Your GPU evolution.

To see the SW trend gpu wise, would you like to answer these questions?

What is your current GPU?

What was the previous one, if you remember :p???

What is your usual time gap between any given gpu???

And last but not least when upgrading do you go for performance alone, price/performance ratio or price alone???

Just Build a new pc, Ryzen x2600/1070ti/32Gb. I always go for price/performance, than performance alone. After 35 years pc gaming, the Shiny lost it appeal as far as i'm concerned and as a family man, i need to know where i'm puttin my money.

Thanks for letting as know how you feel about it.

I currently own GTX 1060 6GB from this year. Before that I had RX 470 4GB that I bought 2 years ago. This wasn't a planned upgrade, tho, my poor Sapphire was electrocuted by a thunder (which I forgot to mention when I RMA'd it), so I just had to pay the difference for GTX 1060. Normally I upgrade my GPU's every 3 or 4 years, I'd do it more frequently if they actually offered something in the mid range other than rebrands, and at good prices. I always have to look price/performance.

Current GPU is GTX 1080 Ti.

My last GPU was GTX 1080.

I don't have a regular upgrade interval. I just buy based on my desired performance. Ever since I moved to 1440p+ high refresh rate and 4K, I am always wanting more performance. I would like to buy the RTX 2080 Ti, but it is a ripoff and I can't justify spending the money.

I always want the best performance possible, but the price has to be reasonable.

Still running my GTX 670, last one was a GTX 460.

@sovkhan: Moved to Hardware forum

GTX970 - which I think is dying slowly

Previous GPU was R9 290

I change my GPU where there's 40% difference or higher.

You destroyed his wish to see the SW trend :P

Anyhow, I had the GTX 680 since release, bought 980Ti shortly after release, another one used when 10XX gen was released. Now I got RTX 2080 a week after release. Upgrade usually every 2-3 years.

I simply upgrade when I want better performance.

Only been PC gaming since 2013, when I seen the PS4 and Xbox one were weak, and seen a ton of horror games on PC (amnesia, penumbra, call of kthulu, outlast, SCP indie games ) I had to get a PC never been tempted by consoles since.

First rig was a half pre build, got a amd fx 8350 paired with a amd 7850.

About six months on I GOT another 7850 it helped on some games.

I then got the gtx 970(current GPU) not too long after launch, and swapped my 8350 to an Intel board and my current i7.

No need to upgrade yet, play at 1080p my 970 still handles everything

On 390x. Last was 560 Ti, and prior 5770 was the GPU I used in my first DIY computer. Things like 9600 GT were ones I put into HP desktops from the store. I don't even recall what graphics I had in 90s in house computers, certainly enough to play anything.

I've had 3 cards over since 2010ish when I did first DIY build. I plan to either get a AMD 6xx/2070, or will wait another 2 years til next gen starts.

Voodoo-Geforce 2 GTS - Geforce fx5700 - Geforce 8800GTX - radeon 5870 - geforce 580 - geforce 780 - geforce 980ti - geforce 1080ti

can write hardware to tax deducts every 2 years so that's pretty much the earliest I'll swap

Lol didn't even notice!!!

Post mostly in SW or PC section...Bad habits never leave you :p

Previous 980 ti two way sli

current 1080 ti

will upgrade to a 2080 ti when I see one that I like want a water cooled hybrid card.

Voodoo 3 3000 agp

Geforce 2 mx

Geforce mx 440

Radeon 9700 pro

Radeon x800xt PE

Radeon x1900xt

2x x1900xt crossfire

8800 gtx

HD4870

HD4870 crossfire

Gtx 560 ti

Radeon 7950

Gtx 780

Gtx 780 sli

Gtx 1080

Current GPUs: GTX 980Ti AMP! Omega (one in my gaming PC and one in HTPC/Plex Server/gaming PC)

• Previous GPU: 2 - GTX 570s that I ran in SLI
• Before that: 2 - GTX 280s in SLI
• Before that: 2 - 8800 GTS 512MB in SLI
• Before that: 2 - 8800 GTS 640MB in SLI (used EVGA Step-Up to the 512MB cards)
• Before that: 2 - 7600 GT in SLI
• Before that: 7800 GS AGP
• Before that: FX 5500
• Before that: FX 5200
• I do believe that's the extent of my GPUs over the years since the early 2000s.

