well, when did Maxwell architecture debuted? haha it wasn't with 900 series, wasn't it? such a fail...

I see that this is a new "strat" on youtube?

Noticed a small typo when you introduced the 500 series, date range and architecture is shared from Tesla but should say Fermi. And you mentioned the 900 series introduced Maxwell which isn't actually true as the 750/ti introduced it before the launch of the 900 series and at the time they were swooped up by miners for their increased performance per watt over previous gen.

Will there be something like this with ATI/AMD gpu's generetions?

I think the 16 series and the 20 series should be separated.

1080ti gang

Close enough to mine but my 1070 overexceeded my expectations. Started out with a gt 1030. The jump was insane

the 1080ti can even compete in RT performance with the current console... it's crazy. sadly most modern games don't support rt on the 10 series anymore, it would be cool simply as a fun curiosity to test the 1080ti with newer RT games

@@kitsumyr9752 That would've been like being partially blind and then being able to see clearly lol. That must have been an insane jump, indeed!

1080Ti for the win here. Hands down the best nvidia card ever! 11Gb still going strong. A card that lasts 5 years. The phenomenon.

Indeed , I bought a 1070 ti second hand ( after my 1060 fried ) about 5 years ago and she is still doing me really well , only reason I would want to upgrade is for RTX... or maybe 4k gaming but eh not now , first need that 4k screen

In theory, a 3080Ti around 700 dollars or 800 that a friend bought a long time ago is just as good or better value thanks to well made DLSS and CUDA cores.

I built my new PC last month for myself with an RTX 3090, and build a good enough PC for my brother who games in 1080p. The 1080ti FE was handed down to him (along with an i7 4930k), and it continues to casually play everything amazingly well. best value for a card ever, 6 years old and it'll still be good enough for a few more years

im looking to upgrade and the only reason im not getting a 1080ti is because people are way overpricing it even on 2nd hand market. Its listed the same price and sometimes even more expensive than a used 3060ti

@@ponkotuu yeah, i went with a 3070 for the same reason. $320 canadian average on fb marketplace while you can get a 3060 (sometimes a ti if it's a good deal) for less, which has rtx and all the bells and whistles. just ended up coughing up the extra $50 for a 3070 since i might as well at that price difference. ridiculous second hand.

Still rocking my GTX 970 and still miffed it only has 3.5GB VRAM. Got the card specifically because I wanted 4 GB 🤡 I have a 4060 Ti coming in that I'm pretty hyped about despite all the negativity surrounding it. The card performs almost on-par with the RTX 3070 and it's a huge step up for me 🤷‍♂

@@OniCr0wawesome! I also have a 970 and am looking at the 40 series pretty nicely right now. Im curious what made you decide that card? there are so many options its overwhelming

​@OniCr0w Me too, gtx 970 is really the go-to budget card if an rx 580 is out of the question. I upgraded to 3060 ti since I really didn't think the 4000 series was gonna that much of an upgrade and ended up being half right (4060 ti either performs the same or slightly better than 3060 ti in certain games). Hope you got the 16gb 4060 ti, or not, $500 for that is crazy to be honest

Still uses the thing...and now in serious need of upgrade. Sucks that the current gen cards are so shit price-wise. Honestly tho, the fact that 7900XTX and the 4080 price are neck and neck in my country means it's going to be hard to decide which to get (and the fact that 4090 is like at least 50% more expensive suuuucks).

I beat from start to finish cyberpunk 2077 on a 970 card. What a trooper of a card. I refuse to throw it away.

HD 7950 was pretty awesome for price to performance watt. That was an S tier card from AMD. Intel A750 with time will be an S tier for what it is to.

