We tested all of the cards in today's story with each company's latest beta drivers: Catalyst 14.1 beta 6 from AMD and 334.67 beta from Nvidia, however the new GeForce GTX 750 Ti required a special 334.69 beta driver. We used medium- to high-detail settings at 1920x1080 to give the GeForce GTX 750 Ti and its competition a realistic workload, which should strike a good balance between image quality and performance for this class of card.
| Test System | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPU | Intel Core i5-2550K (Sandy Bridge), Overclocked to 4.2 GHz @ 1.3 V | ||||
| Motherboard | Asus P8Z77-V LX. LGA 1155, Chipset: Intel Z77M | ||||
| Networking | On-Board Gigabit LAN controller | ||||
| Memory | Corsair Performance Memory, 4 x 4 GB, 1866 MT/s, CL 9-9-9-24-1T | ||||
| Graphics | Sapphire Radeon R7 260X 1100 MHz GPU, 2 GB GDDR5 at 1625 MHz (6500 MT/s) XFX Radeon HD 7850 860 MHz GPU, 1 GB GDDR5 at 1200 MHz (4800 MT/s) Sapphire Radeon R7 265 925 MHz GPU, 2 GB GDDR5 at 1400 MHz (5600 MT/s) Reference Radeon R9 270 925 MHz GPU, 2 GB GDDR5 at 1400 MHz (5600 MT/s) Reference GeForce GTX 650 Ti 925 MHz GPU, 1 GB DDR3 at 1350 MHz (5400 MT/s) Reference GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost 980/1033 MHz GPU, 2 GB GDDR5 at 1502 MHz (6008 MT/s) Reference GeForce GTX 660 980/1033 MHz GPU, 2 GB GDDR5 at 1502 MHz (6008 MT/s) Reference GeForce GTX 750 Ti 1020/1085 MHz GPU, 2 GB GDDR5 at 1350 MHz (5400 MT/s) | ||||
| Hard Drive | Samsung 840 Pro, 256 GB SSD, SATA 6Gb/s | ||||
| Power | XFX PRO850W, ATX12V, EPS12V | ||||
| Software and Drivers | |||||
| Operating System | Microsoft Windows 8 Pro x64 | ||||
| DirectX | DirectX 11 | ||||
| Graphics Drivers | AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta 6, Nvidia GeForce 334.67 Beta Nvidia GeForce 334.69 Beta for GeForce GTX 750 Ti | ||||

We've almost completely eliminated mechanical storage in the lab, and instead lean on solid-state drives to alleviate I/O-related bottlenecks. Samsung sent all of our offices 256 GB 840 Pros, so we standardize on these exceptional SSDs.

Naturally, discrete graphics cards require a substantial amount of stable power, so XFX sent along its PRO850W 80 PLUS Bronze-certified power supply. This modular PSU employs a single +12 V rail rated for 70 A. XFX claims that this unit provides 850 W of continuous power (not peak) at 50 degrees Celsius (a higher temperature than you'll find inside most enclosures).
| Benchmark Configuration | |
|---|---|
| 3D Games | |
| Metro: Last Light | Version 1.0.0.14, Built-in Benchmark |
| Grid 2 | Version 1.8.85.8679, Built-in Benchmark Scene D6 |
| Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag | Version 1.05, Custom THG Benchmark, 40-Sec |
| Battlefield 4 | Version 1.0.0.1, Custom THG Benchmark, 90-Sec |
| BioShock Infinite | Version 1.1.24.21018, Built-in Benchmark |
| Far Cry 3 | Version 1.05, Custom THG Benchmark, 55-Sec |
| Arma 3 | Version 1.10.114.700, Custom THG Benchmark, 30-Sec |
- 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
I'm pretty sure you meant to type "video cards" on page one there. Cheers.
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...