The Evolution of AMD/ATI Radeon Graphics (2000-2022)

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  • @NikTek
    @NikTek  2 роки тому +881

    Hey everyone, I've just noticed that I've been writing "Radeoon" instead of Radeon on the GPU names, it is repetetive throughout the Video which went unnoticed from my part. I'm very sorry for that

    • @anshul24081993
      @anshul24081993 2 роки тому +40

      Its Ok. Nice video though. :)

    • @NikTek
      @NikTek  2 роки тому +83

      @@anshul24081993 thanks man, when I was reading the comments I saw people saying Radeooning,lol Radeoon. and then I watched the video again, when I saw how I’ve written it I was in shock. I focused so much on making this video happen that it went unnoticed

    • @raghavkamra8011
      @raghavkamra8011 2 роки тому +36

      'unoticed' also went unnoticed😂... jk :) . Great video mate

    • @ultradimensions
      @ultradimensions 2 роки тому +5

      Hey can you make a video about AMD CPUs, or Intel. That aside I learnt something something useful today. Hope your doing well.

    • @m598lmr
      @m598lmr 2 роки тому +2

      Oh, my pc runs games so slow. But I always use plenty of..."RADEOON"?

  • @zeghetti595
    @zeghetti595 2 роки тому +717

    AMD is life’s best example of “Never give up.”

    • @zeghetti595
      @zeghetti595 Рік тому

      @bujfvjg7222 Bro is on the D💀💀

    • @sudbtd
      @sudbtd Рік тому +29

      ​@bujfvjg7222that was unnecessary

    • @derfderfson
      @derfderfson Рік тому +12

      ​@bujfvjg7222you're a bit weird huh?

    • @Crecross
      @Crecross 10 місяців тому

      ​@bujfvjg7222Hopefully you'll figure out why no one likes you

    • @Critical_2
      @Critical_2 10 місяців тому +10

      ​@bujfvjg7222are you talking about yourself? 😂

  • @jackofficialTM
    @jackofficialTM 2 роки тому +889

    Bro this kind of content was least expected but it sure had me hooked

    • @NikTek
      @NikTek  2 роки тому +62

      thanks man!

    • @penewoldahh
      @penewoldahh 2 роки тому +12

      @@NikTek who is behind that nice voice?????

    • @mr.nobody4383
      @mr.nobody4383 2 роки тому +5

      @@NikTek face reveal 🥳

    • @prizrak-br3332
      @prizrak-br3332 2 роки тому +1

      @@NikTek I actually tried to find a video like this a few months ago but couldn't find any, Thank you NikTek, one more subscriber!

    • @mitlanderson
      @mitlanderson 2 роки тому

      @@NikTek Intel and AMD CPU generations next!

  • @Tate525
    @Tate525 2 роки тому +743

    Good to see AMD came so far, i wish good luck to Intel as well, team Green is pissing me off lately.

    • @NikTek
      @NikTek  2 роки тому +161

      yes, I really hope 10 years from now I'll make a videon on the History of Arc Graphics :)

    • @AndersHass
      @AndersHass 2 роки тому +18

      @@NikTek along with 2 others as well (it would suck if there won't be at least 3 companies making dedicated GPUs)

    • @nct7259
      @nct7259 2 роки тому +17

      Team green for Miners
      Not Gamers
      No doubt

    • @bukanmamabuciarati1630
      @bukanmamabuciarati1630 2 роки тому

      @@nct7259 team red is for budget gamers but not made us dissapoint

    • @PyroBlonde7777
      @PyroBlonde7777 2 роки тому +8

      I went to the 6800 XT and 5600X. I grew up with AMD stuff because it was affordable. Its nice to be back.

  • @toespic
    @toespic 2 роки тому +447

    When you can buy the highest end gpu on the market with 299$:

    • @radeonati1728
      @radeonati1728 2 роки тому +61

      When your monthly grocery cost less than 199$

    • @GewelReal
      @GewelReal 2 роки тому +14

      When silicon wafers costed pennies

    • @deagle7776
      @deagle7776 2 роки тому +6

      Vs $2000

    • @Emeric62
      @Emeric62 2 роки тому +8

      It was still true in 2015. I bought my radeon 7200 vivo in 2000 and in my 390x in 2015 for about the same $350

    • @guily6669
      @guily6669 2 роки тому +4

      @@Emeric62 Back in 2011 I also bought the GTX570 for like 340eur and it was a pretty biffed up version of it with 3 slot cooler and could do 25% OC with a 1.2V modded bios flashed and it's actually still alive (in theory it's custom PCB was more in pair with a normal GTX580) and basically it was the 2nd best Nvidia GPU because 580 was the best and the 590 was still to be announced but sadly the 580 was already almost 500€ sadly.
      When I bought my crap Strix RX480 sadly the Nvidia GTX1070 was already around 500€ which was the 300€ back in 2011 and they even release "TI" to slap in the buyers face so at the end 1070 ended up being like only like the 5th better Nvidia GPU at the end of that gen but costing almost the same as the 2nd best GPU from them back in 2011 and the thing is that min salary barely increased here from that range of years so yeah just a pile of rubbish 😡
      ps: Will probably have to cut an arm and a leg to make my next PC in the future, cause it's getting ridiculously expensive and the wattage is also nuts for the cost of electricity here 🤬😡😥

  • @rattlehead999
    @rattlehead999 2 роки тому +151

    The HD4870 was just 20% slower than the gtx 280, but the HD4870 was 300$, the GTX 280 was 650$
    The HD 4870 was a 256mm^2 die size chip, the gtx 280 was 576mm^2 die size
    The HD 4870 was 150W the gtx 280 was 250W

    • @alfonso5177
      @alfonso5177 2 роки тому +3

      hd 4870 won !

    • @rattlehead999
      @rattlehead999 2 роки тому +24

      @@alfonso5177 In reality people bought Nvidia more, sad but true. AMD in 2007-2008 had 35% of the market share.
      Though in 2009-2010 it went over 50%, but that was a different generation.

