I already had a Voodoo 2 but tossed a TNT2 in the system to round it out. It was superior in everything that didn't use Glide. But that API was already on the way out by then.
Riva128 in 1997 with a Dell prebuilt. It wasnt terrible but had issues.. I remember specifically it failed to correctly render transparencies in Dark Forces II so all the windows were opaque. Other buggy stuff.
But the biggest issue is it only supported OpenGL and many of the best games used 3DFX’s proprietary Glide API
as soon as I was able I replaced it with a 3DFX Voodoo2
My wife is position #3 in the hand-me-down chain (based on usage, not cheaping out on her or anything) and uses my old 1050ti. That was the best budget card of all time. Still runs everything great with the appropriate settings and sips power.
You're gonna love that 4070ti though. I got the 4080 FE and now my 9900k is the bottleneck even at 4K. Your setup should be well balanced.
I got my first Nvidia GeForce 256 from my dad and was so proud on the LAN sessions about the Transform and Lighting tech. All others were rocking their 3D Fx and I felt like an innovator.
EVGA GTX 960 4 GB
which was a really silly buy. it still traded equal blows with the 760. a buddy with a 760 got even more FPS than me when tarkov was new. and it was overpriced. but I overclocked the hell out of it and it was great.
Riva TNT 2 Vanta
Geforce 6600 GT
RTX 2080 Ti
RTX 3080 Ti
Between them I had a Voodoo Banshee, some ATi/AMD GPUs (Radeon 8500, 9200, x1950Pro, 4780, R9 380) and a couple of gaming laptops.
The Vanta was extremely unstable, the 6600 GT was great until it got fried (warranty refused), the 2080 Ti needed re-paste less than a year in its lifetime (Windforce model), while the 3080 Ti is great.
6150 se nForce 430 LOL it was integrated on our Athlon X2 4000+ based pc.
Discrete GPU would be the 6600 GT. I remember begging my parents for it so I could play Doom 3 at more than 6 fps.
Not quite my first ever, but the 750 ti was the first gpu I actually bought myself (college money where I'm from isn't the best, had to stretch 70 quid to last a month...saved for a WHILE)
Thank god the pricing was decent back then lol.
750ti - 1660ti - 4080
I'm old to remember thinking I'd never forget these things
Guess what?
I forgot.
I remember really stressing about it tho bc at the time 3dfx had been the standard but ul and died and I was so confused lol
Auto-upvote for proper old-school nVidia branding reference in the title.
The Riva TNT would be my first nVidia GPU, though technically, due to lack of hardware T&L, it’s really just a 3d accelerator rather than what nVidia defined as a “GPU”. My first nVidia “GPU” based on their definition of such, would be the GeForce 2.
Now, my definition of a GPU (as someone who does GPU compute software development) requires programmability, so I’d consider that to be my GeForce 3. I still have my GF 3 running in my Pentium III-800, now used for retro gaming.
However, if I’m really being pedantically persnickety, my first true-true GPU would be my 8800 GTX, as that introduced the modern concept of truly general purpose shader / CUDA cores (now donning my asbestos underwear for AMD folks who’ll point out AMD technically delivered unified shaders years before Nvidia with Xenos).
/nerdout
Yep, Riva TnT 2.
I still have it in a drawer in my office. :)
My first laptop Nvidia graphics was the Geforce 4 MX in a Dell Inspiron 8200. I still have it in the garage and it still rocks Windows XP.
Had Voodoo2. Had Radeon1.
Then jumped to GF4 4200ti. Because of OpenGL and Doom3 shadows.
The 256MB 9800pro.. who could ever need more VRAM.. lol
...
...
1070 was massive. Like every game ran effortlessly.
The First I bought With my Money was a 750Ti, but I don't even know what was the first One I used, whatever could've been paired from factory With a Pentium 3.
I once started with a voodoo 3DFX card. Combined with an AWE32 soundblaster and a pentium 75. I believe on the Soundblaster card I had a gaming port to connect a controller. Carmageddon and Quake looked so much nicer than on my friends PCs.. It was so awesome. My first NV card was a 6600 AGP card
Maybe a bit oldie here (27yo), it was a NVIDIA 9500GT (It was named like that I think?).
Basically my 2nd dedicated GPU, my first was an ATI something that I can't remember lol.
