How graphics cards have evolved over the years

1988 – ATI VGA Wonder

ATI made a name for itself in the global graphics processor market with products like the VGA Wonder.

The card featured 16-bit colour support and 2D rendering.
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16-bit colour in 1988? Pretty sure that's not possible. 'High Colour' (15bit and 16bit) consumer tech was introduced in the 90s.
 
AnimateX said:
16-bit colour in 1988? Pretty sure that's not possible. 'High Colour' (15bit and 16bit) consumer tech was introduced in the 90s.
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Maybe, in '91 there was the S3 924 which was 24bit colour.
 
The Amiga 500 was 16bit wasn't it and that was late 80s?
 
milomak said:
The Amiga 500 was 16bit wasn't it and that was late 80s?
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You're confusing colour depth (16bit=65536 colours, with the CPU. The 68000 CPU had a 32bit instruction set with a 16bit external data bus & 24bit address bus. First Amiga came out in '85 and had 8bit colour with a special HAM mode yielding a 12bit (4096) colour space.
 
I'm not a big gamer but what stood out to me was the 3dfx voodoo, the ATi 9700 and the nVidia 8800.

Those were the cards mostly discussed on PCFormat.

Edit: I meant 8800.
 
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simm_card said:
I'm not a big gamer but what stood out to me was the 3dfx voodoo, the ATi 9700 and the nVidia 9800.

Those were the cards mostly discussed on PCFormat.
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Best card I owned was two GTX8800 ultra's

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My first setup.

Now have the two 580s

Next purchase will break this configuration since I'm now looking for a high performance NUC size pc.
 
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Still using a GT620... games run fine in low settings mode :(
 
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