@@phoenixrising4995 Hd 7000 series was brilliant. My first ATI card was a 9700 Pro which was equally awesome. I’ve still got a few HD cards, a pair of 6970’s, a 5970, 5870 etc etc…that was such a great time!

lol I went from a TNT2 card to the RTX 2080 Super - I was into counterstrike in early 99-03 and then didn't bother with PC gaming again till 2018 when I got a huge bonus at work... lol so I went from a Pentium 3 866mhz with a TNT2 Ultra card (parents dell computer) then 15ish years later I deceided to get back into PC gaming and bought a 9900k and a 2080 Super

@@TrainWreck444 wow, that’s what I call an upgrade 😅 like going from horse and cart to a Saturn V

I still have a TNT2 and HD7950 but my 8000 series was mobile SLI, I'll have to ask my friend about his old 1080ti if he ever gets rid of it so I can have the whole collection in this comment thread lol

I have the baby 1080 and I have never been happier

I still play with a 7year old nvidia strix 1070 8gig. A lot of games on high settings, even with msfs 2020. It is a realy good card tbh.

1080 was ahead of its time, and still has practical use while outperforming a good proportion of the RTX 20, 30, 40, and 50 series cards and being less expensive than today's flagship. The GTX 1050 or 60 mobile performed identically go the desktop counterparts. Gamers weren't fps shamed for not being an American with big desk and big electricity. The GTX 10 series was truly G.O.A.Ted

It was so good you could comfortably ignore the next three generations.

@@DarkTrepie Its best card ever done.

Not with the prices they're going for now, the sheer physical sizes and of course the insane power usage.

@@Koozwad the technology is stagnating. we need a new gpu design to keep pushing transistor count without the need to increase the physical size and tdp

I have the 1070

Cool. It's a shame that Alan Wake 2 can't run on Pascal. This is the first AAA title that I can't run at high settings with my 1080Ti. It's not even because the 1080Ti isn't powerful enough either, because it's more than enough. It's because Pascal doesn't support mesh shaders, which is required for this game. @@soulsniper7398

​@@plasmahvhSo true, am on a 2080ti, at this point SLI makes more sense than a budget upgrade, like...whaaat the fuck 😂

If only you'd gotten a 1080ti you'd have an even longer reigning best card ever. They pretty much still make titans though with the 90 tier cards with double the ram or the highest end of the professional lineup with twice as much as that for like 3+ times the price.

@@ffwast Why does it matter now? Assuming the 1060 worked for them at the time, why would they have needed a more powerful card, that is now only as good as a 3060Ti?

1060 was good. I was very happy with my 1070 as well but nothing beat the 8800 GT. At 199 dollars you got top tier performance. And it was good enough for years to come. People who are too young to remember don’t really realise how good it was. Edit: seems 199 was not the launch price but it dropped to that a few months later. In any case at that price it was a heck of a deal. Edit again: techpowered up 349 price seems wrong. Anandtech review at the time says 199.

I knew nearly nothing when I grabbed my 1060 6Gb. That thing lasted me for years before I sold the PC to a friend. They still use it. Awesome value for 1080p gaming.

Im still on that era, the 1070 I got at launch is still working, maybe I will get a 4070 this year.

After all these years , that card is still relevent and can play all the latest games , no problem . That's really impressive.

Because all the cards where amazing I think. I used a 1060 untill 4 weeks ago. And it was 250$ GPU 2016. That kind of long terme support and usability was unheard before. The 1060 was the most used GPU well up into 2022 for a reason. That kind of bang for the bug didn't exist before and will probably never exist ever again.

Everything was good on the 1000 series, not just the 1080ti. The 1070, the 1060, they were all high quality cards in their price points. Hell even the 1050

It's weird because I know it had insane performance at the time, yet my 2060 is almost faster and it was way cheaper too

@@adxo lol no. 1080 ti is just as fast a 2080.

Absolutely insane I remember when i was shopping for a gpu before the crypto craze i think it was a 2070 or 1080 and it was only like 1600 nzd which is like 900 usd. Recently found my friend bought a rog strix 3080ti from the same place for 3300 nzd which is like 2400 usd. Fucking wild

He bought it jan of last year but still over 2k usd for a 3080 card is crazy

Were not dead yet. Will not buy em

@@bannabanana6950I’ve seen 3080’s new for around 900. Haven’t looked at prices in a month though

I have a feeling the 50 series will come back down a bit, it’s going to be like how the car market got crazy and is coming back down, once everyone who can afford those crazy prices has their card companies are going to have to start appealing to the average consumer again.

