Quote Originally Posted by joshd View Post
I don't understand how this has a 250W TDP, and the very similar Tesla core has a 225W TDP, and yet runs at 1.4GHz with the same number of compute cores?
the bad yields force them to use chips that should have been gtx470's or lower. it requires higher voltages to reach the same frequency. also tesla has the graphics core turned off so it is just shaders, 448 to be exact.