NVIDIA’s next-gen GeForce series is here, and it brings with it a slew of new features and enhancements worth knowing about. Based on Maxwell, the GTX 900 series delivers much-improved performance-per-watt, with the GTX 980 in particular performing better than the 780 Ti – but with a TDP of 85W less. You read that right. Let’s dig in.
Seven months ago, NVIDIA released a graphics card that captivated me. It was called the GeForce GTX 750 Ti, and it cost a mere $150. Admittedly, it looked like a card that cost even less, and it didn’t even have a power connector. At first, I wasn’t sure what to expect, but after diving into testing, I quickly realized that the modest 750 Ti had some serious brawn.
Under the hood of that 750 Ti? A chip packed with NVIDIA’s latest architecture, Maxwell. After seeing that the lowly 750 Ti could handle all of today’s games at 1080p and with decent framerates, I couldn’t help but wonder what Maxwell could do for the higher-end part of NVIDIA’s product stack. I didn’t realize it’d take more than half a year to find out, but nonetheless, the wait is over.
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