The Evolution Of the Graphics Card
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- Опубликовано: 24 июл 2024
- PC Graphics Cards Explained
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Graphics cards haven’t always been luxury components people on Reddit can use to flex on their poorer subordinates: in fact, GPUs as we know them only came into existence in the 1990s. Since then, GPUs have radically changed in fundamental ways, and looking towards the future, GPUs are set to continue to change. But what exactly is a GPU, how have they changed over time, and where are we now? We’re glad you asked. Today, we’re going to take a look at the evolution of the GPU, examine what has changed and what hasn’t, and speculate as to what the future of PC gaming has in store for us all. This isn’t aimed at being a comprehensive overview of anything, but more of an exploration of the evolution of PC hardware over the course of the last three decades. So, put your pitchfork away if you brought one, grab some popcorn, and settle in for a history lesson!
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"PC Graphics Cards Explained" that doesnt even mention 3dfx. booo!
Yeah, they also have the gall to say at 2:09, that Geforce popularized GPUs. That was straight up 3dfx.
I know! 3dfx, SLI, etc. Was this a big invidia ad?
Wow from a wooden board to a fricking dual triple fan
That's racist
@@-Scrapper- Are you stupid?
Or are you joking?
@@Dominik-rq5pp are you
@@Gamerthinkersman ooooooooooooooooh
Weird you don’t even mention 3dfx Voodoo since you can see a 3dfx chipset in the thumbnail. I loved my Voodoo Banshee card and made that racing game (Screamer 2) look amazing all the back in 1998. Consoles actually took a couple of generations to reach that level of smooth polygones.
Yeah skipped right past the genesis of 3d gaming. When you still needed a separate 2d card. Voodoo cards were huge. You were a real baller with dual Voodoo IIs in your machine.
Lmao he skipped alot of history in the beginning. Like voodoo cards. Either way a good vid.
yeah about to say that. ISA Slots and PCI slots etc.
If he skips Quake 2 Open GL on a Voodoo card then video is subpar.
Didn't even cover CGA, EGA and original VGA
I owned a voodoo 5500, it was amazing.
Yep. Got my 3DFX cards still.
I am happy on how leaps and bounds tech has come. People younger than I will never now how bad video cards were in the early to mid 90's dont want to talk about the 80's.
i play pin ball
What's your opinion on the rtx 4090? Also soon this year 5090 will be here
Trident started Graphic User Interfaces for Windows 2D acceleration. Matrox, founded in 1978, started dual-display, multiscreen and even promoted bump mapping technology with the G400. And 3DFX created real 3D acceleration GPU, as for PowerVR that was later featured in the Sega Dreamcast! And SGI help to create the first 3D movies for Hollywood with their Silicon Graphics. And finally Microsoft developed DirectX that opened 3D possibilities to the PC after OpenGL. Please don’t wipe off those who ruled 3D before the GeForce and Radeon eras. Don’t you all remember Quake, HL or Unreal? 👑✌️
Left out the 3DFx Voodoo cards which briefly dominated the market in the mid-1970s with over 80% share. The 3DFx capability also empowered 3D video game development and acceptance, much like the advent of the CD drive.
Typo correction. 3dfx Voodoo cards dominated the market in the mid-1990s. I added a Voodoo 3 to my custom home-brew gaming rig and a high end sound card.
@@auldjohnmastersage477 I managed to get my hands on a voodoo 2
should have started with 3Dfx which preceeded the geforce and even the Riva which was first
true
I think 4k is more than sufficient. There is no need for 8k or 16k. Even if it came through, a very very very small fraction of people could afford it.
There are channels like Niktek who always tease people not having a graphic card
I just wanna say that more than 50% of people cannot even afford a laptop
And if some of 'em which could, they can afford a shitty laptop or a box-like pc in which you can just do online classes and can watch gameplays of other people on youtube.
@Onur K this is why things like dsr are being developed. High frame rates no loss to quality
@Onur K also why pc is better can set whatever settings you want
Even 1080p does just fine. Honestly, it takes stillshots of a game and really zooming in and going "hey look, these shadows look a little softer".
At 60+ fps, it just isn't very noticeable. To the point videos exist of 4k vs 1080p and most people can't spot the difference.
Most people are playing on 15" laptop screens or 24" gaming monitors. At usual distances we sit from these screens, 1080p gets what you need. 4K won't be very noticeable.
