What is your most fondly remembered GPU that you have previously owned?

[DanCake]

Probably the GeForce4 Ti 4200, it brought a new lease on life to an aging prebuilt PC. Although a relatively low-end card, it was a massive upgrade compared to the cheap GPU the PC came with.

[retsil]

Can't beat the 3DFX Voodoo 2! Or is that showing my age?

[Ron_Swanson]

My first card was an ATI X300 and since then I have gradually upgraded from a 17" screen up to 27" 1440 G sync and have upgraded graphics cards far to often to list or even remember them all!

Then I got my GTX 1080 Ti and its going strong over three and a half years later so I'd probably say its my favourite up to now, but I still remember getting my Ati X800 XT Platinum as they were 3080 rare back then and it was quite a buzz and Far Cry looked awesome.

[neepheid]

Probably have to go with my first GPU setup of note: a Matrox Millennium G200 for the quality 2D stuff and a Diamond Monster 3D II (Voodoo 2) for the 3D stuff. Quake/Quake II FTW

However, also a soft spot can be awarded to my first all-in-one GPU - ATi Radeon DDR VIVO 64MB.

And in these current times of unobtainium, a soft spot will be reserved in the future for my current card, a GTX 1660 Ti - the stopgap card that turned out to be a shrewd acquisition - it continues to do a great job at 1080p.

[trevcjohnson]

Possibly my tseng et4000 that replaced my trident 1mb, it's going back a bit. But seriously I had a gtx770 for years and only recently sold it when I picked up an rx580 for 75 quid at the beginning of last year before all graphics cards became unavailable. The gtx770 was still quite usable.

[iiTsMus]

I remember when I first built my PC. I blew all my budget on the everything except the GPU because I knew i would be upgradjng that later so I used my old GT210. A few months later I got an RX 470 and immediately plugged my PC into my TV to test it out because I had to wait for a DVI cable to use it with my monitor. I booted up black ops 2 because it was the only real game I had and I was just blown away. Very fond memory

[beebub]

My beast of a card - the MSI 290X Lightning. Amazing card and lasted me through 6 years without fail in my main computer. Solid card. And still ok for 1080p gaming today as a venerable 8 year old.

[PsyPill]

Voodoo 3 2000 AGP....sweet memories.

[rand0m]

My very first GPU a 7900GTX!

[Sam 359]

Little 1060 6gb mobile chip in my old Alienware laptop, that thing kept up with the best of them, a little unconventional... But that was my first proper foray into PC gaming and I will always remember that experience fondly.

[Alloys]

My GTX 970, saved up all my pennies til release day, I was a NEET at the time so had to save extra hard! Sold some of my belongings as well. On release day bought the Gigabyte Windforce OC 3 and still have it today.

[Xereo]

1080ti, was a major jump when i upgraded on it's launch day, and still to this day is a beast. It will be replaced with a 3080 FE when i can get my hands on one and i will frame the 1080ti on my wall

[Hazzbeano]

I completely second the 1080Ti, was fortunate enough to catch a 3090 FE recently in a Scan drop! 1080Ti is still an absolute powerhouse and has done me a solid over the last (nearly) 4 years

[zugged2]

Orchid Kelvin 64
Based on CL5434 with 2MB of RAM rather than 1, which meant it could do 1024x768 in 65k colours. A big step up from my previous CL5424.

[efbo]

A more recent one than most here (and I've only had one other since) but my RX480. Was absolutely great and enabled me to play in VR. Looked good too as it was the Sapphire Nitro model.

[Core2Extreme]

Probably my 8600M GT. Yeah, it's a mobile one, but it's the first semi-powerful 3D GPU I'd owned, and at the time I bought it was the 3rd or 4th most powerful mobile GPU on the market (the 8800 mobile parts weren't out yet, so the 8700 and 7950 GTX were the only ones outright more powerful). It let me play games in what seemed like photorealistic graphics mode, at the high resolution of 1280x800. I still remember playing Battlefield Vietnam with max graphics the first night I had it and being amazed by the jump from my previous GeForce 4 MX 440. For years I was happy with the graphics from that GPU. The jump was much more noticeable than any of my upgrades since then, despite them occurring at similar, roughly 4-year frequencies.

I'll second neepheid on the Matrox Millenium G200's excellent 2D graphics; it was my other candidate for most fondly remembered. I'm amazed that for a 1998 GPU, I can connect it to a 1200p monitor 23 years later, via VGA, and it's nice and crisp. I wish I'd favored Matrox again in the early-mid Pentium 4 era rather than falling for nVIDIA's MX marketing... while technically more powerful, the MX 4 felt obsolete much sooner than the G200, and spec-wise it would have been a better decision to buy a Parhelia.