NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 750 Ti, one of the first GPUs based on its next-generation “Maxwell” GPU architecture. First reports of the chip being based on “Maxwell” hit us by surprise as we presumed that a new micro-architecture is invariably pegged to NVIDIA’s foundry partner, TSMC, to launch its next-generation 20 nanometer silicon fabrication process. The fact that TSMC’s 20 nm node isn’t in a position to ship out such complex ASICs as graphics processors right now and that NVIDIA wouldn’t want its new architecture to in any way be hit by unforeseen issues arising out of the move to a new process may have led to the decision to use the existing 28 nanometer process.