Quote Originally Posted by annihilat0r View Post
Because if a single + full Fermi is around 250W like being rumored, this means a dual fermi can pull only 50W faster than a single one, all the while being SLI. There's only a 40 percent overall difference between the 190W 5870 and the 300W 5970. So I figure it'll be much smaller in the case of GF100.
nvidia could just put 8165632 8-pin power connectors on the card so it can pull 1.21 gigawatts to deliver benchmarks scores before you even clicked start

ati deliberately chose to make their dual card <300w. nothing stops manufacturers from making cards that require more power