    • @alfonso5177
      @alfonso5177 2 роки тому

      @@rattlehead999 yes ik, but the hd 4870 was better by price/perfomance/wattage

    • @rattlehead999
      @rattlehead999 2 роки тому +12

      @@alfonso5177 absolutely and even in performance, 20% isn't much.
      AMD should have been destroying Nvidia from 2007 to 2015, but due to mind share people bought Nvidia.
      Even in the next generations AMD repeated the same success as the HD4870 to lesser extent, but still cheaper, smaller die size and performance was close, even power was often lower. Yet they lost.

    • @ledoynier3694
      @ledoynier3694 2 роки тому +3

      @@rattlehead999 It was not mind share, it was awful drivers and game support :)
      The video could have been a 10 second youtube short saying that 2000-2019, ATI/AMD drivers sucked hard, and since the RDNA2 launch, they start to be good and really useable.
      When a new game comes out, Nvidia launches a game ready driver a week prior. but AMD (and mostly ATI) used instead to try to deal with bugs for the 6 months after the game launch.

  • @DjVortex-w
    @DjVortex-w 2 роки тому +340

    I'm enormously appreciative of AMD as a company. For the longest time they were kind of the underdog, first trying to compete against the absolute behemoth that's Intel. Then, not fearing a battle on two fronts, they then took on another absolute behemoth, Nvidia. Sometimes they succeeded in challenging the two giants, sometimes not so much. However, they persevered and their efforts have been paying off during the last few years, and at least on the eyes of the wider public they have become worthy rivals of both giants.
    The absolutely great thing about this is that AMD keeps both Intel and Nvidia in check. They don't allow either company to become lazy and just rest on their laurels, nor become greedy. Healthy competition is good for the end consumer, and nowhere is this truer than on the CPU and GPU market. I am absolutely certain that without AMD, modern CPUs and GPUs would be a fraction of their current efficiency, and several times more expensive.
    Even if you don't have a single piece of AMD hardware, you have to at least appreciate that. Thanks to AMD you can afford your high-end Intel and Nvidia products.

    • @adwarin3835
      @adwarin3835 2 роки тому +13

      currently I have fx-4300 and I plan to buy new ryzen, maybe even new radeon

    • @agamerdude7596
      @agamerdude7596 2 роки тому +9

      Yea, Competition is good.

    • @protocetid
      @protocetid 2 роки тому +48

      Gamers going to Intel and Nvidia almost exclusively is what caused those two to become near monopolies in their fields. Gamers continue to buy too many team green GPUs and somehow expect AMD to have the capital to compete with GeForce. All it takes is for Intel to overtake Ryzen and we will be back to having team blue and team green threaten to completely dominate their sectors.

    • @godofdeath8785
      @godofdeath8785 2 роки тому +6

      @@protocetid true:(

    • @sylvain01
      @sylvain01 2 роки тому +8

      @@protocetid Which is why ryzen will further develop, then they will price it at a cheaper or equivalent price to an intel chip, then so on and so forth. It's how competition works

  • @kolsa2716
    @kolsa2716 2 роки тому +106

    These tech demos could be made into a whole game

    • @ufodeath
      @ufodeath 2 роки тому +38

      It's rather a shame that Ruby is so far retired as a tech demo, but she would be a perfect spy-themed FPS action-adventure candidate.

    • @foxcannon
      @foxcannon Рік тому +5

      I love the older tech demos from both ATI and Nvidia, they just have a nostalgic charm I can't explain

  • @darryljack6612
    @darryljack6612 2 роки тому +219

    Wait... you can talk? I thought communication was only possible through memes.

    • @NikTek
      @NikTek  2 роки тому +76

      lol XD

    • @amcirfan
      @amcirfan 2 роки тому +3

      🤣

    • @kurakurakii3792
      @kurakurakii3792 2 роки тому +4

      holly what, it was nikteek!?

    • @ADeeSHUPA
      @ADeeSHUPA Рік тому

      @@kurakurakii3792 ク라ㇰㇻ きい

    • @kurakurakii3792
      @kurakurakii3792 Рік тому

      @@ADeeSHUPA it supposed to mean twisting tree
      but i added extra "i' to throw it off lol

  • @ScytheNoire
    @ScytheNoire 2 роки тому +218

    I bought an ATI Radeon 9700 Pro when it first launched.
    It was a card far ahead of the competition. It lasted a long time. Every so often, there is a card that comes out that is far ahead of the curve and lasts a long time.

    • @SimonBauer7
      @SimonBauer7 2 роки тому +41

      like the 1080/1080ti which is still a pretty good gpu.

    • @ScytheNoire
      @ScytheNoire 2 роки тому +28

      @@SimonBauer7 Which is another card I bought at launch and had until I got my RTX 3080.
      But the GTX 1080 may be the best video card I've ever owned, hands down.

    • @trapadvisor
      @trapadvisor 2 роки тому +5

      I have an 8gb 1070 I’m still using. This thing works like a charm as long as I clean it and reapply paste every so often.

    • @spacechannelfiver
      @spacechannelfiver 2 роки тому +4

      The 8800gtx was another classic, that replaced my flashed x800 GTO

    • @cesarknightly
      @cesarknightly 2 роки тому +3

      Still using the GTX 1060 6gb

  • @silverwatchdog
    @silverwatchdog 2 роки тому +34

    Honestly surprised at how good some of those demos looked. The 2007 looks really good. I am assuming though that the card did not run it at 4K or even 1080p though, so it probably looked worse then.

  • @BattleToads
    @BattleToads Рік тому +26

    My first ever GPU was an ATi Rage 128 Pro 16MB. I still remember the excitement years later when I got my Radeon 9800 and I was able to turn all the sliders in games all the way up. Almost 20 years later from that (holy shit I'm old) I got my Radeon RX 6800 and can crank those settings again. Team red ftw.

    • @ludviksechovec2457
      @ludviksechovec2457 Рік тому +4

      My first was an ATI Radeon 9800 PRO, now I have RX 6800 and I am satisfied.

  • @foxcannon
    @foxcannon Рік тому +15

    AMD went from an underdog company that was attempting to stay competitive in a market with the giants that were and still are Intel and Nvidia and many times FAILING, to being established today as the bringer of better valued products than either of the other two companies. What a god damn beautiful story.

