Quote Originally Posted by Sam_oslo View Post
To be honest, I don't know, and I don't care.
I don't think you know either, maybe you have heard from somebody somewhere. Then you repleted it until you believed it yourself.

Are you an engineer in nVidia'a R&D? Or are you directly involved in nVidias fabs? If not, how do you know? these guys keeps these stuff as a business secret.
Nowhere, nowhere you can see a official document that nVidia or AMD explain these stuff.

tell me how do got all these detail info about nVidia's biasness secret?
your taking the idea a little extreme,
finding the operating cost of a gpu is simply the cost of power consumption.
the future costs is determining if the card will drop quickly in price for if/when you plan to pick up a second, or if you plan to watercool it do you need a full cover block or will it do ok with a universal and some sinks on the vrms, or if you need to buy a deeper case because of the size, or more fans because it dumps air in the case instead of exhaust only.

i guess when you buy a car you only look at the horsepower and price, not how many doors it has (for when you have a family) or what the fuel mileage it gets, or how much the insurance cost is. same concept, different product.