History of GPUs As Fast As Possible

[@vwestlife]

Fun Fact: The first ever computer graphics card was the Cromemco Dazzler in 1976. It used the 8-bit S-100 bus and had a resolution of 128 x 128 in 8 colors.

[@Ray-dx2pf]

+vwestlife Hey im a fan man.

[@Poebat]

☺

[@lexisnep525]

+vwestlife Hey hey, it's vwestlife commenting on a video! Everyone watch his videos.

[@AuroraNemoia]

+vwestlife nice seeing you here!

[@nuur2825]

+vwestlife But can it run Crysis?

[@rajharsh3114]

Funny how Intel is Blue. Those 3 together make RGB. This world is incredible and amazing !

[@honkhonk8009]

Intel is entering the market now

[@d4rp645]

The new RGB 6ghz processor with integrated graphics

[@user-st5ir8mg3q]

AMD is red Intel is blue With Nvidia they are RGB And there's no last strophe for you

[@7ngaf]

Its a conspiracy 3years later

[@loganiushere]

Ryzen CPU, Intel Wifi Card, Nvidia graphics card. RGB, in order of prestige.

[@nimoon]

1.5 speed for the Linus experience

[@augustinekirchoff479]

Lol

[@mergemechanism]

oh ffs

[@UncannySwan]

InquizitorPhil Uh... Yes. You should get checked out for ADD if you can't handle a 5-10 minute video.

[@UncannySwan]

***** And you would speed up those lectures if you could. ADD.

[@ulincsys]

OMG, not even a little wrong.

[@OperatorDrewski]

Wait, no squarespace ad? Damn.

[@samst.germain6488]

OperatorDrewski why hello there, I didn’t expect to see you here

[@danielbak7427]

Well look at who this is Hi

[@Youtuber76239]

Operator Computski

[@Abysswdh]

Hey, Im from future. Get ready for some bad time

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He Drewsk

[@SpecialEDy]

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Sure! just send me the number of the credit card of your parents along with security code and date

[@nabilal-hakim37]

:v

[@randomthingch1970]

:v

[@DyoKasparov]

@@Aragubas 347216968537088 775 10/22

[@Cremeefr]

@@DyoKasparov please tell me your joking

[@tridiots3681]

I realized AMD always do outlandish stuff like: 64 cores in a enthusiast chip, 8 cores FTW, 6 monitors at once, extreme overclocking could be done with FX CPUs and most importantly, outrageously cheap prices to offer.

[@DaveeeOnTop]

and outrageously bad drivers

[@Romess1]

@@DaveeeOnTopImagine ignoring Forceware drivers from 06-14.

[@Bananahead88]

I'm really starting to prefer Luke over Linus in these kind of videos.

[@Tlion2102]

me too

[@CoolVids19]

+BananaSopuli Luke is the reason I haven't killed my self.

[@HappyMarshmallowGamingComedy]

+PTugaSantos TUGA POWER

[@diogogoncalves200]

+M4RSHMALLOW Gaming Comedy and Potato TUGA CARALHOOOOO #TUGAPOWER!!!

[@BrownieX001]

+Aufinator There. There.

[@vanweapon]

VPNs are great, but what I want to know is where I can build a beautiful website

[@Windwalker95]

Go to squarespace.com! (i am NOT sponsered.)

[@bac302]

+Windwalker 95 did u mean squarespace.com/Windwalker95

[@Windwalker95]

yep

[@bac302]

Krip Clip what's your probleme child . i mean i can give some love if you are desperately in need just don't release your rage into others

[@wes4652]

Drown in sand while undergoing chemotherapy

[@mkylem]

You guys should put up some sound dampeners around the green screen. The echo and AC are pretty noticeable.

[@typhonpc3495]

I thought it was my headphones, i heard a lot of white noise

[@thatahkabdul]

+TyphonPC racist

[@typhonpc3495]

+Dr_OβLiViiθN XL tru

[@Caponizer]

+mkylem It sounds like he is yelling lol

[@darkdancerman]

+Dr_OβLiViiθN XL lol

[@UtterGeek123]

2:23 DirectX is not a graphics API. Direct3D is a graphics API. Calling DirectX a graphics API is like calling a car an engine.

[@2987ms]

true

[@darkdancerman]

shots fired

[@flowmastaflam]

+UtterGeek123 is it like calling a duck a duck bill?