  • @BoGy1980
    @BoGy1980 Рік тому +4

    I totally forgot about RUBY... i still have a big ruby figurine from AMD... I had a repair business in those days and the distributor gave me a nice high quality ruby figurine (and a quite big one) as a present, if i'm not mistaken it was very limited (1000 were made for the whole world) and they told me our country only got 10 of those, so quite a nice present. It's collecting dust on top of it's clear plastic box, but the figurine is still in pristine state. I'll never sell it unless it ever becomes so rare that it would be worth thousands :) (and even then i'd only sell it if i really really need the money....)

  • @provugab
    @provugab 2 роки тому +35

    I remember when bought my first GPU, the Radeon 9500 Pro, I could play everything I threw at it. Also I couldn't stop myself from smiling at the "radeoon" typo.

  • @nightspark6187
    @nightspark6187 2 роки тому +38

    I think it would have been nice to see a side by side comparison with what Nvidia was offering for each year.

  • @LegacyIvyTerascale
    @LegacyIvyTerascale 2 роки тому +31

    6:25 probably the most beautiful grafix card i ever seen

    • @gamelover3833
      @gamelover3833 2 роки тому +4

      Nope 7:27 is the Most Beautiful Card from AMD also VEGA and RX 7900 XTX !

    • @ADeeSHUPA
      @ADeeSHUPA Рік тому

      @@gamelover3833 笑 笑 笑

    • @irvingescobar737
      @irvingescobar737 4 місяці тому +1

      The Radeon VII and RX 6000 reference cards totally up there

  • @cerisem7727
    @cerisem7727 2 роки тому +15

    @NikTek
    You should make a timeline on AMD and Intel processors, it would be interesting to see how far both companies have come.

  • @scotttait2197
    @scotttait2197 Рік тому +19

    Have been using team red from 2000 , never had an issue many of my older cards still function to this day , I have recently bought a 7900xtx for my 7800X3d pc ...very impressed 👍

    • @FatNorthernBigot
      @FatNorthernBigot Рік тому +3

      I have the same card. Only the 4090 beats it, and that's fine by me. 👍

  • @Joseph-lr7wc
    @Joseph-lr7wc 2 роки тому +15

    moving into the processors pls: Evolution of Intel's (Pentium--> Celeron-->Xeon-->Core) and AMD's (K6-->Sempron-->Athlon-->Phenom-->FX-->Ryzen)

    • @SirinGaming
      @SirinGaming 2 роки тому +1

      AMD was K6>Athlon/Sempron>Athlon64>Phenom>FX>Ryzen

    • @viltiarnusa
      @viltiarnusa 2 роки тому +1

      K6>Athlon/Sempron>Athlon64>Phenom>FX>A-Series>Ryzen>EPYC

    • @SirinGaming
      @SirinGaming 2 роки тому

      @@viltiarnusa totally forgot A-series was a thing even though i had like 4 systems running those lol

    • @viltiarnusa
      @viltiarnusa 2 роки тому

      @@SirinGaming I have 3 pc 2 of them using A series, A10 9700 and A6-7400K

  • @jeremygeorgia4943
    @jeremygeorgia4943 2 роки тому +7

    I loved ATi. My first card was a Rage II based All in Wonder card. It allowed me to take video from a VHS-C camcorder, and save it on my computer. As a bonus, it allowed me to watch TV on my computer. It was just a gimmick, at first, but I ended up getting used to having a little inset TV on my computer, as I did other tasks. It may not have been the fastest card, but it did the job that I wanted it to. I eventually became pleasantly surprised, as the All in Wonder series actually started getting competitive, as far as graphics/gaming performance.
    The last Radeon I had was an All in Wonder X1900. It was a phenomenally useful card. By then, my computer was fast enough to function as a VCR, with adequate capture performance. It ran hot, but it could tackle about any game, at the time. It ran warm, though. It wasn't as hot as a 3DFX 3000, but it could heat up a room, eventually. I always loved the tech demos. The first one I saw was the one for the Rage 128. I think the one that impressed me the most, at the time, was the Toystore one. Finally, I enjoyed the Ruby series & always looked forward to new chapters. I miss the artwork that used to be on the fan cowls.

  • @HappyHands.
    @HappyHands. 2 роки тому +5

    i had a ATI All in Wonder back in 1997 i was blown away by the graphics and being able to watch TV and listen to the radio on my computer. the ATI ArK graphics demo was awesome

  • @liboud22
    @liboud22 Рік тому +2

    You completely missed out the iconic ATI 3D Rage series, launched in the mid 90s. It traded blows with nVidia Riva and Riva TNT..

  • @wile123456
    @wile123456 2 роки тому +21

    17:24 come on, you say it gives 2x performance per watt increase, then litterally show a slide that says >50% performance per watt. You know math, 100% is double, not 50%.
    The performance according to leaks will be double over the 6900XT, but they are increasing core counts and power consumption

    • @akosv96
      @akosv96 2 роки тому

      Thats a video from rdna 2 release least year I think. There is no official release presentation yet

    • @NikTek
      @NikTek  2 роки тому +9

      a small mistake I’ve made on my part comparing it Im sorry for that. Glad you pointed it out

    • @wile123456
      @wile123456 2 роки тому

      @@NikTek no worries, you can pin a comment at the top with corrections. I've seen other youtubers do thst

    • @denanhajrovic4183
      @denanhajrovic4183 2 роки тому

      Actually 100 percent perf/watt would lead to 3.5 x performance uptick over the 6950xt.. that would be cool but impossible

  • @johnpooky84
    @johnpooky84 2 місяці тому +1

    I bought an 8GB RX 580, and a Ryzen 7 2700, back when I built my first PC, back in 2019.
    Last week, I replaced them with a 16GB RX 7600 XT, and a Ryzen 7 5800X.
    AMD is really great, and I've only had ONE issue with them, and that's only happened this week (the current latest drivers don't want to download from AMD Software Adrenalin).

  • @C-M-E
    @C-M-E 2 роки тому +11

    Man, weird how many memories are tied to the GPU you were using at the time as I oft went back and forth across the fence of red vs green depending on my budget. I still fondly remember when 3dfx and openGL were battling out the GPU wars.

