10 Years of AMD Video Cards BENCHMARKED!

AMD Vega is rumored to be coming "soon," but before it arrives let's take a look back at the last TEN YEARS of AMD's flagship GPUs!
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[@imreloadin]

Good job LTT, this is much better than the fiasco you put out yesterday.

[@LinusTechTips]

I stand 100% behind the video we did yesterday. It was a hell of a lot of work and I believe it's an excellent representation of the performance we can expect from a hotly-anticipated new product. There was a lot of asshurt over the inappropriate title that unfortunately hurt an EXCELLENT piece of content. Try not to judge it based on the title.

[@DanielRichards644]

the VIDEO was NOT the Problem, the video is perfectly fine for what ti shows, the problem is the TITLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Saying Previewed or Tested Implies you have your hands on the actual chips, it NEEDS to say SIMULATED, FIX THE TITLE and people will STOP being so pissed off.

[@LinusTechTips]

+DanielRichards644 there is absolutely nothing wrong with "preview". Look it up in the dictionary. And a lot of the upset seems to be from people who didn't watch or didn't listen to the methodology. Either way we are all lookin forward to comparing our preview numbers to the real numbers to see how close they are. Should be fun :D

[@imreloadin]

I agree that it was a good video, however the fact remains that the title was incredibly misleading and as a result a lot of people felt baited. Whether this was intentional or not remains to be decided as you and your team have stated repeatedly that you'll do what gets you views, so the jury is still out on if it was an unintentional oversight or a deliberate attempt to bring in the views. We've seen this channel take a turn down gimmicky clickbait alley and so the title of yesterdays video was seen as the next logical step down that road. In the end it comes down to this. We as the viewers hold a great deal of trust in you and your channel. A lot of us have been here since you were with NCIX and we have seen you develop your company before our very eyes and we honestly do want you to keep doing that, but not at the expense of you or your channel's integrity. We come to you because we want to see your companies innovation and ingenuity in times where others are jumping on the clickbait money train, not to see you guys jump on board too...

[@Jack-Onee-san]

meh I watch these for entertainment, clickbait aitn nothing more than a way to get me watching quicker, I don;t mind if yall keep it up.

[@shanmango]

When people say 10 years ago I still think 1990...

[@joshanstey3591]

i feel ya:(

[@leafqi]

Mark Shan me too, nothing memorable after 2000

[@ludara8697]

Sad life. :(

[@jojivlogs_4255]

+Li Michael There was 9/11 lol

[@CanadaBud23]

I think like late 90's still so yeah I know what ya mean lol.

[@Camy256]

2007 still feels like 3 years ago not 10.

[@faqirmohammadabdullah2906]

camy256 Seriously...It's crazy how time flies.

[@dabigboom8140]

same

[@privatezim3637]

that just means you are getting old

[@sdHansy]

ooh a cocky 15 yr old

[@lightguy250]

Yep, it was 2 presidents ago.

[@V3rciS]

Would be nice to see an updated version of this video.

[@cregh]

especially now, after the announcement of the 6000 series

[@lewaluigi6556]

Rtx 3090 owners are mad rn lmaooo

[@christosmagiakis]

I agree...

[@KML3rd]

@@lewaluigi6556 this didn't age the best after seeing Ray Trace performance of the 6000 series.

[@lewaluigi6556]

@@KML3rd i gotta agree about the perfomance after seeing it myself

[@MichaelSodapop]

Please do 10 years of AMD CPU's next, I wanna see my Athlon X2 260 benchmarked on games I can't afford to buy.

[@pm5296]

Also Linus, please remake this if we get some more Navi shiz to put in it, same with the Nvidia one, it needs RTX and SUPER RTX

[@Reesetrain44]

you have a higher tier of cpu than my athlon II x2 240 or is it just the first anthlon?

[@MichaelSodapop]

@@Reesetrain44 I'm not sure, I haven't turned on that PC in 2 years but it's still in closet lol.

[@jamesazerbam74]

Just pirate the games thats what i did when i was broke af

[@vituline0713]

@@jamesazerbam74 Its not that easy dumbass.

[@LeMartinOG]

When he said 10 years ago I had 2001 in my mind... I'm getting old

[@jd-py5nm]

haha same problem here man

[@sumosushi7571]

3rd time seeing this posted and must say that a lack of accurate time perception about such things is actually a clear sign that you are not in fact getting older, if you subscribe to the belief that you are more than the biological procceses you facilitate. That's how I shrug it off anyway these days :)

[@adwaitagnome]

how's that Radeon 9700 PRO for you doi'n?

[@hexusG4Z]

Mine was really a 9500 pro with BIOS unlock but it was goooooooooood!

[@manuelthegreatman]

anybody remember Ruby on the AMD cards? she was my first crush when I was a teenager. oh the nostalgia.

[@randommkeyz5029]

Same

[@theubtubbros]

Ya

[@crystalb8779]

What's wrong with u people

[@rexmaltby9305]

When your parents catch you (you know whating) to a gpu and your like "wait I can explain".

