Maxwell Gen 1

[John P. Myers]

I always thought the amount of core's was the most important for crunching, they don't appear to have that many cores for BOINC Crunching ...

No they don't have many cores as this is a lower-midrange GPU. There are a few reasons i'm really interested in this though. It's the first chip based on the Maxwell architecture and since it's not a high-end GPU, the performance of the 750Ti will actually dictate how the rest of the Maxwell GPUs (the GTX 800 series) perform. Efficiency always increases as you move to the larger more expensive GPUs and with the 750Ti's GFLOPS/W rating starting out higher than even a GTX 780Ti, it follows that the rest of the 800 series would completely obliterate anything else ever made.

Another thing about the GPUs is you could buy 8 of the GTX 750Ti's for about the price of a Titan but compute 2.32 times faster. Another reason i like looking at these lower-end cards is the lower power draw allows manufacturers to make them only 1 slot wide, and i like finding GPUs i can stick in empty slots just as fillers. Currently this is the fastest, most power efficient GPU that is only 1 slot wide: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814125468 I was first to review it If the 750 and 750Ti are as good as Nvidia says they are, they will become my new #1 choice.