The last single-slot flagship graphics card

[@gearfriedtheswmas]

Pixel Pipes in 2027: Nvidia was fighting to beat AMD in mining operations...

[@Kabodanki]

AMD said they wouldn't stop miner

[@indask8]

The last affordable graphic card

[@loganiushere]

God please don't let the graphics market become completely dominated by miners. It should be a different kind of minor

[@solarstrike33]

...only for the market to suddenly give way the following year!

[@fb39ca4]

Gamers < Miners < AI

[@SirSilicon]

I was so happy with my 7900GTO back in the days. 250€ for a High-End Graphics card. I miss these times.

[@cellsplicer2008]

The mining boom is the only reason why we are paying so much more now.

[@helljester8097]

@@cellsplicer2008 the mining boom explains why we can’t get cards anywhere near msrp. Merten B is talking about how msrp prices have been rising faster than inflation for 2 decades even before crypto existed!

[@SirSilicon]

@@helljester8097 to be fair the complexity of the cards has gone up too. Cooling solutions and board quality are much better now. I just miss the times where your High-End Rig was 1000€ or less

[@Tc4ify]

I paid just 150€ for a 7950gt! It was already after the 8800 series came out, but still...

[@alarak2159]

@@SirSilicon I think the times are like for like - yes the technology has advanced but so has the understanding and tools to manufacture. These old cards are still going strong after many years. There was still a lot to understanding 3D back then & it's direction, not to mention at this point the direction for dedicated shader tech was just on the horizon & the GPU manufacturers having to actively develop to catch-up with the demands of the software. For the most part that isn't the case today - quite the opposite when you are talking about gaming actually.

[@JamesSmith-sw3nk]

I had 8800gt's single slot cards in SLI. I liked the look of them.

[@t8z5h3]

I had that setup and I replaced it with 9800 gt sli setup.

[@hutlazzz]

those card were beast, so much low price and nice performence

[@paulkaygmailcom]

@@t8z5h3 cross flashed my 8800 GT's to 9800 GT's

[@teleman07]

Same. Also my first nvidia setup. 8800gt was the first true worthwhile card both in tech and price from nvidia. They died again with gcn from amd not until the 10xx series they just sucked.

[@MichalCanecky]

I had exactly the same, but SLI was such a disappointment. Later I upgraded to GTX 670 SLI, which also sucked in SLI, now I have RTX 3060 no more SLI, but super happy with GSync monitor.

[@jwoody8815]

Softmodded my GT to an overclocked GTX, One of the best performance to dollar cards I ever owned. That era was the "golden Age" of PC games in my Opinion.

[@Friedeggonheadchan]

A couple corrections… 3:45 While the explanation that the driver for a particular GPU compiles the shader binaries and optimizes them for the specific architecture is correct, this is _not_ what *JIT* is. JIT means compiling the program code in chunks just ahead of the execution. It's highly impractical to do this and not possible for GPU shaders on any platform; the whole shader binary is compiled ahead of time at once and submitted to the GPU for execution, same as in most other compiled code. 4:20 A correct example of this would be the Pascal architecture, where each execution unit could either execute a floating point _or_ an integer operation each cycle. This was augmented in the Turing architecture, where the *FP* and *INT* pipelines are _parallel,_ i.e. the core can leverage some instruction level parallelism (ILP) by being able to execute those operations simultaneously. In Ampere the pipelines was further improved, being able to execute either 2 floating point operations, or floating point _and_ an integer operation per cycle (that's what the *FP32+INT32* and *FP32* blocks in the diagram mean). I understand wanting to draw historical parallels with contemporary designs, but this example here is sadly not correct. A nice video nevertheless, keep up the good work =)

[@PixelPipes]

Thank you for the correction on the JIT terminology. I believe I read it in an AnandTech article but couldn't find the excerpt to go with that part of the video, so it was based on memory. EDIT: Actually I found an example of this usage of the JIT term in the context of shader code: developer.amd.com/wordpress/media/2013/06/2902_2_final.pdf Regarding Ampere, I believe what I said lines up with your explanation here. 2 FP or 1 FP + 1 INT would match up with 12/16 FP or 8 + a texture OP. Maybe I didn't explain this adequately in the video.