[@T3KNUG3T5]

+UtterGeek123 Actually it is an API.

[@UtterGeek123]

+TechNuggets95 Who do you think you're correcting? "DirectX is not a >graphics< API." I clarified that Direct3D is a graphics API, not DirectX. Obviously DirectX is an API still.

[@streetguru9350]

Kinda sounds like he's yelling through the whole video.

[@2987ms]

admit it, you like it.

[@reggiebuffat]

+2987ms nope

[@MrDitkovich]

Did I do anything wrong?

[@Tryp]

rip ati cards. your flames will be remembered. the flames looked so nice ._.

[@Chuckiele]

especially the flames my HD 5770 went up in :(

[@psychosis1767]

I still have one ATI card probably from 2003-2005. Works like charm still

[@humansvd3269]

@@Chuckiele I still have mine.

[@Chuckiele]

@@humansvd3269 I have mine on my dead hardware shelf. It technically still works but it has artifacts.

[@soylentgreenb]

@@psychosis1767 It's hard to say who had more hardware trouble. The two major events I can remember was the switch to lead-free solder, which caused big problems for nvidia (I think it was thermal cycling that broke solder joints; 9800 gtx was one of the cards afflicted). ATi had a problem with their 9500 and 9700 cards; there was this shim with a rubber thing under surrounding the main die and it could swell and lift up the heat sink off of the GPU after a couple of years; they fixed it with the 9600/9800 and later GPUs by adding a small thickness to the heat sink above the core so that it did not get lifted even if the shim rose a bit.

[@SnoutBaron]

The 8800GT is what made Nvidia into superstar status IMO. Insane performance for a relatively low price.

[@ubertube5308]

In 40 years. there will be a crysis 30 and no one will ever survive that game

[@Slenderman63323]

The NVIDIA gtx 10837917826

[@ruskimofia]

+striker113 Gtx 2080ti

[@bsg2621]

Now: TitanX 20 years: TitanX 40 years: TitanX 1928372626377372,3828277373,282827 years: TitanX

[@doggybhawbhaw1483]

+BSG Gtx number_less

[@justinleuk4623]

Now: Titan X 10 years: Titan XL 20 years: Titan XXL 30 years: What's a gpu?

[@Entrepid83]

This was definitely an interesting video to watch. It's amazing to see how quickly GPU's evolved since 1999.

[@ryananderson9905]

I love this channel. gives you a decent amount of information on stuff in minutes. yes, that's the whole point, but a lot of the time people mess these kinds of videos up. good job!

[@crimsun7186]

No mention of the Voodoo Banshee, which was the first gpu to have 3D and 2D graphics processing on a single card? No mention of SLI being invented by 3Dfx and then used by nVidia when they bought 3Dfx? Shame.

[@gazac48]

I had Voodoo Banshee, it was great, when setting up some computers to games on, my mate had he's 3dfx voodoo card & S3 card, when I only had the 1 card the Banshee, he said that wont run this 3d demo, well did he feel a fool, my Banshee blow he's voodoo out of the water, the next day he went & got a Banshee

[@tkr157]

As far as I remember Voodoo Rush was first to have both 2d and 3d capabilities.

[@bksniperguy]

Nvidia SLI is different from 3dfx SLI. Nvidia alternates full frames while 3dfx alternates rows of pixels.

[@ssplayer]

Still have a pci bus VooDoo 5. Was still working the last time I tried it out.

[@repo4]

@@ssplayer Few weeks ago I started up a Pentium 120 PC I bought in 97. It was just sitting past 15 years unused. All works fine on it, including the Voodoo 1 card.

[@TheUtuber999]

"Denise" was the main video controller chip in the Commodore Amiga from 1985. However, the Commodore VIC-20 from 1981 used the VIC (Video Interface Controller) chip and the Commodore 64 from 1983 used the VIC-II.

[@baconpilots7372]

Can I build it beautiful with TunnelBear???

[@2987ms]

nah square space blocks vpn users /s

[@the_shadow7366]

Thank you for emphasizing Canada.

[@Cameron-hu6hg]

+The_Shadow Well, they're Canadian so what do you expect lol.

[@the_shadow7366]

+Cameron _ _ I knew that. I'm residing in Canada for more than a decade now, and many people, let alone youtubers mention Canada's achievements

[@Cameron-hu6hg]

The_Shadow Well I better get used to it haha. If Bernie doesn't become elected in the USA, Canada is my next stop!

