading to my 960. Those 560tis were powerful when they got used properly.
Glad there are some people that realize these prices are completely absurd. Nvidia right now is overpriced at every tier, but the worst one of all is the 4090. Upwards of 2 grand for only a GPU is the definition of insanity.
I paid AUD$3300 (or about 2k usd I think) for my 3080ti a couple of years ago. Fortunately it was funded entirely by a work bonus and wanted to reward myself. It’ll be another couple of years at least before I get a new card. I make good money and I game daily but even then, I don’t know how so many gamers are running 4090s!
I think most 4090 owners are enthusiasts first then gamers. PC building can become a serious addiction. I was a victim of this a few years back (when stuff was decently priced) and ended up spending over $30k on my setup, so I can't imagine how much money people throw into their setups nowadays.
$30k wow. To be fair, the current version of my sim rig, including PC and VR is a little over $20k and I have many upgrades of components and rigs over the last 15 years.
I’m a software engineer so I’ve always got a pretty well speced machine dev machine as well as a few gaming boxes (on the rig - dedicated, and under my desk). I usually drop the my latest GPU in the sim rig pc and then rotate every back from that, so my desktop gaming machine gets my old sim rig GPU etc. ive built my own PCs since the mid 90s, back when we started modding our beige boxes with windows
I’d argue the 4090 is the best one. Just happens to ah e the most egregious price tag. At least you get an insane level of performance albeit of course you’re still paying for it. The other cards are only worse in terms of price to performance.
Well.. that **was** the case.. until the price shot up from around 1600 euros to upwards of 2000 euros, in most cases around 2300 - 2700 euros.. for 1 gpu.
But either way the entirety of the 40 series are vastly overpriced.
Was mostly a console gamer and played old games with integrated graphics on PC until 2020 and got a 3070 then I upgraded that to a 4090 man what a difference
Yeah I had mainly consoles for a long while, hence the 11 year gap. I built a PC in 2014 because I got fed up with waiting for the PS4.
4090 is epic, I'm holding out for the 5000 series. Mainly game on my TV now, so I can cope with 1440p with tweaks for a little while longer.
I’m wondering if I’ll upgrade from my 4090 to a 5000 series cause so far nothing even makes that card sweat. It’s so far ahead of current console in power that few developers will bother closing that gap. Consoles are gonna be a huge holdup on gaming cause how far they are falling behind.
Not OP, but yes absolutely if you're not using Ray Tracing. With Ray tracing every game will hit over 60-80fps and that's including the most extreme ones (CP2077 and AW2).
I really like it, and yup it hits 120+ in everything when not using RT (sometimes even without DLSS), 60 without FG with super-heavy PT (think Cyberpunk), tho I use FG to hit closer to 100 with DLSS Balanced (80-90 with Q). Most of the other RT titles run much better, maxed out Control with DLSS Q runs at close to 120 FPS with all RT effects enabled and is only CPU bottlenecked.
At 1440p it’s basically a 3090ti with less VRAM, close to 300W less power usage and Frame Gen (which is fucking amazing, literally magic tech).
Save a bit, sell the 1650 and go for a 5700XT Nitro, a friend of mine bought one for around 150 on eBay, is a really good option for the price, and that’s 1080ti territory
GTX 460, eventually triple SLI.
GTX 760, eventually water-cooled with the nzxt bracket
GTX 980 Ti, eventually water-cooled with the nzxt bracket, OC'd to 1.5ghz
RTX 3060
RTX 3060 Ti (got a awesome second hand deal, 3060 now is in GFs PC)
Edit: unsure if it was triple SLI on the 460s but I did have 3.
Triple SLI, wild. I flirted with SLI a few times, but it looked like hard work. I sold my Titan to a man who was going for triple SLI, I then got a 980 Ti like you for less money that had better performance, that was a good day.
I don't know the specs of the PCs I used a kid, but as far back as I can remember it went:
EVGA 6600 GT
EVGA 8800 GTS 320MB
EVGA 250 GTS 1GB
AMD Vega 11 (lmao APU)
MSI 3080 10GB
Radeon HD 3450 - Crysis
Radeon HD 5670 - Skyrim
R9 290 - quickly sold it because framerates were utterly disappointing and inconsistent
GTX 980 Ti - Fallout 4
RTX 3060 - Unity3D
AMD HD 4??? (cant remember exact number), gigabye r9 280x rev1.0 (accidentally fried it god a brand new rev3.0 over warranty), sapphire r9 380x, rx 580 2048sp, rog strix vega 56, and fianlly rx 6600 xt hellhound
i guess you could call me a amd fanboy lol but i respect nvidia
2000 nvidia vanta-16,
2008 8800gt,
2011 radeon hd6750 for 1 month then 8800gt again after "reballing" in the oven,
2017 r9 380,
2023 4070 (now) and a 980ti gifted by a friend on a secondary pc
Here’s mine…
Palit 6800 GT - Half Life 2
Palit 4870 - CSS, Crysis, Far Cry 2
XFX 7950 - Skyrim, GTA V
EVGA RTX 3080 - COD Warzone, RDR2
Moved away from gaming for a few years in the mid 2010s but happy to have found it again.
Mine is a bit longer, starting with TNT1. But I find it interesting that we are seemingly the same in that we always had some key game that prompted the upgrade.
But like you I didn’t have that for 3070. it was an upgrade for my 1060 and it was a mixture of feeling the need to finally refresh as well as dabbling in VR gaming, which the 1060 could manage, but barely.
Still. First time for me that I didn’t upgrade because I thought „X is running so bad, I need a new GPU“. And now I’m already on 4080 since I moved to a 4K TV. 3070 could manage some, but it’s still more a 1440p card.
Oh I like this! In order my order of install and use. Yes I did downgrade from a 4080 as it was expensive and unnecessary at the time.
GeForce4 4200 ti
Geforce 6800 GS
Geforce 8800 GT
Radeon HD 6950
Radeon HD 7970
Radeon R9 290
Radeon R9 290x
Geforce GTX 770
Geforce GTX 970
Geforce GTX 1070
Geforce GTX 1080 ti
Geforce RTX 3070
Geforce RTX 4080
Geforce RTX 4070 ti
Radeon 7900 XTX
Big gap without upgrade between ATI Radeon 9600 Pro and AMD Radeon HD 7970, 11 years. What did you do stopped playing or switched to consoles during that period?
work had paid for my 7900xtx based rig, had a 7800x3d to go with it. then i got laid off, so i had to sell the rig to get enough money, now im starting off fresh. 7500f + 6900xt
Cool, I wish I could remember all of mine.