[@dodovomitory3496]

lol

[@soraaoixxthebluesky]

“Vega is coming” AMD: “Let me introduce you our new or old Polaris 30 or whatever”

[@pangtundure]

Vega did't age well

[@iroeewjkfsadfadf520]

Polaris 420

[@PineyJustice]

@@pangtundure and in 2022 vega 64 is about on par with a 1080ti in most benchmarks

[@PineyJustice]

Gaming experience might actually be a little better, much smoother with less hitches, that HBM really comes in clutch to deliver smooth framerate

[@mathesar]

Still using an R9 290X 4GB, AMD tweaked its performance over the years and still running great today for my 1080P needs.

[@Robocrap]

73mathesar Same here! And my ASUS DCU2 card isn't that loud either. It's one of my best buys ever since I only paid about 250 $ for it.. 😀

[@ThatSuckzz]

Still using a R9 280X, indeed still does pretty well, more than 4 years later

[@AlexIstEinGott]

Paid 200€ for my 8gb 290X Tri-X

[@AlexIstEinGott]

yeah bought it last year. Was the cheapest one. The cheapest one with 8gb currently sells for 320€ on ebay. The ones with 4gb start at 180€

[@AlexIstEinGott]

jo-mornin' and where?

[@MrEditsCinema]

the 7950/7970 is the most future proof gpu ever made.. even to this day it has no problems playing most games at high/ultra settings with a good framerate, i am never getting rid of my 7970s.. every few months i like to dust them off and test the performance of recent games.

[@MrEditsCinema]

the 7970 is exactly the same as the R9 280x.. mine is can overclock to 1250MHz stable as well :-) my main rig has a 1070 as i game at 1440p but if your doing 1080p there is no reason to upgrade

[@arisupersnake]

Paolo Angelo Anino my toxic did 1350. It slammed 780 s and would slap a 780ti in some games.

[@MrEditsCinema]

And i thought my windforce 7970 was a beast back in the day for doing 1250MHz haha ;p

[@Killershark217]

meanwhile my old 7970 couldn't go over 1120 in most cases, god damn you gpu lottery

[@james2042]

Darzo I have a 7850 that hits 1250 with ease. gcn 1.0 was awesome as fuck. now we wait on gcn 4.1 or whatever vega is

[@Wladislav]

Ah the times when the one-step-down-from-top-level-GPUs were $250...

[@Rainbow__cookie]

You profile picture is same as my medication i take everyday :) same colour

[@alcorex8409]

and now its around 700€...

[@Wladislav]

@@alcorex8409 ;_;

[@Wladislav]

@@Tautolonaut It's downright awful right now.

[@micuna5743]

@@Tautolonaut holy shit that's an awful deal ,youd have been better off going used or just waiting some more. Feel bad for you man.

[@tehrazgaming]

I still have a 7970. Still runs everything just fine. I don't see myself upgrading in a while. Old top of the line cards are the best bang for your buck.

[@3dpyromaniac560]

Karl Robert Reinart I just recently upgraded to 3 RX 580s as opposed to my old set up of 2 7990s due to both the cooler finally commit suicide, and Fry's actually had some in stock... for actual price, not the $900 that people are selling them for on eBay to mine bitcoins, my friend who's dad was dumb enough to buy him 2 1080Tis accused me of black magic because I was performing better.

[@TheIdiotPlays]

My brothers friend was offering me 2 780s for 250 euros at one point. Sadly i had no money and didnt pick them up.... Got a 980 for 300 around 1 1/4 years ago.

[@vforvendetta4538]

Karl Robert Reinart I untill recently was still rocking a 7950 on water that overclocked like a beast it was a his 7950 boost iceq I could run 1300mhz on it with custom bios stock was only 850 lol biggest overclock on any card I ever had shame it eventually died after 3years insane overclocked . Now got 1070 on water it's good but hardly overclocks tho but bang for buck 7950 or 7970 still amazing cards best aging well cards ever made . I want another 7950 ice q one day just to overclock it was so fun also very good driver support too

[@demsimex]

I have the R9 280X and still kicking ass

[@DJjamiejvmasta]

I still play Battlefield 1 on ultra with my 7970 It's still a fucking beast in 2018

[@Yalka_Arc]

History of GPU I bought : - 9800gt - 4870 cf - 5770 - GTX 570 - 6770 - 7770 - 7870xt - 7950 - GTX 750ti - R9 380x and now I'm stuck with intel hd 530 what a life...

[@ltra42]

i had 9800gt, was the very first graphic card I went out and bought. Huge upgrade from my 8mb Diamond whatever crap it was called.

[@ThunderDraws]

did you move to laptop or something?

