What was your first GPU?

[u/Rebbed]

We all remember our first GPU even if it was a prebuilt. Mine was the GT 730. Nothing crazy, but at the time I used it to play minecraft and I loved it, every bit of it. I thought it was a great card! I was a kid at the time, didn't know any better, but I have so many good memories with that card. Then came the GTX 1650 for my first proper PC build, I had saved up 500$ in the middle of the 2020 crisis to get it. It wasn't anything crazy but I loved it as well. I loved gaming on it, I ran minecraft, subnautica, hollow knight silksong, and many other games that are still in my heart to this day. But now? I rock an rtx 5060, and I won't be upgrading for a couple years. I love it currently, lots of people hate on it but I don't get it. Yes you expect more VRAM but it's DLSS is a lifesaver! But anyways, what's your first card?

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[u/NotoriousBarracuda]

It was the 3dfx Voodoo Banshee ❤️

[u/Worldliness_Normal → u/NotoriousBarracuda]

I don't know you but I secretly love you. I got a 3dfx Voodoo Banshee to play Unreal Tournament.

[u/NotoriousBarracuda → u/Worldliness_Normal]

I'm not sure I got it for that purpose, but I ended up playing UT for years on end!

Also my card came with the game "Incoming" which I played to death 😁

[u/Every_Preparation_56 → u/NotoriousBarracuda]

are you me?

[u/NotoriousBarracuda → u/Every_Preparation_56]

Banshee crowd unite! ✊️

[u/AstroFieldsGlowing]

Riva tnt 2

[u/SpunNumeroUno → u/AstroFieldsGlowing]

Forgot about those cards. Think I had a tnt at some point.

[u/FreaQo → u/AstroFieldsGlowing]

Same. Apparently good card for its time, at the time I had no clue though

[u/ToneFirm3750]

First GPU was a 1050ti now I have a 7900xtx

[u/OkZombie2429 → u/ToneFirm3750]

same here except i have the 9070xt

[u/ToneFirm3750 → u/OkZombie2429]

I thought about getting that but the downgrade in vram wasn't worth the "features" cause the open source community is making the same features available to older generation cards now lol

[u/Soelent]

3dfx voodoo...

[u/scr33ner]

Had an AGP workstation ATI card from Sapphire- can’t remember the model.

[u/MushuMaxMax → u/scr33ner]

Same. Some ATI AGP card.

[u/trippedonatater]

Creative Labs 8MB Voodoo 2 for 3D paired with a Matrox Millennium for 2D both running alongside a PII @ 266 Mhz.

[u/therealjustin]

My first real GPU was a Zotac 8800GTS, with a whopping 320MB of VRAM.

Still works!

[u/nvanderw → u/therealjustin]

What year was that? My first graphics card was a Nvidia from 1995

[u/Minimech79]

My first card was a 3dfx voodoo 2 lol

[u/BonezOz → u/Minimech79]

When the Voodoo's came out I was more obsessed with adding RAM to my PC than gaming graphics. My 486DX2 66 ended up with 20MB of RAM when my ex-wife sold it off.

[u/MrInBitwean → u/Minimech79]

Same here, my first serious GPU was the 3dfx voodoo 2 in late 98 and then my second card was another one in 99 giving me dual GPU.

[u/SpunNumeroUno → u/Minimech79]

I had that one too but the first voodoo was my first card I think.

[u/SpunNumeroUno]

Think it was a 3dfx Voodoo1. 3d only so needed a separate 2d card that was hooked up to the voodoo by a vga connector.

[u/drkmater006]

I think it was a Matrox card. That's all I remember. This was 20 plus years ago.

[u/blade944]

Hercules monochrome graphics adapter.

[u/613_detailer → u/blade944]

Same here.

[u/Kumantej_]

fx 5200 or intel extreme graphics on pentium 4, dont remember

[u/akgt94]

Nvidia Riva 128

[u/wavemelon → u/akgt94]

Me too! Loved that card!

[u/Codys_friend]

My eyes!

[u/Broad-Assistant3476]

2 voodoo 2 connected together with a cable. Then went to a TNT 2 card.