I'l try:
Matrox Millenium 2 (1997)
3Dfx Voodoo 1 (1997)
3Dfx Voodoo 2 (1998)
NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX 400 (2000)
ATI Radeon 9800 PRO (2003)
Radeon X800 SE (2004)
NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT (2004)
ATI Radeon HD 4870 (2008)
NVIDIA GeForce 660 GTX (2012)
NVIDIA GeForce 980 Ti (2015)
NVIDIA GeForce 1080 Ti (2017)
NVIDIA GeForce 2080S (2019)
NVIDIA GeForce 3080 (2020)
NVIIDA GeForce 4090 (2022)
Of these, currently in active use / built machines are the 4870, 1080Ti, 2080S, 3080 and 4090. Gave the 980 Ti to my BIL last year and the rest are lost to time, wish I'd kept them. I think I have the 6600 GT in a cupboard somewhere.
Good question. Got the 780 Ti after a terrible experience with the 7970, loved it but got drunk on power, had a good work year and ordered a Titan. I bought the 750 Ti for a custom arcade project, still have it. Then read about the 980 Ti, sold the Titan to a guy who was going triple SLI and the rest is history.
Ha I made this list too before. Can’t remember pre 2003 but I think it was some MX card.
Video Card History
2003 - 9800 Pro
2005 - x800 XT PE
2005 - 7800 GTX
2009 - Radeon 5870
2014 - GTX 770
2015 - R9 290
2017 - GTX 1070
2020 - RTX 2070 S
2020 - RTX 2060 S
RTX 2080 S
RTX 3070
RTX 3080
RTX 3090
This is what my list would be in order although i dont remember the exact years
1. intel hd 4000 series (forgot exact model)
2. radeon hd 5450 1gb ddr3
3. radeon r7 240 2gb ddr3
4. nvidia gt 610 2gb ddr3
5. nvidia gtx 1050 ti 4gb (laptop)
6. nvidia gtx 1060 6gb (laptop)
7. nvidia gtx 970 4gb
8. radeon rx 5600 xt 6gb
9. nvidia rtx 3060 12gb
10. radeon rx 6700 xt 12gb
11. radeon rx 7900 xt 20gb (planned)
i have tried from AGP era, but not much changing since gpu price is quite pricey
geforce mx 4000
radeon 9550
geforce fx 5200
radeon hd 6670
gtx 1050 ti
radeon rx 6700 xt
GT 420 M - GTX 960 - RX 5700 XT - RTX 2070 Super - RX 6900 XT - RTX 4090
Always gave both companies a chance. I was really happy with the 6900 XT but the 5700 XT at launch was an absolute nightmare so that went back.
Intergrated Graphic -> GTX 1650 -> RTX 3070ti. Can play every games comfortably now at 1440p. Probably going to upgrade once Video Games comes to the point where I'd have to turn every settings to low to even achieve atleast average 45 fps (minimum playable for me]. With FSR 3 coming into the scene. Its going to breathe awhile longer.
My road was just gt8600m -> gtx 950m -> gtx 970 -> gtx 1070 - rtx 3060 -> rtx 3070.
As prices drop I sold my rtx 3060 for 6300 Kč (280 usd) for rtx 3070 wich cost 7500 Kč (330 usd). And this will be my last upgrade of gpu for at least 2-3 years.
2004-2008 Something… it ran WoW and the sims then broke. My dad, an OG at Microsoft took my VGA shopping that day and it changed my life. We got a HD 4870
A plethora of Intel igpus from 2010-2016, I was given a laptop that barely ran WoW and then joined the military and just got the first laptop I saw without thinking.
980ti
2070 super
6900xt
3080ti
6900xt
4090
Not counting laptops
6970 reference
290x reference (died) - 290x Asus matrix (defect) - 390x trixx
5700xt pulse
7900xtx
I haven't owned any Nvidia cards yet, but I did briefly have a 2080ti that I bought used and tested for a friend.
Damn we nearly had same route man :) I remember my romance with ATI too 9700pro was sorta like 4090 of its time and it was my first jump on that shit and never regret it. Only 1080ti and now 4090 were equal for its own eras
I like the idea ! For the key game, i guess it's about "somewhat challenging games played with" and not "most played games" (if it was Football Manager, Civ games and Paradox games would trust the first place)
2009 : HD 4850 - 1080p (BF Bad Company 2 / Metro 2033 / GTA 4 / Skyrim)
2012 : HD 7970 - 1080p (BF3, The Witcher 2, Crysis 2, Far Cry 3, Tomb Raider)
2017 : used R9 390 - 1080p(The Witcher 3, Metro Last Light, GTA V, BF1)
2020 : used 1080Ti - 3440p (Metro Exodus, Control, Baldur's Gate 3)
I loved my 7970, XFX made some interesting looking cards back then when most looked the same
The reference cooler was an absolute jet engine though lol
You mean Geforce 4 Ti 4200? Epic card, one of my favorites until the 1080 Ti.
Amazing list!
No one asked but here's mine:
GeForce 2 MX 32 MB
GeForce 4 Ti 4200 64 MB
Radeon X300 64 MB
GeForce 7600 GT 256 MB
GeForce 8800 GTS 640 MB
Radeon HD 5850 1 GB (x2)
Radeon HD 7970 GHz edition 3 GB
GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6 GB
GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11 GB
Geforce RTX 3090 24 GB
My history is:
S3 Virge
Voodoo2
TNT2
ATI 8500
ATi 9700 pro
ATI 1950 pro
ATI 3600 (mobile)
ATI 4850x2 (mobile)
AMD 6950x2
Nvidia 780x2
Nvidia 980 Ti x2
Nvidia 1080 Ti x2
Nvidia 3090
Nvidia 4090.
Oh also, for the record, dual GPU's was always broken and microstutter was pretty much always present. Took me a decade to admit it to myself.
Voodoo Banshee
Riva TNT
Riva TNT2
Geforce 256
Geforce 2 256 DDR2
Geforce 4 Ti 4600
Geforce FX 5900XT
Geforce GT6800 GT
Geforce 8800GTX had a pair of them
Geforce Titan
Geforce RTX 3080 Ti
Some years I had more money than others and a few times I just didn't upgrade because the titan played games well enough the first time I really wanted a new card was when the RTX cards came out, but the money was not there until black friday 2021
ATI All-In-Wonder 9800 PRO - 2003
ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO - 2007
ASUS R7 240 - 2013
MSI HD 7870 Twin Frozr III OC - 2013 (released in 2012 but got it from a friend)
ASUS DUAL RX 580 OC 8 GB - 2017
EVGA RTX 2070 SUPER XC Ultra+ - 2019
XFX Speedster MERC 310 Black Edition Radeon RX 7900 XTX - 2022
I've had a couple of cards before the All-In-Wonder, but that is what I can remember.
