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Handful of users claim new Nvidia GPUs are melting power cables again (arstechnica.com)
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At this point, it’s unclear whether the issues are one-offs or systemic.

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[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

The 8800 Ultra was 170 watts in 06

The GTX 280 was 230 in 08.

The GTX 480/580 was 250 in 2010. But then we got the GTX 590 dual GPU which more or less doubled

The 680 was a drop, but then they added the TIs/Titans and that brought us back up to high TDP flagships.

These cards have always been high for the time, but quickly that became normalized. Remember when 95 watt CPUs were really high? Yeah that's a joke compared to modern CPUs. My laptops CPU draws 95 watts.