Do you remember all your old GPUs?
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My first PC that I built in 1995, had a 3dfx Voodoo card. I don't remember anything about it, but it was around $150 and could play Need for Speed.
Then... it gets hazy. I know I upgraded once or twice in the 2000-2010 timeframe.
Then, 2010/11ish... got an HD6850.
Then I bought another used one on ebay for Crossfire!!!
A couple years later I got a HD7850, which worked without any crossfire scaling issues. That card by itself was generally equal to 2 crossfire 6850s with good scaling, and in games that didn't scale it was much better.
I remember enjoying eyefinity Witcher 2 and Skyrim on the 7850.
The 7850 lasted a good 10+ years (not into much gaming).
At the beginning of the pandeming I was stuck at home and needed an upgrade. A Nvidia GTX970 with my 4790K found on ebay for $200 (lol) was good to play modern games like Apex.
When GPU prices came down to earth in 2023(?) I upgraded to a "real" modern GPU. An rx6800xt.
Late 2023, there was a Cyber Monday $780 deal on a 7900xtx, which I still have.
It amazing how in the old days, those cheap GPUS would last 5-10 years. It seems like there were large periods of time where games weren't pushing the envelope and could run on old hardware. We were at 1080p, and prior to that, I think in the 90s it was 800x600 or some primitive resolution. And it looked brilliant!
Biduleman@reddit
Matrox G400 GeForce 7800 GT GeForce GTX 460 Radeon R9 280 GeForce GTX 1070 GeForce RTX 3080 GeForce RTX 3080 TI (free upgrade, the 3080 was not locked for mining so I traded it to a miner who had the locked 3080 TI for like 5 days)
shadowlid@reddit
Damn it I should have done this with my 3080......didnt occur to me
shadowlid@reddit
Yep
GeForce Mx 440
Geforce FX5200
Geforce FX6200 (used my birthday money thought it would be a great upgrade for BF2 thought 6 better than 5 could have gotten way better performance for my money)
Geforce 6800 Ultra (dads old card given to me)
Geforce 9500 GT
ATI 5830
NVIDIA 560TI 2gb
AMD/ATI 7970
Nvidia GTX 970
Nvidia GTX 1080
Nvidia RTX 3080
AMD 9070XT
P.S. Currently have a 3060ti and Intel Arc A770 in my backup build and living room builds but they are not my primary build so didn't include them in the list.
Terakahn@reddit
Gts 250, 980 ti, 3070. I haven't had very many. I had some Radeon before the gts but I can't remember what it was. I didn't buy it.
asianfatboy@reddit
Earliest I can remember was an Inno3D GeForce FX5200? One of the lower end FX5000 series for sure. This was a time when I had no idea about building PCs, I just go to a PC store to get things fixed. Then next I'm not so sure, HIS or Sparkle ATI HD 5000 or 6000 card, also lower end but idk which series/generation haha. Maybe I had both an HD5000 then an HD6000. It was this time that I decided to get into PCs so I can troubleshoot them on my own as I had a bad experience with a repair service from a store around this time. Next was a Palit GTX650, can never forget that cyborg frog mascot they had on the box. I was brewing my PC build around this time and had a pretty cool case the CoolerMaster Scout 2.
My most favorite lookswise and something I shouldn't have sold so I can make it a collectible; Sapphire Toxic R9 270X. First ever triple fan card. Probably the most excited I've been when going to the store and buying it. Sad that Sapphire's last Toxic card was from the RX 6000 series. The Nitro line is nice but the Toxic has such a presence just from appearance.
Next was a Sapphire Nitro R9 380 4GB. Served me well. I had a cube shaped case at this time; a Tecware Quad. Then a 2nd hand PowerColor RX 570 Red Devil which had a bricked OC BIOS and only the Silent BIOS was working. I put it in a CoolerMaster NR400.
Next was one of the best upgrade; Sapphire Nitro+ 5700XT 8GB. What a trooper, almost 6 years of use, I think. Also probably something I should've just kept as a collectible. In my later years of owning that card, I got a LianLi O11 Air Mini white case. I recently upgraded to an Asrock Steel Legend RX 9060 XT 16GB. Was planning to get a 9070XT but realized it's pretty overkill as I don't really play any of the GPU intensive games right now. The price difference in my country is also quite a jump. It pairs nicely with my white case. Planning to get that vertical gpu mount to really showcase the shroud on the steel legend.
Forsaken-Driver8868@reddit
Those Toxic cards have always looked great!!
Muckymuh@reddit
Not all, but some of them.
First PC in \~ 2005? No clue. I played NFS Underground and MW on it and don't remember it lagging. So I assume the GPU was good enough for these games. Best guess, maybe a GeForce 2 or 3.
Laptop from 2010 - 2016: Gtx 620m. Could play jackshit on it, but that didn't stop me from running all Sims 3 expansion packs on it.
Pc from 2016 til 2020: GTX 1060. I wanted to upgrade in 2020, but that PC didn't have a side panel so I sold it off.
PC from 2020 til now: RTX 3080 10 GB. System is still doing pretty ok so far, but nevertheless I am thinking of maybe upgrading in 2026.
Forsaken-Driver8868@reddit
Hope you get that upgrade you deserve!
Friendly-Voice-5090@reddit
I remember having a dual slot mobo that took both pci and agp cards. Future proofing, sales marketing said. I installed an agp card, but I can't recall which one though
URA_CJ@reddit
In order from what I recall
Forsaken-Driver8868@reddit
Had several of those all-in-blunders too.
gen_angry@reddit
1050 Ti to an AIW X1900 upgrade path? heh
URA_CJ@reddit
Forked path, both are different computers - the 1050 ti is a laptop and the AIW X1900 is a desktop running XP that I leverage as a analog AV to HDMI path for my retro consoles.
handymanshandle@reddit
Absolutely jealous of the All-in-Wonders. I have a couple lying around, including an AGP X1600, but I would absolutely kill for a X1900 AiW.
gen_angry@reddit
It's too bad that AMD didn't continue on with it. Their image quality was crazy good.
Hell, the x850 Pro that I still have has VIVO.
handymanshandle@reddit
Yeah, it's a shame that the All-in-Wonder line went away, but at the same time, I think its necessity within the Radeon lineup was waning rather heavily as digital video capturing and outputs became far more widespread, alongside the rise of video streaming over using cable or a TV tuner. I was surprised to learn about the TeraScale AiW card they did (I forget what it's called), although that was at the tail end of Component video being a primary way to send a HD video signal to a TV.
Merjia@reddit
Sure do!
In order!
GeForce 3
GeForce 5200 FX (I know)
ATI Radeon 9600XT
GeForce 6600GT
GeForce 7800GS (My last AGP card)
GeForce 8600 GT
GeForce 9600 GT
GeForce GTS 250 x2 in SLI
GeForce GTX 660
GeForce GTX 970
RTX 2060
RTX 3080
And now my Radeon RX 9070 XT.
-t-h-e---g-@reddit
Sure do! In order! GeForce 8400gs GTX 750ti.
Forsaken-Driver8868@reddit
Message me for an upgrade. Admire your stretching dollar and getting the mileage out of those cards!
RivenYeet@reddit
660
1060 6gb
2070S
3070 ti
5080.
First PC I bought in 2015 with 660 and core 2 quad 8400.
TsnSettings@reddit
That's a 2009 CPU isn't it and I assume you bought a used PC in 2015 with it?
RivenYeet@reddit
Hell yeah I did, for 50€, my keyboard cost more than the PC. Climbed to diamond in league of legends with that monstrosity, had under 30 fps at some points in the game, got i5-8600k in 2018 and told myself never again on bad HW.
Forsaken-Driver8868@reddit
-Hercules Graphics Card, in a 286 clone. Played Populous -seven to nine graphics cards between 1996 and 2012 -Two GTX 680(s) in SLI (Arctic liquid cooled modded) -Two GTX 780(s) in SLI -Two Titan Blacks in SLI (EVGA liquid cooled modded) -Alienware laptop mobile GTX 980 -Two GTX 980(s) in SLI -GTX 1080 -RTX 2070 Super -RTX 3080 -RTX 3080 (Gigabyte, liquid cooled) -Lenovo laptop mobile RTX 4090 -Lenovo Legion Go AMD Z1E -HP laptop mobile AMD 780m -RTX 4090 -ASUS ROG Ally X AMD Z1E
diegoaccord@reddit
GT 210 in 2011 to play PC version of Fallout
That (as well as everything else) was stolen the week that Skyrim came out I took a PC hiatus until 2019
Then:
2070 Super (sold before 3080 launch like an idiot)
570 8G (placeholder, broke after 2 days brand new)
5700 XT (replacement placeholder, got 3080 and returned)
3080 (Oct 2020 for Cyberpunk preparation)
3080 Ti (wanted the extra VRAM but the 3080 and Ti performance was too close to 3090 to justify full 3090)
6900 XT (they went on sale cheap ran in same PC alongside 3080 Ti, just because I could, no they didn't run concurrent)
4090 Black Strix (on launch day, built a white PC, sold for what I paid)
4090 White Strix (bought when it released because my 4090 build was white, sold for MSRP as well right before 5090 came out)
5090 FE (Launch day, paid LESS than the 4090 White Strix I sold)
ExoMonk@reddit
Let's see
GTX 580 GTX 660 ti R9 290x 1070 1080ti 3080 7900XTX 4080 4080 Super
There were others I bought but they were for my wife's/kids machines
GTX 760 GTX 970 RX 6800 4070 ti super
Then I also have a couple cards I bought for my server
RX570 but turns out I couldn't use it for Plex transcoding ARC A380 which I can use for Plex transcoding
Master_Cartoonist_16@reddit
Yes, 1989 before 3D acceleration video cards came to life, there was Trident video cards in store for VGA Monitor when my parents bought me my first PC Clone, there was an option of 256kb o 512kb ISA video cards that were really small and didn't even require a fan to work. Had video card w/ generic S3 Virge which was the cheapest 3D Video Card that wasn't a real 3D one, had 3Dfx Voodoo original one(first one) in 1996, also had a Rendition Verite and All in Wonder and 3D Rage ATI video cards. Also, had an Intel 740 Video card that was cheap but a totally fiasco. When Nvidia released their second video card Riva 128, then Riva TNT and Rive TNT2, it was game over for 3DFX, not only was faster, it was cheaper and only used one single AGP slot. Riva TNT video cards were sold under several manufacturers like hot cakes and quickly became the standard for the PC Gaming industry, only ATI could compete but always one or two steps behind. I remember Matrox Video Cards(Mystique), some friends bought it and it was a total fiasco for PC Gaming.
sob727@reddit
S3 and Trident I remember.
