The 23 Greatest Graphics Cards Of All Time
The 23 Greatest Graphics Cards Of All Time
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Meet The Most Legendary Graphics Cards
Can you remember the graphics engines we consider worthy of commemoration as the title holders of their time? We thought it would be fun to walk down memory lane and recount the most powerful GPUs. We'll start back in 1996 with a single pixel pipeline and make our way to the present day with modern monsters capable of handling over 3000 pixel shader operations per clock!
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If anything, the 3870 X2 had 128 SP units that acted as 5 SP units giving it 640.
Other than that, nice article. I remember my 9700 Pro. Too bad the memory died out on it. But it was ok. I got a 9800XT to replace it.
Absolutely right. Don must have owned a "special" 3870 X2. I've updated the story to reflect the X2s everyone else owned
Thanks Jimmy. Not sure what I was smoking when i put that in there, but I was bandying about a lot of ancient statistics so It'd have been a miracle if I didn't make a horrendous flub like that at least once.
No FX5800 Ultra or HD2900XT? lol.
Rage Fury MAXX: OK there was that minor issue about not working with anything past WinME
KYRO II: The little card that almost did
ATI All-In-Wonder: (8500 mostly) A fast, but not fastest, card that you could game while watching TV (or DVR a show).
Matrox Parhelia: Best name, how many screens do you need? 3? We can do that. Too bad it was 6 months to a year late (and expensive). Nobody mention that face-mapping thing please. R.I.P. Matrox G-series
Lastly-
Glaze3D 4800: The fastest vapor on the planet.
The 7900GTX still used a 256-bit memory interface like the 7800GTX. It was a process shrink down to 90nm, coupled with increased clocks and double the GDDR3 that set it apart.
Gfx card history does not start with Voodoo1 you noob.