14 DAY TRIAL // The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti is the best Maxwell-based graphics card on the market, but that doesn't say as much as it should, so Gigabyte decided to rectify the situation by overclokcing it.
Thus, the OEM has formally introduced the GeForce GTX 750 Ti codenamed GV-N75TWFOC-2GI, which features factory overclocked GPU and memory.
Normally, the Maxwell GM107-400 graphics processing unit has a base clock of 1020 MHz and a GPU Boost maximum of 1085 MHz.
In this case, though, it works at 1215 MHz most of the time, but can go as high as 1294 MHz in a pinch. Which may be the case more often than not.
And here we get to the reason why we said that “it was not saying much” that the GTX 750 Ti graphics card was the best Maxwell-based adapter on the market.
NVIDIA took an unusual approach here. Normally, it ushers in a new GPU architecture by releasing the best chip first, then the others, one by one, or in small groups.
This lets it make a statement, as it were, set the standard for the new generation (or meet the standard if AMD happened to have released something first).
So the GeForce GTX 750 Ti should have been among the second or third waves. Yet NVIDIA has launched it now, in early 2014.
Why? Because TSMC, the foundry that makes its chips, isn't ready to start on 20nm technology yet, so NVIDIA held back the big guns.
Thus, the Maxwell in the GTX 750 Ti (and GTX 750 for that matter) is based on the 28nm node, just like the Kepler 600 series. Late in the second half of 2014, the 700 series will truly come out in all its glory, and we may even see new 750 (Ti) cards with 20nm GPUs inside.
But until then, we have these two, and the custom-modeled ones from OEMs like, in this case, Gigabyte. Speaking of which, the company installed the WindForce 2X cooler on it, as well as Ultra Durable 2 components.
Dual HDMI and dual DVI ports are included as well, along with, of course, 2 GB of GDDR5 VRAM (clocked at 5.4 GHz).
If you want a slower but cheaper board (though we're not totally sure what this latest model costs really, not yet, nor when sales will start), you can look for Gigabyte's GV-N75TOC-2GI, which works at 1033 MHz and 1111 MHz (GPU Base/GPU Boost).