jonbaer23h ago

Every GPU That Mattered

https://sheets.works/data-viz/every-gpu

Every GPU That Mattered

49 graphics cards. 30 years. From Quake to Cyberpunk.

Show threadmrweasel21h ago

It's probably just me being out of touch, but I don't think the GeForce RTX 4000 or 5000 series really mattered/matters that much.

At the same time I'd add the S3 ViRGE and the Matrox G200. Both mattered a lot at the time, but not long term.

Show threadformerly_proven
The G200 mattered to some degree for a long time, because most x86 servers up until a few years ago would ship a G200 implementation or at least something pretending to be a G200 card as part of their BMC for network KVM.
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Show threadmrweasel21h ago
Like virtualized NICs pretending to be an NE2000? That's interesting, do you know why they'd use a G200 and not something like an older ATI chip?
Show threadformerly_proven20h ago
Probably started out as a real G200 chip which might’ve been the cheapest and easiest to integrate in the 2000s? Or it had the needed I/O features to support KVM (since this would’ve involved reading the framebuffer from the BMC side), or matrox was amenable to adding that.