[@DTronicsUK]

for me its 9600GT GTX460 X2 - bought one but within 6 months it died, so bought another and yet again 6 months later it died with the same memory fault (had red scquares all over the screen and would work fine untill you install the drivers then the driver would crash and then windows would blue screen) then i just went fuck you nvidia and switched to AMD so went out and bought HD7770 1GB and just recently upgraded to a R9 270/270X 2GB and i have to say now im on AMD things have been a lot better

[@JackStavris]

Here's my GPU history: -nVidia GeForce2 MX 400 -nVidia GeForce4 MX 4000 -ATi Radeon 9600 XT -nVidia GeForce 6600 GT -ATi Mobility Radeon X1300 (was in a laptop) -nVidia GeForce 8800 GTX -nVidia GeForce 8600M GS (also in a laptop) -nVidia GeForce GT 525M (again, another laptop) -AMD Radeon HD 7850 -AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition Currently waiting for Vega to come out to upgrade as I'm going to build myself a Ryzen system, really don't want to buy an RX 480 and I kind of want to stay on the AMD side if I can, so gotta wait to see how good Vega will be.

[@danvar249]

For me it's: Nvidia GeForce GT 220 AMD Radeon HD 6670 AMD Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050

[@UndyingGhost]

Still using my R9 280X Aka 7970. What a great card.

[@ltra42]

7970 was a beast man. I had 3 of them.

[@AzzAra09]

UndyingGhost 7970 was a great card, same the RX290

[@benjaminwilson8183]

Why 3 though ?

[@mishimaworld]

UndyingGhost same here, only thing i need to do for maintenance is replace the thermal paste at least once a year to keep her below 75c with a oc to 1130mhz gpu and 1800mhz memory... waiting to see what amd next move will be with vega...

[@SageJMP]

still rocking it myself while waiting for vega. Still performs well to this day.

[@randomlyentertaining8287]

It is amazing that in 5 years, AMD graphics card improved enough to go from 38 FPS on Half Life 2, to over 440.

[@Tcatracing]

love this style of video. really enjoy seeing hardware tested over time with modern drivers and software.

[@0T13]

what about computer fashion changes? what was a cool looking rig ten years ago is completely different now

[@dogboy0912]

I'm thinking about that one pic of the hotwheels complete computer set.

[@rvds0804]

Those old compaq and hp machines from the early and mid 2ks that all had a CD tray spindle on top and a clear lid that made it look like a cheap lego space ship.

[@Mon.M0TIVATION]

Before: metal and cheap plastic Now: all glass everything

[@Mon.M0TIVATION]

Also, rgb........but everyone know that.....

[@thetruetekno9925]

This has been a rollercoaster ride for me... I couldn't handle the GeForce... Edit: *insert generic edit about this comment being the most likes I've ever gotten.*

[@borisottossonvidlund488]

I love Word play

[@pranavmalhotra8551]

haha

[@or2kr]

Sorry, I dont know how the GameWorks :c

[@pranavmalhotra8551]

haha again

[@pranavmalhotra8551]

Physx says that the force wouldn't be much :D

[@jeremynewhard1226]

I remember HD 5770 1gb. It was an amazing overclocking card, was able to hit within a few MHz of the maximum clock speed.

[@passionfly1]

This was fascinating as I have been a fan of AMD cards since the early 3870 days. AMD > NVidia.

[@vertonical]

I just hope AMD bucks the trend of 'Finewine' with RX Vega. Let's be honest Raja said he doesn't like the term and rightly so, because it implies you don't get maximum performance on day 1 and have to wait until a year or two to achieve it's full potential. Traditionally AMD GPU's have always packed more horsepower under the hood than their equivalent Nvidia counterparts, thus they should theoretically be getting more fps than Nvidia when it's not the case. Imagine if the rx 480 was as fast as it is now after several software upgrades, upon release. It would be out and out faster than GTX 1060 and many more people would buy it. Come to think of it, maybe that's why Vega is arriving late. They've been spending months optimizing the architecture to extract the best performance on day 1 like Nvidia and unlike the inefficient GCN. Could be good news for AMD fans if true.

[@95dude]

vertonical I always like Amd for being pro consumer,nvidia has been anti consumer with abandoning direct x12 support on the 500series and making physx exclusive.

[@jackrooz1968]

+banana boi In regards to PhysX, Luke showed us that PhysX is a complete waste of money and should never be used

[@rvds0804]

exactly i use a gtx 260 vs a hd 7770 for example, both cards i had, both pefrom within margins of eachother in terms of fps yet 4 generations apart and the hd7770 has much better specs on paper... again amd and specs on paper....always good...on paper..

[@KK-qx1je]

Vega is still using GCN.

[@BandNerdcp]

That's total bullshit, there's no way a 260 ties a 7770

[@dfa10000]

I miss the cool pictures they use to have on graphic cards

[@cpthuggyface2011]

Thats why I kept my 5770 all these years.

[@manuelthegreatman]

Sapphire is still using a sick looking robot for their AMD Radeon Graphics Card packaging. I too remember the robot frog that Palit had, and the dogs that BFG used to use. so many memories.

[@SL4PSH0CK]

that's why old cards were reaching hot temps ;) iykwim hehe

[@allieisasleep]

The flames were the shit

[@ElectricityTaster]

Makes me feel like a virgin. Too real.

[@WarriorsPhoto]

Great video. Thank you for sharing what older cards still are able to compete!

