$149 Nvidia GTX 750 Ti unveiled; plays Titanfall better than Xbox One

[Seriously]

New Maxwell-based GPU available now along with $119 GTX 750; GTX Titan Black also unveiled.

Core features of the GTX 750 Ti include 640 CUDA cores, a 1020 Mhz base clock, 2GB of 128-bit GDDR5 memory, 2048KB of L2 cache, and a 5.4Gbps memory speed.
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While the GTX 750 Ti is a midrange GPU, early benchmarks have shown excellent performance across a range of games. In GameSpot's own testing the card ran the likes of Tomb Raider and Bioshock Infinite at over 60fps on high settings. It also ran the beta of the new mech-based shooter Titanfall at 58fps at 1080p with 2XAA on, a feat not even accomplished by the Xbox One.

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/14...-titanfall-better-than-xbox-one/1100-6417813/


Wonder what the local price would be? Sounds very capable?

 

[CataclysmZA]

New Maxwell-based GPU available now along with $119 GTX 750; GTX Titan Black also unveiled.

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/14...-titanfall-better-than-xbox-one/1100-6417813/

Wonder what the local price would be? Sounds very capable?

R2800 for the GTX750 Ti on average, which puts it on average R800 higher than most R7 260X cards. At that point, you need to overclock it to make the price/performance ratio worth the purchase. Once it drops down to GTX650 Ti levels, it'll be a good buy.

Overall, it's a nice card for 1080p, but 1440p or 1600p can trip it up some. Its a tricky sell with current pricing. GTX660, R7 260X or the R7 265 would be a better purchase in that range.

 

[grim]

You can pick up a R9 270x for under R3k which is much faster than this, Nvidia cards are way overpriced at the moment and the Radeon's are having their prices pushed up by crypto miners which makes it even worse.

 

[cerebus]

$150 for this card isn't overpriced. R2800 is waaay overpriced though. The markup is insane.

 

[Fudzy]

We tested the GTX 750 Ti on our trusty Ivy Bridge test rig, which features an Intel Core i5 3570K @ 3.4Ghz, 16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 RAM, an ASUS P8Z68-V Motherboard, Corsair HX850 PSU, Arctic Cooling Freezer 13 Pro, and a Corsair Force GT SSD

GPU aside, does that hardware match the Xbox Ones?

 

[CataclysmZA]

You can pick up a R9 270x for under R3k which is much faster than this, Nvidia cards are way overpriced at the moment and the Radeon's are having their prices pushed up by crypto miners which makes it even worse.

We've actually been immune to the cryptocurrency craze for a while now and stocks are readily available locally. R9 290/X cards are also available and somewhat decently priced, so we're okey because most stock is sourced direct from European, Taiwanese or Japanese distributors. However, among the small Litecoin community that we do have locally, resale values are still pretty high for a 1-2 year-old Radeon.

 

[grim]

We've actually been immune to the cryptocurrency craze for a while now and stocks are readily available locally. R9 290/X cards are also available and somewhat decently priced, so we're okey because most stock is sourced direct from European, Taiwanese or Japanese distributors. However, among the small Litecoin community that we do have locally, resale values are still pretty high for a 1-2 year-old Radeon.

Not really, I've been struggling to find stock of the R9 290 locally and the places that do have stock charge a R1k-R2k premium.

AMD has also increased the MSRP of the R9 290 from $399 to $499 globally which has also affected pricing here.

 

[CataclysmZA]

AMD has also increased the MSRP of the R9 290 from $399 to $499 globally which has also affected pricing here.

You're pulling my leg, aren't you? Increasing their MSRP would be suicide, they'd have hundreds of contracts to re-draw up with their AIB partners with completely new pricing and order numbers. Vendors in the US that aren't Newegg or Amazon have dropped their prices quite a bit but remain high due to stock shortages.

 

[Mystic Twilight]

R2800 for the GTX750 Ti on average, which puts it on average R800 higher than most R7 260X cards. At that point, you need to overclock it to make the price/performance ratio worth the purchase. Once it drops down to GTX650 Ti levels, it'll be a good buy.

