PCI Express / AGP video cards

[JK949]

Anybody happen to know what the first PCI-X and AGP video cards were. Nvidia or ATI
and what models. When I say first I mean first to hit retail shelves, not the first
prototype. Can't find it anywhere on the net. A link would be great also.

 

[Lithan]

6800gt's I think

 

[happy medium]

6600 I think

 

[Lithan]

AGP... Um... my first one was a matrox. I dont think ATI and Nvidia even existed back then.

 

[happy medium]

Agp......I had a nvidia stb velocity in the late 90's. Voodoo banshee mabe?

 

[redlinez33]

I think the TNT or the TNT2 was the first AGP card by nvidia....

 

[bryanW1995]

never fear OP, I know an old school gamer who is on his way to help!

 

[Dazed and Confused]

First Pci-E cards were the Pci-E FX5xxx series like the FX5700 Pci-E. I'm too tired to find it but I think the first AGP card was by Cirrus, I think it was called the Luna something or another :-/

 

[SergeC]

I definitely had a 16mb TNT NVidia card that was AGP with my PII-400....

No idea for PCI-E, though my first was a 6800GT.

 

[OS]

AGP goes as far back as 2D only cards, stuff like matrox millenium

nvidia's first decent product was the RIVA

 

[Lithan]

Matrox mills were 3d cards. My first 3d card was a matrox mill.

 

[JACKDRUID]

AGP= trident
PCIex = 5200

both horrible cards.

 

[JK949]

Thanks for the input. The FX5XXX were all agp all the way up to the 5900 Ultra so
Nvidia would have to be 6xxx series for PCI-X. I'll start with the 6200 and up.

Wish there was a site dedicated to of the wall info like this.

Thanks again.

 

[imported_dorian]

My first AGP card was a Diamond Stealth III.. which, I think, was also known as Savage S3 or something.. I was too young, don't really remember how things were

 

[EarthwormJim]

I think the 6600 was the first native PCI-E card.

 

[gamepad]

6800 came out before 6600 IIRC.

 

[jamesbond007]

This may help!

 

[nanaki333]

Originally posted by: JK949
Anybody happen to know what the first PCI-X and AGP video cards were. Nvidia or ATI
and what models. When I say first I mean first to hit retail shelves, not the first
prototype. Can't find it anywhere on the net. A link would be great also.

just so ya know, PCI-X and PCIe are 2 different things

 

[Andrew1990]

The first PCIe cards were the FX5xxx series. Nvidia basically wanted to open the market up for them although not many of these were made. I would love to find one to benchmark and see how new gen cards compare to the old FX series.

 

[Peezee]

I had (actually, still have it lying in my drawer) a 16mb ATI Rage 128 Pro, and I believe it was the first AGP card I ever owned - and one of the first 5 AGP based cards to hit the shelves, I'm sure of it.

 

[nitromullet]

Originally posted by: JK949
Thanks for the input. The FX5XXX were all agp all the way up to the 5900 Ultra so
Nvidia would have to be 6xxx series for PCI-X. I'll start with the 6200 and up.

Wish there was a site dedicated to of the wall info like this.

Thanks again.

It's already been stated before, but the GeForce PCX 5xxx were the first PCIe cards.

http://www.nvidia.com/page/geforce_pcx.html