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more. We've actually got a double feature today. A GTX 750Ti with a
reference design from NVIDIA and a spoiler alert by the way kick asses
one. But first, the introduction. The GTX 750Ti is not on the surface the most
exciting card from NVIDIA that we've ever reviewed. Performance is solid,
sure, and power consumption is extremely low due to the GM 107 GPU GPU cores use
of NVIDIA's allnew Maxwell architecture, but it's not exactly a Titan challenger
in terms of raw horsepower. No, this
product is for tier 1 PC upgraders, uh,
small form factor enthusiasts, folks who are upgrading from older something 50
class cards like the 550Ti, or basically anyone who's looking to get solid 1080p
performance in modern titles without expecting to crank the details up to
maximum. Now, NVIDIA spent a fair bit of time in their press briefing talking
about the technologies around the card like G-Sync gameream and GeForce
experience with Shadow Play, uh, gameplay recording, and streaming to
Twitch. And these technologies are great and a key differentiator for NVIDIA
compared to their competition, but we've covered most of this stuff in a fair bit
of depth in the past. So, I will refer you instead to our G-Sync video, our
Shield streaming latency test, and our GTX 780 Ti review, which I have all
linked below if you can't click on the annotations, where you can learn more
about all of that stuff. One other interesting thing to note about G-Sync
in particular, that technology, is that neither of the cards in our showcase
today support it due to their lack of DisplayPort output. But don't worry,
there will be 750Ti cards that do. Instead, today I want to focus on what
exactly NVIDIA has done in order to achieve a 4x improvement in efficiency
over three generations with only one process shrink. Instead of using a
single control logic block for all 192
cores in its SM or streaming multipprocessors, NVIDIA has created
smaller control logic blocks for 32 cores each. That makes the task of
routing and scheduling traffic easier for each control logic block and allows
Maxwell to improve performance per core by about 35% leading to NVIDIA's best
performance per watt GPU ever. It is so efficient it needs only a tiny little
cooler for its 640 CUDA cores and 2 gigs
of 5.4 GHz DDDR5 RAM running on a 128
bit bus. and it doesn't even require a
six pin PCI Express power connector due to its 60W TDP. The second focus point
for me is overclocking. The way NVIDIA has locked down overclocking over the
last few generations with respect to maximum voltages and power limits has
been frustrating. So, it's refreshing to see them come out and say this card is a
great overclocker. And I'm excited that we get to show you results from both of
these cards at the same time because they represent two very different
approaches to graphics card design. The
reference card is very, very small and requires no power connector, so it'll be
compatible with pretty much any PC with a PCI Express slot. ASUS's nonreference
benefits list continues to be the same as ever. 10 extra bucks gets you
slightly increased stock clock speeds, a better IO layout, although no display
port still. A better cooler, better PCB design with ASUS's SAP um super alloy
power components promising cooler operation, longer lifetime, better
efficiency, and reduced coil wind. But there's more this time. The 750Ti
normally doesn't have that connector, while the ASUS 1 has a PCI Express 6 pin
connector. However weird the positioning of this connector might be, unless
you're installing it in a small form factor PC where that's closer to the
power supply than the back of a card, it'll be interesting to see how more
power affects a card like this when it comes to overclocking and performance.
Spoiler alert, a lot. Stay tuned for exactly how much. These two itty bitty
graphics cards pack quite a punch. They come on top of both my Far Cry 3 and
Bioshock Infinite benchmarks. And you can tell by looking at these numbers
that that ASUS aftermarket card does gain a lot by having that additional six
pin power on top of there. If you want to see how much it helps, you can check
out my overclocking doc in the description of the video down below where you can see all of my settings for
both of the cards and their core clock actual so you can see exactly how fast
they are running. Maybe you're someone who wants the additional power and wants
to be able to overclock it even more. This card has tons of headroom. And even
if you don't want that additional power and maybe just want to go with the reference design, it still has a bunch
of headroom there. This is a very easy card to overclock. I got to run, guys.
As it is 4:00 a.m. Tuesday and I've been up since Sunday morning working on
different forum stuff and whatnot. This video has to be edited, uploaded, and
released by 6:00 a.m. So, we're going to see how I can accomplish that. But, we
will see. Like and favorite and dislike the video and share and subscribe to the
channel and all of those things. And in addition, I'm not giving up yet. I want
that second place position for organizations. Uh, check out the PC
gaming section of the linesttips.com forum. Look at the Star Citizen thread
and join the organization. We will be number two. We can make it. I'll talk to
you guys later.
Heat.