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Re: Every GPU That Mattered

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Post by ldng » Wed, Apr 08, 2026, 8:13 PM UTC

tharkun__ wrote: post #204

specproc wrote: post #170

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It does start with the Voodoo, so I got what I came for.

They do which is fine. 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…

Indeed. It was, sadly, more important than popular. Which, to my eyes, comfort the generated content theory.

Re: Every GPU That Mattered

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Post by polyterative » Thu, Apr 09, 2026, 10:02 AM UTC

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.

my 5700xt is still in use, has some instability after it repaid itself with mining but I love this card. newer cards are overpriced anyway

Re: Every GPU That Mattered

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Post by bnolsen » Thu, Apr 09, 2026, 11:32 AM UTC

The radeon 8500 deserves to be on that list. It still has active Linux support under mesa.

Re: Every GPU That Mattered

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Post by jondwillis » Thu, Apr 09, 2026, 4:54 PM UTC

akashwadhwani35 wrote: post #157

andai wrote: post #130

There'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

Congrats on the successful advert

Re: Every GPU That Mattered

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Post by rasz » Thu, Apr 09, 2026, 11:59 PM UTC

RantyDave wrote: post #178

The Nvidia NV1 mattered even if it was a misstep. I'd say Voodoo 3 mattered because it killed 3dfx. And the Matrox Parhelia mattered for much the same reason.

Voodoo 3 didnt kill 3dfx, it released month after TNT2 and offered better performance/price ratio. What killed 3dfx was Nvidias relentless release cycle with GF256 just 8 months later.

Re: Every GPU That Mattered

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Post by rasz » Fri, Apr 10, 2026, 12:05 AM UTC

jbverschoor wrote: post #155

S3 Trio, Matrix Millennium

>S3 Trio

no 3d

>Matrix Millennium

no hardware texture mapping

Re: Every GPU That Mattered

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Post by uncivilized » Mon, Apr 20, 2026, 11:57 PM UTC

kllrnohj wrote: post #192

uncivilized wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The MX440 allowed players that were playing games on id Tech 3 to finally play at high frame rates. I remember this card being all the rage back then in pro gaming circles for this reason.

The MX440 was an entry level budget card? If it was all the rage in pro gaming circles at the time that's really just a reflection of how poor pro gamers were back then rather than anything to do with the MX440 being particularly noteworthy. In fact looking back at old reviews, it was if anything a flop. Launch MSRP was too expensive for the performance it offered. Especially when it was a DX7 card surrounded by DX8…

Sorry I meant the Ti 4400.