[@wasitacatisaw83]

Brilliant to see you back. Really missed this channel 👍

[@PistigriloXP]

I love PixelPipes! Wonderful video! I already want to watch the next one.

[@ddforrester]

Still have the BFG 7800 GTX in nostalgic collection of retired pixel producers. Great video PPipes!

[@anasevi9456]

The older grass demo was highly ironic given that looking into the grass in demanding games like oblivion was the Achilles heel of the 7800gtx.

[@Mikesnav]

10:58 is my favorite. Great video, thanks for making and sharing

[@SebastianBugiu]

Thanks for the trip down the memory lane!

[@zodgzod]

I still have two in the drawer. They are so much more elegant than the two 880GTXs in the same drawer.

[@AeroFix94]

They also released a dual slot 7800 GTX. The 512MB version that had the cooler the 7900 GTX later used.

[@03chrisv]

I remember when owning the 6800 I was a little jealous of the 7800 class of cards but ultimately realized I didn't need it since I was running the games I cared about at max settings at a resolution of 1024x768. Doom 3, Far Cry, HL2, Fear, etc all ran and looked great.

[@RetroGPUsandBuilds]

Great video, in depth info, great shots.. And history lesson. Love it. Can't wait for the follow up!

[@vana4054]

Had the 7800GTX and Bioshock’s horrendous texture streaming was a nightmare, even on this card. Good old days… miss some of those times and cards .

[@exaltedb]

Always a great time whenever you upload

The Golden era of ATi, from Radeon 9700 to X1950XT

[@JackWse]

Thinking about it now... Man did they screw up... But even still I miss the days when Radeon was trying.. I was quite a fan of how much more stable the Nvidia switch ended up being, and there was a lot of other things that the ATI equivalent didn't do back then as well, But they were on top of the world performance-wise. I kind of wonder what would have happened if they had released the Xbox 360 card equivalent, rather than holding back on the PC end.. also I think back then SLI had a lot to do with a lot, and they were a little slow to the crossfire thing.. But.. they just shouldn't have died this fast. Would be nice if they could.. I don't know.. try again? In their second life they exist in?

[@Baulder13]

Hey Nathan love the content and your shirt!

[@Z0ku]

Great video! You've come a long way production wise over the years! Can't wait for the next video, I love going down "memory lane" with graphics like these videos you make!

[@AshTechCorner]

Good video as always! Just ordered another DELL 7800GTX to SLI. The Dell cards used the double slot cooler. I have the 7800 GTX 512 which is a rare beast. 7 series is fun in general especially with there being the last Nvidia Architecture to be released on AGP

[@mistermudpie]

Welcome to the most underrated channel on KZbin.

[@foch3]

Dude you freakn nailed it. Loved this one.

[@layzie45]

Ahhh yes. A pixel pipes video. Sips coffee. This was my first high end GPU after moving away from an atrocious FX 5700 LE 256MB.

[@justinpatterson5291]

@@layzie45 The LE stood for- Lower your Expactations.

[@50PullUps]

I'm in my late 30's and only got into PC gaming after Maxwell but before Pascal. Only now am I realizing how much I missed in the decades prior.

[@awesomecomputers7076]

Same well except I'm a little over half your age rn lol

[@SteelSkin667]

Oh man, I got into PC gaming when Nvidia's Kelvin architecture was brand new. I had to look it up, they didn't use those architecture names much into marketing back then.

