Review is
up.
Okay, it doesn't require an additional plug, but it is power limited and quite big. Hmm. Not exactly happy with the design. I'd rather have all that power flow thru a separate molex cable. Did I mention, it's only 2 gigs? Seriously for the money, they could have added another 2 gigs and sort of, give it more purpose; CUDA devs would of certainly been happy. Buying 2 gigs in 05/2016 again, seriously? Especially, when it is a known fact, that extra memory can be cached conveniently in modern games, putting less stress on system memory.
Not worth the money, imo. Definitely better to wait for Polaris/Pascal, if you want a truly compact, power-efficient card. Or just buy a regular model for less money and manually power-limit it to 75% if your PSU is from 2000's or something. Cheaper to buy a molex power splitter and connect it properly, if you are lacking cables. In all honesty, the previous
750 ti design looked way sexier to me, except for the updated video decoding block and 25% lower average performance, but you can find it for much less (well, at least that
looks like a proper energy-saving card, check the
power graphs, that ASUS uses about twice as much power in nearly every metric, except for gaming; what's exactly the point of this card?). Again, you're better off with a regular 950 instead. This one will certainly drive the demand/price up. Don't be among those fools. This card offers essentially no additional value over the regular model, just artificially being limited in total power consumption and thus allowing it to feed off the motherboard 24 PIN cable. That's all, there is to. Same binning.
But nice attempt, ASUS. I am not buying, try harder next time
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