What a nice little card. Comparing the gtx 660 vs the gtx 750ti
gtx 660 vs gtx 750ti
Benefits for Nvidia
- 2.540 vs 1.870 The new card uses 73.6% of the 28nm Transistors
- 221mm^2 vs 148mm^2 The new Die Size is only 67.0%, thus less cost for Nvidia
Benefits for OEMS
- 140w max tdp vs 60w max tdp. The new card tdp has a tdp reduction of 57.1%, that means the old card had a max power consumption that is 233% higher than the new card.
- 50 Watts lower on load power consumption for crysis 3
- 63 Watts lower on load power consumption for Furmark (power virus)
Benefits for consumers
- $190 is the cheapest gtx660 on newegg, the gtx 750ti has a msrp of $150, that is a reduction of $40 dollars, or the new card costs 78.9% of the old card.
- 55.4 fps vs 48.0 fps 86.6% Battlefield 1920x1080 High Quality
- 43.2 fps vs 37.6 fps 87.0% Metro Last Light 1920x1080 High Quality
- 67.7 fps vs 49.9 fps 73.7% Crysis 3 1920x1080 Med Quality (note this game is the worse case performance for the gtx750ti from the games Ryan Smith tested.)
So in effect the card gets 85% the performance of the old card, but it is 78.9% cheaper. You also get all the power benefits for FREE. Thus if you can enjoy games at the level the gtx 750ti can put out it is a no brainer compared to the old gtx660.
This card is going to be highly desired by OEMS and system builders, you have gone from a card (gtx660) that requires
two six pins and a dual slot cooler to a card that requires
zero six pins and
can be single slot. Hell aftermarket video card sales (best buy, frys, microcenter, etc) would also like this card for it is an easy simple upgrade you can suggest without needing a new psu. Nvidia had a nice slide comparing the batman performance with an i5 quad core and intel hd 4600 (8 fps) vs gt640 (22 fps) vs gt 750ti (53 fps). This card can easily go into the crappy 300w psu that you find in crappy oem boxes (the slide had a picture of an hp but with the logo removed).
Furthermore this card is almost laptop ready already, you will barely be needing to reducing clock speeds / voltages to fit it into a laptop. A gtx 750 is already at the tdp you find a gt 750m (which is based off the gtx 650 but with a 9% clock speed reduction). A full gtx 750ti can easily fit in the same volume once you do some binning. These are chips you can easily put into a macbook pro retina, a razer blade or a msi ge40 or ge70 stealth.
The radeon r7 260 and 260x may be faster per dollar compared to the gtx 750 and 750ti but in the end I am pretty sure the gtx 750 and 750ti are going to outsell them. Nvidia may have a new 8800gt/9800gt on hand (but for different reasons than the original 8800gt)