Commenting on: What is not mentioned about the Nvidia GF100 - power consumption, tesselation and manufacturing

The hype and FUD machine is ratcheting up to full speed for the released-sometime-this-spring Nvidia DirectX 11 card, the GF100, a.k.a. Fermi.  I’ve been reading the recently reported Nvidia specs and then someone pointed me to this article on SemiAccurate:  Nvidia GF100 pulls 280W and is unmanufacturable.

The gist of the article is:  The GF100 was never meant to be a graphics chip but rather a GPGPU compute “generalist” chip. In this new role as a GPU, the GF100 too costly to manufacture, too power hungry, and really is not equipped to do real-life gaming or professional rendering (but…