NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti Maxwell GPU Review

How We Configured Our Test Systems: We tested the graphics cards in this article on an EVGA X79 Dark motherboard powered by an Intel Core i7-4960X six-core processor and 16GB of Corsair DDR3-1866 RAM. The first thing we did when configuring the test system was enter the system UEFI and set all values to their "high performance" default settings and disable any integrated peripherals that wouldn't be put to use. The memory's X.M.P. profile was enabled to ensure better-than-stock performance and the solid state drive was then formatted and Windows 8.1 Professional x64 was installed. When the installation was complete, we fully updated the OS and installed the latest DirectX redist along with all of the drivers, games, and benchmark tools necessary to complete our tests.

Unigine's Heaven Benchmark v4.0 is built around the Unigine game engine. Unigine is a cross-platform, real-time 3D engine, with support for DirectX 9, DirectX 10, DirectX 11 and OpenGL. The Heaven benchmark--when run in DX11 mode--also makes comprehensive use of tessellation technology and advanced SSAO (screen-space ambient occlusion). It also features volumetric cumulonimbus clouds generated by a physically accurate algorithm and a dynamic sky with light scattering.

Unigine Heaven

The new GeForce GTX 750 and GTX 750 Ti outperform the Radeon R7 260X in the Unigine Heaven benchmark, but trail the GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost and higher-end cards. Generally speaking, the just-announced Radeon R7 265 also comes out ahead of the 750 / 750 Ti here, but the factory overclocked EVGA GeForce GTX 750 Ti ACX FTW was able to eek out a victory over the newest Radeon.