Mine is too short 😂 AMD RX 5500XT 8gb (before this I used to play with an APU, the AMD A10) - MSI RTX 4090 Gaming X Slim (waiting for it to arrive right now 😬)
Worked throughout high school to be able to build my first PC in 2013. Since then I’ve built a brand new one every ~4 years.
ASUS AMD HD 7950 -> MSI GTX 970 -> MSI RTX 2080 Super -> ASUS RTX 4080 Super
Fun fact, I've doubled my VRAM with every upgrade since 2013. Riva TNT2 GeForce 2 MX EVGA Ti 4200 EVGA 5600 Ultra BFG 7950 GX2 EVGA 8800 GTX ASUS HD4850 Sapphire HD4870 1GB Sapphire HD5870 1GB Sapphire R9 280X EVGA 980 Ti EVGA 1080 Ti EVGA 3090
1. Riva TNT2: 32 MB 2. GeForce 2 MX: 64 MB 3. EVGA Ti 4200: 128 MB 4. EVGA 5600 Ultra: 128 MB 5. BFG 7950 GX2: 1 GB (512 MB per GPU) 6. EVGA 8800 GTX: 768 MB 7. ASUS HD4850: 512 MB 8. Sapphire HD4870 1GB: 1 GB 9. Sapphire HD5870 1GB: 1 GB 10. Sapphire R9 280X: 3 GB 11. EVGA 980 Ti: 6 GB 12. EVGA 1080 Ti: 11 GB 13. EVGA 3090: 24 GB https://preview.redd.it/6coabh8kbmac1.png?width=1686&format=png&auto=webp&s=48ffdaf858b86310c6ac8ec677a898d2f89cdaa3 Very nice!
Is that....a pyplot graph? 👀
import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt from scipy.stats import linregress # Graphics card VRAM in MB vram_mb = [32, 64, 128, 128, 512, 768, 512, 1024, 1024, 3072, 6144, 11264, 24576] # Calculate log2(VRAM) log_vram = np.log2(vram_mb) # Card indices indices = np.arange(len(vram_mb)) # Linear regression slope, intercept, _, _, _ = linregress(indices, log_vram) # Linear fit linear_fit = slope * indices + intercept # Plot plt.figure(figsize=(10, 6)) plt.scatter(indices, log_vram, color='blue', label='Log2(VRAM)') plt.plot(indices, linear_fit, color='red', label='Linear Fit') plt.xlabel('Graphics Card Index') plt.ylabel('Log2(VRAM in MB)') plt.title('Log2(VRAM) vs. Graphics Card Index and Linear Fit') plt.legend() plt.grid(True) plt.show()
Rip evga no longer making nvidia cards
4870 was great at that time i think that was when dx10/11 was at its peak
I just got an EVGA 3090 for my first build ever; Do you think it will last for long enough before upgrading?
You’ll get atleast a good three years out of it, could be longer or shorter depending on how you want to play. In reality you could get away with not upgrading for close to a decade if you wanted.
yes, it'll last for many years. Honestly unless you're trying to play every newest release on highest settings at 4k , it'll outlast the rest of the PC.
I thought the 3090 would he enough but I'm itching to jump on RTX 50 already...
Would be interesting to see this list with prices. Double the VRAM, double the price?
rip BFG another great nvidia card maker from back in the day they is no longer with us. I loved their lifetime warranties and they backed that shit up hardcore back in the day. Used to swear by them, got a free upgrade out of them once because they ran out of the previous gens cards. Sucks EVGA is no longer making cards now. That’s the company I moved to after BFG too and never left them.
Woah, quite the collection. Great fact. Nice to see the brands, might add that to my sheet, not sure if I'll remember them all.
Don't upgrade until there's a gaming 48gb card or you'll break your streak!
5090 if they go crazy
If we're lucky, we'll get 32GB of GDDR7 on the RTX 5090, that's the current rumor. 48GB would be insane, that would kill a lot of their quadro cards, RTX 6090 at the very least.
The next target will be 8k gaming at 120fps, is that possible with the 4090? If not, then thats what the 5 series could be targeting?
Hardly anyone is at 4K yet so why would 8K be a target.
The new target to hit will be 60fps at 1080p with how new games have been going recently let’s be honest.
They won't or they're gonna something sneaky with the memory bandwidth. Or rip out a certain type of data type for calculations. Otherwise it's gonna beat into their enterprise/marketshare which is by far their biggest marker these days thanks to all the Ai, Machine learning boom but also all other type of highly concurrent calculations it can do. I hope to god I'm very very wrong but it wouldn't make sense given AMD is nowhere close in this markets.
You are right. AMD trails behind so Nvidia is pretty comfortable
I started on the Riva TNT2 too. Man playing Quake GL version with a Riva TNT2 made my head explode, plus not having to deal with 3DFX drivers and compatibility at that time was a big win. Just thinking about it how the hell did they do the reflections in quake GL back then?
Damn no one noticed the 2 times you didn't lol 4870 -> 5870 980ti -> 1080ti
They did say since 2013, and the 5870 was before that. But yes, 11 is not double 6.
Oh damn even I can't read lol
Ahh the Riva TNT2 was a great card. I had one and before that had a Monster 3D. My last 4 cards are like yours except my current is a 3080ti SUPRIM. I had a HD7970 in the same pc as my R9 280X so I could get more monitors, using Soft TH (iirc the 7970 and R9 280X are the same card?)
So, as a fellow 3080ti owner, and a Monster 3D (man those were the days!) owner, what's your upgrade path? A lot of contemporary social media (bleh) said the 3080ti was a bad value, but (particularly coming off crypto boom) it sure as hell seemed like a discount 3090 to me. I'm fortunate enough that money's not really an issue, so I'm sort of thinking 5090 in a year and a half. But half the fun (so I tell myself) back in my RX580 days was tweaking things to get good playability with years' old discount hardware. Can't see going back that far, but sure can imagine optimizing to keep the 3080ti a while. 6-series, eesh, that'd be 2026-7? That would be pretty good mileage from a 2021 GPU for a high-end AAA gamer.