Then Matrox.
And then, modern times.
Jyvturkey@reddit
I had that Matrox millennium!
Rude-Bus-5799@reddit
Same had an AMD 133 with a Trident / S3 Virge mid 90’s
ngshafer@reddit
lol. No, I really don’t.
bitesized314@reddit
Asus GTX 570 DUII triple slot monster
Asus 770
RX 580
Gigabyte RX 5700 XT
EVGA RTX 3080 FTW3 Ultra
Asus Prime 9070 XT
soupflakes@reddit
-Gtx 610 -Gtx 770 -Rx6600 -Rtx5090
Slight upgrades from each other if you notice.
Team red has great cpus but I wanted a good gpu (and apparently lose 2 fucking k)
ConsistentPound3079@reddit
I got my first gaming desktop in 2012 at 12 years old. Had a gtx 660ti then I bought myself a 970 in 2015 to play the witcher 3 and now I'm rocking a 7800xt.
Ravere@reddit
ATI Xpert@play (ATI 3D RAGE PRO) (Video Card not a GPU as it lacked Hardware T&L) It could kind of run GLQuake - almost.
GeForce 256 SDR
GeForce Ti 4400
GeForce 8800GTS
GeForce GTX 560Ti
GeForce GTX 970
GeForce GTX 1080Ti
GeForce RTX 4080
Might go for a AMD card for my next update, we will see how things shake out.
723yimmj@reddit
Intel APU GTX560 GTX1060 RX5700 RTX5090
voidpo1nter@reddit
Yup!
TNT2 Geforce 2 Geforce 4 Ti4200 64MB Radeon 9500 pro -> 9800pro (soft mod) Geforce 6800GT Geforce GTS250 Radeon 6850 Radeon 7850 Radeon RX480 Radeon RX580 GTX1070 Radeon 6800XT Radeon 9070XT
AV1978@reddit
I still have every single pc I have ever used and they all work. I love retro stuff. I even have a gpu wall
West_Emu_5386@reddit
Ati Rage 128 Ati Radeon 9000 Nvidia GT6600 Ati Radeon X1950XT NVIDIA 760 GTX NVIDIA 3070 RTX
MagnumDoberman@reddit
-GeForce 7200GS GeForce 8800GTS 640mb (used, lived 3 months) -Radeon 4830 512mb (used, died in like 3 days. Might even have been a baked card lol) -Radeon 5750 1gb (I had like two of these lol) -GeForce GTX 1070 (first card bought with adult money) -GeForce RTX 3070 (current gpu)
Ariwite76@reddit
Quake 2 rocket jumps on top of buildings via 56k modem. Sit down child. 😂
Package_Objective@reddit
Radeon HD 7950 3gb
Sapphire rx 480 8gb (best budget card ever released since I've beet into PC gaming if you ask me)
FE Gtx 1080, bought during covid/gpu shortage used locally for a good price at the time.
Pny Rx 3080 10gb bought in 2022 for $400 (crazy deal at the time) from a miner, I repasted and repadded it. Been holding up great at 3440x1440p but VRAM is becoming an issue
Next card will definitely be AMD.
wavemelon@reddit
Riva 128 Riva Riva tnt Riva tnt 2 GeForce 2 mx Geforce 5950 Geforce 8600m gt Gtx745 Gt 1030
Bernoulli86@reddit
Voodoo 1 (?) Voodoo 3 2000 (?) GeForce 2 mx 200 (?) Radeon HD 4850 (2007,?) GeForce GTX 770 (2014, Gainward) GeForce GTX 1070 (2016, evga ftw) GeForce GTX 4080 (2024, MSI ventus)
w00tabaga@reddit
Rocked a 4850 for a long time until it died. Lots of memories on that card
Alwares@reddit
That card was great, I used for like 7 years at least.
No-Safety-2719@reddit
Had a 4870 that lasted 6 years, got replaced with a rx270 that is still running 👍
w00tabaga@reddit
Do you mean a R9 270x? Because I’m pretty sure that’s what I replaced mine with too
No-Safety-2719@reddit
Yep, I meant a R9 270x. I didn't really do much gaming on it as I got a PS4 a year or so after I got it. Only got back into PC building last year, which apparently was a good time - demand was down because mining was out and before AI and DC inflated prices again this year
Gold-Mikeboy@reddit
your list covers a lot of ground. The Voodoo cards werea game changer back in the day, and it’s crazy to see how the tech evolved to where we are now with the 4080...
ColKrismiss@reddit
Some big jumps in there!
ShinyJaker@reddit
R9 270x > RX 580 > 6900XT
CrazyBulbasaur@reddit
Technically my first computer was the family laptop an HP Compaq which I have no idea of its specs
My first desktop (2012) was a pre built dell, it had an HD 6450, I managed to play AC 3 on that thing
At some point I got a gt 1030 for that Dell to make it usable for some gaming
Then I built my first PC (2018), it had a GTX 1060, I was so proud
I upgrade the 1060 to a 3060 ti (2023)
And recently built a whole new AM5 rig with a 5070 ti
TLDR:
HD 6450 Gt 1030 Gtx 1060 Rtx 3060 ti Rtx 5070 ti
AsheAsheBaby@reddit
Apart from all the iGPUs I had:
XFX 5770 XFX 7870 GHz MSI GTX 970 XFX 6800
The first two I bought myself. They were brilliant. Never had an issue.
The 970, my mate moved away and gave me it for free. Absolutely class card. If it wasn’t for the 10 series, I think the 9 series would be looked on more fondly.
The 6800 is my first second hand card (I got drunk and participated in an eBay war lmao ). So far so good, it’s the XFX QICK I think. Cooler is class. Only been using it around 4 months so we’ll see how that goes.
Axyliis@reddit
Only started back in 2015 since I’m a youngling. 1060 6Gb card died in 2018 5700XT as a Christmas gift RTX 2080 RTX 3080 9070 XT.
The 1060 is the only card I’ve bought new every other card I’ve bought off marketplace for under $500 maybe with some trades in there as well
JZMoose@reddit
2500K with dual 7850s was my starter Eventually got an R390
Then after a long while a 5700 that I got for $320 and sold for $750 (thanks Crypto!)
Eventually I got an amazing promotion at work and decided to get nicer gear and justified small jumps over time going from a 3060 Ti -> 3080 -> 3080 Ti -> 4080S -> 5080 in about 2.5 years lol
Monotask_Servitor@reddit
I’ll give this a go:
Matrox Mystique 3DFX Voodoo 1 Nvidia TNT2 NVidia GeForce 2 MX ATI Radeon 9700Pro NVidia GeForce 8800GTS 320MB NVidia GeForce 8800GTS 320MB SLI (added a second card to the first) ATI Radeon R9 380 (also added a second card and ran crossfire) NVidia GeForce 1070 AMD Radeon 6700 10GB
Lereas@reddit
GeForce 250(I think)
GeForce 470
Radeon 5... something?
GeForce 760
GeForce 1080ti (still in old PC)
GeForce 3070ti in current machine
Prawnjoe@reddit
I'm sure I remember having the Geforce 256. That was a while ago and a lot of brain cells have died since then.
Insecure_Captain@reddit
well I am relatively young but I remember all my gpus. first I used a HD 7870, then a gtx 1660, then a 3060 ti, and now I sold that and bought an rx 5700 cause I rarely ever play anymore. the hd 7870 I gave away to a dear friend of mine, it still holds up relatively well! even for games.
EffectiveAlarming875@reddit
2x 7600GT. in SLI. Sound
TsnSettings@reddit
This is my GPU lineup from the first one I purchased.
ATI Radeon x800 Pro
ATI Radeon HD 4650
AMD Radeon HD 6850
Geforce GTX 970
Geforce GTX 1070
Geforce RTX 3070
Geforce RTX 5080 - purchased a few months ago.
godshuVR@reddit
Sure do!
BigBadBaz2501@reddit
1997, an ATI 3D Rage Pro with a S-VHS video output so I could use it with a TV because I couldn't afford a monitor 🤣
kineto21@reddit
Ditto
Canadian_Border_Czar@reddit
ATi is was a Canadian GPU brand that got bought by AMD back when AMD was mediocre at best.
Now if you really want a blast from the past. You used to have to buy a separate PCI-E card for PhysX.
