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1983 – Intel iSBX 275 VGCMB<\/h3>\n
Intel’s iSBX 275 Video Graphics Controller Multimode Board was able to display eight colours at a resolution of 256 x 256.<\/p>\n
ATI made a name for itself in the global graphics processor market with products like the VGA Wonder.<\/p>\n The card featured 16-bit colour support and 2D rendering.<\/p>\n The 3dfx Voodoo1 marked the beginning of the 3D gaming era – sporting a 3D processor with 4MB of RAM and a 50MHz core clock.<\/p>\n Nvidia’s Riva 128 graphics card secured a foothold for the company in the 3D graphics market and competed with the Voodoo 1.<\/p>\n The Voodoo 2 was a cutting-edge card which combined three chips to offer the best 3D graphics performance at the time.<\/p>\n Nvidia’s GeForce 256 boasted a cooler for its processor chip\u00a0and support for DirectX 7.<\/p>\n ATI’s Radeon 9700 graphics card included support for Direct3D 9.0 and OpenGL 2.0, offering high-end performance on a 150nm manufacturing process.<\/p>\n The Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX was a powerful graphics card for its time, drawing large amounts of power and easily running the most demanding games for a number of years.<\/p>\n The HD 5970 was one of the last products created by ATI before it was acquired by AMD, delivering a dual-GPU setup with unprecedented performance.<\/p>\n Nvidia’s GeForce 200 Series marked the company’s first GPUs created on the 40nm manufacturing process and\u00a0boasted performance far superior to the GeForce 100 Series.<\/p>\n The trend of emblazoning rendered characters onto graphics card coolers began to diminish as new graphics cards were released.<\/p>\n AMD’s Radeon HD 7970 was a powerful card built on the 28nm manufacturing process and the company’s Graphics Core Next (GCN 1.0) architecture.<\/p>\n The GeForce 600 Series was built on Nvidia’s Kepler architecture and a 28nm fabrication process, which persisted for two subsequent GPU generations.<\/p>\n The Radeon R9 290 is a high-end GPU which remains a powerful contender against modern cards and holds its own in modern titles.<\/p>\n Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 970 Maxwell-powered graphics card has proven immensely popular among gamers as a high-value 1080p GPU solution.<\/p>\n The Polaris-based Radeon RX 480 is built on a 14nm manufacturing process and is aimed at mid-range gamers seeking high-value performance.<\/p>\n Nvidia used a 16nm manufacturing process\u00a0to build its Pascal architecture, which powers the GeForce GTX 10 Series.<\/p>\n The company’s flagship GeForce GTX 1080 delivers an impressive 8GB of GDDR5X VRAM and can compete against SLI or CrossFire systems as a standalone solution for 4K gaming.<\/p>\n The performance and design of graphics cards have experienced radical changes over the past 30 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":196980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[41042,30004,35],"class_list":["post-196964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-evolution","tag-graphics-cards","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197371,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196964\/revisions\/197371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n
\n1988 – ATI VGA Wonder<\/h3>\n
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\n1996 – 3dfx Voodoo 1<\/h3>\n
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\n1997 – Nvidia Riva 128<\/h3>\n
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\n1998 – 3dfx Voodoo 2<\/h3>\n
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\n1999 – Nvidia GeForce 256 DDR<\/h3>\n
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\n2002 – ATI Radeon 9700<\/h3>\n
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\n2006 – Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX<\/h3>\n
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\n2009 – ATI Radeon HD 5970<\/h3>\n
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\n2009 – Nvidia GeForce GTX 295<\/h3>\n
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\n2012 – AMD Radeon HD 7970<\/h3>\n
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\n2012 – Nvidia GeForce GTX 680<\/h3>\n
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\n2013 – AMD Radeon R9 290<\/h3>\n
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\n2014 – Nvidia GeForce GTX 970<\/h3>\n
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\n2016 – AMD Radeon RX 480<\/h3>\n
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\n2016 – Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080<\/h3>\n
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\nNow read:\u00a0Budget graphics cards under R5,000 \u2013 Pricing and performance<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"