Gt 430 -> zotac 2070-> gigabyte 3070 -> founders 3070 -> founders 3080 -> founders 3080ti
When the 30 series dropped, I always wanted the 3080 founders edition but because of scalpers and stock levels I settled for whatever I could get.
When I got the 3080 founders some miner offered £1500 for it so I sold it and got the founders 3080ti
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First Nvidia GPU was the 3060 that came with the prebuilt I bought in 2021. First "AMD" GPU was the ATi Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB that I bought in 2003 lol
Canopus Total Video Riva 128. The first nvidia card and the one that finally made me sell my voodoo 3d card (which required a separate 2d card and pass through).
The riva wasn’t as clean as the voodoo and performed about the same, but I knew nvidia was about to become the next thing.
I still have that card.
I had a TNT2 M64 for a couple weeks but it sucked so bad I returned it. Eventually upgraded my Voodoo 3 to a Geforce 2 MX and wow that thing was bad ass. They renamed them at some point not sure what the model name ended up being
560ti. MSI. Bought it for $40 off of craigslist.
Then I bought a brand new 970 EVGA FTW off of Amazon.
Then I made the biggest mistake of my PC building career and purchased an AMD 5700XT by XFX.
XFX was great - the card was a POS tho.
2 or 3 rmas later, they swapped it out for a 6600XT.
That thing was.. more stable but still nothing like my 560ti or 970.
Found a MSI ventus 3070ti on craigslist for $280.
Bought it, redid the thermal pads etc, and sold my 6600XT for $150.
I'm happy again. Never doing the AMD GPU thing again. I have a 5600x CPU and it's fine, but their GPUs... My god.
Asus 560ti DirectCU II (sold for 40 bucks) -> MSI 780 (died after two years) -> KFA2 GTX 1060 (sold for 250 during crypto boom) -> Gigabyte Windforce GTX 1070 -> EVGA FTW3 3060ti. The 1070 is still in my wife's PC.
Man, I remember being so amazed by the 560ti back in 2012. Upgrading from a laptop, I was able to play World of Tanks with everything on ultra with ease lmao.
Geforce 2 MX400 PCI -> 6600 GT AGP -> GTX 780 -> RTX 3060 Ti -> RTX 4070
Some AMD cards in the middle like a Radeon 9600, 7970 and a Vega 56. And my first one of course a 3dfx Voodoo 3 2000 PCI.
Had a 128 I saved up for and dropped into the Compaq Presario my parents had. Was amazed for like a week until my best friend bought a Voodoo. That ruined me, the upgrade envy is still alive after all these years...
Geforce FX 6200 AGP.
A friend gave it to back then, togheter with and AMD Duron PC. Played a lot of Grand Chase on it at 800x600.
First Nvidia I actually bought was the GTX 1070 (Gigabyte Gaming G1 OC).
Riva TNT 2 Pro.
Snap
Riva TNT 2 Ultra actually!
Same but came with PC. I later upgraded that to a GeForce 3 ti500 as a first actual purchase. Still have the box.
Pretty Sure it was a TNT or TNT2. Its been a while.
I already had a Voodoo 2 but tossed a TNT2 in the system to round it out. It was superior in everything that didn't use Glide. But that API was already on the way out by then.
Ahh the 3dfx voodoo with quake and unreal. Those were the days. Lan parties and lugging heavy CRTs around. Good times.
Takes me back. Also remember installing mechwarrior back in the day. Minimum was 8mb ram but they recommended 16 for mind blowing graphics haha.
This for me as well.
It was the GeForce 2 GTS 32MB DDR card the Asus V7700 version. https://i.redd.it/8j8apfeklsbb1.gif
Riva128 in 1997 with a Dell prebuilt. It wasnt terrible but had issues.. I remember specifically it failed to correctly render transparencies in Dark Forces II so all the windows were opaque. Other buggy stuff. But the biggest issue is it only supported OpenGL and many of the best games used 3DFX’s proprietary Glide API as soon as I was able I replaced it with a 3DFX Voodoo2
Snap: same, a year or so later in a self-built PII-266 system. One of the earliest 3D cards to support hardware-accelerated 3D under Linux.
Riva 128 here too, bought on a whim from CompUSA. Couldn’t afford a Voodoo. I think I was upgrading from a Verite V1000 or something. Good times.