  • @kadddddshad1424
    @kadddddshad1424 Рік тому +2

    I was gonna say, the reason the Fury X didnt need 6gb is because it used HBM(2) memory. Which was significantly faster and MUCH higher bandwidth than the GDDR5 that was in other cards at the time, and thus it was (and still is) one of the best GPUs for gaming and Mining, Data processing, and professional workloads.

  • @adamnaja606
    @adamnaja606 2 роки тому +6

    He really just went “we dont talk about Radeon VII”

    • @andersjjensen
      @andersjjensen 2 роки тому +2

      He also skipped the RX 500 series, since it was just a clock bump. While Radeon VII got double the VRAM it was just a clock bump refresh of Vega.

  • @drbijumartin9290
    @drbijumartin9290 2 роки тому +55

    Love this new series

  • @ultramanJR
    @ultramanJR 2 роки тому +3

    Used to be an Nvidia fanboy until 2016. RX480 was my first AMD card I have, and it was a reference card to boot. That card dutifully carried me from 2016 until early this year when I replaced it with a RX6600XT. One hell of a card if I had to say.

    • @HamaqesTV
      @HamaqesTV 2 роки тому +1

      Same for me. The only difference is that I bought the RX 580 8GB from someone for only $120 before crypto blew up again. I still have it on a spare PC and managed to not get tempted to sell it during GPU shortage for $400:)) Great graphics card indeed and I can still play every AAA game on at least 50 fps in FHD

  • @alexisonfire223
    @alexisonfire223 11 місяців тому +1

    Ahh...the days with my Radon HD 4670 and CoD United Offensive and CoD 4 it was a mid range beast of card

  • @peterilling1627
    @peterilling1627 2 роки тому +6

    Great video. Been using 3dfx, ATI and AMD since the first days. Never used Nvidia and never will. My internet Cafe here in Turkey was running the only. Place you had AMD CROSSFIRE running ATI radeon 3860s and AMD Phenom Quad cores 2.4 ghz. They were the days and still running Radeons and AMD Opterons 8 cores for my Unreal Tournament Server.

  • @alpacamix
    @alpacamix 2 роки тому +6

    i would say thank you amd, since they came hard in the market with ryzen i bought 3900x and pair it up with 6700xt now. And i bought them at realistic msrp .

  • @Rmx2011
    @Rmx2011 2 роки тому +6

    Nice vid, cool to see how rapidly the transistor count grew over the years. 7900 is going to have a lot lot.

  • @rhekman
    @rhekman 2 роки тому +2

    14:26 Polaris and Vega GPUs were produced on GlobalFoundries' 14nm process nodes, not TSMC as stated in the video. AMD did switch back to TSMC starting with the Radeon VII in 2019, a refreshed Vega chip with double the VRAM at 16GB and over a terabit per second of bandwidth.

  • @Henry14arsenal2007
    @Henry14arsenal2007 2 роки тому +5

    Man do i miss the pre-2007 cards and the edgy Matrix-inspired tech demos that came with them. Truly an end of an era where everything changed.

  • @nanmwahrki1263
    @nanmwahrki1263 2 роки тому +1

    2:22 The Animusic in the background was such a throwback! I remember my dad bringing that home on DVD and I watched all of the animations too many times lol

    • @muskelin
      @muskelin 3 місяці тому

      I like future retro, pipe dream and resonant chamber

  • @dharkbizkit
    @dharkbizkit 2 роки тому +4

    back in the days around 2005-2012 i bought amd, formerly ati, because they were much cheaper then nvidia cards. nowadays, thats a thing of the past. today. amd cards are price wise on the same level as nividas card, because they compete with the same performance and they increased the power intake as much as nivida did. so the thing that was great for me, with amd, is gone, so i might as well get an nvidia card

  • @moondoggie8686
    @moondoggie8686 2 роки тому +1

    This was the video that everyone requested when AdoredTV did the Nvidia history. Thank you kind sir

  • @theloafy
    @theloafy 2 роки тому +3

    The video we all have been waited for :)

    • @NikTek
      @NikTek  2 роки тому +1

      I hope you enjoyed it!

  • @CharlesVanNoland
    @CharlesVanNoland 2 роки тому +1

    What about the older 3D graphics cards ATI made, like the 3D Rage/Pro, the Rage 128/Pro/MAXX? These were huge in the late 90s and many people played Quake/Quake2/Unreal/Half-Life/UnrealTournament/Quake3 and other popular games on them. Nvidia's offerings at the time were the RIVA 128, TNT, TNT2, etc. and if you didn't have one of those ATI cards then you had one of those Nvidia ones instead to play those games on. This was the time between software rendered graphics and programmable graphics hardware. The Radeon 7200 wasn't programmable graphics hardware, just like the GeForce 2 wasn't programmable graphics hardware. Everything was fixed-function. You just had "modes" you could render geometry with, but you couldn't actually program the graphics hardware with arbitrary instructions.
    An important distinction that seems to be lost on people these days is how we had "graphics accelerators" which ultimately evolved into programmable "graphics processing units". History has been retconned to just call these older graphics accelerators GPUs now, by people who either weren't there, or who forgot and now just lump all the graphics hardware together as "GPUs". There was almost a decade of graphics hardware that offloaded rendering work from the CPU (specifically rasterization) without being programmable Graphics Processing Units with vertex/pixel shaders that programmers could control. That didn't come around until the early 2000's with cards like the GeForce 3, which was a huge deal when it came out - and Doom3 was the first game to really leverage that capability with its mind-blowing normal mapping graphics.
    Someone really needs to do a video on how graphics hardware really evolved, starting in the early 90s with Silicon Graphics' IRISGL, and how that was adopted as the basis for OpenGL. Fixed function rendering pipelines, the CPU still doing all of the work, but the graphics hardware doing the rasterization, etc... Doom3 and the GeForce 3 and the dawn of the "programmable graphics hardware" and the "GPU". Yeah, there's a whole history that has apparently become a huge gaping memory loss for tech culture. Pretty soon people are going to start thinking everyone had the internet after coming home from WW2, and movies in the 70s had CGI like today's Marvel films.