Time between upgrades - generally around 3 years, but the past two sets of GPUs it's been over 4 years (well, the 980Ti cards are only around 3.5 years right now, but I expect another 1-2 years out of them). I used the GTS 8800 512MB cards for around 2.5 years. I used my 280s for around 2.5 years. I used my 570s for 4.5 years.

When I do upgrade, I tend to always upgrade to a single GPU that provides the same or better performance over my SLI build, then find a second one soon after for SLI. For example a single GTX 280 gives the same or better performance over 2 - 8800 GTS 512MB in SLI. A single 570 gives better performance over two GTX 280s in SLI. I usually buy a top-end (not necessarily the best, but close to) GPU near it's end of production so the cost is less. Then I watch sales to pick up a second one for even cheaper so I can buy two cards for the price of what usually the top GPU sold for. SLI would give me better performance over a single high-end card, but if a game didn't support SLI (which was actually rather rare) then I'd still get good performance off just one card.

I may have passed over the 9xx series and kept my GTX 570s in SLI had I not moved to playing on a 5760x1080 resolution. The 570s just struggled too much. If I solely kept to 1920x1080, they would have kept me playing just fine until the 10xx came out.

I moved away from SLI with my 980Ti cards. One does the work that I need just fine, plus I wanted a second computer that the kids could utilize so they'd stay off mine when they wanted to play a PC game.

I won't be upgrading to any 10xx or 20xx series card unless one of my 980Ti cards takes a crap on me.

Current 970 gtx upgraded in 2016 for my Rift the GPU before that was a 780 gtx that I got in 2013.

Riva TNT, GeForce 3, some ATI card maybe, GeForce 8800 gts, GTX 560ti, GTX 680. My memory might fail me in some parts.

Currently have a GTX 980. Probably the best card I've ever owned, I bought it brand new and it's served me incredibly well.

Previous card was an ATI brand, I forgot the model. I want to say it was a 2000-series or something like that. It was the gen before the R series and 200 series iirc. It was pretty decent.

Before that I think I had a Geforce 6800. Now that card...that card was impressive. When TES Oblivion came out, it really put that card through its paces but it served me well. It eventually started artifacting (?) like crazy.

And then I think before that I had a Riva TNT 2, which would be my first video card.

So yeah about four cards in 18 years, pretty good longevity there.

My PC GPU evolution

Amiga OCS/ECS

IBM VGA

S3 Trio 64

S3 Virge 3D

TNT M64

GeForce 2 MX

GeForce 4 Ti 4200

GeForce FX 5950 / 5200 (died) and ATI Radeon 9600 Mobile

GeForce 8600M and 8600 GTX, both died. 9500M GS replacement and also died after 3 years.

Radeon HD 3870

Radeon HD 4850 and Radeon HD 4650M

Radeon HD 5770 and 5770M DX11

Radeon HD 6950

Radeon HD 7970 GE and Radeon HD 7950 900Mhz OC

Radeon HD R9-290, 290X OC edition (firmware updated into R9-390X) and 8870M (died after 4 years, Intel HD 4000 IGP still alive)

GTX 980 Ti OC edition

GTX 1080 Ti and Ryzen 5's RX Vega 8 Mobile

I would bet money it was a 9700 pro! :)

@appariti0n: I can't remember if I had the 9700 Pro or the 9800 Pro. I got it to play Half-Life 2 in DX9. Anyway, it was the first Radeon GPU I had ever bought and it was a fucking lemon. I had to RMA it twice. Never bought Radeon again. Never had an issue with Nvidia cards and I have owned them since the Riva TNT.

Yeah now that I think about it it might have been a 9700 or a 9800.

It's a shame you let that one card sour you on AMD forever. As you can see from my list, I'm pretty much 50/50, and I have had cards die from both of them pretty evenly.