[@user-xj5tc6yw7e]

This video poped on my recommended now pls make an update vid

[@brealliantrap]

To sum it up, AMD has ryzen from what they used to be :)

[@amer-du6qh]

BlindShot oh you!

[@Winnetou17]

Several more comments like this and you'll get a job offering from LMG :)

[@ZealofSparta]

I see what you did there. :)

[@ricardomartins2700]

Amd that was a good comment :)

[@olseba]

I woof leaf a pun aswell but I can't stick around for too log.

[@NicknackLP]

7970 is still an amazing card

[@mateobosnjak9988]

Best investment in my life, although under load is hot af and sounds like leaf blower.

[@RiftFishing]

My 7970 Ghz has lasted me a very long time, I'm very happy with it. But yeah, just like MateoB said. Leafblower/Jet Turbine under heavy load.

[@Movie_Games]

Radeon 9700 Pro Master Race

[@tpzlol]

9800XT semi-god here

[@Nuclearcx]

Those cards have serious problems with any modern games. My HD3850 however can boot up almost any game and play it smoothly on non-HD settings. See no point in upgrading even though I got this exactly 10 years ago. Ironically I've upgraded my CPU like 7 times since even though everyone says that CPU development has been very slow thanks to Intel's nigh'-monopoly.

[@horsesinmycar7179]

Movie Games I have this card

[@OTechnology]

You must be playing games from 10 years ago

[@EliPorterMahn]

YESSS I HAD A 9700 for my very first card

[@markhall7173]

Great video. Fun fact - in 2009, I resurrected an ancient gaming PC with an AMD64 3400+ from 2003 and 2GB of RAM. I replaced the nVidia fx5900 with an AMD 3750, which was apparently the best AGP card you could buy at the time. Although the processor was a bottleneck, it actually played most games quite well and got me back into PC gaming. In 2010 I rebuilt a machine from scratch with a 4870 which I kept for 7 years before going for a GTX1060.

[@Kcimor78]

7970 is a value beast, i got 7990, basically 2 of those in 2017, so if a guy bought 2 in 2012 and managed to keep them until today, 2017, they lasted a really long time... i bought my 7990 at the end of 2013 (release) and not upgrated yet, still plays some games at 1080p but now at medium, but bf1 at ultra and some other, depending on optimization

[@silverhawk7324]

I wonder what kind of technology that baby will review when he reaches Linus's age.

[@clownsemporium]

in 4 years they should make a 20 years of amd video cards and re benchmark them

[@tekkahusk8042]

480 $199? PFFFFFFT HAHAHA!

[@arnaudmeert1527]

Well due to the mining hype, problems with manufacturing plants in Asia and high memory demand for mobile devices (smartphones, tablets,..), supply/demand and market economics raised the retail price. 199 was probably suggested consumer price by AMD.

[@rreach9463]

You're poor

[@Toutvids]

Bought mine a year ago for $190.

[@fernando-sl7qm]

Got mines for $ 230 a week after launch

[@Tonyman198]

Man times have changed. Got my 580 for 150

[@DeusGladiorum]

@5:00 I'm pretty sure those aren't graphics cards you're highlighting, guys.

[@yassir-5605]

DeusGladiorum lol yeah

[@iREVOLTER]

It's still AMD, no one will notice. And don't tell anyone.

[@chetan9526]

DeusGladiorum WA

[@tekkahusk8042]

L

[@tekkahusk8042]

I

[@lampini]

When he was talking about ten years ago I was like "oh boy graphics cards from 2000-2002" .....then I realized 2007 was ten years ago.......

[@darrenraphael]

lampini Yeah, that's what I thought and I'm 21.

[@Goliath1337]

When you really have to start working on a project, but Linus uploads a vid.

[@Boodendorf]

Sapphire nitro+ 8gb rx480 here, great budget card, eagerly awaiting for Vega in hopes that it competes with 1070/1080 so that I can get a 700€ 3440x1440 34" 100hz freesync monitor instead of a 1300€ one with gsync

[@logansmith2771]

lol

[@vladimirpetrov9717]

What's that "lock" on the 6970? It has always bothered me since there is no info on the internet.

[@LinusTechTips]

You mean the little switch? It selects between the two BIOS chips.

[@vladimirpetrov9717]

I meant the thing on the top left of the cooler. If that's what it is, then it's a really cool design! Thanks for the reply! Edit: I was looking at the picture shown at 3:45

[@dongzhuhuang6972]

What about the the monstrousity that was the R9 295X2?

[@dongzhuhuang6972]

DrillFX you're right, I must've missed that bit

[@aceparts1005]

295x2 wasn't bad ... ask the Titan Z how heavy it weighs on the failure scale ...

[@EricTanGH0ST]

Honestly 295X2 is quite powerful, it kick some ass for quite a long time. Matter of fact...I think the 295X2 is even faster than my Fury Nitro....

[@slipknnnot]

I'm still running it lol. It performs between a 980 Ti and a 1080 on any game that has a crossfire profile. Anything single GPU and I'm stuck with R9 290X performance at 1100 MHz clock and 2800 MHz memory.

