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List all the graphics cards you ever had

Well, this is going to be quite a challenge. I will list them in reverse chronological order.

- AMD Radeon HD 7850
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
- AMD Radeon HD 7750
- AMD Radeon HD 4870
- NVIDIA GeForce 6600 LE
- NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M
- NIDIA GeForce GTX 780
- AMD Radeon HD 7970
- AMD Radeon HD 6750M
- AMD Radeon HD 6770M
- AMD Radeon HD 5870
- AMD Radeon HD 4870
- Intel GMA 950
- AMD Radeon HD 4850M
- NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260
- NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT
- NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT
- NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GT
- NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS
- AMD Radeon HD 2900 Pro
- AMD Radeon X700
- AMD Mobility Radeon 9200
- NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500
- NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200

There are several more but beyond the year 2000 or so, I don't remember the specific models.
 
Challenge accepted, lets see how I do:

ATI 7970 3GB
XFX GeoForce GTS 250
Something on a Dell Laptop, ATI Mobility...
XFX GeoForce 6800XT AGP
ATI Radeon 9800PRO
ATI All in Wonder 128
Matrox Millenium G200
the 3dfx add on card
Some S3 thing
Some Trident thing
Something that was in a 386 that I can't remember at all at the moment.
 
Okay, here we go:

- ATI Rage 128 Pro
- Nvidia Geforce 2MX
- ATI Radeon 8500
- ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
- ATI Radeon 2600XT Mobility (iMac)
- Nvidia Geforce 9400M (MBP)
- Nvidia Geforce 9600M GT (MBP)
- ATI Radeon HD 5770
- ATI Radeon HD 5870
- AMD Radeon HD 6870
- AMD Radeon HD 7770
- AMD Radeon HD 7790
- AMD Radeon R9 280

So, mostly Team Red since most Radeons were better value for money in the 'mid to high' performance range. Never cared about ultimate performance, need neither 200fps+ nor $k atm.
 
ATI RAGE II and 3Dfx Voodoo1 on a PowerCenter Pro (played a good game of Myth, Unreal and Quake 1)
TNT2 Ultra on a Dell Pentium III PC (32-bit color, wow!)
GeForce 3 on a Quicksilver Power Mac (we got this card before PC gamers)
GeForce 6600 LE on a Power Mac G5 (Ehh. Not great, but it worked)

Mac Pro 5,1 cards:
AMD Radeon 5870 (decent card but crap drivers)
GeForce 780 (pretty good but had a bug at bootup)
GeForce Titan X (awesome!)
 
Riva TNT 2 64 MB
Geforce FX5200 128 MB
Geforce 6600GT 128MB/128 Bit
Geforce 8800GT 512 MB/256 Bit
Geforce GT650M 512MB/128 Bit

Nvidia fan here ;).
 
PC Cards:
SIS 5597/5598 Up To 4MB
S3 Virge DX 4MB
Diamond Stealth II S220 4MB (Rendition Verite 2100)
3Dfx Voodoo 2 12MB (Game Master II)
3Dfx Voodoo 3 2000 16MB
InnoVision GeForce 2 MX200 32MB
Eagle GeForce 2 MX400 32MB
Eagle GeForce 2 Ti 64MB
Matrox G400
Matrox G450
Matrox G550
Gigagyte Maya Radeon 9000 Pro 64MB
Sapphire Radeon 9600 SE 256MB
Sapphire Radeon 9600 Pro 256MB
Gigabyte Radeon 9800 Pro 256MB
Club 3D Radeon X800 XL 256MB
ATI Radeon X850 XT PE 512MB
ASUS GeForce 8800GTS 320MB
nVidia Quadro FX 1500 256MB
nVidia Quadro FX 3500 256MB
nVidia Quadro FX 3700 512MB
Sapphire Radeon 4850 X2 1GB
nVidia Quadro 4000 2GB
Sapphire Radeon 5870 1GB
Sapphire Radeon 5770 1GB
ASUS GeForce GTX 650 Ti BOOST OC 2GB
ASUS Radeon R7 260X OC 2GB

Mac Desktop Cards:
ATI Rage 128 16MB PCI
Flashed GeForce 3 Ti 500 64MB
Flashed Radeon X800 XT
GeForce FX 5200 Ultra 64MB
ATI Radeon 9000 Pro
GeForce 6600 LE 128MB
GeForce 6600 128MB
ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT 256MB
ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB
ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB
AMD FirePro D300

Mac Mobile / iMac / mini:
ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT 256MB
GeForce 320M 256MB
Intel HD 4000 1GB
GeForce GT 650M 1GB
Intel Iris 1.5GB
 
