GeForce GTX 750 Ti Review: Maxwell Adds Performance Using Less Power

[Onus]

I think it's probably too wide for my mini-ITX case, but it's a start!

 

[logainofhades]

Wide as in bracket?

 

[Onus]

Well, assuming it does include the low-profile bracket, it is still essentially two slots wide because of its cooler. I think it would hit the side of my case.

 

[benz_roux]

can I use this card to SOLIDWORKS?what do you think?tnx

 

[beachbod]

I for one am not going to play BF4 at 27fps. Waiting for the rest of the cards.

 

[beachbod]

I for one am not going to play BF4 at 27fps. Waiting for the other cards.

 

[logainofhades]

This card wasn't designed to run BF4 at insanely high settings. It was designed to target the OEM crowd that want to upgrade their systems for gaming without breaking the bank.

 

[RayZorJ3lade]

So I read this review and was sold! But then I find out this is a non-purchasable reference card and theres a range of gtx 750ti's out there - which one is best?

 

[RussK1]

Damn! 246kH/s at 60w? That's awesome... performance per watt.

 

[tcb1005]

Its a shame they are releasing the low end cards first. I want my 880 now!

 

[Novuake]

Its a shame they are releasing the low end cards first. I want my 880 now!

What you on about? Low end MAXWELL yes, but the GT/GTX 7xx series is DEFINITELY not released low end first.

I do not think maxwell will be such a large improvement per watt and die size across the whole board.

If it is, wow. Just wow.

 

[teknobug]

I picked up one of these, it's surprisingly impressive, I'm not expecting all the bells & whistles out of it like you would get out of a 770 or 780 or whatnot but it does the job for mid-range usage. Perfect for most games on Steam Big Picture and it plays just about every game I have on my PC just fine (with some tweaking with graphics settings) and it's a bit of a step up from my 560Ti with less power consumption.

 

[tadej petric]

Nice!First page made for a good read.

 

[bhalpin47]

What version were the drivers and cuda used for the this mining test? I have been unable to get cuda to recognize my 750 ti. I'm running Windows 7 ultimate x64, Latest Drivers from Nvidia(334.89) and Cuda 5.5.20.

 

[RussK1]

What version were the drivers and cuda used for the this mining test? I have been unable to get cuda to recognize my 750 ti. I'm running Windows 7 ultimate x64, Latest Drivers from Nvidia(334.89) and Cuda 5.5.20.

Probably 6.0.1 which comes with 334.89.

Perform a clean install of drivers (the option is in the custom install package).

 

[bhalpin47]

I'm awaiting acceptance to the nvidia developer group so that I can download cuda 6.0.1. While I'm waiting I got it working with cuda 5.0.

 

[joeb0b]

Not bad for a 60 watt card. Can't wait to see a bigger maxwell chip. BTW, the LTC mining numbers posted for the 270x are quite low. These cards average 440-450 KHash on scrypt coins.

 

[Casecutter]

Other than finding efficiency it all leaves me meh!... Sure it looks good against its GK106 cousin but, that not saying a lot as the GK106 wasn’t sincerely efficient or great performance. While this Maxwell has it better in efficiency it just doesn’t raise the bar in performance of a $150 mainstream offering. It feels like the Nvidia had more of an edict to keep it under 75W, than making a solid mainstream gaming offering.

 

[Novuake]

Other than finding efficiency it all leaves me meh!... Sure it looks good against its GK106 cousin but, that not saying a lot as the GK106 wasn’t sincerely efficient or great performance. While this Maxwell has it better in efficiency it just doesn’t raise the bar in performance of a $150 mainstream offering. It feels like the Nvidia had more of an edict to keep it under 75W, than making a solid mainstream gaming offering.

Maybe that was the point?

 

[Onus]

I believe low wattage was indeed the point. I find it hard to consider a card drawing only 60W but with HD7790 performance "disappointing," particularly as long as the price is right. This is a solid mainstream card.

 

[Someone Somewhere]

What I'm waiting for is to see how this scales up to something with ~3x the power consumption, plus the 20nm manufacturing. Tasty...

 

[RussK1]

Other than finding efficiency it all leaves me meh!... Sure it looks good against its GK106 cousin but, that not saying a lot as the GK106 wasn’t sincerely efficient or great performance. While this Maxwell has it better in efficiency it just doesn’t raise the bar in performance of a $150 mainstream offering. It feels like the Nvidia had more of an edict to keep it under 75W, than making a solid mainstream gaming offering.

Maybe that was the point?

I believe low wattage was indeed the point. I find it hard to consider a card drawing only 60W but with HD7790 performance "disappointing," particularly as long as the price is right. This is a solid mainstream card.

Both right... This is a perfect card for non-hardcore gamers. Although I think $150 is still too much. If it was priced closer to $100 it would shake things up quite a bit.

 

[logainofhades]

If you have an OEM rig, the $150 price tag isn't as bad, since you don't have to add the cost of a PSU to your upgrade. An inferior card and upgrade to a quality PSU could easily come close to the price of a GTX 750ti.

 

[Gman450]

Other than finding efficiency it all leaves me meh!... Sure it looks good against its GK106 cousin but, that not saying a lot as the GK106 wasn’t sincerely efficient or great performance. While this Maxwell has it better in efficiency it just doesn’t raise the bar in performance of a $150 mainstream offering. It feels like the Nvidia had more of an edict to keep it under 75W, than making a solid mainstream gaming offering.

Maybe that was the point?

I believe low wattage was indeed the point. I find it hard to consider a card drawing only 60W but with HD7790 performance "disappointing," particularly as long as the price is right. This is a solid mainstream card.

Both right... This is a perfect card for non-hardcore gamers. Although I think $150 is still too much. If it was priced closer to $100 it would shake things up quite a bit.

A $100 would mean it would be the best entry/mid value card on any book.

 

[logainofhades]

I really feel this was targeted at the OEM user market more than anything else. Still, average performance close to that of an HD 7850, for $150 isn't a bad deal.