What happened to video cards /g/?

>>56620389
Gamers.

>>56620389
They became more powerful.

Just as early processors didn't need any cooling at all.

>>56620411
this

I remember how the first Pentiums were regarded as blast furnaces because they needed a 50mm fan on the heatsink, with their enormous 20-watt TDP.

>>56620389
>7.2 billion transistors crammed into one chip
>why does it run not?

>>56620397
>>56620411
Both of these are correct haha.
They're more powerful, but they're also less efferent pushing the power of the card past lesser cooling means, heat is energy-loss.

>>56620389
It's as energy efficient as it gets.

>>56620533
It's not about power. Those retarded enormous cooling setups are gamers and morons.

>>56620389
People realized they're better at crunching (floating point) numbers than general purpose CPUs

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>>56620389
>Why do the laws of thermodynamics exist xD?

They make ITX versions of most cards and even laptop versions of GTX 1080s.

They are slapping on LEDs and massive 3 fan monsters because that's what "gamers" want.

Hell they could make most cards in small formats like the fury or nano but gamers want xbox hueg GPUs.

Even the GTX 1060 could be much smaller but Nvidia slapped on an epeen extender because that's what gamers want.

>>56620908
>model numbers of desktop and laptop cards indicating they're anywhere close to each other in performance
Top kek
Clearly you weren't aware of the 8800GTX renaming department of NVIDIA, and that just applies to desktop chips (for that specific example)

>>56620908
>>56620659
>>56620397
>>56620533
these posters are literally retarded and failed high-school physics.

>>56620659
If that's true, take yours off and report back.

>>56620960
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>>56620964

>>56620964
>>56620986
This guy gets it. The thermal/power envelopes of modern cards are totally fucking different. Cases evolved too.

AGP 3.0 can supply 48.25 watts.
PCI-e 2.0 can supply 150w directly from the motherboard.

But gamers demanded better performance, and were willing to have wider fans, fatter (two slot) cards, more robust (powerful) PSUs, etc... so we made the 6 pin GPU connector. Then we needed more power, so more of them were added.

Gamers have willingly sacrificed the power/thermal efficiency of GPUs for more performance, quicker. That's why cards got bigger and fatter.

Anyone claiming otherwise is ignorant, and as the posts I replied to said, go ahead: if you think it's "bling", remove the fat fan/heatsink assembly from your card and replace it with something resembling cards from 2003. (Spoiler alert: You WILL destroy your card thermally, if it doesn't thermally throttle/shutdown itself in seconds).

>>56621121
>PCI-e 2.0 can supply 150w directly from the motherboard

No it can't. The limit is 75W from the PCIe slot.

>>56621156
Mea culpa, you are correct. The 150W figure is only accurate with the PCIE slot + 6 pin.

The point still stands: We keep adding power connectors + increasing the requirements because the cards now actually draw more power, which means more heat, which means we have to get more heat off the card, meaning bigger heatsinks and fans.

>>56620964
You're a complete and utter moron.

>>56621517
noice, rekt him gud

>>56621197
>meaning bigger heatsinks and fans.
Obviously, but to the point of gamer shit.

>>56621667
Video cards advance only for the sake of gaming.
The whole IT sector only works for the sake gaming and social media.

If there was no gaming you'd still be using core duo with an nvidia 610.