  • @hamslice839
    @hamslice839 2 роки тому +56

    Awesome video, I just wish AMD would put more research and development behind their drivers and software. It's their only weakness at this point. I have owned numerous AMD cards including their flagship 6900xt and it just has issues that my 3090 doesn't have, primarily when using more than 1 monitor it just seems to freak out and randomly black/green screen where a restart or disconnecting the monitor and reconnecting seems to be the only fix. Seems to happen when using full screen or exclusive full screen in a game while playing a video on my second or third monitor. It's annoying but seems to related to their driver/software since the card passes all heavy stress tests with flying colors and is never an issue if I only run 1 monitor.

    • @johnsalamii
      @johnsalamii 2 роки тому

      i had an amd gpu aswell and i remember having to go with the 2019 drivers other than the newer ones because my pc would literally blue screen while gaming

    • @Reedg333
      @Reedg333 2 роки тому +3

      I got a deal on a reference 6950xt and I came from a founders RTX 2080. I have noticed a couple of minor bugs (like sometimes the GPU stays on when I shut down my PC while everything else turns off) but other than that it’s been great. And I can’t help but ask why no one talks about the AMD software side of things? I’m admittedly new to AMD, but adrenaline is amazing! Everything is in one place. I can overclock, undervolt, check game stats, tune games on the fly, cap my frame rate, sharpen, monitor, everything all in 1. With nvidia I needed MSI afterburner, Rivatuner, GeForce experience, Nvidia Free Style, Nvidia control panel, Nvidia Inspector, etc. all different programs. All to do the same things. Digging the AMD software

    • @Rov-Nihil
      @Rov-Nihil 2 роки тому +1

      *cries in five monitor eyefinity*

    • @Vihara2
      @Vihara2 2 роки тому

      Same, certain games are always buggy, but amd optimised games seem to run like a dream

    • @bobbymoss6160
      @bobbymoss6160 2 роки тому +3

      The current AMD Adrenalin drivers have no issues working with the Radeon 6K GPUs. Sounds like an user error.

  • @amenadiel4060
    @amenadiel4060 2 роки тому +2

    bruh! my HD 5570 feels proud to be still running since 12 years. thanks for real content

  • @NightMotorcyclist
    @NightMotorcyclist 2 роки тому +3

    The first GPU upgrade I've ever done was on the family HP Pavilion Desktop PC which came with a Pentium III 800MHz and an nVidia TNT2. Christmas of 2000 I received the ATi Radeon 32MB DDR which upped the gaming potential quite a bit. The next ATi GPU I would get would be for my second PC build in 2003 where I would use my own hard earned money to purchase the Radeon 9700 Pro to go with my AMD Athlon XP 2500+ system and it lasted me for a few years until I would be tempted with the GeForce 6600GT.

  • @nhatphatly3587
    @nhatphatly3587 2 роки тому +2

    Video so good that the viewers did not notice that radeon misspelled at all

  • @IsraelSocial
    @IsraelSocial 2 роки тому +4

    My first card was the 9600 pro! Was a beast of a card! My last one is the 6800xt another great card

  • @emuguru
    @emuguru 2 роки тому +2

    My first ATI card was in 1997, Christmas, a All In Wonder PCI card that blew my mind with its video playback capabilities

    • @JediJohnn
      @JediJohnn 2 місяці тому

      Ati Rage Pro chip.

  • @erictsai1165
    @erictsai1165 2 роки тому +3

    What a trip down the memory lane. This vid brought back the memory of forgotten Radeon cards I had. My first was X1800 on my very first build. Then second build has 2 HD 3870s Crossfire with Core 2 Duo E8400, cuz that time SLI motherboards + Nvidia cards have premium price tags.

  • @ВіталійПилипенко-р2з

    R9 290x is absolutely insane card. I had this masterpiece from 2014 to 2021 and i could play any game in 1080p with medium-high preset even Cyberpunk 2077. Even though its age this card is still alive with FSR for lots of the modern games especialy for online ones.
    It's like 2003 year card would be in 2013, but in 2013 even 3-5 years old cards were obsolate, but now R9 290x is still not the worst one...))

  • @justinl8791
    @justinl8791 Рік тому +1

    My current gaming laptop is all AMD. I think that says it all. I like companies who give a shit about the products they make.
    Also, a serious NikTek video. Now that's a rare shiny Pokémon.

  • @rattlehead999
    @rattlehead999 2 роки тому +5

    The r9 290 was an en excellent GPU for 300$ just a couple of months after launch and it competed with the much more expensive gtx 780 and in the end of the life of the r9 200 series, the r9 290x almost reached titan level performance for less than half the price.

    • @BLSoldier00
      @BLSoldier00 Рік тому

      Sadly, the pricing for Radeon video cards shortly after launch got out of hand due to them being (at the time) better for cryptocurrency mining than the GeForce video cards.

  • @can_with_beans
    @can_with_beans 11 місяців тому

    As a proud 5700XT owner, Radeon cards truly do age like fine wine. The 5700XT now is incredible thanks to the driver updates, as compared to launch, or even when I got it in 2020 over a year after launch.

  • @solocamo3654
    @solocamo3654 2 роки тому +8

    290X was and still is the best AMD gpu made. That card and the 7970 are both what coined the AMD finewine.

    • @acid3129
      @acid3129 2 роки тому

      Still have a 290x in my second system it can still game

    • @Anihilationx360
      @Anihilationx360 2 роки тому

      Still rocking a MSI R9 390 still plays 4k at 30-35fps an 100-120 on 1080p depending on settings, tho I will be upgrading to ether 4080 if it comes out this year if not going 7800xt

    • @1337Ox
      @1337Ox 2 роки тому

      Agreed, the HD7000 series are the best cards ever made. Not expensive, great performance, power consumption...

  • @talon1706
    @talon1706 2 роки тому +1

    I had (still have in a box) a pair of Sapphire HD 4870's in crossfire. Then a pair of XFX HD 5870's in crossfire.
    Great cards and great times. Nvidia ever since. RTX 3090 currently.

