I play more on consoles, but I had a 8500 GT for quite some years, then I bought an HD 6770 1GB and for now a RX 550 4GB, it's enough gor what I play, most of them just classics, point and click games and some 2D plataformers. Prefer consoles to play more modern games.

1998-1999: ATI Rage 128 - This ran waaaaay to hot on my 98 machine back in 99 or so, i had the case open and running a side fan constantly into my case. Eventually i dropped it for the integrated card or some other generic VGA card.

1999-?? : Consoles used far more. PS2, PS3, XBox, XBox360, Gamecube. Seemed a better idea than constantly trying to upgrade.

2013-2017 - Nvidia Sapphire card - Decent but ran hot with some games, otherwise great and still have

2019-Now: ATI GeForce 1050i - Current video card, seems to always run cool.

Before I bought my first gaming rig, I only ever played games on laptops or on a low-end desktop my dad built for me for less demanding games like RuneScape, Starsiege: Tribes and such. My first GPU was an Nvidia GTX 650 which came with that first rig. I later upgraded to a GTX 980.

In December last year, I built myself a new PC but due to GPU prices, I just ported the 980 over to this PC as it still works just fine (though one of the fans is burned out). Eventually, I plan to get myself an RTX card, just to upgrade (as my GPU is now my bottleneck for the first time ever) but yeah, my wallet needs to heal significantly before I can make that happen lol

[Starting with my first PC, scroll further down to read when I actually KNEW about GPU's]

1. The first time that I started playing videogames (not counting the gaming as a teenager on my dad's homecomputer) was on an old Pentium II machine. I had two consecutive Pentium II's from my mom (she switched to Pentium III). All the specs I knew where 'Pentium II' and '3GB HDD' and '4GB HDD' respectively. I wasn't aware what a GPU even was, let alone did I know what GPU was in it.

The first game that got me hooked was Age of Empires I. I think I started playing it on the Pentium II. With such a small HDD, it wasn't possible to have many games installed at the same time (games I played ate away a CD sized space of 700MB of those 3 or 4 GB in total).

2. When I got the Pentium III from my mom (she switched to Pentium 4), still the only specs I was aware of where Pentium III and 30 GB HDD.

Age of Empires I was the game I played most on this one.

3. When I bought my very own PC for the first time I still wasn’t really aware of what a GPU is and what it does, only that it was good to have a discrete one . I opted for a pre-built Acer Aspire T140 and it had GeForce 6200 Graphics.

This one could run Battlefield 1942 and it became my most favourite game for many years (only in singleplayer, I'm not fond of playing games online with strangers). Second favourite was Rome Total War. I tried out Battlefield Vietnam, but it was a bridge too far for this GPU.

4. My next PC was a custom built where I picked the parts, then had it built for me. Now I truly needed to get acknowledged with specs and I opted for a Geforce 8500GT. It was a silent card (just a cooling block with fins, no fans) with 512GB GDDR3 VRAM.

It made playing Battlefield Vietnam and Battlefield 2 possible and Medieval II Total War, besides running my favourites Bf1942 and Rome Total War smoother.

5. Second PC I had custom built had my very first AMD card, the Radeon HD6670 with 1GB GDDR5 VRAM.

This made run Battlefield 2 much better as well as making games like Far Cry 3 possible. I did discover Baldur's Gate. Doesn't need much graphic-wise, but it became my next favourite game for years.

6. That second PC was the first one to get a graphic card upgrade from me, to a Radeon RX460 2GB GDDR5 VRAM.

This one could run most modern games. Games like Battlefield 1, Call of Duty Advanced Warfare and Infinite Warfare where the most demanding games I played on this one I think. But my most favourite game was Euro Truck Simulator 2.

7. My current PC was the first one I built myself and at first I had the RX460 migrated to my new machine, but later on I upgraded to my current GPU, the AMD Radeon 5500XT with 8GB of GDDR5 VRAM. And still keeps me satisfied.

Most demanding game I played on this one is probably Red Dead Redemption 2, but my favourite is still Euro Truck Simulator 2.

I guess you're asking about dedicated GPUs only, right? So I'll exclude any early 2D video cards (had a pretty sharp Matrox SVGA card once... well, sharp for those days :P ) and jump into the 3D realms (ha!) directly :P. Note that in my younger years money was an issue, so yeah, never quite got stellar hardware on my hands...

1) Nvidia Riva TNT2 M64
2) Nvidia GeForce 4 MX 440
3) ATI Radeon HD 4670 - here ended the AGP era
4) Nvidia GeForce GT 540M (had to switch to a laptop for several years, due to... life)
5) Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (also in a laptop) - almost forgot about this one, though I have greatly enjoyed the performance per buck I got here for a few years :)
6) Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 - still own and use this bad boy :P

My first computer had a Pentium 3 and a Geforce 3 GPU.
Used to play a lot of Football Manager type of games (Championship Manager?) with my brother all the time. Football managerial games were very popular at that time around here, probably because a earlier old DOS game that was a enormous hit, can't recall the name though. Edit: the game was Elifoot!!!!!!!!!

