This is where the GTX 750 Ti really outshines everything on the market. Let us now take a look at power/heat/noise. If you want real 1080p gaming, you should look at NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 660 and 660 Ti since both are still part of NVIDIA's product stack. For lower resolutions or older titles, the GTX 750 Ti is a good card, though. I would even go as far to say that the GTX 750 Ti is not the right card for serious 1080p gaming you'd have to sacrifice too many detail settings to get decent framerates. Compared to the just-released AMD Radeon R7 265, the GTX 750 Ti lags behind by 16%, which is quite a significant difference, especially in the entry level segment.

The GTX 750 Ti already uses Boost 2.0 technology, so unless NVIDIA introduces a new Boost algorithm, I doubt we'll see a GTX 750 Ti Boost. Usually, you'd expect a new generation to be faster than the previous one, and in my opinion, the GTX 650 Ti Boost sets the bar as it is still 8% faster than the GTX 750 Ti. Our GeForce GTX 750 Ti sample provided by NVIDIA reaches performance levels that sit roughly between the GTX 650 Ti and GTX 650 Ti Boost, which I find rather poor when looking at gaming performance only. So take NVIDIA's improvements today and factor in additional improvements from a 20 nm production process and we could see a new breed of high-end NVIDIA GPUs with less power consumption than existing mid-range GPUs today (think of a 100 W Titan). These first Maxwell GPUs are still built on a 28 nanometer production process - you'd typically see big efficiency improvements only when moving to a new process node, which would be the 20 nanometer process coming in late 2014. What makes NVIDIA's achievement even more impressive is that they did it without new GPU manufacturing technology. Power efficiency is also very important in today's mobile sector because it eats into your battery capacity. Every ounce of power a graphics card consumes is turned into heat, which has to be peeled off the GPU, generating noise in the process. NVIDIA has been hard at work fighting the biggest enemy of graphics technology today: power consumption. It is a quantum leap forward in GPU technology, not because of its performance, but its performance with very little power consumed. NVIDIA's new GeForce GTX 750 Ti unleashes the company's 'Maxwell' architecture.

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