I Got The First GPU Ever Made! (Now Have First Laptop GPU)

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igor_kavinski

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As long as you are not dumping a big chunk of your savings on these, nice hobby.

 

Oyeve

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I have a box of those old geforce cards. Also Matrox millennium cards. Hell, I still have my ISA hercules card from the late 80s.

 

Gizmo j

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I'm thinking of getting the first iPhone on ebay, because it's the first phone with a GPU, but I've been looking at disembly videos and I can't find the GPU.

 

Gizmo j

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I now have the GTX 8800 and GTX 8800m which are the first desktop and laptop GPUs with "CUDA".

 

BoomerD

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But...were they the first ones made in Los Angeles during 1994?

 

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IronWing

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BurnItDwn

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IronWing said:

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Father of all the PCI video cards.
Grandpappy of all the AGP video cards.
Great grandpappy of Pci Express video cards!

 

Gizmo j

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I now have the first android phone, the HTC Dream.

I'm going to try to take it to a computer shop to take out the GPU in it.

 

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nakedfrog

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I actually still have my old HTC Eris, and it still works. It has a custom ROM on it.

 

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igor_kavinski

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Gizmo j said:

I now have the first android phone, the HTC Dream.

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If it works, don't ruin it.

 

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igor_kavinski

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nakedfrog said:

I actually still have my old HTC Eris, and it still works. It has a custom ROM on it.

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Don't cut yourself

 

nakedfrog

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igor_kavinski said:

Don't cut yourself

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I'll be careful

 

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manly

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On a phone SoC, the GPU is not a separate chip.

BurnItDwn said:

Father of all the PCI video cards.
Grandpappy of all the AGP video cards.
Great grandpappy of Pci Express video cards!

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Just before PCI, there was a short life span for VL-Bus.

 

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Gizmo j

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igor_kavinski said:

If it works, don't ruin it.

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I bought it already broken, I got it for $20 on eBay.

 

Gizmo j

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At first I thought I had the 8800m which is the first CUDA GPU on laptops, but I think I got ripped off because on eBay the title said "8800m" but doing research it seems it's not the 8800m


Now I have this one and I'm sure it's the right one.

 

Gizmo j

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Thinking about getting the GTX 880m because it's the first laptop GPU with 8gb of Vram, both the PS4 and XboxOne has 8gb of Vram.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M Specs

NVIDIA GK104, 993 MHz, 1536 Cores, 128 TMUs, 32 ROPs, 8192 MB GDDR5, 1250 MHz, 256 bit

www.techpowerup.com

 

Gizmo j

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For $50 I just got a broken Dell Inspiron 8200 on eBay which has a Geforce2Go which is the first laptop GPU.

I got it to take apart and see how it works.

 

nakedfrog

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Ugh, I had one of those, they were okay-ish for the first few years, but rapidly deteriorated. Fifty bucks is a rip-off at this point, even in working condition.

 

Gizmo j

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nakedfrog said:

Ugh, I had one of those, they were okay-ish for the first few years, but rapidly deteriorated. Fifty bucks is a rip-off at this point, even in working condition.

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I also wanted a laptop with a GTX 8800m which is the first laptop GPU with CUDA support, but I couldn't find one on eBay.

Below is a man giving these laptops to 2 of his daughters:

 

nakedfrog

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Yeah, you've posted that video before I'm pretty sure.

 

William Gaatjes

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IronWing said:

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Fully discrete setup with low power TTL schottky chips.
Does it use dynamic ram or static ram ?
The partnumbers are hard to see.

Edit :
The video chip is a HD46505 from hitachi ? AKA MC6845 from Motorola ?
My first guess from the datasheet would be that the memroy chips are static ram.

 

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Gizmo j

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Here is me extracting the Geforce2Go from the broken laptop.