Now its just included on board with the GPU.
jdcope@reddit
Technically, its not included any longer. Nvidia dropped it with the 50 series.
handymanshandle@reddit
Nvidia dropped 32-bit PhysX support from Blackwell; I don't believe they dropped PhysX wholesale with it, though.
Windows_User3000@reddit
64-bit PhysX/CUDA on 50 series cards still works (at least from what I could gather; I don't have a 50 series card), but there is no software utilizing it, as the PhysX 3.0 and later SDKs defaulted to using the CPU, and no game developers chose to use the GPU for these tasks.
beirch@reddit
They dropped 32 bit PhysX support. 64 bit is still supported.
ColKrismiss@reddit
AMD was definitely not "mid" back then. AMD was the most recommended CPU from like 2002 until Intel released the Core 2 Duo in 2006.
EZzO444@reddit
ATI Radeon 64mb
Roman64s@reddit
m0dern_baseBall@reddit
Gtx 1650 super -> b580 That’s as far as it goes
Etsu_Riot@reddit
My first GPU was 8 MB in an old chip. That was around 2007, I think. My first proper GPU was a 256 MB NVIDIA card I used to play Call of Duty 4 and Half-Life 2. It blew up trying to play Mass Effect 2. Never came back to the series until Andromeda. After that I only got AMD: Don't remember the name of the first one but cost me nothing, a fan over a small plate. I use it to play ArmA 2 and 3 and The Phantom Pain. In the middle I got one with a black plate, the AMD R9 290 I think it was, but it burned when tried to use it without reinstalling the drivers. Then I got my loved RX 580 that let me play at 1080 for the first time, but never worked that well as I had to reduce its speed 25% to keep it from turning my PC off. Now I returned to NVIDIA (I decided to forgive them for ruining Mass Effect for me), a 3080. AI is certainly better than with the 580, and works well overall.
threepoundog@reddit
Started with a voodoo 2 but can't for the life of me remember what brand the 2d card was.
Jumped to a voodoo 5 5500 and ps2
Then sold my desktop and bought a laptop with an ati rage 128.
Sold the original laptop and bought the first gen intel MacBook with a super sad igpu and a ps3.
Built a htpc with an i7 4790x and gtx 970
Sold the MacBook and my htpc and bought a msi raider with an 115 watt rtx 2070
6 years later I got a free lenovo m715q with a 2400ge so I've been playing around with that and seeing what I can get it to run at 720p 30 while I ponder building a 9070 or 5060ti based htpc since I miss that form factor.
Infamous_Campaign687@reddit
The last three came in that period at the tail end of Covid where I was lucky enough to find stock at MSRP and was able to sell on and upgrade quickly with a resale price the same as what I bought it for.
Palx112@reddit
Can't remeber first... I want to say rivia TNT?
Radeon 9500
Geforce 4 4400 ti
Geforce 6600 gt x2 in SLI
HD6770 1gb (2012) -this was terrible
960 GTX 4gb (2015?) - lasted a while as I also got a ps4 pro, ps5 for more modern games
1080 GTX 8GB (2025) - got this for £100 2nd hand.. to tide me over for a bit
inabandcalledlife@reddit
unfortunately my first PCs were given to me by my dad, I was too young to know anything about computer parts at the time. my first PC I had built in 2017 had a GTX 1060, the 6GB model.
Rdley@reddit
RX 580 the goat
Mark_Venture@reddit
8bit WD Paradise VGA was my oldest graphics card purchase (wasn't included in the computer)
Diligent_Brother5120@reddit
Just the first and still have it on a shelf, Riva tnt2
relevant_rhino@reddit
Not sure, but certainly remember that AMD r9 280x that made me a couple of thousand bucks in dogecoin / crypto.
jerry_03@reddit
ATI was still around until 2006 when it got bought by amd. Amd kept the brand name ati until 2010.
My list: GeForce FX5200 GeForce 8800GT GeForce GTX 260 GeForce GTX 460 GeForce GTX 1050 GeForce RTX 2060
tmbdp@reddit
EVGA 750ti (I accidentally knocked it on the floor when doing a cpu/motherboard upgrade)
Sapphire Pulse RX 580 8GB
XFX Swift RX9060 XT 16GB
Mr_Salmon_Man@reddit
While not what we would think of when we think GPU, the OCS chipset on the commodore Amigas comes to mind, and we also had an S3 ViRGE card on an old IBM PC clone that had OS/2 warp on it.
Personally, the first video GPU I bought with my own money was a GeForce FX5700. Then I turned to the ATI cards. I started with the X300, followed by the X700, then the X1050, and the X1950. Went to the Hd4890 next, then an HD6970. And I currently use the last ones I bought, an R9 280X and an R9 Fury card.
DOSBrony@reddit
ATI Radeon Mobility 7500 16mb
Intel Extreme Graphics 2
Nvidia 8400 GS 512mb (PNY PCI)
Nvidia GT 520 512mb (Zotac PCI)
AMD Radeon 7770 GHZ edition 1gb (Reference PCI-E)
Nvidia GTX 950 2gb (EVGA)
Nvidia GTX 980 4gb (EVGA)
Nvidia GTX 1080ti 11gb (Asus)
Currently waiting on the 5080 super to come out as my next upgrade
BostonPalmTrees_@reddit
I didn't start pc gaming till 2017 so my list is small lol Started with a GeForce 940MX on my acer laptop in 2017 2019 got my first desktop gaming pc with a MSI ventus 1660 Ti 1660 Ti failed in 2023, bought a used MSI 2070 2025: Bought a gigabyte 9070 xt gaming oc.
F-Cloud@reddit
I compiled this list recently but I'm sure there are a couple of GPUs I've forgotten about. The GeForce GTX570 was the longest lived, it was in use from 2010 to 2023. The most exciting was honestly the 3Dfx Voodoo 3 2000. It was an upgrade to a Compaq PC, way back in my early days of PC gaming, and made a huge difference.
Nvidia Riva 128
ATI Rage Pro 8MB PCI
3Dfx Voodoo 3 2000 PCI
Nvidia Riva TNT2
Nvidia GeForce2 MX
Gainward Nvidia GeForce3 Ti2000 Golden Sample
EVGA Nvidia GeForce GTX275
EVGA Nvidia GeForce GTX570 Superclocked
Sapphire AMD Radeon Pulse RX 580 8GB
Gigabyte AMD RX 5700 XT Gaming OC 8GB
Sappire Nitro+ AMD Radeon 7800 XT 16GB
prspyder@reddit
9400GS
Gtx650ti
7970
290X
970 SLI
TITANX SLI
TITAN XPSW
3090
5070ti
ObjectBilllion@reddit
GT 1030 LP RTX 3050 LP RTX 4080 Super
moffetts9001@reddit
Radeon 7200
Radeon 9500
Radeon 9800
GeForce 5950 Ultra
Radeon X1950 Pro (final AGP card)
GeForce 8800GT
Radeon 7970 (three of them because I was a lunatic)
RTX 3090
cybran3@reddit
thalesjferreira@reddit
Geforce 2 mx 200 Geforce 4200 TI (AMAZING card) Geforce 6800 And now a 3070ti
Minaridev@reddit
Intel HD Graphics (2013)
GTX 960 (2015)
GTX 1050 (2018)
RTX 4060 (Current)
TheReconditioner@reddit
My first was a GTX 760 4GB. It played Battlefield 4 on near ultra 60fps/1080p and I was happy with it. When I got back into gaming, I bought a used pre-built with a GTX 1660 Super, which handled Halo fine, but left a bit to be desired on Battlefield 2042. Bought an RTX 3060 Ti after that.
When I did my platform upgrade recently (7800x3d) I picked up a new Radeon 7700XT for $300 and it works flawlessly. I can see it lasting me at least 2-3 years - maybe more
BowlingPCGamesNStuff@reddit
GTX1050 GTX1070 Ti GTX1080 Ti RTX2080 Ti RTX4070 Ti (Current)
No_Guarantee7841@reddit
Radeon 9200se Radeon 9800 pro Nvidia 6600gt Radeon 5850 Radeon r9 380 Nvidia 1660 super Nvidia 4070
DoomTay@reddit
I know one of my first was an EVGA GTX with a "piston" pattern on the shell. Sometime after that, I think I had a smaller 1060, then a GTX 1660 (which is now sitting in one of my cubbies), and finally a 3060
KillEvilThings@reddit
Integrated shit from 2006, playing Halo 1 and 2 on PC lol, on laptops no less.
540m. Amazing for 720p for the laptop I had at the time, really a game changer that played tons of shit back in 2011. Handled Crysis1 just fine, played crysis 2 at 30 FPS lol. With an i7 2670qm. Still used this laptop until earlier this year. Amazing mainline asus hardware.
960m 2gb - piece of shit and outdated when I got it, okay at 1600x900, shit at 1080p that the laptop came with. Garbage ass ASUS hardware. Had a decent i7 4720hq or whatever I think.
Laptop 2060 (one of THE best mobile GPU gens, they were full die GPUs more or less, 192 bit memory channel), extremely robust and solid. Was part of another garbage ASUS laptop, lol. Came with an AMD 4800h, solid thing, but sadly modern games are so fucking unoptimized it destroys that CPU.
4070 Ti Super, built last year. Honestly, less of a jump than the 960m to the 2060. Playing the same games just a higher FPS, which FEELS nice, but I had already reached the cusp of experiencing AAA and haven't missed much of anything.
Actual RT was such a fucking disappointment lol, I was all "THAT'S what everyone's cumming about?" Couldn't give a shit. Frame Gen is nice, prefer it to smeary ass DLSS as long as native FPS is 50+.
