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Nice recap,
Owned al lot of those cards, always ati though. Ati 8mb with voodoo 2, Radeon 9500pro overclocked to a 9700pro,2900, 3870 crossfire, 4870 1gb, 5850, 6870.
in the old days combined with the voodoo II card.
Owned al lot of those cards, always ati though. Ati 8mb with voodoo 2, Radeon 9500pro overclocked to a 9700pro,2900, 3870 crossfire, 4870 1gb, 5850, 6870.
in the old days combined with the voodoo II card.
Knowing little about hardware and pricing back then, I bought a custom-built PC with a 7950GX2 when it was launched (this was close to when the x2 5000+ CPU was released, which I also got). I'd probably still be using it if it didn't crap out. It served me well.
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. I don't hate Nvidia, I don't like them much but I don't hate them. They make good Chips. They had to borrow a lot of technology to do this and is one reason I don't have much respect for them but that's the way the world works a lot of the time. Microsoft did this in many big ways to get to where they are today.
But Unlike their claims they were def. not the first gpu on the market, you could say the S3 Virge was followed by ATI and 3dfx. They all made graphics accelerated video cards. some just were terrible at it. I was pointed out 3dfx's contribution to the market. They had ideas that were ahead of their time like SLI and multi-gpu video cards a long time ago. They showed what Doom could really do when it was programmed to run on it. It really made a huge impact on 3d games.
Now for the ATI 9700 Pro. You missed my whole point or didn't read it carefully. I was not talking about the 9700 Pro but he 9700 Pro AIW. It was a very fast video card that also was a multimedia card with it's video capture and tv tuner built onto it. It was a fantastic card not just because it was fast but because it offered many other uses and he didn't have to pick that one out as there were other AIW cards out before but the 9700 pro was one of the fastest where there was nothing lacking in it's game performance and it's other duties and had the same cost. They came out with a 800 AIW that was faster but they were on their way out and there was maybe one or two more versions maybe before they stopped the AIW line but thees were unique cards that offered a lot of technology and uses that no other card had and in a way was a Ferrari of video cards surrounded by corvettes and Lambo's that might be faster but were never as refined as a Ferrari was.
The 9700 AIW as really the first real fast low cost version and it was unique in this way, they didn't give it less memory than their top of the line gaming cards with this one. It should have been added but this article was only 1 dimensional for the most part in they were only looking at speed and not ground breakers that make notable marks in offering innovation that makes them special. Adding more memory and faster clocks or more cores is bland. There was new ways to handle the data in many of the cards offered but to make them great they really have to go way past this area like going from DX9 built video cards to DX11 and then only the ones that really put some new ways to working with the data as well.
Well, I hope you get where I was trying to go with the first one.
The only part of those AIW cards that sucked was installing the drivers, they had 3 sets and you had to install them in the right order to make it work and they never told you the proper order to do it.
That was a real pain in the ass and they should have made a better install package for them. ATI had driver issues back then. But they sure were a great card to own, you could do a lot with them other than just playing games.
But Unlike their claims they were def. not the first gpu on the market, you could say the S3 Virge was followed by ATI and 3dfx. They all made graphics accelerated video cards. some just were terrible at it. I was pointed out 3dfx's contribution to the market. They had ideas that were ahead of their time like SLI and multi-gpu video cards a long time ago. They showed what Doom could really do when it was programmed to run on it. It really made a huge impact on 3d games.
Now for the ATI 9700 Pro. You missed my whole point or didn't read it carefully. I was not talking about the 9700 Pro but he 9700 Pro AIW. It was a very fast video card that also was a multimedia card with it's video capture and tv tuner built onto it. It was a fantastic card not just because it was fast but because it offered many other uses and he didn't have to pick that one out as there were other AIW cards out before but the 9700 pro was one of the fastest where there was nothing lacking in it's game performance and it's other duties and had the same cost. They came out with a 800 AIW that was faster but they were on their way out and there was maybe one or two more versions maybe before they stopped the AIW line but thees were unique cards that offered a lot of technology and uses that no other card had and in a way was a Ferrari of video cards surrounded by corvettes and Lambo's that might be faster but were never as refined as a Ferrari was.
The 9700 AIW as really the first real fast low cost version and it was unique in this way, they didn't give it less memory than their top of the line gaming cards with this one. It should have been added but this article was only 1 dimensional for the most part in they were only looking at speed and not ground breakers that make notable marks in offering innovation that makes them special. Adding more memory and faster clocks or more cores is bland. There was new ways to handle the data in many of the cards offered but to make them great they really have to go way past this area like going from DX9 built video cards to DX11 and then only the ones that really put some new ways to working with the data as well.
Well, I hope you get where I was trying to go with the first one.
The only part of those AIW cards that sucked was installing the drivers, they had 3 sets and you had to install them in the right order to make it work and they never told you the proper order to do it.
That was a real pain in the ass and they should have made a better install package for them. ATI had driver issues back then. But they sure were a great card to own, you could do a lot with them other than just playing games.
