That doesn't really say much about the card itself. Just how fucked the market is right now. That applies to pretty much all graphics cards that aren't completely outdated.
I bought an used 580 for $75 last year and sold its corpse for $100 last week to the same guy I bought it from. The current market is indeed very fucked
I remember that brief era when Refurbished Polaris was selling for £60 for an RX470 or £80/90 for an RX480... I don’t think I’ve ever seen value that good before so readily available. Well deserved top spot for so many reasons.
I got an rx 460 for $60 last year, big win back then but now it's kinda a curse. I can sell it for way more than I bought it for, but there's nothing out there that can replace it at a reasonable price, and AMD's drivers seem to have questionable stability when it comes to this card as my screen randomly blanks during slightly more intensive games and often causing the game to crash, or maybe that's just the card dying, I dunno I sure hope not.
I think youtube deleted my comment on which I linked the video I was referring to originally. It's called "How to survive RUclips's Adpocalypse" from 2kliks account.
The fade in to the blue eye voodoo card is a little warning. Once I realized that I suddenly see the eye where that once wasn't there, I quit fullscreen. Then I see your comment and prepared. lol.
I have a 580 that I got used for 130€ and it's probably been the best purchase for my midranger, since I upgraded for the weakened RX 560 (less stream processors). Now it runs every game I throw at it, and mostly at 90+fps as well.
@@Razer_Dash Great deal, i'm glad I bought a used Vega 56 for 220€ before all this shit and just modded the hell out of it so it performs in between the RX 5700 and 5700XT
I’m still sitting on my R9 390, could be worse, but I’m still looking for an upgrade for over half a year now. At least I got a 5600xt for under MSRP for my sister before this whole stuff spread over from just the 30 series to all graphics cards
You should talk about the retail prices of high end gpus thorough the years adjusting them for inflation and seeing how much they change over the years and why.
@@TheHiszpanTV Did it though? He made an entirely innocent video about perceptions of a video of his, got attacked so made a follow up explaining what he meant. RL continued to go off the rails on twitter (seriously for someone who calls anyone who disagrees with him mentally ill, hes very paranoid, not to mention he claims he doesnt care what randoms say, but still feels the need to argue with anyone at any opportunity). After the way he acted phil was entirely justified in calling him out for his frankly embarrassing actions.
I still remember watching the RX 480 presentation, it was my dream card back then and it turned out to be really good, years later tho i got an RX 580 to upgrade my old APU's GPU.
Ah yes I have two SLI 3090s just so I can play the original doom, and ONLY the original doom. Worth the 3k+ dollars not including the rest of expenses on the cpu, case, motherboard etc.
You sure are right about messed up naming schemes in the past. I remember when Radeon 9600 Pro came out and was actually slower (and cheaper) card then 9500 Pro. I used to own standard 9600 one, I got so much mileage from that card, I had it for years, good memories.
@@Safetytrousers exactly. Though you're sorta splitting hairs when taking inflation into consideration in a 20 year period for electronics. Difference is more noticeable in high $ items like cars and home appliances
*3:31** I have SO MANY memories of this card. Between me and my brother we bough like 5 of theese in total. We referred to it as the GPU made by the GODS. For 180€ it was a 90% top quality graphics card and i basically convince every friend of mine to buy one aswell for themselves. This were the times, man. The "Would it run Crysis" meme was first answered with this GPU. Heck i think i still have two remaining functional 8800 GT in a shelve somewhere. Thank you for this video, so many fond memories arised ^^*
Loved my RX 480, got it for $230 Canadian back in 2016. I also love that I was able to get an RX 6800 for MSRP and sell the RX 480 for more than I paid for it.
My PC actually uses a second-hand 3200G and a *third*-hand RX570, which are similar to the 2200G and RX480. It's a great machine, which I built during the christmas holiday, as that was the last moment the second hand market was somewhat reasonable here. Though I planned to save up a little longer, building it early was the best descision I made, as I now can upgrade the parts I cheaped out on.
I really like these kinds of videos, I feel like you have the best way of explaining the playability of hardware and not just talk about solely numbers. Good vid
They don't drop in performance as fast as nvidia cards. I had an 280x and it was faster than a GTX960 in AC:Odyssey, when the GTX was a 2 years younger card!
I have a 4GB 580. Drivers kept it going like wine. Some bugs here and there but that's mostly Software... It is now slowed down by my CPU xD Got for 125USD. Not bad if I do say so myself.
I don't know when, if ever, will gpu prices stabilize to acceptable levels, but damn the current state of the gpu market is depressing beyond belief. Also Goblin!!!
i remember owning geforce3 ti500 and i got it for free from uncle who upgraded his pc, it was like early 2002, i was was spoiled by my uncle following few years until 2009 when he passed, he made my childhood epic. rip bigman,this video brings me back so many memories, especially the honorable mentions , ive owned few of them
My RX 480 is retired now that I'm running a 2060 Super but I'm going to get a display stand for that majestic thing. It really helped me get my foot in the door of desktop gaming and then VR some time afterwards and I think it's more than earned a permanent and sentimental spot on my desk for that.
Love it! I did my own predictions when I saw the video name and matched a couple of them and was close with another :) I'd put the X1950Pro in the honourable mentions as well but good shout on giving the 750Ti a nod :)
When Quake 3 launched, I bought a copy with new 3dfx Voodoo 3 3000. The card cost £129 which was a fortune at the time as I was 15 years old and had to save for months. Good memories
My favourite sub 200$ GPU is the RX580, I bought it for 170€ in Februar 2019 and sold it December 2020 for 250€ to get a new card...what not went well. Those 8GB VRAM were really good to play newer titles and power consumption was pretty good. Now I´m stuck with my older R9 280x.
I only got into pc gaming in the last 5 years, around the time the rx480 came out. Nice bit of gpu history, and sad to see decent mid rangers can no longer be had at 200usd if you're buying new.
My first graphics card was on Orchid 3DFX Voodoo 1. The hottest competition at the time was PowerVR. The reason they were so disruptive was for most people it was their first time transitioning from software rendering to 640x480 high FPS 3D and it was stunning... Some games even ran smoothly at 800x600 which blow your socks off at the time.