Hell my buddy's 980 ti literally caught on fire when it died, and EVGA sent back a new card that was DoA to replace it lol.

@appariti0n: It definitely left a sour taste for sure. That is crazy what happened to your buddy's 980 Ti. I can't say I will never go Radeon again, but Nvidia has always been the better option every time I buy a new GPU. I will look at the Radeon and Intel cards the next time I buy a new monitor (currently tied to G-Sync).

I built my first PC with the 1080 and then upgraded to a 1080 Ti when it released. Will be forking over for a 2080 Ti next month.

As much as I want a 2080 Ti, that rip off price keeps me from buying it. My responsible side keeps telling me to wait for the 7nm RTX 30xx series which will probably come out late 2019 or early 2020. AMD will have already fully adopted 7nm for 2019 and we will have to wait and see how the Navi GPUs perform.

My crazy side says fvck it, just buy it and enjoy it. I dunno, I am getting more tempted by the day. If I can't run BFV at high frame rates 3440x1440 Ultra, I may just break down and buy it.

I currently have a GTX 1070 ready to be delivered but USPS was too slow or incompetent to deliver it on time today.

My current GPU is a GTX 960 2GB

Before that was a GT 630.

Before that was integrated and before that idk.

@Gaming-Planet: That 1070 is a huge upgrade over your 960. Congrats.

My GPU upgrading hasn't been consistent... I usually upgrade when I see a need for it.

Current GPU is a Strix GTX 1080 Ti water cooled with a G12/H55... Prior GPU's are as listed below:

• MSI GTX 1070 Gaming X 8GB
• MSI R9 380 8GB Gaming - Wife bought it because she knew I broke my card but I never told her I got a replacement
• Strix 960 4GB - My 780 Ti broke when I dropped it
• GTX 780 Ti 3GB FE
• EVGA GTX 680 2GB
• Sapphire HD 6870 1GB (side grade because my 4890 died)
• Sapphire HD 4890 1GB
• BFG 8800 GTS 312MB
• POV 7600 GT 256MB
• MX 440 64MB

My current build has lasted me the longest especially the CPU almost 6 years now and my 4 core 4670K at 4.4GHz isn't missing a beat especially when I game at 4K.

Probably the best buy you could of done for this generation.

GTX 980 came out right when PC hardware requirements for games started to stagnate. That's why 4 years later it still does what it did back then (run games high settings 1080/1440p) with little to no issues

So, I need to upgrade my entry....

Current GPU = RTX 2080 Ti.

Last GPU = GTX 1080 Ti.

:)

My previous card was GTX 980 bought in 2015. I upgraded to GTX 1080Ti in 2017 since i wanted to game at 4k on my newly bought 55" LG OLED. I'm content with 60fps so high refresh rate is never a requirement. Will probably upgrade my CPU and mobo next year, i currently have a delidded i7 4790k with 16GB DDR3

My GPU evolution:

RIVA 128 (first ever desktop GPU I used to play "3D Accelerated" Games).

GeForce 4 MX 420 64 MB DDR yes DDR! ;)

GeForce 7600 GT

GeForce Go 7600

Finally switched to ATI with HD 4870 since it was so freaking awesome with respect to price/performance. World's First GDDR5 memory which we still use today. Also, have a HD 4850 on an HTPC to play older games. Can play pretty much anything prior to 2010 all maxed out. Surprising how good RV770 was.

Mobility Radeon HD 3650 on a 17" Gaming Laptop to replace the 17" Gaming Laptop that had the GeForce Go 7600 that died on me.

Then HD 6950 BIOS flashed to HD 6970 (which was also another awesome deal with respect to price/performance)

Then the R9 Fury X (Got it because it was cheaper than the 980 Ti and it was water cooled). Sold it as I was waiting for Polaris since Fury X is overkill at 1080P.

Had GTX 960 for a while while waiting for Polaris to come out.

Then switched to R9 390 and later R9 390X since the prices were high for RX 480's and was able to get a R9 390X since it cost the same as R9 390. Surprised how good Hawaii is and despite some ignorant imbecile's claims like @mastershake575 who is clueless about GPU's that it wasn't the fastest consumer grade chip in 2013. It was and still an awesome GPU. Still can play games maxed out at 1080P and it helps that I got the 8GB version.

