This is the spiritual successor to the best graphics card ever made

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I'm an old man. I've created many an autoexec.bat and config.sys file in my life, vividly remember plugging in my first 3D accelerator card with pass-through cables through a Matrox Mystique GPU, and have benchmarked practically every graphics card released since 2006. And the appearance of this gorgeous new Galax graphics card (via Videocardz) this morning was like snorting a hit of pure nostalgia, bringing all those memories flooding back.

Now I've gotten over the stabbing reminder that my brief youth has utterly gone— and that I am tumbling inexorably, and ever more rapidly towards the end—I can take some comfort in the fact that the spiritual successor to one of the best graphics cards ever made is coming. And I just hope I can find someone at Galax to send us one to play with.

The best graphics card ever is, obviously, the Nvidia GeForce 8800GT (fight me). It's a single-slot beauty of the like I feared I'd never see again. It was affordable, punched above its weight class, and was a sleek card at a time when dual-slot was becoming the norm. And only its mild refresh, the 9800 GT, followed it up.

Now Galax has listed its GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Unparalleled Max on its China site, and I really hope it's getting a wider launch. But it's probably not. After all, Colorful (the owner of the Galax brand) has created this single-slot version, and it still hasn't seen any sort of global release. Still, with two GPU brands theoretically listing them the chances may have increased just a little.

To be entirely fair to the venerable 8800 GT, the RTX 4060 Ti isn't in the same league. If that had launched with RTX 3070-level gaming performance at a price considerably below the RTX 3060 Ti, then maybe it would have been, but this