Every GPU That Mattered

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

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.

Or the S3 Savage3D, which, while being inferior to the TNT2, pioneered texture compression.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S3_Texture_Compression

S3 Texture Compression - Wikipedia

+1 to that, when i first saw unreal tournament with the add-on compressed texture pack was a real WOW moment.