Haven't seen this posted.

From Engadget.

AMD has enjoyed plenty of room on our pages recently, what with all the talk ofMantle-this and HSA-that. We imagine the folks at NVIDIA have found it all quite bemusing, because for them the graphics card business hasn't changed: it's still primarily about offering higher frame rates for fewer watts in common DirectX-based PC games. Indeed, that's exactly what the green corner's all-new Maxwell architecture is claimed to deliver, starting with the GTX 750 Ti card that should be hitting stores today priced at $150 (or £115 in the UK). At the transistor level, Maxwell is no more efficient than Kepler -- we're still looking at a 28nm fabrication process, which is pretty standard by now. However, NVIDIA says it has figured out much smarter ways of distributing power across its graphics cores, resulting in a doubling of performance-per-watt. What does this mean in practice?

In essence, Maxwell's doubling of perf-per-watt should allow you to play top-tier games like Batman: Arkham Origins and Call of Duty: Ghosts at medium settings and 1080p resolution even on the GTX 750 Ti's very modest 60-watt power draw. NVIDIA matches the card up against AMD's R7 260X, which now costs $119, but which consumes nearly twice as much electricity and therefore requires more aggressive cooling. By doing away with big fans, the new GeForce should easily and quietly fit into that mini-ITX rig you've been secretly planning for your living room.

That said, if the 750 Ti is still too premium for your needs, then you should check out the slightly dumbed down GTX 750, which is also out today. Losing the "Ti" suffix means you sacrifice a few CUDA cores, and you'll get a max 1GB of GDDR5 memory, but then you only pay $120 (or £90) and you need just 55 watts to power it. You'll find full tech specs and some official game benchmarks for the cheaper card in the slide deck above.

Oh, and one more thing -- these new cards both support NVIDIA's remarkable G-Sync technology, which our very own eyes have observed making a 40fps game look as silky smooth as a 60fps game, through the clever adjustment of refresh rates. NVIDIA had to do away with SLI support in order to facilitate this feature, but honestly, we think it could be worth it -- it's just a shame that the big screen in your living room may never be able to appreciate the difference, because for the time being it looks like a G-Sync will only be compatible with a few regular-sized PC monitors.

http://www.engadget.com/2014/02/18/nvidia-launches-gtx-750-ti-maxwell-architecture/?ncid=rss_truncated

Better Benchmarks: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-750-ti-review,3750.html

Could you guys imagine the proper mid and high range 800 series cards? Reports say those will be 20nm later this year, with lower range staying at 28nm; hence 750/750Ti.

Everything Nvidia does is because of what AMD has done.

Not when it comes to high end cards. AMD has nothing comparable to the 780ti. That being said when it comes to budget cards AMD is pretty good.

Whats crazy is that this card outperforms the Xbox One. The 800 series cards will be insane.  I'll probably keepy my 780ti until the eventual 880ti releases which probably won't be until next year.

Isn't that card about on par with the XboxOne's GPU?

I wish these new consoles had something like the G-Sync. That would help almost all PS4 games feel like 60fps games based on fact that the console can easily get games to run at 40-50 fps.

Hmmm, I love Nvidia cards and I will always be in the green team when it comes to gaming but what Amd is doing with Mantle seems a lot more intriguing than what Nvidia is doing atm with G-Sync and Shield... I will be on the green team atm since the drivers and performance is still a bit better but when more games support Mantle, I will certainly keep my eye on Amd cards since all I really do with my PC is play games and if I can save like $100-$200 on a CPU and invest that into a better GPU without bottlenecking my GPU during games, that would be wonderful! Specially in RTS games which I am a huge fan of

My 6850 + FX 8320 outperforms the Xbox One. Stop comparing peasant boxes to our glorious Gaben Shrines.