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No more 16-pin 12VHPWR issues.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Or we could just return to GPU series where consumer models don't even go anywhere near that 600W figure and simply use one or two 8-pin PCIe power connectors and call it a day.

Consuming this much power for playing a game (and yes, that's what most people use these cards for) is just silly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

People keep buying the things, so there is no incentive go small.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

We went through a phase of high-power processors years ago with the Pentium 4 series and its offshoots, then things started getting more efficient instead. I wonder if we will soon see the same for GPUs or if we'll be stuck on a high-power plateau for a long time.