The CPUs honestly have been the most important for me, am now on a 7800x3d. I like having super nice graphics for the principle of it, but having a CPU that can just not give a fuck about a game is really nice and makes for a smooth, consistent game that forces your only limitation as the GPU, especially as games get unnecessarily more CPU dependent the past 5 years.
CursedBlackSwordsman@reddit
EVGA GTX 260 2x EVGA GTX 660sc SLI EVGA 980ti ASUS TUF RTX 3070ti
OwnSentence1319@reddit
In order
geforce 9600 GT
gtx 450
2 gtx 550 ti in sli
gtx 950
gtx 1070 ti cerberus sli
dllyncher@reddit
All cards used in the system I gamed on. -BFG GTX 260 Maxcore 55 (BFGEGTX260MC896OC2DE)
-BFG GTX 275 OC (BFGEGTX275896OCE)
-NVIDIA GTX 560
-EVGA GTX 660 SC Signature 2 (02G-P4-2661-KR)
-EVGA GTX 660 ti FTW Signature 2 (02G-P4-3664-KR)
-MSI GTX 770 Gaming OC (N770TF/2GD5-OC)
-MSI GTX 780 Gaming (N780-TF-3GD5)
-MSI GTX 980 Gaming (GTX-980-GAMING-4G)
-NVIDIA GTX 980 ti [x2]
-NVIDIA GTX 1070 FE
-NVIDIA GTX 1080 FE
-Dell RTX 2080 ti
-Gigabyte RTX 3080 Aorus Xtreme WB Rev. 2.0 (GV-N3080AORUSX WB-10GD)
-Gigabyte RTX 3080 ti Aorus Xtreme WB (GV-N308TAORUSX WB-12GD)
-ASRock RX 9070 XT Taichi OC (RX9070XT-TC-16GO)
-XFX RX 9070 XT Swift (RX-97TSWF3B9)
-XFX RX 9070 XT Swift White (RX-97TSWF3W9)
-PowerColor RX 9070 XT Hellhound Reva (RX9070XT 16G-L/OC/REVA)
SubstantialDrop7073@reddit
2019 1650 (first pc) 2024 3060 ti (second pc) 2025 1060 (nas)
I got started later but I realized we are in the age where you don’t need much .
decloked@reddit
First PC Graphics card was a S3 ViRGE 2MB in 1996.
FeralSparky@reddit
"PCI" GeForce 5200 FX Geforce 8500GT Geforce 9800GTX ATI 5770 Geforce 550TI Geforce GTX 970 Geforce GTX 1070 RTX 3060 TI - current
RemlaP_@reddit
i5 6500 integrated, r9 360, Rx580, Rtx3070, 7900GRE, 7900XTX
frsguy@reddit
I started in 2011 so my lineup isent as crazy as others.
6850 crossfire GTX 680 and then did sli for a bit but went back to single GTX 1080 also did sli for a short bit 5700XT RTX 3080TI 9070XT
I'll probably jump again this next generation with AMD.
PowerPie5000@reddit
"Then... it gets hazy. I know I upgraded once or twice in the 2000-2010 timeframe, but can't remeber the cards. Was there an ATI brand? I don't think they were amd or nvidia"
ATI, Nvidia and AMD were around back then. AMD bought ATI and still use the Radeon name to this day and you also had the earlier ATI Mach and Rage etc. too. The earliest Nvidia graphics card I remember using is the Riva 128 that came out not long after the original 3DFX Voodoo 1, and then you had the Nvidia Riva TNT and then Geforce series. AMD have been around for years when it comes to manufacturing processors (since the 70's I believe).
Let's not forget the rest that include Matrox, S3, Rendition, Videologic, Cirrus, 3Dlabs, Tseng, SiS, Trident, Number Nine and others... Choice and competition was so much better back then!
CrisperThanRain@reddit
GTX 650 GTX 1050 Ti GTX 1080 Ti RTX 3080 Ti RTX 4090 RTX 5090
Kitchen_Part_882@reddit
Most of them.
Generic ISA CGA/Hercules card.
Cirrus Logic VLB card.
Matrox Milennium with a pair of 3dfx Voodoo2's in SLI.
Riva TNT2.
Geforce 2 MX
Geforce 4200Ti
Geforce 5500
Geforce 8800GT x2 (SLI)
Geforce GTX460
Geforce GTX760
Geforce GTX1060
Geforce RTX3060
Radeon 7900XT
CrossShot-x@reddit
I remember all of them except one from a laptop I had for a short time. Most of them are from laptops. I built my first PC in May this year.
2012-2016 - AMD Radeon HD 7310M
Don't remember but it was an Acer Aspire from 2013-2014, with I think some Nvidia MX GPU
2019-2020 - Nvidia GeForce G102M
2021-2025 - GTX 1050 Mobile
06.2025-10.2025 - RX 470 (PC)
10.2025-now - RTX 2060 Super (PC)
Now I'm planning to use my PC with current GPU till it gives up. I'm very satisfied with that GPU, with its performance and I'm glad that I bought it.
27infy@reddit
GT 630 -> RX 560 -> RTX 4070 (current)
TDR-Java@reddit
I think I can’t even name you all the GPUs I currently own and that ain’t that many
buttonmasher525@reddit
I've only had an RX 460, GTX 1060 6GB, and RTX 4090 so pretty easy to remember
m4tic@reddit
Python2k10@reddit
Yep!
XFX R9 290
A 2nd XFX R9 290 (actually had to get those NZXT watercooling brackets for them because come to find out, crossfire generates a LOT of heat)
EVGA 1080ti SC2 (greatest GPU ever created)
EVGA 3080 FTW (the 12gb one!)
PNY 5080
futuretro2@reddit
Not in order and i don't remember the 2-3 ati radeon cards i had or any igpu from my first 2 pc's.
riva tnt 2 riva tnt 2 ultra gtx 480 8800gtx -loved this gpu so much rtx4090 rtx2080ti gtx970 gts250
pretty sure i had a geforce 2 mx400 but really not sure.
_gabber_@reddit
Not all of them, but most of them.
S3 Savage3D (PCI model, i think)
Geforce2 MX400 16mb (asus, brown pcb, bought from a friend who upgraded to 32MB)
Geforce4 Ti 4200 64mb (abit model, blue pcb with silver heatsink)
Ati Radeon 9500 64mb (just like this one)
[there is a gap here. I don't remember exactly what GPU i had. I know it was a Radeon X-something, with AGP. X800 or X1800.]
Radeon HD 4850 - this fuckin thing. Gigabyte, entirely passively cooled. Always overheated so I had to ziptie fans to it.
GTX 660 - not very memorable, so i guess it was fine?
GTX 970 - two EVGAs, first one was RMA'd because it couldn't keep the stock clocks stable causing blue screens. Second one was sold because of the unbearable coil whine (RMA denied), third 970 was an Asus DirectCU model which was famous for having 980 PCB and better VRM.
GTX980 - got this from the used market at a very good price. (yes, I had a four 900-series cards.)
GTX 1070 - MSI Gaming X - one of the quietest and coolest cards ever, amazing card
RTX 2080 - another Gaming X - this one was impossible to cool below 80C so I sold it when 30-series came out
RTX 3070 - loved it, cool, quiet, used it for 3 years, crippled by 8GB Vram unfortunately - sold it to a friend who still uses it for MMOs
RTX 3080Ti - got this one used for a very good deal from a miner who accidentally bought an LHR version, yet the crippling regret of not buying a 4080 Super here instead will haunt me for years.
RTX 5070Ti - current.
psimwork@reddit
Diamond Viper VLB (Weitek WG9000 2MB)
Diamond Speedstar Pro
Matrox Mystique
OEM Brand Voodoo Banshee
STB Velocity 128 (Nvidia Riva 128) + Creative Labs Voodoo 2
Creative Labs GeForce 2 GTS
OEM GeForce 3
OEM GeForce 4 Ti 4600
MSI GeForce FX 5900XT
PowerColor Radeon 9800 All-In-Wonder Pro
BFG GeForce 6800GT
BFG GeForce 6800 Ultra
PowerColor Radeon X1900XT
OEM Brand GeForce 8800GT
Palit GeForce GTX 260 Core 216
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 460
EVGA GeForce GTX 560 Ti
EVGA GeForce GTX 770
EVGA GeForce GTX 1080
EVGA GeForce GTX 3070 (had it for about a month before I found a 3080 at MSRP so I sold it)
EVGA GeForce GTX 3080
PNY GeForce RTX 4070 Ti (Had it installed for like 3 days before I decided to save some money and return it)
MSI GeForce RTX 4070
Gigabyte GeForce RTX 5070 Ti
----fatal----@reddit
Matrox Millenium G400
ATi Radeon 9200
Gainward 7600gs
Sapphire HD2600XT
Sapphire HD3870
Sapphire HD4850
Sapphire HD7770
Sapphire R9 270X
MSI GTX 1060 6G OC
Gigabyte RX5700XT
MSI Suprim RTX 3080
Gainward Phantom GSRTX 4090
Before the matrox card I don't remember.
DanielPlainview943@reddit
What drives me crazy is I cannot remember the specific model of my first GPU. It was a AMD and I am pretty sure it was the Rage 128. I bought it in 2001 or maybe 2002. I remember every spec of the PC except which specific GPU it was !!!
No_Mathematician3158@reddit
I bought a 970 windforce edition card as my first gpu Tried putting it in a prebuilt out of all things.