I think it's criminal that the legendary Pitcairn cards were left out of this video. The HD 7850 2GB in 2012 was the RX 570 of its day, the slightly cut down mid-range chip with most of the performance. A card that, with an overclock, could get close to a GTX 580 in performance. It went on to get rebranded for two more generations (R7 265, R7 370) meaning you could still buy one (at a lower price of course) until it got replaced by the RX 470, and although it didn't really provide a good value as the R7 370 against the GTX 950 in 2015, it had great longevity if bought in 2012 as the 7850. Really any GCN 1.0-2.0 card with >= 2GB VRAM has had amazing longevity. I say this as an owner of a 1GB HD 7850 (bought on sale in Q3 2013, right as Nvidias 700-series was releasing) that I replaced with a 8GB RX 480 in Q1 2017.
@@2kliksphilip not the 1GB model, those were less than 200$, and are faster than gtx750ti's. Was also an owner of an hd7850 1GB from 2013 up to 2019, changed to a 60$ rx560 4gb since the hd7850 died.
@@2kliksphilip Dang it, must have dropped to $200 and below once the 660 came out a few months later then, much like how the 7870 started at $350 but dropped down a fair bit with the release of the 660ti. I still nominate the R9 270 then, since it was a 7870 for about $200 in late 2013, it still held on pretty great.
I have an RX 580 8 gig and I figured a 570 or a 480 would be somewhere on this list, I have had mine for years and it's still just fine for literally anything in 1080p, not to mention I could sell it right now for almost double what I paid
There was a 5 month period in 2019 where you could consistently find rx 580s for $100-$150. I bought a 4gb variant for $100 on new egg and my friend picked up the 8gb variant the month after for $120. Most of these were refurbished, but we weren't complaining.
I had a PC with a GeForce 7600GT as a child. That card successfully powered my PC until around 2011/2012 when it dramatically died one evening while I was playing Minecraft.
Man I miss the days of HD4850/8800GT, getting a legit high-end card for only 200 was amazing. The only good thing about the current situation is that you can still comfortably game on hardware from 2014.
So many good comments to bring up out of this video... :) Good times in 2000/2001. My dad had a "budget pc" and a "good pc" back then for the family. 1ghz athlon with 64mb voodoo 5500! and 900mhz duron with 16mb voodoo 3500TV Even the budget PC was amazing because you got to remember that the difference between 1999 and 2000 for example was quite literally 450mhz and 900-1ghz. So Quake 3 Arena, Unreal Tournament, The Sims, etc all ran like a dream regardless of pc. I still have the Voodoo 3500 in my possession. My 85 year old grandma's pc for playing the cardgame "Bridge" has the Voodoo 5500 lol. But honestly im not sure if she is using it now because I got her a newer laptop recently for her web browsing. The Radeon 4850 truly was an amazing card. I retired my 4850 by late 2012 only because the fan died. by then there were "dx11" exclusive titles out, but overall it could still run most games well if you stuck with its original intended resolution of 1280x1024 fullscreen or various 720P/900P resolutions. Back in december I finally built my first new pc in 8 years. Went from FX8350 to Ryzen 7 5800X. amazing CPU, but to the point IM still stuck using my 4gb rx580 I got cheap after the last cryto currency crash in february 2019. The 4gb RX580 still runs pretty darn well in 1080P max settings getting at least 60fps ins basically everything at those settings, except maybe a couple extremely bad optimized titles. It's crazy to think Polaris is 5 years old this year and is still one of the most common cards used if you are using an AMD card. My rx580 replaced my radeon 7970 that I used solidly for 5.5 years. If you made a best cards under 300$ video, when the 7970 was reduced to 300$ in late 2013 It should definitely be on that list. For a card technically released in "December 2011" (although originally 550$...) its nothing short of amazing that it could still run 1080P in most titles if you reduce settings to low-med.
Honorable mentions: A8 3870K - the first flagship APU, basically has Phenom II X4 CPU cores and ATi graphics inside, in terms of CPU power performs close to Athlon X4 860K and it had a long life with that GPU. Quite impressive and outlasted every APU. A10 7850K - the first APU to really put APUs on map. Itself it wasn't special, but it had the greatest impact. A10 6800K - the one and only APU with phenomenal overclocking potential. It had AMD FX derived architecture and thus it could be overclocked as much as you can cool it. Richland cores were the coolest of all FM2 APUs. Later APUs ran way hotter and had a frequency limit of 4.6-5.5GHz. Richland could clock to over 8GHz. Casual overclockers could generally overclock it way more than 7850K. FM2 overclocking boards were cheap, but memory wasn't. However, memory overclocking on FM2 was a breeze. Not sure about GPU overclocking, but overall this platform was phenomenal. In reality, way better than 7850K and later APUs like 860K. GTX 650 Ti - it lasted longer than GTX 750 Ti and is basically as good as 750 Ti. 750 Ti is a meme, but it really isn't special. 650 Ti was special. GTX 950 - absolutely forgotten by many, but it lasted a really long time and was quite relevant until recently. Radeon 7770/7750/R7 260 - one of the longest lasting cards ever, strong performance at launch and it kept being good for many years. GT 1030 GDDR5 - the only GT series card that actually was good once launched. It had phenomenal performance for its price point and nobody expected something like that to be made. GTX 660 - the best xx60 series card ever made. It just lasted phenomenally long time. It's like 650 Ti, but better. Geforce 210 - it's has been made for over decade and it's still slow. It's the epitome of potato. It sucks, but if it didn't suck, nobody would know about it. And yeah, nobody mentions any other 200 series card as often as 210. The potatoest potato. Radeon 4770 CF - has quite similar core to 4850, but is 20% slower than 4850. However, they cost just 100 dollars and you could buy 2 of them and have budget crossfire, which is potentially beating 4890. Radeon X800 GT AGP + ATi Silencer - it shares the same core with X800 XT PE, but comes with lower amount of pipelines available. Pipeline unlocking mods were very popular with X800 series card and this is one could potentially double pipelines. That's like getting double shading units in modern card. Obviously, performance of this card would be a lot better if pipeline unlocking went successful. And if you volt mod it, with unlocked pipelines and unlimited voltage, you could clock it up quite a bit. So, with enough work and risks taken this card could potentially beat X850 XT PE. That's a lot of value from card + cooler. It may not have lasted long even with all those mods, but it's one of the most tweakable cards on budget.
My favourite GPU was a Radeon RX 460 passive cooled, which I bought for like 80 bucks. It was fast enough for 1080p gaming, and it didn't even make noise
Managed to get an OEM 9800 pro for sub £100 when it was being phased out. Besides still being very competitive it was a great source of heat in the winter. It got replaced with a Sapphire 1950 pro which ran cooler but was more expensive. I think I paid about £175. Two great cards. And now here I am with my 6GB 1060 waiting for normality to return.
