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[Robbert]

Hi all!

Yet another day, yet another question, what was your first GPU? Mine was a Voodoo card, though we had PCs since the early 80s (I'm from 86)).

Looking forward to y'all's replies!

Robbert

[clerian]

First GPU was a GeForce 2

[TR2]

Well consumer graphics cards came out in the 90s, before that graphics were integrated on the mainboard (old motherboard name) and soldered in place. I have used S3, ATI, Diamond, Nvidia, Voodoo and Cirrus Logic cards. I guess the S3 Savage 4 ( PCI ) was one of the first I have used. I think I still have a few PCI Video cards. A long time ago in a galaxy far far away...

[jlk69home]

3DFX Voodoo3 3000 AGP. I think

[wiredawg100]

GeForce 256 from the 90's, I believe it was their first GPU.

[dokcal]

My first GPU? Jeez, who can remember back that far?  LOL!

I was pretty bleeding-edge back then. I think I might have had an S3 ViRGE... then IIRC, I had a 3Dfx Voodoo of some kind a little later.

[DammImGood]

GeForce 2, paired with an AMD 1800xp

[Ultimvtum]

ATI HD 3450 in my first prebuilt

GTX 650 as my first upgrade

[BlackVoid]

I can't remember, but I think it was the ATI Graphics Ultra Pro PCI Mach32 with my blazing fast P60.

[demoniclese]

My first was something that was in my 386..... i think it was a Trident with 512k of memory i think or something....my first real one was a VesaLocalBus 2 Meg VRam  ATI Mach32...also had the 1 meg Dram version

[clarks_nyc]

First high end card? ATi 🤪 Radeon 9700 Pro. AGP baby! 

[AMD2022]

I only remember it being an ATI, back in,.....  the too far to remember

[THUNDERBIRDISBACK]

42.  Voodoo2.

Carmageddon was my favorite title on that card.

[BikenFish]

Haha! Yup Voodoo was where it was at! 
“Welcome to gamespy” first game was Quake II

[JoeInKY]

Voodoo also. Can't remember exact model. That's what happens when you get old. LOL

[dj4aces]

The first GPU I purchased with my own money was a 3dfx Voodoo 3 2000.

[tredeuce]

It was a Voodoo card, but I do not remember exactly since I shared my PC with siblings. One liked to take stuff apart and replace stuff.

[ReddHerring]

Nvidia Riva TNT was my first real GPU as i couldn't afford a vodoo card at the time

[SAMSAMHA]

had one older card that I cannot recall. The one that I do recall is Geforce3 200ti

[lgestle]

some onboard from a 386/486.  But Voodoo 1 was my first Gaming GPU shortly after it became available.

[Mption]

I had a card it was an S3 that i upgraded the ram in.

I went from 256k to 512k, and it let me do high color(256 colors) at 1024 * 768

[SubtleIQ]

ATI AIW 9600 XT

My First PC Build.

[Roger0072]

I'll really age myself:  The first big purchase for a PC was not a graphics card.  

It was a sound card.

I know I got an early Adlib, which was needed for many games to be able to get more than PC sounds.  I also remember having to fight with port/jumper settings on the card to get it to work with the PC.

[Moug7]

Can't remember what's was the first invented. Been gaming since I was kid in my 50s now

[DRDOS]

If consider x86 platform only, it was about 30 years ago i got the first one.
S3 Trio 64 V+, PCI.
IIRC, it had 2MB VRAM.

[skycyclepilot]

Ha!  You're all just babies!  Mine was whatever was installed in a Burroughs mainframe in 1979!  My first PC was a Radio Shack MC10 with 16 KB of memory...

[lvskiprof]

You obviously didn't read my post you young whipper snapper!  I was using the LA City Schools HP 2000 on a teletype at our high school in 1973.  I was a member of the San Fernando Valley Computer Club long before the Trash-80 came out and already had outgrown my KIM-1 Commodore computer and moved on to an S-100 Bus Z80 system, which I later upgraded to a Seattle Computer Products 8MHz 8086.

[skycyclepilot]

You got me!  Does that mean I don't have to feel so old...

[jaradmf]

Ok I’ll play, Tandy 1000

[demoniclese]

I think i replied ot this before saying my first dedicated gpu was a 1 meg and then a 2 meg ATI Vesa Local Bus Mach32....so way before amd scooped up ATI...but when i think about it again my first real computer that had a seperate graphics adapter was a Compaq portable suitcase computer.....it had a green screen built in and 2 5 1/4" floppys...a 50 meg....yes.....meg....harddrive....and the graphics adaper was HUGE!! i was able to jerry rig it into my first 386 to use it! Of course i had to turn both machine on their sides and turn them both on at the same time i should have taken a pic....wow...the memories! LOL I could have blown something up! It sounded like a jet starting up!! And man was the HDD loud!

[cwtotal]

ATI Mach 64 (2MB VIDEO RAM) + Addon: VOODOO 1 3dfx: (4MB VIDEO RAM)

[alisha]

AMD Radeon HD 7970 CF was my first graphics card. We thought this post would make us feel elderly and nostalgic.

[StuntApe]

Wow - not sure about the dates, but I'd guess 1996 or something like that?

ATI Rage for 3D, and Matrox Millenium for 2D.

[DarkAmethyst]

Uhh, this is a little tricky. I would assume iGPUs don't get to count but I do know the first computer that was properly mine has an S3 ProSavage. This was in a P3 era Celeron powered HP Brio. I think it was manufacturered around 2000? I ended up using this until like 2010 though when I got a laptop. For the hell of it I did get it a Radeon 9200SE cheap off eBay for it, so that would be my first actual dedicated GPU.

[stereosteveo]

Same. Still have 2 - 3DFx Voodoo Cards, new in box. Also come to think of it, Quake III  Arena (unopened in tin box). This was several years after the Voodoo, Quake 1 CTF days, ... and nights though...

OK..I'm 51.. =:(.   

Where does the time go? ugh... =:)..  

-Stv..

[jamesc359]

I've been PC gaming since Windows 95, but I didn't get my first dedicated GPU until I bought a PNY GT 240 that was on sale for $65. Sorry AMD fam, but I loved that card. I played so many great games on it that it's impossible not to.

[sadfasdfasdfasdfas]

I think it was a Gigabyte Radeon 4850?? It was part of the first system I pieced together with an AMD cpu, forgot which one but was pretty good back then. Never bought an Nvidia card. Now my old x399 rig is using a Toxic 6900 XT EE  🙄

[DarkAmethyst]

@sadfasdfasdfasdfas 

Ooh, that will have been pretty nice. I picked up an old Sapphire HD4870 last month for.. I guess a sorta retro-box. Paired with an Athlon 64 X2. I might've picked that specific card because it was blue though, matches the motherboard. ❤️

[Matt_AMD]

I think it was a Nvidia MX-440.

I'll understand if we can't be friends anymore @Sam_AMD @Ashley_AMD

😜

[Ashley_AMD]

LOL Matt! 😂 

[Matt_AMD]

Blimey, that's a high end rig you have, Ashely! 😎