Really cool Thread.
Respect to everyone who remembers all the Details (meaning years + exact models used)
Had quite the hard time remembering all and might miss 1? model in between but guess i got it mostly right now.

Pre 1998 Unknown (486 CPU with 25MHZ/33MHZ Turbo + xyz Graphic - nothing fancy there for sure - most likely)
1998 Matrox Millennium 2 4MB
Matrox Millennium 2 4MB + 3dfx Voodoo 2
Riva TNT2 32 MB
Geforce2 MX
Might Miss a Model here?!
Radeon X1900 XT
Radeon HD 6770
Geforce GTX 970
Since 2017 Geforce 1080 TI

Guess that's it :D

Got an all-in-one PC around 2012. Pentium G620, inbuilt Intel HD Graphics. Using it to this date, so no other GPU to add to this list.

Used it for many classic titles: Vice City, San Andreas, PES 6, NFS Most Wanted (2005). Even got through Far Cry 3 a few times. Lowest settings to keep it playable though

I don't remember all of them, but over time I got:

Amiga Denise (IC 8362 R8) [url=https://www.amigawiki.org/doku.php?id=de:parts:denise]https://www.amigawiki.org/doku.php?id=de:parts:denise[/url]
Some Standard CGA
Some Standard VGA
S3 Virge
Voodoo 1
2 x Voodoo 2

Several early Nvidia Chips including 640
One from AMD
Then several others from Nvidia again including 640,780, 880, 970, 1080, 3080

256 KB on-board VGA
1 MB SVGA
2 MB SVGA
Voodoo 1 with Matrox Mystique
Geforce 2 GTS
Radeon 9700 Pro
Radeon X850XT
Some cheap Radeon whatever (mainly playing on console at that time)
Geforce GTX 970
Geforce RTX 2070 Super

I can't remember them all, so I'm impressed that some people can remember them all. I know for sure that Nvidia got shitty names. I could do better than that.

Unknown VGA
Trident? SVGA- Daggerfall was impressive.
GeForce FX 5200? First upgrade for PC. It wasn't enough for Oblivion that came out a few years later. Playable on low details. Stuttering, You could fall in deep holes in landscape while riding on horse since gpu card seemed unable to keep up with horse. I was miffed.
GeForce GTX 550 or 560?
GeForce GTX 960 Still in use.

With as many computers as I have had at any given time that is a complex and convoluted question

The GPUs I can remember were

One of the last Voodoo cards

Then jumping briefly over to a series of PCI based video cards. Completely leapfrogging AGP format.

I learned there I prefer Nvidia and EVGA brands.

I built my first PC in about 2007-2009. I TRIED to build it with a AMD card and it burnt up in less than a week.
I switched over to PCI Express with an EVGA card but dont recall which. I know some GTX 230s in there somewhere.

The most clearly I can recall was I got a GTX560 Duke Nukem Forever collectors edition card.

Then I needed to bump it up to a GTX 650 in order to get 3 viable video card outputs for triple wide format. I remember in that system also having a secondary Zotac card which was used as dedicated PHYSX card which was a weird PCI Express (not PCI Express 16 ) card

Eventually having to migrate to SFF systems I was picking up low profile cards. First a 630, then a 730. Both EVGA

I bumped up again to a 1030 Zotac card. Then I had that card burn out and replaced it with the exact same card about 1.5 years later as GPU prices were surging and having to pay over 100$ more for it than the first one.

Ive luckily been using that card since. I dont do high end gaming with the PC. I found that having a true gaming computer I was spending more time hunting for sales and configuring things than ACTUAL gaming with it. So I migrated back to doing gaming on consoles which I am more than content with as its much more practical. Yet I have not had any problem with gaming performance. Most recently running Thymesia with little or no issue.

Even if triple wide and 9 wide is amazing visually. Its just not practical.

My philosophy has always been this. Dropping obscene amounts of cash on GPUs is absolutely pointless. A card today that costs 1k will never take advantage of the card because the games are not yet designed to take advantage of the horsepower. There will likely have a revision equivalent made in the next generation within 1.5 years that will see the price drop to about 250$. With that new revision comes in new capacities like ray tracing or more cuda cores or various different capacities that the more powerful previous generation simply was not designed for.

So it makes more sense to buy "last years" card because this years games wont take advantage of the bleeding edge. and new generation of cards will have technological innovations built in like even faster Ram types like DDRx what ever that will be more important than the greater raw horse power the prior more expensive generation had.

Buying bleeding edge is, has always been and will always be trying to throw money to solve a problem you do not actually have yet.

So the philosophy is to buy a card 100-250$ at max with the intention of upgrading it to a similar level more frequently instead of trying to buy a video card you think is going to be viable for the next 5 years cause it wont be. Id rather pay 500 divided across 2 to 3 cards across 5 year period than 1000 to buy ONE card that can only partially survive 5 years thanks to tech/format innovations they didnt even think of when that card was released.

Ive yet to have any problem with that format.