In April this year, techpowerup website conducted a survey on readers, and the question was "is high power consuming components a problem for you?", As a result, 22040 responses were received The survey results show that an overwhelming 85.5% of readers (PC gamers and enthusiasts) disagree with the high power consumption of PC components
This occurs when the power consumption of key components such as processors and independent graphics cards increases from generation to generation. Although the transition to smaller and smaller manufacturing nodes, Moore's law cannot keep up with the progress of performance and functions. 85.5% of the respondents voted "yes", and their reasons were very diverse.
- The question of voting on. Com is not a binary "yes" or "no"; People can vote "yes" for different reasons, including electricity, heat, noise and the environment. 33.5% of the respondents believed that electricity (energy cost) was the biggest reason for them to choose yes. Heat is the second largest factor, and 28.5% of people think they do not want high energy consuming components, because electricity has a direct impact on heat, and all these heat are put in the room.
The third place is noise, accounting for 12.2%. Greater cooling requirements have an impact on system noise. Interestingly, only 11.3% of people voted that they care about the environment, so they have a problem with high power consumption components. According to the survey, 14.5% of people said they did not care about high energy consuming components at all.
When techpowerup tracks the power consumption trend of two key components, processor and graphics card. Geforce GTX 980 ti is the fastest consumer graphics card launched by NVIDIA in 2015. Under the game workload at that time, it only consumed 211w of power, while the power consumption of GTX 1080 Ti tested in 2017 was 231w. In 2018, the RTX 2080 Ti consumed 273w for the games at that time, while the current RTX 3090 Ti consumes up to 445 watts for today's games.
These cards have been tested in different system settings, using different driver software and games, which is why techpowerup cannot put data on the chart, but they still help explain the problem of rising power consumption of graphics cards. If Moore's law is correct, the performance of the new architecture should have a generation of growth, and the power growth can be ignored, because the chip manufacturing process transitions to a new node, the transistor density increases, and the power characteristics improve. However, this did not happen.