That link is a single slot (but not low profile) 7850. I've seen rumors of a low profile 7850 but never actually seen one for sale in the US.
Prices for the 750ti in canada range from 170 to 190$. I hope it drops but it probably won't.
This morning on newegg.ca they were listed for $139-159, I wonder why they were raised later today.
This morning on newegg.ca they were listed for $139-159, I wonder why they were raised later today.
Honestly it's a good card with amazing performance for the power draw, but AMD will likely match or exceed this at 28nm if they try to. It might take a few months, or maybe they are just waiting on 20nm (seems likely), but the 60%+ perf/W claims based on techpowerup's flawed benchmarks are completely bogus.
seriously?
i mean......
for real?
this is really really funny.
I guess if AMD doesnt "exceed this" you can always claim they didnt even try. Maybe they just didnt feel like it or something.
I am no expert but i am pretty sure it takes longer than a couple months to come up with a completely new architecture, much less bring it to market. There is no other way they could beat the gm107 efficiency. It would take a completely new amazing architecture that would be an engineering marvel. So yeah, i bet AMD could do this if they wanted. But it would take a lot longer than a couple months. The gm107 is in a league of its own.
I am not saying AMD cannot make a better chip or they just arent capable, whether they can or not is another matter all by itself. But what i am saying is your statement is really really impossible. AMD cannot just pop out a more efficient design than maxwell in a couple months.......even if they wanted to. This is totally and completely unrealistic. Fallacy. I really dont even know why you would be saying something like this?
I suppose if we give you enough rope, you'll get Bonaire down to 20mm2 if you hack off all of the transistors that aren't used 100% of the time. maybe you can do the same for GM107?
AMD latest chip is Hawaii and it only has 50% of the perf/watt of the GTX750TI.
I dont see why we should wait for the competition when it's clear that the competition is months away from bringing something new to the market.
All of this point to good signs for 20nm next gen HIGH END gpus...
But it is interesting, never seen so many people so worked up over LOW END gpus on this forum before.
Its not about LOW END, and you know it.
It's about future Maxwell products, 20nm, its about GM107 giving us a glimpse of this future while looking pretty damn good.
Curious that it s still DX11.0 only like its predecessors....
They needed 8 months to release a card which can go against Titan with a worse perf/watt ratio.
Really, there is nothing coming from them until 20nm.
At that price 750Ti is best suited to HPC or perhaps crypto mining,no serious gamer is going to value perf/watt over performance/$.
Remember when 7970GHZ Edition suddenly arrived and spoiled the party for GTX680?
I'm surprised you think AMD won't have R9 Series II chips designed and ready to compete against Maxwell based cards this year.
We certainly dont know if this is an engineering marvel. We will have to wait for its competitor. You are comparing it to 2.5 year old architectures.