GPU Survey/Blog - What GPUs have you used?

Indeed iGPUs have, although I find Intel HD 4400 to be dragging ass with games at this point. Waiting on Raven Ridge to upgrade on the mobile side of things.

I think the ATI card may have been AGP, not sure actually.

Yes, that R9 390 is a giant heatsink. For the games I play, it’s good even for 1440p although it falls short in 4K getting 25 FPS on Witcher 3 at High (not Ultra) settings.

The R7 360 was a single fan card by Gigabyte, boy is it loud and built poorly though.

i can say, triple fan cooled gpus do run cooler than the turbo blower style.
but the fans all universally suck ass and get broken clogged up or stop spinning

ive had radeon hd 6870 (x2)
msi gtx 670 (x1)
evga gtx 960 (x1)
evga gtx 970(x1)
asus gtx 1080 (x3)
gigabyte gtx 1080s (x19)

pics of the Fury nitros current rig


The surviving 450 from I believe Swtor and 27 inch 1080 plus mutt mix of less monitors

one of the 290x and the His 280 in system

The 7750 cf was a limp by until the 7870’s

I was mistaken One His 7870 and one XFX

As far as cf goes ? Several of the older games now cf far better than any else on the newer windows does. Granted I have not played any of the newer popular titles except that which is in development and unleased.

I guess at the end of all that ? I learned something :slight_smile:

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freak :)~ 19 1080’s lol

Hey! I like my Sapphire Fury TriX!
Also: You can change/turn off the power status leds via two dip swwitches on the back of the card^^

Yes, they ruin the look of my pc ;0

All cards still work AFAIK.

Chip Designer MFG Model Notes
Nvidia EVGA 8800GT First build, this card all the rage at the time. Currently collecting dust.
AMD/ATI Gigabyte HD 4870 This and the next card were during my diehard Linux phase. I switched to ATI/AMD because they were working to opensource their drivers at the time, with mixed results. This one is currently in my brother’s computer.
AMD/ATI Gigabyte HD 6870 Also collecting dust because I’m too lazy to upgrade said brother’s computer.
Nvidia EVGA? GTX 960 First GPU Passthrough build, currently in use. Some contemporary AMD cards had/have some bug related to this, and I just avoided the issue rather than research which cards were or were not affected.

Next card will be back to AMD because Nvidia has been hostile to passthrough users, even if there have been simple workarounds so far. My purchases so far have been split down the middle, but I’m more in favor of AMD. I feel like Nvidia may usually have the better tech, AMD has been more consumer friendly company and I want to support that. I no longer need top-of-the-line graphics capability, since I can barely tell the difference between 1080p and 720p, and anything beyond that is wasted on my eyes.

Sounds interesting! Well I’ll skip my first two GPUs since I have no clue what they were.
Ive been given old systems over the years, and tend to keep them if its easier to run old games on them, I forget half of their GPUs (most were trash anyway) So here are the ones I remember:

Year Model AIE Life Status Notes
2010 HD Radeon 5770 XFX Sold The first GPU I ever bought for the first PC I made. I don’t think I could have made a better choice at the time.
2013 Ati Rage 128 Pro ??? Retired Someone gave me a Power Mac G4, this was the default GPU. It plays early 2000s PPC Mac games fairly well.
2014 Radeon 8500 ??? Alive! Found it in a machine being thrown away, and had to flash the BIOS to a Mac Bios. Its one of the better cards that the G4 can even use. I don’t think there are any games that my G4 can even run that max out this card.
2014 GeForce3 TI 500 PNY Alive Given to me in a Pentium 2 machine that has become my ‘Win98 gaming machine’. This thing is HOT and loud. Like 70c hot, and annoying small fan loud. I cant argue with Quake 3 running 90fps at 1600x1200!
2014 R9 270X MSI Retired Got it right after the first bitcoin mining craze ended. Its quiet, it runs a lot of lower end games well. Dunno what to do with it.
2016 GTX 1060 MSI Current I love the 0rpm at idle feature on these cards. Hopes it serves me for a long time. Though… it might cause issues when it comes to Linux…
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I set mine to red, fits the theme perfectly.

