Quote Originally Posted by informal View Post
Yeah you could be right . But first,we would have to see the mysterious 580 card and then it would have to beat old 5970 in performance ("max. power draw king" title is going to 580 in this match for sure).
I believe that there's not much to push anymore, some cards(For example 5970 and GTX 480) already exceed 300 W load under some situations. Still, it's possible that they optimize the power draw in such way that the average/typical load increases while the max/peak load remains ~300 W. This requires some engineering, it's not simple.