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GT200 thermal design power (TDP) is 250W

by on04 February 2008

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The hottest card ever?


Nvidia's upcoming GT200, a single chip high-end card, scheduled for the second half of 2008, will have one hell of a hot chip.

At 65nm, things will heat up, especially if you put more than a billion transistors together. Such a card will have a thermal design power of 250W, which is even more than the R600, which is the hottest chip of our time and has a TDP of 230W to 240W.

The thermal design power (TDP) number is usually the worst possible scenario and we know that the R600 had a dual slot cooler and Nvidia doesn’t have any choice but to do the same. Water cooling would be the best for such a card, but we are sure that the reference GT200 comes with air-cooling.

Of course, GT200 cards will come after the soon-to-be-launched Geforce 9800 GX2 card that should premiere by early March.


Last modified on 05 February 2008
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