Hardware Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 Ti Review

I wish you guys had put an 8800 ultra in the comparison, I really need to convince my mother to upgrade a little bit !

 

Also. No SLI, lame

 

Mainly because ASUS is my preferred choice of manufacturer these days for motherboard, GPUs, etc... even my laptop is an ASUS these days and I recommend them often. I just wanted to know what their more basic DirectCUII cooler was like in comparison but as you mentioned, it seems that there is very little need for an advanced cooler for these models and so the cheapest partner is pretty much the same as any other.

 

At the kind of power draw of the 750 and Ti, it would be nice to see some passively cooled cards for use in HTPC and the like.

 

No R7 265 to compare to? That is the real test. From looking at other benchmarks the 265 comes very close to the 270 so I think the 260 is going to be the better card for the money. So unless you need a card sans power connector, the 265 is the way to go.

 

I are confuse.

I have a GTX480, which, while old, was expensive enough when new. It still seems to run more or less everything at 60fps maxed out, but it does make a lot of heat and noise.

In what ways would this be better or worse?

 

People do require cards sans power connectors though.

Anandtech has the card vs all other AMD cards and nvidia cards as well.

The real test is vs cards without power connectors as this info is more relivent to those that require such a card.

There is alot faster cards second hand than this if you have the spare power connectors.

As for its performance

Bioshock infinite 49fps for 750ti, 46.8 for 265, 36.6 for 260x ( at 1920x 1080 ultra preset)
Metro last light - 40.9 for 265, 38.1 for 750ti, 32.2 for 260x ( at 1920x 1080 high preset)
BF4 - 57.9 265, 48.9 750ti, 44.6 for 260x ( at 1920 x 1080 high preset)
Crysis 3 - 40 - 265, 36 750ti, 30 260x ( 1920 x1080 high preset + FXAA)

As they say though currently the 265 is $40 + above the 750 ti at the minute due to crypto crazyness. with the 260x also been above this in price.

Till AMD cards settle back on price they are very difficult to recommend.

 

Well unless the heat, noise, and electric bill don't matter to you, reducing all of those is what makes the 750Ti better. Otherwise, there is no reason to switch things up. The reason you bought the GTX480 was to get good performance, and that's what you're getting. By the time it can't keep up with games, you're probably going to do the same thing, and then in another 3-4 or so years you'll encounter another GPU that outperforms it at a fraction of the cost, power consumption, and heat.

 

Actually I bought the 480 because it works with Adobe apps' CUDA features, but hey, there's nothing wrong with a bit of World of Tanks on the side!

 

I am very happy to see older generations included in the review. It makes things a lot more tangible for those who don't upgrade each and every year.

 

Is this worth upgrading from a gainward gtx 460glh ???

 

Looks like my 270 wasn't an entirely rash purchase then *phew*


Just one comment, since it's fairly quick and painless I wish you'd run the Unigine Valley benchmark at 1920x1080 as well.

You comment: It should therefore be repeatable for most users running half decent systems
But the test you run isn't really repeatable for us proles without 2,560 x 1,600 displays

 

In this pricerange noone own a monitor with DP anyway....
Come to think of it, I don't know anybody that uses DP

 

Well at least this time Nvidia didn't rebrand their mid range card and sell it for £450.

 

This card is for htpc's and anyone who bought some cheap non name pc with integrated graphics and a naff power supply - instant performance with no need to install extra cooling, or new psu's or anything. For the rest of us not so exciting.

The 480 is a good comparison however as it says nvidia could theoretically make a 28nm maxwell chip the same size as a 480 with 4* the power, and something quite a bit faster then that using 20nm.

 

could allways just get an HD 7850 and put an R7 265 sticker on it ;P

 

Yea, the GTX480 seems to run everything I throw at it just fine, so I really haven't seen any reason to upgrade. Same goes for the CPU. And considering mine's under water, noise isn't an issue, whereas the heat it dumps into my office somewhat is.