Did anyone else notice the decline of graphics on the GPU's coolers! I missed that classic box artwork too!
Every GPU That Mattered
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#152I don't believe this list was curated as the title suggests. It's just a semi-random list of popular-ish GPUs with LLM-generated descriptions.
The site looks nice, which fools us into thinking thought and effort was put into this.
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#153This is what I call AI slop.
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#154It's probably just me being out of touch, but I don't think the GeForce RTX 4000 or 5000 series really mattered/matters that much. At the same time I'd add the S3 ViRGE and the Matrox G200. Both mattered a lot at the time, but not long term.
Or the S3 Savage3D, which, while being inferior to the TNT2, pioneered texture compression. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S3_Texture_Compression
Yeah it also lacked driver support. But it was for a very brief moment the king of the hill.
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#155S3 Trio, Matrix Millennium
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#156Absolute nostalgia fever. About a month ago, I dug up an old desktop in the corner, took the drives out and gave away the machine. It felt like putting a racehorse to pasture: i7-4790k, 1080 Ti. It was my dream machine when I got it. Dual-boot (as we did back in the old days when Proton wasn't here) to Ubuntu, then Elementary, then Arch. By the time I gave it away it wasn't worth the power cost. And that brought to m…
I used my 1080 Ti for about eight years. The successor GPU is in some ways way faster (raytracing, AI features etc.), but in others really quite stagnant considering the huge stretch of time that passed between them. ~10 years for 2-3x performance in GPUs at higher nominal and real price points shows how slow silicon advances have been compared to the 90s and 2000s. The same period from 2000 to 2010 would've seen 100…
Well. The 5090ti is significantly faster than a 1080ti. It has 92b vs 12b transistors. That's the 10 years difference you mention. 10 years before the 1080ti we had the 8800 ultra with 600m transistors. So yeah you are a bit right. But stacked transistors in the future might become reality and enable transistor increase again.
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#157There's no horizontal scroll bar, apparently I need to click and drag the GPU section leftwards with the mouse. (Am I old now?)
Fixed it, thanks for the feedback
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#158Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is an ad from viral marketing company and everyone here is falling for it.
What are they advertising? Nvidia graphics cards?
Yes. They are likely also advertising for themselves with how viral their ads are. The article is featured on their website.
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#159Terrible list that should not list almost anything released in the last 10 years. We do live in a very dark and longlasting gpu era.
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#160It's probably just me being out of touch, but I don't think the GeForce RTX 4000 or 5000 series really mattered/matters that much. At the same time I'd add the S3 ViRGE and the Matrox G200. Both mattered a lot at the time, but not long term.
My contributions: Matrox Parhelia for the first card supporting triple-monitors, and ATI All-in-Wonder which did TV out when media centre TVs weren’t really a thing.