  • @diKxng1080xx
    @diKxng1080xx 2 роки тому +3

    You left out the Radeon VII

  • @ejkk9513
    @ejkk9513 2 роки тому +1

    Pretty spot on about the price of the 7000 series. It's sad that we're praising AMD for selling their cards at $1000... but here we are.

  • @yancgc5098
    @yancgc5098 2 роки тому +3

    14:15 The RX 480 was a mid range GPU, not entry level.

    • @Itssmahdii
      @Itssmahdii 2 роки тому

      Entry level , it competed with the gtx 1060

    • @yancgc5098
      @yancgc5098 2 роки тому +2

      @@Itssmahdii The GTX 1060 was mid range as well, not entry level.

    • @desertfox9004
      @desertfox9004 2 роки тому +1

      @@Itssmahdii the gtx 1050 ti is one of the entry level gpus while rx 400 series is a mid range card

    • @GraveUypo
      @GraveUypo 2 роки тому

      @@Itssmahdii what was an rx450 then? and the gtx 1030

  • @ShawnFX
    @ShawnFX 2 роки тому

    This guy's voice is damn buttery smooth and relaxing AF

  • @Cat71234
    @Cat71234 2 роки тому +3

    There should be a video about the evolution of NVIDIA and AMD in the same video

    • @Cat71234
      @Cat71234 2 роки тому

      How do I claim it? But thanks I would really like the upgrade.

    • @NipahAllDay
      @NipahAllDay 2 роки тому

      @@Cat71234 bruh this is a scam 😭😭😭😭

    • @Cat71234
      @Cat71234 2 роки тому

      I know

  • @ZerefLorkhan
    @ZerefLorkhan 10 місяців тому +1

    The rx 480 8gb aged like fine wine no joke

  • @Paulie8K
    @Paulie8K 2 роки тому +3

    Nice. Loved this and the Nvidia one. I jumped from the 5700XT last gen to the 3080 this gen so I love both companies. I just really hope they get a handle on power draw as no one wants 400W cards with how expensive electricity is these days.

  • @gureguru4694
    @gureguru4694 3 місяці тому +1

    in the end, they ultimately succeded at what their initially good at - making CPUs and fell short of something they want to be good at - making GPUs.
    now its back to focusing on midrange gpus and completely ignoring high end because they just cannot compete. but good luck on even matching Nvidia's bottomless R&D on their AI tech.
    things are different now, you just can't compete with raster alone. RDNA4 is a do or die situation.

  • @Xenoray1
    @Xenoray1 2 роки тому +23

    2011: first own pc in my prebuild was a hd 5000 series 500mb oem version + intel Pentium.
    2014: my own build pc had a r9 280 3gb technically hd 7950 together with fx 6350
    2015-2020: next step was a upgrade to r9 390 8gb and later a ryzen 1600
    2019-2020: ryzen 3600 upgrade, was looking for a used 5700xt but was waiting for next gen reveal.. big mistake, price exploded.
    2021-2022: finally settling now on RX 6800 16gb and ryzen 5800x!

    • @durschfalltv7505
      @durschfalltv7505 2 роки тому +2

      I still rock a Ryzen 1600. I will buy a Laptop now with a ryzen 5800H and a rx 6600m probably. Because "fuck you nvidia".

    • @Odinsday
      @Odinsday 2 роки тому +2

      That RX 6800 is gonna last you a good while, especially with that high VRAM.

    • @7766aaa33
      @7766aaa33 2 роки тому

      Have the same configuration, feels great 👍🏻

  • @heclanet
    @heclanet 2 роки тому +1

    I started with ATI with the Radeon Fury Max, a dual-GPU experiment, then an 850Xt, then a 1950 pro, 6870, R9 280X, then R9 290X, RX570 and currently RX 6700XT
    In the middle some Nvidia cards

  • @Alirezarz62
    @Alirezarz62 2 роки тому +5

    I got my very first AMD GPU a week ago it's a xfx rx 6900xt merc black for only $580! Man do I love the performance on this beast. The jump from GTX 1080 to 6900xt is massive so happy I got this amazing deal

  • @martinbenitez13
    @martinbenitez13 2 роки тому +1

    My first gpu was radeon 5450 HD, next nvidia GT 620 and for almost 5-6 years i was running intel iGpu i3 2350m, and finally this year i got the rx 6600 for 272usd and is the king of price/performance

  • @TeranToola
    @TeranToola 2 роки тому +3

    The GPU stuff is incorrect, they made RAGE before Radeon, and had plenty of older demos too!

    • @JediJohnn
      @JediJohnn 2 місяці тому

      It's called "Radeon" Evolution, not Ati Evolution. So the first Radeon were the 7000 series. If not, his other video about the evolution of Geforce should have also mentioned RIVA 128/TNT.

  • @FragrantPixelSociety
    @FragrantPixelSociety Рік тому +1

    funny how the nvidia equivalent to this video has more than 6x the views compared to this one when amd literally makes console prices 50% cheaper and respects the people on a budget. Yeah Nvidia may be faster sometimes, but Amd wins price per performance.

  • @FireFalcon
    @FireFalcon 2 роки тому +3

    The Radeoon 2900xt was my favorite
    *edit* Nvm theyre all radeoon

  • @egg-ts4fo
    @egg-ts4fo 2 роки тому +1

    Now you can do the evolution of Intel GPUs and it won't need to be updated

  • @wile123456
    @wile123456 2 роки тому +4

    Good video but you got a few details wrong. A lot of AMD GPU's were made on GlobalFoundries, not TSMC. RX 480 and Vega was made on global foundries 14 nm, 580 was made on global foundries 12 nm. A lot of gpus before then was made on global foundries too. They went to TSMC on 7nm with the RDNA GPU's
    TSMC doesn't have a 14 nm process, they only have 16 nm (what GTX 10 series used) and 12 nm (what 20 series used.)

    • @SimonBauer7
      @SimonBauer7 2 роки тому

      who makes the amd apus with vega graphics then? tsmc or global foundaries?