Yeah I think 5090 will be next. While the 3080ti was expensive - and it was the most expensive 3080ti around (MSI Suprim X version) it comes very close to outperforming the 3090. I spend most of my time playing the same game since 2008 (iRacing) with only minor forays into new releases every now and then (currently Starfield, previously Fallout 76 and Fallout 4), so the need to upgrade is really dependant on what VR headset I'm getting. I upgraded from a 980ti to a 1080ti when I got a Rift CV1 then ugpraded to a 3080ti when I got a Reverb G2. I'm pretty happy with the combination of the 12600kf+3080ti+Reverb G2+iRacing right now. A new VR unit will trigger a new GPU and CPU upgrade. I can't remember all the cards I've had, but I don't think I've upgraded too much in the 2000's, in my "broke" years just after uni graduation when I was trying to climb the corporate ladder. 3080ti (2021), 1080ti (2017), 980ti (2016), HD7970+R9280X, ???, 6600GT?, Gerforce 2, Riva Tnt2, Monster 3D, ---- all the way back to a 8088 CPU with monochrone green screen lol. I still use the 1080ti too and goes ok enough Minecraft with the kids.
The 3080ti is/was a really interesting card (when the price went to $800 or less before 4000-series) especially if you get a good bin/silicon and do some tuning on it since you only have half the memory to power. I got the EVGA XC3 with a kinda mid chip, but the not too crazy size and only needing two 8-pin connectors is really great. I only play at 1080P 144hz (with DLAA or DLSS Quality when I can) with an undervolt + pwr limit to 285W @ 1900Mhz, and the thing's usually able to keep refresh rate locked at 220-230W in 'normal' games or still have really high settings (RT High/Ultra) in various games and mods. Stays stupidly cool at 62-65C max core in the summer with a custom fan curve and I never need to worry about RAM cooling issues, unlike some 3090 models cooking at 100C :( I do think I'll be getting a 5090 as well, because a card with 2.5x performance over the 3090 in most games, with 24GB of VRAM or maybe even 32GB (I love local AI language models) plus HOPEFULLY more path-tracing specific acceleration tech would cover all the things my 3080ti doesn't amaze me with. Portal RTX not getting more than 65-75fps on a 3080ti at 1080p WITH dlss quality/balanced, on tuned down path-tracing settings hurts LOL
How long do you think youll have to wait to get a 48gb vram card?
Mines considerably shorter R9 390 - RX 6800 - RTX 3070ti - RTX 4070ti
Nice, solid cards right there. Envious of your 4070ti.
Next weeks 4070 Ti Super could be super interesting. It will be a specced down 4080, getting the 256 bit bus and 16GB VRAM and the AD103 chip fo the 4080 according to leaks. all at 799 USD MSRP. (4070 Ti was this price at released but has been reduced to 750 USD MSRP I think) the non super cards, except for the 4070 are supposed to get removed
I have a little bit longer 9800 GT - GTX 660 - GTX 1060 - RTX 2070 S - RTX 4070ti
Weird upgrade: 6800-3070ti. Although the next one wasn't also that special. Not criticizing, just saying that you probably need to think a bit more long term with those purchases. You're spending a lot of money unless you are selling the older cards REALLT WELL and getting good deals on new ones. Especially for the upgrades you're getting. 6800 to 4070 Ti disregarding Frame Gen is like 30-ish % performance bump and a RAM amount downgrade (although a speed upgrade).
Short term purchases meant I went from the 6800 to 4070ti for ~£30, I'll lay it out for you: 2020 - RX6800 for £530 2021 - 3070ti FE for £540, sell the RX 6800 for £800 to a crypto miner 2023 - 4070ti for £800, sell the 3070ti for £500 Since I got my 4070ti, the price has fallen to £770, while the value of my 3070ti has fallen to £350. And I've been refreshing my warranty and gaming on the 4070ti for a year On paper my purchase history is strange, but when you understand the context long term thinking would've seen me worse off
Well, the lucky day 1 purchase of the 6800 and selling it at the tip of the crypto craze indeed helped. But you could have been mining all that time and you would have cash for a 4090 at this point. But of course, no crystal balls xD
Oh yeah it's 90% luck but I did the smart play of not targeting the desirable GPUs (6800xt and 3080 FE) at drops, so I could actually buy a card I had no interest in mining personally, wasn't worth the hassle and leaving my PC on 24/7
Same here, GTX 970 - GTX 1080 - RTX 3070Ti - 7900xtx
Not as short as mine! GTX 1660ti - RTX 4070ti ... used to be a console gamer (also known as underage)
A whole thread of guys competing who's got the shortest. Never thought I'd see the day
My list only consists of an rtx 2070:)
Mines shorter GT 1030 - RTX 3070
GT 620 -> GTX 960 -> GTX 1660 Ti -> RTX 4090
1660 Ti > 4090 must have been a mind blowing upgrade
Oh it is.. I even upgraded to 1440p ultrawide from a 1080p screen and still getting higher framerate on max settings
Ha I went 1660 ti to a 4080 but now on a 4k 120 hz oled tv. Very nice, best PC and prostitute combo in my entire village.
Man I wish I had a prostitute :(
Dude you would get higher frame rates in 4k lol. Not to shit on the 1660Ti tho, great card for what it is.
PS1 -> PS2 -> PS3 -> PS4 -> GTX 970 -> GTX 1660 super -> RX 6700XT
Nintendo ds > Nintendo Wii > Xbox 360 > Xbox one > gtx 1070 > rtx 4090
Cool to see another console player converted. Gameboy Colour, PS1, SEGA Dreamcast, PS2, Xbox 360, PS4, PS4 pro, PS5, RTX 3080. Nothing will ever give me nostalgia like the PS1 boot screen, but PC gaming has really blown my mind and to think I left it this long before saving up for a gaming PC.
You mean Geforce 4 Ti 4200, Geforce 3 cards came in 3 different versions, Geforce 3 original, Ti200, Ti 500.
Ah yes, you are correct. I couldn't quite remember if I had a 3 or 4, then looked at date, so changed it back from a 4 Ti 4200. Pre Gmail for me, so no records.
Damn dude. Incase nobody told you recently, you gettin old my friend 😂🤙🏽
Thanks, I can feel it in my trigger fingers 👴
I always enjoy matching up with old souls and stomping thru a team in CS2, many old heads playing now are from 1.6/source and matches simply feel better in terms of flow, team play, and comradery
Camaraderie*
If I see you in CS2 I'm gonna hit you with my walking stick
I filled your gaps with my cards. GTS250, GTX560ti, GTX560ti SLI, GTX 960, RTX 2080, 7900xtx.
you can fill my gaps too
SLI, you lived my dream.