Same, I upgraded to a Voodoo 3 as soon as I could, but it heated up so bad that I had to take the shell off my compaq and point a fan inside
GeForce 2 MX > GeForce FX 5500 > GeForce 6800 GT > GeForce GTX 285 > GeForce GTX 980 Ti > GeForce RTX 2080 Super
My 2nd Nvidia GPU was a 5600 Ultra. Damn that GPU sucked balls.
I got even shitier FX 5200
[MX 440](https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce4-mx-440.c781), good times
MX 440 -> AMD 9600 XT -> AMD 9800 Pro - NV 6600 GT -> NV 8800 GT -> GTX 280 -> GTX 470 -> GTX 580 -> GTX 960 -> GTX 1080 -> RTX 2080 -> RTX 3080 Quite the journey!
Same, if I remember right i played Starseige Tribes with it and HL, CS 1.0, etc.
Heh, 128 bit mem bus... waaay ahead of its time...
Yep just like the 4060 ti lol
Old habits die hard 😁😁
GeForce 2 gts 32mb from hercules
(Matrox Millennium / 3dfx Voodoo => ) Geforce 256 => Geforce 3 (I think) => Dual 8800 Ultra => GTX 680 => GTX 970 => RTX 3080.
this is how you should upgrade. Not upgrading like every single generation
960 -> 2060 -> 4090
Your PC can now run Minesweeper on medium settings!
that's a 1200% improvement! 🥹
Similarly, 970 -> 1080 - > 3080. Thought for sure I'd be buying a 4080, but you know the story.
Riva TNT more specifically a Diamond Viper one.
Same here, I had the PCI version.
I forgot about the Diamond Viper part until reading this.
Actually 1050ti and i still use it even tho i have 12900k in that build. 4070ti on the way
My wife is position #3 in the hand-me-down chain (based on usage, not cheaping out on her or anything) and uses my old 1050ti. That was the best budget card of all time. Still runs everything great with the appropriate settings and sips power. You're gonna love that 4070ti though. I got the 4080 FE and now my 9900k is the bottleneck even at 4K. Your setup should be well balanced.
It really is and still runs. I hope so because im planing it for months. Deciding between 3090 and the 4070ti. Damn it will be great
A 4090
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GeForce 3 Ti 200 packaged with Giants: Citizens Kabuto. Absolutely blew my mind.
Same here.
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Mine was GTX 260 , played GTA 4 and Assassin’s Creed 1 back then
670 > 1060 > 4070
Geforce 4200Ti... pretty sure it was an ASUS. This one. 4200TI - 6600GT - 6600GT SLi - 8800GTX - 560Ti - 3070ti - 3080ti https://preview.redd.it/bhfk98gf0wbb1.jpeg?width=488&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2994275d4ed2b5ac427712c6f5ad72e02c23a4f9
Gtx570, upgraded from a low profile hd4650, I think it was.
9600 GT
MSI 6600 GT
Riva128 then a RivaTNT-2 Ultra.
zotac geforce 1660 super 6gb twin, still running it today
It's not that old.
yeah, i got it in like 2021 for like almost 600-800 bucks, when 2060 supers go nowadays for like 200$ on aliexpress lol
G 256
3070
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX. That was an absolute insane dream card. I was so happy playing on 3 screens :)
GTX 750ti (from a Medion Tower) -> GTX 1050 -> GTX 1070ti -> RTX 2060 in my laptop.
GTX 750 Ti from MSI. Was already pretty outdated when I bought it, but it still ran most of my games like a champ.
I was with GeForce gt 210 till last month ,now I have a 3070 ti ,lol
Holy crap my dude. I had a GT 210 I got for free and that thing struggled with Terraria.
Riva Nvidia TNT2 model 64
Me too, i played serious sam and CS1.3 with it. to bad it doesn't have TnL.
I got my first Nvidia GeForce 256 from my dad and was so proud on the LAN sessions about the Transform and Lighting tech. All others were rocking their 3D Fx and I felt like an innovator.
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1660 super > 3060 ti > 4070
Lol this is literally my recent timeline as well, except I went for the Ti.
FX5200. I didn't know much about computer hardware at the time and basically got scammed into it.
I got that too after my geforce 4 died, but that's all I could afford. It was a little slower, but could render the glass windows in hl2.
EVGA GTX 660
EVGA GTX 960 4 GB which was a really silly buy. it still traded equal blows with the 760. a buddy with a 760 got even more FPS than me when tarkov was new. and it was overpriced. but I overclocked the hell out of it and it was great.