Games can't increase their VRAM requirements because console VRAM isn't increasing until a new generation comes out

Those card will be alright for a while

the fact the 1060 is gonna be 7 years old this year and its still listed a minimum requirement gpu is pretty insane. such a valued card for 1080p for the people who bought it new.

@@joebob2699 consoles have 16gb gddr6 which while being shared with system still could easily allow for 12-14 allocated to gpu when needed. This gives current gen consoles some headroom over the 3070’s 8gb and 3080’s 10gb which have both suffered from vram related issues in Hogwarts Legacy and Dead Space Remake

My 1070ti still kicks ass

Same. That's what I wanna see now.

🥰

Can't wait for that one tbh. It's gonna be a sadder saga in places but imo quite a triumph towards the end. Ppl often forget what an awful state AMD were in for a few years back. First Intel, then that secured and ensured, Nvidia... And all but for the extreme edge of the as yet still niche ray tracing, they did. RDNA2 was first time trading blows to the top in years plus they got the past driver inconsistency sorted, caught up re upscalers and etc. I had to laugh when Linus flashed up the current comparison benchmarks where of the top 6 cards AMD are 4 of them, at 4K no less, only the 4080 and 4090 in there and not both in top place either. My 6800XT was a no brainer over the 3080 (and it's anaemic 10Gb) two years ago when the latter cost, seriously 50-100% more, with no availability for months vs 3 days for the 6800XT and how that difference got me the same perf plus allowing me to afford better parts for the rest of the build. Prices rn still greatly favour AMD in the UK even taking their lesser (though still improved over last gen) RT perf into account: 4070ti's £800-960, 7900XT's £890-1050, 7900XTX's £1000-1200, 4080's £1200-1700, 4090's £1700-2490. The first three are pretty fairly scaled imo price/perf fwiw but after that, wtf. The 7900XTX beats the 4080 and has been seen closing in on the 4090 already for a hefty chunk less than the 4080 where premium cards are concerned. I'm not paying that much more for 'better' RT that I'll barely use, if at all (few games I own rn, only as many again foreseen in the next year or two) and still needs DLSS assured to bring back fps from sub 60. The 4090ti I'm sure will be even more an assured perf win for Nvidia over what the 4090 is but at what price... 3 grand like the 3090 was 2 years ago when the 6900XT that matched it never got over £1700 here at worst? Meanwhile, if there is a 7950XTX or like in the wings it'll put even more pressure on the 4090 and still be enough difference to upgrade something else (CPU/mobo/RAM etc) meaningfully. Nvidia are tripping tbh, sure the 4090 is crazy good but that price... crazy bad no matter how good. Sorry if this got ranty but AMD really by this point deserve way better recognition and even praise than the old 'hur dur bad drivers, hot and loud, but muh ray tracing, DLSS is better and some encoder bs' that is still much the norm in many forums. I can't think offhand of any company that turned things around so damn well as AMD actually has.

imho Radeon 9000: S Radeon X: C or B Radeon X1000: B Radeon HD 2000: F Radeon HD 3000: D Radeon HD 4000: A Radeon HD 5000: S Radeon HD 6000: C Radeon HD 7000: S Radeon R 200: B Radeon R 300: C Radeon RX400: A Radeon RX500: B Radeon RX 5000: B Radeon RX 6000: A Radeon RX 7000: ?

Same, but I hope he gets the Tiers / Scaling correctly. I agree with his assessment but not the scores in this video. Here's my take: S = Ge6000, Ge8000, GTX 200, GTX 10, RTX 30-MSRP A = Ge7800, GTX 400, GTX 600, GTX 900 B = Ge7900, GTX 500, GTX 700, RTX 40 C = GeFX, Ge9000, GTX 16 D = GeFX, GTX 800, RTX 20, RTX 30-Scalp F = Ge300, GTX 1, GTX 300 If you see a pattern there you're not mistaken. Always get S-Tier, occasionally get A-tier, and try to avoid B-tier and lower. As a consumer, an upgrade path was advantageous for your from the (2004) Ge6800 to Ge7800 GTX-512 (2005), Ge8800 GTX (2006), GTX 280 (2008), GTX 470 (2010), GTX 680-4GB (2012), GTX 980Ti (2015), GTX 1080Ti (2017), RTX 3080-MSRP (2020). That's 9 card purchases over 16-Year span, not too shabby but definitely not as longevity as a Home Console which sees minimum 5-Year relevancy.

overall the 8000 gtx is by far Nvidia's finest

Yea passed down my 1080Ti to my lil bro a few months back, fuckin awesome card. On a 6900XT now

1080Ti is the value mistake Nvidia will never make again. GTX10 was fire. 1080 for $499, 1080Ti for $699 (NV got scared of Vega which was meh), GTX 1060 for $249 and the amazing value 1050Ti with 4GBs for $149.