[@bitelaserkhalif]

I got into PC gaming when Pascal was introduced, before that I'm using igpu of g41 chipset and then i3 550. Needless to say it was painful before getting the 1030

[@Adam-rt7lp]

GeForce 1

[@bekhouwe8888]

I'm 30 and started pc gaming in the pentium 3 era. Soldier of fortune, GTA 2, Red alert 1 and 2 etc. My first real "gaming computer" was a pentium 4 with a nvidia 6600gt and 1 gig ram rocking doom 3. Those where good times!

[@newls1]

about time a vid dropped

[@zackwest]

Legit waiting on that cliffhanger ending

[@dr.hatred6713]

Awesome video, i dont get you on my frontpage even though i have notifications enabled

[@MasterChef12109]

the 6800 ultra has a single slot reference design! it's not just asus. the original agp version of the card was single slot

[@richardwilliams877]

This is a really well-produced video! Looking forward to the next one. Thanks for your hard work! I think I had the 7800gt for years. Later got one of those zalman replacement coolers for it (the original cooler on the 7800 gt was puny) and modded it to a 7800gtx with some silver paint :D (kept me going for a lil while longer). Great times!

[@PabloB888]

What's interesting PS3 GPU was based on 7800 GTX. RSX in PS3 had the same amount of shaders but they have reduced ROPs and memory bus (from 256bit to only 128bit).

[@AlfaPro1337]

I just missed single slot GPU. I wish the low to mid-range GPU are back to single slot, assuming their TDP is double digits.

[@MrKillswitch88]

I got a few mobile variants in a few of my retro laptops and overall the performance is pretty good for what they are. The holy grail of this generation though beside the 512mb version of this card is the 7900 GTX Duo that was designed with the G70 however only shipped with the G71 instead.

[@framebuffer.10]

Interesting video as usual, looking forward for the Card Battle ;) Also, I see some nice improvements in b-rolls and effects, keep it up! P.S. The MAXXimum Rage T-Shirt is awesome, already ordered one :-)

[@PixelPipes]

Thank you very much! ❤

[@enilenis]

Still have my 7800 (looks exactly like yours). It ran so hot, I thought it was going to melt down, or at least boil the capacitors, but nope. To this day, the card functions perfectly. Still gets hot enough to burn your hand, if you touch it. Sure, it's single slot, but I would not dare to put anything next to it that would obstruct air flow. I once had a raid controller next to the GPU and it would crash, because it was receiving too much heat from the graphics card. Moved it one slot down, and the problem was gone.

[@Ivan-pr7ku]

Very well researched retrospective on the topic. One minor improvement in the G70 architecture was the batch-size for the pixel shaders. In NV40 the batch size varied depending on the active pixel pipelines, so the top GPU with 16 pipes ended up with a batch-size of 4096 fragments (pixels). G70 fixed the batch-size to 1024 fragments, regardless of the GPU configuration. This contributed to a more efficient shader code processing in cases of dynamic branches (complex shader effects), where the code would diverge and the pipeline stages must be cleared. The smaller the batch-size is, the quicker the branch can be jumped. ATi was still much more efficient with their R500 series GPUs, heavily investing in a complex scheduler that allowed for a batch-size between only 16 or 48 fragments, although game engines at the time were still too simple to fully benefit from this.

[@PixelPipes]

Yeah. I'll be referencing this issue in the next Card Battles video as it's important.

[@candle86]

you did forget something, another tweak and its why the cache was increased it allowed the card to play games above 1600x1200, which 1920x1200 was starting to become a thing by this time, replacing the older widescreen 1440x900 and the older 4x3 1280x1024 and 1600x1200 resolutions, the NV4x series cards didn't have enough onboard cache and above 1600x1200 would crater in preformance because of this, while with the g7x Nvidia increased the cache for this very specific purpose. It's been years since I read the article it was either techspot or techreport but it touched on why the 6800 series in SLI struggled so bad above 1600x1200, wish i could remember the string for it but its worth the read.

[@F2FTech]

Fantastic work. They keep getting better and better. Now I eagerly await the follow-up...

