PIXEL PUSHERS PAST
It’s easy to forget about where we came from in PC gaming, especially when we’re arguing over gigabytes of memory and teraflops of performance. But there’s actually a lot that we can glean from the annals of GPU history—the colossal leaps in power that GPUs have taken in under 25 years goes some way to explaining why today’s top graphics card costs $1,499.
You have to walk before you can run, and there were many attempts to nail an image resolution of just 800x600 before anyone could dream up the pixel count required for the latest games at 4K. Yet you’d also be surprised by just how many features so prevalent in modern GPUs were first introduced back at the dawn of the industry. But let’s
