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haxxiy said:

JEMC said:

It's incredible how much do Intel, AMD and Nvidia push their products away from their sweet spot in terms of efficiency just for a relatively small increase in performance. As those test show, Nvidia could have easily toned down the card a bit and still offer a huge leap in performance while being a marvel of efficiency.

It's no wonder overclocking the newer CPUs and GPUs is almost pointless.

I mean, it has always been kind of like this, with few exceptions, due to the quadratic relation between voltage and power consumption. It's just far more noticeable now due to the latter reaching ludicrous levels.

(And in the 80s and early 90s CPUs consumed like 10 Watts...)

You're likely right and it's just that we, or I, didn't notice it as much because, well, there weren't as many reviews and tests available as there are now.

Still, they're pushng a bit too much for my liking.