[@Tc4ify]

I had the 7950gt, which had pretty much identical specs in every regard, except that it used a newer, 90nm process node and unlike its bigger brethren, the 7900 GTO and GTX, it was also a single slot card. It lasted me 9 years before it finally started to artifact. Oh and interestingly enough, it was also a Leadtek Winfast model.

[@jkostans]

Cleaning those fan blades was brutal

[@Cooe.]

0:21 What AMD Ryzen CPU do you have in that sexy looking ASRock X570 Steel Legend back there?

[@PixelPipes]

R9 3900X

[@Cooe.]

@@PixelPipes Lol samesies. Want to upgrade to an R9 5950X but they're still utterly unobtainium... -_-

[@reptilez13]

Speaking about Ampere and a task "specifically designed to do so" as in take advantage of the FP32/Int32 arrangement - isnt and example hash rates for mining etherium? And why they are so saught after by miners atm?

[@ianweber9248]

Mining is just a side effect, nVidia is really targeting high performance computing, AI and deep learning applications. Gamers don’t really factor into that. It’s why nVidia are using Samsung to build the consumer chips and TSMC to build the big iron GA100.

[@reptilez13]

@@ianweber9248 Right, I didnt mean they changed it specifically for that reason. Only wondering if that was the reason the new cards are so good for mining compared to the 20x0 series cards is all.

[@bartekpekala77]

How exactly are you keeping these cards behind in a good shape?

[@Carstuff111]

Love this channel! :)

[@retropcscotland4645]

Still got one of these in a presshot 3ghz machine 775.

[@RETROHardware]

So you walking your cards in nature? Good move, maybe reason they are keeping no artifacts 🤓 Good presentation as always.

[@PixelPipes]

I only use cage-free, grass fed graphics cards in my videos 😁

[@JohnSmith-iu8cj]

All the retro legends comment on this video!

[@DanielCardei]

Brilliant delivery!

[@GTXDash]

Decided to check on your channel and was annoyed when I found out that you recently uploaded a video (on my birthday! 03/21) and I didn't know about it then. Well, at least I get to watch it now :)

[@mariobros113]

Ótimo vídeo! Poucos possuem tanta informações igual você

[@bryantallen703]

I still have my CRYSIS rig consisting of 2 512MB "single slot" eVGA 8800GT SSC's in SLi with a 3.6GHz Q6600 GO. In the eVGA 680i SLi mobo. Changing gears, I still couldn't get over the VEGA64 though. 4,096 cores with 8GB of HBM2. Which still isn't nothing to forget about. Navi is out and yes, i also got a Nitro+ RX 6900XT SE for the LG OLED, and at MSRP luckily. But, i still find myself running and testing older hardware, like the VEGA chips or RX 480/580 and 590. I slapped a GTX 1050ti in my 2007-2008 CRYSIS rig and was running games like DOOM 2016 at 1080p60 locked maxed out. I think id and Vulkan has something to do with that. But, not only Vulkan, DX12 titles ran great too. Shifting to mobile SOC's, now my smartphone which is an oppo FIND X2 Pro, that i snagged for $400 has the SD865 SOC. It uses the fully custom Adreno 650 GPU from Qualcomm. Unlike fapple that still uses a IMG Fusion based PowerVR GPU that they call there own. They own the license. I guess that's fair game but they still didn't fully build it from the ground up. There actually using it in the new M1/X SOC and is really a great GPU. Its just to bad that its in a closed system. Rant over, back to the Adreno 650. It has 1,024 ALU's rated at almost 1.4 Tflops of FP32 compute... Its essentially 2 512ALU Adreno 630's from the SD845 glued together. That's pretty crazy. If you would've told me 10 years ago, that my cellphone could push 1440p60/120 PS4+ type graphics using basically a 3GHz 8core CPU and 1,024 ALU GPU on 7nm at that, i would've never believed it. Not to mention 5nm is already out. Now there's the SD888 and Adreno 660 which isn't much more powerful but can pull 26TOPS. Now ARM's Mali-G78 MP24 in the Kirin 9000 (15+Billion transistors) can push 2.4TFlops, making it essentially the most powerful mobile GPU at 9-15watts. IMG's new AX-series PowerVR GPU is even more powerful, supports RT. Of course there's the M1/X from Flap&pull but, things are starting to move faster and faster again. Can't wait to see what happens in the next few years.

