AMD Celebrates 30 years of Graphics and Gaming Innovation.

Yay AMD! Congrats on 30 Years of Graphics and Gaming! From the ATI Rage graphics in the early days of the 3D Accelerated Graphics wars all the way the current R9 290/X. Even though I was a nVidia Fanboy back in the early days of 3D Accelerated Graphics with the RIVA 128, only started to use AMD Radeon graphics since 2008 as the price/performance ratio was just too good to give up. Plus the fact that my 17" Gaming Laptop with a nVidia graphics chip died due to nVidia's defective die packaging fiasco, which got me really p***** off but that's another side story. But congrats to AMD previously ATI for all the great hardware they contributed from the ATI Radeon 9700 Pro which IMO was the real GPU to finally take on to soundly beat nVidia's best, to the introduction of the first GPU with DDR5 memory with Radeon HD 4870 to the current Radeon R9 290X which cost half the price of a $1000 Titan (lol those who brought the Titan got ripped off), all the other graphics tech like TessFX, (which is awesome, Lara Croft never looked so beautiful and natural), to introducing Mantle which gives an immediate boost in frames per second and new way of rendering graphics much faster. to now the most powerful Graphics Card on the planet to the Radeon 295 X2. Hope you have another 30 years of great graphics and gaming innovation. Video covers the rundown of Graphics and Gaming over the last 30 years and AMD/ATI's contribution to it. Good stuff if you are a gamer.

BTW, ever wonder where the name Radeon came from? Watch the video below to find out! You may find whoever come up with the idea very interesting. ;)

You know I've used both AMD and Nvidia. I've never been a serious fan of either party. Whichever company offers me the best performance within my budget is usually the one I buy. Currently I'm using an AMD CPU and an Nvidia GPU. But I thank AMD for their creation of competition in the marketplace. Competition is good for the consumer.

Only one grip about the whole thing is that AMD bought ATI in 2006 so "they" aka AMD does not have 30 years in gpu market

Rip Ati seems like they both went downhill and imploded with the buyout. Would had been more interesting had it been amd+nv, but I think Nvidia's ceo wanted to be head of both iirc.

Amd 290 is my first amd card. It performs pretty good, but the stock cooler blows chunks.

Down hill? Quite the the opposite. The GPU's have thrived, esp. with the GCN architecture. Market share has reflected that as well, though still not quite caught up with Nvidia. CPU's went down hill (though I'd hardly call Phenom II x4's at the time bad, they competed with the with Core 2 and 1st gen i5's quite well) because they were bullied out of the market illegally.

never buy stock cooler amd cards unless you enjoy having a simulation of the pits of hell