14 DAY TRIAL // The GeForce GTX 750 Ti graphics card has been on the minds and on the lips of quite a few people lately, and we have even uncovered some performance numbers, but none as revealing as the benchmarks that Chinese Baidu Forums posted.
NVIDIA will go against conventions this year and release weaker cards based on the next generation of GPUs, instead of starting with the best.
So while the high-end boards are only scheduled for late 2014, the GeForce GTX 750 Ti mid-range adapter will come out next month, February 2014 (the 18th, to be precise).
The benchmarks on the Chinese forums we mentioned show the board to be superior to the GeForce GTX 650 Ti (which was expected) and also the AMD Radeon R7 260X (not sure until now).
On a resolution of 1080p, the Maxwell card outperforms its predecessor by a lot, and matches, even beating, the Radeon R7 260X. So we can assume that the price will be of $150 / or thereabouts, since that's what the R7 260/260X come for, more or less.
Granted, we've seen pre-order prices of $225 / €166, but those are always higher than the actual tags the products get upon release.
For those who don't know much about what the GTX 750 Ti is made of, the board probably uses a GM117 or (most likely) a GM107 graphics processing unit.
2 GB of GDDR5 are available, probably working at 7 GHz, or 6 GHz, although 5.4 GHz is also possible. This is a mid-range card after all, or will be.
Sadly, the exact specs are unknown, and they'll probably stay that way for another week or two, or three.
So far, the ASUS version of the product has been listed (it is the one we linked to above, when we specified the pre-order price). Apparently, NVIDIA will permit custom designs and overclocking from the get-go.