Final Thoughts
Pricing
Nvidia’s GTX 750 Ti (2GB) costs $149 while in the UK it will cost £114.99 including VAT. The Nvidia GTX 750 (1GB) will cost $119 which is £90 in the UK. Of course at this price point we have to consider AMD’s R7 260X costs $119.99 and there R7 265 costs $139.99. However, we haven’t been able to test the R7 265 OR the GTX 750 so it is difficult to compare the offerings. Currently the GTX 750 Ti and R7 265 can be had for the same price of $159.99-169.99.
At launch Nvidia have informed us there will be a tonne of GTX 750 Ti graphics cards available from its partners. Below you can see some of the options from MSI, Gigabyte and KFA2 (Galaxy).
Overview
Let me just put my thoughts right out there – Nvidia’s GTX 750 Ti has blown me away. I think what we need to first consider here is that the GTX 750 Ti is the Nvidia card most people will buy in terms of the price point it captures. As Nvidia rightly point out it is a worthy successor to the GTX 550 Ti and is 100% designed to be a sweet-spot graphics card with its attractive pricing. It is just a brilliant creation for a number of reasons: it is incredibly power efficient, it has amazing performance for its thermal envelope, it produces virtually no heat, it is incredibly compact and it has all the great features of Nvidia’s GTX 700 series cards including a built in H.264 encoder, Nvidia ShadowPlay support, Nvidia GameStream support, Nvidia G-Sync support and Nvidia Surround support. All that comes to the table at $149 and at a time when AMD graphics cards are heavily inflated in price, that $149 has never looked more attractive for gamers.
In terms of power consumption this graphics card consumes amounts close to the HD 7750 and the GTX 650 according to our testing. Yet it has performance that is twice as fast as those two. We also saw 3X the performance of the GT 640 with only a marginal amount more power consumption. The GTX 750 Ti is so efficient than you can play Battlefield 4 at 1440p with medium settings and our entire system (including the CPU) was consuming around 200W! That is just a bonkers amount of performance for the power. It also makes you think that even if AMD’s R7 265 can be had for the same price…so what? You get a card that performs maybe 5-10% better overall and consumes 100W more (based on the HD 7850 results). In the space of 3 years (which is how long most people keep their graphics cards for before upgrading) you will probably save a good $30-50 on electricity by choosing the GTX 750 Ti. However, you’re unlikely to even find the R7 265 at the same price so realistically the GTX 750 Ti will be competing with the R7 260X on price, and it doesn’t take a genius to see that Nvidia just batters the R7 260X and then some. Don’t get me wrong, I love AMD graphics cards as much as Nvidia’s offerings when both cards can be found for MSRP, but let’s reveal the cold hard truth here – mining is ruining AMD’s competitiveness for gamers. Nvidia now wins at pretty much every price point from the GTX 780 Ti/ R9 290X down to the GTX 750 Ti / R7 265, I think only in the R7 250X-R7 240 range does AMD have a clear lead. AMD’s graphics cards have now started to return close to reference pricing making the decision between the GTX 750 Ti and the AMD R7 265 a much tougher decision than when this article was first written.
Pros
- Revolutionary performance per watt
- Super low power
- Produces virtually no heat
- Runs cool and quiet even with the puny stock cooler
- Competitive pricing
- Full support for all Nvidia’s advanced features
- Compact and slim design
Cons
- More display outputs would be nice
- No SLI support
“I have absolutely no hesitation in saying that Nvidia’s GTX 750 Ti is a best-in-class product. At its given price point it does everything its rivals can do but with lower power, less heat and a much more compact design. The GTX 750 Ti really is ‘the way it’s meant to be played’ if you are on a budget or just need something that produces minimal heat, noise and uses minimal power. If this first showing is anything to go by, Nvidia’s Maxwell architecture is going to produce a brilliant range of graphics card. Bring on 2014!“
Thank you to Nvidia for providing this review sample.
nice card but going from a 650 ti to a 750 ti dont really seem like much of an upgrade for me to pay out $150 i would get a 650 ti boost over this card 😛
if only when the 860 comes out it could be like only $200 but yes i know it wont be 😛
Yeh it’s not meant to be much of an upgrade for GTX 650 Ti Boost users, it is more aimed at people with GTX 5XX series cards or those building new small form factor/low power PCs
It’s about 15-20% quicker than the 650Ti while consuming less power at typically common screen resolutions. If you’re in the market for either card the smart money would be on the 750Ti.
but i have the 650 ti already was just saying it isnt much of an upgrade for me 😛
This is weird! If the 750Ti is faster than the 650Ti, Then how did Nvidia do it? Because both cards memory is the same speed at 86.4 gb/s , Next the 650Ti has 64 TMU’s giving a speed of 59392 Mtexels/sec
vs the 750Ti’s 40 TMUs Giving a speed of 40800 Mtexels/sec, Both cards have 16 ROP’s, Next the 650Ti has 768 cuda cores vs the 750Ti’s 640 cuda cores. So if it is faster I am not seeing how. I saw the benchmarks. Did they use older bench scores vs the recent 750Ti bench scores? If I am not mistaken the 650Ti improved in performance with later driver updates. Something about a V-Sync issue with the older drivers. I think other 600 series cards also had the same issue until the driver update.
If the 750Ti is faster I will buy it, Because I am going to eventually need to get a card with at’least 2GB in the future. And I want a card close in performance and price to what I got, I just hope they are properly comparing them.
Nvidia GPU Cores are not comparable across generations, Nvidia’s GTX 750 Ti is Maxwell while the GTX 650 Ti is Kepler. To use an AMD example You wouldn’t say the HD 6670 that has 480 (VLIW5) cores so why is not faster than the HD 7730/R7 240 which ONLY has 384 (GCN) cores. So why do the same thing with the Nvidia cards here. The GTX 750 Ti is SIGNIFICANTLY faster than the GTX 650 Ti, there is absolutely no disputing that in any way. Any drivers will give you the same results – the GTX 750 TI is at least 10% faster. The GTX 650 Ti BOOST on the other hand is faster than the GTX 750 Ti. So please ensure you do not confuse the two.
Oh and if you need verification from another site please see below:
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_750_Ti/25.html
I know the difference between the 650 Ti boost and Non Boost 650 Ti, (I do own a non boost after all) However I did finally come to a conclusion, The 750 Ti is slightly faster but not enough to make any difference at all from a regular NON BOOST (so you can read) 650 Ti, Also both cards only have a memory bandwidth of 86.4 GB/sec meaning neither can really utilize 2GB , They can however utilize a little over 1GB but the difference is not enough to matter much. Looks like if anyone wants a cheap upgrade this year from the 650 Ti 1GB they will have to go with the R7 265, It has 2GB @ 179.2 GB/sec that’s enough bandwidth to utilize all 2GB. It stinks having to go to a AMD card because the crap drivers, But for $149 it is the same price as the 750Ti and a much more logical choice.
The R7 265 is a good option but currently it isn’t really available to buy at many places, and in the UK at least it is selling from £125+. The GTX 750 Ti starts at £106. I’d rather pay £106 for a 750 ti than £125 for an R7 265 when the difference in performance is so small.