10 Years of AMD Video Cards BENCHMARKED! 

Good job LTT, this is much better than the fiasco you put out yesterday.

When people say 10 years ago I still think 1990...

2007 still feels like 3 years ago not 10.

Would be nice to see an updated version of this video.

Please do 10 years of AMD CPU's next, I wanna see my Athlon X2 260 benchmarked on games I can't afford to buy.

When he said 10 years ago I had 2001 in my mind... I'm getting old

anybody remember Ruby on the AMD cards? she was my first crush when I was a teenager. oh the nostalgia.

“Vega is coming” AMD: “Let me introduce you our new or old Polaris 30 or whatever”

Still using an R9 290X 4GB, AMD tweaked its performance over the years and still running great today for my 1080P needs.

the 7950/7970 is the most future proof gpu ever made.. even to this day it has no problems playing most games at high/ultra settings with a good framerate, i am never getting rid of my 7970s.. every few months i like to dust them off and test the performance of recent games.

Ah the times when the one-step-down-from-top-level-GPUs were $250...

I still have a 7970. Still runs everything just fine. I don't see myself upgrading in a while. Old top of the line cards are the best bang for your buck.

I miss the cool pictures they use to have on graphic cards

Still using my R9 280X Aka 7970. What a great card.

love this style of video. really enjoy seeing hardware tested over time with modern drivers and software.

Great video. Thank you for sharing what older cards still are able to compete!

History of GPU I bought : - 9800gt - 4870 cf - 5770 - GTX 570 - 6770 - 7770 - 7870xt - 7950 - GTX 750ti - R9 380x and now I'm stuck with intel hd 530 what a life...

To sum it up, AMD has ryzen from what they used to be :)

I remember HD 5770 1gb. It was an amazing overclocking card, was able to hit within a few MHz of the maximum clock speed.

Great video. Fun fact - in 2009, I resurrected an ancient gaming PC with an AMD64 3400+ from 2003 and 2GB of RAM. I replaced the nVidia fx5900 with an AMD 3750, which was apparently the best AGP card you could buy at the time. Although the processor was a bottleneck, it actually played most games quite well and got me back into PC gaming. In 2010 I rebuilt a machine from scratch with a 4870 which I kept for 7 years before going for a GTX1060.

what about computer fashion changes? what was a cool looking rig ten years ago is completely different now

7970 is a value beast, i got 7990, basically 2 of those in 2017, so if a guy bought 2 in 2012 and managed to keep them until today, 2017, they lasted a really long time... i bought my 7990 at the end of 2013 (release) and not upgrated yet, still plays some games at 1080p but now at medium, but bf1 at ultra and some other, depending on optimization

It is amazing that in 5 years, AMD graphics card improved enough to go from 38 FPS on Half Life 2, to over 440.

Great video! Interesting to see this year, since I have been in the market for older used video cards.

I just hope AMD bucks the trend of 'Finewine' with RX Vega. Let's be honest Raja said he doesn't like the term and rightly so, because it implies you don't get maximum performance on day 1 and have to wait until a year or two to achieve it's full potential. Traditionally AMD GPU's have always packed more horsepower under the hood than their equivalent Nvidia counterparts, thus they should theoretically be getting more fps than Nvidia when it's not the case. Imagine if the rx 480 was as fast as it is now after several software upgrades, upon release. It would be out and out faster than GTX 1060 and many more people would buy it. Come to think of it, maybe that's why Vega is arriving late. They've been spending months optimizing the architecture to extract the best performance on day 1 like Nvidia and unlike the inefficient GCN. Could be good news for AMD fans if true.

This has been a rollercoaster ride for me... I couldn't handle the GeForce... Edit: *insert generic edit about this comment being the most likes I've ever gotten.*

this had to take a lot of work bench marking all these cards, well done guys!

1:04 that lick though

7970 is still an amazing card

@5:00 I'm pretty sure those aren't graphics cards you're highlighting, guys.

Radeon 9700 Pro Master Race

This video poped on my recommended now pls make an update vid

What about the the monstrousity that was the R9 295X2?

When he was talking about ten years ago I was like "oh boy graphics cards from 2000-2002" .....then I realized 2007 was ten years ago.......

I've been watching your videos for years and this was one of your top five I liked that you were talking about the size of the chip as well as other features, really cool

3:04 THAT HEATSINK MAN

What's that "lock" on the 6970? It has always bothered me since there is no info on the internet.