[@Tunt]

+Cameron _ _ Wait. Bernie? The guy who thought the Pyramids held grain? No thanks lol

[@Cameron-hu6hg]

Discardedwand82​ I hope you're joking because that was Ben Carson, not Bernie Sanders

[@Aceyface]

nvidia and ati were the only big players back then. now only nvidia XD

[@SOHEATED]

Lol I still got the ATI MXRT 4 thousand something in my build

[@MaxArceus]

Yes, it is. I may like Nvidea more, but on the lower to mid end, AMD is still a player.

[@DeathBringer769]

What do you mean by "back then?" If you're talking like 2004, then yes. But the 90s were dominated by 3dfx/Voodoo.

[@mehftv]

Troll alert ^

[@sheiber]

+☆ Luxuries nah

[@soundchecked123]

Amd bought ati Nvidia bought 3dfx

[@abdullahkandrani]

HardLine Companies eating there rivals

[@TigerManGaming]

And intel bought.. oh wait.. nevermind.

[@shadowwolfmandan]

annnnd Matrox ceased to exist

[@blueguest222]

They bought arm..

[@martincoufalik9101]

@@shadowwolfmandan nope, still exists till this day ;)

[@wingsuitzero]

I had an ATI in my HP desktop. Played battlefield 2 for days. I loved my ATI

[@Basedyeeyee]

i want to know what is the reason that you can't expand ram on a gpu.

[@bkdarkness]

+Jason The BRUH Because no one makes VRAM chips for the consumer market.

[@ichliebefettekatzen1492]

Monies.

[@Rajivrocks-Ltd.]

+Dr. Vonderhaar BO3 That name tho!

[@waterlubber]

VRAM needs very fast speeds, and the longer the wire the lower max speed. a connector will lag the memory a lot, which is bad. Sorry for being abrupt, on my phone.

[@RapperRank]

+Dr. Vonderhaar BO3 are you a procrastinator

[@Outfrost]

5:40 nVidia SLI that wasn't really nVidia's to begin with... I thought you'd mention it in a video about "history of GPUs".

[@PONYBenTec]

+turbo pascal Nvidia buying 3dfx wasn't the only thing that i missed in a video called "history of GPUs" but for a techquicky video it was already very long. Techquicky maybe wasn't the right channel for it, a longer and more detailed video on LTT would maybe had been better. The Voodoo 5, Nvidia buying 3dfx, the fx 5800 Ultra, the xgi volari just to name a few examples that I think deserve to be in a video like this.

[@xkblxcripple]

+BenTec “aka” BeNoX They did a History of SLi already.

[@Outfrost]

***** That being said, nVidia didn't develop their SLI out of the blue.

[@AvroBellow]

@@PONYBenTec How about mentioning that Matrox is also Canadian? 😁

[@ReaLzEdits]

1:38 How many lines per second?

[@Trident_Euclid]

+ReaLzEdits like 10 Linus/second

[@oliveoil1988]

+ReaLzEdits 60 LPS.

[@oliveoil1988]

4K lines

[@someweeb3650]

+edgeofsins damn, 440 ppi...

[@PENDANTturnips]

doesn't matter since you cant see past 24 anyways.

[@springfever2002]

Glad that S3 and 3DFX made it in the video. I remember both those companies and graphics cards.

[@littleshopofhorrors6216]

Here in 2023 and it seems weird to see Luke shouting at a camera when he seems to have found his groove on WAN show.

[@fazetaco8605]

Lukequickie: read this as fast as possible

[@2987ms]

we all want a quickie from Luke calm down

[@dawsoncreeks7619]

+2987ms LMAO

[@AlzainAli]

he talks normally.i talk way faster then him and I understand him perfectly

[@user-kr7mt6sj4x]

This video is literally history

[@BattlingWarrior1985]

This was very educational and informative, the history of the GPU is very intriguing

[@JSL_LIVE]

We need more luke

[@ryanwakebradtelle8682]

This video doesn't seem that old but it's way different almost nostalgic. I wonder if there's any new history worthy of an updated video

[@ArnoWelzel]

Nice video - but some flaws: 1) the shown "3DFX VOODOO" card was in fact a Voodoo Daughterboard on a Hercules Stingray. The typical 3Dfx cards where used as separate cards with analog loop through cables for the video signal from the main graphics card. 2) The shown "PCI Express" slots are just a single lane slots - usually graphics use 16x "PEG" slots (PCI express graphics) and won't even fit there.