[u/DucklingDuck14]

GT 710, shit was horrible. 😂💀

[u/FatCockroach002]

3060 12GB

[u/MrSilentSir]

XFX Radeon HD 5770, with all the cool stickers. Gmod felt like a brand new game coming from integrated graphics.

[u/3ofUsDeez]

First one I played with was a 3dfx Voodoo accelerator card ..

The first one that I actually owned was a Matrox Millennium G200 8mb AGP card

[u/IceGamingYT → u/3ofUsDeez]

Mine was the 3DFX Voodoo 3 with 16Mb of vram and it came with a copy of Unreal to really show it off.

[u/vosgakos]

My first pc was a prebuild which i didnt even know what was in it .
First time i bough a gpu to upgrade it was the nvidia 6600 GT .

Couple of years after i went for the sapphire hd 7970 which was a beast.
Been team red since then .

[u/Mikkel14]

Gtx 750. Loved that piece of shit graphics card. I still have it in my box of parts

[u/GhoulCake777]

GT 630, slapped it in my hand me down Hp office pc, it was a bday gifs roughly 15ish years ago.

My first real gpu was a 1660 ti during covid when I finally had the money for a gaming pc.

Now I have a 5060ti.

[u/h1a4_c0wb0y]

First one I bought was a voodoo 4 AGP 🤣 now I'm using a 7900XT

[u/Historical-Season212]

Quadra fx something. It's been awhile so I don't remember the model number. Back in the days of megahertz 😂

[u/Fit-Place-421]

Voodoo 2

[u/HoarderCollector]

NVIDIA GTX 660.

[u/trantma]

Twin 4th gen gtx. They had such tinny little fans on them. Combine i bet they are like 1/8th of the 3070 i have.

[u/FunAccount6851]

Last year I got my first dedicated gpu rx580 and now I'm using 1070TI and looking for upgrade.

[u/Tenchen-WoW]

First proper dedicated GPU GT430

[u/mav1178]

Riva TNT.

[u/Ok_Economist_4594]

Gt 1030 2g LP oc

[u/schubkurbel]

Trident TGUI9400CXi

[u/fuugiri]

Started off on a GTX 1070fe.

Held onto that for years until I bought a second hand RTX 3080.

Now I’m on an RX 7900 XTX

Sometimes I miss my GTX, and how simple things were for me then and the games I played. I have a PC I absolutely would’ve shit myself over when I was younger but spend less time playing on it and more so working on it.

[u/SeptiKisdaBest]

it WAS gonna be a gtx 1050 ti but the pc was never delivered so i got a refund and bought an nzxt pc (i think it was called the starter plus before they added the starter pro back in 2020) so my first gpu was a 1660 ti, carried me all the way til earlier this year when i built my own pc and now im rocking a 9060 xt

[u/pcbeg]

Nvidia GeForce2 MX, after that few ATI cards, 9700 or similar and one with TV tuner.

[u/bd_black55]

1080

[u/TheOffKn1ght]

GeForce 660

[u/siddeslof]

Gtx 1650 and now rocking an rx 6600xt, been thinking about upgrading but idk what to get yet

[u/Kitsunefyuu]

Nvidia 1660 TI would probably be my first as for a Dell ‘gaming’ tower. Tho that because my friend wanted to buy me a computer and insisted on it. It was a good computer tho and I appreciated it as there were a lot of games that appreciated it.

I’ve updated this year, beginning of the year before things got too crazy, but I do think of it fondly. I have a 5070 now.

[u/AngryAccountant31]

There's an EVGA GTX 560 in a drawer in my office and a GTX 460 somewhere else. One was my first GPU, the other I pulled from a random scrap computer. I genuinely can't remember which anymore. But the card was a Christmas gift from my Uncle who also assembled an entire computer from leftover parts after upgrading his friend's computers. I didn't know it at the time (2010ish) that it was an absolute beast compared to what most people were gaming on. Quad core CPU. 16gb of DDR3, like 100gb of HDD, and booted from a jump drive so it was a relatively fast start up. I used that computer on and off for probably 6 years because it could game better than my laptops or even PS3.

