A historical look at Team Red's best of the best.
  • SUNTZU_JoJo@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago
    • 6800XT FTW!

    Feel incredibly lucky to have snatched one only 4 days after launch at £659

    And for American folks out there… that’s including tax.

    • YeetdolfCritler@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Yeah the x800xt was also a chad. It equalled or beat the Nvidia 6800s etc, in my country people were nvidia brainwashed so didn’t know much about that beast. I bought one on launch.

  • emfloured@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I feel proud to have owned R9-280X (HD 7970). Imo, it (HD 7970) was the best card.

  • TomCatT_@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I thought the Radeon VII was good. Just needed better driver support. I can mine really well.

  • Fatesadvent@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I had the 7870 and R9 390 in the past.

    I wasnt really following the computer market before, anyone know how well those were received back then?

    • YeetdolfCritler@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      390 was a 290 refresh with slight clock bump, bit meh but did fine. Was when AMD didn’t have much $$. There were dual GPU version of it (red devil 380x2 IIRC). 7870 did well for midrange but the 7950/70 overshadowed it as flagships.

  • Jorojr@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    9700 Pro was my first AMD/ATI GPU. It was paired with an Athlon XP 2500+ at the time.

    • Post_BIG-NUT_Clarity@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I’ve got a pc with 2 HD 6950’s in Crossfire on a Asus Crosshair Formula Z with a Fx 6350 that I let my kids use for playing their games etc. Modded drivers and such. I have had so much fun tweaking and playing with that build over the years.

  • GuttedLikeCornishHen@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    My list:

    1. R9 290 - last GPU before 20 nm disaster (not mentioned in the topic, it wasn’t Kepler that got parity in terms of tech process, it was that ATi lost its edge when 20nm didn’t bear fruit)

    2. 9500 non pro (L-shaped memory bank) - a fairly good chance to unlock it to 9700

    3. N21 varieties (it’d be the first but mining craze killed it)

    4. Cypress - another Khan like success that forced nV to start to play dirty (mGPU frametime “analysis”, GameWorks, PhysX etc), wood screw-augmented “Thermi” flagship in Jen-Hsun hands

    5. R580 - another glimmer before the big disaster (history certainly repeats sometimes) and an example of quick recovery after so-so R520 (and terribad medium/low-end parts)