[@RyanSaplanPT]

This video brings back serious nostalgia

[@trivialtrav]

I still have a Rage 128 pro on a shelf. For whatever reason when I was 11 or so I randomly opened my home tower my parents probably bought at best buy and saw a mess of wires with large IDE cables obscuring a lot, but I could see and read the text on the Rage 128 Pro. Before that time I didn't give any thought to what was in a computer. Only exterior fanciness made an impression. It was like being an Apple fan boy despite never actually owning an Apple product. I quickly opened up AOL and to my horror heard my mom's voice come through the line. I waited impatiently for her to finish her call and dialed in to see what this Rage 128 thing was. A year or so after that I found myself walking into a local computer hardware store asking for a Radeon 7500 so I could play Team Fortress Classic better. Then a 9800 Pro came. Through high school I was too poor to even bother trying to upgrade but after that I went for a 3870x2 in my first rig I actually built. Then a 4870x2 in my first custom loop build. Now in my 30s I have a humble 280x sitting next to me that's due for an upgrade. All because I found a screwdriver and opened up the magic box in my parents home office 20 years ago.

[@deagnasakaadam7840]

lol you missed 4 year's 2005-2009 when AMD whipped Nvidia.

[@bksniperguy]

8800 gtx: am I a joke to you? Seriously tho even the 8800 gt is equivalent to an hd 3870.

[@liamiangaming7931]

It was actually more 2002-2005, Nvidia really took the lead after Amd bought ATI. There were 2 years so far though after Amd bought Ati in which their cards were more powerful than Nvidia, which was 2012 with the hd 7900 series, and in 2020 with the Rx 6000 series.

[@AvroBellow]

@@liamiangaming7931 You forgot the HD 5000 series.

[@LazoeJSCREI]

ah it felt so good to hear a different ad/sponsor in the end than squarespace

[@palaashatri]

Hello Young Luke.

[@Verodoxys]

I really do appreciate these 'History of' videos. You guys could totally do a 'History of LMG As Fast As Possible', maybe even putting in on the main channel if you wanted.

[@LexysHereAfter]

The Amiga was my first PC, such fond memories

[@Co-DB.]

I like seeing luke doing some videos as well as linus.

[@Alec_Reaper]

Why are you shouting at us ;~;

[@Ladeand]

+Dr Alec Reaper I actually agree with this sentiment. Could consider speaking a little more naturally.

[@jazy921]

+Dr Alec Reaper they should retitle it to "As Loud As Possible"

[@sicfxmusic]

+Dr Alec Reaper he's also jumping

[@soversetile]

+mightymelee Kinky

[@versatileedits4636]

+JohnnyBoy101 LMAO! Best comment of 2016, I'm calling it.

[@jonnyhogan1921]

we need a refresh of this video

[@TheIdleCrow]

My first graphics card was an ATI Rage haha I also had my hands on a Voodoo 5 after its hey day tho I primarily used ATI/AMD cards accept for once when my buddy sold his nvidia gtx 560 ti for cheap, but now i'm rocking a AMD R9 290.

[@heidirichter]

So good to see a video that actually gives the Amiga computers the credit they deserve, although it could be said that the Atari 400/800/600/130XE and so forth, with the ANTIC microprocessor for display instructions (with is the ancestor to the Amigas graphics hardware) is the first real GPU - it was amazingly powerful for graphics hardware designed in the 70s, with it's own instruction set for building the display independently of the CPU - very important when the CPU was a 8-bit 6502 running at 1.79 MHz (NTSC) or 1.77MHz (PAL)

[@valenrn8657]

Xbox 360 has the world's first unified shader GPU in the year 2005 and it was created by ATI.

[@valenrn8657]

***** Under AMD's control, both PC and console has similar GPU designs i.e. AMD dumped VILW GPUs.

[@hf538]

nice work.. please make more videos like this about computer history... longer and more detail

[@JackPecker911]

You forgot about Matrox. They made graphics cards that were on par with all the others at the time.

[@xjax8519]

They made Vram )))

[@castor9907]

The 3d matrox cards performed far slower than a comperable card from Nvidia or ATI

[@JackPecker911]

@@castor9907 depends on the games and tests used, support varied a lot in 1999 so. In some cases G400 was better in some cases other cards were better

[@Finn_sail]

To see how far Gus have come. We used to struggle with 2d let alone 3d and now with the 3090 and unreal engine 5 we can have massive 3d displays almost better than really.

