rx580. still have it on top of a shelf.

I have no idea what i had in my earliest PCs, but the first 3d graphics card was the 3dfx Orchid Righteous 3d.

Oh man, talk about bringing me back in time. My first card was a voodoo 2.

GTX750ti>GTX1070>RX6800

3dfx Voodoo2, followed by a Riva tnt2. Good times were had.

I believe I had the Riva tnt2. After that upgrading to the original GeForce 256. Was on my Intel Celeron 300A that you could overclock to a whopping 450mhz!

I had an ATI all in wonder 9600. That card was very unique because it also had a built in TV tuner and AV capture card that could turn your PC into a DVR of sorts. It went into an agp slot before PCIe was a thing.

An Nvidia GeForce 6200. It could run assassin's creed, the first one.

My dad got us a voodoo FX banshee on our home computer back in the day. I guess the first one I personally bother would have been a GTX 970

I forgot the first one, but I remember I upgraded it to an ATi Rage Pro so I could play Baldur's Gate, which needed 8 megabytes of video ram. Later I paired it with a Voodoo 2. I think it was the Diamond Monster one. And that one got replaced with a Matrox G200, which got replaced with Kyro II. I picked some odd cards back then.

A Matrox Millennium.

Riva TNT2

The first I bought for myself was a PNY XLR8 GeForce GTS 250 in 2010. It tided me over for 4 years, until my power supply gave a loud POP, and I replaced pretty much the whole build just in case the other parts were damaged (or caused the damage).

It was some on board gpu with my super amazing AMD K6-2, it couldn't even run mega man X without chugging. Then a friend gave me an S3 Virge with a glorious 4mb vram.

I don't know what hardware my first computer had because I didn't even know what a GPU was at the time... But the first GPU I ever bought was the 8600 GT.

evga GTX 770 It never died Replaced it with an evga GTX1080 it blew up 2 months out of warranty. they sent me rtx 2070 despite the warranty(MISS YOU EVGA). I gave that card to my wife and upgraded to a 3080 from aorus.
the card is great, but the software that comes with the card is beyond awful. I will probably get an Asus next time.

Riva TNT 16MB, brand name Elsa, card called Erazor.

First custom pc I got had a NVIDIA 6600 gt

3dfx voodoo 3 3000, with its whopping 16MB of VRAM.

It ran Unreal Tournament like a charm. Playing CTF on dialup though was not always great though..

Trident VGA?

I got a 3DFX voodoo as soon as they came out. GL quake was mind-blowing.

I bought a Riva TNT

Then a GeForce 2

Then a Radeon 9000

Then for a bunch of years I just moved into laptop after laptop with discrete GPUs.

Now I still have a 1080 and a 2070 doing a little bit of light AI work and video transcoding for me. But I'm still relying on crappy laptop GPUs for all my gaming. They're good enough.

I think I had a Voodoo 3 at some point. Then a Voodoo 5 at the family PC.

Then on my own PCs Radeon 1900Xt -> radeon 4780 -> radeon 7770 -> radeon 480 -> rtx 2070 super.

Intel HD

I'm amazed at how many people remember the hardware they purchased 30 years ago.

Nvidia GeForce 8400gs

Went great with my duo core 🥲 for that buttery smooth 30fps

It was a shiny EGA card.

On an 8-bit ISA bus, with a whopping 64kB of VRAM. It could display an amazing 16 colours on one screen.

My friend who had a CGA card was so jelly with his four eye-soaring neon colours.

If we're talking accelerated graphics, I bought a voodoo 2 with 8mb of RAM which linked up to my ATI Mach 64 2d-card.

MSI 4GB version of GTX970. Upgraded a few years ago to an RX6800 and I'm stoked about both GPUs tbh

ATI Mach32 EISA. It looked to good on paper, but somehow, it did not make DOS go brrrrrr 😟

Sapphire Radeon RX 480 (4GB)

Nvidia Riva TNT, because the onboard graphics were only going to play EverQuest (beta) and Rogue Squadron like a painful slideshow, if at all.

A VGA card. In an IBM PS/2.

The first 3D accelerator card I ever had was a Voodoo 2 of some variety.

Voodoo 2 baybeeee

If by graphics card you mean 3D hardware acceleration, then it was a Canopus Pure 3D. It was equivalent to the first Voodoo add-in card but IIRC it had 6 MB of RAM instead of 4. It wasn't a standalone card so it had a VGA passthrough from your 2D card when it wasn't active.

As for 2D cards, idk. Unless it was pro reference grade like Matrox I don't remember EGA and CGA cards being branded.

an S3 Trio card.

Geforce 2 fx

I think it was S3 Virge. Remember playing Tomb Raider with smooth textures.

3060 ti I bought during the shortage, overpaid soooo much haha

Voodoo Banshee, so I could play Quake, Unreal and Deus Ex.

First one that someone bought for me: Riva TNT2

First one I bought myself: ATI Sapphire 9600 pro

I feel like so many of the asklemmy questions are covert methods to profile users, so I never give real answers.

GeForce2 MX

7950 gx2

Intel Graphics Media

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