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A while ago I subscribed to and regularly read Jeff Attwood's CodingHorror.com blog where he spends a lot of time talking about the horror of bad design and code. Once in a while Jeff talks about hardware and throws out some interesting ditties. In his recent hardware related post Jeff says: "With the release of Intel's Core Duo and Core Duo 2 chips, it's finally happened-- mainstream video card GPUs are about to overtake CPUs as the largest consumers of power inside your PC". The post is chalked full of statistics and pretty graphs showing you power consumption of mainstream video cards and CPUs.
It will be interesting to see how the video card market responds to their power consumption issues. What magic does AMD have up their sleeve with the purchase of ATI? They were quick to say they will have CPU and GPU integration and lower power consumption. Will Intel get back into the video card game? An insider's theory says "Yes". What will Intel do though? With their new CPUs and motherboards, will they too merge the GPU and CPU or will they make lower power consumption graphic cards using Core 2 Duo technologies? |
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