The Evolution of AMD/ATI Radeon Graphics (2000-2022)

[@NikTek]

Hey everyone, I've just noticed that I've been writing "Radeoon" instead of Radeon on the GPU names, it is repetetive throughout the Video which went unnoticed from my part. I'm very sorry for that

[@anshul24081993]

Its Ok. Nice video though. :)

[@NikTek]

@@anshul24081993 thanks man, when I was reading the comments I saw people saying Radeooning,lol Radeoon. and then I watched the video again, when I saw how I’ve written it I was in shock. I focused so much on making this video happen that it went unnoticed

[@raghavkamra8011]

'unoticed' also went unnoticed😂... jk :) . Great video mate

[@ultradimensions]

Hey can you make a video about AMD CPUs, or Intel. That aside I learnt something something useful today. Hope your doing well.

[@m598lmr]

Oh, my pc runs games so slow. But I always use plenty of..."RADEOON"?

[@zeghetti595]

AMD is life’s best example of “Never give up.”

[@bujfvjg7222]

Just like your folks gave up on contraception? Lol

[@zeghetti595]

@@bujfvjg7222 Bro is on the D💀💀

[@sudbtd]

​@@bujfvjg7222that was unnecessary

[@derfderfson]

​@@bujfvjg7222you're a bit weird huh?

[@Crecross]

​@@bujfvjg7222Hopefully you'll figure out why no one likes you

[@jackofficialTM]

Bro this kind of content was least expected but it sure had me hooked

[@NikTek]

thanks man!

[@penewoldahh]

@@NikTek who is behind that nice voice?????

[@mr.nobody4383]

@@NikTek face reveal 🥳

[@prizrak-br3332]

@@NikTek I actually tried to find a video like this a few months ago but couldn't find any, Thank you NikTek, one more subscriber!

[@mitlanderson]

@@NikTek Intel and AMD CPU generations next!

[@Tate525]

Good to see AMD came so far, i wish good luck to Intel as well, team Green is pissing me off lately.

[@NikTek]

yes, I really hope 10 years from now I'll make a videon on the History of Arc Graphics :)

[@AndersHass]

@@NikTek along with 2 others as well (it would suck if there won't be at least 3 companies making dedicated GPUs)

[@nct7259]

Team green for Miners Not Gamers No doubt

[@bukanmamabuciarati1630]

@@nct7259 team red is for budget gamers but not made us dissapoint

[@PyroBlonde7777]

I went to the 6800 XT and 5600X. I grew up with AMD stuff because it was affordable. Its nice to be back.

[@rattlehead999]

The HD4870 was just 20% slower than the gtx 280, but the HD4870 was 300$, the GTX 280 was 650$ The HD 4870 was a 256mm^2 die size chip, the gtx 280 was 576mm^2 die size The HD 4870 was 150W the gtx 280 was 250W

[@alfonso5177]

hd 4870 won !

[@rattlehead999]

@@alfonso5177 In reality people bought Nvidia more, sad but true. AMD in 2007-2008 had 35% of the market share. Though in 2009-2010 it went over 50%, but that was a different generation.

[@alfonso5177]

@@rattlehead999 yes ik, but the hd 4870 was better by price/perfomance/wattage

[@rattlehead999]

@@alfonso5177 absolutely and even in performance, 20% isn't much. AMD should have been destroying Nvidia from 2007 to 2015, but due to mind share people bought Nvidia. Even in the next generations AMD repeated the same success as the HD4870 to lesser extent, but still cheaper, smaller die size and performance was close, even power was often lower. Yet they lost.

[@ledoynier3694]

@@rattlehead999 It was not mind share, it was awful drivers and game support :) The video could have been a 10 second youtube short saying that 2000-2019, ATI/AMD drivers sucked hard, and since the RDNA2 launch, they start to be good and really useable. When a new game comes out, Nvidia launches a game ready driver a week prior. but AMD (and mostly ATI) used instead to try to deal with bugs for the 6 months after the game launch.

[@DjVortex-w]

I'm enormously appreciative of AMD as a company. For the longest time they were kind of the underdog, first trying to compete against the absolute behemoth that's Intel. Then, not fearing a battle on two fronts, they then took on another absolute behemoth, Nvidia. Sometimes they succeeded in challenging the two giants, sometimes not so much. However, they persevered and their efforts have been paying off during the last few years, and at least on the eyes of the wider public they have become worthy rivals of both giants. The absolutely great thing about this is that AMD keeps both Intel and Nvidia in check. They don't allow either company to become lazy and just rest on their laurels, nor become greedy. Healthy competition is good for the end consumer, and nowhere is this truer than on the CPU and GPU market. I am absolutely certain that without AMD, modern CPUs and GPUs would be a fraction of their current efficiency, and several times more expensive. Even if you don't have a single piece of AMD hardware, you have to at least appreciate that. Thanks to AMD you can afford your high-end Intel and Nvidia products.

