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How does your video card stack up?

Rubycon

Rubycon

Madame President
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

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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! 😱
 
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.
 
Computer Bottleneck said:
Does anyone know what the TDP was for 3D Labs Oxygen GMX?
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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
 
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!
 
Computer Bottleneck said:
15 watts? I figured it was low after seeing those fans, but not that low.
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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:
 
my GTX 260 and 9800 GTX are pretty big...not as big as the dino or the 5970 though.
 
The 5870 is about the biggest card I ever owned. The Vapor-X Rev. 2 model I own is actually shorter than stock 5870s.
 
How does the original 7900GX2 stack up size wise to the new dual gpu cards?

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I had a 7950GX2 and it wasn't that big, but the 7900 was quite a bit bigger.
 
Wow, holy shitballs. I forgot about the dual PCB cards. My 5770 looks small compared, but it's still sexi.
 
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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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.
 
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