Just for fun, your GPU timeline.

[ivanrcks95]

This is just a bit of fun. Was scrolling through old photos i had and found this gem from 2012, when i upgraded from my HD5450, to a GT610. It got me thinking, what has been my GPU timeline, so here it is, i dont have pics of them all but ill try my best.

 

2007-2010 Nvidia 8500GT - was in a prebuilt my parents gifted me. My first gaming PC. no pics sadly.

 

2010-2012 Radeon HD5450 - this was the GPU i swapped into the prebuilt as an upgrade.

 

 

2012-2014 Nvidia GT610 - same prebuilt, just an upgraded GPU.

 

 

2013-2016 Nvidia GTX 660m - my main gaming laptop through uni.

 

 

2014-2016 Nvidia GTX 750ti - first ever actual build.(only have pic of GPU mounted inside)

 

 

2016-2019 Nvidia GTX 1050ti - upgrades to the first build i did.

 

 

2019-2020 Nvidia GTX 1660super - my second ever build.

 

 

2020-now Nvidia RTX 2070 - was a $50 upgrade to the second build.

 

This was a fun trip down memory lane. Also cool to see how ive progressed from sub-budget peasant tier cards, to an okay rig now. What has been your GPU timeline? Im sure people here will have cards far far older than my 8500GT, it will be cool to see!

[mahyar]

fx 5200 2006 - 2013

8800gt 2013-2017

quadro 1000m 2017-2020

gtx850m 2020-now 

[SFFDesigns]

I've only ever "owned" one GPU.

 

RTX 3080 FE, after using a borrowed RX580 8GB

[Senzelian]

Love this post!

 

Here's mine:

• ATi connect3D Radeon X1600 Pro 512MB (I still have the card and it functions)
• AMD Radeon HD 5450 1GB
• NVidia GeForce Gainward GTX 760 2GB
• NVidia GeForce Gigabyte GTX 980 4GB (2x, SLI)
• NVidia GeForce EVGA GTX 1080 8GB
• Intel XE2 engineering samp... oh wait, I'm not supposed to tell you that, right? jk  

 

Picture of my two 980s:

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[DailyProcrastinator]

For my main system(s) I went R9 290X  GTX 960  GTX 980Ti  GTX 1080   GTX 1080Ti (still using)

I wish I had pics of some of my old GPUs.

 

I have owned a few other GPUs as well for other systems a GTX 980, another GTX 980Ti, GTX 1060, another GTX 1080, RX 580, and the RX 5700 would be more recent.

 

But since I got my 1080Ti it is the longest I have not upgraded going all the way back to my R9. Waiting for a 3080Ti or AMD equivalent though. 

[Jurrunio]

- GTX 275. $20 to replace a dead GT210. In 2013 mind you, too old for games already.

- RX 470: First card when I wanted to start playing games. Sold during the mining craze

- GTX 1070: Guess where the RX 470 money went. Added about $120 for it.

- GTX 1060 6GB mobile: Studying in a foreign country, unrealistic to bring the old build out.

 

Also bought a GTX 295 and GTX 580 Matrix for the sake of owning one

[Yo soy Jack]

We used to live in a tiny little apartment in central Houston around 2010-2013 and we had very little money, so much so that my bedroom was just a glorified closet, I had always watched a load of Minecraft, and always wanted to play the game. To my suprise I got a tiny office computer for Christmas ( not sure the specs but I know that it could barely run Minecraft in 2011 so..) at the time I guess I took it as granted but nowadays I realize that my parents definitely could have used that money for something else, regardless after about 3 years my parents found jobs in rural Louisiana in the oil company and we moved there in another apartment (this time with my room  )  unfortunately in the moving process my parents decided to sell my first computer and I was crushed, I made it a goal to get the best computer out there and that I was going to pay for it with my own money. Fast forward to 2018 and we have full sized house in the same rural town but I just ordered a prebuild that had an i3 8350k a Zotac 1050 mini (2GB) and 8GB or ram, I did get some upgrades for it around a year later with a 1060 3gb and a i5 9400f. But just recently I build my first computer in august by myself with my own money from my first job without anybody’s help. 2080 super, 32gb trident z 3000mhz 5tb storage i7 9700k, liquid cooling and an 850w rgb power supply. Sorry for the long story, I just wanted to share my childhood goal that I just recently accomplished.

[AndreiArgeanu]

I think it was a GT210M or some NVIDIA gpu with a Pentium B950 in a Toshiba Satellite Laptop.

Then it was a GTX 1050 mobile inside an Asus ZX553VD

Then a MSI GTX 770 2GB OC,

And now I have a RX 480 8GB red devil.

 

[Guest]

I.... I can't remember them all. 

So to shorten the list.