[@OGPurePhoenix]

haha, no it doesn't. Most people are just shit overclockers, no amd card even beats my galax 970. In any game.

[@trevorromney3589]

Great video! Interesting to see this year, since I have been in the market for older used video cards.

[@sharktooth31]

It would be super awesome if you guys put a link in the description to the highlighted previous videos for people without annotations on or available. E.g. the Intel cpus and water blocks

[@MadInsanity]

I just did a build with the xfx rx 480 8 gb edition

[@ashleymey3688]

Same. I just got mine a few weeks ago...

[@TheNike0223]

I bought the 270x from a friend for 20$ :D coming from and hd 7850 with 1gb of vram I am happy was happy with the hd 7850 still ran great but that 1 gb of vram was painfull the gpus horsepower could not be harnest in any new game

[@PcGaming1080p]

Nikola Kuzmanovic Rose i run a powercolor amd 7850 2gb card oc to 1125mhz core and 1475mhz vram runs really well

[@zahidshabir4038]

i own the Asus Strix RX480 and want to get the 1080Ti or equivalent from AMD as i have the 7700K and want 4K 144 FPS gaming will wait for till the end of the year till i find out how much that Asus 4K, 144Hz, Quantum Dot, HDR and 1ms response time monitor costs then i will see i think it will sell for around $600-$800 as it is a couple hundred dollars over 1440p 144 Hz displays TN and most IPS where i live

[@TheNike0223]

i Belive you as i said still a great card mine was just vram starved and ran at 1000 mhz core and 1450mhz vram, best part is I'm gonna sell the 7850 for more then i paid the 270x :D

[@dolphi123456]

Wow they actually had all the cards. I expected them to just have a r9 and "simulate" the other cards.

[@arkaseth]

dolphi123456 XD

[@nm_scarecrow302]

And that is how kids a new meme is born!

[@Fals3Agent]

sick burn

[@jt3000o]

Nihal Mishra nice profile pic lol

[@BoomBox02]

Shouldnt the HD 5970 be in there instead of the HD 5870?

[@jdbennett93]

this had to take a lot of work bench marking all these cards, well done guys!

[@DJjamiejvmasta]

1:04 that lick though

[@janoxd3549]

the hd 7970 a ledgend forever

[@UNLKYHNTR]

my 280x is still going strong!

[@ATrollAssNigga]

Having just gone from a r9 280 to a 1060, I honestly miss the 280, im basically not seeing any gains in the titles I play. Feelsbadman

[@mylesmiller2770]

What CPU do you have Nightblade?

[@Mister5597]

I second that!

[@tomo8910vids]

Easy video: 10 years of 3dfx video cards

[@coreytrevor1920]

Managed to find an hd7970 at value village for 40$ as my first real graphics cards. It ran real hot but it let me play the resident evil 2 remake at mid settings

[@Blei1986]

8:24 >RX 480 **me laughs in R9 290**

[@The0Burger0King]

The 7970 will always be my favorite!

[@KaNoMikoProductions]

The Fury X did *not* introduce a new generation of GCN. That was introduced in the 285.

[@TheNike0223]

right

[@ChoisissezUnNom123]

Fun fact: at 8:15 when he says that the card compare to a écoboost mustang, little did he know that the v6 configuration was a 3.5L v6 engine twin turbo with almost 400hp stock . With a tune and 2-3 Goodies you can crank it up to 500hp easy . Pretty fast engine for the price haha

[@manuelthegreatman]

damn this video made me feel old. I remember playing F.E.A.R. on my Radeon HD 2900 and a Core 2 Duo.

[@SyphistPrime]

It still feels like yesterday whenever I was gaming on my Dell Vostro with an AMD 6850. It's sad I never got the 7850 to work on it as support for non GCN GPUs is almost non-existent outside of the Linux Radeon drivers. I also need a new motherboard and/or CPU because it now posts with a cache test failure. I really do miss messing around on that PC. :(

[@coopergates9680]

What did you get?

[@ashleyjohansson230]

*Next Vega reveal in summer* AMD: "RX Vega will have HBM memory!!.....*Presentation ends*.......BUT free food for everyone who came!!"

[@AzzAra09]

Ashley Johansson looool

[@ashleyjohansson230]

everyone just calls it HBM memory when comparing it to gddr5 memory

[@Novocaine69]

ahh the memories, i used to rock a 5970 from ATI, which had double GPUs in one as i remember, wish you put it to test though!

[@Davis38]

Remember when the 480 was the top of the line 3 years ago? lol

[@Royy1290]

Now what is the top?

[@agsechogd6406]

Roy1290 RTX 2080ti now or RX 5700xt for amd

[@sujimayne]

@@agsechogd6406 6900 XT only 8 months later he he

[@KingPeaceus]

I've used: HD 3870 GTX 8800GT GTX 660ti GTX 780ti now I have a GTX 1080.

