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NVIDIA Launches GTX 750 Ti With New Maxwell Architecture
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."
... five expansion slots to fit the fans, this time!
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.
Thanks to the Litecoin and Bitcoin minners Nvidia are the only cards at the shelves at stores and who do not have a 150% to 200% damn markup from the MSRP price?!
If Maxwell can also mine coins do not expect any reasonably priced GPU for years to come.
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That sounds Smart...
I'll get me coat.
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Am I the only one annoyed that average operating temperature and noise output are not standard graphic card benchmarks?
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I had understood that anyone with half a brain was on ASICs now.
Then again anyone with half a brain wouldnt be joining the pyramid scheme so late in the game.
I had understood that anyone with half a brain was on ASICs now.
Then again anyone with half a brain wouldnt be joining the pyramid scheme so late in the game.
Butterfly which makes the ASICS has been busted taking as long as 8 months for the orders.
Basically you plow down $2,000 for the units and they keep them for 7 months and mine the coins with your device. Then sell it to you when the cost of the coins go up 3000% so you lose your investment and Butterfly keeps the interest made ... similiar to banks with holding cash for 48 hours etc.
But at least banks give the money back after 72 hours after they short stocks and keep the interest on your cash first. These guys are sharks.
Litecoins are cheaper and so are Dogecoins so it is not too late for these as with the value falling it is a great time to invest again before it goes back up.
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If you had read the article, you would have known that they went from 118 mm2 to 148mm2, i.e. a 25% increase in area.
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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,
5-10% better than a cheaper rival card that came out 5 months ago.
Go nvidia, go!
I'm no nVidiot, but 5-10% improvement at a substantial power savings in the same price bracket is indeed an impressive feat.
This being a brand new architecture means that later cards can also reap these benefits.
AMD and their OEMs are still slowly trotting out 290X cards with decent cooling at inflated prices. The sooner nVidia gets their next architecture out there the sooner we'll see new products / price drops on the AMD side. The sooner that happens, the sooner we see new products / price drops on the nVidia side.
This competition thing has its benefits, you see. Meanwhile, in CPU land we've been stuck for years of Intel charging $BUTT for marginally better (and sometimes worse) shit that, as usual, requires a new mobo+chipset to fully utilize.
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Maybe the beta supports it :)
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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.
Hype or not, games on my gtx 760 look amazing. Looks like they are testing the waters for the next flagship.
Meanwhile, in CPU land we've been stuck for years of Intel charging $BUTT for marginally better
If you think Haswell, Ivy Bridge or Sandy Bridge were 'marginally better' you aren't paying attention.
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.
I just checked; it does not. (I tried both ways: using unicode character entities and using the <sup> tag.)
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You say the big advance is in power, then mention the 290X, which has a single precision GLOPS/W figure of 19.4, between the new GTX750's 19.0 and the GTX750TI's 21.8
The 290X has a double precision GFLOPS/W of 2.6, the GTX750TI gets 0.68. Compared to the 65W TDP Radeon 250's double precision performance of 0.74, its a loser.
This is just hype and selective benchmarks for a new architecture that was supposed to be 20nm. They couldn't get it built on 20nm so they've had to stick with 28.
If it was 20nm, it probably would be better all round.
Well, for one, you can use it.
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It's also only measuring single precision performance. The AMD GPU's are more power efficient at double precision.
Don't worry. They 260X they're comparing it to is still 2x faster at bitcoin mining. Still faster per-watt as well.