>> Sadly the article didn't get into power draw too much.
They covered power quite a bit, but claimed the biggest power draw comes from memory access. I got the impression they were blaming AMDs increased memory bandwidth on their smaller cache size and hence a form of inefficiency. But higher frame rates are going to require more memory accesses. The smaller cache should have less impact on the number of writes needed. IMHO just some top line power consumption numbers are good, but trying to get into why one is higher than the other seems fruitless.
They covered power quite a bit, but claimed the biggest power draw comes from memory access. I got the impression they were blaming AMDs increased memory bandwidth on their smaller cache size and hence a form of inefficiency. But higher frame rates are going to require more memory accesses. The smaller cache should have less impact on the number of writes needed. IMHO just some top line power consumption numbers are good, but trying to get into why one is higher than the other seems fruitless.