> “The base leakage is lower than the previous technology, but the overall total power is higher,” said Melika Roshandell, product management director at Cadenc

> “The base leakage is lower than the previous technology, but the overall total power is higher,” said Melika Roshandell, product management director at Cadence. “So at the end of the day, your thermal is going to be worse because you’re packing a lot more transistors into one IC and you’re pushing the performance. So why not match the previous gen's TDP and just use whatever gains you get from more efficiency? Back in the 90s 300W was considered extreme for an entire system, today just a single 4090 can pull a full kilowatt. This constant increase manufacturers have been pushing to compensate for diminishing returns is unsustainable and completely absurd.