Mar 3 2007, 08:22 PM
QUOTE(Najmods @ Mar 3 2007, 07:42 PM)
Believe it, it will kept growing, and you can't simply compare to CPU. All those pixel processor, stream processor and 1GB of memory sucking tons of power. Its inevitable and unavoidable, you want ultimate power, you have to make ultimate sacrifice (new PSU, more sophisticated cooling etc). No matter how much noise we make about this issue, they will simply ignore it and still release this beast. Buy midrange cards if you cant keep up with the heat, or get out of nuclear reactor
I still remember the good old days, how simple past high-end card was, especially the GF4 Ti-4600, great speed and simple single slot cooling, and midrange GF4 Ti-4200 can simply be overclocked to Ti-4600. I don't believe future high end card gonna be the same
Practically, that cannot happens. I mean yes, requirement will go up, but eventually engineers will have to find a solution to it, it cannot keep growing no holds barred. engineers will not ignore it because if your competitors can come up with one that doesn't need a nuclear reactor power supply and a vacuume for cooling, you're heading for a doom. Remember how 5800Ultra was blasted for its loud cooling solution.I still remember the good old days, how simple past high-end card was, especially the GF4 Ti-4600, great speed and simple single slot cooling, and midrange GF4 Ti-4200 can simply be overclocked to Ti-4600. I don't believe future high end card gonna be the same
This is what designing new hardware architecture is all about. Everything including power consumption have to be taken into account. It all sums up to efficiency. Growing in performance with a equal growth in power requirement will means there's absolutely no improvement in its efficiency.
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