
When we average the performance of all of these cards across all of our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 750 Ti appears to perform a lot like AMD's older Radeon HD 7850. Although that's a decent accomplishment in and of itself, since the 7850 launched at $250 (and the only card in stock on Newegg still sells for $200), it's made even more impressive when you consider that the Maxwell-based board doesn't even need an auxiliary power connector.
AMD recently cut the prices on many Radeon R7 260X cards, improving their value. Sapphire's implementation comes overclocked from the factory, includes 2 GB of GDDR5 memory, and can be found for about $130, making it a good upgrade option for gaming at 1920x1080. Read the Full Review
Sapphire Radeon R7 260X 2GB
Mainstream Performance
Digging further, we took the average performance of all cards across five games, and then recorded detailed power usage stats during the runs. Using those results, we calculated the average frame rate per second per watt:

This is the chart that matters when you want to fold a 60 W TDP into the performance discussion. Nvidia's GeForce GTX 750 Ti really shines, almost doubling the performance/watt of AMD's Radeon R7 265 and Nvidia's GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost. The Radeon R7 260X fares better, but still trails the GM107-based card's efficiency by a significant distance.
- Introducing The GM107 GPU, Based On Maxwell
- Nvidia's GeForce GTX 750 Ti Reference Card
- MSI GTX 750 Ti Gaming OC
- Gigabyte GTX 750 Ti Windforce OC
- Zotac GTX 750 Ti
- Test Setup And Benchmarks
- Results: Arma 3
- Results: Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
- Results: Battlefield 4
- Results: BioShock Infinite
- Results: Far Cry 3
- Results: Grid 2
- Results: Metro: Last Light
- Average Performance And Performance Per Watt
- GPU Boost And Overclocking
- GPGPU: Floating-Point Performance
- GPGPU: Bitcoin, Litecoin, LuxMark, And RatGPU
- Professional Applications
- Temperatures And Acoustics
- Power Consumption: Gaming
- Power Consumption: Idle, Compute, And More
- Crazy Performance For A 60 W Card
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Don't take this as fact, but the drivers look newer for the Zotac card than the others, possibly just a bug with the older drivers? The cards are advertised as having 640 shaders anyway.
Also weird, the GPU-Z screenshot is taken with Windows 8, whereas the Gigabyte and MSI cards are on Windows 7. The mystery continues...