@@danielmdax 1060 6GB might have been the best price/longevity deal I ever made. I used that card until the end of '22. I only upgraded cause I managed to get a 3060 for sub-$350 prices.

@@IrisCorven This is really it. Sure as a enthusiast card 1080ti was great value. However the 1060 6gb was really the one that sold and it was also great value. There is a reason why it was the most popular card on Steam until late 2022.

Hahaha I still remember my FX 5200 in my XP days. Didn't pick it myself but played darn many games with it.

I was in it a few years earlier and yeah... Lemme say going 550 Ti to 3080 has been a trip.

I know it's crazy 😂

Honestly, I have to say I find that the rate of progress in computers and gaming much slower now than 20+ years ago. Sure the number are impressive but in the 90s it felt like there was a total revolution every year.

Probably not much considering nvidia themselves said they want to go the apple route of seeming premium and revolutionary and jacking up prices every time they can, but doing the minimum of effort under the hood. Current RTX40 gen is a clear exemple of that and RTX50 is already known to be an iteration of the same concept, they don't plan on transforming their current architecture to be more cost effective anytime soon. The good news is if people don't keep chasing ever bigger resolutions that really don't matter anymore, mid range cards will deliver all the perf you need to get as many frames as your screen can output. Top 3d games today already look borderline photorealistic if they want to so we're in a good place I'd say.

The pricing was the where the progress went most

I don't get why people like the EVGA 3000 cards, they're so overdesigned and bulky I just don't see the appeal

@@cash_banooca17 EVGA cards came with EVGA customer service.

@@afivey Yea but that doesn't have to do with the designs

@@cash_banooca17 now u get it

@@cash_banooca17 exactly

My path was very similar to yours. Voodoo2->7800 (single at first then SLI)->275->750->1060 (6GB). Most of these were second hand so I'm usually a few years behind the curve, hence I'm still on the 1060 but plotting my next move, so currently re-watching a load of videos like this one!

@@garethr1970 Nice! Good luck finding your next GPU!

Same here, ive got a 1070ti from the very start and still going to strong!

@@exzer5507 Me too.

Me too! Just upgraded from 1070 to 4070 Ti last week. The only reason I upgraded is because I bought a new LG 4K C2 OLED gaming TV and the 1070 simply cant handle 60 fps gaming on 4k. Other than that the 1070 manages to play games at 1080p just fine for the last 6 years at 60 fps. I love that card! Best $350 spent on a card!

@@InOLuvShiKa did you also have to upgrade your cpu or still using the old one? If you don’t mind sharing

@@Mojohoojo187 I actually upgraded my CPU back in 2020 from i7 2700k to i7 10700. Sure there might be some bottlenecks in 1080p resolution but I now mostly play games on 4K resolution and the bottleneck on this resolution is less than 10% so I'm totally ok with it and didn't feel the need of upgrading the CPU again this time. This thing still rocks 👍

seriously! so much great info in here that helps buyers make sense of a very confusing lineage of products that are so susceptible to marketing gimmicks.

He did worst to beat right after saying best to worst tho

Nah b

Same thought here!!

What about an intel GPU tier list

@@zaphod4245 That... would be a very short list, since ARC came out literally last year

Indeed. Remember the 9800 Pro?

Me too....😍❤

@@TheByQQ intel havd try get in market before arc too. But they fail...😣

Same

Got a 3080 over here... sorry

The 6600GT was such a bargain! ❤️

1080s are so cheap the past 2 months that they stomp those 1060s for just 20% more and 85% more performance. i feel like they took that spot lately

970

I just bought a 1080TI because my 2070 broke and I needed a cheap replacement and it just blow my old 2070 out of the fucking water, in 2023 lol

I finnaly retired the 1060 6gb for a Noctua 3070 OC, but that card was amazing. Traded my dad a 970 and $50 for it too.