[@joselemusjr6451]

Very nice love the 512 hint at the end lol. The true king gtx 7800 is coming. Glad i own 2 so rare. I skipped gtx 7800 back then in favor for gtx 7900s. Could never find 512s till last year.

[@abhitron]

Great video, it's nice to learn about the history of GPUs in an enjoyable and easily digestible manner, you've got yourself a new subscriber. I think the 7800GTX was the chip Sony and Nvidia used as the basis for the PS3's GPU. Would you be looking at console GPUs some time in the future?

[@alarak2159]

The 7800 GTX was an excellent card to a 'new' NVIDIA circa post 6th gen which started them on the correct path. I always recall the eventual 7800 GTX 512 release as being nothing short of colossal. The 7900 GTX wasn't as impressive, however the 7900 GX2 (or rather, 7950 GX2 retail version) was the next flagship, albeit at a cheat. The G80 really cemented NVIDIA's dominance for sometime.. however that didn't stop ATi/ AMD from releasing some hard hitting cards in some area's before the 5700 XT was a semi- return to form.

[@harryshuman9637]

I wish you could dig up who was behind the unofficial Win 98 drivers for Geforce 6 and 7 series. Those things were magic.

[@emileballard4417]

7800gtx last single slot graphic card? i had the 8800GT it also was a single slot graphic card played allot of oblivion on it.

[@JohnSmith-iu8cj]

That team green shirt was well chosen 👍

[@csx296]

Really enjoy your videos, thanks for the good work!

[@ulfspringer8639]

Hi Nathan, love the new video. Very informative. Also like the new outdoor shots of the hardware. But please, can you clean the dust off the fan before making the recordings? Maybe it's only me, however I personally feel like this needs to be part of an all rounded video. Please feel free to disagree.

[@JohnSmith-iu8cj]

Where do you see dust? Am I blind?

[@ulfspringer8639]

@@JohnSmith-iu8cj Must be me then. Just have a look the build up of crusted dust in between the blades of the cooling fan.

[@AetiusPraetorian]

The cards back then were so much fun to hack and over clock. I did that with my PNY 6800GS XLR8 AGP with Riva tuner, unlocked it from 12p/5vs to 16p/6vs just like the 6800GT. Oc'd it and got a 24% increase in performance over the stock 6800GS. Also hacked the bios on an ATI 9500pro to read/run as a 9700 128bit card. Great times back then with the video card's as well as the old CPU's.

[@jonaszprzybycien6545]

"riding high in 2005" does rhyme

[@OpticalHaze]

what about the low level card 7800 GS? huge difference to it's flagship?

[@stevenreplogle8644]

Any recommendations for best retro card for Linux?? What you have laying around, etc..

[@jamzales]

I just got my 2nd XFX 7800 GTX. Waiting on some more thermal pad from Amazon. Also I just got a pair of ATI Radeon 7500's that look totally new and unused. $52 +tax. Should get my GTX 295 by Saturday. My first build was an AMD K6 @350 Mhz with a basic vga card. Mobo had 72 pin DIMMS. Then got an ATI 1 MB PCI vga and suddenly I could game at 800X600. I was in 7th heaven.

