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 ESTTotal War: Rome 2
The second strategy game in our benchmark suite, Total War: Rome 2 is the latest game in the Total War franchise. Total War games have traditionally been a mix of CPU and GPU bottlenecks, so it takes a good system on both ends of the equation to do well here. In this case the game comes with a built-in benchmark that plays out over a forested area with a large number of units, definitely stressing the GPU in particular.
For this game in particular we’ve also gone and turned down the shadows to medium. Rome’s shadows are extremely CPU intensive (as opposed to GPU intensive), so this keeps us from CPU bottlenecking nearly as easily.
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rish95 - Wednesday, February 19, 2014 - link
Yes. You can run PCIe 3.0 cards on 2.0 slots.rish95 - Wednesday, February 19, 2014 - link
This card is quite literally jesus for me. I've been waiting for something like this for a few years now.Currently I'm running an Athlon II X4 with a GT 240 on an OEM 250W PSU. I know it sounds like that may be a bit much for the PSU, but it's been working fine for years.
There haven't been any cards without external power connectors released since the GT 240 that have been significantly faster. I know I could have jumped to an HD 7750, but it's still not that much of an improvement. Now I can get a massive 3-4X performance boost without upgrading my PSU.
I hope this was worth the wait. I've had a copy of Crysis 3 for some time that I couldn't use because the 240 doesn't support DX11.
cbrownx88 - Wednesday, February 19, 2014 - link
Good for you man! This does sound like quite the fit! Hope your power supply keeps hangin in there!Antronman - Wednesday, February 19, 2014 - link
These cards will barely be able to run Crysis 3.rish95 - Wednesday, February 19, 2014 - link
Did you even read the review? It seems to manage 36 FPS at high settings at 1080p.I don't need Very High and I don't need 60 FPS. I just need it to look pretty good and run at a playable frame rate at native res.
This does seem to fit the bill.
Qwertilot - Thursday, February 20, 2014 - link
The only worry in some ways is that the 20nm version of this is inevitably going to be non trivially better at the same sort of power draw. I guess it isn't at all certain if they'll do a roughly equivalent one now though. Obviously not terribly soon. Might end up skipping to 16nm or something.HighTech4US - Wednesday, February 19, 2014 - link
Quote: NVIDIA is making a major effort to target GTX 550 Ti and GTS 450 owners as those cards turn 3-4 years old, with the GTX 750 series able to easily double their performance while reducing power consumption.And they have gotten me to upgrade my HTPC GPU that was on an EVGA GTS 450 to a brand new EVGA 02G-P4-3753-KR GeForce GTX 750 Ti Superclocked 2GB which I just purchased on Newegg for $160.38.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8...
This card is factory overclocked at Core Clock: 1176MHz Boost Clock: 1255MHz has a DisplayPort connector and a better copper heat assisted heat sink and fan shroud that exits some of the heat out the back bracket.
I will be selling my old EVGA GTS 450 on eBay and should clear $60 so I will have a very nice card for the next 3-4 years for an upgrade price of around $100. Not bad at all.
pierrot - Wednesday, February 19, 2014 - link
Awesome this ITX friendly size is the standard, just need power nowninjaquick - Thursday, February 20, 2014 - link
As neat as this is, it only proves that Maxwell scales within its TDP. It is consistent where it is at.devdollers@gmail.com - Friday, February 21, 2014 - link
wow..............