15 years of the history of video cards in pictures

And what are you Ruban monsters on the screen ?!

Since the mid 90's, the computer industry of 3D-graphics and, in particular, has made a giant leap display adapters. Performance solutions for professionals, home users and enthusiasts has grown a hundred times. We got access to the entertainment and computer games, which previously could only dream of. Our foreign colleagues decided to trace the history of devices, without which today present three-dimensional graphics on a PC is almost impossible. This, of course, talking about the video adapter.
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1995 Model S3 ViRGE, speed: 66 MHz, DirectX 6, PCI:





1995 model ATI Rage II, speed: 25 - 60 MHz, memory frequency: 66 - 83 MHz, DirectX 5, PCI:



1996 model 3dfx Voodoo1, speed: 50 MHz, memory frequency: 50 MHz, DirectX 3, PCI:



1997 model Riva 128 (NVIDIA NV3), speed: 100 MHz, memory frequency: 100 MHz, DirectX 5, PCI / AGP:



1997 model 3dfx Voodoo Rush, speed: 50 MHz, memory frequency: 50 MHz, DirectX 5, PCI / AGP:



1998 model Mystique G200, speed: 85 MHz, memory frequency: 112 MHz, DirectX 6, AGP:



1998 model Matrox G250, speed: 85 MHz, memory frequency: 112 MHz, DirectX 6, AGP:



1998 model 3dfx Voodoo2, speed: 90 MHz, memory frequency: 90 MHz, DirectX 3, PCI / AGP:



1998 Model Riva TNT (NVIDIA NV4), speed: 90 MHz, memory frequency: 110 MHz, DirectX 6, PCI / AGP:



1999 model ATI Rage Fury MAXX, speed: 125 MHz, memory frequency: 143 MHz, DirectX 7, AGP:



2000 model Matrox G450, speed: 125 MHz, memory frequency: 166 MHz, DirectX 6, PCI / AGP:



2000 model 3dfx Voodoo5 5500 CPU frequency: 166 MHz, memory frequency: 166 MHz, DirectX 6, PCI / AGP:



2000 model NVIDIA GeForce 2 GTS, speed: 200 MHz, memory frequency: 333 MHz, DirectX 7, AGP:



2001 Model ATI Radeon 7500 processor frequency: 290 MHz, memory frequency: 230 MHz, DirectX 7, PCI / AGP:



2003 model NVIDIA GeForce 4 Ti4800, speed: 300 MHz, memory frequency: 650 MHz, DirectX 8, AGP:



2004 Model ATI Radeon X850 XT Platinum, the CPU frequency is 540 MHz, memory frequency: 590 MHz, DirectX 9, AGP / PCI-E:



2004 Model XG41 Volari V5, the CPU frequency: 350 MHz, memory frequency: 350 MHz, DirectX 9, AGP:



2004 model NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra Extreme, Processor Speed: 450 MHz memory frequency: 1200 MHz, DirectX 9, PCI-E:



2005 model NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX, the CPU frequency: 430 MHz, memory frequency: 1200 MHz, DirectX 9, PCI-E:



2006 Model ATI Radeon X1950 XTX, the CPU frequency: 650 MHz, memory frequency: 1000 MHz, DirectX 9, PCI-E:



2006 model NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2, speed: 500 MHz, memory frequency: 1200 MHz, DirectX 9, PCI-E:



2006 model NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX, the CPU frequency: 575 MHz, memory frequency: 1800 MHz, DirectX 10, PCI-E:



2007 model of ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2, Processor Speed: 825 MHz memory frequency: 900 MHz, DirectX 10.1, PCI-E:



2008 Model 4850 ATI Radeon HD X2, Processor Speed: 650 MHz memory frequency: 993 MHz, DirectX 10.1, PCI-E:



2009 model GeForce GTX 275 NVIDIA, speed: 633 MHz, memory frequency: 2268 MHz, DirectX 10, PCI-E:



2009 model GeForce GTX 295 NVIDIA, speed: 576 MHz, memory frequency: 1998 MHz, DirectX 10, PCI-E:



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