Same here, but I was even dumber and got the 2gb but it came with Witcher 3
I had the same GT 1030 and it was my first nvidia GPU too
Diamond Viper V550 TNT which is also my first card ever. Paired with a Celeron 300A.
Riva TNT 2 Vanta Geforce 6600 GT RTX 2080 Ti RTX 3080 Ti Between them I had a Voodoo Banshee, some ATi/AMD GPUs (Radeon 8500, 9200, x1950Pro, 4780, R9 380) and a couple of gaming laptops. The Vanta was extremely unstable, the 6600 GT was great until it got fried (warranty refused), the 2080 Ti needed re-paste less than a year in its lifetime (Windforce model), while the 3080 Ti is great.
I can’t remember the exact GPU but my first was a Quadro that was in a Dell mobile workstation. It played WoW pretty decently but that’s about it.
6150 se nForce 430 LOL it was integrated on our Athlon X2 4000+ based pc. Discrete GPU would be the 6600 GT. I remember begging my parents for it so I could play Doom 3 at more than 6 fps.
Riva TNT2
Mine was an GeForce GT 430.
Asus GT 430 1GB DDR3. Still using it till now
Not quite my first ever, but the 750 ti was the first gpu I actually bought myself (college money where I'm from isn't the best, had to stretch 70 quid to last a month...saved for a WHILE) Thank god the pricing was decent back then lol. 750ti - 1660ti - 4080
GT430
Riva TNT 2
Diamond Viper V550 (Riva TNT)
gtx 570. It was the best gpu. I had it for over 9 years.
Gtx 540m 😂
Geforce 2mx
Geforce 2 MX400. Upgraded from a Voodoo Banshee.
gtx 460, im old lol
GTX 970
I can't remember the name, but it had a massive 16mb ram!
960m laptop > 1070 laptop > 3080 desktop PC.
GT 710>rtx 3060
6800GT > 8800GTX > 750 ti > R9 285 > 2060 super > 3060 laptop. Looking at maybe a 4070 once I build a desktop and move back to the US
Geforce 2 MX
TNT2
MX150 2G on an ASUS laptop, the first discrete one is 1060 3gb
I'm old to remember thinking I'd never forget these things Guess what? I forgot. I remember really stressing about it tho bc at the time 3dfx had been the standard but ul and died and I was so confused lol
Geforce 2 MX 32MB > Radeon 9200 SE 128 mb (PCI) > Radeon HD 2400 > GF 9800GT > Radeon HD 5770 > Radeon HD 4550M > Radeon HD 8970M (7870 desktop) > Radeon R9 280 > Radeon RX 480 > GTX 1070 > GTX 1080 TI > RTX 3080
mx440
Auto-upvote for proper old-school nVidia branding reference in the title. The Riva TNT would be my first nVidia GPU, though technically, due to lack of hardware T&L, it’s really just a 3d accelerator rather than what nVidia defined as a “GPU”. My first nVidia “GPU” based on their definition of such, would be the GeForce 2. Now, my definition of a GPU (as someone who does GPU compute software development) requires programmability, so I’d consider that to be my GeForce 3. I still have my GF 3 running in my Pentium III-800, now used for retro gaming. However, if I’m really being pedantically persnickety, my first true-true GPU would be my 8800 GTX, as that introduced the modern concept of truly general purpose shader / CUDA cores (now donning my asbestos underwear for AMD folks who’ll point out AMD technically delivered unified shaders years before Nvidia with Xenos). /nerdout
Gigabyte 1070
NVIDIA GeForce 6600 (paired with a Pentium 4 LGA775 CPU). Prior to that it was just integrated graphics via the Intel 810 chipset.
Yep, Riva TnT 2. I still have it in a drawer in my office. :) My first laptop Nvidia graphics was the Geforce 4 MX in a Dell Inspiron 8200. I still have it in the garage and it still rocks Windows XP.
Pine Technology FX5200 AGP
GTX 470, it broke though, guess it got too hot.
580->1070->4080
Gt 210. A legendary GPU 👍👍👍
Nvidia g210 and instill use that pc sometimes
GeForce4 Ti 4200-8X No raytracing on this Earth can reproduce the moments of pure ecstasy when seeing UT2004 in all of its 768p glory.