Didn't work ended building new and reusing my cpu i tought that was the shit
driftw00d@reddit
ATI Radeon 9800 (AGP)
Nvidia GeForce 6600 (PCI-E)
Nvidia GeForce 8800gt
Nvidia GTX 1070
Nvidia RTX 2080
Nvidia RTX 5070ti
Silound@reddit
I don't remember the full line, but I recall a few highlights for various reasons:
Ironically, since 2005 I think I've only had 4 different CPU builds - the GPU is what keeps getting upgraded more than anything: i7-940, i7-7700, i7-10700, 9800 X3D.
MegaBytesMe@reddit
I'm not as old as many people here however: Radeon R9 270X (lasted 2 years before failing)
Radeon RX580 (lasted a month, began artifacting so I returned it)
GTX 1070 (still works to this day)
RTX 2080 (still works to this day)
RTX 3090Ti (current)
This is ignoring the iGPUs etc...
debirdiev@reddit
Yeah! First one back in 2014 was the GTX 750ti. Had that all of high school and kinda fell out of pcs/pc gaming for a while with my ps4. Then went to college 10 years ago and started rebuilding with upgraded parts and went with a GTX 1650. Had that a couple years until I switched to team red with the 6600 a few years ago. Year layer I wanted to play much better games and step into the higher end for the first time in my life and ended up with a 7800XT that I'm still rocking and probably will for a few more years.
As I look back, it hasn't been all that much and those low end cards really proved useful for over a decade... I'm impressed lol
raduque@reddit
Voodoo2 was actually my first card. Had two in SLI.
Then I bought a new PC that had a Riva TNT I believe integrated. Back when motherboards had the GPUs Integrated.
I put a GeForce 256 in, then a GeForce 3. I had a Voodoo Banshee at some point in there too.
Then a GeForce 4. A Radeon 9700 flashed to Pro. nVidia 7800 agp. Radeon hd 3450. GeForce GTX 460 gc 768. GTX 860m, GTX 970m. Radeon rx 580 4gb. Rtx 2080 8gb and currently an rtx 5060 ti 16gb.
There was also a few GeForce 2 and 4 MXs in there.
Ouryus@reddit
My first computer had a Nvidia GeForce2 MX 400 in it and I always feel like I chase those days because it was my "introduction to pc gaming".
I was still a kid and loved coming home after school playing games. I miss those days.
doa70@reddit
I remember specifically using a Matrix Millennium II in one of my first builds. It was around the same time, 95 or 96, and used a Pentium Pro with 64MB of memory and a 4GB SCSI disk. That was my OS/2 build and later became my first Linux box. Full tower, and an absolute beast.
fallenpenguin@reddit
Sure:
The 3060Ti is my current card and the Radeon HD 7850 is still chugging along in my father's office computer.
Specific_Frame8537@reddit
I don't remember the model, but my first (or rather my fathers) was an Nvidia with a fairy on it, it came with a benchmark program of a fairy sitting in a tree.
Tobias---Funke@reddit
Yeah!
I’ve only had 3 !!
nicholsml@reddit
First graphics card I purchased, rather than being in a system I had already or family machine... Riva TNT2!
alex24buc@reddit
My GPUs in 25 years from getting my first pc: 1. Nvidia riva TNT2 2. Nvidia GeForce 3 Ti 3. Nvidia GeForce 4 Mx (still having it now) 4. Nvidia Geforce FX 5200 5. Nvidia GeForce 6700 6. Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 7: Nvidia GeForce GTX 580 8. Nvidia GeForce GTX 980Ti 9. Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 10. Nvidia Geforce GTX 1080Ti 11. Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080Ti 12. Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 13. Nvidia Geforce RTX 3090Ti 14. Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 15. Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 Astral (february-present)
thestillwind@reddit
All the top of the line.
alex24buc@reddit
Thabks, I always wanted to have the best GPU for gaming.
LazarX@reddit
My first GPU was the Agnes chip on my Amiga 2000.
DisNiggNogg@reddit
Radeon HD6990 MSI GTX 970 OC MSI GTX 960(included in one pc I bought, not used) ASUS ROG Strix 1060 6GB oc EVGA FTW3 GTX 1070 which I just retired this week. And my new workhorse MSI 507TI gaming trio
ImBadWithGrils@reddit
960
1080Ti (just retired it after 8 years)
9070XT
TehEv0@reddit
2004: ATI Radeon 9600XT - The 256MB version. 2007: NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT, then second for SLi 2010: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 2012: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 2014: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 2017: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 2022: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
All the cards used in my own personal rigs since I started building my own PCs back in 2004.
I've owned a few Radeon cards during that time also, RX 580 for a test bench. I bought a dead HD 5970 from a friend to help him out after it gave up the ghost, but also because I lived the design and it's like a museum piece now, along side a EVGA 1080 Ti I have too.
I have some old ATI Rage cards too, but those are kept stored away to help preserve them as having kids means little grabby fingers.
shark1987@reddit
3DFX Voodoo 3 PCI (I think) ATI Radeon 9600XT NVIDIA GeForce 6800GT AMD Radeon HD 6870 AMD Radeon R9 290x NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 FE NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 FE
Nightzey@reddit
GTX 770 GTX 1070 RTX 4090
alvarkresh@reddit
Mostly!
Western Digital 90C33 (VLB) S3 (VLB) S3 Trio64 (PCI) S3 Virge (PCI) Riva TNT2 (AGP) ATI Radeon 9600 (AGP) ATI Radeon 9700 (PCI-E) i815E integrated i740 (PCI-E) Geforce 2 Geforce 4 MX400 Geforce 3 Ti200 Geforce 4 Ti 4200 Geforce 7600GT Geforce 8600GTS ATI Radeon HD4870 ATI Radeon HD4890 AMD Radeon HD6950 AMD Radeon HD7950 GTX 1060 RTX 2060 Intel Arc A770 RTX 4070 Super (current)
ollsss@reddit
Mostly. I started out with a Voodoo 2 around 1998, then a Geforce 2 GTS in 2001. Got a hand me down Geforce 3 from my brother a little while later. After this I don't remember, but it's possible that I got some hand me down AMD card(s) during this time. I do remember getting a laptop around 2008 with an Geforce 8600 inside. Then a Geforce 660, a hand me down 680, then a 970, 3070 and now a 5070ti.
vaibhavdeveloper@reddit
FX 5300 GT 9400 GTX 650 GTX 1660Super RTX 3070 RTX 5070 TI
AmazingKreiderman@reddit
I can remember all of my self builds. I did have one Dell pre-built which was one of my first big purchases ever, and obviously that had some garbage in it. Other than that:
Radeon HD 7950
GeForce 780ti
GeForce 1660 Super
GeForce 3060ti
And as of just this Tuesday GeForce 5070ti
Decent_Variety5890@reddit
S3 Trio Voodoo 2 GeForce mx 440 GeForce Ti 4200 Dont remember Ati Radeon ??? 1gb GeForce gtx 960 GeForce rtx 3060
Puzzleheaded_Ad9930@reddit
GeForce FX 5200 Geforce GTX 560 Ti Geforce GTX 970 RX 5700 XT RX 9070 XT 😁
Darhkwing@reddit
3dfx voodo in 1995? sounds way too early. pretty sure it was late 96 or 97 the first one came out. I didn't get one till i built my pc in late 90s, i wanted to emulate n64 with it! And even then it wasn't great so stuck with my n64.
thestillwind@reddit
roberrrrrrt@reddit
No, never had a gaming pc. Just integrated graphics. My son started gaming in 2020. He had GTX 970 -> GTX 1080ti -> RX 9070 XT coming this Christmas.
5uspect@reddit
GeForce 4 MX420 6600GT (AGP bridge chip) 7600GT (cos I OCed the former to death) GTX275 GTX570 GTX760 GTX970 GTX1070 RTX 2080 Super RTX 5070ti
welliamwallace@reddit
I'll never forget my Radeon 5850 on which I mined my first Bitcoin
Holy_goosebag@reddit
Absolutely. Intel GMA 950 on my Moms Thinkpad Z61m back in the day My dads AMD Firepro D500 in his Mac Pro 2013 (Two actually) that I used to share with him Geforce 940MX (Moms new laptop, used it for a good 4 years) GTX 1650 Low Profile RTX 2060 RTX 2060 Super RX 5700XT RTX 3070 RX 6800 WX 5100 Quadro P1000 GTX 1660Ti (Current)
A lot of desktop graphics cards cause after getting my own pc with a x16 PCIe a lot I loved playing around with different cards
goodnames679@reddit
Not from before I started building PCs, but my order went:
Radeon 7970
Fury X
1660 Super (which was supposed to be a placeholder while the GPU market "normalized")
5700 XT (which immediately imploded)
RTX 2070
7800 XT
Drago125877@reddit
I rember playing : metin 2 on 5 fps
NFS MW on 10 fps
GTA SA on 10 fps
Crysis on 10 fps :D and i tried to put it on ultra to see the graphics :D .. i had 0.01 fps.. like the one frame changed like every 5 seconds :D .. so i had plenty of time to enjoy the beauty :D .i think it was HD 6470M and the laptop burned the hole inside my plastic table :D
soljakid@reddit
GTX 960
GTX 980Ti
GTX 1060 6GB
GTX 1080
RTX 3060Ti
RX 9070
I clearly go for the entry level GPU's before moving on to more powerful GPU's when finances allow. With almost each new GPU I've been blown away by the performance, the only card that I didn't enjoy as much was the 1060 6GB, but I had it paired with a i5 4460 so it might not have been totally the GPU's fault.
