A Matrox Millennium.

It was some on board gpu with my super amazing AMD K6-2, it couldn't even run mega man X without chugging. Then a friend gave me an S3 Virge with a glorious 4mb vram.

I don't know what hardware my first computer had because I didn't even know what a GPU was at the time... But the first GPU I ever bought was the 8600 GT.

evga GTX 770 It never died Replaced it with an evga GTX1080 it blew up 2 months out of warranty. they sent me rtx 2070 despite the warranty(MISS YOU EVGA). I gave that card to my wife and upgraded to a 3080 from aorus.
the card is great, but the software that comes with the card is beyond awful. I will probably get an Asus next time.

I forgot the first one, but I remember I upgraded it to an ATi Rage Pro so I could play Baldur's Gate, which needed 8 megabytes of video ram. Later I paired it with a Voodoo 2. I think it was the Diamond Monster one. And that one got replaced with a Matrox G200, which got replaced with Kyro II. I picked some odd cards back then.

Riva TNT 16MB, brand name Elsa, card called Erazor.

First custom pc I got had a NVIDIA 6600 gt

Riva TNT2

I think I had a Voodoo 3 at some point. Then a Voodoo 5 at the family PC.

Then on my own PCs Radeon 1900Xt -> radeon 4780 -> radeon 7770 -> radeon 480 -> rtx 2070 super.

Intel HD

Nvidia GeForce 8400gs

Went great with my duo core 🥲 for that buttery smooth 30fps

MSI 4GB version of GTX970. Upgraded a few years ago to an RX6800 and I'm stoked about both GPUs tbh

ATI Mach32 EISA. It looked to good on paper, but somehow, it did not make DOS go brrrrrr 😟

The first one I got was some integrated cirrus logics chip that didn't even have 3d acceleration. The first one I bought with my own money was a GeForce 7800GT in late 2005

Trident VGA?

I got a 3DFX voodoo as soon as they came out. GL quake was mind-blowing.

I bought a Riva TNT

Then a GeForce 2

Then a Radeon 9000

Then for a bunch of years I just moved into laptop after laptop with discrete GPUs.

Now I still have a 1080 and a 2070 doing a little bit of light AI work and video transcoding for me. But I'm still relying on crappy laptop GPUs for all my gaming. They're good enough.

3dfx voodoo 3 3000, with its whopping 16MB of VRAM.

It ran Unreal Tournament like a charm. Playing CTF on dialup though was not always great though..

Sapphire Radeon RX 480 (4GB)

If by graphics card you mean 3D hardware acceleration, then it was a Canopus Pure 3D. It was equivalent to the first Voodoo add-in card but IIRC it had 6 MB of RAM instead of 4. It wasn't a standalone card so it had a VGA passthrough from your 2D card when it wasn't active.

As for 2D cards, idk. Unless it was pro reference grade like Matrox I don't remember EGA and CGA cards being branded.

I'm amazed at how many people remember the hardware they purchased 30 years ago.

A VGA card. In an IBM PS/2.

The first 3D accelerator card I ever had was a Voodoo 2 of some variety.

GeForce2 MX

First and last. Radeon 9600xt

For my first gaming rig (gift)? GTX 980.

With my own money? 2080 TI

It was a shiny EGA card.

On an 8-bit ISA bus, with a whopping 64kB of VRAM. It could display an amazing 16 colours on one screen.

My friend who had a CGA card was so jelly with his four eye-soaring neon colours.

If we're talking accelerated graphics, I bought a voodoo 2 with 8mb of RAM which linked up to my ATI Mach 64 2d-card.

Intel Graphics Media

a c c e l e r a t o r

Radeon HD 6570, bit humble. Still not very powerful, I only have a GTX 950 at best, I don't PC game much these days

Gtx 1050ti, great card loved it

I think it was S3 Virge. Remember playing Tomb Raider with smooth textures.

I got a graphics card that somehow bricked hard drives. We went through a lot of hard drives before finding out this was the case. I don't remember specifics

Nvidia Riva TNT, because the onboard graphics were only going to play EverQuest (beta) and Rogue Squadron like a painful slideshow, if at all.

Voodoo Banshee, so I could play Quake, Unreal and Deus Ex.

I feel like so many of the asklemmy questions are covert methods to profile users, so I never give real answers.

First one that someone bought for me: Riva TNT2

First one I bought myself: ATI Sapphire 9600 pro

Voodoo 2 baybeeee

GTX 650 Ti Super used for 80 bucks. Love that card and man did it get me through tough times.

Geforce 2 fx

an S3 Trio card.

7950 gx2

GeForce GT 610.

It was the cheapest GPU available at the time, imagine my disappointment when I tried to run Minecraft with shaders and barely got more than a slideshow.

Voodoo Monster 3D

Edit: wait I misread the assignment. That’s the first 3D accelerator I bought. I have no idea what my first gfx card was it was like 37 years sgo.

3060 ti I bought during the shortage, overpaid soooo much haha