[@adwarin3835]

currently I have fx-4300 and I plan to buy new ryzen, maybe even new radeon

[@agamerdude7596]

Yea, Competition is good.

[@protocetid]

Gamers going to Intel and Nvidia almost exclusively is what caused those two to become near monopolies in their fields. Gamers continue to buy too many team green GPUs and somehow expect AMD to have the capital to compete with GeForce. All it takes is for Intel to overtake Ryzen and we will be back to having team blue and team green threaten to completely dominate their sectors.

[@godofdeath8785]

@@protocetid true:(

[@sylvain01]

@@protocetid Which is why ryzen will further develop, then they will price it at a cheaper or equivalent price to an intel chip, then so on and so forth. It's how competition works

[@ScytheNoire]

I bought an ATI Radeon 9700 Pro when it first launched. It was a card far ahead of the competition. It lasted a long time. Every so often, there is a card that comes out that is far ahead of the curve and lasts a long time.

[@SimonBauer7]

like the 1080/1080ti which is still a pretty good gpu.

[@ScytheNoire]

@@SimonBauer7 Which is another card I bought at launch and had until I got my RTX 3080. But the GTX 1080 may be the best video card I've ever owned, hands down.

[@trapadvisor]

I have an 8gb 1070 I’m still using. This thing works like a charm as long as I clean it and reapply paste every so often.

[@spacechannelfiver]

The 8800gtx was another classic, that replaced my flashed x800 GTO

[@cesarknightly]

Still using the GTX 1060 6gb

[@toespic]

When you can buy the highest end gpu on the market with 299$:

[@radeonati1728]

When your monthly grocery cost less than 199$

[@GewelReal]

When silicon wafers costed pennies

[@deagle7776]

Vs $2000

[@Emeric62]

It was still true in 2015. I bought my radeon 7200 vivo in 2000 and in my 390x in 2015 for about the same $350

[@guily6669]

@@Emeric62 Back in 2011 I also bought the GTX570 for like 340eur and it was a pretty biffed up version of it with 3 slot cooler and could do 25% OC with a 1.2V modded bios flashed and it's actually still alive (in theory it's custom PCB was more in pair with a normal GTX580) and basically it was the 2nd best Nvidia GPU because 580 was the best and the 590 was still to be announced but sadly the 580 was already almost 500€ sadly. When I bought my crap Strix RX480 sadly the Nvidia GTX1070 was already around 500€ which was the 300€ back in 2011 and they even release "TI" to slap in the buyers face so at the end 1070 ended up being like only like the 5th better Nvidia GPU at the end of that gen but costing almost the same as the 2nd best GPU from them back in 2011 and the thing is that min salary barely increased here from that range of years so yeah just a pile of rubbish 😡 ps: Will probably have to cut an arm and a leg to make my next PC in the future, cause it's getting ridiculously expensive and the wattage is also nuts for the cost of electricity here 🤬😡😥

[@darryljack6612]

Wait... you can talk? I thought communication was only possible through memes.

[@NikTek]

lol XD

[@amcirfan]

🤣

[@kurakurakii3792]

holly what, it was nikteek!?

[@ADeeSHUPA]

@@kurakurakii3792 ク라ㇰㇻ きい

[@kurakurakii3792]

@@ADeeSHUPA it supposed to mean twisting tree but i added extra "i' to throw it off lol

[@kolsa2716]

These tech demos could be made into a whole game

[@ufodeath]

It's rather a shame that Ruby is so far retired as a tech demo, but she would be a perfect spy-themed FPS action-adventure candidate.

[@foxcannon]

I love the older tech demos from both ATI and Nvidia, they just have a nostalgic charm I can't explain

[@BattleToads]

My first ever GPU was an ATi Rage 128 Pro 16MB. I still remember the excitement years later when I got my Radeon 9800 and I was able to turn all the sliders in games all the way up. Almost 20 years later from that (holy shit I'm old) I got my Radeon RX 6800 and can crank those settings again. Team red ftw.

[@ludviksechovec2457]

My first was an ATI Radeon 9800 PRO, now I have RX 6800 and I am satisfied.