I have some NSFW pictures of my r9 390 :wink:

It was a good card for the time. If I remember correctly, it was the highest performing single GPU card on the market at the time of purchase. The 295 was better (from what I remember, it was basically 2 GTX 285 on one board), but also out of my price range.

It’s entirely possible it was a 560 (non-ti). I’m pretty sure it wasn’t ti, so probably a 560.

That’s exactly the right one. I got the “base model”

This card sags without a gpu support bracket. I didn’t have anything to support it, so I rolled up some newspaper, wrapped it in scotch tape and cut it to size. worked wonders.

In their defense, they were probably able to cut cost by reducing the IO and when you consider that a 560 was about $250 new, most people wouldn’t have more than 2 monitors, meaning that a single HDMI, DVI and DP would work just fine for them.
It sure has for me on my 660 ti

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Story time folks;

Today, I’m going to tell you about the little GTX 285 that could.

The year was 2010. I was at a lan party with my badass rig (specs below), the time was 4:15am and I remember it like yesterday. We had about 10 people in a small, hot room all playing battlefront II, since we had tired of BF: BC2. Things were going well as I was in second place when a new challenger appeared. I hear the jingling of a collar from the door. One of the guys in the room decided to invite the host’s golden retriever to play with us. This was all well and good, save for the tennis ball.

It was a perfect storm, I remember watching in slow motion as this happened. I was on the end of the table, my case was on the floor. I had a half finished can of red bull sitting on my desk, my case was on the floor. I saw the ball flying through the air, my case was on the floor. I watch in terror as the can falls over, lands on the top of my case and begins to pour in through the top fan holes.

It takes me a moment to come to the realization that my PC is probably toast, as I hear fizzing and liquid pouring down through my case. I happen to be close enough to footsie the power strip into the off position, so I do that as fast as I can while letting out a scream to wake the dead (and consequently the neighbors). With my PC off, I immediately pull the can off the top of it, pull open the door to the case, unplug the power cable just in case someone tries something stupid and run to the kitchen for paper towels.

40 minutes of dabbing and wiping later, my PC is dry. With everyone in the room anxiously watching, I turn on the power strip, plug in the cable and press the power button. No dice.

I flip the switch on the power supply and try again. It immediately springs to life, and with a single post beep, indicating everything is good, I look up with angst to my monitor to see the EVGA logo proudly displayed on my mediocre 1680x1050 display.

Moral of the story is twofold. Don’t put drinks anywhere that could risk electronics of any type and don’t let people play fetch with a dog in the same room as a lan party.

Specs at the time:

EVGA 680i
EVGA GTX 285
Intel C2Q Q6600 @3.2GHz
8GB DDR2 1066MHz

I’m out of town for the weekend right now, but when I get back, I’ll take a picture of the red-bull stain on the GPU PCB.

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This thread is EPIC …

Just saying. Congrats OP on starting something that is fun for computer building geeks like me.