[@afterburner7847]

I've used: 9600 GT 512 MB HD 4890 HD 5850 XFX Black Edition (Freaking epic card) GTX 670 EVGA FTW SIG2 2 GB (Broke for no damn reason) R9 290 And now I am using the GTX 1070 Ti.

[@BabarAli-ij2qn]

I've used: HD 5770(my first ever gpu and it served me good) gtx 650 ti 2gb gtx 760 2gb gtx 770 4gb (first time upgrade to 4gb VRAM) Now i finally have gtx 980 ti 6gb (insane card)

[@pocpc1788]

Donald Neal gt 230, gtx 550ti, gtx 750ti, gtx1080, gtx 1080ti(2)

[@NaoVII]

I've used: GT 210 HD 3870 Now I'm using Titan V Bruh that 10000% performance jump is inhuman

[@luxxers]

Dreadnought Hahah no your not kid

[@dietcokewithbacon3464]

I'm using a 3870 in my PC right now

[@TheNike0223]

tell that to people which run Intel HD graphics :D

[@MrAntieMatter]

He's not complaining though.

[@dietcokewithbacon3464]

MrAntieMatter I'm not complaining. In fact I'm surprised how well it works still. I use a 1920x1080 monitor and another 1280x1024 monitor. It runs on Fedora 24. I mostly use it for reddit and youtube, and it runs 1080p60 videos smoothly. The benchmarks on here don't seem true. It says 38FPS for half life 2, but I just tried it now and on max settings and I'm getting 60FPS completely fine. It's playing this video in 1080p without any frame drops. I remember a few years ago playing portal 2 when it came out on this exact same card on medium settings perfectly fine, probably 50fps, but this was 2011 and I don't remember that well.

[@gondor532]

+Gatewayuser200 Let me guess. You are one of those "Fuck yea Murica, hamburgers, eagles and shit"?

[@KalebG]

I used to play Portal and Portal 2 in 1280*1024 (which is actually more than 720p) with a HD4650, and apart from AA it had no problems running them at 60

[@givemeajackson]

had a 3850, was a beast when playing oblivion and gothic 3

[@phant0m739]

Stop! You violated the law. Pay the court a fine, or serve your sentence. Your stolen goods are now forfeit.

[@Kev376]

I've been watching your videos for years and this was one of your top five I liked that you were talking about the size of the chip as well as other features, really cool

[@nootology]

2:22 the card on the left is photoshopped

[@nootology]

They said it in the wan show

[@syth-1]

Burkinator yup, xD but I couldn't tell so yea good editing Denis

[@ani_dimpu]

wasn't it Taran who did the editing?

[@kalebbruwer]

Wow, you need to look REALLY close to see that! Good job to the editor.

[@kru-tagaming4469]

photoshopped even in video ?

[@FlashManinSpace]

I'm still using 2 HD 7850 in crossfire 😂😂😂

[@astrotechstudios228]

very nice

[@Aaron14LifeZZZ]

nice hows the performance for current games so far?

[@FlashManinSpace]

Aaron18Cvx Pretty decent. In Tomb Raider I can get 61fps average with everything on even with TressFx. Hitman Absolution and Max Payne 3 is also super smooth at maximum settings.

[@brky5877]

Flash Man what about your electricity bill?

[@FlashManinSpace]

brky well with my 8350fx and logitech thx speakers it draws just 400watts. In comparison my iron takes 2.6kw! So yeah it's livable :p

[@TechnicallyTaz]

3:04 THAT HEATSINK MAN

[@VaalkinTheOnly]

4:19 that cooler tho

[@TheGreatBambino]

"Vega is coming"..yep and now Vega has gone XD rip Vega 2017 - 2017

[@based_will]

mraustin3410 taken by the miners, thrust to an astounding price, and shunned by the gamers for Nvidia. What a fate.

[@elijah7937]

mraustin3410 I own the 56 and I'm not disappointed.

[@TheGreatBambino]

Ya they are definitely good GPUs but there was more hype around vega then there was around No Mans Sky. Multiple people thought Vega was going to somehow topple Nvidia over night or something.

[@scarea2691]

@@elijah7937 i found one for 440 otd should I buy?

[@elijah7937]

Get it man. You arent going to be disappointed.

[@16bananaking]

Still Playing with my 7970 and 280x in CF :D

[@mazedmarky]

rightfully so.

[@16bananaking]

mazedmarky it works without problems. ^^

[@mazedmarky]

Yea those cards are awesome. Got an RX480 and will get a second one later this year, was always interested in trying out CF.

[@16bananaking]

mazedmarky 4Gb or 8Gb? the only problem is the 3gb Vram :/ they have a lot of power but they're running out of vram

[@mazedmarky]

Yea that is sad. I just recently learned Vram doesen't add up in CF :/ I got the Sapphire reference 8GB, it runs at 1320/2125 @1080mV. Gonna upgrade the cooler in a few months because I am able to hit 1420mhz on the core and that results in a nice fps boost.

[@josephpowell6009]

could you make another on of these but go back 20 years ? and include a graph of the progres thru the years ?