[@silverwatchdog]

Honestly surprised at how good some of those demos looked. The 2007 looks really good. I am assuming though that the card did not run it at 4K or even 1080p though, so it probably looked worse then.

[@provugab]

I remember when bought my first GPU, the Radeon 9500 Pro, I could play everything I threw at it. Also I couldn't stop myself from smiling at the "radeoon" typo.

[@scotttait2197]

Have been using team red from 2000 , never had an issue many of my older cards still function to this day , I have recently bought a 7900xtx for my 7800X3d pc ...very impressed 👍

[@FatNorthernBigot]

I have the same card. Only the 4090 beats it, and that's fine by me. 👍

[@foxcannon]

AMD went from an underdog company that was attempting to stay competitive in a market with the giants that were and still are Intel and Nvidia and many times FAILING, to being established today as the bringer of better valued products than either of the other two companies. What a god damn beautiful story.

[@nightspark6187]

I think it would have been nice to see a side by side comparison with what Nvidia was offering for each year.

[@cerisem7727]

@NikTek You should make a timeline on AMD and Intel processors, it would be interesting to see how far both companies have come.

[@LegacyIvyTerascale]

6:25 probably the most beautiful grafix card i ever seen

[@gamelover3833]

Nope 7:27 is the Most Beautiful Card from AMD also VEGA and RX 7900 XTX !

[@ADeeSHUPA]

@@gamelover3833 笑 笑 笑

[@irvingescobar737]

The Radeon VII and RX 6000 reference cards totally up there

[@jeremygeorgia4943]

I loved ATi. My first card was a Rage II based All in Wonder card. It allowed me to take video from a VHS-C camcorder, and save it on my computer. As a bonus, it allowed me to watch TV on my computer. It was just a gimmick, at first, but I ended up getting used to having a little inset TV on my computer, as I did other tasks. It may not have been the fastest card, but it did the job that I wanted it to. I eventually became pleasantly surprised, as the All in Wonder series actually started getting competitive, as far as graphics/gaming performance. The last Radeon I had was an All in Wonder X1900. It was a phenomenally useful card. By then, my computer was fast enough to function as a VCR, with adequate capture performance. It ran hot, but it could tackle about any game, at the time. It ran warm, though. It wasn't as hot as a 3DFX 3000, but it could heat up a room, eventually. I always loved the tech demos. The first one I saw was the one for the Rage 128. I think the one that impressed me the most, at the time, was the Toystore one. Finally, I enjoyed the Ruby series & always looked forward to new chapters. I miss the artwork that used to be on the fan cowls.

[@HappyHands.]

i had a ATI All in Wonder back in 1997 i was blown away by the graphics and being able to watch TV and listen to the radio on my computer. the ATI ArK graphics demo was awesome

[@C-M-E]

Man, weird how many memories are tied to the GPU you were using at the time as I oft went back and forth across the fence of red vs green depending on my budget. I still fondly remember when 3dfx and openGL were battling out the GPU wars.

[@Joseph-lr7wc]

moving into the processors pls: Evolution of Intel's (Pentium--> Celeron-->Xeon-->Core) and AMD's (K6-->Sempron-->Athlon-->Phenom-->FX-->Ryzen)

[@SirinGaming]

AMD was K6>Athlon/Sempron>Athlon64>Phenom>FX>Ryzen

[@viltiarnusa]

K6>Athlon/Sempron>Athlon64>Phenom>FX>A-Series>Ryzen>EPYC

[@SirinGaming]

@@viltiarnusa totally forgot A-series was a thing even though i had like 4 systems running those lol

[@viltiarnusa]

@@SirinGaming I have 3 pc 2 of them using A series, A10 9700 and A6-7400K

[@BoGy1980]

I totally forgot about RUBY... i still have a big ruby figurine from AMD... I had a repair business in those days and the distributor gave me a nice high quality ruby figurine (and a quite big one) as a present, if i'm not mistaken it was very limited (1000 were made for the whole world) and they told me our country only got 10 of those, so quite a nice present. It's collecting dust on top of it's clear plastic box, but the figurine is still in pristine state. I'll never sell it unless it ever becomes so rare that it would be worth thousands :) (and even then i'd only sell it if i really really need the money....)

[@drbijumartin9290]

Love this new series

[@erictsai1165]

What a trip down the memory lane. This vid brought back the memory of forgotten Radeon cards I had. My first was X1800 on my very first build. Then second build has 2 HD 3870s Crossfire with Core 2 Duo E8400, cuz that time SLI motherboards + Nvidia cards have premium price tags.