7600 GT was my first ever GPU I bought... I had a pre-built PC from Emachine's in 2002 and my uncle gave me a MX 440 in 2004 when he upgraded. I built my own PC and the first GPU I bought my self was the 7600 GT from POV with 256MB VRAM, I remember playing UT2K, BF2, HLF2 and CSS on that thing almost every day at 1280x1024 on a 19" Samsung. Those where the days.
I remember some of those cards. My first machine (2004) had a socket 478 intel p4 cpu with an awful Ati 9000 series onboard gpu. While terrible, it was, just about, good enough to run need for speed underground. I added a tv capture card and an nvidia fx5200 agp 8x card soon after, and on September 8th, 2004, I created my Steam account, within days I started playing counter-strike 1.6 as well as Unreal. I bought a 6600GT to be able to play HL2 and counter-strike: source as they became more and more popular. For my first proper self-built machine (2006), I decided to switch sides after the awful overheating issues of my Intel cpu, only to massively downgrade to an Amd Athlon 64 3500+ cpu (codename: Winchester). To that I added 2gb of ddr1 400 (200mhz) ram with a cas latency of 2.0 for max performance, as well as a 7600GT. I was able to do CS:S at roughly 100-140fps at 1024x768. In 2008/9 I upgraded yet a again, this time to an Amd Athlon x2 5200+ cpu, gave it 2x2gb of Corsair xms2 ddr2 ram, and eventually got my hands on a 9600GT. That GPU paid for itself in smiles per hour as i chugged away at GTAIV, with an endless free supply of mods. Can't leave out the hundreds and hundreds of hours spent playing cs:s and later, cs:go. That lasted until April/may 2014, when I switched sides and upgraded to my now current rig (minus gpu, which was upgraded in 2019). Intel core i5 4570 with 2x8gb (later upgraded to 2x8+2x4gb) of ram, plus an nvidia gtx 650, a gpu which died in late 2018, but I was thankfully able to replace with an nvidia 1060-6gb. Up until recently, besides gaming, i've been streaming and casting Icelandic cs:go matches, doing some AI experiments and rendering various meme clips. As I grow older, I think how weird it is to remember the parts of your past pc's, but then again, I was recently diagnosed on the autism spectrum, so that kind of makes it make sense. Sorry for the tangent rant. Love your content.
definitely agree with the number 1. I bought an rx 580 almost 2 and a half years ago. performed like an absolute champ all the way until I sold it a couple months ago... for over twice what I initially bought it for. legendary card.
I love your videos. Thoughtful, insightful, and none of the annoying posturing seen in other videos designed to create drama or hold attention. Please, continue.
Seeing my RX480 get represented like this brought a smile. I used it non-stop until 2 weeks ago and it paid it's price. Oh, the time spent in the radeon suite to crank up the cooler's RPM. Great stuff Philip, thanks.
I got an Asus RX480 strix in late 2016 and it's still mostly fine today. Basically every modern game ran at around 60 to 80 fps with reasonable settings. It does however struggle a lot in blender, which was the reason why I got a 3070 when I managed to find one for a somewhat reasonable price last year. The RX480 now lives on in my secondary pc and is happily running ubuntu. Let's hope that it will last for another 5 years!
Big correction on the 8800GT, it was meant to be a good deal lower performance. However at that time the 3870 and 3850 was on the horizon and once benchmarks came out for those, Nvidia hastily upped the clock speed for the upcoming 8800GT, causing it to have a very small overclocking envelope and eventually competed with the 3850 on performance. So it wasn't that the GT was released to compete with itself, it was to protect nvidia from a resurgent Ati, which didn't work because as you said eventually the 4850, and 4870 came out and dominated the price/performance charts. 8800GT was still well loved at the time, and caused the 3870 - 3850 range from Ati to be kind of forgotten.
I had an 8800 GT! It was definitely a mind blowing card at the time - nobody could believe the performance for that price. Pretty much made the 8800 GTS seem silly. Probably another card worth mentioning is the 7900GS and then also the 7900GTO. The 7900GS was a cut down 7900GT but almost as fast for under 200 bucks. The 7900GTO was even more impressive though - it was a 7900GTX slightly downclocked for 250 bucks. You could even flash a GTX BIOS on MOST 7900GTO cards.
theres something about 2000s cards that i really like: how they look. Most cards nowadays look more "stealthy" (they are either black, white or grey) they look like another piece of the computer, but those 2000s cards really stand out when you look at them on a PC, i want to have a graphics card that stands out when you look at the pc, but not because it has super duper flashy RGB, but because it stands out compared to the rest of the PC. I want clear cases, stickers with characters that when you look at them the first thing you think is "this shit ain´t lacking" idk, the same black case with 2 fans just gets old real quick
One of the best if not the best youtuber out there! 750ti got me into gaming on a cheap small form factor office oc. Then my first big upgrade was the rx470 for £150 new. So both were ground breaking to me on price to performance.
Looking at the current prices of hardware is insane. Can't believe I bought a 7770 for less than $100, which in 2012 was a mid-range graphics card. Still runs all the games I play just fine... really hoping it keeps running until the current market situation clears up because I really don't want to buy new hardware at these current prices.
The other potential rational for the 8800GT was the fact that GPUs at that point in time we either in the "Can run Crysis" or "can't run Crysis" categories. And the 8800GT was basically the minimum you could get away with for a somewhat decent Crysis experience.
@@2kliksphilip The 8800 Ultra was the fastest GPU at the time and it had been out for around a year when Crysis came out, but it was over $600 all the way back in 2006 which felt like 3090 money today. The 8800GT that you referred to in this video came out like 2 weeks before Crysis came out. The demo for Crysis was already out at this point as well and I remember GPU reviews for the 8800GT using it as a benchmark.
I never said that the older 8800's wouldn't have been able to run Crysis? What I was saying was that the 8800GT was positioned as the cheapest Nvidia GPU that would give you a playable experience with Crysis. If the 8800GT didn't exist, the minimum cost to get a "Crysis worthy" Nvidia card would have been significantly higher ($350 for a GTS 640MB which was only marginally faster).
Great video. Had the 4850, wouldn't have upgraded but I was given a 6770 in 2012. And I have a rx480 and yes, It's still worth the 239 I paid for it and I use it in my main system. But between these cards I bought an r 9 270x for 189. And it sits in my secondary system today. At around half the performance of the 480 in 2014 and 2 to 3 times as fast as the 6770 I feel like it should be an honourable mention.
