Quote Originally Posted by SKYMTL View Post
It's important to remember that core binning, voltage and PWM design have a huge impact upon overall TDP. Meanwhile, all of those PLUS heatsink performance / core heat has a profound effect upon power consumption.


The way I think of it is that NVIDIA can very well reduce core and memory voltage on hand-picked GPUs while implementing a high-end PWM design. This could in effect allow them to reduce per-GPU power consumption by a large amount.
Guess that could explain the claim that only Asus and EVGA will have cards at launch. As in, not enough highly binned chips to supply all brands.