[@Henry14arsenal2007]

Man do i miss the pre-2007 cards and the edgy Matrix-inspired tech demos that came with them. Truly an end of an era where everything changed.

[@ultramanJR]

Used to be an Nvidia fanboy until 2016. RX480 was my first AMD card I have, and it was a reference card to boot. That card dutifully carried me from 2016 until early this year when I replaced it with a RX6600XT. One hell of a card if I had to say.

[@HamaqesTV]

Same for me. The only difference is that I bought the RX 580 8GB from someone for only $120 before crypto blew up again. I still have it on a spare PC and managed to not get tempted to sell it during GPU shortage for $400:)) Great graphics card indeed and I can still play every AAA game on at least 50 fps in FHD

[@Rmx2011]

Nice vid, cool to see how rapidly the transistor count grew over the years. 7900 is going to have a lot lot.

[@hamslice839]

Awesome video, I just wish AMD would put more research and development behind their drivers and software. It's their only weakness at this point. I have owned numerous AMD cards including their flagship 6900xt and it just has issues that my 3090 doesn't have, primarily when using more than 1 monitor it just seems to freak out and randomly black/green screen where a restart or disconnecting the monitor and reconnecting seems to be the only fix. Seems to happen when using full screen or exclusive full screen in a game while playing a video on my second or third monitor. It's annoying but seems to related to their driver/software since the card passes all heavy stress tests with flying colors and is never an issue if I only run 1 monitor.

[@johnsalamii]

i had an amd gpu aswell and i remember having to go with the 2019 drivers other than the newer ones because my pc would literally blue screen while gaming

[@Reedg333]

I got a deal on a reference 6950xt and I came from a founders RTX 2080. I have noticed a couple of minor bugs (like sometimes the GPU stays on when I shut down my PC while everything else turns off) but other than that it’s been great. And I can’t help but ask why no one talks about the AMD software side of things? I’m admittedly new to AMD, but adrenaline is amazing! Everything is in one place. I can overclock, undervolt, check game stats, tune games on the fly, cap my frame rate, sharpen, monitor, everything all in 1. With nvidia I needed MSI afterburner, Rivatuner, GeForce experience, Nvidia Free Style, Nvidia control panel, Nvidia Inspector, etc. all different programs. All to do the same things. Digging the AMD software

[@Rov-Nihil]

*cries in five monitor eyefinity*

[@Vihara2]

Same, certain games are always buggy, but amd optimised games seem to run like a dream

[@bobbymoss6160]

The current AMD Adrenalin drivers have no issues working with the Radeon 6K GPUs. Sounds like an user error.

[@nanmwahrki1263]

2:22 The Animusic in the background was such a throwback! I remember my dad bringing that home on DVD and I watched all of the animations too many times lol

[@muskelin]

I like future retro, pipe dream and resonant chamber

[@peterilling1627]

Great video. Been using 3dfx, ATI and AMD since the first days. Never used Nvidia and never will. My internet Cafe here in Turkey was running the only. Place you had AMD CROSSFIRE running ATI radeon 3860s and AMD Phenom Quad cores 2.4 ghz. They were the days and still running Radeons and AMD Opterons 8 cores for my Unreal Tournament Server.

[@adamnaja606]

He really just went “we dont talk about Radeon VII”

[@andersjjensen]

He also skipped the RX 500 series, since it was just a clock bump. While Radeon VII got double the VRAM it was just a clock bump refresh of Vega.

[@alpacamix]

i would say thank you amd, since they came hard in the market with ryzen i bought 3900x and pair it up with 6700xt now. And i bought them at realistic msrp .

[@nhatphatly3587]

Video so good that the viewers did not notice that radeon misspelled at all

[@telegraam-me-1godzu002]

Contact me for your reward 🎊

[@IsraelSocial]

My first card was the 9600 pro! Was a beast of a card! My last one is the 6800xt another great card

[@emuguru]

My first ATI card was in 1997, Christmas, a All In Wonder PCI card that blew my mind with its video playback capabilities

[@JediJohnn]

Ati Rage Pro chip.

[@NightMotorcyclist]

The first GPU upgrade I've ever done was on the family HP Pavilion Desktop PC which came with a Pentium III 800MHz and an nVidia TNT2. Christmas of 2000 I received the ATi Radeon 32MB DDR which upped the gaming potential quite a bit. The next ATi GPU I would get would be for my second PC build in 2003 where I would use my own hard earned money to purchase the Radeon 9700 Pro to go with my AMD Athlon XP 2500+ system and it lasted me for a few years until I would be tempted with the GeForce 6600GT.