Overall, it's a nice card for 1080p, but 1440p or 1600p can trip it up some. Its a tricky sell with current pricing. GTX660, R7 260X or the R7 265 would be a better purchase in that range.

Though bear in mind that this card, the reference design anyway, has an extremely low power draw and has very good value in its performance per watt.

Local pricing is retard ridiculously high.

 

[abandonallhope]

$150 for this card isn't overpriced. R2800 is waaay overpriced though. The markup is insane.

This has forever been the case. It's how business is done in Africa. You should be used to it by now.

 

[grim]

Sorry they didn't increase it, everyone else just decided to charge $100 more it seems.

Either way it has affected the prices here, as a $400 card should cost around R5100-R5500 here including VAT.

Try find a R9 290 in stock for less than R7000, even at $500 a card it should be around R6300-6700 locally.

 

[cerebus]

This has forever been the case. It's how business is done in Africa. You should be used to it by now.

It's disproportionately overpriced even by SA standards.

 

[CataclysmZA]

Sorry they didn't increase it, everyone else just decided to charge $100 more it seems.

Either way it has affected the prices here, as a $400 card should cost around R5100-R5500 here including VAT.

Try find a R9 290 in stock for less than R7000, even at $500 a card it should be around R6300-6700 locally.

You mean like this one from PowerColor? I see there's a Gigabyte reference and Windforce version in stock on Rebeltech and Landmark recently got stock of MSI's Gaming version.

That's unless, of course, no-one has enough stock and is only advertising stocks with very limited quantities.

 

[grim]

You mean like this one from PowerColor? I see there's a Gigabyte reference and Windforce version in stock on Rebeltech and Landmark recently got stock of MSI's Gaming version.

That's unless, of course, no-one has enough stock and is only advertising stocks with very limited quantities.

Must be fairly new stock, as last week the only one I could find in stock was at Evetech.

Say seeing as you're so good at finding cards in stock, you wouldn't happen to know who has the Sapphire Tri-X cards in stock?

 

[CataclysmZA]

Must be fairly new stock, as last week the only one I could find in stock was at Evetech.

Say seeing as you're so good at finding cards in stock, you wouldn't happen to know who has the Sapphire Tri-X cards in stock?

I haven't seen Sapphire cards in stock for over a month so if someone does have them, they've likely been snapped up very quickly.

 

[Seriously]

The crux of this matter!

http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/Upgrade-Story-Can-GTX-750-Ti-Convert-OEMs-PCs-Gaming-PCs

 

[CataclysmZA]

The crux of this matter!

http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/Upgrade-Story-Can-GTX-750-Ti-Convert-OEMs-PCs-Gaming-PCs

I find it strange that no-one did this for the HD7750, because it's been the most powerful discrete card without requiring a power connector for a while. And if you're playing at 720 or 900p, there's a lot of bandwidth left for things like AA and higher quality settings.

I'm actually considering upgrading the GT240 in the home server to a HD7730 or similar because the card isn't as good as it used to be. Still chugs along nicely, but 512MB VRAM isn't fun.

 

[cerebus]

The crux of this matter!

http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/Upgrade-Story-Can-GTX-750-Ti-Convert-OEMs-PCs-Gaming-PCs

I didn't realise it doesn't even require a 6-pin. Wow. That's a bit of a game-changer.

 

[Seriously]

I find it strange that no-one did this for the HD7750, because it's been the most powerful discrete card without requiring a power connector for a while. And if you're playing at 720 or 900p, there's a lot of bandwidth left for things like AA and higher quality settings.

I'm actually considering upgrading the GT240 in the home server to a HD7730 or similar because the card isn't as good as it used to be. Still chugs along nicely, but 512MB VRAM isn't fun.

Who wants to do that?

Each of the five games (Bioshock Infinite, Crysis 3, GRID 2, Metro: Last Light, and Skyrim) were tested at unique image quality settings on each individual system, but all were run at 1920x1080 resolution. Integrated game presets were used and are mentioned on each graph on the following page.

 

[cerebus]

Who wants to do that?

I've got friends who still run 22" 1600 res monitors. Or they pass their old pc's down to their kids and the kids want to play a bit of games on. If you have the mentality that you won't compromise for less than max graphics or fHD resolutions this is obviously not for you.