I bought my 8800GT for £70 brand new from Ebuyer when it was just released, must have been a mistake but it turned up! Was a massive upgrade over my 7900gs, I remember downloading all the DX10 tech demos I could find before it arrived :)
as a newer gamer, i'd really appreciate if there was the release date on every card mentioned, because everything other than the radeon 480 and gtx 1650 is ancient history to me, so at least having a reference on when everything was released would have been nice
I was always behind in computer stuff, be it for money or lack of choice. I went from a Via S3G to a Intel T4500 iGPU, A4-7300 iGPU and finally my current GTX 1060. Even so I was always content with what I can play with these "cards". Now that I have the money and the choice, there's simply no reason to upgrade further. I mostly play multiplayer games and there's no real substitute for my 1060 yet. Same for my Ryzen 3600. I'll live with this setup for years to come...
About a year ago I got a 6gb 1660 super for around $250 on Amazon and it has worked beautifully for me...... It's now $600 dollars on that same Amazon listing.
I think you missed out on the 750ti. It was way more accessible to a lot of people that I knew who were just now getting into pc gaming because it didn't require us to spend another 30% of its purchase price on a power supply. It stayed relevant for way longer than reasonable too. The one I bought for my first pc is in my little brother's pc playing Minecraft, Csgo, and Fortnite to this day.
I'd put the 3gb 1060 there as well. It often times performed as well as a rx480, could undervolt and overclock just as nicely too. It held onto its price far better than the rx480 during the crypto booms. The 1060 3gb also had excellent drivers at launch day. Very surprised this gets overlooked so often.
RX480 8GB from new on release week.....still going strong @1080p max,high settings for all the games I enjoy playing. Its performance improved over the years , 100% driver stability as well best money I spent on an upgrade (till i brought frist gen R7 1700 on release) a perfect union that is serving my Requirements perfectly. True Legend of a GPU ( Polaris series) for sure.
I remember in high school going 50/50 with my brother on a $400 Radeon 9800XT, flagship. It came with a voucher for Half-Life 2 before it was released, we were the envy of the nerds at school.
I think you forgot the rx 570? I got it for 140€ and it stays in 4-8% behind the 480 (with good oc potential to push it in front of the 480). It still powers my lan-pc and it came with two games i sold for 50€ -> paid 90€.
I had 2 8800GTX's, they had insane RAM bitrates, 384-bit I believe. Good value. The SLi bridge was beefy. You had to set SLi at in the Nvidia dashboard manually and screen tearing was a common issue. More than I'd like to admit you would have to run a single card but it was also budget friendly.
Fun thing about the RX 480 is that an 8GB model can be sold for a profit today, nearly 5 years after its release. It's insane.
I trade mine for an rtx 3080 hmu
That doesn't really say much about the card itself. Just how fucked the market is right now. That applies to pretty much all graphics cards that aren't completely outdated.
@@dalkgamler are you insane how are you going to trade an rx 480 for a goddamn rtx3080
I bought an used 580 for $75 last year and sold its corpse for $100 last week to the same guy I bought it from. The current market is indeed very fucked
I love Catgirl no fucking way lol
anyone else as a kid look at gpu boxes all the time at the store and had no idea what they did? something just drew me to them
the strange, often uncanny looking characters on the front really got the imagination racing
I thought GPUs were extra fan attachments 😐
It was fate
There's something innately 'cool' on complex machines.
I remember i kept thinking about the box of an asus gpu when i was 12. I wish gpu boxes for the rtx 30 series looked as cool as the ones before them.
I remember that brief era when Refurbished Polaris was selling for £60 for an RX470 or £80/90 for an RX480... I don’t think I’ve ever seen value that good before so readily available. Well deserved top spot for so many reasons.
I saw GTX 970s for $50 just a few months ago. It makes me wonder how prices went so crazy so fast.
Man I used to pick up rx 580 8gb locally for $100 then resold them locally in gaming PCs for like 350-400. Those days are long gone lmao
I sold my Rx 460 for 40€ last year big F
I got an rx 460 for $60 last year, big win back then but now it's kinda a curse. I can sell it for way more than I bought it for, but there's nothing out there that can replace it at a reasonable price, and AMD's drivers seem to have questionable stability when it comes to this card as my screen randomly blanks during slightly more intensive games and often causing the game to crash, or maybe that's just the card dying, I dunno I sure hope not.
Bought my 580 for that ammount around year ago. Now I can sell it for twice as much as I paid for it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
hearing Phillip swear... too powerful for me.
I’m shook
It's the second time today.. something's wrong
@@onif1054 No that was Kliksphilip earlier today, not 2kliks.
Same
Ohnohesgoingtogetsnappedfrommyminecraftserverforthat
5:08 Don't hear this everyday
I thought it was only me who got surprised by that
You probably do if you work at AMD.
I like how he upscaled all the images
classic phillip
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I don't, Radeon 4850 looked horrible. It's like it was drawn with water paint.
@@MJ-uk6lu it was in fact, drawn with artificial intelligence.
@@morfgo That's why maths gurus shouldn't paint.
My heart skipped a beat when I heard Phillip swear. It's like hearing your teacher swear out of nowhere.
Yeah!!
pretty appropriate when the whole gpu market hates gaming
@@autreenmirhosseini1533 err?
I've never heard Phillip swear until now
He has a video full of swearing i forgot which one it was
@@ileryon4019 "Testing CSGO's swear filter" or something along those lines.
@@__________________________4781 and his "The horror of demo viewer" video
I think youtube deleted my comment on which I linked the video I was referring to originally. It's called "How to survive RUclips's Adpocalypse" from 2kliks account.
please put a warning for that goblin. scared the hell out of me
That was not even the naked goblin one.
nah, this one ain't too bad.
The fade in to the blue eye voodoo card is a little warning. Once I realized that I suddenly see the eye where that once wasn't there, I quit fullscreen. Then I see your comment and prepared. lol.
What goblin? I only see Richard Lewis.
I thought that was Jensen Huang.
I give a kiss to my RX 480 everytime I get to clean it from dust. It seems to help with stability after all these years.
Mental stability should be over the roof for that card
I have a 580 that I got used for 130€ and it's probably been the best purchase for my midranger, since I upgraded for the weakened RX 560 (less stream processors). Now it runs every game I throw at it, and mostly at 90+fps as well.
@@Razer_Dash Great deal, i'm glad I bought a used Vega 56 for 220€ before all this shit and just modded the hell out of it so it performs in between the RX 5700 and 5700XT
I’m still sitting on my R9 390, could be worse, but I’m still looking for an upgrade for over half a year now.