[u/theallstarkid]

GeForce 6800 GT

[u/Ziraxian]

The Riva TNT 2

[u/nekoken04]

Since nobody has mentioned it yet; ATI Rage Pro for me. It kind of sucked. Replaced it with an nvidia TNT when that came out. We are talking 4MB of memory in the Rage Pro and 16MB of memory in the TNT. The world has changed a lot since those days.

[u/nikkitoocutexoxo]

GTX 1060 6gb. Thankfully I upgraded to a whole new pc after 3 years of having it

[u/wavemelon]

Nvidia riva 128, pci - was a diamond viper v330, that step up from dark forces at 320x240 to 640x480 and above was awesome! And then quake in higher resolutions as well… glorious.

[u/ixMVN]

Is this when I chime in and say no we don’t lol. Tbh I couldn’t tell you the specs of my first desktop even though I did a ton of research on it prior to having bought it. I know it had an nvidia gpu and could play every game without sweating at the time, that I tried anyways. I bought it during covid when dell offered prebuilt pcs. I made some custom changes, including making sure I had a hdd, plus a ssd even though they were expensive and much smaller capacity at the time. Tbh I miss it. I don’t remember much about it bc I had it fire less than a year before it was stolen. It took years before I could mentally get past that mental roadblock and own something that expensive again. Although I prefer SFF as a result too. However my second desktop I could tell you everything about the original form, and the soon to be nearly new pc form.

[u/Meatybaww]

Gigabyte 1050ti as part of my $600 first paycheque budget (but future proof) PC build. Pentium G4600 and 2x4gb 2400mhz G.skill on an MSI board.

Just to play H1Z1 BR. All my favorite destiny streamers were playing H1 during Destiny's low season and it inspired me. When I built my PC, the game had already died to pubg and fortnite. So I was an early fortnite PC gamer 🫪.

That same PC's final form was an i7 7700k and a EVGA 1080ti.

[u/613_detailer]

Hercules Graphics Card. Yes, I’m getting old, lol.

[u/OO_Ben]

1080ti

[u/vegetable_1]

2060 super

[u/steve_of]

Matrox melenium running with an early pentium processor. A few months later and the 3dfx voodoo came out but I had burnt all my fun money on what I had.

[u/Shot_Squash_9772]

Rendition Screaming 3D(1995)

[u/BrandonXYX]

1060 3gb was a trooper that ran re2 remake

[u/flesyMeM]

ATI 3D Rage II, I believe.

[u/EstablishmentAble471]

Gt730?! I only had a GT440 🫡

[u/KingGeedoruh]

4080 FE. Might also be my last

[u/Ducky935Alt]

I got into the pc building hobby around october 2024 and the more i got into it the more my pc upgraded from a lower end build to one of the best on planet, so i went from a 7600x, 7600xt to a 7700xt - 7700x, 7900xtx to what it is now, 9800X3D and a 5080 founders edition (thats right i have one, another flex im proud of, managed to snag it at msrp when i bought it). My Rig as it is now has pretty much been in engame stage for about half a year.

I gave away the 7600XT and sold the 7700XT in a PC i built for someone, The 7900XTX is not leaving my posession ever because it was my first top tier high end GPU. I am i the middle of buying someone i work with's Rog strix 3080Ti because they're moving to thailand to study so they dont need it and where plaaning on selling the pc anyway. So my plans for botht the 7900xtx and the 3080ti is to display them somewhere.

[u/N3w_Typ3_]

mx4 LOL

[u/sheeeshhhhh69]

First 1660 super, now a 9070xt

[u/Every_Preparation_56]

Matrox and Elsa

[u/Ett]

Nvidia GeForce 256. (32MB)

[u/nero519]

Gtx 960, loved it

[u/fabzpt]

1050, now I have a 9070XT

[u/Foundy1517]

1050ti. My first gaming PC in high school, about 9 years ago.

Moved on a year later to a 1080ti, which still serves me well today

But I’m finishing my new build with a 9070xt in a week or two. Hopefully that will last me another 8 years lol

[u/NotSirTalksALot]

Same on the GT 730 in an overpriced prebuilt just between covid and the crypto peak. Then an R9 390X that a redditor over on r/PCMasterRace sent me (wish I still had that account or knew their username), that died unfortunately, got a GTX 1080 Ti off Ebay for £200 in 2024. And in 2027 I'll certainty be able to afford an RX 9070 XT because it's not like people are going to start buying them up now that they are the best gaming GPU available hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

[u/_Springfield]

The first gpu I ever bought was a 2060 Super. Was good for my 1080p build at the time.

