Legendary gpus

[grayblizzard]

What are some legendary gpus obviously

The original Titan

And the r9 295x2 (stock water cooling is original)

Are 2 what other legendary gpus are there?

[Kherm]

Those 3-slot Asus GTX 580s 

And the Asus Ares III and I think Ares II also

[Raudi_]

What are some legendary gpus obviously

The original Titan

And the r9 295x2 (stock water cooling is original)

Are 2 what other legendary gpus are there?

GTX 295 Red Edition from EVGA

MARS II (Dual GTX 580's)

[Prastupok]

295x2 isn't legendary... neither is the Titan IMO.

[TheSLSAMG]

The following is simply my opinion:

 

NVIDIA's 8800GTX

3dfx's Voodoo series

NVIDIA's TNT series

ATI's 3D Rage

NVIDIA's GTX 580

NVIDIA's GTX 295

EVGA's GTX 460 2Win

[grayblizzard]

Cool compeletly forgot about the 580 keep them coming though and btw how is the Titan not legendary??????

[Prastupok]

Cool compeletly forgot about the 580 keep them coming though and btw how is the Titan not legendary??????

 

It was nothing new.

 

The first generation of Tesla... THAT was legendary. Compute... compute as far as the eye can see.

[TheSLSAMG]

Cool compeletly forgot about the 580 keep them coming though and btw how is the Titan not legendary??????

It didn't do anything extraordinary to the market, it offered little that was special, it's not that old and it's not very interesting.

 

Take the GTX 460 2Win for example. You were getting really good performance back then. As well, NVIDIA were more lenient about board design and it offered a compelling value against GTX 480. And just look at it!

 

[NeverNotExhausted]

Cool compeletly forgot about the 580 keep them coming though and btw how is the Titan not legendary??????

 

Cause it was an overpriced, over hyped pile of shit that should have been 680. If it weren't for that card Nvidia wouldn't be trying to straight up rip off everybody shopping for a high end GPU.

 

They couldn't even get their marketing for it right either, they market it as a gaming card until somebody brings up the rip of price tag and then change the story to 'its a workstation card' bullshit.

[grayblizzard]

Lol 580 ok then any and/anti cards or nah?

[ApolloX75]

The 9800 GX2. What a monster. Mine consistently hit 110C at full bore.

 

The FX 5800 Ultra with it's leaf blower.

 

The HD 2900 XT for being the first true DX10 card and a 512bit Ringbus.

 

Voodoo 5 because external power brick.

[grayblizzard]

Amd/ati

[grayblizzard]

Remember these old be legendary for being crappy too

[TheSLSAMG]

Cause it was an overpriced, over hyped pile of shit that should have been 680. If it weren't for that card Nvidia wouldn't be trying to straight up rip off everybody shopping for a high end GPU.

To be fair, it's still more powerful than your entire PC in terms of pure processing power.

 

It wasn't a pile of shit by any means. It was the perfect bridge card for gamers and content creators. It had the Double FP of Quadros with the gaming performance and drivers of GTX cards, and was therefore branded a GTX card. It was more meant for gaming than CUDA but was still focused on CUDA. Saying it's overpriced is outright wrong, saying it's overhyped is kind of fair enough and saying that it should have been the GTX 680 is entirely wrong if you have even a shade of understanding of NVIDIA and AMD's product launch cycles.

[DaedalusOS]

I'm keeping my eye on this:

 

 

http://www.evga.com/articles/00920/EVGA-GeForce-GTX-980-HYBRID/

 

If theres one company that can do it right, its EVGA.

[TheSLSAMG]

Lol 580 ok then any and/anti cards or nah?

There are legendary AMD/ATi cards, but nothing comes to mind from me. For the most part, this is because I have done a better job of documenting older NVIDIA stuff than I have AMD stuff. You could say I'm a fanboy, but you wouldn't be right in that assumption.

[DaedalusOS]

There are legendary AMD/ATi cards, but nothing comes to mind from me. For the most part, this is because I have done a better job of documenting older NVIDIA stuff than I have AMD stuff. You could say I'm a fanboy, but you wouldn't be right in that assumption.

 

That and AMD is trash....

 

 

(Not that I'm trying to start one, but inb4flamewar)

 

To me a "Legendary Card" would have to be the 770. There are still giveaways with it, because it is such a solid card. I wanted one for a long time before I got a 980.

[GrimNeo]

295x2 isn't legendary... neither is the Titan IMO.

I liked the 8800 GTX. I still have it lol.

[TheSLSAMG]

That and AMD is trash....

 

 

(Not that I'm trying to start one, but inb4flamewar)

 

To me a "Legendary Card" would have to be the 770. There are still giveaways with it, because it is such a solid card. I wanted one for a long time before I got a 980.

GTX 770 wasn't a special card though, it was just a GTX 680 with new memory. (I had one, liked it but replaced it with a GTX 970 because of noise and temps.)

[DaedalusOS]

GTX 770 wasn't a special card though, it was just a GTX 680 with new memory. (I had one, liked it but replaced it with a GTX 970 because of noise and temps.)

 

Maybe, but everyone remembers the 770. 

[NeverNotExhausted]

To be fair, it's still more powerful than your entire PC in terms of pure processing power.

 

It wasn't a pile of shit by any means. It was the perfect bridge card for gamers and content creators. It had the Double FP of Quadros with the gaming performance and drivers of GTX cards, and was therefore branded a GTX card. It was more meant for gaming than CUDA but was still focused on CUDA. Saying it's overpriced is outright wrong, saying it's overhyped is kind of fair enough and saying that it should have been the GTX 680 is entirely wrong if you have even a shade of understanding of NVIDIA and AMD's product launch cycles.

 

Doesn't matter how powerful it is, it was an exercise by Nvidia to see how much they could sell a consumer grade card for. My rig is also a deliberate attempt at seeing how cheap I can build something that is capable of modern gaming by buying and selling parts to do so.

 

It's also not the first consumer card to have double floating point from Nvidia, See GTX 470, 480, 570 and 580 for more info on that. Yet they weren't a blatant rip off. So why was Titan?

 

Also if you look at the launch cycles you would see that Titan was supposed to be 680 yet the entire product line was nerfed because the 7970 wasn't powerful enough to compete with GK110. It's also why Nvidia had mass shortages of GK104 chips at launch, Because they weren't expecting to make 680,670 and 660ti all based on the same core. They were only expecting to use GK104 for mid tier cards and not half their product line. So Nvidia saved up their 110 chip for the rip off that is Titan. It's pretty simple to see that 'If you have even a shade of understanding of Nvidias and AMDs production cycles'

[Hans Christian | Teri]

7900GX2. I miss dual PCB cards...

[Yasri]

Card that are legendary imo are ones that just came in and blew everything else out of the water in some way.

ATI Radeon 9700PRO - First card of the modern age of videocards being fully a DX9 card, took nvidia a long time to fully counter. Almost two years with the 6000 series. 5000 series was just bad...

Nvidia GeForce 8800/9800 GTX/GTS/GT - These card were the go to cards for years. They stood more or less unopposed. More or less the same card, just different configurations and die shrinks.

 

AMD Radeon 4850/4870 - Card that gave at the time high end performance matching it's competitor and it did not bust your wallet, oh the days.

[BirdyTheMighty]

not sure if legendary but i do miss those old school GPU designs 

ATI 4870 x2

 

[JDS]

GT 610.