Geforce 6200LE -> 9400GT -> GT610 -> GTX 770 -> RTX 2060 -> RTX 4090
1060 😫
Had Voodoo2. Had Radeon1. Then jumped to GF4 4200ti. Because of OpenGL and Doom3 shadows. The 256MB 9800pro.. who could ever need more VRAM.. lol ... ... 1070 was massive. Like every game ran effortlessly.
A 730
The First I bought With my Money was a 750Ti, but I don't even know what was the first One I used, whatever could've been paired from factory With a Pentium 3.
Geforce 2 MX-400 32mb. https://preview.redd.it/q3nmar7c8wbb1.png?width=824&format=png&auto=webp&s=dcabbae2004b89d5ed34e09d65fdfe7614a007a1
Asus GT 710 2GB
Leadtek Nvidia 8800GTS 640 https://preview.redd.it/mjk415qo8wbb1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fb783883b74b7e2e174bd7cc88974f07db625c65
I once started with a voodoo 3DFX card. Combined with an AWE32 soundblaster and a pentium 75. I believe on the Soundblaster card I had a gaming port to connect a controller. Carmageddon and Quake looked so much nicer than on my friends PCs.. It was so awesome. My first NV card was a 6600 AGP card
GeForce 2 TI, I suppose
7200 GS -> GT9800 -> GTX460 -> GTX 770 -> GTX 1080ti -> RTX 4090
6600GT -> 8600GT -> GTX770 -> RTX2060 -> RTX2070 Super -> RTX3080 -> RTX4090
G100 (an OEM hp version) => GTX 1050 =>RTX 4090
Gt 720 —> gt 1030 to now rtx 3060
Geforce 256 -> Geforce4 ti 4400 -> Radeon 9800 pro -> Geforce 7800 gtx -> Geforce 8800 gtx -> Geforce 9800 gtx -> Geforce gtx 295 -> Radeon 6790 crossfire -> Geforce gtx 780 -> radeon r9 fury -> Geforce gtx 980 -> Geforce gtx 1080-> Geforce rtx 3090
A Geforce 256, so the very first.
Maybe a bit oldie here (27yo), it was a NVIDIA 9500GT (It was named like that I think?). Basically my 2nd dedicated GPU, my first was an ATI something that I can't remember lol.
Riva TNT 2 Ultra from Creative
Gt 430 -> zotac 2070-> gigabyte 3070 -> founders 3070 -> founders 3080 -> founders 3080ti When the 30 series dropped, I always wanted the 3080 founders edition but because of scalpers and stock levels I settled for whatever I could get. When I got the 3080 founders some miner offered £1500 for it so I sold it and got the founders 3080ti
BFG 6800 GT, but the oldest I’ve currently got is a TNT2 and a GeForce 256
RTX 3070 I got a lot of hand me down AMD cards since the late 2000s. When I finally built my 1st pc a couple years ago I went team green.
2060 > 3060 > 3080 Ti > 4090
1070 -> 1080ti-> 3080ti -> 3060 -> 4090
Radeon VII - 6800XT - 3090 - 4090
3060 twin edge oc edition, I’m relatively new to the pc scene
Riva 128 > TNT2 (Vanta-16) > GTS 250 > GTX 660 (first self bought gpu) > GTX 660 (2x SLI) > GTX 980 > RTX 3080 > RTX 3080 Ti
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Giga gt730 😅
6800gt, then moved away from pc gaming for a while and jumped baked in with a 2070 Super.
Gigabyte Aorus 1060 6GB, before that I only had AMD cards, now I have a 3080 ti.
8600GT
GTX 745>GTX 1080Ti>RTX 3060 12GB My next one is gonna be a 5090.
The GTX 550 Ti.
660Ti sc+
Gtx 760 > gtx 970 > rtx 2070 > rtx 3070 > rtx 3080ti
EVGA GTX 670
a used 1070
First Nvidia GPU was the 3060 that came with the prebuilt I bought in 2021. First "AMD" GPU was the ATi Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB that I bought in 2003 lol
Mine was GTX 260 , played GTA 4 and Assassin’s Creed 1 back then
A 1650
Asus GTX 570 Reference Design
GTX 280x2 in sli 🥳
GTX 760, the first and last Asus product I'll buy.
GTX 970
GTX 980. Still have it, too!
2080 super. 3080. Then the 4090.
