2014.02.18

AnandTech

With that in mind, this brings us to the cards themselves. By doubling their performance-per-watt NVIDIA has significantly shifted their performance both with respect to their own product lineup and AMD’s lineup. The fact that the GTX 750 Ti is nearly 2x as fast as the GTX 650 is a significant victory for NVIDIA, and the fact that it’s nearly 3x faster than the GT 640 – officially NVIDIA’s fastest 600 series card without a PCIe power plug requirement – completely changes the sub-75W market. NVIDIA wants to leverage GM107 and the GTX 750 series to capture this market for HTPC use and OEM system upgrades alike, and they’re in a very good position to do so.

2014.02.18

Hot Hardware

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. The GeForce GTX 750 Ti is also a very capable overclocker. The EVGA card we tested had no trouble hitting a GPU frequency in excess of 1.4GHz. And reference models should be able to hit upwards of 1.3GHz without much effort.

2014.02.18

Tech Report

The Radeon R7 260X and the GeForce GTX 750 offer nearly identical performance at $119, but many of the same dynamics apply otherwise. The GTX 750 requires less power and doesn't need a six-pin aux input, for example. Also, in this case, the difference in noise levels is huge. The reference R7 260X registers 47 dBA on our sound level meter, while every GM107-based card we've tested flirts with the ~32 dBA noise floor in Damage Labs. I'd call this an unqualified win for Nvidia, except that the R7 260X has 2GB of memory, twice what the GTX 750 does. That fact didn't seem to harm the GTX 750 in our testing, but the Radeon is arguably more future-proof. Let's call this one a qualified win for Nvidia and add an asterisk about the memory size.