My MSI GTX 1070 is the best GPU that I have ever owned, bought it back in 2016 and it ran amazing till 2021 till I sold it and bought a RTX 3070, now I have upgraded to a 3080Ti but do I miss my 1070 more than my 3070.

I feel ya’ll. 2019 started with rx 580 4gb it sucked went right to 1070 within 3 weeks got it refurbished from Zotac for 175$ then a 2070s a year later and it felt like no upgrade. Then a 3070 7 months later and I finally felt an upgrade but the 1070 was more than capable at 1440p even on games like Metro Exodus without rtx on. Actually the 1070 did higher frames with rtx off than the 2070s did with rtx on. So it felt like a downgrade. Because rtx off on 2070s was only like 10% more frames tbh on that game. The 1070 for 175$ in 2019 would be like getting a 3070 for 175$ today. Crazy good deal

my 1070 lasted me for a good 7 years before i replaced it with a 6700xt. absolutely nothing wrong with it. powerhouse through and through

so cool to see the love for the 1070. my "old" rig, which is mostly stuff from 2010, i threw a 1070 in, and it runs 2020 era games great! massive performance, just a stellar card.

Still using my MSI 1070. However, I'm planning to build a new pc very soon, so I'll enjoy it until its time to retire it.

8800 GTX - the original card that "could run Crysis" 😁

I had an 8600 GT that was passively cooled. It was a PoS. My 10 series is doing better. I dipped in the middle with a 6950, so I'd be keen to know if that was an S tier generation as well (from memory it was my longest lived card).

g80 the ATi slayer, a legendary GPU.

Still rocking a 980 ti. Woot woot! Ride til it dies!

@@i_like_hike 980ti still rocks even on AAA games on 1080p@60fps! Incredible gpu till today!

still happy with my msi 1060 6gb. It was probably the best value back in 2016 for what I had in my pockets

@@llamateur very true. I mostly play Fortnite with some friends and it hits between 120-144 on my 1440p monitor. Obviously this is an optimized game and I’m not running ultra settings but it’s hard to justify upgrading while it’s still running no questions asked.

I also have my 980ti on the shelf, I left it for a 3080 last year but let my buddy use it while he was waiting on a card. It is still very capable at 1080p and even 1440p!

same for me

is it good to buy 1080 or 2060 now? or wait?

@@bane8305 I think the performance diff between the new stuff and the old stuff is too big to buy them now. Wait for a good deal imo.

@@Mystery_Meat yeah i dont want a new one like 3000 or 4000 but maybe a 1080? or 2060? what you think ?

@@bane8305 Just get a 3060. The performance is just better for the price.

I was super fortunate that when I was looking to buy my first PC, I managed to find one on FB marketplace. As much as I would have liked to have built it myself, buying the individual parts pack in 2021 would have cost an absurd amount. But I managed to get my prebuilt for only $1450, with a 3070 and i7-10700F. Having been able to get the 3070 without ant particularly insane levels of stress, I actually love it as a card. It's a huge jump from the laptop 1070 that I was using for a long time, although tbf that 1070 really went above and beyond what I ever expected it to do. For a laptop GPU, it went crazy. Even though it would only be pushing maybe 30ish fps on large AAA games, that was still impressively smooth for how old the card was and how hot it would run. I eventually sold the laptop to my brother, because he was trying to game on a crappy laptop with integrated graphics that would die trying to run anything

i also joined one of those servers and then it turned out the server admin was a genuine groomer acting creepy towards minors so i left. managed to snag a 3080 at retail price though through pure luck, it served me well until a few months ago when i sold it to my brother steeply discounted as a christmas present.

For reference I have a 2070 non super and theres no way im upgrading to 40 series with these prices. I can still run any game at like 80 fps at 2k on a mix of medium to high settings

2070 S was one of my best cards. Well balanced for 1440p.

Same Still Rocking my 2070Super and think I can wait for 5000 Series before needing an Upgrade.

