GPUs Over the past year have gotten a lot smaller. 80nm, 65nm, now 55nm. Some of the chips in today's video cards are about the size of a dime.
The chips are getting smaller but why do we today still have enthusiast level video cards that are 9 inches long or even longer? Why aren't the size of the cards shrinking in portion to the chips? Out side of the GPU chip what else is the Video card board comprised of that makes it so large?
This is probably a retarded topic that few if any will have an answer too but it was just something I was wondering today.
well if you look at the PCB you will see lots o flittle things like resistors, and capacitors, and what not...I'm sure they has something to do with it.
The pcb has to have more connects, capacitors like was said. In other words, going from 200,000,000 transistors to over 700,000,000 , all these have to have pathways . More transistors= more pathways. Im not sure, but the memory density hasnt changed either, plus were using more of that as well. And since the makers of the cards are wrining out every bit of performance, of course they get hot, so the cooling solutions are the same
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