Tends to vary on each generation. The main thing the companies aim for what they thing is a good gaming performance and they tend to crank up the power accordingly. The current crop of cards use a lot of power to achieve a good hike in performance over the last generation. But there is trouble ahead, lol. It used to be the smaller the individual components on the chip, the less power they use, but this is reaching a limit now. Chips are so compact now that the very nature of the universe is getting in the way and they are getting hotter and hotter. It does make you wonder what the future is, if each generation is going to waste more power than the last.
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GPU Power Consumption Question
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Tends to vary on each generation. The main thing the companies aim for what they thing is a good gaming performance and they tend to crank up the power accordingly. The current crop of cards use a lot of power to achieve a good hike in performance over the last generation. But there is trouble ahead, lol. It used to be the smaller the individual components on the chip, the less power they use, but this is reaching a limit now. Chips are so compact now that the very nature of the universe is getting in the way and they are getting hotter and hotter. It does make you wonder what the future is, if each generation is going to waste more power than the last.
