First computer I built had a BFG 7600gt with the first upgrade I ever did was a BFG 8800gt
Miss BFG and EVGA for nvidia cards.
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Mine was an ELSA Erazor III LT (the name somehow stuck). It was an offer that was bundled with horribly bad and clumly mechanical shutter 3D goggles. I remember trying Half Life with it. It was rattling all the time and the 3D effect was mediocre.
As a teen in the 2010s, my first GPU was an Nvidia 680m in a Sager (Clevo) laptop.
That thing could power through just about anything I'd throw at it. Good times.
Trident TGUI9440 on a VL-bus card. Surprisingly peppy on a 486/66 overclocked to 80.
ATi EGA Wonder, it could do a whopping 640 x 350 with 16 colors!
A GeForce 9 series
AMD Radeon 6300M.
Or if mobile doesn't count: GTX 1060-6GB
Actual PC? GTX 960 4GB from MSI.
I got some random hand me down laptop with Win7 and probably some Intel iGPU
Voodoo Monster 3D
Edit: wait I misread the assignment. Thatβs the first 3D accelerator I bought. I have no idea what my first gfx card was it was like 37 years sgo.
I had an s3 virge card. Amazingly bad, it basically was no faster than cpu rendering, but looked a bit better. I spent so much time trying to trick games into running on it.
GTX 760 Ti --> GTX 1060 Ti --> RTX 3080/RX6750 XT
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.
GTX 650 Ti Super used for 80 bucks. Love that card and man did it get me through tough times.
For my first gaming rig (gift)? GTX 980.
With my own money? 2080 TI
First and last. Radeon 9600xt
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.