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Design Vendor Model Interface Status Notes
nVidia PNY GeForce4 Ti 4200 AGP Retired, in collection The first dedicated card I had. Gifted to me to give my PII system enough grunt to play Morrowind.
nVidia XFX GeForce 6600 GT AGP Retired, in collection Worked for the upgrade and got it on firesale in 2005 as the 7000 series launched. Good enough to play DoD:S on Med.
nVidia Galaxy GeForce GT 220 1GB PCI-E Retired, in collection Had to give up the 6600 with my old PC and needed something to game with. Bought this with a gift card to Game Stop.
ATi XFX Radeon HD 4890 PCI-E Retired, damaged, in collection Purchased on firesale right after the 5000 series hit shelves. Needed the power to play ArmA II. Run until nearly dead.
ATi Sapphire Radeon HD 4870X2 PCI-E Retired, in collection Purchased in early 2011 as a “too good to pass up” deal. Put into CrossfireX with the 4890 and gave enough power to enjoy BF3 and Skyrim.
AMD ASUS Radeon HD 7970 DCII PCI-E Sold Purchased to mine Bitcoin, which it was damn good at. Mined enough to pay for a completely new PC in which it would serve for a few months before being shelved.
nVidia nVidia GeForce GTX 690 PCI-E Sold (regretfully) Found this card on massive sale and of course had to buy it. Sexiest reference design known to man, but fuck it sucked at multi-monitor and SLI drivers were atrocious.
AMD HIS Radeon R9 290X (2) PCI-E (1) Sold, (1) Died Purchased as a pair for less than the single GTX 690. Water cooled both and ran them through two separate systems before one card got zapped.
AMD PowerColor Radeon R9 Nano PCI-E Sold Bought for nearly 30% off and sold not long after to make a profit. Regret selling, was an awesome card. Set the official FireStrike world record for the R9 Nano with this card.
AMD AMD Radeon R9 Fury X PCI-E Primary, in use Engineering Sample that I got from @SoulFallen not long ago. It’s serving as the workhorse now, and does a fine job of it. Will definitely be keeping it in the collection when I move on.

Alright it’s about 2013 that I started hoarding collecting cards. I’ve used ALL the cards in the collection just to test them. I don’t keep broken cards unless they’re exceptionally uncommon, so I’m going to attempt to keep this short by only listing the cards that are currently in the collection without going into any detail.