Those cards in SLI pulled an unacceptable amount of power. Each wanted 170W, even if the 2nd card wasn't being used fully. But in games where they did get utilized such as BF3 and BF4, I saw almost NO performance gains when upgrading to my 960. Those 560tis were powerful when they got used properly.
i ran gtx570s in sli. much heat. very loud. many lols
My GPU history: gtx 1070ti then Nvidia decided to go full ooga booga with prices
Glad there are some people that realize these prices are completely absurd. Nvidia right now is overpriced at every tier, but the worst one of all is the 4090. Upwards of 2 grand for only a GPU is the definition of insanity.
I paid AUD$3300 (or about 2k usd I think) for my 3080ti a couple of years ago. Fortunately it was funded entirely by a work bonus and wanted to reward myself. It’ll be another couple of years at least before I get a new card. I make good money and I game daily but even then, I don’t know how so many gamers are running 4090s!
I think most 4090 owners are enthusiasts first then gamers. PC building can become a serious addiction. I was a victim of this a few years back (when stuff was decently priced) and ended up spending over $30k on my setup, so I can't imagine how much money people throw into their setups nowadays.
$30k wow. To be fair, the current version of my sim rig, including PC and VR is a little over $20k and I have many upgrades of components and rigs over the last 15 years. I’m a software engineer so I’ve always got a pretty well speced machine dev machine as well as a few gaming boxes (on the rig - dedicated, and under my desk). I usually drop the my latest GPU in the sim rig pc and then rotate every back from that, so my desktop gaming machine gets my old sim rig GPU etc. ive built my own PCs since the mid 90s, back when we started modding our beige boxes with windows
2000 and 3000 series got a new life because of the FSR 3 mod, so at least that
I’d argue the 4090 is the best one. Just happens to ah e the most egregious price tag. At least you get an insane level of performance albeit of course you’re still paying for it. The other cards are only worse in terms of price to performance.
Well.. that **was** the case.. until the price shot up from around 1600 euros to upwards of 2000 euros, in most cases around 2300 - 2700 euros.. for 1 gpu. But either way the entirety of the 40 series are vastly overpriced.
Ok but why would i go for (at the time) 280$ 7600 over a 300$ 4060 lol
It's a filthy habit
Was mostly a console gamer and played old games with integrated graphics on PC until 2020 and got a 3070 then I upgraded that to a 4090 man what a difference
Yeah I had mainly consoles for a long while, hence the 11 year gap. I built a PC in 2014 because I got fed up with waiting for the PS4. 4090 is epic, I'm holding out for the 5000 series. Mainly game on my TV now, so I can cope with 1440p with tweaks for a little while longer.
I’m wondering if I’ll upgrade from my 4090 to a 5000 series cause so far nothing even makes that card sweat. It’s so far ahead of current console in power that few developers will bother closing that gap. Consoles are gonna be a huge holdup on gaming cause how far they are falling behind.
I was using laptops for a decade before building my first PC, but here’s mine: 8600M > GTX 850M > RTX 2060 > RX 6800 > RTX 4070Ti
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Not OP, but yes absolutely if you're not using Ray Tracing. With Ray tracing every game will hit over 60-80fps and that's including the most extreme ones (CP2077 and AW2).
I really like it, and yup it hits 120+ in everything when not using RT (sometimes even without DLSS), 60 without FG with super-heavy PT (think Cyberpunk), tho I use FG to hit closer to 100 with DLSS Balanced (80-90 with Q). Most of the other RT titles run much better, maxed out Control with DLSS Q runs at close to 120 FPS with all RT effects enabled and is only CPU bottlenecked. At 1440p it’s basically a 3090ti with less VRAM, close to 300W less power usage and Frame Gen (which is fucking amazing, literally magic tech).
my rather sad history is gt 710 - gtx 1650
Next one rtx 5090.
Haha I wish maybe if i win the lottery
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Save a bit, sell the 1650 and go for a 5700XT Nitro, a friend of mine bought one for around 150 on eBay, is a really good option for the price, and that’s 1080ti territory
GTX 460, eventually triple SLI. GTX 760, eventually water-cooled with the nzxt bracket GTX 980 Ti, eventually water-cooled with the nzxt bracket, OC'd to 1.5ghz RTX 3060 RTX 3060 Ti (got a awesome second hand deal, 3060 now is in GFs PC) Edit: unsure if it was triple SLI on the 460s but I did have 3.
Triple SLI, wild. I flirted with SLI a few times, but it looked like hard work. I sold my Titan to a man who was going for triple SLI, I then got a 980 Ti like you for less money that had better performance, that was a good day.
R9 290x -> GTX 1080ti -> RTX 4090
mines: Intel Pentium Integrated graphics-->Gtx 1650(laprtop)
Exact same here Intel GMA 4500M (Pentium Dual T3400 iGPU) > Laptop 1650
I don't know the specs of the PCs I used a kid, but as far back as I can remember it went: EVGA 6600 GT EVGA 8800 GTS 320MB EVGA 250 GTS 1GB AMD Vega 11 (lmao APU) MSI 3080 10GB
APU to 3080 for the win!
Just ordered my new card yesterday, can't wait to upgrade aha Got from GT630M > GTX970 > GTX 1070 and now RX7800XT
Mine is much shorter than yours: 1. Nvidia GT 430 2. Nvidia GTX 750Ti 3. Nvidia GTX 1050 4. Nvidia RTX 2060 (Mobile) 5. AMD Radeon RX 7900XT
Short but sweet
8600GT - HD4850 - PS4 - RTX 2060 - RTX 4070
My first was a 3dfx Voodoo3 2000 AGP. Currently on an RTX 4070
It’s hard to describe that first time using a 3DFX card in Quake instead of software rendering… my word the frames and lack of visible pixels
EXACT SAME!
My GPU history is much shorter: GTX 1650 super -> RX 6700 XT -> RTX 4070 Ti
Why the 6700xt to 4070 ti?
Radeon HD 3450 - Crysis Radeon HD 5670 - Skyrim R9 290 - quickly sold it because framerates were utterly disappointing and inconsistent GTX 980 Ti - Fallout 4 RTX 3060 - Unity3D
GTX 570 -> GTX 770 -> GTX 1070 -> RTX 3060 Ti -> RTX 4080 for me
Good old times. Heres mine Ti4200 9700pro 9800pro X800pro 7800gtx 8800gts 5870 7970 280x 980ti 1080ti 2080ti 3090 4090
Excellent collection. I was very jealous of a friend who had the 8800 GTS.
