{"id":1505,"date":"2019-01-07T20:14:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T03:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/directx\/?p=1505"},"modified":"2019-03-08T19:59:27","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T03:59:27","slug":"wall-of-gpu-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/directx\/wall-of-gpu-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Direct3D team office has a Wall of GPU History"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When you are the team behind something like Direct3D, you need many different graphics cards to test on.\u00a0 And when you\u2019ve been doing this for as long as we have, you\u2019ll inevitably accumulate a LOT of cards left over from years gone by.\u00a0 What to do with them all?\u00a0 One option would be to store boxes in someone\u2019s office:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\nBut it occurred to us that a better solution would be to turn one of our office hallways into a museum of GPU history:<\/div>\n
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\n402 different GPUs covering 35 years of hardware history later:<\/div>\n
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\nOur collection includes mainstream successes, influential breakthrough products, and also many more obscure cards that nevertheless bring back rich memories for those who worked on them.<\/div>\n
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\nIt only covers discrete GPU configurations, because mobile parts and SoC components are less suitable for hanging on a wall \ud83d\ude42\u00a0\u00a0 We think it\u2019s pretty cool \u2013 check it out if you ever have a reason to visit the D3D team in person!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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When you are the team behind something like Direct3D, you need many different graphics cards to test on.\u00a0 And when you\u2019ve been doing this for as long as we have, you\u2019ll inevitably accumulate a LOT of cards left over from years gone by.\u00a0 What to do with them all?\u00a0 One option would be to store […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/directx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/directx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/directx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/directx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1719"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/directx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/directx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/directx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/directx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/directx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/directx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}