[@billclinton4913]

Anything is better than Intel integrated graphics.

[@tommycray5158]

Fun Fact: nVidia acquired 3DFX and eventually released a line of cards by the name of GeForce FX, which was their first card utilizing technologies of both companies.

[@AlmightyGTR]

I have to admit that Luke sounds much better than the squeaky mouse, but did he completely forget to mention Intel 740? The only time when intel actually created a standalone 3D accelerator. Way to miss that one out, and roll them into internal GPU market.

[@danv2888]

I still remember ATI. I loved playing Red Alert and Command and Conquer on them back then.

[@darcassan]

I thought you guys were going to touch on HBM as well; seems like a significant advancement.

[@adafrost6276]

I currently have a Fury X, but I literally saluted the 8800 GTX when it popped up. I had one in 2007 and that card is probably the best card ever made, relative to time period of course.

[@projectjt3149]

No mention of AMD APUs or PowerVR/Qualcomm for smartphone graphics?

[@NuffMan_]

that voodoo, hercules stingrai 128/3d "voodoo rush" is actually a standalone 2d/3d card.

[@Randomdance5677]

will my computer run far cry 4 pentium 2 3dfx voodoo 256mb ddr1 ram windows 98

[@opisite9997]

+Zufälligetanz of course it will

[@Randomdance5677]

k apparently i can run it 4k with ultra settings mods is this true?

[@opisite9997]

Zufälligetanz Yeah, you should be able to get 120+ FPS without overclocking. with overclocking you'll get around 150-160 FPS

[@dodovomitory3496]

+Zufälligetanz yes

[@romeocharliedelta]

If you can get that puter to fire up with that DDR in an SDR slot, I would imagine it would run Far Cry 4 at at MAX settings in 4K.

[@LabracadabradorBamboozle]

The original PlayStation Console, to my knowledge, didn't come with a controller that had joysticks as shown at 2:59 . The one in the photo is a newer version.

[@johnnyxp64]

failed to mention a major moment in history, that 3dfx was actually bought by nvidia, and this is how the did the sli technology and other cool stuff.

[@bksniperguy]

Nvidia SLI is different from 3dfx SLI. Nvidia alternates full frames while 3dfx alternates rows of pixels.

[@TheOmegajimes]

Great video! The 90's were a wild time for PC enthusiasts. So many cards, all with different games that supported them.

[@hairoftehdog]

I recoil when I hear "the old AGP slot"... It feels like yesterday that AGP was the SHIT! I had everyone jealous with my Voodoo 3 3000 AGP back in the day...

[@DigitalHaze65536]

lol before that didn't we have "plain" PCI? PCI

[@solarstrike33]

And then before that ISA. But seriously, the GeForce 7800 GS and the Radeon HD 4670 from 2006 and 2008 respectively are the final cards using the bus.

[@jamescarter8311]

As much as I loved my V3 3000, despite using the AGP slot, those cards didn't not actually utilize the speed of AGP. My first true AGP card was the fantastic Radeon 9700 Pro.

[@Tempora158]

No mention of the Rendition Verite, the first 2D/3D card that actually accelerated 3D graphics, and hosted the first consumer 3D accelerated version of Quake (i.e. vQuake) and Tomb Raider. The 3D accelerated version of these two games completely crushed anything the Playstation could offer in detail and resolution and brought PC gaming out of the strategy/simulation/adventure game ghetto (yes, there was Doom) and into the high speed, console style, action adventure and arcade racing mainstream. I still remember the 3D Blaster PCI fondly because it did great 3D right before the 3DFX Voodoo existed.

[@thebookofwhitewalkers4610]

You forgot to mention Radeon 9700 :(, a breakthrough at its time

[@KingStivan]

this episode is half cooked if you ask me >> ya sure doesn't mention how one of the biggest name in 3D graphics was bought by nvidia and with that it brought us things like cuda and sli or how like accelerated video decoding was added to the gpu that were once handled by our slow cpus .. and jumping from AGP to PCI-e have we forgotten how we use to run those gpus on our aging pci slots ? and lets just all forget about the non nvidia /ati/intel gpus its not like 80% of pcs had something like sis card or a via gpu for that matter >>

[@jazy921]

+KingStivan well the title did say *"As Fast As Possible"* on it

[@KingStivan]

+jazy921 did it take you more than 30 sec to read my comment? coz i don't think it would have mattered if this episode was 9 min vs 8m >>

[@jazy921]

KingStivan Well i mean i think the reason it is "half cooked" is because it is a *quick* summary of the history of GPUs.