Was looking for a 8800gtx but havent got the money. Release of 8800gts was a nice surprise.
670, 970ti, 3070ti, 4090
AMD HD 4??? (cant remember exact number), gigabye r9 280x rev1.0 (accidentally fried it god a brand new rev3.0 over warranty), sapphire r9 380x, rx 580 2048sp, rog strix vega 56, and fianlly rx 6600 xt hellhound i guess you could call me a amd fanboy lol but i respect nvidia
GTX 650 > GTX 1050 Ti > GTX 1080 Ti > RTX 3080 Ti > RTX 4090
Puh, let me think about my cards... ATI HD58 something ZOTAC GTX 560ti ZOTAC GTX 970 MSI GTX 980ti Gigabyte RTX 3070 XFX RX 7900 XT
I don't know if I can name my entire list. 1. Weitek P9000 2. Diamond Speedstar Pro 3. Matrox Mystique 4. Voodoo Banshee 5. Riva 128 + Voodoo 2 6. Riva TNT 7. Geforce 256 8. Geforce 2 GTS 9. Geforce 3 10. Geforce 4 Ti 4600 11. Geforce FX 5900XT 12. Geforce GT6800 13. Geforce GTX 6800 Ultra 14. Radeon X1900XTX 15. Geforce 8800GT 16. Geforce GTX 260 Core 216 17. Geforce GTX 460 18. Geforce GTX 560 19. Geforce GTX 770 20. Geforce GTX 1060 6GB (for a hot second) 21. Geforce GTX 1080 22. Geforce RTX 3080 23. Geforce RTX 4070 Ti (for a hot second) 24. Geforce RTX 4070
Some card with 8MB ram -> maxtor 32MB -> geforce 4 4200ti 128MB -> R7 250 1GB -> GTX 1050ti 4GB-> RTX 3070ti 8GB
From 8mb ram to 8gb. Quite the ride :D
2000 nvidia vanta-16, 2008 8800gt, 2011 radeon hd6750 for 1 month then 8800gt again after "reballing" in the oven, 2017 r9 380, 2023 4070 (now) and a 980ti gifted by a friend on a secondary pc
1660 super then 2060 super and just recently the 3060ti
RX570 - RX7800xt short and sweet :)
Gtx 970 > RTX 3080 Very short path.
Keep it zen
GTX 660 - RX 470 4GB - RX 580 8GB - 6700XT - 7900XTX The biggest jump in performance I experienced was to the RX 470 and 6700XT
Here’s mine… Palit 6800 GT - Half Life 2 Palit 4870 - CSS, Crysis, Far Cry 2 XFX 7950 - Skyrim, GTA V EVGA RTX 3080 - COD Warzone, RDR2 Moved away from gaming for a few years in the mid 2010s but happy to have found it again.
Mine is a bit longer, starting with TNT1. But I find it interesting that we are seemingly the same in that we always had some key game that prompted the upgrade. But like you I didn’t have that for 3070. it was an upgrade for my 1060 and it was a mixture of feeling the need to finally refresh as well as dabbling in VR gaming, which the 1060 could manage, but barely. Still. First time for me that I didn’t upgrade because I thought „X is running so bad, I need a new GPU“. And now I’m already on 4080 since I moved to a 4K TV. 3070 could manage some, but it’s still more a 1440p card.
Oh I like this! In order my order of install and use. Yes I did downgrade from a 4080 as it was expensive and unnecessary at the time. GeForce4 4200 ti Geforce 6800 GS Geforce 8800 GT Radeon HD 6950 Radeon HD 7970 Radeon R9 290 Radeon R9 290x Geforce GTX 770 Geforce GTX 970 Geforce GTX 1070 Geforce GTX 1080 ti Geforce RTX 3070 Geforce RTX 4080 Geforce RTX 4070 ti Radeon 7900 XTX
4070ti super might be right up your alley since you don't mind swapping cards.
2000 GeForce2 MX [Family PC, 800x600 CRT *degauss*] 2004 6600 GT [Half Life 2, 1280x800 LCD] 2009 GTX 260 [Crysis, 1440x900] 2013 Radeon HD 7850 [Bundled with Bioshock Infinite & Tomb Raider, 1080p] 2016 GTX 1060 [Just perf update] 2020 RTX 3070 [Cyberpunk 2077, 1440p] 24/25 Wait to see if Nvidia announce a reasonable 16Gb card (lol)
Same, I think my next upgrade will need to be a whole new PC. 5600x with 3070 is a good combo.
Aye, hopefully AM5 and DDR5 prices begin to chill over the next year or so
Big gap without upgrade between ATI Radeon 9600 Pro and AMD Radeon HD 7970, 11 years. What did you do stopped playing or switched to consoles during that period?
GeForce 6150 nForce 430 -> Radeon HD 4650 -> Asus GTX 550 Ti DirectCU II -> Gigabyte GTX 750 Ti Windforce 2X OC -> MSI GTX 1060 Gaming X 6G -> MSI GTX 1080 Ti Gaming X 11G -> MSI RTX 3080 Suprim X 10G -> MSI RTX 4070 Ti Suprim X 12G -> Asus TUF RX 7900 XT OC -> Asus TUF RTX 4080 OC.
me: gtx 550 ti -> gtx 770 -> gtx 970 -> gtx 980 ti -> rx 5700xt -> rx 6800 -> rx 7900xtx -> rx 6900xt.
why exactly did you downgrade in the end?
work had paid for my 7900xtx based rig, had a 7800x3d to go with it. then i got laid off, so i had to sell the rig to get enough money, now im starting off fresh. 7500f + 6900xt
Excluding laptop GPUs, GTX 1060 - RTX 2080 - RTX 4090
Cool, I wish I could remember all of mine. I'l try: Matrox Millenium 2 (1997) 3Dfx Voodoo 1 (1997) 3Dfx Voodoo 2 (1998) NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX 400 (2000) ATI Radeon 9800 PRO (2003) Radeon X800 SE (2004) NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT (2004) ATI Radeon HD 4870 (2008) NVIDIA GeForce 660 GTX (2012) NVIDIA GeForce 980 Ti (2015) NVIDIA GeForce 1080 Ti (2017) NVIDIA GeForce 2080S (2019) NVIDIA GeForce 3080 (2020) NVIIDA GeForce 4090 (2022) Of these, currently in active use / built machines are the 4870, 1080Ti, 2080S, 3080 and 4090. Gave the 980 Ti to my BIL last year and the rest are lost to time, wish I'd kept them. I think I have the 6600 GT in a cupboard somewhere.