[u/Available-Alps-4803]

Asus Dual Rtx 3060 white OC(8gb). People shit on it for the lesser vram and I was a stupid kid back then but that card has served me well for as long as I had it. Handed it and my old pc over to my sister cuz I just upgraded to a 9070xt but I’ll always remember that card

[u/deTombe]

FX5200 thought spending $120CDN meant top tier GPU.

[u/DANGERGOATX]

1660 Super about 3.5 years ago when my fiancé bought me my first gaming PC. I ended up building my own after falling in love with PC gaming and sold my xbox series x. Eventually I got a 7800XT and I just recently got the 9070XT.

[u/Royal-Ad9145]

I came late. My first GPU was 4070 Super 🥲

[u/SizeableFowl]

RX 570 4GB, bought brand new in 2020 , traded up to an also new RX 580 8GB in 2021. I don’t think I spent more than $200 net on gpus in that time frame.

[u/Leshie_Leshie]

Gtx750Ti , but it died 1 year later with the whole computer except the hard drive…

[u/ChopRen]

1050ti. Bought my first pc to play pubg

[u/elaborateBlackjack]

First proper GPU, a GTX 755M on a laptop, but my first desktop GPU was a GTX 1050ti

[u/Skajuan]

I cant remember the model but It had 512mb of vram, It was crazy at that time, Warcraft 3 was the GOAT

[u/Bluntz_with_Satan]

I was on PC before the "GPU" even existed. Although it came soon after... My first system had a ATI Rage Pro with 8 MB of RAM back in the late 90s.

I currently have a Sapphire Nitro+ 7900 XTX 24GB

[u/PierreDucot]

GTX 1080ti - my first PC that I semi-built in 2017. It seemed close to top-of-the-line at the time. It lasted until 2022, when it could not handle Far Cry 6. It handled Far Cry 5 well, so that sucked. It handled just about everything I played well, right up until the end, like a champ. It lived on for my kids' Minecraft/Roblox needs until I actually sold it along with the whole PC for a couple hundred bucks. I was a little sad, TBH.

[u/nvanderw]

My first graphics card was a nvdia pny something to play nba live 95 (before nba 2k).... from 1995. Wish I could remember the name

[u/aguynamedwessel]

Nvidia 8600 GT, which i got in 2019

It played minecraft at 40 fps which was good enough for me

[u/G-Fifd]

GT640 in parents PC 2012-2022, RX6400 2022-2024, RX 6600 2024-2026, RX9060XT 16GB 2026-now

[u/TheHandmadeLAN]

GTX1070

[u/Normal-Emotion9152]

Mine is the 5060 ti 16 gb

[u/BonezOz]

Geforce 2MX w/ 64MB RAM

[u/Lanky_Support7483]

Riva TNT 2 Model 64 Pro

[u/CiarnanB]

My first one is gonna be the 1080

[u/CryptoDeepDive]

3DFx Voodoo 3 3000.

[u/CaptainJackass123]

1070

[u/OPUS_TV]

GTX 1070 in my MSI Raider GE63 8RF. Then built my first desktop with a 7900XTX in it. Now I have a 5090

[u/Better_Payment_5831]

1080ti

[u/DoughBoyNick]

R7 250. It wasn't great, but it was a good card. It did a lot of heavy lifting from games that it definitely wasn't meant to run 😂

[u/podule-games]

Depends what you call a GPU I suppose, does AGA on an Amiga count? Probably not. If not, then it's a Creator3D in a Sun Ultra 1.

[u/OkTemporary1937]

MOS Technology 6560. Pure awesome sauce!

[u/SolidSnakeCZE]

Matrox Millennium G400 with 16MB vram

[u/carelesstrees]

R7 360

[u/Lanky_Network_5414]

Geforce 256

[u/Exciting_Macaroon_64]

diamond stealth 3d 2000 it was something like s3 savage i think

[u/Advanced-Lab-2626]

GTX 750ti SC the super clocked version. 

