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Worst PC hardware trends that disappeared (www.xda-developers.com)
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[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

They are. GTX 590 from 2011 has a TDP of 375W. RTX 4080 has 320W, while offering over ten times better performance. 4060 outperforms the 1060, 2060 and 3060 while having a lower TDP than any of them.

If you want low TDP, the RX 6400 is twice as powerful as the 590 while having a TDP of 53W.

It's the very top of the line stuff like 4090 that push the limit by achieving that very last 10% performance bump at the cost of using double the power, and that's kinda like complaining a Bugatti Veyron gets terrible highway MPG figures.