20 series aged well. Dlss sucked at launch but now dlss 2.0 is awesome.

I got my 2070 to replace a 1070 and was called stupid at the time. Well all the 20's series adopters turned out to be wise investors when pandemic pricing hit and my "overpriced" card was suddenly cheap in comparison. Also you hit the nail on the head with DLSS and I happily played Cyberpunk when my friends were complaining about the performance of their 1080's LOL

Though it's still only part of the history. The really early days (I guess before Linus -was old enough- got into this ;-)) are missing.

I just bought a Noctua 3070 1 month ago for $750, glad prices came down

Yeah, I'm glad I grabbed a 3080 at launch similarly. Or, well, I put in an order for one at launch and got it like 3-4 months later, but still it was MSRP, and cost less than what I'd paid for a 1080 Ti some years before! (Work with graphically intensive games so didn't buy these just for personal use, and also got tax deductions.

@@peterzwart2357 wtf 750? That seems insanely expensive for the performance, yikes

Same. I got a 3060 Ti at launch for $600 AUD - and I’m still rocking it today. Fantastic card considering what it could do, and how much I paid for it. And it paid for itself too, mining in my downtime.

Bought a 2080, it stopped working with 3 months left on the warranty. Got a refurb 3070 as a replacement. Best value i've ever had from a graphics card.

I scored a 3060Ti for close to MSRP myself and the difference in 1440P coming from a GTX 1660 super was pretty good. I can see myself rocking it for many years.

i got a 3060ti a few months ago for 330$ used, couldn’t be happier

Same, got mine at MSRP shortly after launch. Upgraded from a GTX 970 since it was struggling to push new titles to 144, and the performance uplift was simply jawdropping to me. Max quality 1080p at 144 for most games is no problem, I've been loving it. Might jump to 1440p144 or might give 1080p240 a shake, not sure which yet.

@@YuriZakhaev i’m going 1080p240 rn, got an xg2431 for like 280$ on sale and this thing is insane, it’s ips and has some of the best motion clarity on a monitor out right now

@@YuriZakhaevI know, it's amazing. I went from APU to 1050 2gb to the 3060 ti and the difference was incredible to say the least. I run 165hz 1440p and most games it runs smooth

I'm still with my 1060 I bought for 200 bucks or so. I've would like to upgrade to a double performance, but I'm not paying double price.

@@dracalat2510 You’ll definitely be in for an upgrade within the next year or so. Insane little card but it’s starting to show its age

Im still annoyed that young me did not know that a 3gb version of the 1060 existed, which i of course ended up buying.

Same! Had the 8800 GT (still have it in original box) with a Q6600 and remember very well when my room mate bought a Radeon 4870 X2 and Q8300 and I out-performed that beast of a card in Crysis 😄 Not for very long though, in true Radeon fashion the early drivers were utter garbage..

And in a way you did not mislead them. They got their money’s worth unlike with some of the recent top tier cards!

The GTS 240 was the 3rd rebadge I was curious if anyone else would mention it. Since how many cards got 3 lives. Kinda surprised it didn't earn an honorable mention in the video

I had both of those cards and planned to try SLIing them, but never got around to it, the 250 did have less memory though.

I ran those two in SLI as well! Or so I thought... I recall checking on my settings about a year after I bought the GTS 250 and found that SLI had been disabled at some point, and I was just running on one card in games. No idea how long that second card was just sitting there not doing anything.

970 is a legend in my book, buddy ran 2 in SLI and gave me one of them when my 780 broke, it kept strong until end of last year when i replaced it with a 3080 but just reoiling the fans kept the 970 kicking.

@@axlfrhalo Same. I jumped from the GTX 670 (which I wasn't that into) and when I saw the price vs the 980 I decided to just get 2x 970s instead. 😂 I did up swapping out to a 1080 fairly quick though only skipping the 980ti's release (but the 10xx series was a pretty large jump in performance compared to normal generation and SLI was starting to fall off). I had the ASUS Strix versions at the time which required a pretty heavy load to even get the fans to spin and were super quiet.

better than ps4, much better

Yes, RTX 20 series really aged well and one generation had to start it all. Otherwise we wouldn't have DLSS and Raytracing nowadays.

