Wow, this is interesting. The Direct3D team has been doing GPU hardware testing for quite a while, and they needed access to a lot of physical hardware to test across. They decided to make a museum wall of GPU history with all their hardware they had collected for testing. And, guess what? This blog article is written by, yours truly, Shawn Hargreaves.
20200705/https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/wall-of-gpu-history/