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NVIDIA Launches GTX 750 Ti With New Maxwell Architecture

Posted by Soulskill on from the new-hardware-for-the-graphics-arms-race dept.

Vigile writes "NVIDIA is launching the GeForce GTX 750 Ti today, which would normally just be a passing mention for a new $150 mainstream graphics card. But company is using this as the starting point for its Maxwell architecture, which is actually pretty interesting. With a new GPU design that reorganizes the compute structure into smaller blocks, Maxwell is able to provide 66% more CUDA cores with a die size that is just 25% bigger than the previous generation all while continuing to use the same 28nm process technology we have today. Power and area efficiency were the target design points for Maxwell as it will eventually be integrated into NVIDIA's Tegra line, too. As a result the GeForce GTX 750 Ti is able to outperform AMD's Radeon R7 260X by 5-10% while using 35 watts less power at the same time."

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  1. believe it when I see it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    It's always easy for nvidia to say their graphics cards outperform AMD cards in computation, but difficult to make it happen. Nvidia is great at selling hype, nothing more.

    1. Re:believe it when I see it by TyFoN · · Score: 3, Informative

      What else would you use an amd card for?
      I you want to game and/or use linux with any performance and stability you need a nvidia card.

      Intel integrated gpu works fine for linux though if you don't need the performance,

  2. Re:Heat and noise.... by ustolemyname · · Score: 5, Informative

    The benchmarks on Phoronix did temperature, and commented on (though didn't measure) noise. Was actually a fairly comprehensive, well done benchmark, the only thing missing was frame latency measurements.

  3. Re:Heat and noise.... by gman003 · · Score: 5, Informative

    They are at Anandtech. They do noise/temps/power at idle, in a game, or under full synthetic load. They even do an overclock and then re-compare game/synth numbers.

  4. Re:Believe it! by JDG1980 · · Score: 2, Informative

    I had understood that anyone with half a brain was on ASICs now.

    That's true for Bitcoin, which uses SHA-256 as its hashing protocol. But for Litecoin, Dogecoin, and a bunch of other knock-off "altcoins", the proof-of-work is Scrypt, and that is difficult to support on ASICs because of the memory requirements.

    There are some Scrypt ASICs currently being tested, but hash rates are quite modest and they focus more on saving power than on outgunning the top AMD video cards.

  5. Re:Believe it! by bloodhawk · · Score: 2, Informative

    I am sure as the Zimbabwe dollar fell people were also saying it was a great time to invest before it went back up again. At some stage if enough confidence is lost there is no recovery.

  6. Re:66%? big deal. by mrchaotica · · Score: 4, Informative

    Maybe the beta supports [superscript] :)

    I just checked; it does not. (I tried both ways: using unicode character entities and using the <sup> tag.)

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