Design Vendor Model Interface Status Notes
Weitek Diamond Viper VLB VESA Local Bus Working Power 9000 Model - 2MB
Avance Logic STB Express PCI PCI Working ALG2301.B - 2MB
3DLabs/S3 ELSA GLORIA-4 PCI Working GLINT 300SX - 12MB
Rendition Sierra Screamin’ 3D! PCI Working Vérité V1000 - 4MB - (Complete in Box)
S3 Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 PCI Working ViRGE - 4MB
S3 STB Velocity 3D PCI Working ViRGE/VX - 4MB
ATi ATi Video Xpression PCI Working Mach64-VT2 - 2MB (ENG Sample?)
3Dfx Orchid Righteous 3D PCI Working VooDoo 1 - 6MB
3Dfx Canopus PURE 3D PCI Working VooDoo 1 - 6MB
3Dfx/AT Intergraph INTENSE 3D VooDoo PCI Working VooDoo Rush (V1 + AT-25) - 6MB
3Dfx 3Dfx VOODOO² PCI Working VooDoo 2 OEM - 8MB
3Dfx Creative CT6670 PCI Working VooDoo 2 - 8MB
3Dfx Creative CT6670 PCI Working VooDoo 2 - 12MB
3Dfx STB 210-0335-00X PCI Working VooDoo 2 - 12MB (Compaq Exclusive?)
3Dfx Micro Conversions Game Wizard PCI Working VooDoo 2 (Macintosh) - 12MB
3Dfx Diamond Monster Fusion AGP 1X Working VooDoo Banshee - 16MB
E&S AccelGraphics AccelGALAXY AGP 1X Working Evans & Sutherland REALimage 2100 - 36MB
3Dfx 3Dfx V3 1000 AGP 2X Working VooDoo 3 OEM - 16MB
3Dfx 3Dfx V3 2000 PCI Working VooDoo 3 - 16MB
3Dfx STB 210-0347-00X PCI Working VooDoo 3 - 16MB
3Dfx 3Dfx V3 3000 AGP 2X Working VooDoo 3 - 16MB
3Dfx 3Dfx V3 3500TV AGP 2X Working VooDoo 3 + Tuner/VIVO - 16MB
3Dfx 3Dfx VooDoo 5 5500 AGP 2X Working VooDoo 5 (VSA-100) - 64MB
Intel Intel i740 AGP 2X Working Intel 740 - 4MB
IBM IBM GXT2000P AGP 2X Working POWER GXT - 32MB
nVidia Diamond Viper V330 Rev.D PCI Working NV3 - 4MB
nVidia Creative CT6710 AGP 2X Working Riva TNT (NV4) - 16MB
nVidia ASUS AGP-V3800/32M (TV) SGR AGP 2X Working Riva TNT2 (NV5) - 32MB
ATi ATi Rage 128 Pro Ultra AGP 4X Working Rage 128 - 32MB
nVidia SUMA PLATINUM BMX4 GFB SE TV AGP 4X Working GeForce2 MX (NV15) - 32MB
nVidia ASUS AGP-V7700/32M (TVR) AGP 4X Working GeForce2 GTS (NV15) - 32MB
nVidia Hercules 3D Prophet II GTS AGP 4X Working GeForce2 GTS (NV15) - 32MB
nVidia Hercules 3D Prophet II GTS Pro AGP 4X Working GeForce2 GTS (NV15) - 64MB
nVidia ASUS GeForce4 Ti 4200-128 AGP 4X Working GeForce4 (NV25) - 128MB
nVidia nVidia GeForce4 TI 4600 AGP 4X Working (Kinda) GeForce4 (NV25) - 128MB
nVidia Gainward GF4 Ti 4600 Golden Sample AGP 4X Working GeForce4 (NV25) - 128MB
nVidia eVGA e-GeForce FX 5700 Ultra AGP 8X Working NV36A1 - 128MB
nVidia eVGA e-GeForce FX 5900 Ultra AGP 8X Working NV35 - 256MB
Matrox Matrox Parhelia PH-A256 AGP 8X Working Parhelia 512 - 256MB
3Dlabs 3Dlabs Wildcat VP560 AGP 8X Working 3Dlabs P9 - 64MB
SiS Pine Group 3D Phantom AGP 8X Working Xabre 200 - 32MB
ATi ATi Radeon X700 Pro PCI-E Working RV410 - 256MB
nVidia BFG Tech GeForce 7800 GS AGP 8X Working G71 - 256MB
nVidia BFG Tech GeForce 7800 GT OC PCI-E Working G70 - 256MB
nVidia eVGA e-GeForce 7800 GTX ACS3 PCI-E Working G70 - 256MB
nVidia nVidia X8764 PCI-E Working Quadro FX 4500 (G70) - 512MB (ENG Sample)
nVidia nVidia QDFX-4500-N-A2 PCI-E Working Quadro FX 4500 (G70) - 512MB
nVidia Leadtek WinFast 7900 GTX TDH PCI-E Dying G71 - 512MB
nVidia BFG Tech GeForce 8800 GT PCI-E Working G92 - 512MB
nVidia nVidia GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB PCI-E Working G80 - 640MB
