it's possible, but idk why you would expect that. just to pick an arbitrary example since steve ran some recent tests, a 1080 ti is more or less equal to a 4060

it's possible, but idk why you would expect that. just to pick an arbitrary example since steve ran some recent tests, a 1080 ti is more or less equal to a 4060 in raster performance, but needs more than double the power and a much more die area to do it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghT7G_9xyDU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghT7G_9xyDU we do see power requirements on the high end parts every generation, but that may be to maintain the desired SKU price points. there's clearly some major perf/watt improvements if you zoom out. idk how much is arch vs node, but they have plenty of room to dissipate more power over bigger dies if needed for the high end.