New Processing CHIP for extreme gaming

[Coldfire]

The newest generation GPUs are all pretty cool. They are focusing on reducing the power usage now it seems. You can get a highend GPU that consumes less than 100W in games now.

[Antipika]

The newest generation GPUs are all pretty cool. They are focusing on reducing the power usage now it seems. You can get a highend GPU that consumes less than 100W in games now.

It's more like the processing power increased way faster than what's games are demanding nowadays. If you compare the most demanding games (GPU wise) of 2012/Crysis 1 (2007) with the most powerful GPU today and 5 years ago, you will see that GPU processing power moved on way faster.

So it's easier to have a good graphic card with a low TDP.

We also had a leap in resolution between 2002 and 2007, with 1920x1080 becoming rapidly a new standard. But between 2007 and today, 1920x1080 is still widely used and enthusiasts with 2560x1600 (or more) are really a minority so the needed processing power didn't increased much.

[Coldfire]

It's more like the processing power increased way faster than what's games are demanding nowadays. If you compare the most demanding games (GPU wise) of 2012/Crysis 1 (2007) with the most powerful GPU today and 5 years ago, you will see that GPU processing power moved on way faster.

So it's easier to have a good graphic card with a low TDP.

Don't start making the mistake of thinking TDP means power usage :P
Over the years they always increased the clock speeds while decreasing the structure sizes. Now the clock speeds are at a point where putting them any higher would increase the power consumption a whole lot. Same thing with CPUs.

[Antipika]

Don't start making the mistake of thinking TDP means power usage :P
Over the years they always increased the clock speeds while decreasing the structure sizes. Now the clock speeds are at a point where putting them any higher would increase the power consumption a whole lot. Same thing with CPUs.

When two cards or CPU of the same series, with the same architecture, have a different TDP, you can easily affirm that the card with the lowest TDP will draw less power. Also when the gap is really high (i.e. 20W TDP vs 250W TDP, you can blindly say that the first card will consume less power :])

Typical case, B3 Kentsfield vs G0 Kentsfield. 105W vs 95W. The G0 could achieve higher clocks with the same amount of power (or same speed with less power ).

So off course TDP != power drawn from the socket, it's heavily related on the architecture.

My Phenom II X4 has yet to fail me. Among other things, runs FFXIV like a charm >.>

It doesn't change the fact that you have paid for a CPU that have a worse performance/price ratio (and overclocking potential) than its Intel counterparts :s

No one ever said that AMD CPU cannot run XIV well, but it's been a while since AMD was ahead in high end CPU for gaming enthusiast.

the Intel hype is old if it is not an i7 go with AMD.

Well, Sandy Bridge i5 have a better $/performance ratio in games than i7. There is no point to buy a 2600K for gaming, 2500K do just as good (and can be overclocked more easily due to the lack of HT).

The 2500K was $215 at release, the 2600K was $300+... For a gain that was often not even noticeable in any game (<1fps).