Next GPU I had was with an 17" Asus ROG Gaming Laptop which had a GTX 970M 3 GB.

Later got an Alienware 17 R4 with 1060 6GB which I use to play newer games. Felt that GTX 970M wasn't future proof enough with it's 3GB and the fact that it's not the same as the desktop GTX 970 unlike the GTX 1060 for the laptops. Pascal was probably the biggest jump in performance/watt that nVidia ever made. They fit an entire freaking desktop 1060 6GB with the same CUDA cores. Something that they haven't done in any previous generations in their history.

As anyone can see I am about 50/50 which it comes to GPU's for AMD/nVidia. Actually had/used more nVidia GPU's in my Gaming Laptop. See not a fanboy. ;)

Yep i'm so clueless. Over 10,000 combined post on 4 different hardware forums in which I have a great reputation on and i'm just some dumb dumb. Yeah I'm an arrogant a-hole that hates Hawaii, i hate it so much that it's been in my main desktop for over 4 years...........

You used a fake blog to give a fake award and claim the 290x was the worlds most powerful chip but then said ignore the title, they meant fastest consumer chip (which wouldn't make it the worlds fastest chip......). What a shocker, free wix blog gave a fake award that gives vague/contradictory information !!! And he still to this day 4 years later wonders why literally EVERYONE on the entire board flamed him for it

Yes, you are clueless. I didn't realize that you know "facts" on a blog site makes it fake. Just like if someone made a blog site that states that Earth orbits the Sun. I guess that's fake since you know it states facts. LMAO. And for the record it did say it's the World's Most Powerful Consumer chip back in 2013. You can even find the link here. It even states "consumer" in the article. The site now has a YouTube page with interesting information like going back 10 years with respect to revenue between AMD/ATI's graphics division vs nVidia which I found interesting. So, no it's not fake. Only thing it's fake is your lack of lacking basic facts and knowledge about the GPU industry. So, if the 290X wasn't the World's Most Powerful Consumer grade chip then which consumer grade chip was it then back in 2013? Enlighten us with your hardware knowledge. And I also have a Hawaii based GPU with my XFX 390X 8GB Double Dissipation in case if you don't know is a tweaked version of the R9 290X.

Besides the site had an interesting tid bit that I haven't seen in other blogs including what former AMD GPU architects stated about the lagging of AMD's GPU division which I found interesting which might explain AMD's current predicament in their GPU division.

You sir had the legendary 9700 Pro. Probably one of the greatest GPU's ever made. Seems like you are like me. Switch between brands based on your needs, price/performance. Unlike those mindless zombies which buy nVidia all the time even when they make crappy GPU's cough cough GTX 480 and the horrendous GeForce FX 5000 series.

You shouldn't shy away from AMD just because of one GPU. I had a GeForce Go 7600 that died on me due to nVidia's defective die packaging which nVidia got sued for. Too bad I didn't get any compensation since my Gaming Laptop maker wasn't on the list of laptop makers that you had to buy it from as that is the only way nVidia will compensate you on. I still brought nVidia for Gaming Laptops, a GTX 970M and now a GTX 1060 6GB. I lost WAY more money than you as with Laptop GPU's if your GPU die your entire laptop dies which is what happened to me.

I still gave nVidia a chance.

@Xtasy26: Hah, yeah, good old 9700 pro. iirc, I was rocking 1 GB of ram (which was epic for the time) and an athlon xp 2700+..

Trying to remember everything I had. I shared a pc with my brother that got me into pc gaming early on.

Ati rage 3d integrated of some sort.

Geforce 2 mx200

Ati 8500LE

Geforce 3 Ti

Ati 9800pro the cs source office card

Geforce 6800

Ati x1950xt

Geforce 8800gts 512

Geforce gtx 460 then 470, bad move btw.

Geforce gtx 570

Amd r9 290

Geforce gtx 1070 (current)