Review: Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 Ti

The 750 Ti is a power-efficient video card that consumes a mere 60W. In contrast, AMD's R7 260X eats up almost double the wattage with its 115W TDP. Nvidia's PSU requirement for the 750 Ti is also low at just 300W, so you won't need a beefy 500W or 750W beast to power this mini GPU. That, combined with its small size, makes it an easy upgrade for a wide swath of systems.

When it comes to specs this entry-level 700-Series card doesn't disappoint. The card features 512 CUDA cores, a base clock of 1020MHz, and a boost clock of 1085MHz.

The 750 Ti comes with 2GB of GDDR5 video RAM clocked at 5400MHz, too. It's worth mentioning a non-Ti version will come soon and sport 1GB of RAM and retail for $119/£90. If you're going to run multiple monitors I'd push you toward this 2GB Ti version, as you'll have more video RAM bandwidth for doing things across your displays.

Overclocking

I overclocked the 750 Ti by modestly increasing its boost clock to 1169MHz, using EVGA's Precision X overclocking tool.

Doing so created no detectable stability issues, and provided a performance increase of about 5% across all games, with the exception of Batman: Arkham Origins which only received a 3% boost in performance. Noise was no problem when I overclocked the card, and it wasn't noticeably louder than when it was stock clocked.

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