10 YEARS of NVIDIA Video Cards Tested

[nicklmg]

Buy NVIDIA Video Cards:
Amazon: http://geni.us/uRhYJ
Newegg: http://geni.us/lLatP

 

How have NVIDIA video cards improved over the last ten years?

 

 

[Zando_]

Off topic question: Do we get a hug emoji?

 

On topic: Great video! It's pretty cool to see how (surprisingly) well even 6-8 year old cards can run modern games. 

 

 

[NuclearKing]

10 minutes ago, nicklmg said:

Buy NVIDIA Video Cards:
Amazon: http://geni.us/uRhYJ
Newegg: http://geni.us/lLatP

 

How have NVIDIA video cards improved over the last ten years?

 

 

Clever thumbnail. Calling out the trolls who call you out for a supposed schill. Colour of money doesn't hurt either

[Guest]

19 minutes ago, nicklmg said:

Buy NVIDIA Video Cards:
Amazon: http://geni.us/uRhYJ
Newegg: http://geni.us/lLatP

 

How have NVIDIA video cards improved over the last ten years?

 

 

For all the triggered Nvidia fan boys that hated the AMD one...

[Guest Darth Revan]

More like the history of Nvidia increasing the price slowly but surely.

[agent_x007]

I like how Avg. FPS jumps get slower in HL2/Bioshock/Unigine Heaven/ after GTX 780 Ti
Also ~700FPS Avg. in Half Life 2 
 

[nicklmg]

16 minutes ago, NuclearKing said:

Clever thumbnail. Calling out the trolls who call you out for a supposed schill. Colour of money doesn't hurt either

As they say in the rap game, "haters make me famous."  LOL Nah we just like to have fun with the thumbnails.

7 minutes ago, Factory OC said:

For all the triggered Nvidia fan boys that hated the AMD one...

Or maybe it's just because we wanted to cover both sides of the market? 

[DnFx91]

1 minute ago, nicklmg said:

As they say in the rap game, "haters make me famous."  LOL Nah we just like to have fun with the thumbnails.

Or maybe it's just because we wanted to cover both sides of the market? 

man seeing this makes me really want to get a 980ti, i didnt realise that it wasnt that far behind the 10 series, and a friend got one for 270 quid on ebay

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, nicklmg said:

Or maybe it's just because we wanted to cover both sides of the market? 

I guess so. Why would I think you guys would want to let a flame war break out?

[Guest]

Just now, DnFx91 said:

man seeing this makes me really want to get a 980ti, i didnt realise that it wasnt that far behind the 10 series, and a friend got one for 270 quid on ebay

Yeah. It's still a powerful card in today's standard.

[nicklmg]

4 minutes ago, Factory OC said:

I guess so. Why would I think you guys would want to let a flame war break out?

We don't try to incite them, people just be passionate  

[MooseCheese]

Superd video guys, I really enjoyed this one. Now I just need to find time for the new Scrapyard Wars. Very excited for that one.

[3 Lions]

This was a really interesting video. It's kinda strange to think that the 8800 GTX was once a flagship, by today's standards it's classed mediocre even if you put it up against something that isn't a flagship like a 1070 (http://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GTX-1070-vs-Nvidia-GeForce-8800-GTX/3609vsm9271) 

[l0bst3r]

Good video, but the background music was a little bit annoying, imo

[FizzyFantom]

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Nvidia did release 800 series graphics cards.

 

These were a mixture of late Kepler and early Maxwell, mostly put into laptops (with the "m" on the end of course).

 

If I remember correctly some of these 800 series cards made it into OEM only solutions, like off-the-shelf systems from Acer.

[Feeterican]

Can anyone name all the cards they have used and still have? Here's my line up since 2002.

Ti 4200

FX 5700 Ultra

7600 GTS

7800 GTX

8400 GS (using)

8800 GTS

8800 GT

3 9800 GTX+ (I had only 1 9800 GTX+ and still have 2 of the non plus)

GTX 480

2 GTX 680 (still have them and currently using 1)

GTX 960 (using)

GTX 1080 (using)

[MysticLTT]

Good lord, I never knew that, the die size difference.

