What was the greatest graphics card ever? I'm thinking it was the 9800gtx. Having this in '08 was like unlocking every game in existence.
>>107598030At it's time? Voodoo 2 I'd say. But there were obviously better workstation cards mere mortals never even saw, yet afford.
>>107598040Yeah I think the voodoo 2 might win or tie this one. Another one of those cards where it came out and suddenly you had 1000s of new games because you could finally run them from hardware.
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Riva TNT2, sadly didn't have HWTL
>>107598071>not GeForce4 Ti 4600
>>107598030It's zoomercore but I don't think it's really a debate, the 1080ti set the bar and basically held its own for another half a decade before finally being MILDLY superseded.
8800gt because of its value at the time
I'll vote for the 4870. AMD shook up the market at the time and made Nvidia pucker their butts.
>>107598917blower cards were so shit and loud>>107598094thanks gpt
>>107598030>9800gtxIt's literally an 8800 refresh, so if anything the 8800GTX would be the GOAT if we're talking about that era.My pick would be the Radeon 9700 it was ahead of its time and remained relevant until the GeForce 6 came out. It doesn't sound as impressive as the 1080 Ti, but you have to keep in mind the generational improvements at the time were massive.
>>107598917Yeah, I think I'd go with 4850/4870. Nvidia weren't in a great spot at the time. 3850 was good too but 4850/70 edge it out.Was a great time for GPU's, arguably the best time, we had stuff like the GX2, but nvidia were in their stagnation period. Happened 3 times now, but this time the competition are nerfed and nvidia has other avenues & cuda to fall back on.
>>1075980308800 GT was first Tesla. 280 GT was last Tesla. 9800 GTX was some mid-production mid-tier middle-earth mid-your-own-bidnizz
>>107598030GeForce FX5900 Ultra if you need paletted textures, GeForce 6800 Ultra if you don't. Total AGP dominance.
>>107600080Basically the ideal Nvidia upgrade path was:6800 GT AGP8800GT PCIe (Oct 2007)580 (Nov 2010)780Ti (May 2013)980 Ti (June 2015)1080 Ti (March 2017)3090 (Sept 2020)5080 (Jan 2025) --- unless a Super or Ti is released in next 6 months, as you won't be upgrading for 2 years +