[@Skracken]

Still running an unlocked and OCd HD6950 in xfire with a HD6970. 7 years old... god damn!

[@Aereto]

Now I'd like to see the 10 years of Nvidia flagships...

[@invictuscrown4026]

*Losing short term memory since... * but 2007 wasn't long ago... wait... 10 years passed already? Q_Q and I'm still a creep

[@jeymz4308]

hello Linus what is the right video card I need to my pc if my processor is celeron?

[@pedrosoares7273]

The 7950 and the 7970 were just beasts for the time, they can still game, its amazing.

[@mas921]

still have my ATi 3D RageII+ 2MB EDO VRAM

[@MJ-uk6lu]

mas921 That's awesome

[@lanecross4647]

Really Linus a 2 minute ad a CANT SKIP this an outrage!!!

[@Royameadow]

Back in December, I had upgraded to a Five Ninety series Hewlett~Packard Pavilion, Model p0057c: This model comes with an RX Lexa Graphics Card, and while it only has 02 GB of VRAM, having an Intel Core i05~8400 or i07~8700 truly helps this GPU shine, and its low cost and wattage definitely has made it an ideal GPU to have on a budget, especially if you're purchasing hardware from Micro Center. Ideally, if you want a decent grade yet affordable Graphics Card from AMD that has a high amount of VRAM and won't take up so much of your Power Supply limit (if you're on a 2000$ USD Gaming or All~Around budget), the best one for its money (at the time of this post) is the Radeon Pro WX 7100, in my view: While a Workstation Graphics Card that is still priced at Workstation levels (about half a thousand dollars, on average), this Ellesmere card from a little over two years ago comes with 08 GB of VRAM and is right in the middle of the GCN 04.00~based RX Polaris cards in terms of overall speed and performance, only fifteen watts more in TDP than the RX 0570; the WX 7100 has also been proven to be useful in Benchmark Testing for games against its closest RX counterparts, and comes with some optimizations for certain applications that may require a WX to use, it gets the job done without forcing you to up your Power Supply to ridiculously high wattage limits and you could last on this for at least the next decade, definitely optimal to use with the 8700K or 8086K if you have a rig with either or. (:

[@etay2k]

Great video, but I would like to see a similar one for entry and mid cards, as I have the feeling that they evolved much much less.

[@abamboobilbo6058]

Wait what about the R9 295X2?

[@PR_96]

Yeah, and what about radeon pro duo? It isn't even mentioned in the video.

[@JDWonders]

As an owner of a 295X2 I always feel like a ghost when these comparison videos come out. I'm in the room, but no one notices. Come on AMD, release a 595X2. Pleeeeease!

[@theworldcouldalwaysusemore7191]

ABambooBilbo because the 295x2 was really just two 290Xs on the same PCB, effectively being nothing more than a hot pair of 290Xs in crossfire.

[@conorpumfrey6512]

ABambooBilbo single gpu cards....

[@mpardalos]

They said single-GPU cards only

[@RG-ec9tu]

*cries in 2021 gpu prices*

[@nathanielenochs1843]

Almost time for that 14 Years of AMD Video Cards Video

[@GabrielTobing]

Please do an updated version.

[@jkosta007]

Hi LTT, Long time fan, first time commenting on one of your videos. I love this one. The combo of history, hardware and benchmark to see how far AMD has come is wonderful.

[@marul8149]

Where is the 4gb 5970 xfx AMD Graphic Card ? It is faster than 6990

[@SilentdragonDe]

I actually still have my old Radeon HD 4890, aka. the jet turbine. It was funny how it reached 105c under 100% load but didn't even ramp up the fan past 80%.

[@deviousfuzz2511]

The R9 290x was the first real high end PC component I ever bought. Still running the R9 290x today on the same FX 8350, both purchased in February 2014. Upgraded to a custom water cooling pretty fast do to the thermals, other than that though love the card. Crushes 1080p still... gonna rock this build as along I can. Great video don't know how I missed it when it was new. I know the AMD product line and history rather well, but having it presented was nice. Peace.

[@ernemmerone]

Time for a nice 15 years AMD update?

[@Dknightxs]

meanwhile greedvidia prices have increased

[@Dknightxs]

Sam Bloom i use a 980ti g1, unlike u i am not a corporate slave, and i mentioned the truth, if u disagree prove me wrong. p.s learn some manners .

[@sambloom955]

1080ti

[@lui4637]

What kind of company releases a high end GPU (1080) and within several months later turkey slaps their consumer's face by releasing the 1080ti with the same price as the 1080 with 30%-35% performance increase. They've also forgot the fact that a 1060 even existed and completely focused on the 1070-1080ti, forgetting that not all of their consumers are hardcore people trying to 4K game at 60fps average

[@lui4637]

Meanwhile AMD are focusing on the 1080p players, slowly balancing the worthiness of their products (driver updates and etc). They're playing with the market very wisely. With the Ryzen CPU's mostly focusing on 1080p while being dirt cheap you could almost say that AMD are being too generous. With Vega coming I won't be surprised if people are gonna switch to the red team. Obviously the Vega won't be on par with the 1080ti (I could be wrong but I'm no fortune teller). But it'll obviously be the bang of the buck. I can see the Vega being priced at around $400+/-ish while offering 4K. With future games switching to DX12 and Vulkan, and the Ryzen's core being more optimized and used rather than focusing on single core.

