Today we are going to compare the two Mid-range nVidia cards: the GTX 750 Ti with Maxwell GPU and the Radeon R9 270 Curaçao PRO GPU. The GTX 750 Ti is basically the first glimpse at NVIDIAs upcoming Maxwell GPUs and it will be quite interesting to see wether a lower end card from NVIDIA can keep up with a higher end card from AMD.
Lets take a closer look at the results in the benchmarks we
tested. In this case we can see, that the performance difference between the
Radeon R9 270 and the GTX750 Ti in 3DMark is about 17 percent and in Unigine
heaven it's close to 18 percent. Benchmarking games the difference between the
two cards is considerable: in Bioshock Infinite the R9 270 is 3 percent quicker
and when running Crysis we see a 20 percent advantage for the AMD card over the
GTX 750 Ti. Taking a closer look at DIRT Showdown we see that the R9 270 is 42
percent quicker, in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim difference is close to 40
percent and in Sleeping Dogs the Radeon R9 270 is 35 percent faster. On average
the Radeon R9 270 is a good 18 percent faster than the GTX 750 Ti.
At this point we also want to have a quick look at power consumption. As we've
already discussed in our graphics cards reviews the GTX 750 Ti is one of the
most energy efficient graphics cards money can buy these days. Equipping our
test setup with the GTX 750 Ti made it consume 14 watt less than with the Radeon
R9 270 (39 Watts compared to 53 Watts) under idle condition. When there is load
on the graphics card we notice, that the test setup equipped with the Radeon R9
270 needed 64 watt more, compared to the same setup being equipped with a GTX
750 Ti. In other words: the R9 270 is 18 percent quicker than the GTX 750 Ti but
that comes at the cost of making our test system consume 33 percent more power.
If we start checking prices, we find the cheapest NVIDIA GTX 750 Ti for 110
Euro, whereas the Radeon R9 270 costs 135 Euro and is therefore quite a bit more
expensive. Comparing price differences with performance differences we see that
with the Radeon R9 270 you pay 23 percent more in order to get 18 percent more
performance. Other than that the AMD card supports CrossFire whereas the NVIDIA
GTX 750 Ti is not capable of running SLI. Should you be looking for as much
performance as possible from a cheap card, then the Radeon R9 270 is definitely
a good choice. In the case of the GTX 750 Ti you get the most energy efficient,
descrete graphics card available these days, which also offers very good bang
for the buck.
Today we are going to compare the two Mid-range nVidia cards: the GTX 750 Ti with Maxwell GPU and the Radeon R9 270 Curaçao PRO GPU. The GTX 750 Ti is basically the first glimpse at NVIDIAs upcoming Maxwell GPUs and it will be quite interesting to see wether a lower end card from NVIDIA can keep up with a higher end card from AMD.
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