Geforce GTX 750 graphics card: specifications and reviews

The focus of this article is one of the most popular video adapters on the Russian gaming market in the budget class, the Geforce GTX 750. There are a lot of reviews in the media, both positive and negative. To draw their own conclusions, we will have to study the owners' feedback, get acquainted with the technical characteristics of the devices and compare with competitors in this price niche. Also, a potential buyer can get acquainted with unique devices produced by well-known world brands that did not miss the opportunity to declare themselves in the market of gaming accessories, and choose the required video card for their needs.

A completely new architecture

Many fans of Geforce products will like the manufacturer's step, which for the release of a new product created a completely new chip GM107 based on the architecture called Maxwell. Nvidia Geforce GTX 750, logically, replaced the old Geforce GTX 650 chip. But if you recall, in the 600's lineup from the budget class there are three models: 650, 650 Ti and 660. Accordingly, the manufacturer simply must replace all of them with more New chipsets with higher performance.

However, the manufacturer thinks otherwise. Having released the 750th model, the manufacturer presented its overclocked model with the Geforce GTX 750 Ti marking and stopped at that. After all, two new products on performance are much inferior to the game modification Nvidia GTX 660, which is still in demand in the market, and its price is constantly growing.

Factory characteristics of the chip

First of all, the potential buyer will be interested to know what the Geforce GTX 750 performance characteristics. First of all, the future owner will be interested in the power consumption, it is 55 W, which is almost half that of the previous model. Modification of Ti consumes only 5 watts more, but this is probably caused by the increased amount of video memory (2 GB versus 1 GB in 750 models) and overestimated by 400 units memory frequency (5400 MHz).

The number of transistors is 1870 million pieces, the technical process is 28 nanometers, and the core area is 148 square millimeters. The connection uses a high-speed PCI-E 3.0 interface with a GDDR5 memory type. For a budget class, an acceptable 128-bit memory bus is used, which many users are unhappy with, judging by their feedback. It will please the owners except that the core frequency, which nevertheless became four-digit - 1,085 MHz in the budget class is exactly a progress. Yes, and support for DirectX 11.2 clearly hints to users on the gaming capabilities of the adapter. But there are questions to the number of texture units, the number of which has been reduced by half (32 for the 750 version and 40 for the Nvidia Geforce GTX 750 Ti).

Appearance is sometimes deceptive

The appearance of the video card immediately gives the user to understand that high performance can only be dreamed - with this device above the budget class never rise. But this opinion is deceptive, because in the last decade the race is more for supported technologies than for the number of frames per second that many owners of top-end devices with many years of experience cover. Uniquely modern Geforce GTX 750 video adapter from the budget class will show a more realistic picture in modern games than the device of the last decade.

Doubts can also cause a cooling system, which is very similar to the regular cooler to the Intel processor. Judging by numerous reviews of owners, this video adapter does not really need a powerful cooling system, because the heat dissipation of 55 watts practically does not heat the board, which means that the need for a cooler is minimal. If Nvidia Geforce GTX 750 Ti will be overclocked by the future owner, then the installed cooling system can cope with the heat removal, which will please all owners of this device.

Exclusive from the Taiwanese manufacturer

The very first product, which appeared on the Russian market on the Nvidia Geforce GTX 750 chip, was under the Asus brand, so the review of the novelty will begin with it. For the first time in many years of working in the market, the Taiwanese giant has changed its traditions: the complete absence of colorful drawings on the packaging, minimal equipment and inexpensive packaging seem to discourage the brand's fans.

To the cooling system the manufacturer has always been serious, so many owners can definitely discourage the appearance of the fan and the lack of additional power on the video card. But after the tests, the user will repeatedly thank the manufacturer for installing an excellent silent cooling system on the Asus Geforce GTX 750 Ti.

Pleased owners and three video outputs on the board, which belong to different epochs of the world of electronics. The ancient D-Sub connector is still popular in the budget class. Many users are not yet ready to change white assembly monitors to Chinese consumer goods. HDMI and DVI connectors allow you to connect TVs and projectors to your computer.

but on the other hand

Video adapter Asus Geforce GTX 750 Ti OC, appeared on the Russian market, took a little not its niche. Instead of being placed in a budget class, it got to advanced gaming devices, where it was placed next to the Geforce GTX 660 and Radeon R7 260X. Naturally, the overpriced by the seller of the price of the video card did not comply with the policy of the company Nvidia.