    • @wile123456
      @wile123456 2 роки тому +2

      @@SimonBauer7 ryzen 1000 and ryzen 2000 APU's and CPU's was on global foundries. 3000 cpu's and later was TSMC 7nm. (the 3400G was still global foundries, so for APU's it was the ryzen 4000 APU's and later that was TSMC

  • @soniablanche5672
    @soniablanche5672 9 місяців тому +1

    still rocking the 5700xt after 4 years

  • @j_162
    @j_162 2 роки тому +6

    Can't unsee RadeOOn

    • @lotsofpotats
      @lotsofpotats 2 роки тому

      I now want to call it this from now on

  • @melodyze6247
    @melodyze6247 Рік тому +2

    lol you missed SO many cards....
    you missed the Rage 2, rage 128, anda ton of others, the x800XT, the 9600XT, the 9800, the 9800 PRO, so many other cards lol

  • @ognjenjakovljevic494
    @ognjenjakovljevic494 2 роки тому +4

    I miss the old times when 400$ gpu was monster

    • @syed2694
      @syed2694 2 роки тому +1

      $400 then is $900+ now bro... that's how inflation works.

    • @ognjenjakovljevic494
      @ognjenjakovljevic494 2 роки тому +5

      @@syed2694 then why my salary didint inflate from 500$ to 1k$

    • @syed2694
      @syed2694 2 роки тому

      @@ognjenjakovljevic494 that's a you problem lol

    • @NikTek
      @NikTek  2 роки тому +1

      yeah now we have them going for 1400$

    • @bilge677
      @bilge677 2 роки тому

      @@syed2694 400$ in 2004 is 640$ today. www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm

  • @Elkhose
    @Elkhose 2 роки тому +2

    is it possible to have a side by side comparison video of ati/amd and nvidia? basically both of these video side by side with comparison metrics to see how close of far the competition was?

  • @Setari_void
    @Setari_void Рік тому +2

    This guy missed so many GPUs 😢😢😢

  • @themyth3686
    @themyth3686 11 місяців тому +1

    5 years ago, everyone made fun of amd graphics cards. I'm guessing most people who mocked it then, own it's gpu's now

    • @andyhander4481
      @andyhander4481 Місяць тому

      Probably not judging by the upsetty nvidia fondlers in these comments.
      They’ll just keep kicking and screaming with their 8GB v ram for $700+

  • @vitoraugusto1085
    @vitoraugusto1085 2 роки тому +3

    Great content...it will serve a lot for the story!
    What we are seeing now on the market is the extinction of traditional video cards by AMD APUs!
    The same thing happened with the sound card industry a few years ago...AMD is doing a magnificent job!

    • @StormyMainShorts
      @StormyMainShorts 2 роки тому

      no?
      apu's will never compete with gpus anywhere above the low-end
      what would actually be more likely is cpu's and gpu's becoming one but in a GPU form factor

  • @MotoMatt
    @MotoMatt Рік тому +1

    My first card was a 9700 Pro that demo brought back memories!

  • @Sree05
    @Sree05 2 роки тому +4

    If amd driver come as stable as Nvidia it will 1000% beat Nvidia out of existence.

    • @knownnuisance7512
      @knownnuisance7512 2 роки тому

      Already is stable

    • @Sree05
      @Sree05 2 роки тому +2

      @@knownnuisance7512 not as Nvidia. I have my own experience.

    • @Sam-cq9bj
      @Sam-cq9bj 2 роки тому

      @@knownnuisance7512 your head.

    • @knownnuisance7512
      @knownnuisance7512 2 роки тому +1

      @@Sree05 probably from 7 years ago

    • @Sree05
      @Sree05 2 роки тому

      @@knownnuisance7512 sadly nope. Go through forum even amd said there are several known issue with their driver in their official website. I'm talking about their driver issue with current gen cards don't know about prev gen.
      They are good but here and there few glitch caused by driver still persist. In Nvidia case I tried every new and latest driver with gtx 1650 no crashes no other stability issue but in rx 6700xt tried 4 drivers all have stability issue and now I'm using a driver which doesn't have major issue as other version but still I can see how it performs on dx11 games( not all games but some) not stable in 0.1% and 1% but really nice fps btw.
      I'm talking if they get strong driver stability as Nvidia do for their latest version I have 0 problem with AMD.
      Also it's codec seems useless in video editing because most software uses h.264 not .265 and amd is good in h.265 codec I guess.

  • @howardwilson3466
    @howardwilson3466 Рік тому +1

    I miss the anime looking cards with the bright coulors on the fan shrouds.

  • @yusuffirdaus3900
    @yusuffirdaus3900 2 роки тому +3

    Radeon 7 anyone?

  • @PaleHorse73
    @PaleHorse73 Рік тому +2

    Woulda been neat to see the older ATI cards from the 90s too. One of my first awesome cards was the ATI Rage Pro 8mb.

  • @theroyalaustralian
    @theroyalaustralian 2 роки тому

    15:50 Fun fact: Some of the AMD RX 5700 XT's actually had 8gb of HBM2 memory.
    I should know, my first 5700 XT was a reference design from MSI using that memory type.

  • @MrTmax74
    @MrTmax74 2 роки тому +2

    Nice video, thanks for the throwback. Way back then I upgraded my computer for half life two with the 800 GT. The specific one I had allowed me to turn it into an XT simply by flashing the bios with an XT bios. I still couldn’t play half life two perfectly smooth all turned up, but I was glad to have the card. It was about half the price of the XT at the time.

  • @BoGy1980
    @BoGy1980 Рік тому

    The 9700pro (R300) was the best AGP gfx card ATI ever made, it was the king of the hill for a long time and was the first time i had a 3D-card not being replaced the next year as it enabled me to play all games at max resolution, max settings all at a very decent framerate for a very long time. It was also a good overclocker, and above all, the tier 2 card (the radeon 9500 non-pro) that came in at just a little above half the price of the 9700pro was actually the exact same card with a few pipelines disabled.
    About 2/3 of these 9500non-pro cards were actually not faulty R300 chips at all, they were just tuned down to have a mid-range card available and you could just flash a 9700pro firmware onto those cards, test for artifacts in 3dmark and if everything was smooth you just earned yourself a nice pocket of money. It was the moment when i rang up all my gaming buddies to ask them if they wanted a premium card at the price of a midrange with 66% change of ending up with the best of the best. A good dozen of my friends took the deal and we were so lucky that only 2 out of the 12 cards gave artifacts. I also checked each and every 9500np how far it would clock, and i kept the best one for myself ofcourse (most of my friends were not into overclocking, so they didn't care). In the end my 9500np was able to produce even better results than the 9700pro i Initially bought. I kept both cards ofc, and the 9700 went into my second gaming machine (i had 2 machines for gaming back then, so i could always play RTS games with/against a visiting friend via LAN). Yeah, the R300 is in my eyes the best AGP-card ever made, a big leap forward from the 8500 and way better money-per-fps (bang for buck) than what nvidia was offering. I still have that 9500np in a drawer as it was one of the most significant cards i have had, it's just next to the 2 Voodoo²-cards i kept...