[@alexisonfire223]

Ahh...the days with my Radon HD 4670 and CoD United Offensive and CoD 4 it was a mid range beast of card

[@solocamo3654]

290X was and still is the best AMD gpu made. That card and the 7970 are both what coined the AMD finewine.

[@acid3129]

Still have a 290x in my second system it can still game

[@Anihilationx360]

Still rocking a MSI R9 390 still plays 4k at 30-35fps an 100-120 on 1080p depending on settings, tho I will be upgrading to ether 4080 if it comes out this year if not going 7800xt

[@1337Ox]

Agreed, the HD7000 series are the best cards ever made. Not expensive, great performance, power consumption...

[@kadddddshad1424]

I was gonna say, the reason the Fury X didnt need 6gb is because it used HBM(2) memory. Which was significantly faster and MUCH higher bandwidth than the GDDR5 that was in other cards at the time, and thus it was (and still is) one of the best GPUs for gaming and Mining, Data processing, and professional workloads.

[@Paulie8K]

Nice. Loved this and the Nvidia one. I jumped from the 5700XT last gen to the 3080 this gen so I love both companies. I just really hope they get a handle on power draw as no one wants 400W cards with how expensive electricity is these days.

[@moondoggie8686]

This was the video that everyone requested when AdoredTV did the Nvidia history. Thank you kind sir

[@dharkbizkit]

back in the days around 2005-2012 i bought amd, formerly ati, because they were much cheaper then nvidia cards. nowadays, thats a thing of the past. today. amd cards are price wise on the same level as nividas card, because they compete with the same performance and they increased the power intake as much as nivida did. so the thing that was great for me, with amd, is gone, so i might as well get an nvidia card

[@MrTmax74]

Nice video, thanks for the throwback. Way back then I upgraded my computer for half life two with the 800 GT. The specific one I had allowed me to turn it into an XT simply by flashing the bios with an XT bios. I still couldn’t play half life two perfectly smooth all turned up, but I was glad to have the card. It was about half the price of the XT at the time.

[@rattlehead999]

The r9 290 was an en excellent GPU for 300$ just a couple of months after launch and it competed with the much more expensive gtx 780 and in the end of the life of the r9 200 series, the r9 290x almost reached titan level performance for less than half the price.

[@BLSoldier00]

Sadly, the pricing for Radeon video cards shortly after launch got out of hand due to them being (at the time) better for cryptocurrency mining than the GeForce video cards.

[@bujfvjg7222]

My 290x is os still going strong with 3rd party driver's....Just finished Halo Infinite campaign on it!

[@amenadiel4060]

bruh! my HD 5570 feels proud to be still running since 12 years. thanks for real content

[@theloafy]

The video we all have been waited for :)

[@NikTek]

I hope you enjoyed it!

[@liboud22]

You completely missed out the iconic ATI 3D Rage series, launched in the mid 90s. It traded blows with nVidia Riva and Riva TNT..

[@Alirezarz62]

I got my very first AMD GPU a week ago it's a xfx rx 6900xt merc black for only $580! Man do I love the performance on this beast. The jump from GTX 1080 to 6900xt is massive so happy I got this amazing deal

[@rhekman]

14:26 Polaris and Vega GPUs were produced on GlobalFoundries' 14nm process nodes, not TSMC as stated in the video. AMD did switch back to TSMC starting with the Radeon VII in 2019, a refreshed Vega chip with double the VRAM at 16GB and over a terabit per second of bandwidth.

[@Cat71234]

There should be a video about the evolution of NVIDIA and AMD in the same video

[@Cat71234]

How do I claim it? But thanks I would really like the upgrade.

[@NipahAllDay]

@@Cat71234 bruh this is a scam 😭😭😭😭

[@Cat71234]

I know

[@SashimiSteak]

Cool content. I remember upgrading from Geforce 2 to Radeon HD4870 was phenomenal.

[@wile123456]

17:24 come on, you say it gives 2x performance per watt increase, then litterally show a slide that says >50% performance per watt. You know math, 100% is double, not 50%. The performance according to leaks will be double over the 6900XT, but they are increasing core counts and power consumption

[@akosv96]

Thats a video from rdna 2 release least year I think. There is no official release presentation yet

[@NikTek]

a small mistake I’ve made on my part comparing it Im sorry for that. Glad you pointed it out

[@wile123456]

@@NikTek no worries, you can pin a comment at the top with corrections. I've seen other youtubers do thst

[@denanhajrovic4183]

Actually 100 percent perf/watt would lead to 3.5 x performance uptick over the 6950xt.. that would be cool but impossible

[@diKxng1080xx]

You left out the Radeon VII

[@PaleHorse73]

Woulda been neat to see the older ATI cards from the 90s too. One of my first awesome cards was the ATI Rage Pro 8mb.