[@KingStivan]

jazy921 well you can't just glance over all that info without mentioning the above >>

[@jazy921]

KingStivan alright, i see you point.

[@Protoking]

One thing bugged me.. ATI was first to have unified shaders with the Xenos GPU in the Xbox 360. The way you explained things says they followed suit a short while after. NUH UH!

[@seanorion7106]

Can't wait for that NVIDIA 1080 for 4k

[@DeathByParadies]

+Sean Orion he

[@streetguru9350]

+Sean Orion But it's AMD cards that tend to do better at higher resolutions

[@2987ms]

+Street Guru that's why he has to wait

[@DreamareLikesPie]

+Street Guru It's just a joke, man.

[@V8_Diva]

+Street Guru you're completely missing the joke.

[@johnreed6363]

kudos for remembering 3dfx in the history. It was my 1'st ever individual stock purchase, though that part I would prefer to forget :(

[@zotar9279]

I still have my vodoo fx cards laying around in my drawer. Anyone else? ;)

[@funnypranker34]

Zotar put it in a windows 98 machine

[@AngelSonevski]

Zotar sell them if they're in working order m8, voodoo cards are collectables, or just make yourself a DOS gaming machine

[@zotar9279]

Cool. I have no idea what they are worth though, couldn't find any on ebay. I also looked further into that drawer with old stuff and found my old Pokémon collection and my jaw sort of dropped when I realized how much some of them were worth on ebay. Going to have a big sale soon I think, then I will buy a new computer :D

[@CakePrincessCelestia]

3:25 Luke: "3dfx were 3D only" Also Luke: shows a Rush which is a 2-in-1 solution for having both 2D and 3D as one card... 5:13 Now that was a great card. The Ti200 was the slowest of the series, but you could usually OC them easily to the Ti500 top tier clocks, which I did as well. Imagine buying a 3060 and having it deliver 3090 performance... although the performance difference between the models wasn't that huge back then, it was still a considerable gain.

[@jonesnj07]

*"Because graphics cards", Luke you're such a cutie*

[@atlas8827]

+Nathan Jones what the hell is going on here?

[@jonesnj07]

***** This is a video on youtube about graphics cards, do you need help my dear?

[@DrMacintosh]

+Nathan Jones ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@jonesnj07]

Eric Melendez *( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)*

[@wes4652]

ANDY DWIRE

[@emilienamaury3839]

I want an update of this video, cause in first, I was surprise that video says nothing about the DLSS or other new feature, well, I guess that 7 years is for something XD.

[@SOHEATED]

Anyone still have an ATI card in one of their rigs?!?

[@joshr8650]

SO HEATED lol my old motherboard supported "ati crossfire" but the last time I saw an ati card was in a GameCube

[@Zarflame99_Alt]

@@joshr8650 The Wii from 2006 also has ATI branding on it.

[@Nikolasz1173]

i have

[@humansvd3269]

Yes

[@justajobro1266]

Amd 760g lol

[@alexreimann2062]

Wow this brings back so many memories. I probably owned 80% of the GPUs mentioned up until the GeForce 2

[@01Gamemaster10]

My first gpu was a 3dfx voodoo2 8mb. Good old days :P

[@edwarddeguzman3258]

Anyone else miss the days when GPUs were shipped with full games?

[@K11micra_mcr]

ATI (now known as the terrible AMD) made the Wii and Wii U GPUs

[@MokenaRay]

Terrible AMD?

[@romeocharliedelta]

I could be wrong, but I believe the Matrox Parhelia-512 was the first surround gaming GPU capable of pushing 3 monitors back in 2002, the Q3A demo I saw had me drooling, I was rocking a heavily OC'd Radeon LE 32Meg (anyone remember those?) at the time. It was also the first with a 256-bit memory bus and a 10-bit color frame buffer. It didn't fair well as its Price:Performance was horrible compared to a GF4 TI. It came in AGP or PCI-X(not E) bus flavors with either 128 or 256MB of VRAM. Let us also not forget the Gigapixel(R) GP-1 & PowerVR Kyro chips and their tile-based rastering which has been used by nvidia in its maxwell and pascal chips (as well as many mobile devices) due to its bandwidth and power savings.

