PSA: For anyone looking to get an NVIDIA 750 Ti

There's been a bit of news uncovered recently about the 750 Ti. If you've already bought one, you're all set. If you're going to buy one in the next few days, you're all set. However, if you're planning on waiting a while before getting one, you should definitely read this.

For anyone who's not familiar with Cryptocurrency mining, it's an extremely GPU-intensive process involving a large amount of very simple calculations. As a reward, it gives you a set amount of a given Cryptocurrency, such as Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin, etc. The main goal for these miners is to try to get the highest performance (measured in hashes per second, or H/s) per watt that they can.

Up until now, AMD graphics cards have been perfect for this, since their architecture is heavily designed around a large amount of fast-clocked, simple processing cores. In comparison, NVIDIA's focus on smaller amounts of slower, more complex processors has allowed them to perform well in CUDA acceleration and games, but prevents them from being even remotely practical in GPU mining. Example: A 780 Ti (MSRP of $700) gives 500KH/s, whereas an AMD 7970 (MSRP of $300, currently priced at $500) gives hashrates of upwards of 700KH/s.

With the release of the Maxwell architecture, NVIDIA cards seem to have not only caught up, but far surpassed AMD in terms of hashrate per watt. The 750 Ti has become an extremely tempting choice for crypto miners, as demonstrated by this article by PCPerspective.

As a result, within a matter of weeks we will almost certainly see the price of 750 Ti's skyrocket, leaving the R7 265, 260X, and 270X as the cards of choice in this price range. If you'd rather buy a 750 Ti than a 265 or 260X, do so as soon as you can. Keep in mind that there's no promise that the 265 will remain at a reasonable price, either.

tldr: The price of 750 Ti's will almost certainly rise significantly in the next few weeks, so buy one while you still can. Otherwise, go AMD.