[@j_162]

Can't unsee RadeOOn

[@lotsofpotats]

I now want to call it this from now on

[@BUDA20]

I had a lot of ATI and NVidia cards over the years, the ones I remember the most are the Geforce 2 MX 128MB, Geforce 7900 GT 256MB. the HD4080 512MB, the HD5080 1GB, the GTX 970 4GB and my current GTX 1080 Ti 11GB

[@faradiaulia5560]

Yes, Geforce2mx saved my day before i have enough cash to buy rather expensive one

[@Xenoray1]

2011: first own pc in my prebuild was a hd 5000 series 500mb oem version + intel Pentium. 2014: my own build pc had a r9 280 3gb technically hd 7950 together with fx 6350 2015-2020: next step was a upgrade to r9 390 8gb and later a ryzen 1600 2019-2020: ryzen 3600 upgrade, was looking for a used 5700xt but was waiting for next gen reveal.. big mistake, price exploded. 2021-2022: finally settling now on RX 6800 16gb and ryzen 5800x!

[@durschfalltv7505]

I still rock a Ryzen 1600. I will buy a Laptop now with a ryzen 5800H and a rx 6600m probably. Because "fuck you nvidia".

[@Odinsday]

That RX 6800 is gonna last you a good while, especially with that high VRAM.

[@7766aaa33]

Have the same configuration, feels great 👍🏻

[@ShawnFX]

This guy's voice is damn buttery smooth and relaxing AF

[@FireFalcon]

The Radeoon 2900xt was my favorite *edit* Nvm theyre all radeoon

[@soniablanche5672]

still rocking the 5700xt after 4 years

[@vitoraugusto1085]

Great content...it will serve a lot for the story! What we are seeing now on the market is the extinction of traditional video cards by AMD APUs! The same thing happened with the sound card industry a few years ago...AMD is doing a magnificent job!

[@StormyMainShorts]

no? apu's will never compete with gpus anywhere above the low-end what would actually be more likely is cpu's and gpu's becoming one but in a GPU form factor

[@howardwilson3466]

I miss the anime looking cards with the bright coulors on the fan shrouds.

[@TeranToola]

The GPU stuff is incorrect, they made RAGE before Radeon, and had plenty of older demos too!

[@JediJohnn]

It's called "Radeon" Evolution, not Ati Evolution. So the first Radeon were the 7000 series. If not, his other video about the evolution of Geforce should have also mentioned RIVA 128/TNT.

[@ZerefLorkhan]

The rx 480 8gb aged like fine wine no joke

[@Setari_void]

This guy missed so many GPUs 😢😢😢

[@dahc1996]

Hey man I would actually like to see more videous like this one. Very informative and easy to watch. Keep it up man good content.

[@yancgc5098]

14:15 The RX 480 was a mid range GPU, not entry level.

[@Itssmahdii]

Entry level , it competed with the gtx 1060

[@yancgc5098]

@@Itssmahdii The GTX 1060 was mid range as well, not entry level.

[@desertfox9004]

@@Itssmahdii the gtx 1050 ti is one of the entry level gpus while rx 400 series is a mid range card

[@GraveUypo]

@@Itssmahdii what was an rx450 then? and the gtx 1030

[@CharlesVanNoland]

What about the older 3D graphics cards ATI made, like the 3D Rage/Pro, the Rage 128/Pro/MAXX? These were huge in the late 90s and many people played Quake/Quake2/Unreal/Half-Life/UnrealTournament/Quake3 and other popular games on them. Nvidia's offerings at the time were the RIVA 128, TNT, TNT2, etc. and if you didn't have one of those ATI cards then you had one of those Nvidia ones instead to play those games on. This was the time between software rendered graphics and programmable graphics hardware. The Radeon 7200 wasn't programmable graphics hardware, just like the GeForce 2 wasn't programmable graphics hardware. Everything was fixed-function. You just had "modes" you could render geometry with, but you couldn't actually program the graphics hardware with arbitrary instructions. An important distinction that seems to be lost on people these days is how we had "graphics accelerators" which ultimately evolved into programmable "graphics processing units". History has been retconned to just call these older graphics accelerators GPUs now, by people who either weren't there, or who forgot and now just lump all the graphics hardware together as "GPUs". There was almost a decade of graphics hardware that offloaded rendering work from the CPU (specifically rasterization) without being programmable Graphics Processing Units with vertex/pixel shaders that programmers could control. That didn't come around until the early 2000's with cards like the GeForce 3, which was a huge deal when it came out - and Doom3 was the first game to really leverage that capability with its mind-blowing normal mapping graphics. Someone really needs to do a video on how graphics hardware really evolved, starting in the early 90s with Silicon Graphics' IRISGL, and how that was adopted as the basis for OpenGL. Fixed function rendering pipelines, the CPU still doing all of the work, but the graphics hardware doing the rasterization, etc... Doom3 and the GeForce 3 and the dawn of the "programmable graphics hardware" and the "GPU". Yeah, there's a whole history that has apparently become a huge gaping memory loss for tech culture. Pretty soon people are going to start thinking everyone had the internet after coming home from WW2, and movies in the 70s had CGI like today's Marvel films.