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bax2003 said:
PC Cards:
SIS 5597/5598 Up To 4MB
S3 Virge DX 4MB
Diamond Stealth II S220 4MB (Rendition Verite 2100)
3Dfx Voodoo 2 12MB (Game Master II)
3Dfx Voodoo 3 2000 16MB
InnoVision GeForce 2 MX200 32MB
Eagle GeForce 2 MX400 32MB
Eagle GeForce 2 Ti 64MB
Matrox G400
Matrox G450
Matrox G550
Gigagyte Maya Radeon 9000 Pro 64MB
Sapphire Radeon 9600 SE 256MB
Sapphire Radeon 9600 Pro 256MB
Gigabyte Radeon 9800 Pro 256MB
Club 3D Radeon X800 XL 256MB
ATI Radeon X850 XT PE 512MB
ASUS GeForce 8800GTS 320MB
nVidia Quadro FX 1500 256MB
nVidia Quadro FX 3500 256MB
nVidia Quadro FX 3700 512MB
Sapphire Radeon 4850 X2 1GB
nVidia Quadro 4000 2GB
Sapphire Radeon 5870 1GB
Sapphire Radeon 5770 1GB
ASUS GeForce GTX 650 Ti BOOST OC 2GB
ASUS Radeon R7 260X OC 2GB

Mac Desktop Cards:
ATI Rage 128 16MB PCI
Flashed GeForce 3 Ti 500 64MB
Flashed Radeon X800 XT
GeForce FX 5200 Ultra 64MB
ATI Radeon 9000 Pro
GeForce 6600 LE 128MB
GeForce 6600 128MB
ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT 256MB
ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB
ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB
AMD FirePro D300

Mac Mobile / iMac / mini:
ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT 256MB
GeForce 320M 256MB
Intel HD 4000 1GB
GeForce GT 650M 1GB
Intel Iris 1.5GB
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That's how to spot an enthusiast
 
It is kind of sad to see all of that rich competition go away. Not counting Intel, there are only two companies left, and one of those isn't doing too well financially.
 
Wow, there are some serious video card enthusiasts here! I can name half a dozen Radius and SuperMac NuBus cards; once Macs started shipping with adequate (for my purposes) onboard VRAM / stock PCI cards I stopped paying atention.
 
first decent one (not counting CGA/VGA) was a riva tnt ultra... then a bunch of others, all nvidia or integrated none of that ATI/AMD crap thank you.
 
b0fh666 said:
first decent one (not counting CGA/VGA) was a riva tnt ultra... then a bunch of others, all nvidia or integrated none of that ATI/AMD crap thank you.
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I don´t understand this part "none of that ATI/AMD crap thank you".

If ATI-AMD cards were / are CRAP in all aspects, nobody would buy them and that will be the end. Obviously this is not true because this company is still alive and well. ATI is making graphics cards since 1986 and they still do just with different name (AMD). Of course there were some bad products and decisions but to call all their products crap is not fair.
nVidia and Intel had their bad moments......some very bad.
To name a few: GeForce MX4000, Riva TNT M64, Intel GMA950....I mean these are crap squared.
 
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sorry, guilty as charged :)

grew a deep hatred of ATI because back then I was mostly a linux user so...
 
Yep, I'm another one that goes back to ISA and later Vesa Local Bus cards. Then again, I remember when co-processors were add ons. I think I still have in an old storage box a Timex Sinclair z-80 chip based system that hooked up to a television. That was a fun little "toy."
 
CPUs I had:

386 SX 25mhz
486 DX 66mhz
486 DX 100mhz
Pentium 133mhz
Dual Pentium 200mhz - my first SMP system!
Celeron 333mhz - OC 416mhz
Dual Pentium II 266mhz - OC 309mhz
Pentium III 700mhz
Dell Inspiron laptop - Pentium II 266mhz
Sony Vaio NX ultra slim notebook - Pentium III 500mhz
Sony Vaio FX laptop - Pentium III 933mhz
PowerBook Lombard G3 400mhz
PowerBook G4 400mhz
PowerBook G4 550mhz
iMac lampshade 800mhz
Power Mac G4 450mhz Dual
PowerBook G4 800mhz
PowerBook G4 17" 1ghz
PowerBook G4 12" 867mhz (awfully hot)
PowerBook G4 12" 1.5ghz
MacBook Pro Core Duo 2.16ghz
MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo 2.2ghz
Sony Vaio AW series Core 2 Duo 2.2ghz
MacBook Pro Core i7 2.4ghz
Mac Pro Xeon Westmere Dual X5690

All the PCs except the Sony and Dell were home built
 
Trident 256
Matrox Millenium
3DFX Voodoo
ATI Rage 3D
GeForce 2MX
[.. insert about 10 cards in here]
nvidia 8800 GT
AMD Radeon HD 7870