Several PCI cards (not pcie) example Geforce FX 5500

AGP cards, a few. MX 440 to Geforce 6800 GT

PCI-E lots of cards. The list would be long I think.

Also not limited to onboard and APUs.

 

 

 

[dilpickle]

ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon

ATI All-In-Wonder 9700 Pro

ATI All-in-Wonder X800 XT

XFX GeForce 7950 GT Xtreme

EVGA GeForce GTX 280

2x EVGA GeForce GTX 680 SLI

2x EVGA GeForce GTX 980 SLI

2x EVGA GeForce GTX 1080Ti SLI

Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 FE

[DildorTheDecent]

• GTX 650 Ti Boost 2GB
• GTX 660 2GB
  • second card added for fun reasons
• GTX 980 KPE
  • second card added for fun reasons
• GTX 1080 HOF
• RTX 2080 Ti

[PorkishPig]

Here's mine, listed by purchase period. I only have a handful of pictures, the rest are just pictures of the particular model:

• 2012 - Intel HD 2000
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• Q1 2015 - GTX 750 Ti
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• Q1 2017 - RX 480
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• Q3 2017 - GTX 980
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• Q2 2018 - GTX 1070
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• Q4 2018 - GTX 1070 Ti
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[fabarati]

2000-2003 Nvidia Riva TNT2 M64

2003-2007 ATI 9800 pro

2007-2008 Nvidia go 7700

2008-2012 ATI HD 2600

2012-2016 Nvidia GT650m

• 2015-2016 Nvidia GT840m

2016-now Nvidia GTX 1070

• 2016-2017 Another Nvidia GTX 1070

2017-now RX 480

2017-now Nvidia GTX 1080ti

 

 

[DailyProcrastinator]

Found some old pics of my 960 and 980Ti:

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[Terminus_V]

Things really haven't gone smoothly for me on the GPU front lately:

 

2015-2019 GTX 750

2019: GTX 750 > RX 580 > GTX 750 > RX 590 > RTX 2080 > GTX 970

2020: GTX 970 > RX 5700 XT > GTX 980Ti

[ivanrcks95]

Wow, didnt realise this would be such a popular topic, epic to see all the variety of cards people have had and some kept over the years!

[Sophia_Borjia]

Geforce 6200 in 2004, died in months.

Geforce 6800 ultra in 2004, still in pc, sitting unplugged near current pc.

picked up 2nd used 6800 ultra for sli, don't remember year.

Intel iGPU on atom in 2009, still have that system 

gtx 1050 in 2017-2018

Removed to use intel iGPU, ran games well enough. was simpler to get multi-monitor setup with old vga monitors working with iGPU.

late 2019-early 2020 put gtx 1050 in new ryzen 7 build

early 2020- now rx5700xt

near future, 5950x in current x570 mobo with rx5700xt(I know it is not balanced, odd use case),  ryzen 7 moving to new 450 mobo with the 1050 put back in.

 

Probably odd in how much I moved around a 1050, used iGPU so much, and have 16 years of computers sitting in row....

 

[Bobbysixjp]

1060 ==> 1070 ==> 1080 ==> 2070 ==> 5700XT ==> 3070

Japan has a great used market so all the above only cost me about 1000 dollars in total. 

[Zelenia]

2003-2011 - I had weird HP prebuild PC with ATI Radeon GPU. I don't know which model, it was red and no fans I think. During end of it's life it was artifacting but not crashing. I had to remove 1 ram stick from PC to start any software. Still games didn't crash!

2011 - HP laptop with integrated GPU. HD 3000? Maybe. It overheated and melted in 2 months. Screen stopped working. 

2011-2015 - GT 650M, I bought a gaming laptop it for light gaming and school work. I almost killed this one with a cup of coffee. Saved by a rice bag.

2016-2020 - GTX 970M, another gaming laptop GPU. This was honestly way too expensive for what it was worth (it had maybe 1/3 of performance of actual 970).  It still works and I think my relative is playing Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 with it and told me it runs flawless. 

2020 - RTX 2060

 

[Zberg]

Fun post!

 

Home gaming set up

GTX 660

GTX 760

GTX 970 (this felt like a massive jump from my 760 for 1080p gaming)!

GTX 970 SLI (added a second used one in to eek out some more performance before upgrading to 1440p)

RTX 2080 for 1440p

RTX 2080 SLI (for 4k)...got tired of SLI and sold them both though

RTX 2080ti, custom loop (and currently happy with it)

 

Work PC

GTX 1660ti

RTX 2070

RTX 2080ti...sold on ebay by someone who apparently was happy to overpay (plan to ultimately replace with 3080 as it went for 1000$)

AMD 5700XT...immediately returned due to malfunctioning, freezing, blue/black screens.  Wont be going AMD again

(hilariously) 1660ti again...best card they had at bestbuy in store when I returned the 5700XT P.O.S.  Now a placeholder until 3000 series becomes available.