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The oldest 3d card I owned was a matrox mystique (before voodoo) in 1995 iirc, on which i was playing mech warrior and a few other titles that had a 3d engine (you could literally count them on your fingers). Then voodoo 2 etc. and now i'm stuck at 8800gt, i.e. got a life in the end (also got married).
One of the best cards I've ever owned !Sorry guys but you missed the most epic card ever.
The 3dfx voodoo 5 6000 (year 2000)
This sucker is HUGE!
http://content.hwigroup.net/images/articles/voodoo5_6000_01.JPG
http://www.3dchip.de/Grafikkartenmodds/Grafixmodds/voodoo56000.jpeg
The 3dfx voodoo 5 6000 (year 2000)
This sucker is HUGE!
http://content.hwigroup.net/images/articles/voodoo5_6000_01.JPG
http://www.3dchip.de/Grafikkartenmodds/Grafixmodds/voodoo56000.jpeg
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........Brings back great memories. Although none of the cards I owned made the list but I remember the time.
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[citation][nom]Anonymous[/nom]I dont agree with the choices. Most people didnt buy highend cards. How you can leave out the 5870 is mindboggling. The 5870 was the biggest performance jump over the previous gen, thanks mainly to support for eyefinity and power needed to run 3 monitors. The 5870 also sent Nvidia back to the drawing board to design a new card from scratch, which left ATI with no competition for a year.[/citation]
I totally agree. Also, let's not forget the 4850, 4770, GTX 275.
[citation][nom]ilysaml[/nom]love my HD 6950 even though[/citation]
Me too. Especially when it unlocked successfully to 6970. The cards I've owned include the Rage 128 Pro, Geforce MX 440, ATi 9600, Nvidia NX 6200, HD 4870 and HD6950. Also, there was an older card with my first computer but I don't remember the model name ( The CPU was 450 MHz PIII, lol).
I totally agree. Also, let's not forget the 4850, 4770, GTX 275.
[citation][nom]ilysaml[/nom]love my HD 6950 even though[/citation]
Me too. Especially when it unlocked successfully to 6970. The cards I've owned include the Rage 128 Pro, Geforce MX 440, ATi 9600, Nvidia NX 6200, HD 4870 and HD6950. Also, there was an older card with my first computer but I don't remember the model name ( The CPU was 450 MHz PIII, lol).
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[citation][nom]Dino R[/nom]Radeon 9500pro overclocked to a 9700pro[/citation]
...? How did you manage that? The 9500pro had a severely cut down memory interface. I think it only offered about half the bandwidth.
...? How did you manage that? The 9500pro had a severely cut down memory interface. I think it only offered about half the bandwidth.
Fantastic, just an idea for the next article... It will be wondelful that the video cards all time come with the game of that time to benchmarks... I remember for example Quake, Quake II, Duke Nukem 3D, etc. In this days the most demanding game it seems to be Metro 2033...
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I think I still have the box logo cut out from my Radeon 8500 (128mb, I think they had a 64MB version). I remember this kid in high school trying to tell me his Radeon 9000 was faster (for the record though, the 9k had more features, but the 8500 had more raw power).
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[citation][nom]bildo123[/nom]I think I still have the box logo cut out from my Radeon 8500 (128mb, I think they had a 64MB version). I remember this kid in high school trying to tell me his Radeon 9000 was faster (for the record though, the 9k had more features, but the 8500 had more raw power).[/citation]
The 9000 was actually a cut-down 8500.
Your 8500 was faster by all accounts.
The 9000 was actually a cut-down 8500.
Your 8500 was faster by all accounts.
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This article is awesome and I love its focus on raw performance. Maybe you could do one on "game-changer" cards like the EGA Wonder, TNT2, 8800GTX, HD 3870x2, 9800GX2, HD 4870, HD 4870x2, GTX 295, GTX 580, HD 5870, HD 5970, GTX 590. The effect that those cards (and some others I've forgotten) had on the marketplace was undeniable and their impact in the industry was legendary.
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[citation][nom]jtt283[/nom]I also would like to have seen the Hercules cards mentioned. In the mid 80s, that was the only way you got "high resolution" (vs. the 320x200 CGA standard of the day) graphics on a monochrome screen; at least until the ATi EGA Wonder (and its VGA Wonder successor) showed up. Both of them belonged also, for being able to interpolate/extrapolate any standard's resolution to whatever actual monitor you had.[/citation]
That's right, I remember that about my EGA Wonder, it could "force" monitors to display non-native resolutions. No other cardmaker would be able to do that for years.
That's right, I remember that about my EGA Wonder, it could "force" monitors to display non-native resolutions. No other cardmaker would be able to do that for years.
I think X800XT PE should be on the list instead of GF6800U because it was clearly a faster card, not to mention X850XT PE which made the performance difference bigger.
Hi njgtechguy, the ATI R200 Series (8500+) included the first implementation of a hardware-accelerated tessellation engine, not direct relation with DX11-tesselation. (Both nVidia Geforce3 and ATI Radeon 8500 complaint DX8 only).
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