How does your video card stack up?

[Rubycon]

Size wise!

What you're looking at from top to bottom:

3DLabs Oxygen GMX AGP 96MB (about 11 years old!)
AMD HD5970 PCI-E 2.0 2GB
Nvidia 285GTX PCI-E 2.0 2GB

Flipped over...

So what kind of stuff do you have in your junk pile? Post it! (not saying the two current cards are junk - although the jury's out on the HD5970 - they were to show how BIG the dinosaur really was!

 

[zerocool84]

I'll go digging in the garage for my Voodoo 5 5500 but I think the 5870 might actually be longer then it. I also have an old 3D Blaster Banshee in there somewhere as well that I'll have to dig out.

 

[cbn]

Does anyone know what the TDP was for 3D Labs Oxygen GMX?

 

[Rubycon]

Does anyone know what the TDP was for 3D Labs Oxygen GMX?

Specs from 3DLabs:

Power requirement 5V @ 10W, 3.3V @ 15W
Geometry processing Hardware: GLINT Gamma processor
Rasterizer 2 GLINT MX rasterization engines
RAMDAC chip
Pixel frequency
TI TVP 4030
220 MHz
Memory 96 MB

 

[cbn]

15 watts? I figured it was low after seeing those fans, but not that low.

 

[Soltis]

Interesting how much more work is put into the "look" of the card now as well.
Unfortunately I don't have any cards of my own to show yet, but will be doing my first build soon!

 

[Imp]

Si hueg...

 

[Rubycon]

15 watts? I figured it was low after seeing those fans, but not that low.

Total power is 20W. Not sure if that includes memory. All power is drawn through AGP slot. I don't think they had AGP Pro back then. I have Supermicro X5DAEs that are AGP Pro. Those are now 7 years old.

The fans are TINY.

They are actually cute and make neat whining noises when under driven. I may take them apart and scope the drivers to see what they're doing. :hmm:

 

[Shmee]

my GTX 260 and 9800 GTX are pretty big...not as big as the dino or the 5970 though.

 

[vshah]

i used to have a #9 card that was pretty long but its in storage at the moment...

 

[bunnyfubbles]

My 5850 might not be that long, but an Accelero S1 + 120mm fan makes it pretty thick

 

[ZipSpeed]

The 5870 is about the biggest card I ever owned. The Vapor-X Rev. 2 model I own is actually shorter than stock 5870s.

 

[Apocalypse23]

2 of these beasts and a 4350 as well.

 

[Dark4ng3l]

Wow a 5850 and a 5870? Those are some really nice cards though. You guys make my 5770 feel weak

 

[nitromullet]

How does the original 7900GX2 stack up size wise to the new dual gpu cards?

I had a 7950GX2 and it wasn't that big, but the 7900 was quite a bit bigger.

 

[Attic]

Wow, holy shitballs. I forgot about the dual PCB cards. My 5770 looks small compared, but it's still sexi.

 

[Apocalypse23]

Wow a 5850 and a 5870? Those are some really nice cards though. You guys make my 5770 feel weak

Yeah! I'm actually keeping the 5850 as I solved my motherboard overclock stability issue just now. These beasts look and perform beastly!

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Anyone got a nice picture with the 5870/5850/GTX285/4870/4850 etc all lined up for size comparison purposes?

 

[bryanW1995]

This sounds remarkably like some locker room conversations I've had over the years...

 

[Apocalypse23]

This sounds remarkably like some locker room conversations I've had over the years...

lol!

 

[Rhoxed]

my biggest card is the 4850x2 currently

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

Obligatory Bungholio Marks post :

 

[heyheybooboo]

I've got an old HP 'Visualize' card that was quite similar to the 3DLabs Oxygen. It's an AGP Pro that came with a 2P HP workstation. The box is still chugging along (but with a FireGL z-128 and an upgrade to 'Nice Try 5.0').

There is a current listing on Ebay for a Visualize FX6 Video Board.

This 'Last Millennium' graphics tech can be yours for $810 - LOL




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[AuraNova]

The only cards I can find that are "old" are a Radeon 9250 and an Radeon 9600Pro. They were small ones though. The largest card I own is my current GTX 260.

 

[nitromullet]

Anyone got a nice picture with the 5870/5850/GTX285/4870/4850 etc all lined up for size comparison purposes?

Not all the cards you listed, but...

GTX 295, 5970, 5870, 5850, 5770

From AT's 5890 review: http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3679&p=2

IIRC, the GTX 260 - 285 are the same size as the GTX 295, and the 4870/4890 is about the same size as the 5850.