Quote Originally Posted by metro.cl View Post
GTX 280 TDP is 236Watts but this seems to be inflated, as many reviews show a lot less.
I think it's because most games don't stress the GPU completely. The few GTX's that had overheating problems would skyrocket to 105 degrees before shutting down, but only in certain games and in Vantage I think did it as well. So that seems like the GPU is often not 100% stressed, maybe due to CPU bottlenecks.