nVidia MSI NX8800GTX PCI-E Working GeForce 8800 GTX (G80) - 768MB
nVidia nVidia GeForce 8800 GTX PCI-E Working G80 - 768MB
ATi ATi Radeon X1950 Pro PCI-E Working RV570 XT - 256MB
ATi ATi Radeon X1950 XTX PCI-E Working RV580+ - 512MB (GDDR4)
ATi ATi Radeon HD 2900 Pro PCI-E Working R600 PRO - 1GB (GDDR3)
ATi ATi Radeon HD 2900 XT PCI-E Working R600 XT - 512MB (GDDR4)
ATi Sapphire Radeon HD 3870 PCI-E Working RV670 XT - 512MB
ATi ATi Radeon HD 3870x2 PCI-E Working RV670 XT (x2) - 1GB
ATi ATi All-In-Wonder HD PCI-E Working (Kinda) RV635 PRO - 512MB (DDR2)
nVidia Palit 9600 GT SONIC 1GB PCI-E Working G94-300-A1 - 1GB (HDMI & DP too!)
nVidia Sparkle GeForce 9800 GT Low-Profile PCI-E Working G92-270-A2 - 512MB
nVidia ASUS EN9800GTX/HTDP PCI-E Working G92-420-A2 - 512MB
nVidia MSI N220GT-MD1G PCI-E Working GT216-055-A3 - 1GB (DDR2, stamped ATi)
nVidia nVidia GeForce GTX 260 PCI-E Working G200-100-A2 - 896MB (ENG Sample)
nVidia nVidia GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 PCI-E Working G200-103-B2 - 896MB (ENG Sample)
nVidia Dell GeForce GTX 260 PCi-E Working G200-103-B2 - 1792MB
nVidia nVidia Quadro FX 3800 PCI-E Working GT200-835-B1 - 1GB
nVidia nVIdia Quadro FX 5800 PCI-E Needs Repair G200-350-B3 - 4GB (ENG Sample)
nVidia EVGA GeForce GTX 295 Red Edition PCI-E Working G200-400-B3 (x2) - 1792MB (Double PCB)
nVidia BFG Tech GeForce GTX 295 V2 PCI-E Working G200-400-B3 (x2) - 1798MB (Single PCB)
ATi Sapphire Radeon HD 4770 PCI-E Working (No HSF) RV740 - 512MB
ATi XFX Radeon HD 4850 PCI-E Working RV770 PRO - 512MB
ATi ASUS Radeon HD 4850 PCI-E Working RV770 PRO - 512MB
ATi Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 PCI-E Working RV770 PRO - 512MB
ATi XFX Radeon HD 4890 PCI-E Dying RV790 XT - 1GB
ATi Sapphire Radeon HD 4870x2 PCI-E Working RV770 XT (x2) - 2GB
ATi AMD Radeon HD 5850 PCI-E Working Cypress PRO - 1GB
ATi AMD Radeon HD 5970 A1 PCI-E Memory Errors Hemlock XT (x2) - 2GB (ENG Sample)
nVidia nVidia GeForce GTX 460 v2 PCI-E Partially Working GF114-400-A0 - 1GB (ENG Sample)
nVidia MSI GeForce GTX 465 Golden Edition PCI-E Working GF100-030-A3 - 1GB (Unlocked to GTX 470 w/ 1280MB)
nVidia nVidia GeForce GTX 470 PCI-E Needs Repair GF100-275-A3 - 1280MB (ENG Sample)
nVidia Gigabyte GeForce GTX 480 PCI-E Working GF100-375-A3 - 1536MB
nVidia nVidia GeForce GTX 480 PCI-E Working GF100-375-A0 - 1536MB (ENG Sample)
nVidia MSI GeForce GTX 560 Ti Golden Edition PCI-E Working GF114-400-A1 - 1GB
AMD AMD Radeon HD 6790 PCI-E Coaster Barts LE - 1GB (ENG Sample)
AMD AMD Radeon HD 6870 PCI-E Working Barts XT - 1GB (Qualification Sample)
AMD AMD Radeon HD 6950 PCI-E Working Cayman PRO - 2GB (6970 via BIOS switch, ENG Sample)
AMD AMD Radeon HD 6990 PCI-E Working Antilles XT - 4GB (ENG/Press Sample)
AMD Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition PCI-E Working Tahiti PRO - 3GB (Complete in box)
AMD AMD TAHITI PCI-E Needs Repair Tahiti XT - 3GB (Early ENG Sample, needs board repairs)
nVidia nVIdia 180-1G401-1002-A01 PCI-E Working GeForce GTX 980 (GM204) - 4GB (ENG Sample, has 780 Ti HSF mounted)
nVidia nVidia GeForce GTX 980 PCI-E Working GM204-400-A1 - 4GB (ENG Sample, thermal test board for Quadro platform)