Why do I get this funny feeling though that low end cards of each generation will still JUST work with 1080p but be fine at 4K? In fact we see it today where 1080p to 4K barely makes an FPS difference, which to me is just bizarre and red flagging purposeful shenanigans. 4K takes 4x as much compute power and RAM. Yet going from 60fps 4k to 1080 gets you to...70ps or so.
@@corporealcasimir4885 yah exactly bro
@@corporealcasimir4885 i do believe 1080p to 1440p is noticeable, also 60 fps to 144fps/hz but only to the well versed eye, and a 20/20 vision eye at that. any more than that even an eye and brain with both can't notice the difference, and and if you have tech above 2k at 144hz, i solidly believe you have wasted your money.
My laptop: graphics card? What the heck is that
totally relatable
my laptop can only open youtube
and that's what I am doing
laptops aren't designed to play game- i had two...all they did was over heat from ' sitting ' the fans are at the bottom and can't cool down properly
@@thekarentrap1255 yh i realized
@@thekarentrap1255 then why do gaming Notebooks/laptops exist?
I do have a gaming laptop with GTX 1650
1080p is all u need for resolution
I feel like that's more a matter of opinion rather than fact. I like my 1440. Looks sharper, bigger screen size, and I can still get good framerates. 4K gaming is getting relevant now too; and for a good reason, it looks amazing. If consoles are now aiming towards 4K, then I see no reason why pc shouldn't. Granted though, if you're happy with 1080p, then thats all well and good. I don't judge. But me personally. I've played at 1080p on consoles and TV's long enough that I can safely say it doesn't impress me anymore. (I've switched to PC now, from a Ps4)
here's a thought for advancement. Rather than reaching for higher resolution, why not just make the things cheaper?
Dumbo, as the tech gets faster people can play higher frames at no cost for FPS, most high end PC are geared towards 2k rather 4K because of how demanding modern games are.
The gamer: "The new Xbox Series X Wont be able to do 4k 60fps"
Me: bruh
I was burning stuff when I saw ur vid I clicked with a burnt thumb
Where my early gamers gang
@Takeo You are the one that should get a life for taking RUclips comments so personally
@Takeo Exactly what I am saying
Me at 5:30 am with no sleep: hmm interesting
The "1996 card" in the thumbnail is a Voodoo3 which can out later in 1999, not 1996.
Can u make a vid where you cover ps4 system software 8.00
To think we came this far
Check out the size of transistores. Shrinked from 220nm (nano meters) in 1999 to 8nm 2020. Almost 30x gain. They started with 16 shading units that run parallel. Today its 10496 shading units, 656x gain. But maybe transistors cant shrink smaller than 3nm, so maybe gpu power triples in next years and gets stuck
A nanometer is a useless measurement in today's chips. They started to lose meaning in 2009 and they've been lying since. It's all about transistor density today. That's the only way to truly improve the manufacturing process and increase performance. TSMC'S "5nm" process is between 36-22nm depending on how you measure it. It's nowhere near 5nm. It will be nearly impossible to get to a true 5nm process.
You should make things you didn't know your gemegear could do
You left out SGI computers! They pioneered the graphics generation
Where is Matrox graphics cards, 3DFx Voodoo or cheaper S3 ? ISA and PCI are not presented, only AGP and PCIx slots.
Damn man one guy disliked the video i bet he is screaming "first"
NOW!!
...
Console fanboy?
@@MNanme1z4xs what do you mean by that? His comment has nothing to do with that
It's sad to think that we are almost at the limit of what silicon computers are capable of and yet we are still decades away from switching to carbon or molybdenum disulfide computers
Care to share a video that goes more in depth about this?
Im blown away how much engineering takes to design a gpu
Can you do An evolution of Hard Drives
Socket mount GPU will drastically reduce the volume of desktop gaming PC
evulotion was fast in the 90s. But now it seems to be hardly any major advancment.
I'm hoping there's gonna be a massive breakthrough in gaming technology soon which very well may see hardware capable of pushing frames and resolutions at the same rate it was in the 00's.. just imagine the day where we have a 16k oled (or even newer) panel that can play Microsoft flight simulator at 1000fps 😂😂
You completely skipped over the first chapter of the GPU story, which is the history of 3DFX and their Voodoo line of cards. 3DFX was hugely important. You included in the thumbnail, but not in the video. What was the point of making this video if you were not actually going to tell the complete story?
no mention of 3dfx?