[@ognjenjakovljevic494]

I miss the old times when 400$ gpu was monster

[@syed2694]

$400 then is $900+ now bro... that's how inflation works.

[@ognjenjakovljevic494]

@@syed2694 then why my salary didint inflate from 500$ to 1k$

[@syed2694]

@@ognjenjakovljevic494 that's a you problem lol

[@NikTek]

yeah now we have them going for 1400$

[@bilge677]

@@syed2694 400$ in 2004 is 640$ today. www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm

[@peluchefps]

Ok, you nailed it in every aspect, even the memes were in place, this video is AMAZING!

[@Sree05]

If amd driver come as stable as Nvidia it will 1000% beat Nvidia out of existence.

[@knownnuisance7512]

Already is stable

[@Sree05]

@@knownnuisance7512 not as Nvidia. I have my own experience.

[@Sam-cq9bj]

@@knownnuisance7512 your head.

[@knownnuisance7512]

@@Sree05 probably from 7 years ago

[@Sree05]

@@knownnuisance7512 sadly nope. Go through forum even amd said there are several known issue with their driver in their official website. I'm talking about their driver issue with current gen cards don't know about prev gen. They are good but here and there few glitch caused by driver still persist. In Nvidia case I tried every new and latest driver with gtx 1650 no crashes no other stability issue but in rx 6700xt tried 4 drivers all have stability issue and now I'm using a driver which doesn't have major issue as other version but still I can see how it performs on dx11 games( not all games but some) not stable in 0.1% and 1% but really nice fps btw. I'm talking if they get strong driver stability as Nvidia do for their latest version I have 0 problem with AMD. Also it's codec seems useless in video editing because most software uses h.264 not .265 and amd is good in h.265 codec I guess.

[@TheBardOfTheRedHand]

I used to watch that Animusic Demo on my 9600 all the time! It blew my mind!

[@wile123456]

Good video but you got a few details wrong. A lot of AMD GPU's were made on GlobalFoundries, not TSMC. RX 480 and Vega was made on global foundries 14 nm, 580 was made on global foundries 12 nm. A lot of gpus before then was made on global foundries too. They went to TSMC on 7nm with the RDNA GPU's TSMC doesn't have a 14 nm process, they only have 16 nm (what GTX 10 series used) and 12 nm (what 20 series used.)

[@SimonBauer7]

who makes the amd apus with vega graphics then? tsmc or global foundaries?

[@wile123456]

@@SimonBauer7 ryzen 1000 and ryzen 2000 APU's and CPU's was on global foundries. 3000 cpu's and later was TSMC 7nm. (the 3400G was still global foundries, so for APU's it was the ryzen 4000 APU's and later that was TSMC

[@ejkk9513]

Pretty spot on about the price of the 7000 series. It's sad that we're praising AMD for selling their cards at $1000... but here we are.

[@yusuffirdaus3900]

Radeon 7 anyone?

[@Beast80K]

We appreciate your content and efforts. You did so much research for this video. Wonderfully narrated! Thanks for your memes, they made us laugh !!

[@JeremyMallek]

seeing the demo for the 9700 is so nostalgic for me i used to watch it all the time as a kid

[@QuisquamHam]

Everyone gets a prize!!!! ThankQ NikTek

[@heclanet]

I started with ATI with the Radeon Fury Max, a dual-GPU experiment, then an 850Xt, then a 1950 pro, 6870, R9 280X, then R9 290X, RX570 and currently RX 6700XT In the middle some Nvidia cards

[@trapadvisor]

I love history of tech videos but I feel they’re always either too large in scope and don’t cover the things I’m actually interested in or it’s too narrow in scope and they only talk about a very short period of time. But this is perfect. I’m like the Goldilocks of tech content.