Not on the list (since they aren’t GPUs) are a small collection of Ageia PPUs and PPU2s. If I find anymore GPUs that I forgot to add I’ll make sure they get put up, but for now I’m tired of typing…

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Good lord.

GPU Brand Model Status Notes
Intel? Intel? GMA something integrated Alive Came on a Dell motherboard running a P4.
ATi ??? x1800 I think Alive Saw the stars in Minecraft for the first time, the integrated could not get that far, convinced me PC was the way to go.
AMD ASUS HD 5450 Alive Bought as a hold over while I saved for a real GPU for my first PC, remains a fallback card for when things go wrong and need to be tested, has saved my ass a few times in this capacity.
AMD MSi HD 7870 Hawk Dead Kicked ass for a long time in two systems, suffered sudden death one day
AMD MSi HD 7850 Dead I think Was my brothers card for this PC, accidentally bought the 1GB version and amazingly it never caused a problem even as the games claimed they needed more, was replaced by my 7870 above when I upgraded. It also had to be replaced under RMA once.
AMD Sapphire 290 Tri-X Alive My primary card currently, is a 4GB model, is still running almost everything between high and max on a 2048*1536 monitor (half a million pixels short of 1440p) so doing pretty good job really. Also the cooler is bent which has slightly bent the PCB too, happened in shipping. It is also second hand, a real trooper.
AMD XFX RX 480 GTR XXX Alive My brothers current card after the 7870 died. 8GB model.
Intel Intel Iris Pro 580 Alive is the integrated GPU in my NUC 6i7KYK mini PC, does a surprisingly solid job.

quantum3d Raven, 3dfx voodoo banshee chipset all in one agp 2d/3d
( k6-2 500, tyan s1590s trinity 100at mb, 256mb 168pin dimm 128-64-64, sb16 pci, 10/100 ethernet card pci, ads tech usbx-500 2 port usb 1 host pci card, maxtor diamond max plus 20gb 7200rpm ultra ata/66 hard drive, still boots 98)

3dfx v5-5500

ati radeon 9700pro 128m

ati radeon x850xt (pcie)

ati radeon x1650 (agp)

ati radeon x1950pro (pcie) powercolor game fx arctic cooling (still in bootable athlon 64 x2 3800+ machine)

saphire radeon hd 5870 1gb gddr5 pcie reference cooler, scythe setsugen2 aftermarket cooling
(daily driver since nov 09, phenom2 x4 965be 140w cpu, msi 790fx-gd70 mb, 8gig vengeance lp ddr3-1600, ocz agil3 120gb ssd, wd blk sata/300 1tb hd, trash fleabay special usb3.0 pcie add in card)

after living through the driver butchery on v5-5500 after nvidea bought 3dxf It would take an act of mythical skydaddy for me to buy anything nvidea.

cpu’s have all been amd barring a 6502c based apple 2e, from a dx100 586 upgrade chip to k6-2 300/500, athlon 1000, xp 2200+, xp 3200+, athlon64 x2 3800+, phenom2 x4 965be 140w 1st gen

Haha Nerd.

Love it.

Those 3dfx cards always looked so sweet. Never owned one though.

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The amount of hardware that I have ever used is not only staggering, but impossible to remember. Even what I’ve owned over the years is going to be hard to remember.

IBM CGA (IBM PC Portable)
ATi Mach64 2MB VRAM (IBM PS/Valuepoint 466 DX/2)
Trident SuperVGA
IBM 8514/a MCA
VEGA Super VGA
Diamond SuperVGA VLB
Tseng SuperVGA
Chips and Technology SuperVGA
Rendition Viertie V1000
Rendition Vierte V2100
Riva TNT
Riva TNT2Ultra
Geforce 5000 something
Geforce 6000 something
ATi Mobility FireGL T2 (Thinkpad R50p)
Geforce 7800 (AGP)
Geforce GTX 8800
Geforce 550ti (Current system at work)
Geforce 750ti
Geforce GTX 770 (2x, SLi - Current Game Rig)
Geforce GTX960 4GB (Current workstation)
Intel integrated - various versions

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You had a Vega before it was cool lol.

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