NVIDIA GTX 595 (picture+Details)

[Mad Pistol]

GPUs have advanced many times more than CPUs in the same time period so that's not a fair comparison. If you make a personal choice to only purchase products with a given price or power envelope you would still see significant gains in performance each generation. It really shouldn't matter if the fastest products get hotter or louder as long as there is a wide range of products to choose from. Just pick the one that matches your needs!

So why is it that there is it that a $230 CPU can accept virtually any multi-GPU configuration and offer virtually no bottlenecks in gameplay? The Sandy Bridge i5/i7's are very powerful and offer up extremely high framerates if the GPU is fast enough to keep up with it.

Sorry, but I think GPUs are holding back current CPUs, and those CPUs are on dinky coolers too. In essence, a 300+ watt GPU is holding back a 95-watt CPU from reaching its full potential... something is wrong with that picture.




EDIT: Also, I'm aware of a GPUs compute capabilities. They are far greater than that of a CPU. Until more programs come out that actually use the power of a GPU in a useful way (folding and GRID is neat, but that's about it) it's really not a good example of how GPUs are being used.