eVGA GeForce GTX 750 "Maxwell" On Ubuntu Linux

When powering up the eVGA GeForce GTX 750 with the 334.16 Linux Beta the hardware support was in place just as it was with the GTX 750 Ti. No Linux issues were encountered in running the GeForce GTX 750 aside from the lack of overclocking support by NVIDIA's Linux graphics driver with Fermi, Kepler, and now Maxwell GPUs. Hopefully the overclocking support will come soon to the NVIDIA Linux graphics driver with it being supported already for earlier generations of GPUs via CoolBits.

See my GeForce GTX 750 Ti Linux review for more of my comments related to NVIDIA's Maxwell on Linux. Overall, everything is in great shape and it's the same story for the eVGA GTX 750.

Continuing on from where the GeForce GTX 750 Ti testing left off, the graphics cards benchmarked for this article were the:

- HIS AMD Radeon HD 6450 1024MB
- Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6700 1024MB
- Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6800 1024MB
- Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6900 2048MB
- ASUS AMD Radeon HD 7800 1024MB
- XFX AMD Radeon HD 7900 3072MB
- Sapphire AMD Radeon R7 260X 2048MB
- Sapphire AMD Radeon R7 270X 2048MB
- XFX AMD Radeon R9 290 4096MB
- XFX NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 1024MB
- ECS NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 512MB
- ECS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB
- eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 1024MB
- eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1024MB
- MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 1024MB
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2048MB
- eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 1024MB
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2048MB
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2048MB
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 2048MB
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN 6144MB
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3072MB

All testing happened from an Intel Core i7 4770K "Haswell" system running Ubuntu 13.10 x86_64 with the Linux 3.12 kernel and Unity 7.1.2 desktop. The automated, fully reproducible benchmarking was handled via the Phoronix Test Suite.