At least I got a 5600xt for under MSRP for my sister before this whole stuff spread over from just the 30 series to all graphics cards
You just had to upscale that last image didn't you Philip
Jó látni magyarokat, én lettem a 100.-ik feliratkozód
Every single pic in the video is upscaled though
You should talk about the retail prices of high end gpus thorough the years adjusting them for inflation and seeing how much they change over the years and why.
Just sold my Radeon RX480, lots of good memories with that card😭
Still using one today, no issues since i bought itearly 2017!
Just got rid of mine at the start of the year that cyberpunk performance was the limit for me.
@@5british5 yes, the games that come out today a hard to play in 60fps, but you can play bf5 on 60fps 1080p.
@@oliboy6204 Yeah most games run fine at 1080.
since VSR came out tho , I have to use it.
I am emotionally attached to mine
god damn you popping off with the videos
He movin wiff glock speed rn
Milking the views that may come from RL fans..
I'm a philip fan, but you can see that his mask slipped a little.
@@TheHiszpanTV what is rl?
@@TheHiszpanTV Did it though? He made an entirely innocent video about perceptions of a video of his, got attacked so made a follow up explaining what he meant. RL continued to go off the rails on twitter (seriously for someone who calls anyone who disagrees with him mentally ill, hes very paranoid, not to mention he claims he doesnt care what randoms say, but still feels the need to argue with anyone at any opportunity). After the way he acted phil was entirely justified in calling him out for his frankly embarrassing actions.
@@lewis4402 I'm a bit out of the loop, what are these "persona", "RL" stuff all about?
5:08 😨 😨
This video feels charged with pure Philip anger
Still reeling after yesterday
I was going to get assmad if you didn't mention the 750 ti, but alas, you did. What a legendary piece of silicon, holy fuck.
650 Ti was a better card than 750 Ti
@@MJ-uk6lu
Still the 750ti is a legend.
Loving the amount of content recently.
I still remember watching the RX 480 presentation, it was my dream card back then and it turned out to be really good, years later tho i got an RX 580 to upgrade my old APU's GPU.
The rx580 is such a bargain, especially if you are looking for a sub 500€ build.
Bought mine before the current situation for about 70 euros, works like a dream.
I've got the 3080, but have almost only been playing quake live on it ever since, worth it
You are the reason the world is burning
Ah yes I have two SLI 3090s just so I can play the original doom, and ONLY the original doom. Worth the 3k+ dollars not including the rest of expenses on the cpu, case, motherboard etc.
damn bro how old are you? idk how you go from playing bo2 on console to playing quake live but i love it.
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You sure are right about messed up naming schemes in the past. I remember when Radeon 9600 Pro came out and was actually slower (and cheaper) card then 9500 Pro. I used to own standard 9600 one, I got so much mileage from that card, I had it for years, good memories.
$199 in 2001 converts to $298 today.
I think you misunderstood the title
@@TechnMetal The title means GPUs that were $200 or just less at the time. My point is that the value of $200 varies over time.
@@Safetytrousers exactly. Though you're sorta splitting hairs when taking inflation into consideration in a 20 year period for electronics. Difference is more noticeable in high $ items like cars and home appliances
Fuck I'm old
thats still cheap lmao
Aspect ratio teir list next?
This sounds like such a great idea for a 2kliksphilip video I honestly really wanna see it.
16:9 > 16:10 > 4:3
16:10 supremacy
@@hamishmacdonald8593 16:10 or 4:3 for web or productivity, but 16:9 or 21:9 for gaming
My laptop is 3:2
The "What the *FUCK* nvidia?" is my favourite part of this video lmao
I'm just now realizing how legendary the 750 Ti was. It was extremely popular and basically every budget build guide featured it from 2014-2016.
Its a legend.
Gotta love all the weird artwork on the boxes :D
*3:31** I have SO MANY memories of this card. Between me and my brother we bough like 5 of theese in total. We referred to it as the GPU made by the GODS. For 180€ it was a 90% top quality graphics card and i basically convince every friend of mine to buy one aswell for themselves. This were the times, man. The "Would it run Crysis" meme was first answered with this GPU. Heck i think i still have two remaining functional 8800 GT in a shelve somewhere. Thank you for this video, so many fond memories arised ^^*
Dang this is a lot of patch notes in this here video, good work Philip!
Did he call nvidias journalistic integrity into question tho?
Loved my RX 480, got it for $230 Canadian back in 2016. I also love that I was able to get an RX 6800 for MSRP and sell the RX 480 for more than I paid for it.
Whered u get that pfp
My PC actually uses a second-hand 3200G and a *third*-hand RX570, which are similar to the 2200G and RX480.
It's a great machine, which I built during the christmas holiday, as that was the last moment the second hand market was somewhat reasonable here.
Though I planned to save up a little longer, building it early was the best descision I made, as I now can upgrade the parts I cheaped out on.
I really like these kinds of videos, I feel like you have the best way of explaining the playability of hardware and not just talk about solely numbers. Good vid
my 480 is still going strong, playing new games at high 1080p, bought it 3 years ago. legend
They don't drop in performance as fast as nvidia cards. I had an 280x and it was faster than a GTX960 in AC:Odyssey, when the GTX was a 2 years younger card!
I have a 4GB 580. Drivers kept it going like wine. Some bugs here and there but that's mostly Software...
It is now slowed down by my CPU xD
Got for 125USD. Not bad if I do say so myself.
"you can still use the 480 5 years after release"
Me and my 7 year old r9 280 after 7 years, still going strong.
honestly if you use the modded drivers its pretty good still, sometimes games need a lot of tweaking but you can still have a good time with it.
The artwork on these old graphics cards are... well, there something....
'pricing and availability for computer hardware has never been worse'
Medieval times: allow me to introduce myself
I don't know when, if ever, will gpu prices stabilize to acceptable levels, but damn the current state of the gpu market is depressing beyond belief. Also Goblin!!!
i remember owning geforce3 ti500 and i got it for free from uncle who upgraded his pc, it was like early 2002, i was was spoiled by my uncle following few years until 2009 when he passed, he made my childhood epic. rip bigman,this video brings me back so many memories, especially the honorable mentions , ive owned few of them
My RX 480 is retired now that I'm running a 2060 Super but I'm going to get a display stand for that majestic thing. It really helped me get my foot in the door of desktop gaming and then VR some time afterwards and I think it's more than earned a permanent and sentimental spot on my desk for that.
Is this swearing related to what's going on on the kliksphilip channel? Lmao, Philip, what a guy
Ohhh
no more mr nice phillip :(
once in a blue moon he's dropping a swear word. he did it a lot more in old videos, he did it sometimes on the 3kliksphilip channel.