I just did a build with the xfx rx 480 8 gb edition

This was fascinating as I have been a fan of AMD cards since the early 3870 days. AMD > NVidia.

damn this video made me feel old. I remember playing F.E.A.R. on my Radeon HD 2900 and a Core 2 Duo.

I wonder what kind of technology that baby will review when he reaches Linus's age.

The 7970 will always be my favorite!

Fun fact: at 8:15 when he says that the card compare to a écoboost mustang, little did he know that the v6 configuration was a 3.5L v6 engine twin turbo with almost 400hp stock . With a tune and 2-3 Goodies you can crank it up to 500hp easy . Pretty fast engine for the price haha

When you really have to start working on a project, but Linus uploads a vid.

Easy video: 10 years of 3dfx video cards

It still feels like yesterday whenever I was gaming on my Dell Vostro with an AMD 6850. It's sad I never got the 7850 to work on it as support for non GCN GPUs is almost non-existent outside of the Linux Radeon drivers. I also need a new motherboard and/or CPU because it now posts with a cache test failure. I really do miss messing around on that PC. :(

back in 2007 I had a HIS Radeon X1950 Pro 8X AGP card. 512MB 256bit GDDR3. It was a single slot card and had an oversized heatsink with a sword graphic sticker on it and a small fan at the rear of of the card. Then I had an ASUS Radeon HD7770 2GB 128bit GDDR5 PCI-E 3.0 card (part of a PC upgrade build for Win 7 when it came out). Then 2015 to present I am running an ASUS Radeon R9 270 2GB 256bit GDDR5 PCI-E 3.0 card. Before the HIS graphics card I was a big ATi Radeon fan back in the mid 90s. I had several different models of the ATi Radeon All in Wonder graphic cards with the built in TV tuner and AV input block. I did a lot of recording from the cable TV back then. Just like you would DVR stuff today.

4:19 that cooler tho

Sapphire nitro+ 8gb rx480 here, great budget card, eagerly awaiting for Vega in hopes that it competes with 1070/1080 so that I can get a 700€ 3440x1440 34" 100hz freesync monitor instead of a 1300€ one with gsync

The Fury X did *not* introduce a new generation of GCN. That was introduced in the 285.

ahh the memories, i used to rock a 5970 from ATI, which had double GPUs in one as i remember, wish you put it to test though!

The R9 290x was the first real high end PC component I ever bought. Still running the R9 290x today on the same FX 8350, both purchased in February 2014. Upgraded to a custom water cooling pretty fast do to the thermals, other than that though love the card. Crushes 1080p still... gonna rock this build as along I can. Great video don't know how I missed it when it was new. I know the AMD product line and history rather well, but having it presented was nice. Peace.

had a 3850, was a beast when playing oblivion and gothic 3

the hd 7970 a ledgend forever

It would be super awesome if you guys put a link in the description to the highlighted previous videos for people without annotations on or available. E.g. the Intel cpus and water blocks

Cool video. I remember my Radeon 9800 Pro. Not an AMD card, but still brings back loads of nostalgia.

Wow they actually had all the cards. I expected them to just have a r9 and "simulate" the other cards.

Really Linus a 2 minute ad a CANT SKIP this an outrage!!!

Back in December, I had upgraded to a Five Ninety series Hewlett~Packard Pavilion, Model p0057c: This model comes with an RX Lexa Graphics Card, and while it only has 02 GB of VRAM, having an Intel Core i05~8400 or i07~8700 truly helps this GPU shine, and its low cost and wattage definitely has made it an ideal GPU to have on a budget, especially if you're purchasing hardware from Micro Center. Ideally, if you want a decent grade yet affordable Graphics Card from AMD that has a high amount of VRAM and won't take up so much of your Power Supply limit (if you're on a 2000$ USD Gaming or All~Around budget), the best one for its money (at the time of this post) is the Radeon Pro WX 7100, in my view: While a Workstation Graphics Card that is still priced at Workstation levels (about half a thousand dollars, on average), this Ellesmere card from a little over two years ago comes with 08 GB of VRAM and is right in the middle of the GCN 04.00~based RX Polaris cards in terms of overall speed and performance, only fifteen watts more in TDP than the RX 0570; the WX 7100 has also been proven to be useful in Benchmark Testing for games against its closest RX counterparts, and comes with some optimizations for certain applications that may require a WX to use, it gets the job done without forcing you to up your Power Supply to ridiculously high wattage limits and you could last on this for at least the next decade, definitely optimal to use with the 8700K or 8086K if you have a rig with either or. (:

I actually still have my old Radeon HD 4890, aka. the jet turbine. It was funny how it reached 105c under 100% load but didn't even ramp up the fan past 80%.

