[2kliks] The Greatest GPU Awards (From Past to Today)

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RumbleTheCassette@reddit

Haven't watched the video yet but if the 9800 GTX isn't mentioned I'll know I'm too damn old.

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Afro-anus@reddit

If I was picking only one gpu to award, it would probably be the 1080ti

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Gippy_@reddit

In hindsight, the 2080 Ti edges 1080 Ti. Yes, the 2080 Ti MSRP was $999 while the 1080 Ti was $699. But it was about 20% faster in raster and has aged better due to RTX support.

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DrCaffy@reddit

That generation was GPU gold on both sides. The RX480/580's with 8GB are still viable in most games today.

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LuluButterFive@reddit

Rose colored glasses with the 1080 ti

It aged horribly and gets beat badly by the 5050

the 1060 6gb is the best of that generation

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VillzAU@reddit

1080ti was so good value it made the insane price jump on the 2080ti basically the laughing stock of the GPU enthusiast community.

The entire selling point of that card was it could do Ray Tracing which didnt exist for years after in any meaningful way and when it did do raytracing it was at Nintendo 64 frame rates......

2080ti got burried alive by the 1080ti

If you could still buy 1080ti at that point they basically would have sold next to 0.

I cant think of a single generation where a flagship was DOA because the previous flagship GPU was so much better value.

You could argue the 5090 is the second time this happened. Where if 4090 was available still for purchase they would have sold next to none of the 5090. However both these are train wrecks on account of the failed 12HPWR connector.

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Fr0stCy@reddit

I will always pay respects to the GTX 980 Ti and its bigger brother the Quadro M6000. Maxwell was still stuck on 28nm, the third GPU architecture to do so (after the Kepler pair of 600 and 700 series). But they managed to squeeze so much power efficiency and performance out of the same design that it was shocking. Not to mention being the last nvidia cards to have the DVI-I port allowing for native analog display hookups for CRTs. Good memories,

Honorable mention goes to the GTX Titan Black of the Kepler generation. The truly “do everything” cars from HPC applications to gaming to CAD. No compromises anywhere.

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GenZia@reddit

The only reason Maxwell is heralded as the champion is because GCN couldn't scale on 28nm and anything larger than Tahiti (a.k. Hawaii, Fiji) just wasn't supposed to be on 28nm.

Not many people today realize but Maxwell was meant to be on the ill-fated TSMC 20nm. Same goes to AMD's entire Volcanic (R9-200) and Pirate Islands (R9-300, Fury) line-up.

Even when AMD moved GCN (Polaris) to FinFET (Samsung/GloFo 14nm), it still couldn't break the 1.5 GHz barrier (on air). Meanwhile, Maxwell (in the guise of Pascal) had no trouble pushing nearly 2 GHz on FinFET.

Navi/RDNA was just too little, too late compared to Turing and the rest is history.

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Fr0stCy@reddit

Wasn’t Much of Volcanic Islands and Pirate Islands rebadges? I had a 280X, which was basically a rebadged Radeon 7970. Only the 90-series was new architecture.

That being said, you are right. AMD dropped the ball hard on launch and the products struggled to gain traction.

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NeroClaudius199907@reddit

Turing is the am4 of gpus

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rekcats@reddit

Guy yapped a lot. tl;dr Nvidia 1080ti & AMD rx480