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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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_processing_unit#1990s
this is just slop
I 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.
It does start with the Voodoo, so I got what I came for.
Where's my Matrox?
Matrox Mystique was a combination 2D/3D consumer card, which at the time, was still something that mattered. Sure a Voodoo addon card mattered more, very soon, but then quickly things shifted back to combination 2D/3D card with Nvidia!
Also, how is a "first $2000 consumer card" something that "matters"? That's precisely the kind of thing that doesn't matter. My entire laptop cost less than that and I play games with it. What matters much more is that I can play quite a bunch of games that are even pretty recent with a laptop that cost less than that, all with an integrated graphics chip from a company that is precisely known for having abysmal 3D performance: Intel (I have an Iris Xe)
This is a wonderful-looking infographic, but I truly don't think there are 49 GPUs that mattered in the PC gaming hardware space - let alone all of computer graphics. Call it recency bias, but after the Pascal cards it feels like maybe one or two more entrants actually mattered?
Pascal is already too late to matter (2016) IMHO. With the release of D3D9 in 2002, GPUs of different vendors didn't really stand out anymore since they all implemented the same feature set anyway (and that's a good thing).
Just like nowadays not all mesh shaders, compute, ray tracing or DirectStorage are born alike across all vendors.
Usually one can expect that an Intel GPU will never deliver as much as one AMD or let alone NVidia one.
Naturally this is us focusing on the PC space, if taking mobile, game consoles, or Apple ecosystem, then there are many other factors.
I 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.
I have a strong feeling that this website was designed by Claude Code using the /frontend-design skill.
Ok? Not bad to be able to throw something like that together with minimal effort. Works nicely enough.
I 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.
It does start with the Voodoo, so I got what I came for.
It'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.
These GPUs have made DLSS and frame generation usable technologies, getting you reasonable 4k gaming on a budget.
It’s not perfect yet, but almost all new games support it and despite the widespread complaints, very few people actually disable these features.
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Dystopian future where AI pumps out slop and uses human feedback and comments to correct the output.
Isn’t this a bit like spell-checking a Nigerian Prince email? The valuable eyeballs are the ones that don’t notice or don’t care.