A Closer Look
The Nvidia GTX 750 Ti is hardly an inspiring looking card. It has a tiny little PCB, which is of course good for SFF systems, and it has what looks like a tiny Intel stock cooler stuck on top. However, don’t let looks deceive you because this card still packs one hell of a punch. The fact the cooling solution is also so pathetic and crappy is actually a GOOD thing, it shows just how little cooling the GTX 750 Ti needs. In fact I’d be confident in saying we should expect to see some passive versions of the GTX 750 Ti if Nvidia lets its partners do that.
The fan used is about 55mm wide and the total length of the card is around 6 inches.
The memory chips are provided by SK Hynix and there are four at 512MB in size each.
The 55mm does have PWM controls and blows directly down onto a monolithic aluminium heatsink.
The PCB is entirely black and on the rear we can see screws to allow for easy removal of the heatsink.
A variety of low cost caps and coils can be seen near the rear of the card. Nvidia has kept these pretty basic to give its partners room to make much better cards with better VRM implementations.
The rear I/O has dual DVI and mini HDMI. You’ll be able to run Nvidia Surround on this card.
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.