First of all you skipped a lot of history. Secondly, the video is VERY over-simplified, plus there cannot be an increase in resolution if the display cannot output a resolution which is higher than the display’s. One more thing you mention that running 4K at high FPS is impossible, and yet a couple seconds before saying that you show doom eternal running at 130fps on a 3080, BRUH. Back to topic. There were and are standard resolutions for monitors and TVs and as such, with every graphics card there wasn’t and won’t always be an increase in resolution. The one who controls resolution is the screen manufacturer. Additionally around 7:35 you mention that the cores that power ray-tracing(RT) also power Deep Learning Super Sampling(DLSS). That is not true, DLSS is powered by Tensor cores. Additionally, the newest consoles don’t have beefy GPUs, plus they are already outclassed by the GPUs for the PC market. Not a video I would recommend.
yep
this is little history lesson is like being made by and paid by in courtesy of the leather jacket man
I subbed to u thegamer
I only don't see any hype for 8K even when seeing examples in person now. 4K seems kinda like it is the perfect res especially after seeing it with ray tracing.
8k games will become commonplace in 10 years for sure especially as the mainstream market adapts to 8k televisions. Photorealistic scenerery indistinguishable from reality will take place 15-20 years from now, with rendering photorealistic humans taking a bit longer at 25 years from now.
The photorealistic humans are definitely the most difficult given the amount of brain capacity in use for observing every possible aspect of other humans whether it be words used, facial expressions of emotion, body language and tone of voice used.
I have g41 express chipset
no 3dfx voodoo card :(
Yo I have Intel HD graphics
You left out 3DFX Cards!!!
I can't believe we made it through this video without discussing 3d rendering engines. While these graphics cards may be awesome in terms of raw computing power, it is the 'game engines' and frameworks which have made a substantial difference. DirectX and Proton are single-handedly the most important aspect of the technology, otherwise games would not be released at anywhere near their frequency as everyone would have to re-invent their modelling systems.
Ps6 is expected to come out in 2026 said by google
Or 2027
Didn’t your parents told you not to trust the internet? Sony didn’t even release the PS5 yet so you shouldn’t trust outside sources. You should know by now that if Sony haven’t reveal it, it’s not happening😂
@Raimi Forever they release a console every 7 years not 6
@Raimi Forever Did Sony said it or you just looking at rumors? There was also rumors about the PS5 design. Was the rumors correct? No, so how about you stop trusting the internet and wait till Sony announce the PS6
perhaps game streaming would be a real thing by then.
I know topic is evolution not history of GPU, but skiping late 80's and almost all 90's, especially 3dFx and their VooDoo cards just had me stop video after 3 min mark and write this comment to let all know even before they start watching, this is a waste of time, because 3dFx made such big contribution to GPU evolution it is almost a crime to skip it. 3dFx was first to bring 3D graphics into market, they also ones who invented technology called SLI and sadly later become part of Nvidia, which even used SLI in their GPU's. One could even said that without 3dFx today Nvidia could not be where it is now and there would not be cars wih 2 GPU's on one board(of course 3dFx was also first witch that idea). Huge fail with skipping 90's and 3dFx cards...
yeah wtf ? like passed over the biggest moments tht efined the graphic card as we know it, and the statement about the ps3 and xbox 360 barely able to do 720 res and 30fps is wrong
4:11 Did you actually just say "throbbing center"???
Is the voice real ?
no
19 comments, yet 2 views?
yes
Me on my voodoo 🗿
I had:
1 Intel i740 igp
2 Riva TNT2 m64
3 GeForce 4 Ti 4200
4 Radeon 9600SE
5 GeForce 6600 GT
6 GeForce 7300 GT
7 GeForce 9600 GT
8 Radeon HD 3870
9 GeForce 9800GX2
10 Radeon HD 5770
11 Radeon HD 6850
12 GeForce GTX 480
13 Radeon R9 280X
14 GeForce GTX 680
15 GeForce GTX 1070
16 GeForce RTX 2080
17 GeForce GTX 950
Resolution is indeed overrated, in fast moving gameplay 4k is in fact unnecessry, rendering an image to a large screen is an issue requiring high resolutions but only if you get so close to the screen as to be able to see the individual pixels, overall field of view is the predominant issue.
Like apple promoted with the concept of the retina display, the resoloution only needs to be high enough to make the pixels invisible at the normal viewing distance.
Resolution & framerate isn't everything. In fact , those a secondary specifications of computer graphics.
I have a 2070 graphics card
What happened why is your video getting late
Nice ad.