[@towsonfox6964]

Never expected this.

[@can_with_beans]

As a proud 5700XT owner, Radeon cards truly do age like fine wine. The 5700XT now is incredible thanks to the driver updates, as compared to launch, or even when I got it in 2020 over a year after launch.

[@SupremeLordEnki]

I wish AMD had kept making the logos on their default cards with the red hair girl instead of just being red or keeping evolving the CGI movies with the release of each graphic card and if they had continued, the series of the robotic eye and red hair girl would have been what is today the cyberpunk

[@ВіталійПилипенко-р2з]

R9 290x is absolutely insane card. I had this masterpiece from 2014 to 2021 and i could play any game in 1080p with medium-high preset even Cyberpunk 2077. Even though its age this card is still alive with FSR for lots of the modern games especialy for online ones. It's like 2003 year card would be in 2013, but in 2013 even 3-5 years old cards were obsolate, but now R9 290x is still not the worst one...))

[@MotoMatt]

My first card was a 9700 Pro that demo brought back memories!

[@talon1706]

I had (still have in a box) a pair of Sapphire HD 4870's in crossfire. Then a pair of XFX HD 5870's in crossfire. Great cards and great times. Nvidia ever since. RTX 3090 currently.

[@themyth3686]

5 years ago, everyone made fun of amd graphics cards. I'm guessing most people who mocked it then, own it's gpu's now

[@andyhander4481]

Probably not judging by the upsetty nvidia fondlers in these comments. They’ll just keep kicking and screaming with their 8GB v ram for $700+

[@compthing5656]

Well this is a pleasant surprise, u did a good job mate

[@theroyalaustralian]

15:50 Fun fact: Some of the AMD RX 5700 XT's actually had 8gb of HBM2 memory. I should know, my first 5700 XT was a reference design from MSI using that memory type.

[@45eno]

9700pro was a beast at the time. Big jump in performance.

[@opgroundzero2.0]

nice video. Didn't expect a serious video on this channel lol.

[@ElmoTerminator]

Remember when next gen gpu’s actually made a performance increase of more than 7%?

[@BoGy1980]

The 9700pro (R300) was the best AGP gfx card ATI ever made, it was the king of the hill for a long time and was the first time i had a 3D-card not being replaced the next year as it enabled me to play all games at max resolution, max settings all at a very decent framerate for a very long time. It was also a good overclocker, and above all, the tier 2 card (the radeon 9500 non-pro) that came in at just a little above half the price of the 9700pro was actually the exact same card with a few pipelines disabled. About 2/3 of these 9500non-pro cards were actually not faulty R300 chips at all, they were just tuned down to have a mid-range card available and you could just flash a 9700pro firmware onto those cards, test for artifacts in 3dmark and if everything was smooth you just earned yourself a nice pocket of money. It was the moment when i rang up all my gaming buddies to ask them if they wanted a premium card at the price of a midrange with 66% change of ending up with the best of the best. A good dozen of my friends took the deal and we were so lucky that only 2 out of the 12 cards gave artifacts. I also checked each and every 9500np how far it would clock, and i kept the best one for myself ofcourse (most of my friends were not into overclocking, so they didn't care). In the end my 9500np was able to produce even better results than the 9700pro i Initially bought. I kept both cards ofc, and the 9700 went into my second gaming machine (i had 2 machines for gaming back then, so i could always play RTS games with/against a visiting friend via LAN). Yeah, the R300 is in my eyes the best AGP-card ever made, a big leap forward from the 8500 and way better money-per-fps (bang for buck) than what nvidia was offering. I still have that 9500np in a drawer as it was one of the most significant cards i have had, it's just next to the 2 Voodoo²-cards i kept...

[@JediJohnn]

The Radeon 9200/9250 is even better. It can be converted into an Arcade graphics card for an arcade JAMMA System. These are valuable cards for working with 15 kHz CRT arcade monitors. It's the best card for that purpose.

[@terminator9099]

Thank you for the AMD/ATI version !!!

[@youju26]

Love this types of Videos. Maybe with CPUs next?

[@alimodz6253]

The voice over is so good, I could watch any top 10 but definitly loving this subject.. maybe you can do consoles now

[@Schmarth]

Still rocking my RX480 and couldn't be happier.

[@jaimeback1]

Great video I enjoyed the Nvida one as well great job.

[@aurias01]

First GPU in April 2000 and in the GameCube the following year? Helluva start. Radeoon, no one saw that typo