I upgraded to the 9070 last week, and it's honestly been a wild experience, Steel nomad benchmark went from 2515 with the 3060Ti to 6444 with the RX 9070, and I can finally play games like Indiana Jones without using mods to 'optimise' it. BF6 gets over 150 fps on overkill at 1440p but I set it to ultra for more consistent framerates where the 3060Ti would often drop to below 60 on lowest settings.
Only real issue is AMD's software and overlay sometimes get's flagged by anti cheat, not sure whats going on there.
Gwynku1993@reddit
Gtx 660ti Gtx 1080 Rtx 4070ti
Twsmit@reddit
I remember. My favorites were my Voodoo 3 which unlocked 3D acceleration for the first time and my 7800 GTX because it made BF2 run really well which I was really into at the time.
Voodoo 3 3000 GeForce 2 Ultra GeForce 4 Ti4400 Radeon 9800 Pro GeForce 6600 GT GeForce 7800 GTX GeForce 9600 GT Radeon HD 4890 Crossfire Radeon HD 6950 GeForce GTX 680 Radeon RX 480 Radeon RX Vega 64 Radeon RX 7800XT Radeon RX 9070XT
mahnatazis@reddit
I didn't have too many over the years so the only one I don't remember was the first one. It was some ATI card with 128mb VRAM then many years later, I got an R7 250 1GB GDDR5 and at the moment I use a GTX 1050 2GB GDDR5.
moullas@reddit
Technically the GPU moniker came into play with the Geforce line.
We called them graphics cards before that.
TNT TNT2 Geforce MX400 Radeon 9800 Geforce GT570 Geforce 8800GT GtX1800
I’’m probably having the order wrong, now looking for my next upgrade…
MWink64@reddit
Congrats, you're the first person I've seen mention this in this thread. At the time, the term GPU was generally reserved for cards that supported hardware T&L.
streakermaximus@reddit
I remember the last couple ...
1050
2060
5070 (current)
neezaruuu@reddit
GT 210 GT 630M RX 550 Vega 7 iGPU RX 570 RX 580 RX 6600XT RX 7800XT
THe_PrO3@reddit
Yep. GTX 760 > GTX 1070 > GTX 1070 ti (free from my sisters boyfriend) > RTX 2070 SUPER > RTX 5070 ti
dorting@reddit
Not all, my first PC, a familily PC was a P3 but don't know the GPU, then another Prebuilt with a really cheap Nvidia GPU, my first actual PC that I Built by myself had HD3850. Then HD4830-->RX280-->RX 570-->RX 9070 now, maybe I'm missing something
Flutterpiewow@reddit
Canopus pure3d 6mb
Azuras-Becky@reddit
I believe I've had:
Voodoo 3 3000 GeForce 2 MX400 GeForce 4 Ti 4200 Geforce 6800 Ultra (That last PC died in 2008, I then switched to consoles for a few years) Geforce RTX 3070
LGWalkway@reddit
R9 280x -> gtx 1650 super -> RTX 3070.
wombat1@reddit
Absolutely, I remember fondly the day I got to build my 2011 PC and finally be able to play Crysis and GTA IV at a resolution greater than 800 x 600.
My list is: Matrox MGA Millenium (1997) GeForce 2 MX 200 (2002) GeForce 8500 GT (2007) Radeon HD 6850 (2011) GeForce GTX 760 (2013) (The HD 6850 died...) Radeon RX 580 (2017 - present)
Zaga932@reddit
Yup.
Radeon HD 5770
GTX 560 Ti
GTX 960
RX 580
RX Vega 56
RX 5700
RX 6700 XT
RX 9070 XT
Sir_B@reddit
I don't exactly remember the first, as it was in the mid 90s before 3D accelerators were a thing. It might have been an S3 card. After that:
That should be all of them. I switched to Nvidia because the Radeon 5700XT was an unstable mess, and I dare not go back to Team Red because of this.
M4K4T4K@reddit
S3 Virge 4MB TNT Riva GeForce 8600GT Mobility Radeon 5650 GTX 560 R9 370x RTX 4060ti RTX 3090 (weird going back a gen, but it was a good deal)
Tonka_The_Cat@reddit
Trident TGUI 9440 (on a 486, my first PC as a child). Geforce 4 MX Radeon HD 2600 Pro (on an 2008 iMac) Nvidia GTX 970 Nvidia RTX 3060ti (my actual GPU)
Deep-Procrastinor@reddit
I can't remember what I had for tea last night let alone the GPUs I had in my life, I mean GPUs didn't exist when I started my PC journey.
ActiveStrike8399@reddit
Gpus are easy for me to remember haha I still own them all except for the first two because I gave them away to friends:
Ati Rage Pro Turbo Guillemot Hercules GeForce 2 MX Msi NX6800gt BFG 8800gt Asus GT260 Asus 750ti Sapphire Pulse RX580 Msi 6700xt Radeon 7900xtx
Other cards I have bought after the 7900xtx to collect:
Radeon 7500, 9500, 9600se, 9600xt, 9800se, 9800xl, x800, x850, x1650gt, x1950 pro.
Also an EVGA RTX 3060ti and 3070 for use in a couple PC's I put together from parts. Graphics cards are my favourite PC component! In 1995 it was the sound card haha
sa547ph@reddit
Kittelsen@reddit
I never knew what my first two were, I just cared about the vram back then, but it went like this.
2001: 32mb 2002/3: 128mb (bf1942 came out 😅) 2004: 256mb (new build) 2008: 4870x2 (new build) 2009: 5970 (last years died) 2014: 980 (new build) 2017: 1070ti 2020: 3080 (new build) 2023: 4090 (was waiting for a ti that never came)
redredme@reddit
(before this there where no 3d accelerators but I still remember my pride and joy ET4000 and that diamond rocketship based on the s3 928) S3VIRGE, ATI RAGE3D, VOODOO, VOODOO2, RIVA, RIVA TNT, GEFORCE 256, ATI 8500, ATI 9500, (there's something else here but I can't remember) 1080, 2080, 3080, 7900XTX.
Everytime I switched to ATI/AMD I experienced weird issues. The geforce256 was just unstable; a lot of driver errors and blue screens.
MrWhiteford@reddit
I think I can: Trident Blade 3D GeForce 2 MX Radeon 9800 Radeon X1600 GeForce 8800 GTS GeForce 8800 GT GeForce 260 GTX GeForce 460 GTX GeForce 660 GTX GeForce 970 GTX GeForce RTX 2070 GeForce RTX 4070ti
RemoDev@reddit
Vodoo owner here. A Banshee. Good old times.
thenord321@reddit
Thanks for reminding me of the horrors of voodoo drivers. My voodoo 2 couldn't play half my games, artifacts and black screens....
iterable@reddit
First was on mac a 9800 Pro will never forget it let me play BF 1942 and Halo. After that ones I remember most 660 Ti, 970, 1070 Ti, all legends only other hardware I can think of is hard drives that were faster like first 1as 10k raptor drive.
TheMightyWitcher@reddit
I’ve not had that many so it’s not too hard to remember
HD 7770 R9 390 5700xt
Probably due an upgrade soon but I tend to make my PCs last 6 or 7 years between changing components
RO4DHOG@reddit
With more than 40 years of building PC's myself, I noticed common insights after seeing all the comments...
how NVIDIA and AMD are intertwined, many have used both brands over the years.
how popular certain cards were during evolutionary periods. Like a Radeon 9800pro, GTX970, etc.
amazing how frequently some people changed their GPU and how others took bigger jumps, likely due to budget.
Whether building a new rig or upgrading, we made decisions based on new game release requirements.
We all had motherboards and monitors to support, and now PCVR to consider too!
My history of Apple][+, IBM clone monochrome CGA, EGA, VGA, SuperVGA, Voodoo SLI, GeForce GTS, 4600GT, 8800Ultra, GT460, GTX970, GTX1080, RTX3090ti seems normal compared to some others listed here.
PollShark_@reddit
Gtx 650 2gb pny Gtx 960 4gb Gtx 1070 evga sc Gtx 1070ti zotac amp extreme Rtx 3070 ftw3 ultra Rtx 3070ti ftw3 ultra Rtx 3070ti Fe Rx 6900xt Fe Rtx 3090 ftw3 ultra Rx 9070xt mercury oc
I dont think im missing any but i did buy a few cards inbetween to screw around with
AgentBond007@reddit
Yes, though I've only had three.
HD 7870 from 2013-2018
GTX 1080 from 2018-2023
RTX 4070 from 2023-now
NickCharlesYT@reddit
Oh, if we're talking my main computer over the years, sure. But I've owned far too many secondary devices and retro devices over the years to be able to label all of those.
Mine, in order of acquisition:
Looking at this list, I sure wasted a lot of money making upgrades in the past 10 years specifically. Current state, waiting on higher VRAM models, hopefully with 6000 series.
gen_angry@reddit
The MX 440's rep was pretty much deserved, but for Win98 games, it's surprisingly capable. Just by 2002 when it release, everyone had moved on and tried to play 2002-2003 games that really didn't work out well.
Then you got a double whammy by 'upgrading' to a FX 5200, which is terrible at even that.
Kinda like if nvidia came out with a 'RTX 5030' model today and said it would play BF6 extremely well.
handymanshandle@reddit
Damn, this thread is making me feel incredibly young. I'll start with my desktop cards first, because if you let me bite into my laptop stuff heavily, everyone will look at me like I'm crazy. Maybe that's apt.