8:24 >RX 480 **me laughs in R9 290**

2:22 the card on the left is photoshopped

Updated one would be really helpful!!

The 7950 and the 7970 were just beasts for the time, they can still game, its amazing.

still have my ATi 3D RageII+ 2MB EDO VRAM

Hi LTT, Long time fan, first time commenting on one of your videos. I love this one. The combo of history, hardware and benchmark to see how far AMD has come is wonderful.

I absolutely LOVE that your intro jingle is NORMALISED and I don't need to get a heart attack when I lay in bed watching.

I have the amd 7970, I can still play alot of current titles at ultra with solid 60, such as Rainbow 6, GTA 5, SOMA, and the list goes on.

in 4 years they should make a 20 years of amd video cards and re benchmark them

480 $199? PFFFFFFT HAHAHA!

Still running an unlocked and OCd HD6950 in xfire with a HD6970. 7 years old... god damn!

Managed to find an hd7970 at value village for 40$ as my first real graphics cards. It ran real hot but it let me play the resident evil 2 remake at mid settings

I've used: HD 3870 GTX 8800GT GTX 660ti GTX 780ti now I have a GTX 1080.

I'm using a 3870 in my PC right now

could you make another on of these but go back 20 years ? and include a graph of the progres thru the years ?

Watching this just 3 years later is so nice

Remember when the 480 was the top of the line 3 years ago? lol

Now I'd like to see the 10 years of Nvidia flagships...

Had ATI 7850 Sapphire editing 1GB for exactly 7 years, bought used GTX 960 4 months ago In that 7 years 7850 served me great, I started having Issues with NFS 2015 and NFS payback which had to be played at low at 1080p but those games really looked good even on low. Worked great on The Crew and The Crew 2 (almost maxed out), it was really fun to drive countless hours thru whole map of america. The only problem I had was VRAM because I got 1GB version and mostly of 7850s were 2GB. So that made me play just cause 3 on low (but 1080p).

Oh man. I used to have a 5870 in my computer. It lasted me a while. I also remember the 7970. I was really close to upgrading to it from my 5870 but chose to go with a 680.

Still Playing with my 7970 and 280x in CF :D

"Because Canadians don't get the GOOD Ebay" :D

Please do an updated version.

I'm still rocking a crossfire 7870XT's which are slightly nerfed 7950's but were perfect for 1080p gaming.

the HD 2900xt is Photoshoped​ in at 2:23

"Vega is coming"..yep and now Vega has gone XD rip Vega 2017 - 2017

Almost time for that 14 Years of AMD Video Cards Video

That HD2900XT is a blast from the past my first gaming computer I built had one, I remember the 600w Corsair PSU not being powerful enough to run my system. It was noisy ran hot when playing games but lasted 10 years :D

Where is the 4gb 5970 xfx AMD Graphic Card ? It is faster than 6990

so im using a 2007 graphic card all this time.

Great video, but I would like to see a similar one for entry and mid cards, as I have the feeling that they evolved much much less.

my first AMD card was a Powercolor X800GT paired with an Athlon XP 3200+ years later in 2009 i proudly owned the mighty first 1Gb GDDR5 card, a HD5870 from XFX and felt like a baller at LAN-partys (too much to explain here) xD .. the rig (i5 760 OC@3.6Ghz + HD5870) still runs as an office machine at parents house sometimes. ol times... btw i do remember the HD4870X2 which was a top end card for years

I'm still using 2 HD 7850 in crossfire 😂😂😂

*Losing short term memory since... * but 2007 wasn't long ago... wait... 10 years passed already? Q_Q and I'm still a creep

awesome video guys. nice job

I'd love to see an "intro to Radeon Pro GPUs" video!!

*Next Vega reveal in summer* AMD: "RX Vega will have HBM memory!!.....*Presentation ends*.......BUT free food for everyone who came!!"

Time for a nice 15 years AMD update?

I think it's time to do one with Vega and Navi.

The 4850 was the first GPU I ever bought. Was back in 2008. Good times.