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GTX 750 Ti any good in Linux?

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August 29, 2014 8:31:06 AM

With some good Linux native titles being released thanks to SteamOS, I was thinking of getting a video card and was looking at the GTX 750 Ti since it's not too power hungry, has a decent price, and seems to be a quality Windows card. I guess no reason to go overkill though, since my CPU is a Pentium G3258 and I'm not looking to upgrade that for a while (maybe not until i5s start becoming cheap). Does anyone have any experience running it in Linux? Are the drivers any good? I remember in the early 2000s the official ATI drivers on my Radeon 8500 were so bad it could barely run glxgears in my blazing fast LinuxFromScratch and in more mainstream distributions like Arch and Gentoo, though it absolutely killed when I booted into Windows XP and played games.

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August 29, 2014 10:44:48 AM

From a performance standpoint you'd be much better off with a GTX 660 ti. Historically NVidia's drivers have been much better than ATI/AMD in the OpenGL department.
August 29, 2014 1:59:28 PM

ex_bubblehead said:
From a performance standpoint you'd be much better off with a GTX 660 ti. Historically NVidia's drivers have been much better than ATI/AMD in the OpenGL department.


Can you define much better off? I'm not sure that 1920x1080 at 60 FPS with max detail is reasonable for the most resource hungry games considering the limitations of my dual core CPU vs what a quad core could do. If I can turn V-Sync on and get a steady 30 FPS at that resolution I'm happy. Is that an unreasonable expectation with a GTX 750 Ti? I don't want to pay the premium price to get 60+ FPS when I think 30 FPS looks great.

What are the payoffs of getting a 660 Ti vs a 750 Ti?
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August 29, 2014 2:03:15 PM

While the following is Windows based it does show the significant difference in performance between the two cards:

http://gpuboss.com/gpus/GeForce-GTX-750-Ti-vs-GeForce-G...

You'd be GPU bound in most apps with the 750.

What specifically are you planning to run? That would answer the question of whether or not the 750 is the right card.
August 29, 2014 3:02:20 PM

ex_bubblehead said:
While the following is Windows based it does show the significant difference in performance between the two cards:

http://gpuboss.com/gpus/GeForce-GTX-750-Ti-vs-GeForce-G...

You'd be GPU bound in most apps with the 750.

What specifically are you planning to run? That would answer the question of whether or not the 750 is the right card.


I guess I'd like to run some of the native stuff being released on Steam for Linux like Portal 2 and probably Skyrim in WINE at 1920x1080. And Minecraft. Though I don't plan on using Windows at all other than WINE, the 45fps on Bioshock Infinite Ultra settings at 1920x1080 the GTX 750 Ti does in the link you posted would be more than enough for me. But I'm wondering how good the drivers are for the GTX 750 Ti in Linux. If I was building a Windows box the Ti 750 would be the card I'd choose for sure for the price, performance, and low power usage, but I have no idea how that performance translates to Linux (specifically, the 3.13 kernel in Ubuntu 14.04). The thought of 60 Watts vs 150 Watts for the 750 Ti vs the 660 Ti sounds good too, especially when you factor in the cheapest 660 Ti I can find is $240 refurbished on TigerDirect while I can buy a 750 Ti for $150 new on newegg.
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August 29, 2014 4:44:18 PM

Without knowing what the test setup was (other than the video adapter) you can't make any assumptions from those charts about what your performance will be, only that a GTX 660 Ti outperforms a GTX 750 Ti by a healthy margin.

First thing to do is check here and make sure that the Windows software you wish to run actually works with WINE.

Second, NVidia's closed source drivers are very good on the 600 & 700 series cards.

Ultimately it's your choice but I suspect that you'll be hamstringing the CPU with the 750.
August 29, 2014 6:42:48 PM

So AMD cards should be completely out of the question still for Linux gaming? Seems like the GTX 760 and GTX 660 Ti have similar levels of performance and I can find the 760 new for $240. Or for the price of a new 660 Ti I might as well just get a GTX 770. I'll have to think about whether I'm willing to spend $240-$300 instead of the $150 the 750 Ti would run me.
August 29, 2014 8:13:02 PM

Yes, the NV660 series performs well at minimum power and cost. Does he NEED the *ti to beat a 750?

ex_bubblehead said:
From a performance standpoint you'd be much better off with a GTX 660 ti. Historically NVidia's drivers have been much better than ATI/AMD in the OpenGL department.


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