[@lui4637]

Basically a TL;DR Stick with Nvidia if you want the front row seat asap Stick with AMD if you're a patient person and willing to watch your products slowly mature

[@-canopus-513]

Yo just wanted to ask as it seems this would be a good thing to ask o Linus's channel, is this setup good for gaming CPU - A8-6600K APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics GPU - Radeon R7 260X royalKing (this seems to be discontinued now for some reason) Ram - 2 x 4GB DDR3 Motherboard - ASRock FM2A88X Extream4 +

[@Loundsify]

I'm still rocking a crossfire 7870XT's which are slightly nerfed 7950's but were perfect for 1080p gaming.

[@adorenu1338]

so im using a 2007 graphic card all this time.

[@RodrigoOrellano]

Nice video! My video card trip was: HD 4650 HD 5770 HD 6850 HD 7950 R9 280X Next: GTX 1060 or RX 480..

[@pangiotissynodinos1980]

Rodrigo Orellano mine was GeForce 4 ati radeon 3850 4850 6950 280x and now gtx 1060 6gb

[@seamusfrederick2349]

WHAT? No GTX 1080 ti?

[@BandNerdcp]

Just curious, why the upgrade from 7950 to the 280X when the 280X was just a 7970 rebrand?

[@RodrigoOrellano]

Because I sold the 7950 for the same price I bought the 280X :P

[@ltra42]

I would go for RX 480. it plays nice with the new APIs. I have 1080 sli. the driver does weird things to my windows 10. I'm very disappointed with nvidia's drivers, went from 3 x r9 290 to 1080 sli for a change. I was hoping for better drivers like everyone said but most of the time it does weird things and fucked up Windows 10 start menu. Temperature is about the same but I only use Kraken + Corsair 120mm AIO cooler. just updated to nvidia new driver yesterday, hopefully the weird shits are gone.

[@unknownsoldier4156]

What version of the Radeon 5870 has the 6 mini-display ports? Just curious!

[@JordanHarris]

I think it's time to do one with Vega and Navi.

[@ChaotiX1]

"Because Canadians don't get the GOOD Ebay" :D

[@larrysmith3959]

In 10 yers we will have videos where we look at gtx 1080ti and laugh of bad it is.

[@larrysmith3959]

It costs 500 dollars and is powerful not a waste of money.

[@KING0SISQO]

The 1080ti will never look bad unless each new gen has serious gains like Maxwell to pascal

[@BBSHOCKZ]

KING0SISQO I'll look back in 20years and laugh at how weak tech was with my low end crystal based pc

[@jfkfromclonehigh8157]

"only 4K pffffffff"

[@yashwinning]

Nah. We're already reaching the limits of substantial performance gains with each new generation, and real time graphics aren't progressing *that* much. We've already achieved some truly ground breaking shit in real time graphics already, and it's mostly consoles that'd holding us down. So 10 years from now I know for a fact that graphics won't make that much of a leap, so instead games will push resolution as the new hot thing. I'm calling it now, 10 years from now the 1080ti will still be able to run games comfortably at 1080p. New graphics cards will focus on running games at 4k.

[@felixnajera4890]

wheres linus customized hd 5870 cooler vid at

[@lemon5501]

Man and 2 years later they surprised everyone with the 5700 line up

[@bhavjotkang8004]

the HD 2900xt is Photoshoped​ in at 2:23

[@pettttson]

MightyDirtKing the clip with the 2900xt is from an old ltt motherboard review from 2008

[@Saved_Sinner0085]

0:29 "so let's take a look at how AMD video card innovation, over the last 10 years" Should have said "Radeon" instead of "AMD": the HD 3xxx, 4xxx, and 5xxx series were all still branded ATi.

[@razje]

Yup they we're branded ATI, but ATi was already bought by AMD in 2006. So it's not false.

[@Saved_Sinner0085]

Read my comment again and you will see the part where I said "were all still *branded* Ati," and you will see your comment was redundant. That is a FACT, even by YOUR OWN admission, so I don't even know what your comment was. I never said anything was false, jackass.

[@knauz21]

Newtype, someone's salty they were wrong :PP

[@knauz21]

Dude that was like an hour ago are you still salty you were wrong lmao

[@HilbertXVI]

Newtype 0085 This is even saltier than a salt lake. LoL players would be proud of you

[@ninevoltmodz4687]

I have the amd 7970, I can still play alot of current titles at ultra with solid 60, such as Rainbow 6, GTA 5, SOMA, and the list goes on.

[@JoshuaNicoll]

AAANND then VEGA comes in which it seems not only AMD has pressed the gas pedal even harder, they seem to have fitted Nitrous oxide and a couple of turbos......

[@solfentress7724]

Rip vega :(