Had a few laptops after that, but none with dedicated graphics. At one point I had a Toshiba AMD powered laptop at home, connected to screen keyboard and mouse and used 2 Asus eeePC laptops (netbooks) all over. At one time the home laptop started to struggle too much and decided to get a desktop.
Played very few games on those laptops, not because the lack of graphic power but my attention was on other things. None the less, I played a lot of Counter Strike on the home laptop and Battle for Wesnoth on the netbooks, they were also my introduction to Linux.
I still have that Toshiba AMD laptop (I gave it away but it returned home after no longer being able to properly surf the web) and it was the machine I took for those loooong nights on Lan parties.

AMD HD 7770 awsome card for the price. I recall playing some Minecraft and a LOT of CS-GO on that card.

It was later upgraded to a AMD HD 7850, not a big upgrade but is still probably one of my favorite cards ever, together with the 750Ti and 1050Ti.
Ohhh, all the time playing Dirt Rally and, If I'm not mistaken, also played Ori and Blind Forest on that card.

AMD Rx480 4Gb Funny to see how this card is actually more expensive now than it was when launched. I discover GOG somewhere between the HD7850 and the Rx480 and joined to buy Populous the Beginning.
Played too many games on this card but the ones I enjoyed the most are Hollow Knight, Portal 1 and 2. I played the last multiplayer games on this card.
It was good overall but some games gave me a bit of trouble, like Populous 3 and King's Bounty the Legend.

nVidia GTX 1650 after the old Rx480 start artifacting the image I got a GTX 1650. I usually don't play very demanding games and the more graphic intensive game on this card was Rime, wich actually surprised me in how much horsepower it needed.

This is the list of GPU's on my main desktop, there were other cards in between for one reason or another since I tend to have 2 or 3 desktops at any given time and at least a laptop or more recently, a Windows tablet. Sometimes use them to play games as well and the only portable computer I had with a dedicated card was a i5 Toshiba Tecra with some low power AMD card wich I used for 5-6 years.
My first tablet was a chinese rebranded unit powered by a Atom z8350, slow AF but played so many good games on it including: Guacamelee, into the breach, Plants vs Zombies, Fell Seal, Super Crate Box, SteamWorld Heist and Skullgirls.

That's a hell of a good card :D

You didn't think someone was actually reading all the posts, how naughty!

something like:

The Television Interface Adaptor (TIA)
VIC-II
Commodore's Enhanced Chip (ECS)
Advanced Graphics Architecture (AGA)

and then a succession of different Nvidia cards until the one I have now - RTX 2080 Super

[There was stuff before, but it was inconsequential. first PC was VGA, and then a long time at SVGA. Many of my early favorite games were EGA or even CGA though!]
nvidia TNT2U
nvidia GeForce4 MX 440 8x
[Long memory gap -- and history not available due to using fly-by-night retailers that no longer exist.]
Radeon 7790 in 2x SLI
AMD APU A12-9800 [Downgrade, but I was sick of the instability of SLI.]
Radeon RX 460
Radeon RX 280X [Major upgrade despite version numbers; they were both 2016.]
Radeon RX 580
Radeon 6600X

Cirrus Logic (1 MB) (1997)
MSI Nvidia GeForce 4 MX 440 (64 MB) (2002 or 2003)
XFX Nvidia GeForce 7600 GT (256 MB) (2006?)
HIS ATI Radeon HD 5750 (1 GB) (2010)
Nvidia GeForce GT 750M (4 GB) Asus laptop (2013)
Sapphire Radeon RX 5700 XT (8 GB) (2019)


@Dark_art_, also
Sapphire does only AMD/ATI cards. :D

I thought that to but while writing the post, was able to found a couple of references to nVidia cards https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/sapphire-gtx-1070-oem.b6203

Also finding https://www.ebay.com/p/8037579765 or https://www.ebay.com/itm/284596290760

While true, those seem more like oddities than anything else. And techpowerup's GPU database has some "unobtainable" cards/GPUs, stuff like engineering samples.

In the case of rtcvb's card, I'm pretty sure is the same kind as his other ATI GeForce 1050i. :P

I was going off memory, but pulling up Newegg...

https://www.newegg.com/sapphire-radeon-hd-6970-100311-3l/p/N82E16814202035R

Says AMD and it's a Raedon HD 6970. So yeah i'm wrong on it being Nvidia... Oops.

I play games entirely on laptops, which means integrated graphics. I don't want to be dragging a desktop, monitors, etc all over the place.

My prior laptop that died in September was an outright potato with Intel UHD 620 graphics. I don't remember my computers before this, including some desktops, but they'd all be potatoes too at this point. Current PC has ATI Radeon graphics and has so far been handling everything that I tossed at it.

You didn't mix the names on purpose? You have my apologies since I thought it was a funny post :)