    • @JediJohnn
      @JediJohnn 2 місяці тому

      The Radeon 9200/9250 is even better. It can be converted into an Arcade graphics card for an arcade JAMMA System. These are valuable cards for working with 15 kHz CRT arcade monitors. It's the best card for that purpose.

  • @BUDA20
    @BUDA20 2 роки тому +2

    I had a lot of ATI and NVidia cards over the years, the ones I remember the most are the Geforce 2 MX 128MB, Geforce 7900 GT 256MB. the HD4080 512MB, the HD5080 1GB, the GTX 970 4GB and my current GTX 1080 Ti 11GB

    • @faradiaulia5560
      @faradiaulia5560 Рік тому +1

      Yes, Geforce2mx saved my day before i have enough cash to buy rather expensive one

  • @hoffyc.h393
    @hoffyc.h393 Рік тому +1

    I have during my PC Gaming life have 3 or 4 AMD cards, 2x in late ATI. and R290 the card that could heat up a Home xD and now I have AMD 6700XT Red Devil. it's a pure Beast in 1440p high FPS Gaming, just lite software issues. So the Best Card I have ever owned goes to EVGA GTX 1070 SC, had it for 6 years no problem what so ever with it.

  • @OutrunCid
    @OutrunCid Рік тому +1

    There's some glaring omissions in this list. And some incorrect matters too.
    ua-cam.com/video/ZUMbVVVSr5Q/v-deo.html: The Toyshop demo doesn't display doesn't do physical simulations. What it does do is offer the full Shader Model 3.0 feature set. Parallax Occlusion Mapping was the next big thing and it's offered a great display here through the fake 3D used everywhere.
    ua-cam.com/video/ZUMbVVVSr5Q/v-deo.html: The GPU on display is the R9 Nano, not the Fury X. The R9 Nano was a factory-watercooled model. It was an interesting bet, the R9 Fury series still managed to perform on par with the later RX590, outperforming GTX1060 cards easily still.
    ua-cam.com/video/ZUMbVVVSr5Q/v-deo.html: The RX480 was not an entry-level card. It was a high midrange card aimed to offer fantastic value, which it did. Entry level cards would be released later in the form of the RX460 In fact it did it so well, it kicked off the price hike of videocards by selling at least 50€ over MRSP upon launch, making the R9 Fury interesting again, which sold for almost the same price, whilst offering better performance. It couldn't match the GTX1070 and 1080 cards in terms of performance, but offered performance on par with the price level nonetheless.
    Also missing are references how AMD's 2900XT formed the basis for the Xbox 360 GPU, giving the later 3870 / 4870 a major advantage over nVidia, due to the match in architecture and X360 being the leading platform at the time.
    The same applies to the HD 6970 range and up, matching the PS4 / Xbox One architecture.
    Was lovely seeing some of the classic tech demo's again, thanks for the video!

  • @QuisquamHam
    @QuisquamHam 2 роки тому +1

    Everyone gets a prize!!!! ThankQ NikTek

  • @ExtremeGamingHD3D
    @ExtremeGamingHD3D 9 місяців тому

    Just switched from old Nvidia GTX cards to a newer AMD RX 5700 XT. We'll see if it was worth it..

  • @opgroundzero2.0
    @opgroundzero2.0 2 роки тому

    nice video. Didn't expect a serious video on this channel lol.

  • @MultiHunterOne
    @MultiHunterOne Рік тому

    My very first "own" computer sported a Gigabyte Radeon HD series card which I've never complained about. I've not always been team red as I got influenced by my friends to buy a GTX760 and then a GTX970 as during those times AMD cards had some trouble. Followed by selling the computer altogether and switching to a intel/nvidia laptop (it was a steal what I got, so I didn't really pay attention) I finally sold it recently and I'm building my own desktop computer from scratch sporting Gigabyte and AMD combo, both for nostalgia reasons and as well as AMD being back at the top of its game and better than ever. I also really enjoy the fact that they are much better for linux machines and that's what I'm planning on using anyway. It's been one hell of a ride AMD, you guys are the best.

  • @AmUnRA256
    @AmUnRA256 2 роки тому +1

    My very first ever graphics card was a 2 MB ATI card back in 1997 it maybe was already able to render 1024x768, but I can't really remember. Played Baldur's Gate 1 with it.

  • @Johnson217
    @Johnson217 Рік тому +2

    My first AMD card was an RX 580. Now I have a rig with a 7900xtx.
    They might not always have the best graphics, but they've always had amazing price per performance....even if that price has gotten a little bloated in recent years

    • @TheRedOGRE
      @TheRedOGRE Рік тому +1

      I upgraded from 3070 to 7900xt. This card really impressed me price to performance and even in ray tracing. 3070 could only handle rt low and now I'm doing rt ultra in cp2077.

  • @SashimiSteak
    @SashimiSteak 2 роки тому +1

    Cool content. I remember upgrading from Geforce 2 to Radeon HD4870 was phenomenal.

  • @JeremyMallek
    @JeremyMallek 11 місяців тому

    seeing the demo for the 9700 is so nostalgic for me i used to watch it all the time as a kid

  • @compthing5656
    @compthing5656 2 роки тому

    Well this is a pleasant surprise, u did a good job mate

  • @peluchefps
    @peluchefps 2 роки тому

    Ok, you nailed it in every aspect, even the memes were in place, this video is AMAZING!