Quote Originally Posted by LordEC911 View Post
40nm should allow them to shrink the core to ~220mm2, so +400mm2 for a dual GPU card.
It doesn't work like that. Look at G80->G92. It went from 90 to 65 (same steps as the GT200 shrink) BUT was still crazy big (320-330mm2) and that was with 2 64-bit mem controllers taken.


GT200 won't shrink well. At least the memory bus won't. Even with that out of the way (256 bit), they will still be seeing 350+mm^2 per chip (not the big deal) and 120-150W per chip (BIG deal)