 

 

[shaz2sxy]

ohhh lets seee

 

Nvidia Geforce 2 GTS

Nvidia Geforce 3 Ti500 

Nvidia Geforce 4 TI4400

ATI 980 Pro

Nvidia Geforce 6600 GT

Nvidia Geforce 8800 GT

Nvidia Geforce GTX 560 Ti

Nvidia Geforce GTX 680

Nvidia Geforce GTX 970

Nvidia Geforce GTX 1070 Ti

Nvidia Geforce RTX 2070 Super FE

Nvidia Geforce RTX 3070 FE

 

You can see the trend with me lol

 

Had 1 Ati card it was bad experience lol

 

[Synergic0084]

Main PC:

2012-2013 - Intel Extreme Graphics (I had a SFF PC with a P4)

2013-2015 - HD 3450 - Paired with a 775 P4

2015-2016 - GT 730 - Paired with a C2D E8400

2016-2017 - GT 740 - Paired with a Pentuim G4500

2017-2020 - GTX 1050 (GPU died because my PSU blew up, before my PSU blew up I tried heavily overclocking to eek out some performance (actually gave me decent gains)) - Paired with a G4500, G4600 and then my great i5 rig before dying

2020-Now - GTX 1650 SUPER - Paired with my i5 rig

 

Laptop:

2015-2018: Cherry Trail iGPU - I had an Atom tablet/laptop hybrid

2018-2020: Vega 3

[jones177]

I have been buying video cards since there has been video cards but I only have a record from Newegg to go by now. 

 

2006  =  GIGABYTE GeForce 7950GT $322

2007  =  XFX PVT88PYDD4 GeForce 8800GT $316

          =  EVGA 320-P2-N815-AR GeForce 8800GTS $301 

2008  =  XFX PVT88GYDD4 GeForce 8800GTS $252 

2009  =  EVGA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 SC $205

2010  =  EVGA GeForce GTX 470 SC $349

2011  =  EVGA GeForce GTX 570 SC $370

2012  =  EVGA GeForce GTX 670 $420

2013  =  EVGA GeForce GTX 680 w/ Backplate 4GB $558 (vram for modded Skyrim)

2014  =  EVGA GeForce GTX 970 $352

2015  =  EVGA GeForce GTX 980 $579 (I bought a 4k monitor)

          =  EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti  SC+ $695 

2016  =  EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti  SC+ $455 

          =  EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 SC $657

          =  GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 XTREME Gaming Premium Pack $707 

2017  =  EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SC2 $760

          =  EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SC2 $760

2018  =  EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Black $657 

          =  EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti XC $1200

2019  =  EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti FTW3 Ultra $1400

2020  =  EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti FTW3 Ultra $1500

 

Next will be one 3080 and one 3090. Hopefully a ti version will be out for number 3. 
 

[Exeon]

I can't remember the years all that well.

Nvidia MX250

Nvidia 8500 GT

Nvidia 8800 GTS

Nvidia GTS 250

Nvidia GTX 260

Nvidia GTX 560

Nvidia GTX 760

Nvidia GTX 980Ti

Nvidia RTX 3080 (pending)

 

 

[Yebi]

Amazing thread!

 

To start off, GeForce 256. I have no idea when I got it. I think it was paired with a 400Mhz Celeron in a horizontal beige case, but that's about all I remember

 

2006-ish - dad surprised us with a brand new gaming rig, with a 7600GS in it. Not exactly cutting edge, but it ran Oblivion like a champ. A lot of fun was had

 

2007 - my first venture into Gamer with a capital G territory. After working my teenage butt all summer, I updated the previously mentioned rig with a 8800 GTX. This was a shitty prebuilt with zero ventilation. My mods included breaking out all of the PCIe covers ant making a cardboard barrier to place in between the card intake and card exhaust, duct taped to the card of course. Dropped like 10 °C. Ran Crysis like a champ, and a hell of a lot of fun was had

 

2011 - Enter the dark ages. Between moving out and the beginning of the uni life, I had to ditch the desktop for a laptop. Enter Intel HD graphics. Ran, uhh... Medieval 2 Total War, if I recall correctly, like champ. Still fun

 

2015 - Still the same era, but a hell of an upgrade. Geforce 940M. Ran Skyrim like a champ. A lot of stealth archer characters were had

 

2019 - I'm back, baby. To commemorate finishing my dream degree and getting into my dream specialty (future pediatrician here btw), my parents and sisters pitched in cash for a build-it-yourself gift. A ridiculously overkill compensator-level PC. You can probably tell where this is obviously going, a 2080Ti. Runs Control like a champ. Also, folds like a champ! Currently in 52th place in the event. It's not looking very likely, but I still got hopes for top50