Just for fun, what do you guys think is the most legendary GPU that was produced in the last 10 years? Mind sharing your thoughts and reasoning?
My vote goes to the AMD Radeon 7970. Tomorrow it will be officially 3 years old, and if we look at its history, it really has been nothing less than extraordinary. At release, it swept the performance crown for the fastest single GPU card on the market, and when Nvidia responded with the extremely formidable GTX 600 series, it fought back with GHz edition and continuous driver enhancements until it was neck and neck with the GTX 680 for the performance crown. Then came the Bitcoin rush, and the 7970 soon found itself in remarkably high demand. People who bought a 7970 before the rush were able to sell their nearly 2 year old GPU and easily get most, if not all of their money back. Then came the rebranding, and the 7970 became the R9 280X as we know it today. It still gives Nvidia a run for their money at its current price point, and is still plenty capable of running new games(ones that aren't from Ubisoft) buttery smooth at 1080p. For all we know, there is still some time before AMD will launch their next gen flagship GPUs, so it seems that this legend will live on for that much longer. I really can't think of another GPU that can match the track record and longevity of the 7970, except for maybe something from before 2010, I'm not very familiar with those.
Please don't turn this into an AMD vs Nvidia argument, we only want to know what you think has been the GPU of the past decade, not which company sucks more. And as a disclaimer, I'm actually an Nvidia user, I picked the GTX 670 over the 7970 and missed all the fun. I don't regret it too much though, the GTX 670 has been a damn good GPU as well.
My vote goes to the AMD Radeon 7970. Tomorrow it will be officially 3 years old, and if we look at its history, it really has been nothing less than extraordinary. At release, it swept the performance crown for the fastest single GPU card on the market, and when Nvidia responded with the extremely formidable GTX 600 series, it fought back with GHz edition and continuous driver enhancements until it was neck and neck with the GTX 680 for the performance crown. Then came the Bitcoin rush, and the 7970 soon found itself in remarkably high demand. People who bought a 7970 before the rush were able to sell their nearly 2 year old GPU and easily get most, if not all of their money back. Then came the rebranding, and the 7970 became the R9 280X as we know it today. It still gives Nvidia a run for their money at its current price point, and is still plenty capable of running new games(ones that aren't from Ubisoft) buttery smooth at 1080p. For all we know, there is still some time before AMD will launch their next gen flagship GPUs, so it seems that this legend will live on for that much longer. I really can't think of another GPU that can match the track record and longevity of the 7970, except for maybe something from before 2010, I'm not very familiar with those.
Please don't turn this into an AMD vs Nvidia argument, we only want to know what you think has been the GPU of the past decade, not which company sucks more. And as a disclaimer, I'm actually an Nvidia user, I picked the GTX 670 over the 7970 and missed all the fun. I don't regret it too much though, the GTX 670 has been a damn good GPU as well.