- Sapphire Radeon Dual-X HD 7850 2GB OC (hand-me-down from my brother that I don't talk to anymore)
- MSI Radeon RX 580 8G V1 (the single-fan one; IIRC it's the only single-fan RX 580 released, as well as one of the smallest Polaris cards with the larger GPU that you could get)
- HP Radeon R9 Fury X (got this with one of my first paychecks from my first job off of eBay; always wanted one and eventually sidegraded)
- HP GeForce RTX 3060 12GB LHR (worst card I've ever owned, I hated it so much I went back to AMD)
- ASRock Phantom Gaming OC Radeon RX 7900 XT (excellent card... when it worked; mine was unstable)
- Intel Arc A750 (solid card, just a little disappointing IMO)
- Gigabyte Gaming OC Radeon RX 9070 XT (impulse buy from a month and a half ago, but this card rocks)
My main laptop GPU hierarchy is probably more sickening.
- Intel GMA 3150 (some old Toshiba netbook I had when I was 12)
- AMD Radeon HD 8400 (some HP pile of slop; it played enough Grid 2 and Team Fortress 2 to make 14 year old me happy)
- AMD Radeon Vega 8 (pre-Vega II; wasn't so bad for its time but it was quite TDP limited, so I couldn't push the GPU as much as I wanted to)
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 (from a Gateway laptop of all things; I actually didn't mind this laptop so much)
- AMD Radeon Vega 8 (Vega II version in an Asus Vivobook with a Ryzen 7 5800H, actually really solid iGPU for what it was)
- AMD Radeon 780M and Nvidia GeForce RTX 4050 (loved how the LOQ this came from performed, but I couldn't stand the screen at all)
- AMD Radeon 780M (iGPU only from another Vivobook; honestly was kinda underwhelmed, although nothing about that laptop was optimal. DDR5-4800 on a laptop with half-soldered RAM? Come on now.)
- AMD Radeon 660M and AMD Radeon RX 6550M (iGPU was tepid at best, but that dGPU wasn't so bad. I knew what I was getting to as I rocked a 6500 XT in a spare rig for a while)
- AMD Radeon RX 7900M (the laptop it's in is not well-made, but holy crap, does this thing fly. I don't regret the ~~Coyne~~ coins I had to blow to get this laptop in the slightest)
Every time I've went to try a Nvidia or Intel GPU, I always find myself buying another AMD GPU after that. Not really sure why, I guess I'm more familiar with a Radeon GPU's quirks after all these years of dealing with ATI and AMD hardware.
beirch@reddit
Yep:
Sapphire Radeon X800 XL
Sapphire Radeon HD 5850 Toxic
ASUS GTX 770 DirectCU II OC
MSI GTX 1070 Quick Silver
MSI RTX 3070 SUPRIM X
ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 7900 GRE
ASUS Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT
And in my HTPC, which is now basically just my living room gaming PC:
The leftover 1070 from my main rig
ASUS TUF Gaming RTX 3060 Ti
Reference AMD RX 6800 for literally just one day
Until I found an AsRock Challenger 7800 XT Challenger for $340
gen_angry@reddit
Weirdly enough, I do: - EGA card, probably ATi - Cirrus Logic SVGA - Rage 128 Pro - Radeon 7000 - Radeon 9000 Pro - Radeon 9600 XT - Radeon x800 XL (artifacted on me so returned for an upgrade) - Radeon x850 Pro AGP (still have it) - Radeon x1950 Pro PCI-E (new PC didn't have AGP slot so I upgraded graphics as well) - Radeon HD 4870 1G - GeForce 9600 GSO-512 (4870 fan died and I wasn't gaming much at the time anyways, so I just swapped to this thing I had laying around temporarily) - GTX 750 Ti (pretty huge upgrade lol) - GTX 1060-6G - RTX 2060 - RTX 3070 - AMD RX 9070 XT
CryoFocx@reddit
RX580 4GB RTX 3060 12GB RTX 5070 TI 16GB (current)
Mountainsyde@reddit
Just remember buying a first generation sound blaster card from FRYs in Manhattan Beach Ca, Way back when. Really enjoyed that store, was so excited every trip there.
Rifter0876@reddit
No.
But something like this
Voodoo 2 GeForce 256 ATI something(all I remember is it made the sun rays in serious sam look amazing) Something between the ATI and 1060's can't remember GeForce 1060's SLI AMD 480RX 8GB AMD vega 56 AMD 6800XT
kuuups@reddit
Some integrated S3 Trident something or other (not sure if its counted, but it let me enable hardware acceleration on games), Tnt2 m64, geforce 2 mx400, geforce 3 ti200, radeon 9600, geforce 750 ti, radeon rx550. Then stopped building pc's. Still joined this sub just to see how things are progressing in the world.
ColKrismiss@reddit
GeForce MX400 (before this I only had "video" cards, NOT GPUs) Game I remember the most from this card - Counter-Strike
GeForce 5200 - Half Life 2
Radeon 9700 - Battlefield 2
Radeon 5700XT - F.E.A.R
GeForce 8800GTX (GOAT) - Crysis
GeForce 460 - Battlefield BC2
7.Radeon R9 280 - Witcher 3
GTX 1080 - Witcher 3 still
RTX 3080 - Cyberpunk 2077
RTX 5080 - Card is still new
PooMonger20@reddit
moneyman12q@reddit
9800GT GTX 1050Ti RTX 3050
Hazy_Lights@reddit
I've only had 2
1070 ti
5070 ti
Gamersfan95@reddit
Intel 810 🥲
Agitated_Quail_1430@reddit
My memory recall only goes back to my current graphics card.
CornPop747@reddit
GeForce fx 5200, GeForce 750ti, now a GeForce 4070
Nishnig_Jones@reddit
No.
Here’s the best I can put together from memory.
ATI Xpert 98
GeForce MX 200/400 (I think it was a PNY board)
I think the above were both PCI the GeForce may have been AGP
ATI Radeon 9200 SE
Asus GeForce 7950 X2 (dual gpu/ SLI on one card) This was the very first computer that I built completely from the ground up. All previous ones were either piecemeal upgrades or semi-prebuilt.
GeForce 8800 GTS (cannot remember the manufacturer) although I think it’s still hiding around here somewhere.
XFX Radeon HD 4650
GTX 750 TI
GTX 960
GTX 970
RTX 3060 TI
kutora@reddit
Don't remember the mGPUs or integrated ones I've had growing up. Otherwise
GTX 650
GTX 960
GTX 1060 6GB (Remember I bought it from a guy who originally got it to play games with his wife)
RX 6750 (Flickering issues, so returned :/)
RTX 3060ti (Regret buying this new, was definitely too expensive for what I got)
And looking to get a 9070XT pretty soon.
SpadaRN@reddit
Cirrus Logic 1MB + Voodoo1 4MB Geforce TNT2 32MB GeForce 2 mx 200 ATI Radeon 9700 GeForce 8800 GTS GeForce GTX 460 GeForce GTX 670 Geforce GTX 970 Geforce GTX 1070 Geforce RTX 2080 Super Geforce RTX 3080Ti Geforce RTX 4090
that_norwegian_guy@reddit
I remember my first, a GeForce4 Ti 4200. Then it gets fuzzy in the years between 2003 to 2012, but I know there were two Radeon cards in there. But since 2012 I've had a Asus GeForce 750 Ti -> Asus GeForce GTX 1060 6GB -> Gigabyte RTX 2070 Windforce OC -> Asus TUF Radeon RX 6800.
Then of course there have been secondary systems with Radeon RX 570's, RX 580's and RX 5500 XT.
grachi@reddit
I’ve gamed sinced 1994, I could only tell you the VooDoo 2 that my brother and I begged our parents for at Christmas to play Half Life. Because playing that game was life changing.
And then I don’t really remember any others until getting into the 2010 until now timeframe.
ApocalypseSlough@reddit
Like you, 2000-2010 is hazy. I remember everything before and everything after.
Voodoo Voodoo 3 (2000, I think)
Then:
660Ti 970 2070 3070Ti
I will be in the market for a new card soon. Prices are absolutely insane.
GeorgeTheCynic@reddit
Roughly from what I can recall
jdcope@reddit
Nah, too many. I would have to all the way back to the OG IBM PC days in the late 80s. My first few PCs didnt even have color monitors. Just monochrome. First couple PCs were green mono, then I had an orange one. Then I finally got a CGA color video card.
usk49@reddit
EVGA 680 2gb
Nvidia 1080 FE 8gb
Nvidia 1080ti FE 11gb
Nvidia 4090 FE 24gb
xCASINOx@reddit
3dfx voodoo 3
GeForce 3 ti200
10 year pc break
Geforce gtx 970
Rx2060
Radeon 6750xt
The_M0nk@reddit
6200 210 430 Some weird AMD GPU in my FX 6300 Prebuilt 7750 hd (ASUS) 750 ti (EVGA) 960(EVGA) and later another 960 (Gigabyte) 1070 (Zotac) 2070 (Zotac) 3080 (FE) 5080 (FE)
MrWendal@reddit
No. Think I've had six since the 90s.
?
?
AMD something?
GTX 770? Or was it 780?
Rx580
Rx6800xt
HogTiedOstrich@reddit
So many better comments than mine. 650, 1070TI SC, 3060, 5060TI.
