Best gpu generation

[brownninja97]

What generation or year as you might sya had the best gpus, this is about crazy new features and not about who has the most horsepower, what suprised you the most, introduction of pci-e, nvidia buying agera, ati using polymerisation with AMD. 

[Guest GRRigger]

2013/2014

[leipero]

I would say 2002-2004 with ATI Radeon R300 series (9000 series).

 

It was really huge leap in graphics, everything after that was "meh". You had great games to support it, good performance compared to anything before, brilliant graphics, and interesting/addictive gameplay.

 

As time goes by, we will see less and less impressive graphics, because compute power needed to create something that would be substantially more pretty will increase in not so good proportion (for example, you will need 10 times faster GPU in order to create less then 2 times better graphics).

[s3ns3]

remember crysis 1 ? yep. 2008-2009 with all the fuzz with can it run crysis . geforce 8 and rebrand 9 series then the gtx 2xx series. now those were the sh*t ! 

[brownninja97]

remember crysis 1 ? yep. 2008-2009 with all the fuzz with can it run crysis . geforce 8 and rebrand 9 series then the gtx 2xx series. now those were the sh*t ! 

Thats the gen that iw as thinking would be the best.

[david cassar]

Thats the gen that iw as thinking would be the best.

i chose that generation because a lot of cards during that generation were a huge leap in terms of performance from the previous generation. As an example the gtx 295 blew the 9800gx2 completely out of the water. The same goes to the hd 4870x2. But i also think that the 5xxx series and 4xx series brang dx11 to the market. 

[Ashratt]

you should change it to to the corresponding gpu names. I'd say nvidias' gtx 8800 /g80 and amds' hd 5870 /RV870 were pretty beast

[Hunter259]

Just look at what i am still running. I think you have my answer....

[RadSalacan]

Just look at what i am still running. I think you have my answer....

Hahaha yeah!  I still run SLi EVGA 460s in one of my rigs.

[Maxibonbits]

My knowledge on GPU's doesn't go back beyond 2012, so my answer might be a bit bias.

[Emkryan]

Hahaha yeah!  I still run SLi EVGA 460s in one of my rigs.

I only have one GTX 460. 1GB

[brownninja97]

wow so many people with gtx 460s.

[PCBudgetSolutions]

What generation or year as you might sya had the best gpus, this is about crazy new features and not about who has the most horsepower, what suprised you the most, introduction of pci-e, nvidia buying agera, ati using polymerisation with AMD. 

OP could you redo the poll as most of us may not know what year each generation came out

 

600/7000

500/6000

400/5000

200/4000

9000/3000

8000/2000 

etc etc

[MetroP]

The AMD HD 4000 series and the AMD HD 7000 series.
The Nvidia 8000 series.

[algoat]

The S3 ViRGE and 3DFX era introduced us to 3D graphic cards, so I'd say the mid 1990s

[kaneandtaker]

I don't know. I only got into computer tech in 2011.

[xAcid9]

Every generation is the best generation imo. :P

[brownninja97]

people might hate me for this but i think so far the generation happening this year not including AMD yet might be one of the worse generations or even the worst yet. The jump as been small and nvidia have cut way too many corner and its getting down to the point where we are basically getting overclocked versions of last years cards. Its fine if its parts of the GT series but not GTX area, they disappointed me badly.

[Cryptonite]

people might hate me for this but i think so far the generation happening this year not including AMD yet might be one of the worse generations or even the worst yet. The jump as been small and nvidia have cut way too many corner and its getting down to the point where we are basically getting overclocked versions of last years cards. Its fine if its parts of the GT series but not GTX area, they disappointed me badly.

I totally agree with you, the 600 series was a major up from the 500 series which was a decent up from the 400 series but the 700 series is basically the same as the 600 series, just a rebrand and a bit of a boost. (not saying people shouldn't buy the 760 though, great card for the price) it's just that I expected more. as for the most interesting to me was the jump to dx 11 with the GTX 400 series. I'm not sure about amd's cards though since I only recently started liking some of their cards, I'd say the generation they release that has less power consumption and more horsepower than Nvidia since that's basically what makes me buy Nvidia nowadays (that and the fact that KFA2 is so damn cheap here that AMD can't compete), I'd rather save some power consumption than have a little extra horsepower. (aswell as the fact that if AMD started taking drivers seriously they'd smoke Nvidia, but they just don't, we'll see what happens with the new series coming out.)

[A/C]

OP could you redo the poll as most of us may not know what year each generation came out

 

600/7000

500/6000

400/5000

200/4000

9000/3000

8000/2000 

etc etc

 

No, you got it wrong...

 

NV8000 was with ATI 3000/4000

NV9000 was with ATI 4000

NV 200 was with  ATI 4000/5000

NV 400 was with  ATI 5000

...

[blitz7287]

2013-2014

[Lil Chillbil]

cast my vote for the 2XX series

[PCBudgetSolutions]

No, you got it wrong...

NV8000 was with ATI 3000/4000

NV9000 was with ATI 4000

NV 200 was with ATI 4000/5000

NV 400 was with ATI 5000

...

Are you sure? Nvidia's first gddr5 card was 4xx series as amds was 4xxx series. Which means AMD dominated NVidia for years. Yes NVidia went back and made 2xx series oem gddr5 cards but that was years after

[lachyman]

Kepler was a big boom, but the next year will be even bigger since it's time for Maxwell GPUs to come out!

[Guest GRRigger]

Kepler was a big boom, but the next year will be even bigger since it's time for Maxwell GPUs to come out!

yep, and i doubt we will be shrinking much more anyway, so pretty much this gen or next gen could be last with big step. then we will do baby steps. 

i highly doubt 14nm...