14 DAY TRIAL // NVIDIA painted a pretty clear picture for what it expected from its Maxwell-based video cards, but EVGA has just made the difference between the GeForce GTX 750 and GTX 750 Ti a bit more blurry than before.
Which is to say, EVGA has launched a GeForce GTX 750 video card featuring 2 GB of GDDR5 VRAM instead of one.
Previously, there was a pretty blatant set of guidelines: the GeForce GTX 750 would be the low-mid graphics card priced at $120 / €120, and the GTX 750 Ti would be somewhat faster, with a price of $150 / €150.
The former would have a single gigabyte of VRAM memory working at 5.0 GHz, and the latter would have two, operating at 5.4 GHz.
Now, though, EVGA has released a GTX 750 (non-Ti) which has 2 GB of GDDR5 VRAM working at 1,253 MHz, or 5,012 MHz GDDR5-effective.
Well, actually the board is only one of a pair. EVGA is preparing to release a factory-overclocked model as well, bearing the SC (SuperClocked) logo.
This card will have higher GPU clocks and the same memory speed, but we are getting ahead of ourselves.
After all, we have not, yet, outlined the specifications of the EVGA GTX 750 2 GB and, until we do, we can't make that comparison.
So here they are: the base GPU clock of the Maxwell GM107-300 is 1,020 MHz, while the GPU Boost clock is of 1,085 MHz.
So, the EVGA GTX 750 SC will operate at 1,215 MHz and 1,294 MHz, respectively, all for $10 / €10 on top of the normal one's price.
Thus, the EVGA GeForce GTX 750 and GTX 750 SC will be of $129.99 / €129.99 and $139.99 / €139.99.
Needless to say, like all GeForce GTX 750 video boards, the one that EVGA just revealed, and the one still on the way, have 512 CUDA cores inside that graphics processing unit of theirs. That, at least, is one number that OEMs can't really change, since it's a limitation imposed at processor level. Besides, only the GTX 750 Ti are supposed to have 640 CUDA cores anyway.
It all fits pretty neatly in the price range really. First is the NVIDIA reference GTX 750 which, as we said, is a $120 / €120 card. Then there are all the OEM, reference-spec models. Then comes this EVGA GTX 750 2GB (and all rivals with similar specs), then the EVGA GTX 750 SC 2GB, then the GTX 750 Ti and all others based on it.