In a vacuum the 10 and 30 series were far better, but considering the mess of a GPU market that followed, the 20 series turned out to be a decent buy.

@@jfolz I think you just about nailed it.

Mine has honestly been the 2070 super coming from the 1060. Understandably when the 20 series came out, the value proposition wasn't good at all, but I picked up the 2070 Super for 450 right before the 30 series launched, and features such as DLSS have kept me able to play brand new AAA titles at high resolutions without any trouble. I have no regrets.

Riva tnt was great. Out performing my friends voodoo systems dramatically was a nice change.

Man the TNT2 was such a monster. I remember playing NICE 2 and Q3 in 1280 x 960 with no issue!!

@@c0mmanderKeen RagePro > TNT2 tho

@@clamhands42069 this going from a rx 580 4gb and hearing my computer turn into a jet engine running things like gta, to finally upgrade to a 2060 super. Its SO quiet.

I've beat that card to hell with over clocks, I've personally had it for over three years and its running just as fine as the day I got it, don't worry too much

I've got a 6700XT and I absolutely love the AMD way. Adrenaline is extremely easy to use and brings that old wacky charm to PCs I think. It was a massive upgrade from my vega 11 ahaaha

Same. I have tried a few nVidia GPUs, but have been on AMD since the 8800GT. Rocking a RX 6800 XT that somehow I managed to beat bots to and get for MSRP on launch day. If that card would have stayed at that price, it would have beaten the RTX 3000 series into dust for most raster games with it's value (it sure has hell beats it for VRChat in VR lol yay VRAM).

I got a used 6800 still in warranty for 400€ recently, sadly the games I play have engine issues more than GPU issues, like kingdom come deliverence, but overall it was a nice upgrade from my vega56, could had waited the 7000's but I was also attracted to the huge vram which are very nice to have since I like to play heavy modded games like fallout4 and skyrim (where vram is king)

Yeah even after the horror show I had with drivers for my last AMD setup (290X crossfire) it looks like my GTX1080 will be getting replaced with and AMD card when the time comes. Prices are absolutely through the roof.

I haven't owned an Nvidia card. ;-)

Same. Using the 1070 8g on X-plane 12 and it runs it really well at 1440.

Don’t some companies sell waifu edition cards?

They’ve evolved into anime girls

@@ZaHandle Devolved*

No mroe art in the world - everything is soulless and sterile now. Most artistic creativity and ancient knowledge was destroyed/hidden by the west starting in the first world war and continuing in the second world war. Look at buildings built in the last ~100 years. Soulless architecture.

@@OilFreeFeathersTTD?

So what do you think of the 40 series card ya got?

They didn't say it used the same name, they said it used the same dies

They were also availlable for 100€ used by the time the RTX cards came out. Cheap but super capable.

just made the same switch yesterday. While the 970 was awesome, its starting to struggle with these new games even at 1080p. Loved that thing to pieces.

I still have my trusty 970 stashed away can't bring myself to get rid of it haha fond memories

Did the same upgrade path

Same for me... The 970 didn't let me down for over 7 years! Just recently replaced it for a 3070.

It was also really informative, which basically unheard of from tier lists

Yeah this was a good list, only thing I would change is to bump the RTX4000 down to D-tier

Yeah, this one has actual effort and research put into it, head and shoulders above every other tier list I've seen!

I agree, It was just simply a beast for a nice price to allow everything at that point in time. To which one did you upgrade?

The 980 Ti had the best looking cards in Nvidia's history. It even made orange look great.

Yep, still running on my 980 ti, and it does a great job in most games I play at 1440. I'll look to upgrade when the manufacturers get back to reasonable prices, but the 980 ti is so good that I'm in no rush.

my 980ti gigabyte G1, its been running 1080 gaming for 8 years and still rocks.

Been using 2080Super since Q3 2019 but I still have that Gigabyte 980Ti from summer of 2015 as a backup card.

Do however note that the 750ti was Maxwell v1, thus lacking some support and features that Maxwell v2 (900-series) got. It certainly was a popular card though.

I'm still using a 750ti for gaming and streaming.

