Re: AMD weighs in on HD versus 4K

On Thu, 29 May 2025 21:24:16 -0000 (UTC), ant@zimage.comANT (Ant)
wrote:

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, 28 May 2025 21:54:45 -0000 (UTC), ant@zimage.comANT (Ant)
wrote:

I still use old onboard and video cards (MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti
(N750TI-2GD5/OC; 2 GB of VRAM)) as my highest end GPU). :P

But don't worry, you're not really alone. 0.25% of Steam users
surveyed still use that card. If we go by the current Steam MAU, that
means you're in a crowd of over 30,000 people** ;-)

Woohoo! What about GeForce 8800 GT (512 MB of VRAM)? :P

I think you fall into the 0.20% "other" catch-all category. ;-)


Mind you, I've older cards in 'active' machines (if you allow me
increasingly lenient definitions of 'active').  The "XP Box" has a
GeForce 7950GT; the Project98 has the Voodoo 3, and the Beige95 has a
Matrox Mystique (paired with a Pure3D 3DFX)! None of which show up in
the Steam Hardware Survey... largely because Steam doesn't run on any
of those operating systems anymore ;-)

Alas, I've no DOS-era PCs so that's as far back as it gets for me
(what can I say, DOSBox just works too well). I'm sure somebody here
can out-retro me with hardware. But I'm happy with my collection.

BTW... can I take this opportunity to bitch about how much I dislike
Nvidia's naming scheme for their chipsets? Twenty years ago the new
hotness were the GeForce 5xxx cards... and now in 2025 we're still
buying cards with that name. Why do marketdroids hate consecutively
incrementing numbers so much that they feel the need to reset the
count every ten years?