[@TheVanillatech]

What a great card, and what a great era of PC gaming. Right in the middle of the hardware pushing software (and vice versa) persiod of exponential improvement, before the industry got all bought out and closed shop. My friend was always buying the best card available maybe once every 2 or 3 years. He made some great choices of the years, if a little Nvidia biased, but I remember when he was playing Doom 3 on his Radeon 9800 Pro which had served him well for a long time. It looked amazing to me, but the game was clearly stuttering, and that simply would not do. So he bought the 7800GTX pretty much the next day, when it was released. We both sat there in awe at how many frames that card could push. I ended up with his 9800 Pro to replace my FX5600 Ultra, so I got to play Doom 3 at a relatively good framerate albeit in lower resolution. That 7800GTX lasted him a long time, I think his next card was a GTX280.

[@NightMotorcyclist]

I can't believe I still have all those cards from the early to mid 2000s as I couldn't bear to throw away my old builds as they were my early days of building my own PCs as a teen. The the 6600 GT was my last AGP card as I had moved on to PCIe on a socket 939 Opteron dual core system. Thus the 7800 GT and then the 7900 GT would be my upgrades at the time.

[@paulwilliams4274]

@pixelpipes could I ask if you would consider enabling captions to your videos? I am hard of hearing and having captions enabled would be spot on! Many thanks!

[@NoNoseProduction]

Just turn on captions yourself

[@PixelPipes]

I apologize for not having them ready immediately, but I finished and published captioning about half an hour after publication, so now you can enjoy captions straight from the script.

[@DarkDao]

Had 7800GT back then, bought it specifically for TES4 Oblivion. Had a ton of problems with memory overheating. But all in all it was a nice card for that time.

[@demasprojects]

Awesome video. You can mention launch price of each card and guess nowadays price inflaction corrected

[@ColdSphinX]

Oh, I still have 4 of those (but only 2 working ones) the last of the DX9 line, fantastic for a XP retro pc.

[@phstwm]

Wished you could benchmarked on later games that comes on 2006 to 2009. But good video anyways 👌

[@crxxpslvyr7887]

omg i love single slot blow trough cards edit:9800gt is also oem single slot cooled

[@fetus2280]

yup... i had to get up and dbl check My card and youre correct . I have an EVGA version .. pretty sure its from a Dell? My best guess anyways . But it doesnt look like the typical OEM version as it isnt "Plain" like they make them now . Has some paining on it .. racing stripes or w/e you want to call them and the card version printed on it too . Cheers.

[@Adys301]

9800GT is not a flagship

[@oweoweowe]

@@Adys301 Thought that was the reasoning behind it aswell, but there was the 7900 GTX and tbh, at least in the 8000 series, there was basically no difference between GT, GTX and Ultra. Still interesting.

[@wishusknight3009]

@@oweoweowe 7800 GT and GTX had different layouts. As the GT disabled one block of 4 shaders and a single vertex unit. However for the 7900's the GT only differed in clock rate . They still had the same shader count. EDIT: I thought the 7900GT also disabled one vertex unit, but not according to a quick lookup from techpowerup. And I also thought ROP's were disabled but were not either.

[@GameTechRefuge]

Another great video. Just sold my EVGA 7800 GTX. Interesting card but went with an MSI NX 6800 AGP in my XP build.

[@jamzales]

I just got an XFX Geforce 7800 GTX and have a second one in route too me.

[@xbxspartan]

Just found two 7800 gtx cards in an old dell xps!!! 😊

[@ZoruaZorroark]

i got a dell variant of that card with a different heatsink, making it a duel slot

[@dave4shmups]

Great video as always! How do you get the Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 to run at 4.5GHz?

[@PixelPipes]

It's running a fairly high voltage with a pretty large Scythe cooler on it, and it's only "bench stable" if that makes sense.

[@Chris-op7yt]

is there any modern card that supports old opengl (id tech 3) in hardware...that runs on win11?

[@sithounetsith9877]

In 10 years , you will have a 1080TI Kingpin edition as a souvenir of 2017 , in 2031!!

