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Re: Every GPU That Mattered

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Post by MrDOS » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 10:54 AM UTC

skerit wrote: post #22

bob1029 wrote: post #8

The 8800 GT is easily the most impactful GPU in my mind. The combination of that video card with valve's Orange Box was insane value proposition at the time. I'd put the 5700xt at #2 for being the longest lived GPU I've owned by a very wide margin. It's still in use today.

I retired my 5700 XT a few years ago. Wasn't there some kind of hardware problem with it? It kept locking up my Linux kernel.

Still using my RX 5700 XT. The amdgpu driver had a major issue resuming from suspend a few months ago[0], but other than that, I'm not aware of (nor have I experienced) any stability issues. Maybe you had a bad card.

0: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/4531

Re: Every GPU That Mattered

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Post by yread » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 10:54 AM UTC

0x70dd wrote: post #3

This brings so many memories. I remember how badly I wanted an GeForce 6800 Sadly, I was never able to justify spending this much money on a GPU. Still holds true, even today.

I had the 6600 GT, insane price-perf ratio, kept it for like 8 years

Re: Every GPU That Mattered

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Post by bdavbdav » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 10:55 AM UTC

Surprised PUBG was the defining game for so many. I don’t recall it being a demanding one.

Re: Every GPU That Mattered

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Post by bdavbdav » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 10:58 AM UTC

momocowcow wrote: post #45

not a very good list, from a historical perspective it’s missing many important cards, as mentioned by others also, the gpu did not exist until 1999 looks like this was created for engagement

1999? You sure?

Re: Every GPU That Mattered

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 11:05 AM UTC

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Re: Every GPU That Mattered

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Post by Lwrless » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 11:05 AM UTC

I don't see my first GPU on there, it was the humble GeForce4 MX440. It could run almost any game I cared about for a surprisingly long time, even if it's not a true modern card. These days almost all my machines are on iGPUs baked into the CPU. There's way less fun for me, but they are a lot more compact at least.

Re: Every GPU That Mattered

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Post by rjnaisu » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 11:07 AM UTC

My old GTX770 sitting in a drawer somewhere appreciates this post.

Re: Every GPU That Mattered

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Post by bobsmooth » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 11:13 AM UTC

I was so sad when I retired my 1060 6GB. That thing served me well for almost a decade.

Re: Every GPU That Mattered

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Post by cogman10 » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 11:16 AM UTC

Lwrless wrote: post #56

I don't see my first GPU on there, it was the humble GeForce4 MX440. It could run almost any game I cared about for a surprisingly long time, even if it's not a true modern card. These days almost all my machines are on iGPUs baked into the CPU. There's way less fun for me, but they are a lot more compact at least.

That will probably be my next GPU.

I'm on a 3060 currently and the changes in the 4xxx and 5xxx just aren't appealing to me. As soon as iGPUs get 3060 performance I'll probably switch. And they aren't far off.

Re: Every GPU That Mattered

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Post by formerly_proven » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 11:18 AM UTC

mrweasel wrote: post #50

formerly_proven wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The G200 mattered to some degree for a long time, because most x86 servers up until a few years ago would ship a G200 implementation or at least something pretending to be a G200 card as part of their BMC for network KVM.

Like virtualized NICs pretending to be an NE2000? That's interesting, do you know why they'd use a G200 and not something like an older ATI chip?

Probably started out as a real G200 chip which might’ve been the cheapest and easiest to integrate in the 2000s? Or it had the needed I/O features to support KVM (since this would’ve involved reading the framebuffer from the BMC side), or matrox was amenable to adding that.