Graphics cards with higher memory bandwidth have better performance at high display resolutions, or when using large and detailed textures, and/or utilizing complex 3D effects and filters, like anti-aliasing.A chipset company by the name of Nvidia would soon offer real competition to the 3dfx in the form of the Nvidia Riva 128, or NV3. I've still got my single-slot, jet-black reference card (pictured above), and will never part with it.Memory bandwidth parameter specifies how much memory (in Gigabytes) the graphics card can read from or write to dedicated memory per second. Forget the monstrous 8800GTX, the simple GT combined stellar performance, great looks, and incredible value.
It also fully-supported Direct3D 7, which would allow it to enjoy a long lifetime powering some of the best classic PC games released at that time.Here's an excerpt from a press release on integrated transform and lighting that Nvidia released that year:"The developers and end-users have spoken, they're tired of poor-quality artificial intelligence, blocky characters, limited environments and other unnatural looking scenes," said David Kirk, chief technologist at Nvidia. It was fast, comparatively affordable, and dressed in a bright red PCB.As you can probably tell, this sort of grandiose name, a near-parallel to the central processing unit (CPU) that had been raking in ungodly wads of cash since the '70s, was welcomed across the industry.That's not to say the GeForce 256 wasn't a worthy namesake, however, integrating acceleration for transform and lighting into the newly-minted GPU, alongside a 120MHz clock speed and 32MB of DDR memory (for the high-end variant). It arrived a couple months after Nvidia launched the Ti 46, and quickly cemented itself as the clear bang-for-buck option over those two pricier models. But it's the Gainward GeForce4 Ti 4200 I bought several years later that stands out as one my best GPU purchases.
Nvidia GTX TitanAlan Dexter: I've always had a fondness for budget graphics cards, and the release that stands out for me is the GeForce 6600GT. Furthermore, with multi-GPU support entirely in the developers' court due to the introduction of DirectX 12, they may never make a return. But once multi-GPU support started dwindling, single cards became the predominant form factor. Yep, this dual-GPU enthusiast card was doubly good due to its doubled component count, and it used all that power to lord over the gaming landscape.The tradition of stuffing two chips into one shroud continued right the way up to the AMD Radeon R9 295X2 and the Nvidia Titan Z. After the abortive HD 20 series, the HD 48 were quality cards, but the one which made the biggest splash after the move was the Radeon HD 5970.The Radeon 5970 was essentially a large Cypress GPU, 1,024MB pool of memory, and sizeable 256-bit memory bus… multiplied by two. It was later purchased by AMD in 2006 and the Radeon brand gently incorporated under the AMD umbrella.
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Nvidia RTX 3080(Image credit: Future) Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080The generational leap the Nvidia RTX 3080 delivered when it was released this year makes it an instant classic and an easy addition to the list. It's a standard by which all further AMD and Nvidia mainstream GPUs were to be compared against, and we're all the better for it. Hell, it was such a superb card even the crypto-miners couldn't get enough.
The architecture switch which gives it almost double the FP32 CUDA cores made it a stellar rasterized graphics chomper, but its 2nd Gen RT cores and 3rd Gen Tensor Cores meant it practically negated the impact of enabling real-time ray traced effects in-game. It certainly does for gamers, at least.Launched at $699 it comfortably outperformed the top GPU of the previous GeForce cards, the Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti and that was the definition of graphics performance at all costs coming in at $1,200. But it's so close to the performance of the Nvidia RTX 3090 that it almost makes that $1,500 GPU irrelevant.
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