RUclips: this style of card was popularized by the upstart company Nvidia
3DFX: Hold my voodoo
RUclips: their 1st GPU line, GeForce
NV1: Hold my Saturn
TNT: Hold my dynamite
TNT2: double that!
So less comments
I'm not sure if it's just me, but when I turn rtx on with my 3070 in most games I don't see any difference just a massive drop in frames lol.. and dlss makes the game look a lot less crisp
Its noticeable in small details. But I agree not much difference. Dlss however on quality setting looks no different then native on my set up. Ibe tested it with alot of games. I dont need the extra frames now as im crushing games in 4k. But its nice to know for longevity reasons down the line when more intensive games release ill be able to get high frame rates for a long time.
Hi
I found an RTX 3090 on Amazon brand new since I saw an RTX 3090 there I recommend getting your PC parts on Amazon
I think 1080 is enough,but we should really think about an alternative to the GPU for graphics
"We should think about an alternative to the *Graphics Processing Unit* for graphics"
What else should we use?
A RAM stick?
@@Kasmuller Im more thinking of a compute board that can be powered by external pcie
AMD Big NAVI be like:
Huge fail not mentioning 3DFX Voodoo chipsets. You even had one in the thumbnail for crying out loud.
Notifications squad where you at
even if they managed to make a card that can play every game out at 8k right now in 2 years u will be upgrading as games get more demanding every couple years..... my advice don't buy into the hype that 8k card will be a 1440p card in no time
Yup it's funny with him talking about 8k while I'm watching in 480p
8:25 fake, classic pc elitist undestimate new consoles, they can manage 4k 120 fps as a pc owner I hate this part of the pc community
SIX HUNDRED EIGHTH!
@Takeo You are the loser that needs a life here
wow
No mention of 3dfx 😒
Imagine building a pc
Built many starting with the Z80 and 8080 CP/,M microcomputers then PCs from 8080 DOS through I7s. My gaming laptops are my first factory built PCs. "Old gamers never die, they just respawn and carry on!"
I don't like your Jorge he dus not care about frieza voice achter but u need to do something about it !
why people dislike this vid
Because they completely omitted 3dfx and their Voodoo cards. It's like talking about walking on the moon without bringing up Neil Armstrong.
@@mikewallace3d This is also why I disliked. You can't talk about where 3d graphics cards started without talking about 3dfx.
@@OvermannOnline I knew the moment he said something to the tune of : GPU’s of the first decade of the 21 century were dominated by the two things rivalry between ATI and NVIDIA ...
I knew we won’t hear anything about 3Dfx, S3, Permedia, Matrox, none of them.
@@gwynbleidd13 Yeah, it's pretty much disinformation... AKA: fake news. It's to bad, the rate that everything progressed back then was incredible.
I've still got a voodoo 2,3, and 5. I believe I also have Matrox Millennium and S3 Savage somewhere too.
Yo
Heyo
Intrgrad decated GPU flow from board
E GPU PSU
Not first.
76th like
Front pannal
TheGamer is intresting he has good videos and really good content I'm a fan hes cool
Make new content!
wow.. these guys skipped a TON of good cards
evilution.
Stop making them bigger
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569th person
Lol
Froming from a idiot with no life
The hell is a name of takeo anyways?
Shut up potato looking weirdo
Here's my take. I'm shocked consoles at their price point drastically outperforms pc. 500 for series X and I spent 13090 on my gaming rig which is a 1080p experience. Over double spent (retail) and I can't even get 75% of what consoles have
E
Evolution is not alwayy a good thing. I don't like the bulky card of today. I prefer the card from the 90's. Single slot graphics cards for the win!
You didn't talk about 3dfx, so you get a dislike.
i m 1st
IDC
@Takeo @Drax yall prob 10
Fourth
@Takeo ur prob 10
IM LUCKY I WAS BORN IN THE 2010s
Ok kid, I’m lucky to experience old and new games. Enjoy fortnite while I play great games😂
... I have a freaking ps2
So ya cant really be saying that all I play is fortnite cause me and my brother grew up with the ps2 and ps3
This kid is under 10 and using RUclips lmao 😂
So be it
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First one here
No ,I am the first.
no
@@swiss_warthunder no bro
NO ONE CARES THAT YOU ARE FIRST OK?
First
no
yes
no bro
ok?
reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Meow
Pls give me a shoutout 🙏
I'm here second!
no
u r not
i agree hes not
@Takeo ur prob 10
Dislike
Really, REALLY poorly researched video.
Ok boomer
No one asked
Darth Nihilus ok boomer