Final words and conclusion

Final Words & Conclusion

The Gigabyte GeForce GTX 750 Ti WindForce edition excels in its excellent cooling. performance wise the results are very baseline though very comparable with the reference product. As such we had hoped that this card would have gotten higher clock frequencies as factory overclock. Fortunately it overclocks well though and the WindForce cooler manages to do a pretty amazing job cooling and noise levels wise.

Performance

With the card having a base-clock hovering at 1033 MHz you will be able to play games with the GTX 750 up-to 1600x1200 and 1920x1080 fairly well. 1080P is possible as well as long as you do not opt freaky image quality settings or the most demanding games. The Ti version on its end is a reasonably nice 1080P card that offers okay framerates at that resolution. But you again can't go wild on image quality settings remember that, but these cards remain to be capable performers for the money. 

Cooling

As you have been able to see in our test sessions, the WindForce cooler does its job really well. The card cards stay below 50 Degrees C and that is just great. Low temps often also mean low noise levels and that is the same here. You will not be able to hear the cooler at all. The product is virtually silent even under hefty game stress. And again, while it is stressed it will keep that GPU at 45 to 50 Degrees C as well so these are nice figures. 

Power Consumption

Typically high clock frequencies have an adverse effect on your power consumption, but at 28nm and a more energy friendly Maxwell GPU, these cards do not need a lot of voltage. So the product when it's stressed only consumes give or take 90 Watts for factory higher clocked products that the AIB and AIC partners. Average power consumption will sit at 50~60 Watts during gaming. In idle mode (desktop) that number is as low as 5 Watts. 

Overclocking

The Gigabyte GeForce GTX 750 Ti WindForce edition has fairly low factory tweaked settings, as such it can be tweaked quite a bit. Though the power limiter is maxed out, another 135 MHz can be added extra on the GPU core frequency. By applying a notch extra voltage we actually noticed the card boosting over 1300 MHz (boost is dynamic so it can fluctuate a bit per game / level / stress etc). Memory wise both cards will pass 6.5 Gbps quite easily as well, and with the 128-bit memory bus being a limiting factor, overclocking on the memory will get you extra performance alright. Overall you'll gain another 10% in performance if you manage to do your tweaking right and if the card allows it of course. Drivers wise we can't complain at all, we did not stumble into any issues. 

Final Words

The Gigabyte GeForce GTX 750 Ti WindForce edition is a fun little card, I would have liked to see faster factory clock frequencies though as I am afraid this SKU will be snowed under by the competition. Overall all other factors are just fine, close to baseline (reference) performance and high tweakability rule here. Also we have to say that the Maxwell architecture really does work well. With a fairly low shader and memory bandwidth count, these cards do offer an excellent perf to watt ratio. Combined with its very low noise levels and temperatures it might just be what the doctor ordered if you are on a low budget. Your gaming temps will hover below 50 Degrees C and the good thing of the cooler is that you will not hear it either. So yeah, we can definitely recommend the Gigabyte GeForce GTX 750 Ti WindForce edition.

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