whats the worst GPU you have ever used?

[Bananasplit_00]

So not necesairely in terms of raw performance, if that was the case then id say my FX5500, but rather in terms of just shitness. Shitty performance for your money, crap cooler, didnt live up to expectations, whatever!

 

il start out with mine:

For me its probably the R7 M350 in my school laptop. this is a GPU that performs worse then a GTX 660M, and the 660 is definatly enough for low or medium settings 1080p for a lot of games but the 660M is a total pice of crap. the 660 dekstop card has a nice 960 cudacores and a 1033MHz boost from NVIDIAs door, the 660M has about 600 less cudacores, drops the core frequency by 200MHz and half the memory bandwidth... yah and this M350 i have? performs on par or WORSE than this pice of absolute garbage NVIDIA put out ages ago. good job RTG, well played, you made an absolute turd that draws an unspecified amount of power... AMD refuses to hand out a TDP and no testing of this has been done from what i know, probably more then the 50W the 660M draws though lol. I would probably have been just fine with this card if it wasent for the fact that its a laptop with a 1080p screen and was hyped up to us students as something capable of playing games at native, every other year has a ~720p screen and roughly as powerfull or better(im unsure what the first years actiually have, would guess something like a 940M or pascal performance equivlent )

 

anyway id love to hear your stories about this and your motivations as to why its the worst graphics card you have ever used!  

[Guest]

Intel HD graphics, playing ETS2 at 30fps w/med settings 1080p. It wasnt a good experience, but tweaking some settings fitted my needs for a "decent" enough gaming experience in this scenario. TF2 was also another game that ran smoothly on intel HD graphics as well, everything at the highest possible settings at 1080p. I also play the occasional minesweaper, spider solitare and the classical pin ball game in my dads old pentium 4 machine with windows XP.

[handymanshandle]

Does integrated graphics count? Because, as of right now iGPUs suck. AMD might be changing that though hopefully.

[Jurrunio]

Excluding intel HD crap, my worst is the GTX 275. Once a high end card, I got it 2 years ago so the fact that it doesnt support DX11 makes it terrible for me. It's good for CS:GO and the most demanding game I played with it is Bioshock Infinite. Not a pleasant experience though as the 896MB VRAM limits the settings heavily.

[TidaLWaveZ]

Can't say I've ever had a truly bad dedicated GPU. I bought a GT 710 to hold me over when I had to sell my card to pay rent and I was pleasantly surprised. For the price I expected it to barely work.

 

Mobile/integrated graphics are another story, the ATI Mobility Radeon - 64 MB in my first Compaq laptop definitely the worst. It struggled to play video, I didn't even bother trying to play actual games on it.

[ArduinoBen]

Intel HD Graphics 5000 CSGO 640X800 lowest settings possible (not editing text file or using mods, justi n the settings)  New dust 2 avereaging maybe 20 fps....

[Bananasplit_00]

1 minute ago, TheBeastPC said:

Intel HD graphics, playing ETS2 at 30fps w/med settings 1080p. It wasnt a good experience, but tweaking some settings fitted my needs for a "decent" enough gaming experience in this scenario. TF2 was also another game that ran smoothly on intel HD graphics as well, everything at the highest possible settings at 1080p. I also play the occasional minesweaper, spider solitare and the classical pin ball game in my dads old pentium 4 machine with windows XP.

have never been stuck using intergrated beyond my first gen Atom laptop which i didint expect to do much, and some troubleshooting. 

1 minute ago, wcreek said:

Does integrated graphics count? Because, as of right now iGPUs suck. AMD might be changing that though hopefully.

if its the worst experience with a graphical processor then yah  

Just now, Jurrunio said:

Excluding intel HD crap, my worst is the GTX 275. Once a high end card, I got it 2 years ago so the fact that it doesnt support DX11 makes it terrible for me. It's good for CS:GO and the most demanding game I played with it is Bioshock Infinite. Not a pleasant experience though as the 896MB VRAM limits the settings heavily.

damn that sucks, time to save up for a 660 or something  

2 minutes ago, TidaLWaveZ said:

Can't say I've ever had a truly bad dedicated GPU. I bought a GT 710 to hold me over when I had to sell my card to pay rent and I was pleasantly surprised. For the price I expected it to barely work.

 

Mobile/integrated graphics are another story, the ATI Mobility Radeon - 64 MB in my first Compaq laptop definitely the worst.

64mb? thats less then my FX5500 and thats from 2005  

[Guest]

7 minutes ago, wcreek said:

Does integrated graphics count? Because, as of right now iGPUs suck. AMD might be changing that though hopefully.

