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

 

[okjak808]

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

GT 710 PNY GDDR4 version from Best Buy legit thought it was a good gaming card when I started my first pc gaming build as a newbie...

 

[iTRiP]

RiVA TNT 64Mb AGP.

GeFORCE 4200Ti 128Mb AGP.

GiGABYTE GeFORCE 6600 3D1 128Mb x2 AGP.

GiGABYTE GeFORCE 9500 GT 1Gb 128BiT PCi-E.

GiGABYTE GeFORCE GTX 550Ti OC 192BiT 1Gb PCi-E.

Powercolour AMD Radeon HD7950 384BiT 3Gb PCi-E.

ASUS ROG AMD RX VEGA 64 2048BiT 8Gb PCi-E.

Before that cant quite remember what I had, but what I do know is it was a PCI card with 4Mb ram and that games where always awesome.

 

[RTX 2080]

My first GPU was a Radeon 4350 512 MB that came with the HP prebuilt I bought as a teen in 2008.

I swapped it out for a Radeon 6850 1 GB a year or two later.

I bought a 17 inch Alienware laptop for college that came with a Radeon 7970 3 GB.

I built my first PC (current one) in early 2019 with a RTX 2080.

I bought an XPS 15 with a GTX 1650 in late 2019. Turns out its underpowered for even light 1080p gaming, but whatever.

I added a RTX 2060 KO to my current PC in April 2020 to support finding a cure to COVID-19 via running folding@home on both my 2080 & 2060. The 2060 KO now sits unused and unneeded because running both at once 24/7 burned through roughly $300 worth of electricity a month for 9 months and my wife grew unhappy with the situation lol.

I'm holding out for a RTX 3080 Ti:

• When its released
• When its readily available at MSRP
• When my wife feels like we can afford it

So yeah, I'll probably be holding onto my RTX 2080 until Q3 2021.

 

[NiaNia]

Some Hercules thing for an XT compatible.

For a second I thought you meant a HerculeZ GTX lol

 

[ern88]

Riva TNT2 for a week. Then got a Voodoo 3 3000.

 

[Danra]

I think it was a CTIA/GTIA

 

[ChrisAB]

My first GPU would have been an onboard GPU to my first PC but if u mean Standalone i think it was an S3 Verge of Riva.

 

[Flayed]

I had some kind of Matrox card and a voodoo2 at some point but I can't remember which was first.

 

[woot]

my first computer was pre 2000, but back then i didnt even know about GPU's, but the first video card i explicitly remember was the legendary R300 Radeon 9800 Pro

 

[JT0025]

Diamond Monster Voodoo 2 12mb

Yep me too. That was the first card I bought. My first computer was a Gateway that came with some kind of Permedia 2 vid card lol

 

[80-watt Hamster]

Yep me too. That was the first card I bought. My first computer was a Gateway that came with some kind of Permedia 2 vid card lol

I loved the Permedia 2, if only because the Linux drivers were so good at a time when so many weren't.

My first was a Diamond Monster Fusion (3DFX Voodoo Banshee)

 

[Krotow]

My very first "GPU" was built in motherboard of USSR made Agat computer (Apple II clone, 1987). At lower left side of mainboard.

First PC video adapter - IBM PC CGA.
First 3D GPU - Diamond Monster 3D (3Dfx Voodoo 1).
First "complete" GPU - Creative 3D Blaster Banshee.
First "modern" GPU - NVIDIA Geforce2.

 

[Nicolass]

AMD Radeon HD 3450 256mb memory... Thanks to the forums for the posts of nostalgia !!

 

[JT0025]

I loved the Permedia 2, if only because the Linux drivers were so good at a time when so many weren't.

My first was a Diamond Monster Fusion (3DFX Voodoo Banshee)

Wow someone else remembers that card. I think I recall being very annoyed that I couldn't play Quake GL or maybe Quake 2 with it hence the Voodoo 2 purchase lol

 

[Krotow]

Wow someone else remembers that card. I think I recall being very annoyed that I couldn't play Quake GL or maybe Quake 2 with it hence the Voodoo 2 purchase lol

Coworker and friend (in same person) got that one. Then we spent all evening comparing Quake and Quake 2 in soft graphic mode and new and fancy 3D. Finished after midnight and then I walked to home for a hour and half through dark and empty city, LOL.

 

[ghozt67]

gt 220 for me.

 

[tecmo34]

Nvidia (PNY) 7600GT ---> Nvidia (EVGA) 8800GT ---> Nvidia (EVGA) 9800GTX (SLI) ---> Nvidia (EVGA) GTX 260 Core 216 (SLI) ---> Nvidia (EVGA) GTX 560 TI (SLI) ---> Nvidia (EVGA) GTX 670 (SLI) ---> Nvidia (EVGA) GTX 970 (SLI) ---> Nvidia (EVGA) RTX 2070 Super ---> Nvidia (EVGA) RTX 3080 & RTX 3070

 

[InvalidError]

The first GPU I bought for myself was either a Rage64 or Rage128. First PC in my mother's house though had an ATi EGA Wonder.

 

[Kona45primo]

3Dfx Voodoo 3000 in a 386 or 486. Can't remember, it's been a while.

 

[hotaru.hino]

The first video card I remember actually playing around with was a GeForce FX 5600. I'm sure the computers in the past I used had some sort of video card, but I didn't care enough about it.

Though I do remember at the time of wanting a Radeon 9700 and before I got the FX 5600, a GeForce 4.

 

[Kye_]

My first system altogether was
CPU: fx 4100
Motherboard: asus m5a78l-m/usb3
Ram: g skill ripjaws ddr3 4gb
GPU: EVGA gt 430

I am unsure of what case i had and what my psu was but i remember having the fx stock fan which was so loud
i got this pc when i was 8 years old when my dad first started teaching me how to build pc's

 

[stevewmn]

A Rasterops Colorboard 264. This was a 24 bit color graphics card for a Mac IIcx, operating at a full 640x480 resolution, in 1990 or so. Pretty sure I used Photoshop 2.5 or so on that setup.