Reviews

"The GTX 750 Ti has the same great features as the more expensive GTXes including GeForce Experience and ShadowPlay, and Maxwell even sports an improved video decoder over Kepler. Boost works as advertised and the GTX 750 Ti just sips power compared to the GTX 480 which it is able to match performance when it is overclocked. Impressive indeed.

If you are buying a $149 entry level gaming video card right now that is perfect for 1920×1080 as well as being great bang for buck, the GTX 750 Ti is a great choice especially considering that many OEM PCs can handle a 60W TDP video card without having to upgrade the PSU. It is also ideal for HTPC builds."

"NVIDIA on Tuesday gave gamers a hint of what's to come with its new Maxwell architecture.

The graphics chipmaker unveiled its updated GeForce GTX 750i and GeForce GTX 750 graphics processing units (GPUs), which are aimed at the midrange graphics market. The chips are 50 percent faster than their predecessor -- Kepler -- and twice as energy efficient, thanks to the inclusion of Maxwell. The graphics chips are the first time the architecture has hit the market.

While Maxwell is much better than Kepler, it's an even bigger bump over Fermi. The new chips are four times as power efficient as Fermi GPUs and twice as fast."

"In addition to posting very strong numbers given the 60W TDP and overall specs, the reference 750 Ti board has insane headroom for overclocking. I pushed the GPU boost clock from its standard 1085MHz up to 1270MHz and it remained perfectly stable throughout lengthy sessions of the Titanfall Beta, Battlefield 4, and 3DMark Firestrike.

NVIDIA is confidently proclaiming Maxwell to be the most efficient GPU ever built. Compared to Kepler, first-generation Maxwell cards exhibit a 35% peak performance boost per core, and twice the performance per watt. Crucially, the card doesn’t require any additional PCI-e power; it gets all it needs from the 75W already flowing through the PCI-Express lane. All of the generic, low-budget boxes out there from Dell and HP with 300W power supplies and outdated or embedded graphics, and you’ve nailed an important segment for NVIDIA These were originally sold as internet and email machines; now they can be upgraded to entry-level gaming rigs."

"Maxwell’s primary goal is to deliver groundbreaking improvements in performance per watt, essentially allowing NVIDIA’s engineers to do more with less. This is particularly important for the GTX 750 Ti and GTX 750 since they will fit perfectly into older prebuilt systems without needing an expensive and sometimes complicated power supply swap.

A whole lot of NVIDIA’s marketing points about the GTX 750 Ti play up its perf per watt story and there’s a good reason for that: this card is miles ahead of anything else in today’s GPU market.

[GTX 750 Ti] represents one of the most impressive technological achievements the GPU industry has seen in the last two years."

"The GeForce GTX 750 traded blows with the Radeon R7 260X, though the GeForce was the faster of the two cards overall. Where the GeForce GTX 750 and GTX 750 Ti really shined was in regard to power consumption. Despite offering competitive overall performance to their peers, the cards consumed far less power under load. The effort NVIDIA put into improving power consumption and efficiency have clearly paid off with Maxwell. We suspect this GPU is going to find its way into a smorgasbord of Steam Boxes, all-in-one systems, and eventually gaming laptops.

Overall, we really dig the GeForce GTX 750 Ti and GTX 750. The cards offer competitive performance, in a small, cool, and quiet form factor."

"When it comes to temperatures, power efficiency, noise levels, power supply requirements and things of that nature the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti really shines.

What NVIDIA has done with the power efficiency is pretty damn amazing. The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB reference card was just 5.7-inches long with a small GPU cooler on it, but it was quiet and we never could get the card to get over 60C! We also like that this card has just a 60W TDP and doesn’t require any extra power connectors, so you can easily upgrade older systems without even really having to worry about the power supply."

"I must admit, I was thoroughly impressed with the EVGA GTX 750 Ti FTW from the moment I started working with it. From impressive overclocking to the great performing ACX cooler, everything worked terrific right out of the box. The improvements the Maxwell GPU bring are impressive, especially on the performance per watt front. EVGA has done a great job with their first implementation of a Maxwell based graphics card. The card is aesthetically pleasing and will fit into just about any PC application I can think of, which allows a good gaming experience to be brought to systems that couldn’t before handle the power demands."

"NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 750 Ti brings the Maxwell architecture to the world for the first time and is an exceptional demonstration of the power efficiency of this new design.

The GTX 750 Ti, even in the reference form, is also much quieter than the R7 265 and R7 260X cards we have been testing. Again, for users in certain environments or sound sensitive use cases, that will push buyers to lean towards the NVIDIA option.

Power consumption clearly favors the GeForce GTX 750 Ti and the lack of a requirement for an external power connection (on the reference model at least) means that users in constrained areas like home theater boxes or even Steam Machines may find value."

"With some past generations of hardware we have had to wait a while as Linux users to see how they would work and perform under non-Windows platforms, but I can tell you this morning that the brand new GeForce GTX 750 Ti is already running great on Linux and is delivering terrific results as a sub-$200 mid-range NVIDIA graphics card.

NVIDIA's pre-launch press material for Maxwell consistently advertised the improved power efficiency of the new architecture and without a doubt, they've certainly managed to deliver. The GeForce GTX 750 Ti performance is a big step-up over the older GeForce GTX 550 Ti / 650 and looking at the performance-per-Watt just makes the story incredible."

"As simple as the 750 Ti appears to be on paper, it’s become one of the most-impressive graphics cards I’ve taken a look at in some time.

Thanks to its 60W power requirement, it doesn’t require a power connector. That means those who own restrictive OEM PCs don’t need to fuss about not having an available power connector, and those that do have one can simply enjoy the fact that the 750 Ti is laughing at it.

Of the games we tested could be enjoyed at 1080p resolution and with good detail. That, to me, is damned impressive."

"The GTX 750 Ti can go places the R7 265 can't. The reference GTX 750 Ti is 5.75" long, doesn't need an auxiliary power input, and adds no more than 60W to a system's cooling load. The R7 265 is over eight inches long, requires a six-pin power input, and draws up to 150W of juice, which it then converts into heat. For many folks choosing between these two products, those factors may matter more than the difference in performance, especially since the GTX 750 Ti can provide a very nice gaming experience at 1080p. You've gotta think the GTX 750 Ti will be the animating force behind a legion of Steam boxes.

In the larger picture, Maxwell's arrival signals a big change in the GPU space for the coming year."

"It’s difficult to make this story all about frame rates when we’re comparing 60 and 150 W GPUs, though. Surely, power and efficiency have to also come into play. But power does come into play when you’re eyeballing small form factor cases, when you’re trying to upgrade an old tier-one box, and when you’re mining cryptocurrencies.

In absolute terms, the GeForce GTX 750 Ti is just about as fast as Radeon R7 265. But again, that’s a 150 W GPU. The new GeForce uses just 40% of its power. You could throw four onto a motherboard for $100 less than one Radeon R9 290X, use less power, and achieve higher hash rates.

Based on GM107’s showing, we’re excited to think about what NVIDIA might do with this architecture and a 250 W power budget."