 

[manikyath]

my first thought:

 

oh snap, someone's not gonna get the aquired joke, and actually believe everyone at LMG is paid by nvidia...

[MysticLTT]

I'm officially pissed at the Nvidia for not releasing the 680 with a Titan chip, and instead shoving us a tiny midrange GPU and then selling the big one as a 700 series. They didn't want the performance to double for $500. I remember struggling with FPS and seeing a shitty 20% "improvement" with 680. I had to quit gaming and save the best games for later and later I didn't want them anymore. They simply stole my happiness. 

 

This video is an eye opener. 

[manikyath]

1 minute ago, MysticLTT said:

This video is an eye opener. 

then you, my friend, have been living under a rock.

 

and potentially.. this fairly predictable ~20% performance bump per generation may be the reason why nvidia does so well.. because lets be honest, with AMD you just dont know what's gonna go down. a friend of mine is still rocking a pair of r9 295x2's waiting for AMD's new big toys to arrive, if ever.

 

there's no doubt nvidia uses their strong marketshare and AMD's lackluster upgrade cycle as a way to inch up pricing at the high end, but if that bothers you, please be reminded that that is the reason i'm here as an nvidia user (mostly out of habit) recommending people RX480's over GTX1060s because AMD quite comfortably slid that thing RIGHT in there for the budget minded folks. now if only we had something to compete just one step higher.. nvidia can stick their GTX1080 and higher straight into their wallet, but the GTX1070 level of perfomance is something AMD really needs to find an answer to if they want to stay a relevant player, instead of "just that budget brand" of GPUs.

 

IMO nvidia has kinda lost track of their own naming scheme with the GTX10 series, and i really hope a kick under their ass from AMD will solve that, but my worry (and lets be honest, that of all the professional folks AMD tried to ship this monstrousity to) is that that kick may not come soon, or ever.

[nicklmg]

56 minutes ago, FizzyFantom said:

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Nvidia did release 800 series graphics cards.

 

These were a mixture of late Kepler and early Maxwell, mostly put into laptops (with the "m" on the end of course).

 

If I remember correctly some of these 800 series cards made it into OEM only solutions, like off-the-shelf systems from Acer.

Yes, there were mobile chips with 800-series naming scheme. But in the context of this video (specifically talking about desktop flagship cards), Nvidia did entirely skip over 800 series.

[OriAr]

15 minutes ago, MysticLTT said:

I'm officially pissed at the Nvidia for not releasing the 680 with a Titan chip, and instead shoving us a tiny midrange GPU and then selling the big one as a 700 series. They didn't want the performance to double for $500. I remember struggling with FPS and seeing a shitty 20% "improvement" with 680. I had to quit gaming and save the best games for later and later I didn't want them anymore. They simply stole my happiness. 

 

This video is an eye opener. 

It was a bit more complicated than that, iirc the 28 nm process had horrible yields back then and it played a part in the GTX 680 being a cut chip.

[manikyath]

58 minutes ago, FizzyFantom said:

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Nvidia did release 800 series graphics cards.

 

These were a mixture of late Kepler and early Maxwell, mostly put into laptops (with the "m" on the end of course).

 

If I remember correctly some of these 800 series cards made it into OEM only solutions, like off-the-shelf systems from Acer.

they were all laptop parts.. and honestly.. it's a rare sight seeing 800 series laptops around because they appareantly were super unreliable (all laptops i've seen die when those hit shelves were 800 series GPU laptops, and i've seen a lot of them go by that year..) and were hot as all freaking hell, especially compared to the 900 series that replaced them the year after, and basicly kicked them off the market right away.

[manikyath]

3 minutes ago, OriAr said:

It was a bit more complicated than that, iirc the 28 nm process had horrible yields back then and it played a part in the GTX 680 being a cut chip.

it'd be really nice if companies talked about node yields more, because that sounds like a very plausible thing, but just like with HBM now, we dont really have a grasp on what goes down behind fab doors.

[danielbatmanj]

do 10 years of integrated graphics for intel and amd (include apus)