Love it! I did my own predictions when I saw the video name and matched a couple of them and was close with another :) I'd put the X1950Pro in the honourable mentions as well but good shout on giving the 750Ti a nod :)
When Quake 3 launched, I bought a copy with new 3dfx Voodoo 3 3000. The card cost £129 which was a fortune at the time as I was 15 years old and had to save for months. Good memories
The most important thing to take away from this video. Old gpu box art was wild as fuck
Go look at some Asian card makers box art. It's all anime chicks.
My favourite sub 200$ GPU is the RX580, I bought it for 170€ in Februar 2019 and sold it December 2020 for 250€ to get a new card...what not went well. Those 8GB VRAM were really good to play newer titles and power consumption was pretty good. Now I´m stuck with my older R9 280x.
Copped my rx 590 for roughly £160 brand new a year ago. Absolutely crushes anything I can throw at it.
My 290x recently went to the big computer shop in the sky. RIP Brother, you were from a different time.
I only got into pc gaming in the last 5 years, around the time the rx480 came out. Nice bit of gpu history, and sad to see decent mid rangers can no longer be had at 200usd if you're buying new.
Got mine for 70$ back in October lol, (was) one of the best used gpus for under 100$
My first graphics card was on Orchid 3DFX Voodoo 1. The hottest competition at the time was PowerVR. The reason they were so disruptive was for most people it was their first time transitioning from software rendering to 640x480 high FPS 3D and it was stunning... Some games even ran smoothly at 800x600 which blow your socks off at the time.
I think it's criminal that the legendary Pitcairn cards were left out of this video. The HD 7850 2GB in 2012 was the RX 570 of its day, the slightly cut down mid-range chip with most of the performance. A card that, with an overclock, could get close to a GTX 580 in performance. It went on to get rebranded for two more generations (R7 265, R7 370) meaning you could still buy one (at a lower price of course) until it got replaced by the RX 470, and although it didn't really provide a good value as the R7 370 against the GTX 950 in 2015, it had great longevity if bought in 2012 as the 7850.
Really any GCN 1.0-2.0 card with >= 2GB VRAM has had amazing longevity.
I say this as an owner of a 1GB HD 7850 (bought on sale in Q3 2013, right as Nvidias 700-series was releasing) that I replaced with a 8GB RX 480 in Q1 2017.
@@2kliksphilip not the 1GB model, those were less than 200$, and are faster than gtx750ti's. Was also an owner of an hd7850 1GB from 2013 up to 2019, changed to a 60$ rx560 4gb since the hd7850 died.
@@2kliksphilip Dang it, must have dropped to $200 and below once the 660 came out a few months later then, much like how the 7870 started at $350 but dropped down a fair bit with the release of the 660ti.
I still nominate the R9 270 then, since it was a 7870 for about $200 in late 2013, it still held on pretty great.
I have an RX 580 8 gig and I figured a 570 or a 480 would be somewhere on this list, I have had mine for years and it's still just fine for literally anything in 1080p, not to mention I could sell it right now for almost double what I paid
There was a 5 month period in 2019 where you could consistently find rx 580s for $100-$150. I bought a 4gb variant for $100 on new egg and my friend picked up the 8gb variant the month after for $120. Most of these were refurbished, but we weren't complaining.
this is making me so nostalgic with some of the cards 😭 who knew graphics card could be so deeply linked to memories of growing up
Nostalgia bombing me, especially at this GPU drought. Well, let's hope we get good cards at $200/200€ or around that price once more.
"Radeon 480"
Hey, mah boy!.. Running a Sapphire Nitro+ RX480 4GB right now. Wish I'd gotten the 8GB model though.
I had a PC with a GeForce 7600GT as a child. That card successfully powered my PC until around 2011/2012 when it dramatically died one evening while I was playing Minecraft.
Gotta agree with you on the RX 480. I have a cut down RX 560 2Gb model, still runs most games fantastically, having a 480 would seem like a dream.
Man I miss the days of HD4850/8800GT, getting a legit high-end card for only 200 was amazing. The only good thing about the current situation is that you can still comfortably game on hardware from 2014.
The HD4850 was the best card I ever owned. Back when you could spend $200ish and run basically anything around at full tilt.
So many good comments to bring up out of this video... :)
Good times in 2000/2001. My dad had a "budget pc" and a "good pc" back then for the family.
1ghz athlon with 64mb voodoo 5500! and 900mhz duron with 16mb voodoo 3500TV
Even the budget PC was amazing because you got to remember that the difference between 1999 and 2000 for example was quite literally 450mhz and 900-1ghz. So Quake 3 Arena, Unreal Tournament, The Sims, etc all ran like a dream regardless of pc.
I still have the Voodoo 3500 in my possession. My 85 year old grandma's pc for playing the cardgame "Bridge" has the Voodoo 5500 lol. But honestly im not sure if she is using it now because I got her a newer laptop recently for her web browsing.
The Radeon 4850 truly was an amazing card. I retired my 4850 by late 2012 only because the fan died. by then there were "dx11" exclusive titles out, but overall it could still run most games well if you stuck with its original intended resolution of 1280x1024 fullscreen or various 720P/900P resolutions.
Back in december I finally built my first new pc in 8 years. Went from FX8350 to Ryzen 7 5800X. amazing CPU, but to the point IM still stuck using my 4gb rx580 I got cheap after the last cryto currency crash in february 2019. The 4gb RX580 still runs pretty darn well in 1080P max settings getting at least 60fps ins basically everything at those settings, except maybe a couple extremely bad optimized titles. It's crazy to think Polaris is 5 years old this year and is still one of the most common cards used if you are using an AMD card. My rx580 replaced my radeon 7970 that I used solidly for 5.5 years.
If you made a best cards under 300$ video, when the 7970 was reduced to 300$ in late 2013 It should definitely be on that list. For a card technically released in "December 2011" (although originally 550$...) its nothing short of amazing that it could still run 1080P in most titles if you reduce settings to low-med.
Honorable mentions:
A8 3870K - the first flagship APU, basically has Phenom II X4 CPU cores and ATi graphics inside, in terms of CPU power performs close to Athlon X4 860K and it had a long life with that GPU. Quite impressive and outlasted every APU.
A10 7850K - the first APU to really put APUs on map. Itself it wasn't special, but it had the greatest impact.
