GPU Tier List - Nvidia Edition!

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It’s no surprise that Nvidia’s latest RTX 40 series GPUs are also the fastest. But how does this generation as a whole compare to its long list of predecessors? We’re going back over 10 years to rank every NVIDIA GPU generation! How does your card fare?

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Intro: Laszlo - Supernova

Outro: Approaching Nirvana - Sugar High

CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:09 FX 5000
3:18 GeForce 6000
4:20 GeForce 7000
6:18 GeForce 8000
8:21 GeForce 9000
9:20 GeForce 100
9:50 GTX 200
11:12 GTX 300
11:35 GTX 400
13:20 GTX 500
14:16 GTX 600
16:17 GTX 700
18:05 GTX 800
18:28 GTX 900
20:50 GTX 10
22:40 RTX 20/ GTX 16
24:24 RTX 30
26:18 RTX 40
28:32 Get at me!

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Do you agree with our list? Let us know down below!

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[WiltshireTutorials]

Hands down, the GTX 1080Ti. It was an insane leap at the time. I'm still using mine to this day.

[Jameslawz]

GTX 1080Ti hands down the best card Nvidia has ever made that lasted well into the current generation and the price to performance ratio was good value.

[RyomaG]

Linus walked us through 20 years in 30 mins. I love it 😁

[slamscaper]

Totally agreed on all the rankings. I still have the 1080Ti but I've owned most of the flagships in this video. The 8000 series was such a fun time to be a gamer, as was the 10 series. Hope we get another S tier sometime in my life.

[rare]

8800 GTX and the 1080Ti were both era defining cards that had an amazing and long lasting impact. And the performance came out of nowhere and moved the game on big time. My first Nvidia GPU was a brand new TNT2 ultra. I miss those days. I enjoyed this, a new GPU launch has always been exciting. I still remember when the GeForce 256 came out, that was impressive. I am hoping for an ATI/AMD equivalent video ;)

[cobaltrebel]

Man the 1080TI was really something else for its time. Even today that card can play anything and refuses to die. I'd comfortably say it's easily one of the greatest cards of all time.

[aernancoc]

"Future price drops" Yeah that didn't happen. 4090 up to $2000

[anthony]

I bought a 17" Toshiba laptop in 2006 with a 7900GTX in it and I had almost immediate regret when the 8000 series came out around 6 months later, the performance gap blew my card away. Love the way you properly captured generation to generation excitement and expectations.

Also glad you mentioned the end of AGP support. Last year I built a retro Pentium 4 PC and needed to figure out what the best maxed out AGP card was. Got lucky and found an EVGA 256-A8-N509-AX compatible with my board.

[Zenniverse]

The 10 series was my favorite era. I still remember walking into my local Best Buy back when I didn't know much about computers and walked out with a new $250 EVGA GTX 1060. Little did I know I had bought the greatest card I'd ever own. Also, I just miss when they would make Titan cards.

[samtherat]

Crazy how he didn’t mention more on how the 1080 Ti absolutely cemented the entire series into S tier.

[AzizidarkReborn]

Glad you mentioned the 200 series favorably. A number of years ago, my dad got a sweet deal on an Alienware M15X in 2014 and it was the first gaming laptop I'd ever owned. (Mind you, I didn't buy laptops that often) Compared to every laptop and integrated graphics workstation I'd been on before that from the late 90s and early 2000s, it was absolutely mind-blowing to me at the time.

[psandrhcp]

I have huge nostalgia with the 600 series. It was the first time I started building PCs for people and I used the 760/660/ti for a lot of my friends. And a few Radeon 7000 cards. Though the peak of GPUs, for many is the 1000 series. My 1070 still going strong bought brand new the month it released. Would love to upgrade if prices weren't insane.

[andrecoetzee]

Really looking forward to the AMD / ATI tier list that's hopefully soon to follow!

[lllMithrandirlll]

Can we get more videos like this please? It's basically a straight up information download and it's awesome. The list of questions and things I have to research after watching this is huge, I love it.

[themightiness]

Oh man, memory lane. I had a 7900GS and then moved up to an 8800GT and it was so epic. I had that 8800GT for years and years until I moved up to an R9 290 lol. Glad to know that 8000 series was the best generational leap ever, I knew there was a reason I upgraded after just one gen.

[TheAdaoo]

The 900 and 1000 series will always be insane coming off the back of the 780ti. Just being 14 back then, not long having built my first PC and always knowing the 780ti and titan series as the be all end all and then seeing the performance and cost AND power efficiency upgrade for all the cards was crazy to me back then. And then the 1000 series blew my mind all over again.

Also can we talk about those early 2000s(the decade) cards doubling performance and halving the price? Some of that nowaday?? Maybe not paying over $500 for a decent 1440p card nvidia?

[justalpha]

It's so crazy for me as a 23 year old seeing how they went from a card like the FX 5000 in 2003 when I wasn't even in preschool yet to something like the 4090 now when I'm coming out of college. The amount of progress they made in 20 years is insane. They managed to do that much in just a part of my lifetime. Of course there was some short comings on that journey and the pricing recently is really high but it's still very impressive and I can only wonder what new features or developments will come in the next 20 years

[IcalebthelionI]

10 series was definitely S tier with the 1080ti being an absolute beast. The 3000 series is a little tougher as the price at msrp was great and performance was good but as we’re starting to see now, the limited vram in 3060ti-3080 is started to pose a threat to the longevity of the cards playing some newer titles at 1440p and higher resolutions.

[jaromohran]

Great video loved learning about the cards from the start