Quote Originally Posted by Calmatory View Post
So the PEAK was 315, average something like 280 W, and this in a single benchmark run. Hence the card falls to the under 300 W in games.

My point is that there won't be a card which just uses more than 300 W constantly in games. Most probably there won't be a retail card exceeding Mars' power consumption. And as PCI-E standards should be backwards and forwards compatible, the 300 W standard limit isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

So, all in all, this means that GF100 X2 card won't be much more power hog than the current X2 cards.
Nvidia it self is promoting CPU-GPU software that means the GF100 cores will be used in higher percentage than games. Other than that the GF100 seems to have 8 + 6 instead of 6 + 6, if rumors are to be believed and GF100 does eat around 230W spread around 8 + 6 and PCIe slot the X2 would most likely have 8 + 8 instead of 8 + 6 used in GTX 295 "If a shrunk is not used"