A10 6800K - the one and only APU with phenomenal overclocking potential. It had AMD FX derived architecture and thus it could be overclocked as much as you can cool it. Richland cores were the coolest of all FM2 APUs. Later APUs ran way hotter and had a frequency limit of 4.6-5.5GHz. Richland could clock to over 8GHz. Casual overclockers could generally overclock it way more than 7850K. FM2 overclocking boards were cheap, but memory wasn't. However, memory overclocking on FM2 was a breeze. Not sure about GPU overclocking, but overall this platform was phenomenal. In reality, way better than 7850K and later APUs like 860K.
GTX 650 Ti - it lasted longer than GTX 750 Ti and is basically as good as 750 Ti. 750 Ti is a meme, but it really isn't special. 650 Ti was special.
GTX 950 - absolutely forgotten by many, but it lasted a really long time and was quite relevant until recently.
Radeon 7770/7750/R7 260 - one of the longest lasting cards ever, strong performance at launch and it kept being good for many years.
GT 1030 GDDR5 - the only GT series card that actually was good once launched. It had phenomenal performance for its price point and nobody expected something like that to be made.
GTX 660 - the best xx60 series card ever made. It just lasted phenomenally long time. It's like 650 Ti, but better.
Geforce 210 - it's has been made for over decade and it's still slow. It's the epitome of potato. It sucks, but if it didn't suck, nobody would know about it. And yeah, nobody mentions any other 200 series card as often as 210. The potatoest potato.
Radeon 4770 CF - has quite similar core to 4850, but is 20% slower than 4850. However, they cost just 100 dollars and you could buy 2 of them and have budget crossfire, which is potentially beating 4890.
Radeon X800 GT AGP + ATi Silencer - it shares the same core with X800 XT PE, but comes with lower amount of pipelines available. Pipeline unlocking mods were very popular with X800 series card and this is one could potentially double pipelines. That's like getting double shading units in modern card. Obviously, performance of this card would be a lot better if pipeline unlocking went successful. And if you volt mod it, with unlocked pipelines and unlimited voltage, you could clock it up quite a bit. So, with enough work and risks taken this card could potentially beat X850 XT PE. That's a lot of value from card + cooler. It may not have lasted long even with all those mods, but it's one of the most tweakable cards on budget.
I think the GTX1060 could have been another honorable mention as it was directly competing with the RX480 in both price and performance.
My favourite GPU was a Radeon RX 460 passive cooled, which I bought for like 80 bucks. It was fast enough for 1080p gaming, and it didn't even make noise
My brother has mine until today. He keeps playing his games at 2k resolution lowest settings, but easily gets 40-60fps.0
Managed to get an OEM 9800 pro for sub £100 when it was being phased out. Besides still being very competitive it was a great source of heat in the winter. It got replaced with a Sapphire 1950 pro which ran cooler but was more expensive. I think I paid about £175. Two great cards. And now here I am with my 6GB 1060 waiting for normality to return.
nice patch note breakdown
7600 GT was my first ever GPU I bought... I had a pre-built PC from Emachine's in 2002 and my uncle gave me a MX 440 in 2004 when he upgraded. I built my own PC and the first GPU I bought my self was the 7600 GT from POV with 256MB VRAM, I remember playing UT2K, BF2, HLF2 and CSS on that thing almost every day at 1280x1024 on a 19" Samsung. Those where the days.
that's a naughty upscale at 2:42
I remember some of those cards.
My first machine (2004) had a socket 478 intel p4 cpu with an awful Ati 9000 series onboard gpu. While terrible, it was, just about, good enough to run need for speed underground.
I added a tv capture card and an nvidia fx5200 agp 8x card soon after, and on September 8th, 2004, I created my Steam account, within days I started playing counter-strike 1.6 as well as Unreal.
I bought a 6600GT to be able to play HL2 and counter-strike: source as they became more and more popular.
For my first proper self-built machine (2006), I decided to switch sides after the awful overheating issues of my Intel cpu, only to massively downgrade to an Amd Athlon 64 3500+ cpu (codename: Winchester). To that I added 2gb of ddr1 400 (200mhz) ram with a cas latency of 2.0 for max performance, as well as a 7600GT. I was able to do CS:S at roughly 100-140fps at 1024x768.
In 2008/9 I upgraded yet a again, this time to an Amd Athlon x2 5200+ cpu, gave it 2x2gb of Corsair xms2 ddr2 ram, and eventually got my hands on a 9600GT. That GPU paid for itself in smiles per hour as i chugged away at GTAIV, with an endless free supply of mods. Can't leave out the hundreds and hundreds of hours spent playing cs:s and later, cs:go.
That lasted until April/may 2014, when I switched sides and upgraded to my now current rig (minus gpu, which was upgraded in 2019).
Intel core i5 4570 with 2x8gb (later upgraded to 2x8+2x4gb) of ram, plus an nvidia gtx 650, a gpu which died in late 2018, but I was thankfully able to replace with an nvidia 1060-6gb.
Up until recently, besides gaming, i've been streaming and casting Icelandic cs:go matches, doing some AI experiments and rendering various meme clips.
As I grow older, I think how weird it is to remember the parts of your past pc's, but then again, I was recently diagnosed on the autism spectrum, so that kind of makes it make sense.
Sorry for the tangent rant. Love your content.
I really like the music used in these kinds of videos. Would work well as a timeout track in your Music Kit
definitely agree with the number 1. I bought an rx 580 almost 2 and a half years ago. performed like an absolute champ all the way until I sold it a couple months ago... for over twice what I initially bought it for. legendary card.
I love your videos. Thoughtful, insightful, and none of the annoying posturing seen in other videos designed to create drama or hold attention.
Please, continue.
Good old times :(, I am happy with having bought a 2070 super at late 2020. And also great video I love your hardware related videos :)
5:08 its been so long since i heard someone swear on youtube... feels so nostalgic really.
Seeing my RX480 get represented like this brought a smile. I used it non-stop until 2 weeks ago and it paid it's price. Oh, the time spent in the radeon suite to crank up the cooler's RPM. Great stuff Philip, thanks.
I got an Asus RX480 strix in late 2016 and it's still mostly fine today. Basically every modern game ran at around 60 to 80 fps with reasonable settings. It does however struggle a lot in blender, which was the reason why I got a 3070 when I managed to find one for a somewhat reasonable price last year. The RX480 now lives on in my secondary pc and is happily running ubuntu. Let's hope that it will last for another 5 years!
I had a 4850 in my first gaming computer. It was a beast. And 6 months later I got a second card and almost doubled my frame rate in cod4.
