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Get ready for 200W GPUs. Now!

The next gen starts at 175W
By Charlie Demerjian
Sun Jul 30 2006, 18:46
ACCORDING TO PC WATCH, the next round of GPUs are going to be really smoking, not because they are fast, but because they suck power like it is going out of style.

If you read the article ( here and translated here), you will see the damage that will be done to the world's petroleum reserves.

The short story is this, G80 form Nvidia is looking to suck down 175W on a 90nm process, probably a bit less on 80nm. R600 from ATI is looking to take about 200W in 80nm, and less if they pull off a shrink to 65nm.

Either way, this is simply too much. The current 100+W is borderline insane, and adding half again to it is just silly, speed is OK, but I think we have just passed the point of being ludicrous. When you are at more than twice the power of the CPU, it is time to hit yourself on the head with the same high velocity cluestick that AMD and Intel have already experienced. µ

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