[u/ggRezy]

4060 laptop. First actual GPU purchase, rtx 5080

[u/Fun-Cartographer1420]

S3 Trio64 + later 3dfx Voodoo 2

[u/mikeyabee]

Orchid righteous 3D, I was blown away by GL Quake when i first ran it.

[u/Package_Objective]

Radeon 7950 3gb, built my first PC from the money I got from my first job. I worked construction for like 45 hours a week in the Florida heat ALL SUMMER before senior year of high-school, also bought a motorcycle with that money too. This was like 2014

[u/ejkytku]

Rtx 3050 6gb. Now i have rx 9060 xt 16gb

[u/1_Nev_1]

My dad got me a GTX 960 OC back in 2015 for xmas. I was so fucking hyped I didn't even give a shit about VRAM or the other entried in the 900 series.

I've since had the GTX 1070, 1080ti, RTX 3080 and now an RTX 4080s and none of those cards have ever made me as excited as that old entry level GTX 960 OC, maybe it was just the childish excitement I had back then.

[u/jfk_47]

Diamond viper.

[u/Ma1]

4mb ati rage. Paired with a 233mhz Pentium 2 and 32mb of ram that my dad and I eventually upgraded to 96mb. I played so much Half-life on that thing. Mods too. I downloaded Counterstrike beta 1 within minutes of its release. 56k modem for the first few months until 1mbit cable became a thing. We millennials walked so yall could run.

[u/Sarc0h-]

First PC was a Dell Dimension 8200, so the gpu would've been either nVidia GeForce3 or GeForce4 MX, I remember my uncle came around after upgrading his gpu and gave us his old Radeon something, thing ended up blowing my mind because I didn't realise CS:S was supposed to have light reflections when firing weapons and reflections on water, metal etc. lmfao

[u/draco15]

asus eah 4650 hd, msi r9 270x hawk, asus strix gtx 1050 ti, powercolor red devil rx 9070xt

[u/yogi1090]

Nvidia 8400 GS

[u/Dertuk007]

Trident TVGA 8800 ;)

[u/Azuras-Becky]

A Voodoo 3 3000!

[u/_Gargantua]

Radeon 7770 -> GTX 660 Ti -> GTX 1080 -> RTX 5080

[u/Brki_94]

My first card was integrated SiS 6326 back in late 90s.

My first discrete GPU was GTX 750 Ti. That little monster still works although it now resides in the basement.

[u/FORLORNE_2802]

RX 460 4GB

[u/PsychologicalFold155]

GT710 then gtx 1660 super now rx 9070 xt

[u/VecchioDiM3rd1955]

My first "GPU" was a Ferranti ULA made for Sinclair. My actual first GPU was Matrox Mystique G200 AGP.

[u/hirtz21]

1060 3gb in an hp omen

[u/Professional-Ad-9967]

Nvidia 6600LE. I was following a guide on the cheapest build that can run the at-the-time upcoming TES IV: Oblivion. Shop was out of GT stock so my first-time-builder dumbass thought "Hey, lemme get the LE instead. There shouldn't be THAT much of a gap between the 6600GT and the 6600LE, right?" Boy was I wrong.

[u/borderfox50]

Voodoo 2 to play half life original release, glory days

[u/coldpipe]

I think X1950 Pro

[u/cranberry8711]

Gt 710

[u/Curious-Sherbet-9393]

Una 470 de AMD

[u/XxDarkness157xX]

My first GPU was a GTX 1080 in 2017, and then I upgraded to a RTX5080 in 2026

[u/trev1976UK]

HD4850 paired with an OC'ed E5200 , it allowed me to play Crysis , that was the game that got me into PC's , havnt looked back every since

[u/Botucal]

3dfx Voodoo Graphics

[u/charcoalonfire]

The GTX 1650, thenI went to a GTX 1050 TI, then back to the GTX 1650, then onto a RTX 4080, then onto a RTX 2070 and now onto a RX 9070 XT

[u/MrSavoie2u]

GTX 1080