[@adamthedog8248]

MOM, MOM! I CAN UPGRADE MY VRAM!!! LETS GO BUY 1MB FOR ONLY $109!!!!!!!!!!!

[@itsnoam338]

You mean 1GB

[@itsnoam338]

Oh I get it

[@KyudoKun]

Luke you forgot to acknowledge the fact that ATi was the first to implement Unified shader architecture back in 2005 to power the Xbox 360's GPU, the XENOS. GTX 8800 was not the first to use the Unified shader, Nvidia was a little late in fact... Anyhow, kudos for making this video Luke. I learned a lot.

[@CHA0SHACKER]

Small correction: the first GPU with unified shaders came from AMD and was used in the Xbox 360

[@DigitalHaze65536]

48 of them if I remember correctly? (@ 500 mhz)

[@CHA0SHACKER]

Jup

[@blakegriplingph]

You forgot to mention Nvidia's NV1. It was Team Green's first effort at a graphics processor, but since they based it on the Sega Saturn's graphics subsystem (i.e. quads instead of triangles) it never took off.

[@ethancavill]

Seems like he's shouting at me lol, ily Luke

[@NickdeVera]

Holy shit the S3 Virge, God I'm getting flasbacks, had so many problems, downloaded the updated driver off a dialup connection.

[@pandu9933]

R.I.P. Linus...

[@reapzdeatth]

im still alive fuckwit im just at ces

[@reapzdeatth]

I got locked in the las Vagas convention center

[@Elvirth24]

My first GPU was a 3DFX Voodoo that I pulled out of a computer in a landfill. Worked great. :D

[@ViperBoy0321]

I found a ATI GPU in a old computer a few days ago and It looked a like a ancient dinosaur...

[@thedarkknight4243]

Great Info, keep up the good work

[@larsschothorst521]

I own a S3 Virge 375.

[@larsschothorst521]

I also own a Geforce2

[@presigal972]

Snoop Doge I have 2 8800 gts lol.

[@avimakkar]

Snoop Doge i have. 1060 ti

[@nukster1616]

there is no 1060 ti..

[@Saigonas]

@@nukster1616 let him have his fun

[@blvk3]

3dfx didn't disappear, it was absorbed by nVidia

[@DeathBringer769]

"Since time immemorial" **notices you left 3dfx/Voodoo out of the thumbnail** You've just shamed the "time immemorial" history of GPUs by not putting them up there with the other big players of GPU history (they are inarguably one of the big players if you're looking at the history as a whole, not just the past 10 or so years.)

[@slogue77]

I have a XFX and ASUS GTX 8800 in my collection. One was my brothers , we got them to play COD4 Modern Warfare. I so remember screaming at how good it looked , was a good jump in GPU's...

[@TheLordstrider]

Strange, why some info about 3Dfx is wrong here ?... Voodoo 3000 and 5500 blew everything on the market away. Voodoo was the best card ever made, nvidia seeing this and unable to compete with 3Dfx bought 3Dfx out and integrated it's technology into it's own and only then then the the GTX cards went out (with 3Dfx tech). without 3Dfx nvidia would lose to ATI\AMD today. shame that it's not in this video :(. Also Nvidia SLI is based on 3Dfx tech)

[@crimsun7186]

Also, no mention of the Voodoo Banshee card, which was the first card to have 2D and 3D processing on it, way before ATI and nVidia could do it.

[@TheLordstrider]

indeed.

[@patchouli3422]

It did feel rather strange that the jump from 3dfx being top notch with Glide to nvidia snagging SLI from them was missed.

[@PabloMuerteUno]

What about riva 128 from 1997?

[@wil-fri]

nvidia needs Intel. What about amd 64? amd64+ati vs intel32+nvidia...

[@lc7ineo]

AMG! so many memories! we've come a long way, our phones have graphics comparable to 2002 pc's. Great video.

[@greatwhite59]

I Still haveGTX 280x some where and a 920 x cpu in my closet :) Good Times .

[@fridaycaliforniaa236]

I love this AFAP series =)

[@colosalz]

“History of GPUs as fast as possible” “4 years old” *Clicks anyway*

[@motoryzen]

Great job Luke. You never said the stupid " zed " shit once, and this was a good vid card history lesson overall. Thumbs up.

[@kevinhiggers6753]

0.25 speed makes him sound drunk