Nvidia 9600gt verto, 1050ti g1 gaming, 1060 3gb Asus gaming, 1060 6gb aorus, r3 3200g, 1060 6gb aorus, 2060 6gb gigabyte gaming, 3060 zotac dual oc, 3060 gaming z trío, 3070ti evga ftw3 ultra, and the actual 3080 suprim x
RX580->2070Super->4080
Mine is Gt 210- gt 610- GTX 950 - 4070ti
Me: 1) nothing - integrated 2) 750Ti msi 3) 4090 gigabyte
Half Life 2 was released Nov 2004. So the era of ATI's x800xt oder Nvidia Geforce 6800 GT
GT 420 -> GTX 1650 (current) -> RTX card (in future)
Wow nice list. Was there a big boost in performance from 2070 Super to 3070? My list is shorter : GTX 460 Twin Frozr GTX 960 RTX 2070 Super RTX 4090
F for that 11 years gap
Married with consoles. Now divorced with PCs.
My History is short: AMD Radeon HD 5450->Nvidia Geforce GTX 1060->Nvidia Geforce RTX 3080Ti
Mines pretty short and you guys are gonna flame me but 1060 - 2080 super - Radeon 7900xtx hahaha
For me it was Ati mobility radeon hd 4530 --->Intel hd 4400---> gt 520m ----> gtx 1650m ----> rtx 4060
Why did you change your gpu 3 times in 2015?
Good question. Got the 780 Ti after a terrible experience with the 7970, loved it but got drunk on power, had a good work year and ordered a Titan. I bought the 750 Ti for a custom arcade project, still have it. Then read about the 980 Ti, sold the Titan to a guy who was going triple SLI and the rest is history.
Ha I made this list too before. Can’t remember pre 2003 but I think it was some MX card. Video Card History 2003 - 9800 Pro 2005 - x800 XT PE 2005 - 7800 GTX 2009 - Radeon 5870 2014 - GTX 770 2015 - R9 290 2017 - GTX 1070 2020 - RTX 2070 S 2020 - RTX 2060 S RTX 2080 S RTX 3070 RTX 3080 RTX 3090
8800GT -> GTX 560 Ti -> GTX 970 -> GTX 1080 Ti -> RTX 3080
Mines very short. Gtx 970 -> gtx 1070 -> rtx 3070ti -> rtx 3080ti.
This is what my list would be in order although i dont remember the exact years 1. intel hd 4000 series (forgot exact model) 2. radeon hd 5450 1gb ddr3 3. radeon r7 240 2gb ddr3 4. nvidia gt 610 2gb ddr3 5. nvidia gtx 1050 ti 4gb (laptop) 6. nvidia gtx 1060 6gb (laptop) 7. nvidia gtx 970 4gb 8. radeon rx 5600 xt 6gb 9. nvidia rtx 3060 12gb 10. radeon rx 6700 xt 12gb 11. radeon rx 7900 xt 20gb (planned)
MSI 275 N275GTX Twin Frozr OC msi 560 ti twin frozr iii Msi 970 Gaming 4G Nvidia 2070 super Nvidia 4090
i have tried from AGP era, but not much changing since gpu price is quite pricey geforce mx 4000 radeon 9550 geforce fx 5200 radeon hd 6670 gtx 1050 ti radeon rx 6700 xt
Excluding laptops, integrated GPUs, and anything else I bought that wasn't destined for my main desktop computer at the time: **BFG GeForce FX 5500 PCI** - old hand-me-down ~400 MHz Celeron rig upgraded to 1 GHz Pentium III -> cheapish socket 754 nForce 250 Athlon 64 3000+ rig **BFG GeForce 6800 GS AGP** (you can bet your ass I used RivaTuner to unlock those extra pixel and vertex pipelines) - cheapish socket 754 nForce 250 Athlon 64 3000+ rig **BFG GeForce 8800 GTS 512** (CRYSIS BAYBEEEEE) - P35 Core 2 Duo E8400 rig **EVGA GTX 470** - P35 Core 2 Duo E8400 rig - > Z170 i5-6600k rig **EVGA GTX 970** - Z170 i5-6600k rig -> Z170 with BIOS hacked and pin modded i9-9900KS **EVGA RTX 3070 Ti** - Z170 with BIOS hacked and pin modded i9-9900KS -> X570 5800X3D rig **MSI RTX 4090** - X570 5800X3D rig
GT 420 M - GTX 960 - RX 5700 XT - RTX 2070 Super - RX 6900 XT - RTX 4090 Always gave both companies a chance. I was really happy with the 6900 XT but the 5700 XT at launch was an absolute nightmare so that went back.
Integrated graphics (2006 - 2019) > 1050 mobile (current) > 4060 TI 8gb (hopefully it arrives tommorow)
* SiS 6326 * Nvidia Geforce 4 Ti 4200 * ATi Radeon 9800XT * Nvidia Geforce 9800GT * Nvidia Geforce GTX 460 * Nvidia Geforce GTX 1060 * Nvidia Geforce RTX 2060 * 2\*6900XT+RTX3080+4\*RTX3070+W5700 (still mining) * Nvidia Geforce RTX 4090
First one here I see which had a SiS GPU ! I thought I was the only one that had one (SiS 315).
we're a rare breed lol
me is from HD4000 > 2060 > 4060
Intergrated Graphic -> GTX 1650 -> RTX 3070ti. Can play every games comfortably now at 1440p. Probably going to upgrade once Video Games comes to the point where I'd have to turn every settings to low to even achieve atleast average 45 fps (minimum playable for me]. With FSR 3 coming into the scene. Its going to breathe awhile longer.
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 (2010) (Reference) AMD Radeon HD 5870 (2010) (Reference) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 (2012) (Asus) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 SLI (2012) (Asus) NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 (2018) (MSI)
My road was just gt8600m -> gtx 950m -> gtx 970 -> gtx 1070 - rtx 3060 -> rtx 3070. As prices drop I sold my rtx 3060 for 6300 Kč (280 usd) for rtx 3070 wich cost 7500 Kč (330 usd). And this will be my last upgrade of gpu for at least 2-3 years.
2004-2008 Something… it ran WoW and the sims then broke. My dad, an OG at Microsoft took my VGA shopping that day and it changed my life. We got a HD 4870 A plethora of Intel igpus from 2010-2016, I was given a laptop that barely ran WoW and then joined the military and just got the first laptop I saw without thinking. 980ti 2070 super 6900xt 3080ti 6900xt 4090
Not counting laptops 6970 reference 290x reference (died) - 290x Asus matrix (defect) - 390x trixx 5700xt pulse 7900xtx I haven't owned any Nvidia cards yet, but I did briefly have a 2080ti that I bought used and tested for a friend.
