Discussion What was your first gpu

[AlexTheFern]

there was a similar thread abt cpus and i found that one interesting so im wondering what u guys first gpu was

 

[Dj0gany]

Gt 610

 

[oldcracc]

GTX 1050 Ti, currently running 1080 Ti looking to upgrade eventually to a 3070/3080 if I can find one

 

[DrummerManSpike]

I built my first (and current) PC only just a year ago, but I have the XFX RX 5700 DD Ultra 8GB GDDR6. Runs great, without having to pay maxed out 20 series Nvidia card prices! The 30 series prices surprised me though, and with AMD's 60 series showing only a small difference, I may switch sides depending on how things go the next few years.

 

[Deleted member 2838871]

My first computer (Commodore Amiga 500 in 1988) was a GPU in itself... a state of the art media gaming machine.

My first actual GPU that I recall was a GeForce 3 Ti 200 I built as part of my AMD Athlon XP 1800+ rig in 2001.

 

[AntonyLovric]

Trident 8900C (ISA)
S3 (801C) ISA
ATI Mach 8 ISA
ATI Mach 32
Nvidia Riva 128
Matrox G220
Matrox G400
Voodoo I
Intel I740
Vodoo II
Geforce FX5200
Nvidia 8800GT
Nvidia 9600GT
AMD 5750
Nvidia GTX 460
Nvidia 750TI
Nvidia 1050TI

I probably forgot a bunch, I had an Oak Technologies 512kb card? There was an IBM XT but I think it was CGA?

Sound cards anyone? Adlib, Gravis Ultrasound? SB 16/32AWE?

 

[Archaic59]

Diamond Viper V330 with Monster 3D card.

 

[AlexTheFern]

Diamond Viper V330 with Monster 3D card.

whoa

 

[Archaic59]

whoa

1997

 

[AlexTheFern]

1997

whoaaaa

 

[Wolfshadw]

S3 Virge for my AST 486/DX2-50

-Wolf sends

 

[USAFRet]

Some Hercules thing for an XT compatible.

 

[Wolfshadw]

Oh! Forgot to ask. Do you think when I upgraded my DX2-50 to a DX4-100 using the Cyrix update chip, was my S3 Virge graphics card a bottleneck?

-Wolf runs and ducks for cover.

 

[USAFRet]

Oh! Forgot to ask. Do you think when I upgraded my DX2-50 to a DX4-100 using the Cyrix update chip, was my S3 Virge graphics card a bottleneck?

-Wolf runs and ducks for cover.

Only if you were trying to play Falcon 3.0.

 

[uzujzh]

a Sapphire Radeon HD 2600 XT

 

[AntonyLovric]

Oh! Forgot to ask. Do you think when I upgraded my DX2-50 to a DX4-100 using the Cyrix update chip, was my S3 Virge graphics card a bottleneck?

-Wolf runs and ducks for cover.

I think the Cyrix update chip wasn't much faster. I picked up the AMD 486 DX3-100. (Couldn't afford a pentium 60 then...)

 

[drivinfast247]

3dfx Voodoo5 5500 AGP. I still have it.

 

[Dj0gany]

3dfx Voodoo5 5500 AGP. I still have it.

Fancy

 

[Deleted member 2720853]

The craptacular GT 610. Then I had a 1060 --> 2070 --> 3070.

I have yet to break into xx80 territory.

 

[King_V]

If you're talking video card in general, then the 2MB S3 card that came with my Dell XPS 133 in 1996. PCI slot.

My first 3D GPU, though, was the STB Velocity 128 - The Riva 128 GPU, with 4MB VRAM, PCI version, as my MB didn't have an AGP slot.. Cost me $179 back then, I wanna say late 1997 or early 1998?

 

[USAFRet]

My current GPU has more memory (8GB RAM) than my first 10 PC's had RAM and hard drive space, combined.

 

[Dj0gany]

The craptacular GT 610. Then I had a 1060 --> 2070 --> 3070.

I have yet to break into xx80 territory.

Ayeeee GT 610

 

[Lutfij]

To answer the OP, my first GPU was a Palit Geforce2 MX200.

 

[John Chesterfield]

Diamond Monster Voodoo 2 12mb

 

[GenericUser]

Canopus Pure3D. After that was an Nvidia RIVA 128, which is still lying around somewhere.