I can't remember all the cards... although I just sold the 7870 on eBay a few weeks ago. Had enough of desktop computing :)
 
SoyCapitanSoyCapitan said:
CPUs I had:

386 SX 25mhz
486 DX 66mhz
486 DX 100mhz
Pentium 133mhz
Dual Pentium 200mhz - my first SMP system!
Celeron 333mhz - OC 416mhz
Dual Pentium II 266mhz - OC 309mhz
Pentium III 700mhz
Dell Inspiron laptop - Pentium II 266mhz
Sony Vaio NX ultra slim notebook - Pentium III 500mhz
Sony Vaio FX laptop - Pentium III 933mhz
PowerBook Lombard G3 400mhz
PowerBook G4 400mhz
PowerBook G4 550mhz
iMac lampshade 800mhz
Power Mac G4 450mhz Dual
PowerBook G4 800mhz
PowerBook G4 17" 1ghz
PowerBook G4 12" 867mhz (awfully hot)
PowerBook G4 12" 1.5ghz
MacBook Pro Core Duo 2.16ghz
MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo 2.2ghz
Sony Vaio AW series Core 2 Duo 2.2ghz
MacBook Pro Core i7 2.4ghz
Mac Pro Xeon Westmere Dual X5690

All the PCs except the Sony and Dell were home built
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Haha ... yeah I remember having most all of those over the years.

My FIRST home computer was in 1974 ... self designed, laboriously point-to-point hand wired, and used the newfangled Intel 8080 microprocessor I purchased for $600 (just dropped from $1200 ea.)!!!

It didn't do much ....

... although the knowledge gained did a lot to launch my engineering career speciality!
 
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ActionableMango said:
Eh? I thought you Linux guys hated Nvidia?

http://www.maximumpc.com/linus-torvalds-tosses-f-bombs-middle-fingers-and-general-disdain-at-nvidia/
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oh well. at the time:

nvidia - closed source drivers with some opensource 'glue' to the kernel, worked really well (for linux haha), FOSS dudes of course hated the idea :)

ati - second-class open source drivers that performed like crap, ati could not care lessa about linux.

being a pragmatist, nvidia all the way baby!
 
I tried Linux twice years ago just 'to see it'. Nvidia drivers included worked.

Radeon drivers have always aggravated me on Windows and I used Omega instead.
 
PC:
ATI Radeon 9600 TX (PC 2003, AGP)
ATI Radeon X800 XL
Nvidia GeForce 7800 GTX 512 (Core2Duo-PC 2.4GHz 2006, first PCI Express card)
Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS 640 MB
Nvidia GeForce 560 Ti (still in use for old WinXP Apps and Games)

Mac (Tower):
ATI Rage 128 GL (PowerMac G3 Blue and White 1999)
ATI Radeon 9000 Pro Mac Edition
NVIDIA Geforce2 MX (Power Mac G4 Quicksilver 2001)
Nvidia Geforce4 Ti
Apple ATI Radeon 4870 (Mac Pro 2009)
Apple ATI Radeon 5870
Nvidia GeForce GTX 570
Nvidia GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
Nvidia GeForce GTX 770
Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan X (still Mac Pro 2009...)

Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti (eGPU)
 
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Wow. Gonna date myself here.. Far from inclusive list, but some of the more interesting vintage stuff:

8 bit Grayscale Yoke adapter for Mac SE. Enabled 2nd 8 bit 6 gray 40x480 out. Can't remember who made it. Literally attached to the fly back transformer board on the internal CRT.

Rasterops 264 Colorboard (First 24 bit Mac card whopping 640x480 res).
Radius 2 Page Display (grayscale with attached 19" monitor)
NuVista Truevision+ with Diaquest Animac card for frame animation layback to Sony Betacam
Radius SpigotProAV for the 8100/80AV (horrible daughter card product for NTSC encode / decode, never did work well at all, it's release was barely alpha quality and it mostly was a remarkably effective crash generator).
Radius Rocket / 16mb ram (ok not a video card per se, but an interesting bit in its own right, wouldn't work in a IIx or IIfx with the TureVision, so had to get a IIci to get both cards to work together).

Dated myself enough yet?
 
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OK, just to add some of the less common boards:
  • V12 in SGI Octane
  • CRM in SGI O2
  • SUN XVR-1200 (a.k.a. 3Dlabs Wildcat4)
I liked the CRM a lot because it had a shared memory system that allowed access to gigantic amounts of VRAM ... even streaming video to a memory region and making this a texture was possible. Yeah, good old times.
 
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