[@reptilez13]

May be of note too that reference is not equal to "Founders Edition" lol. Can be the same or similar, but can also be very different like with Ampere

[@joeconti2396]

I had a 7800GT EVGA variant which was very close to reference. That thing helped me stay up for many nights playing CS:S

[@logipilot]

My ASUS V9950 ULTRA (FX5900 ultra) _is_ a single slot card.

[@GrumpyWolfTech]

Someone who knows about the galax 1070ti :O I tried hard to get that card for a very small htpc, but couldn't find it anywhere.

[@JoaoVitor-cw2vg]

I was going the say “gtx 1070 katana” but 1080ti was the flagship back then

[@TheOriginalFaxon]

Man when this gen came out I was pissed about the dual slot cards cause i was using every slot on my board for various things like a sound card, gigabit ethernet card, and other such add ins, and I NEEDED MY SLOTS. By the time I upgraded my build all that shit was moved onto the motherboard, and I was just using a sound card because my card was still way way better than what was onboard (I use an external DAC to this day, it's just USB now). Also, it's alias, like aee-lee-ass-ing, not eliasing. I was legit fucking confused what you were saying and had to double take a few times till I realized lol

[@bestopinion9257]

I have Zotac 8800 GT and HD 4850 single slot.

[@Arevernus]

I had 2 of those in SLI and a few days later the 512mb launched.😒

[@julianhops5217]

Also the last Nvidia chip with AGP support. I was so happy about that because at that time I had no money for a new PC.

[@RacerS2]

a little surprised this wasn't mentioned, the transition to pcie was an exciting time. pcie still going strong for a while to come.

[@hardrivethrutown]

I have one of these laying around

[@homelessEh]

oh pixle pipes i wait for the day you do the " at one point Crossfire Sweet spot Dual Hd4670 1gb config.

[@homelessEh]

or stumble in to "hybrid crossfire"

[@Joel-ew1zm]

Do I spy some Hifiman's in the background?

[@PixelPipes]

Indeed! Edition XX

[@Joel-ew1zm]

@@PixelPipes A beauty to behold. I have a set of 400i's since 2016 or so back when they were still $400+. Used them so much I had to replace the pads when they fell apart

[@PixelPipes]

@@Joel-ew1zm Nice! They really make fantastic headphones. Been a fan of theirs since 2010 when I had the HE-5LE

[@ZAGAN-OZ]

More fun to watch reviews of GPU that nobody uses so people are not financially and emotionally invested to like a certain card.

[@yellowblanka6058]

That's only because we are a good 16 years removed from the heyday of these cards - forums at the time definitely had people fighting fanboy wars over ATI vs. Nvidia.

[@Patrick_AUBRY]

Here's an original Idea, talk about 3Dlabs vidéo cards for PC's of late 90' early 2000. They were the first affordable cards powerfull enough to do OpenGL 3D. The proto Quadros.

[@Weensx]

Still have my 7800 gtx

[@milandjordjevic_mob2014]

What about 8800gt alpha dog edition 1gb 256bit beast, its great gpu for gaming....

[@t8z5h3]

Is 8800gt or 9800 gt a flagship?

[@SUCRA]

Great video as usual! In the 2000s when Nvidia launched the 7000 series it felt like a tik, but seeing the performance numbers it seems like a much bigger tok than what we have been getting for the last 10 years. 👍

[@PixelPipes]

Good point! An improvement like this today would make everyone lose their collective minds.

[@CompatibilityMadness]

​@@PixelPipes NV still does this kind of jumps in performance... for Ray Tracing. Does that count ?

[@dtemple87]

I owned a BFG 7800GT back at this time, with my Athlon 64 3500+

[@rembramlastname3631]

i had a 7900gt with a pentium dualcore e5700

[@ThomasWinders]

Back when SLi (and CrossFire) was the thing!

[@SiincereARC]

@pixelpipes If I had a classic GPU question, would you be able to help me out via youtube or another platform?

[@ClusterShart]

It and the 7900 variants are also the last card to support some old gameworks stuff like bump mapping in Republic Commando