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It reminds me of the old GPU vendors when we were still using AGP bus(or pre-AGP era I forgot). Good evil days.
by ezoe 8y ago
It reminds me of the old GPU vendors when we were still using AGP bus(or pre-AGP era I forgot). Good evil days.
- taneq 8y agoAre those days gone? Benchmark-specific hacks in graphics drivers, I mean, not AGP. :P Also all the outrage when people discovered that a Radeon 9600 was just a Radeon 9800 running in crippled mode, and that you could bridge the tracks and re-enable it in 9800 mode. (Or something similar, anyway, that was a long time ago... :P )
- cehrlich 8y agoIt was the 9500 that could be modded into a 9700. Early versions could be softmodded, this was disabled in later revisions which could only be modded by soldering the additional rendering pipes back on. No idea why I remember this useless piece of information. Also on a completely different note, the 9700 Pro which was the flagship card of that generation, cost about $300. Times have changed.
- Geforce8472 8y ago$399 was the price on launch in 2002, which is around $550 adjusted for inflation, current flagship consumer GPU from Radeon is the Vega 64 priced at $599 RRP. Times haven't changed as much as you might think
- opencl 8y agoAMD's flagship is the $700 Vega 64 LC. NVIDIA's flagship 1080 Ti is $700 and their soon-to-launch 2080 Ti is $1000 or $1200 for the Founders Edition.
- taneq 8y agoThanks! I wasn't in the market for one at the time (I don't think I had a job yet) but remember the furore. The idea that someone would sell hardware that deliberately performed below its potential was shocking to a lot of people. I guess it still is now, for instance the Tesla "60kWh" cars which actually had 70kWh packs and had extra range enabled with an OTA update ahead of a hurricane.