What was your first GPU ever?

[K7SN]

Unless a Number Nine Card counts - ain't never owned a GPU

 

[shady28]

Hercules :

 

[Red Hawk]

The first discrete graphics card my family bought was an EVGA Geforce 7300 GT. We later obtained an EVGA Geforce 9800 GT. The first card I bought with my own money was an Asus Radeon HD 5670, though I actually bought it as a gift for my brothers' PC. The first card I bought with my own money, for my own use, was an Asus Radeon HD 5770, CuCore model.

Yeah, I'm a young'n.

 

[mohit9206]

My first integrated graphics card was Nvidia 6150se 128mb and my first discrete graphics card was a Sapphire 5450 1gb ddr3.

 

[DustinBrowder]

The first GPU was unnamed one. I had one of those computers with like 70mhz processor, that had a turbo boost button, I believe the memory was like 2mb and the HDD at 8gb.

The second GPU I had was the RivaTNT 2 I think. It had 128mb memory I remember.

 

[Indus]

Riva 128

 

[Blitzvogel]

That's ****ing creepy.

My first real experience with GPUs and figuring them out was with my first actual computer back in 2005. Oh boy Intel Xtreme Graphics 2 🙄 I could play Call of Duty, Far Cry, and Age of Empires II on it!

First video card I ever bought was a Geforce 8800GTS 320 MB for my first PC build.

 

[Blitzvogel]

That's ****ing creepy.

My first real experience with GPUs and figuring them out was with my first actual computer back in 2005. Oh boy Intel Xtreme Graphics 2 🙄 I could play Call of Duty, Far Cry, and Age of Empires II on it!

First video card I ever bought was a Geforce 7600GS I bought as an interim card before getting a Geforce 8800GTS 320 MB for my first PC build.

 

[Evilviking]

First discrete video card was the Gainward ti4600

 

[jumpncrash]

Riva tnt2 I believe, before that I had a SiS 6326 AGP...that was PCI, btu I don't think it did 3d

 

[BigDaveX]

An ATI Rage 128 32MB that came with the first actual PC I had. The drivers for which were so bad that I actually ended up picking up a second-hand Voodoo 1 and putting it in my PC. I think both cards ended up pulling 50/50 duty for the next couple of years before I eventually upgraded to a GeForce 3 Ti200.

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Outside of whatever was in my Apple IIc it was a voodoo 3 300016mb, traded that out of a voodoo 5 which I believe I still have with the original box intact.

 

[Killrose]

Matrox Mystique 2mb that came in my brand new Quantex computer with a Pentium 133mhz cpu and 24mb mem. It had board jumpers for Bus speeds and cpu multipliers. I soon learned how to abuse cpus... 😉

 

[monstercameron]

Technically it was the AMD hd3200 igp but discrete was an nvidia 9600gt.

 

[Necrolezbeast]

Geforce 2 mx200 was the first dedicated card I purchased.... my 450mhz p3 before it had some 8mb ATi card, but never knew which model

 

[Face2Face]

Matrox Mystique 2mb that came in my brand new Quantex computer with a Pentium 133mhz cpu and 24mb mem. It had board jumpers for Bus speeds and cpu multipliers. I soon learned how to abuse cpus... 😉

Yeah buddy. I remember when we got our Pentium 90MHz PC from Quantex. I spent so many days browsing though Computer Shopper and finally settled on that gem. We came from a 386/33MHz with EGA graphics, so it was a monster upgrade. I wish I could 100% remember the graphics card it had, but I think it was a Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 S3-ViRGE.

 

[Shmee]

My first video card was a 7500 all in wonder iirc xD

 

[Innokentij]

Some ATI 1MB in 95, first gpu Diamond Monster 3D Voodo 1

 

[Timmah!]

Riva TNT2 Vanta.

 

[Grubbernaught]

Not counting the ega 286 or 512k svga 486 it would have been the combo of an s3 virge and diamond monster 3d (voodoo 1), soon swapped the virge for a tsenglabs et6000 which I pressed the 2mb upgrade into myself. Good times.

 

[Blue_Max]

Ahhh... memories.

I know I already mentioned my i740 "starfighter", but I found the AT review for it! 🙂
http://www.anandtech.com/show/202

Neat thing about it was that it was the only i740 card with OpenGL drivers. It was a neat experience and better than the Virge3D that came shortly before or after it...

 

[SolMiester]

GPU was first coined by NVidia, everything before hand were video accelerators. My first was Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 S3-ViRGE PCI way back 1992?...Not long after that its was Voodoo Banshee and 2 x Voodoo 2 SLI..WOW, I still remember the reflections in Glide as the most beautiful site I had seen with graphics games...

 

[SolMiester]

Ahhh... memories.

I know I already mentioned my i740 "starfighter", but I found the AT review for it! 🙂
http://www.anandtech.com/show/202

Neat thing about it was that it was the only i740 card with OpenGL drivers. It was a neat experience and better than the Virge3D that came shortly before or after it...

Except the Intel drivers were shocking with NT4

 

[happy medium]

Nvidia Riva 128 4mb, then I upgraded to a TNT 2 16mb?

 

[dave_the_nerd]

In a windows system - nvidia tnt2 m64, 32MB.

Before that I had a Mac with an ATI Rage Pro 6MB and a VooDoo2 8MB (3D only) upgrade card.