I still run mine (not TI), insane value for the money ( 320€ at launch), which was a bit pricier than the rx480, but in my experience the 480 was absolutely horrible to use. I got a card that had a TON of artifacts, swapped to another 480, kept with same driver issues and swapped it to the 1070 till now. Still not even close to the value i got for my asus 660, which was running star wars battlefront (the lootbox one) at 100+ fps. A monster of a card

Same here, there's nothing I can't play well at 3440x1440 at 100Hz. I've upgraded CPUs twice (3600 and 5900X) since getting the 1080 but nothing has really felt worthwhile since

@@pieterrossouw8596 3080 is worthwhile bro trust me I'm getting 100fps rdr2 4k

Same here GTX 1080 AIO watercooled without dust on filter easy 50c while in furmark I'm going to buy in like 2 months a used 3070 for around 360-400$ maybe less will see what can I find

Rx 6xxx is a good option, especially comparing to Rtx 3080.

@@larskoopman3671 yes either one

Yeah, 8800 was good, but it was, for the time, very pricy, big and power hungry. Seems awfully familiar?

Yeah, I have a GTX 970 running games to this day.

@@SerCommander i had the evga 8800gts 640mb with the g92 chip and it lasted me until i bought a 570 gtx because i was just playing css or wow at that time. I'd say beside the 1080ti the best car i ever bought.

I got a GTX 970 right before the launch of the 10 series and I'm still rocking it to this day.

970? With this vram scandal ?

I mean, while Nvidia continues to be a piece of shit, even the 20 series cards outperformed AMD's cards as well as the 30 and current 40 series. They're still taking Ws, just not on price. Because fuck them for that crazy 40 series hike. That being said, I always used to Game on ATI. I'll never forget how both excited and disappointed I was with ATI's All in Wonder cards. It was awesome being able to capture the video from my cable box to record Anime Unleased from TechTV. But the gaming performance wasn't the best. I ended up buying a second hand Nvidia 6600 from ebay. It ran amazingly well... Until it didn't. It played Morrowind with all the mods perfectly, but Oblivion... It did some of the funkiest shit to the graphics after a while. It'd start glitching out anything with a vertex point until I shut the system down for a bit. In hindsight, it could have just had bad paste and was over-heating. It wouldn't do it on less demanding games

Yeah. In that regard, they did everything right, unlike Intel with their CPUs. They continued to improve their GPUs, rather than stagnating until something like Ryzen could happen. Their prices are definitely absolutely bonkers and they can't crash soon enough, but if they fall down, it's likely not because they release a maybe 2% increase over previous gen

That was my first one too. Nostalgia

Does it though? It's obviously not the point, but the video doesn't go into details and it neglects to mention timelines. Nvidia would often release their generation several months after Ati/AMD, which is a lot of time considering that back then GPU generations were on yearly release cycles. It's not really all that surprising that they often managed to come up with something ever so slightly faster than their competition when they had a bunch of extra time to get the clock speeds exactly right. The 9000 series absolutely wiped the floor with anything Nvidia could offer for years to come. So much so that 9800 and x800 used a slightly updated architecture with more execution units, yet they were still competitive with Nvidia's offerings. X1000, HD2000 were not great, so Nvidia's 7000 and especially 8000 series did dominate the market. Then Nvidia went on and re-release that generation twice over, so they lost the enormous lead they had. HD3000 was OK then and HD 4000/5000 were in many ways better than GTX 400/500, which were loud and used way more power. HD 7000 and GTX 600 were closely matched, but this is where it starts to fall apart for AMD. They did an Nvidia and re-released that generation twice with only minor changes, so they had little to offer against Nvidia's 700, 900, 10, and 20 series. RX 6000 was then very competitive against the 30 series again. Out of the 15 or so generations they covered here, Ati/AMD was competitive or had straight up better offerings for 7 of them. It's just that they've had a bit of "dry spell" from 2013 to 2019 and that's what most people remember.

Same, my GeForce 2 MX 400 64GB from Inno3D was an amazing value for OpenGL games like Unreal Tournament (with the S3TC texture pack!). The GeForce 2 GTS never made sense, and EVERYONE I knew was rocking MX 200 and MX 400 cards.