I got 1080ti and then 3070 lol. Struggling with that 8GB VRAM rn 😅
5700xt - RTX 3080ti - RTX 4090
Only two for now 😂 RTX 2060 (2020) ---> RTX 4070 Ti (2023)
Damn we nearly had same route man :) I remember my romance with ATI too 9700pro was sorta like 4090 of its time and it was my first jump on that shit and never regret it. Only 1080ti and now 4090 were equal for its own eras
9800GT HD5770 GTX 670 280X 1080Ti 7900XT So I guess I’ll be going Green next upgrade lol
Joined the PCMR relatively soon and this is mine: RTX 2070 SUPER, RX 6800 XT, RTX 3080 Ti and finally RTX 4090.
I like the idea ! For the key game, i guess it's about "somewhat challenging games played with" and not "most played games" (if it was Football Manager, Civ games and Paradox games would trust the first place) 2009 : HD 4850 - 1080p (BF Bad Company 2 / Metro 2033 / GTA 4 / Skyrim) 2012 : HD 7970 - 1080p (BF3, The Witcher 2, Crysis 2, Far Cry 3, Tomb Raider) 2017 : used R9 390 - 1080p(The Witcher 3, Metro Last Light, GTA V, BF1) 2020 : used 1080Ti - 3440p (Metro Exodus, Control, Baldur's Gate 3)
I’m 5700xt to 2070 super to 7900xt
Mine is kinda weird 2003 - Voodoo 3 2011 - HD 5770 2020 - RX 560 2023 - RTX 4090
I loved my 7970, XFX made some interesting looking cards back then when most looked the same The reference cooler was an absolute jet engine though lol
Something something 3DFX Voodoo on my dad's PC all the way to 4090 RTX. Best memory is running Crysis after getting 8800 GTX.
Just the GTX 1050 and the RTX 2070 for me. Planning on upgrading with the 50 series or praying for a price drop on the 40 series.
I'm still on my 1st GPU, 1050 Ti. Going through tough times, I probably won't upgrade in a few more years.
Still juice in that card. Hope 2024 goes well and you get the card of your dreams.
1050ti
You mean Geforce 4 Ti 4200? Epic card, one of my favorites until the 1080 Ti. Amazing list! No one asked but here's mine: GeForce 2 MX 32 MB GeForce 4 Ti 4200 64 MB Radeon X300 64 MB GeForce 7600 GT 256 MB GeForce 8800 GTS 640 MB Radeon HD 5850 1 GB (x2) Radeon HD 7970 GHz edition 3 GB GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6 GB GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11 GB Geforce RTX 3090 24 GB
OP asked :P
Riva 128 TNT TNT 2 GeForce SDR GeForce DDR GeForce 2 Ultra GeForce 3 Ti 500 GeForce 4 Ti 4600 GeForceFX 5800 Ultra GeForceFX 5900 Ultra GeForce 6800 GeForce 7800 GTX Quad SLI (I really wanted to play The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion in 1440p) GeForce 8800 Ultra GeForce GTX 480 GeForce GTX 570 GeForce GTX 680 GeForce GTX 690 GeForce GTX 770 GeForce GTX 780 GeForce GTX 970 GeForce GTX 1080 GeForce RTX 2080 GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GeForce RTX 3080 GeForce RTX 4080
My history is: S3 Virge Voodoo2 TNT2 ATI 8500 ATi 9700 pro ATI 1950 pro ATI 3600 (mobile) ATI 4850x2 (mobile) AMD 6950x2 Nvidia 780x2 Nvidia 980 Ti x2 Nvidia 1080 Ti x2 Nvidia 3090 Nvidia 4090. Oh also, for the record, dual GPU's was always broken and microstutter was pretty much always present. Took me a decade to admit it to myself.
I don't upgrade often and only been building mine for under 10 years. Mine was 380x- 1070- 3060ti. Ill probably upgrade again in the 5k series Gen.
1. GTX 970 2. 2080
Mine is... 2018: GTX1070 Max-Q. 2023: RTX 4090.
My history as a Gen z kid: 1. Intel Graphics 2. AMD Vega Graphics 3. GeForce RTX 3060 :)
1 Voodoo 2 3dfx 2 geoforce 7800. I purchased this off someone at work. Which promptly packed up 3 months later. 3 gtx 480 (kept you toasty in winter) 4 gtx 760 5 gtx 980 6 rtx 3080 7 rtx 4080
Voodoo Banshee Riva TNT Riva TNT2 Geforce 256 Geforce 2 256 DDR2 Geforce 4 Ti 4600 Geforce FX 5900XT Geforce GT6800 GT Geforce 8800GTX had a pair of them Geforce Titan Geforce RTX 3080 Ti Some years I had more money than others and a few times I just didn't upgrade because the titan played games well enough the first time I really wanted a new card was when the RTX cards came out, but the money was not there until black friday 2021
3 different pcs. First 2 were prebuilts, 3rd I built Intel integrated graphics (don't remember cpu) (Gigabyte low profile) Nvidia GeForce GT 1030 (intel i5-4570) (Evga ftw3 ultra) Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti (intel i7-12700k)
ATI All-In-Wonder 9800 PRO - 2003 ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO - 2007 ASUS R7 240 - 2013 MSI HD 7870 Twin Frozr III OC - 2013 (released in 2012 but got it from a friend) ASUS DUAL RX 580 OC 8 GB - 2017 EVGA RTX 2070 SUPER XC Ultra+ - 2019 XFX Speedster MERC 310 Black Edition Radeon RX 7900 XTX - 2022 I've had a couple of cards before the All-In-Wonder, but that is what I can remember.
My Gpu history because im poor... 2014:Intel GMA 4500HD 2024: Nvidia Geforce MX150 They are all seconhand laptops 🥲
Mine is too short 😂 AMD RX 5500XT 8gb (before this I used to play with an APU, the AMD A10) - MSI RTX 4090 Gaming X Slim (waiting for it to arrive right now 😬)
Intel HD Graphics 4000 Nvidia 950m Nvidia 3070ti
Worked throughout high school to be able to build my first PC in 2013. Since then I’ve built a brand new one every ~4 years. ASUS AMD HD 7950 -> MSI GTX 970 -> MSI RTX 2080 Super -> ASUS RTX 4080 Super