With the new ryzen mobile processors which feature vega based graphics, this is definitely an improvement over their older FX APUs and the inte HD graphics. Even with now AMD implementing their own dGPU within the intel CPU, this will give intel a chance in the integrated GPU spectrum, and the good thing is, intel will buy the chips from AMD, boosting the market share for AMD, and I am assuming that the dGPU will have vega based graphics implemented onto the same die.

[System Error Message]

windows xp days, some weird S... graphics. The hardware was so bad that the PC kept freezing.

[RedSector]

nvidia evga 9800gx2.  Cooked itself, used to idle at 80 degress... worst card ever bought

[Bananasplit_00]

Just now, RedSector said:

nvidia evga 9800gx2.  Cooked itself, used to idle at 80 degress... worst card ever bought

do you still have it? i want one so bad... the x2 cards are crazy and amazing!

 

[handymanshandle]

7 minutes ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

if its the worst experience with a graphical processor then yah  

Right then my worst iGPU was on my old mid 2010 13" MacBook Pro. 

Which technically wasn't an iGPU but like some kind of weirdass old way of doing integrated graphics.

[Guest]

13 minutes ago, TidaLWaveZ said:

64 MB in my first Compaq laptop definitely the worst

My dads pentium 4 machine has 128MB on the iGPU.

[RedSector]

No sorry man. It actually cracked one of the GPU's in the end.  

[Bananasplit_00]

Just now, RedSector said:

No sorry man. It actually cracked one of the GPU's in the end.  

damn that sucks, well il probably pick up one of ebay  

[Guest]

Even the older 3DFX VooDoo II GPUs in SLI performed good for its time, especially in older bechmarks/games, until they got bought by Nvidia.

[Bananasplit_00]

3 minutes ago, TheBeastPC said:

Even the older 3DFX VooDoo II GPUs in SLI performed good for its time, especially in older bechmarks/games, until they got bought by Nvidia.

SLI didnt work at all in a lot of titles, but using Slide they performed admirably like Linus showed. pretty sad that there are only two graphics vendors now

 

*edit*

well, Matrox and Intel are sortof around, but neither are really a choice for gamers and Intel borrowed most of that tech from NVIDIA

[Bananasplit_00]

1 minute ago, valdyrgramr said:

I think it was like a GT 6400 in a Power Mac G5.  That thing was on acid half the time.

had a 6600 GT in the first computer i used, it was so shit paired with that P4 that towards the end of the time we had it i was literally screaming at the computer dailly, its kind of what pushed me to learn computers because i wanted to fix it  

[Gaming_Groove]

The biggest regret I have of a hardware purchase was an XFX R7 240 core edition. I had been out of purchasing hardware since about 2004 and should have done more research, but I needed a decent card for my girlfriend's PC for under $100 that wouldn't require a power supply upgrade, and that's what my local CompUSA had. I also didn't want to wait, which was a huge mistake.

 

The thing was terrible. It was a low profile card, so the fan on the cooler was a little 30mm thing that got very loud under any sort of load. As far as performance, even gaming at 720p low settings was a challenge. It did generally alright in WoW and other older games, which is what she needed it for at the time, but it became a huge bottleneck once she started trying to play more recent games.

 

Linus was right in his cheap video card rant, I'd have been better off waiting another paycheck and buying a GTX 750 Ti or R7 260X.

[Silentprototipe]

Intel HD 400 

 

Cant even play CS:GO with it at a custom res of 900x500 

[Native7i]

GT 610 man it looks promising but, it sucks

[Bananasplit_00]

29 minutes ago, Native7i said:

GT 610 man it looks promising but, it sucks

the GT 610 dosent look promising in the slightest... it has 48 cuda cores and most are even passively cooled  

[johnjohns111]

Probably it was with Radeon M on my old Toshiba Sattelite. I had lots of artifacts in different games, like shadow bugs, texture artifacts, problems with GUI in games. And drivers were from Toshiba, they stopped to provide them after 2 years that I used this GPU. Awful experience

[klutch]

Sis Mirage 3 on a laptop from around 2006. Used to play Wow on it until 3-4 years ago, I was getting 5-20 fps on lowest settings and on the lowest resolution.

 

It has a score of 2 on passmark. Yes, you heard well, a score of "2". Not 2000, just 2.

 

https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu.php?gpu=SiS+Mirage+3 

[Steemax]

This puppy right here, the PNY GeForce GTS 250

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814133265

 

Wasn't the oldest card I've had by a long shot but it's definitely the worst. Seriously.... who makes a blower style card and opts to have it vent right back into the case?!

 

Well.. I didn't know any better at the time.