The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti and GTX 750 Review: Maxwell Makes Its Move
by Ryan Smith & Ganesh T S on February 18, 2014 9:00 AM ESTThe Test
For this review we’re using the latest drivers from both NVIDIA and AMD. NVIDIA’s launch drivers are 334.69, which add support for the GTX 750 series but are otherwise identical to the 334.67 drivers currently available as a public beta for existing cards. The release 334 drivers include a fairly impressive tune up of NVIDIA’s OpenCL stack, so we’re finding that OpenCL performance is significantly improved in some of our benchmarks, which helps to close the gap with AMD. On the other hand these tune-ups have not come bug free (as Ganesh has found), and while our compute benchmarks are fine, Ganesh has run into some issues with some of his OpenCL based video utilities. Other than that, we have not encountered any stability problems with these drivers.
Meanwhile for AMD’s cards we’re using the recently released Catalyst 14.1 beta v1.6 drivers.
| CPU: | Intel Core i7-4960X @ 4.2GHz |
| Motherboard: | ASRock Fatal1ty X79 Professional |
| Power Supply: | Corsair AX1200i |
| Hard Disk: | Samsung SSD 840 EVO (750GB) |
| Memory: | G.Skill RipjawZ DDR3-1866 4 x 8GB (9-10-9-26) |
| Case: | NZXT Phantom 630 Windowed Edition |
| Monitor: | Asus PQ321 |
| Video Cards: |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti Zotac GeForce GTX 750 Ti Zotac GeForce GTX 750 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 640 NVIIDA GeForce GTX 550 Ti AMD Radeon R7 265 AMD Radeon R7 260X AMD Radeon R7 250 AMD Radeon HD 7750 AMD Radeon HD 5770 |
| Video Drivers: |
NVIDIA Release 334.67 Beta NVIDIA Release 334.69 Beta (GTX 750 Series) AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta v1.6 |
| OS: | Windows 8.1 Pro |
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dylan522p - Tuesday, February 18, 2014 - link
They are waiting for 20nm for the entire 800 series .MugatoPdub - Tuesday, February 18, 2014 - link
Interestingly, it seems Nvidia has simply followed Intel in the "mobile first" market race, it is starting to feel as if the enthusiast will be left in the dust within the next few years =(Krysto - Tuesday, February 18, 2014 - link
Not likely, thanks to the boom in VR that we'll be seeing, which at 4k and 120fps games, will require 16x the performance we get now for games, just to play the same games, in a few years.So if anything, Nvidia should be making GPU's at the high-end that are a level or two ABOVE Titan (think 20-30 TF GPUs in 2015).
A5 - Tuesday, February 18, 2014 - link
They probably will? I'm guessing we won't see stuff below the top end (or SLI) targeted at 4K until late 2015/spring 2016, though.madmilk - Tuesday, February 18, 2014 - link
I doubt enthusiasts will be left behind, simply because HPC users will demand a 225W Tesla card. That in turn can easily sold as a 250W enthusiast card, perhaps under the Titan line.Mondozai - Wednesday, February 19, 2014 - link
Also, Nvidias desktop business is contributing to their profits and is seeing revenue growth. Their Tegra business revenue is falling almost 50% year over year.The desktop high-end GPU market will grow in good health for years to come. Their discrete laptop GPUs, however, will face doom in a relativeley short period of time as integrated GPUs performance rises to a level when most people are satisfied. Laptops specifically for gaming continues to be an unsignificant market.
jkauff - Tuesday, February 18, 2014 - link
madVR NNEDI3 uses OpenCL, and works fine on Intel and AMD boards. NVIDIA OpenCL support has been broken for the last couple of driver iterations. Please use your influence with the NVIDIA developers to get this fixed in the next driver release.IKeelU - Tuesday, February 18, 2014 - link
ugh, cryptocointexasti89 - Tuesday, February 18, 2014 - link
Wow! .. Substantially faster than 260x and consuming less than 60w using same process node. Really impressive. I can't wait to see how Maxwell arch performance & power scale at 20nm. I'm really convinced now that AMD GCN is not as efficient as many reviewers think. AMD will very likely have a hard time in this round.g101 - Tuesday, February 18, 2014 - link
*slower...Almost always slower than the 260x.... , all for power savings in the range of 5-10%...How...exciting?You should try reading the actual words that have been written in the article.