In the media, there are many reviews and feedback from owners that prove to others that the novelty belongs to the budget segment and its price should be appropriate. In performance, the nearest competitor of this video card is the Radeon R7 260. Among its counterparts, the adapter should be in the middle between 650 Ti and 660 model. Naturally, the cost of the video card should be within these limits. With the advent of video adapters on the Maxwell chip from other manufacturers, sellers finally decided on the class of devices and placed them in a budgetary niche with an appropriate price.

Marketing move from Asus

Many users trust the manufacturer so much that they just do not notice the dirty trick. And we are talking about the product Asus Geforce GTX 750 Ti Strix 4096 MB. This video card is positioned in the gaming class as an analog of the more advanced 760 series device. It is not clear who actually defined the video adapter in the game class - the manufacturer or the seller, but this is not fair to the end user.

This device has exactly the same characteristics as its competitors, created on a Maxwell chip. A distinctive feature is only increased to 4 GB of video memory, which has no effect on the performance of the device. Has changed and the appearance - engineers Asus installed on a budget video adapter a cooling system from the top of the video card. As a result, the buyer's attention attracted, but in return received a huge amount of negativity to the brand, judging by the reviews in the media.

A worthy player in the video card market

The new Palit Geforce GTX 750 StormX will interest the potential buyer uniquely. After all, in addition to the staff memory capacity of 1 GB for all devices on a Maxwell chip, the manufacturer provided its product with two gigabytes. The future owner will also like the cooling system, which consists of a single fan and a plastic casing that covers the entire surface of the adapter, as it is implemented in top-end devices. Naturally, such a video card takes up two places in the case during installation, this must be taken into account when purchasing.

A powerful cooling system unambiguously hints that the Geforce GTX 750 graphics card is capable of showing more potential. The performance of the adapter can be improved by software overclocking (the utility comes in a box with the device) by 12%, raising the frequency of the graphics core from 1085 MHz to 1154 MHz. On the noise level of the fan, the overclocking is practically not affected, judging by the test results, nobody was able to heat the chip more than 57 degrees, which means that the cooling system copes with its task 100%.

Proper cooling will lead to victory

Having seen the product Gigabyte Geforce GTX 750 Ti, the buyer might think that the famous Chinese brand created its vision of the Nvidia video card based on the Maxwell chipset. At first glance, the device is no different from the top. However, with a detailed inspection it turns out that under the huge cooling system of two coolers, a lot of radiators and copper tubes for heat removal, the appearance of the video adapter has not changed.

Powerful cooling manufacturer Gigabyte installed not for fun. It is thanks to effective heat removal that the manufacturer managed, unlike competitors, to overclock the graphics processor as efficiently as possible. Increasing the capacity by 30% for the Geforce GTX 750 Ti video card with air cooling is nonsense for the entire computer market. In the media on the Geforce GTX 750 chips, many owners' reviews claim that even the overpriced product from the manufacturer Gigabyte does not spoil the overall impression of the purchase. After all, not every device, being on the market in a budget class, is able to work at the level of top models.

The Gigabyte Gems

Having got acquainted with the technical characteristics of the video card Gigabyte Geforce GTX 750 Ti, the user will find that, in addition to the advantages, the owners of these devices discuss and the shortcomings, which abound. First of all, this is the size of the video adapter. The budget option is much larger than its "colleagues" in the price niche, and many users who purchased an inexpensive computer preferred a small case in which it would be necessary to prioritize a hard drive basket or a fast video adapter.

Negative reviews of the owners include the quality of the cooling system itself. For the air flow, coolers of very poor quality respond, which vibrate strongly during operation, creating a terrible noise (even without overclocking). It's very strange that specialists did not notice this in many reviews and tests, in which the Nvidia Geforce GTX 750 Ti video card from Gigabyte participated. If you believe the positive feedback on the cooling system of the other half of the owners, we can assume that the quality is highly dependent on the lot or market.

The Old Guard does not give up

Fans of products from the manufacturer EVGA were very lucky - their favorite brand took the responsibility to make a very productive Geforce GTX 750 video card. The feedback from many owners assures that the task of EVGA technology was excellent. The cooling system, as it should, the manufacturer paid all its attention, and, unlike competing products, provided the video card with rather expensive coolers. As a result, even at the maximum speed, the user will not hear an extraneous rumble. With cooling, the system also handles perfectly, in none of the existing tests the GPU temperature has exceeded the 70 degree mark.

As always, the EVGA brand differed from competitors and the software that was created specifically for the video adapter in question. The control panel of the video card looks very impressive, any change occurs almost instantly, in real time, which will allow the user to observe the result first hand.