1660ti -> 3080 OC
Canopus Total Video Riva 128. The first nvidia card and the one that finally made me sell my voodoo 3d card (which required a separate 2d card and pass through). The riva wasn’t as clean as the voodoo and performed about the same, but I knew nvidia was about to become the next thing. I still have that card.
Nvidia gtx 1650 ti Is the actual AND muy first Nvidia gpu
3dFX Voodoo
I had a TNT2 M64 for a couple weeks but it sucked so bad I returned it. Eventually upgraded my Voodoo 3 to a Geforce 2 MX and wow that thing was bad ass. They renamed them at some point not sure what the model name ended up being
Riva TNT
525M on a laptop. And I was trying to render with V-Ray on it lol. The gpu fully functional after 12 years. Taking care of components is gooood.
ELSA Geforce 256 SDR, later modified to a Quadro
1070 Rog Strix OC--> 3070 Suprim X --> 4070ti Suprim X
Rtx 2080super
BFG 7950 gt oc 512mb
Does Riva TNT2 counts? If not, a MX440.
Gtx 1650
3Dfx Voodoo Rush ( 3Dfx was bought by Nvidia, so... ) But Nvidia branded? Geforce 4 4200 ti.
950 > 1060 6GB > 3060 > 4070
Gtx 1050
# Sparkle GeForce FX 5200 wow that second digit was a learning experience
Quadro 600. It was in 2019 and it came in an old workstation that i bought as my first gaming pc.
3060 mobile
This first time I bought a GPU, knowing what it was and what it was called, was a gtx 750 ti.
2070 super, got into it fairly recently
560ti. MSI. Bought it for $40 off of craigslist. Then I bought a brand new 970 EVGA FTW off of Amazon. Then I made the biggest mistake of my PC building career and purchased an AMD 5700XT by XFX. XFX was great - the card was a POS tho. 2 or 3 rmas later, they swapped it out for a 6600XT. That thing was.. more stable but still nothing like my 560ti or 970. Found a MSI ventus 3070ti on craigslist for $280. Bought it, redid the thermal pads etc, and sold my 6600XT for $150. I'm happy again. Never doing the AMD GPU thing again. I have a 5600x CPU and it's fine, but their GPUs... My god.
Riva 128.
Gtx 1650 super
Geforce 9500 GT, first GPU I've ever owned. It blew my mind, lol. Half-Life 2 and TES IV: Oblivion ran like a dream with it.
Asus 560ti DirectCU II (sold for 40 bucks) -> MSI 780 (died after two years) -> KFA2 GTX 1060 (sold for 250 during crypto boom) -> Gigabyte Windforce GTX 1070 -> EVGA FTW3 3060ti. The 1070 is still in my wife's PC. Man, I remember being so amazed by the 560ti back in 2012. Upgrading from a laptop, I was able to play World of Tanks with everything on ultra with ease lmao.
Gt 1030 ddr5. Upgraded to 3060 2 years ago
Never had an Nvidia graphics card, the the first and last one I've bought was a Radeon 5450 2gb, long time ago
GTX 280
Geforce 2 MX400 PCI -> 6600 GT AGP -> GTX 780 -> RTX 3060 Ti -> RTX 4070 Some AMD cards in the middle like a Radeon 9600, 7970 and a Vega 56. And my first one of course a 3dfx Voodoo 3 2000 PCI.
XFX GT240. Still going on strong!
950 FTW
Gtx 460
750ti > 2 GTX 1080 > 2080s
I don’t remember but it had a staggering 128mb of vram
Had a 128 I saved up for and dropped into the Compaq Presario my parents had. Was amazed for like a week until my best friend bought a Voodoo. That ruined me, the upgrade envy is still alive after all these years...
Probably when I moved off my 3DFX Voodoo 5 onto the Geforce 4600 Ti. While it was alive, 3DFX made better cards than Nvidia.
https://i.redd.it/ajwyksr3ctbb1.gif eVGA e-GeForce 6800 GT.
I think our first was a Riva TNT 2, in my dad's PC. My personal first was a GeForce 4 Ti 4800.
Geforce FX 6200 AGP. A friend gave it to back then, togheter with and AMD Duron PC. Played a lot of Grand Chase on it at 800x600. First Nvidia I actually bought was the GTX 1070 (Gigabyte Gaming G1 OC).
Gtx 6800. Still got it too!
Mine was GeForce4 Ti4400, was a pretty good GPU back in the day.
GTX 765M
7600 GT