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7970 is probably the gpu with longest life cycle from “can it run x” point of view.
Awesome list ! My first build is highschool was a 9700 pro ! , used a 7970 and a 6800xt . I definitely agree with the list b
….bruh how did the 9700 pro beat the 9800 pro it fucking came with half life 2 ffs .
9600xt 9800xt* my 9800 pro didn’t at least when I got it.
It was AMD’s true domination card for the generation it was in. I saw the benchmarks on Anandtech and I was floored.
Surprised the 5700xt isn’t on this list.
5700xt is by far the worse gpu ever released. Its has the highest rma rates and the worse drivers. It is down as the worst possible gpu’s to exist.
I heard nothing but driver issue complaints during the rnda1 era so that doesn’t surprise me at all
What did it do to make it to a top list? even AMD forgot about it.
The 5700xt!!! Are you crazy. That’s the worst AMD/ATI card I’ve ever owned. Driver crash,crash,crash,crash,crash. Fixed after 6 months my ass.
Where’s R9 290X?
Nowhere, like it should be. The launch was a disaster because AMD pushed the clock/power targets extremely high in order to “compete” with the 780 and 780 Ti, with the end result being a jet engine in terms of noise.
It wasn’t until February before MSI and ASUS released better cooled cards, at which point the damage from reviews and lack of holiday sales had accumulated.
In the 7970’s case, AMD had at least the benefit of being 3 months early compared to Nvidia.
What are you on about, nvidia had to lower price on 780 twice and issue an emergency SKU in form of 780Ti to be able to compete on price/performance with Hawaii. R9 290 (non-X) was a steal at its price considering how long it managed to stay relevant in the years ahead. GCN driver improvement also added a significant chunk of performance (9k GS in FS at release and around 15k with OC and driver improvements 3 years later). Also, Kepler blower cards were also loud, so the point is sort of not a point at all
How would you have known that the 290 would perform better in 2016?
As for the price cuts, I remember the 780 Ti launch, and the 780 launch was effectively a cut from the Titan.
The 780 price cut was the reason for the jet engine cooler on the 290-series in the first place.
Yeah…This list is a joke without the 290X.
The 290X wasn’t even close to being as competitive as the also-omitted 4870
The 290X wasn’t that impressive at launch. Ran hot and wasn’t cheap enough to be a good value.
it was faster than the 780 and literally $250 less than the MSRP of the 780 and the 780ti wouldn’t come out for quite a while
What are you talking about man it was on par if not faster than the first Titan…
Tom’s literally called it the “Titan killer”. Yes the reference cooler ran hot and sounded like a hair dryer, but the price to performance was amazing. And the AIB cards had some great models, like the Sapphire Toxic.
I feel it still deserves a spot on the list. Also the heat issues were mostly addressed with Sapphire’s coolers for example. Just seems highly critical to write it off, at least to me.
It’s funny how they call the 5870 the best AMD GPU of all time.
They are not wrong, but it’s also their biggest strategic mistake ever: right when they had Nvidia in the ropes and had a chance to crush them with top of the line performance by an insane margin, they decided on they brain dead small die strategy, leaving an escape route for a Nvidia to still remain on top with absolute performance even if their performance per area was a disaster.
It’s just another example of AMD marketing shooting themselves in the foot.
AMD didn’t have an alternative other than to go “small” die, since they needed margins and they couldn’t execute huge dies given their cost.
Yup. NVIDIA was able to pull ahead simply through brute force. Sure they ran hot and consumed a lot of power but that was negligible when they were doubling performance every generation.
I thought the Radeon VII was good. Just needed better driver support. I can mine really well.
Not seeing the Rx 580 and the Rx 6700xt is a joke
Personally, all time means amd stop making gpus
The 7900xtx is a marvel of technology today
The midrange 6800xt still holds its own
290 was an amazing card as I did run bf4 with eyefinity and pushed 100fps with Mantle.
good days.I miss the days when a great card could cost below $500 and a good card below $200
"Although the RX 480 didn’t live up to its strange, communist-themed marketing campaign, it had a very long life. "
Anyone know what this is referring to?
wow lol, makes me want to join the pepsi revolution
9600xt, x1900xtx, hd4890, r9 290x, rx6900xt
How is the X800/850 not on this list? X1900? HD2900 (I kid, I kid LOL)? 3870? 4870?
Nonsense.
Yeah the x800xt was also a chad. It equalled or beat the Nvidia 6800s etc, in my country people were nvidia brainwashed so didn’t know much about that beast. I bought one on launch.
I had an X800 GTO2 that was easy to flash to an X850.
Great card for its time.
My list:
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R9 290 - last GPU before 20 nm disaster (not mentioned in the topic, it wasn’t Kepler that got parity in terms of tech process, it was that ATi lost its edge when 20nm didn’t bear fruit)
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9500 non pro (L-shaped memory bank) - a fairly good chance to unlock it to 9700
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N21 varieties (it’d be the first but mining craze killed it)
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Cypress - another Khan like success that forced nV to start to play dirty (mGPU frametime “analysis”, GameWorks, PhysX etc), wood screw-augmented “Thermi” flagship in Jen-Hsun hands
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R580 - another glimmer before the big disaster (history certainly repeats sometimes) and an example of quick recovery after so-so R520 (and terribad medium/low-end parts)
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6800xt better than 290x?
9700 Pro was my first AMD/ATI GPU. It was paired with an Athlon XP 2500+ at the time.