Demonstration of economy in a budget class

But the famous manufacturer Inno3D, who likes to fight in the market of video cards for the best performance, made a move horse, or rather, refused to race with competitors and showed the most economical video adapter in the budget class. The Inno3D Geforce GTX 750 Green video card is designed to save electricity. To do this, the BIOS of the graphics accelerator has implemented a program that in the idle mode forcibly reduces the frequency of the graphics adapter to 200 MHz. Naturally, the energy consumption of the device is significantly reduced (an average of 15 watts). When the video adapter loads, the frequencies rise again, pulling the performance to the maximum. Quite an interesting solution the manufacturer supplemented with a specific cooling system, which attracts the views of many potential buyers.

Pet Overlockers

But the Geforce GTX 750 video card from the very well-known manufacturer Zotac in the Russian market is unlikely to be able to please its fans with something. In the media there are a lot of negative reviews about this brand, because everyone expected another breakthrough from the best workshop for the production of the most productive video accelerators. The owners of the device note the almost silent operation of the cooling system and recommend this video card to all customers who have the case of the form factor micro ATX, because this is one of the few cards that has kept the factory dimensions.

Let outwardly the device Zotac looks very attractive, but here the low profile of the video card declares to the customers directly: this video accelerator can not compete with representatives of the game class. And it's a pity, because for this brand many fans are ready to give all their savings.

Budgetary with passive cooling

Very quickly oriented in the market of budget devices and the company Gainward, releasing the product Geforce GTX 750 2048Mb with passive cooling. This manufacturer has always created unique devices that, having one chipset, have a mass of distinctive features. Recall at least the built-in VIVO module with image capture (by the way, this module would be interesting to many owners in this budget, judging by their feedback).

And if the potential buyer thinks that, along with the lack of noise, the video card has low performance, then he certainly never knew Gainward. To be competitive, the manufacturer broke the graphics core from the factory settings by 8%. And to remove competitors in one niche, he gave his product a five-year guarantee. As a result: a noiseless board with excellent performance and a huge warranty period. What else does the buyer need in the budget class?

A gold series in a budget class?

The company Gainward does not cease to amaze its fans. The release of the GeForce GTX 750 Ti Golden Sample has clearly attracted a lot of gazes. After all, in the gold series of this manufacturer, video cards are always used, which have undergone rigorous selection and testing for overclocking and overheating. Naturally, the final product is pre-accelerated at the factory, which Gainward states in the documentation supplied with the video card.

In this case, the GeForce GTX 750 Ti Golden Sample got increased performance by 20% - 1202 MHz overclocking on the graphics core and 6008 MHz memory frequency. All this is seasoned with a proprietary cooling system from the gold series, which guarantees quality and continuous operation for 5 years.

Conducted tests of this video adapter and comparison with inexpensive devices of the game class lead to speculation that the manufacturer intentionally limited the overclocking of the video card, so that its performance would not go beyond the budget class. However, the user can continue the company Gainward, because in the complete set of the video card there is a proprietary tool Expert Tool, which will help not only to efficiently accelerate, but also reset the settings to the initial settings in case of unsuccessful performance improvement.

The leader of reviews on the criterion of "price-quality"

Who would have thought that a series of gaming video cards MSI GAMING replenished budget device. The most interesting thing is that the famous world brand does not hide this. And how surprised the user when he brings the purchase home, because in a huge box with the device, he will find a lot of interesting things, not to mention the video card itself, whose appearance deserves an ovation.

In the box you can find: Geforce GTX 750, driver for device installation, software, adapters for video outputs, cable for connection. MSI has a complete bundle of all the accessories that must come with the video adapter (as it was many years ago). The users will also like the software that comes with one of the disks in the package, because it contains utilities for monitoring, adjusting and overclocking the video card. It is noteworthy that MSI programs work without problems with different chipsets and devices from different manufacturers.

Finally

Anyone who understands computer components knows that devices belonging to the same price category can not compete with electronics of a higher class. Accordingly, the Geforce GTX 750 chipset will not be able to get from the budget class to the gaming one, no matter how much the manufacturer wants it. The potential buyer must understand this and before buying at least read the owners' reviews and watch reviews in the media, studying the recommendations of specialists.

In terms of performance, the graphics card with the Maxwell chip is the most technologically and efficient device in the niche of budget video adapters. This fact confirms a large number of tests and comparisons. IT specialists note that the Geforce GTX 750 chips have low potential for independent overclocking and warn many users of ill-considered actions.