Symphonic7@reddit
RX480 8GB Reference (solid choice for $200) Vega 64 Red Devil (good lord this one was bad) RX 6750XT Pulse (awesome cooler, great card) RX 6950XT Reference (tiny card, big performance)
Before that, I had always used intel integrated graphics. I did have an Nvidia 750m on my laptop (two actually in SLI) but they ran hot and made my laptop throttle. Ever since bulding a PC, I've never wanted a laptop ever again.
acewing905@reddit
SiS 6326 (this one came with the first PC my dad bought for me)
Radeon 7000
Geforce 6200
Geforce GT 520
Radeon HD 7730
Geforce GT 1030 Geforce GTX 1650 Radeon RX 6600 Radeon RX 9060 XT
Yeah, not the most impressive, but living in a country where this sort of thing is very expensive (eg. Bought the 9060 XT this June for the rough equivalent of 700 USD), I have had to make do with the bare minimum sometimes
ComradePetrov@reddit
Tldr: unknown Nvidia card from at most 2009 > HD7770 > HD7950 > Rx560 > Rx590 > Rtx 3050Ti laptop > Soon Rx 9070XT
Got my first PC when I was like 9, it had an Nvidia GPU which I do not remember what it was. Looking back it was such a piece of shit PC, I remember I had one of those wifi USBs but it was pretty useless as browsers were running unusably slow.
Later on, around 2012 I got a new PC with an Athlon X4 750k and Sapphire Radeon HD7770. Wasn't anything crazy but it ran pretty much anything I wanted it to run at the time and lasted until 2017ish when the GPU sort of died on me (more on that later).
I was still a pretty fucking broke teenager at the time so with the limited money (about 30€) my mom gave me for a "new" GPU I went and bought a used Sapphire HD7950 (750Ti was going for about 50€ used at the time so no luck with that). The 7950 performed well while it lasted, which was like 2 months lol, and then it died as well.
THIS IS THE MOST FUN PART. At this point I had no money, a completely unresponsive HD7950 and a not-quite-dead HD7770 which could actually output picture, albeit an "RB" one, that is to say, the entire display was fucking purple and everything that was supposed to be green was just pitch black.
So I did what any reasonable gamer would do and turned on monochromatic mode on my monitor and played exclusively Diablo 2 and HoMM3 in black and white until 2018 when I finally saved up 200€ and bought myself a NEW Sapphire Pulse Rx 560.
This card lasted me about a year, when I saved up enough money for a completely new PC, which sported a R5 2600, Sapphire Rx590 Nitro+ and 16gb ddr4 ram.
2023 I bought an i5 12500H Rtx 3050Ti laptop as I was moving abroad and wanted the easy transportability of a laptop.
And now I'm finally in the process of building a higher end sff PC, which will sport an Rx 9070XT and R7 7800X3D.
alphonse03@reddit
yup
FX 5200 Gigabyte GT 440 Zotac (the first and last one I buy from them) 1050 Ti Sapphire RX 550 "ASUS" RX 580 GME
and thats it
well, the igpu of a 2200g if you count it, but the motherboard acts like a bitch every now and then.
thayerw@reddit
My first GPU was a Rendition Verite V1000, which I bought specifically to run vQuake. Everyone else was snatching up the 3dfx Voodoo cards, but I think I couldn't afford them at the time (I can't recall for sure). I do remember that vQuake looked superior to GLQuake, but OpenGL won out in the end.
Eventually, I moved on to an NVIDIA RIVA card...not sure which exactly.
Those were the days! Pseudo.com, QSpy, Redwood's, Blue's News...good times!
tgulli@reddit
riva128, TNT, geforce 3, 8800ultra, 480, 1080ti, 3090
Grat_Master@reddit
_borT@reddit
My first entry level “gaming” laptop had a 128mb mobility graphics card and I thought I was ballin out of control back in 2003.
Shamgar65@reddit
Let's see.
Voodoo 3.2000
Nvidia 6800
Nvidia 7800
Ati 4780 (still have)
Nvidia 8800 gts 320mb
Nvidia 670
Nvidia 2070s
AnotherPCGamer173@reddit
When I got into custom PCs: GTX 750 Ti, GTX 1060 6GB, RTX 2070 RTX 2080 Super Vega 11 with…I think my 2400G (can’t remember. Downgraded cause bills) Vega 64 RTX 3080 waterforce
BaconFinder@reddit
I sold a lot of the early ones I had. AGP slot goodness. From my gtx780 to my current, I keep boxed and ready
jlunr@reddit
ATI Rage 128 VR 16mb
ATI Radeon 7000 64mb
NVIDIA GeForce 5200 128mb
PNY NVIDIA GeForce 5900se 128mb
MSI NVIDIA GeForce 7600gt 256mb
Sapphire ATI Radeon X1950 pro 256mb
ECS EliteGroup NVIDIA GeForce 9600gt 512mb
Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce 460 SE 1gb
MSI AMD Radeon 7870 Hawk 2gb
Powercolor AMD Radeon RX 480 8gb
EVGA NVIDIA GeForce 1060 6gb
Zotac NVIDIA GeForce 1070ti 8gb
NVIDIA Founder’s Edition RTX 3070 8gb
Gigabyte AMD Radeon RX 9070 Gaming OC 16gb
Pandaemonaeon_NZ@reddit
Ti 4200 in my first own PC
7950GX2
GTX 285
2x GTX 580"s
GTX 780
GTX 980ti
RTX 3070ti
RTX 3080ti
MayoTheMuffin@reddit
Intel UHD (TM) Graphics?
GTX 1660 Super
RTX 3060 Laptop
RTX 4070 MSI VENTUS 3X
AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 w/860m integrated graphics
EnvironmentalKit@reddit
Voodoo 3 2000 GeForce 2 MX 400 ATI Radeon 9600 Pro I think I had a GeForce here but can't remember which one 😭 AMD Radeon RX 570 AMD Radeon RX 6600 AMD Radeon RX 6700XT AMD Radeon RX 9060XT
postsshortcomments@reddit
Mystery Radeon that I can't recall.
8600 GT (<$150)
9600 GT (<$150)
7950 RMA'd to a 7970 ($240)
5700XT ($322)
4070 Ti Super ($500 after promos etc.,)
Total of $1362 which isn't too shabby for ~22 years and this should carry me to 26 years.
Doyoulike4@reddit
I remember all mine on computers that were distinctly mine and not just shared family computers.
EVGA GeForce 9500 GT
EVGA GeForce GTS 450
Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 Dirt 3
Sapphire Radeon RX480 8GB Nitro+
Sapphire Radeon RX580 8GB Nitro+
Sapphire Radeon 6900XT Nitro+ Special Edition OC
iknownuffink@reddit
Can't remember the specs on the prebuilts in the 90's and early 00's, but for the first custom rig it was one of the Nvidia 8600's IIRC, a 'silent' fanless model because I was an idiot at the time.
GTX 260
GTX 970
RTX 3070
RTX 5070 TI (upgraded sooner than usual because the previous system died)
The_Spyre@reddit
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro in 2003, Radeon HD 4870 X2 - 2008 ish, GTX 1080 around 2017, RTX 3080 in 2021, which I still use.
alwtictoc@reddit
I had an Nvidia Riva 128 as my first. A VooDoo Banshee number 2. I honestly think I quit gaming for a while and didnt hop back in until sli was a thing and grabbed 2 Nvidia 460s and sli'd them. Pretty sure those are still in a box somewhere. Waited another eon and got a 1660ti. 2nd box had a 2060 in it. I just recently built a new pc and it has a 5070 in it.
pasmasq@reddit
I've been a gamer since I was a wee lad in the 90s, but didn't build my own gaming PC until about 2018.
2018 - Friend's old 970
2020 - upgraded to a 3070 FE
2025 - upgraded to a 5070
Short list lol
kshump@reddit
Hell no.
SeasonedCitizen@reddit
Matrox Mystique, 3dfx Voodoo, then various ATI Radeon and then AMD Radeon cards. So old, lol.
GuelmiGames@reddit
Matrox m3d. Voodoo banshee pci. Some ati i don’t remember exactly. Ati radeon hd 5570 (Consoles era) Gtx 860m (Alienware alpha) Gtx 1660 super Rtx 3070ti laptop.
tacophagist@reddit
It's more like two eras separated by a 1080TI. What a card that was. Kind of want to find another one and make a cheap emulation box.
shrekisloveAO@reddit
My first real GPU was a 6800XT that ended up shorting somehow, feelsbad
Blue-150@reddit
All, No. Last five yes. 5070, 3060ti, 6600xt, rx580, gtx 960, Radeon something before that, nvidia something
Spiderx1016@reddit
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro ATI Radeon X800XT ATI Radeon HD6870 AMD RX6800 Nvidia RTX5080
theknyte@reddit
If you gave me an hour or two and a note pad, maybe I could remember about 90% of them.
Let me put it this way, my first video card was a Virge S3 Trio.
spiderzz3@reddit
Yeah, first dgpu was a gt 745m in a laptop i still have, i even got another one off ebay in good condition to play with. Second was a sapphire r9 380, then i got a 1060, i passed that off to my sibling while i got a 1080, then a 2080ti pny blower that died in a bad accident, and finally my 3080 12gb that i plan on using for at least a couple more years.
I really wish i could find a cheap r9 380 to put on display on a shelf, it was pretty cool i loved the backplate.
VoraciousGorak@reddit
Counting iGPUs, I've used 19 GPUs in my main PC since 1995. I've used... dozens if not hundreds more in my house running various experiments. Few bought at full price, thankfully, many in bundles of GPUs that were being discarded, but legends like the GeForce2 Ultra, the Radeon 9700 Pro, and the 1080 Ti have passed through my humble setups.
jhaluska@reddit
Not really, I had probably more than a dozen cards since the TNT days.