Big correction on the 8800GT,
it was meant to be a good deal lower performance. However at that time the 3870 and 3850 was on the horizon and once benchmarks came out for those, Nvidia hastily upped the clock speed for the upcoming 8800GT, causing it to have a very small overclocking envelope and eventually competed with the 3850 on performance.
So it wasn't that the GT was released to compete with itself, it was to protect nvidia from a resurgent Ati, which didn't work because as you said eventually the 4850, and 4870 came out and dominated the price/performance charts.
8800GT was still well loved at the time, and caused the 3870 - 3850 range from Ati to be kind of forgotten.
I had an 8800 GT! It was definitely a mind blowing card at the time - nobody could believe the performance for that price. Pretty much made the 8800 GTS seem silly. Probably another card worth mentioning is the 7900GS and then also the 7900GTO. The 7900GS was a cut down 7900GT but almost as fast for under 200 bucks. The 7900GTO was even more impressive though - it was a 7900GTX slightly downclocked for 250 bucks. You could even flash a GTX BIOS on MOST 7900GTO cards.
theres something about 2000s cards that i really like: how they look. Most cards nowadays look more "stealthy" (they are either black, white or grey) they look like another piece of the computer, but those 2000s cards really stand out when you look at them on a PC, i want to have a graphics card that stands out when you look at the pc, but not because it has super duper flashy RGB, but because it stands out compared to the rest of the PC. I want clear cases, stickers with characters that when you look at them the first thing you think is "this shit ain´t lacking" idk, the same black case with 2 fans just gets old real quick
One of the best if not the best youtuber out there! 750ti got me into gaming on a cheap small form factor office oc. Then my first big upgrade was the rx470 for £150 new. So both were ground breaking to me on price to performance.
Funny enough, that 8800GT and the series are still being sold brand new in my area for Php12,000~17,000 ($250~350)
Looking at the current prices of hardware is insane. Can't believe I bought a 7770 for less than $100, which in 2012 was a mid-range graphics card. Still runs all the games I play just fine... really hoping it keeps running until the current market situation clears up because I really don't want to buy new hardware at these current prices.
The other potential rational for the 8800GT was the fact that GPUs at that point in time we either in the "Can run Crysis" or "can't run Crysis" categories. And the 8800GT was basically the minimum you could get away with for a somewhat decent Crysis experience.
@@2kliksphilip The 8800 Ultra was the fastest GPU at the time and it had been out for around a year when Crysis came out, but it was over $600 all the way back in 2006 which felt like 3090 money today. The 8800GT that you referred to in this video came out like 2 weeks before Crysis came out. The demo for Crysis was already out at this point as well and I remember GPU reviews for the 8800GT using it as a benchmark.
I never said that the older 8800's wouldn't have been able to run Crysis? What I was saying was that the 8800GT was positioned as the cheapest Nvidia GPU that would give you a playable experience with Crysis. If the 8800GT didn't exist, the minimum cost to get a "Crysis worthy" Nvidia card would have been significantly higher ($350 for a GTS 640MB which was only marginally faster).
Great video. Had the 4850, wouldn't have upgraded but I was given a 6770 in 2012. And I have a rx480 and yes, It's still worth the 239 I paid for it and I use it in my main system. But between these cards I bought an r 9 270x for 189. And it sits in my secondary system today. At around half the performance of the 480 in 2014 and 2 to 3 times as fast as the 6770 I feel like it should be an honourable mention.
Hearing Philip say "What the FUCK nVidia?!" made me burst out laughing. You are an internet gem, mate.
I bought my 8800GT for £70 brand new from Ebuyer when it was just released, must have been a mistake but it turned up! Was a massive upgrade over my 7900gs, I remember downloading all the DX10 tech demos I could find before it arrived :)
as a newer gamer, i'd really appreciate if there was the release date on every card mentioned, because everything other than the radeon 480 and gtx 1650 is ancient history to me, so at least having a reference on when everything was released would have been nice
I remember a time in the hardware community when paying more than $300 for a graphics card was considered a waste of money. Now look where we are now.
I was always behind in computer stuff, be it for money or lack of choice. I went from a Via S3G to a Intel T4500 iGPU, A4-7300 iGPU and finally my current GTX 1060. Even so I was always content with what I can play with these "cards". Now that I have the money and the choice, there's simply no reason to upgrade further. I mostly play multiplayer games and there's no real substitute for my 1060 yet. Same for my Ryzen 3600. I'll live with this setup for years to come...
Still running my 480 strix like a beast, still can do low-mid settings 1440p in alot of modern titles.
About a year ago I got a 6gb 1660 super for around $250 on Amazon and it has worked beautifully for me......
It's now $600 dollars on that same Amazon listing.
Man I really want an upgrade. There's always a crypto boom or something when I get the itch.
I think you missed out on the 750ti. It was way more accessible to a lot of people that I knew who were just now getting into pc gaming because it didn't require us to spend another 30% of its purchase price on a power supply. It stayed relevant for way longer than reasonable too. The one I bought for my first pc is in my little brother's pc playing Minecraft, Csgo, and Fortnite to this day.
I'd put the 3gb 1060 there as well. It often times performed as well as a rx480, could undervolt and overclock just as nicely too. It held onto its price far better than the rx480 during the crypto booms. The 1060 3gb also had excellent drivers at launch day.
Very surprised this gets overlooked so often.
I'd really want to watch a video about your PC gaming history, like when was your first build and how long have you been following PC hardware.
RX480 8GB from new on release week.....still going strong @1080p max,high settings for all the games I enjoy playing. Its performance improved over the years , 100% driver stability as well best money I spent on an upgrade (till i brought frist gen R7 1700 on release) a perfect union that is serving my Requirements perfectly. True Legend of a GPU ( Polaris series) for sure.
Those arts on older graphic card’s package are pretty wild
I remember in high school going 50/50 with my brother on a $400 Radeon 9800XT, flagship. It came with a voucher for Half-Life 2 before it was released, we were the envy of the nerds at school.
Love your videos man. Keep up the good work!
480 was a beast of a card for the price, glad I bought it a couple years ago when getting back into PC gaming
I think you forgot the rx 570? I got it for 140€ and it stays in 4-8% behind the 480 (with good oc potential to push it in front of the 480). It still powers my lan-pc and it came with two games i sold for 50€ -> paid 90€.
I had 2 8800GTX's, they had insane RAM bitrates, 384-bit I believe. Good value. The SLi bridge was beefy. You had to set SLi at in the Nvidia dashboard manually and screen tearing was a common issue. More than I'd like to admit you would have to run a single card but it was also budget friendly.