lol where is the pic... http://www.meh.ro/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/meh.ro5395.jpg aah.. here it is.. seriously wtf is going on, just makes me think about what kind of trolls are behind that bs, and how innocent they are at computer parts knowledge jezzus

Will hit the likes of OcUK massively 😀

Actually the difference is the 320gb/s will be included ( as it was initially the case with the 2009 law, but 320gb/s (G7 strutcute ) was excluded at this time. ) ...

Yes it will be included. When and if gets added into Directive, and 30 months after that. God knows what happens in the meantime. Still, there is nothing there about GPU having upper bandwidth limit. But instead bandwidth is used merely as a mean of classification in energy consumption regulation, right? But you sound like you know more... Are you by any chance participating in these Brussels shenanigans :cop:

This is an old report from back in 2009 that has since been dropped. How is this even news?

The sooner we get a vote on our place in the EU the better for the UK. I know how I am voting, 100% out! For this I am now going to add another HD 5850 along with my current two and burn extra power, SCREW YOU EU!

I like your thinking sir! 😀

Sure but that'll be because we'll be sitting on current gen. performance for a long time just to suit the EU's standards. Considering this generation is pretty good when it comes to power/performance and still doesn't meet the requirements, we won't see decent performance cards each gen. They need to put more thought into their restrictions, the way they're doing it will ruin progress and the companies.

Nah, this will let them do refreshes of current gen like in the past, instead of trying to leap over the cards power every year. Aka the 8/9 GTX series and GTX 280/285 etc. I'd rather see something like to give devs a catch up period to let more people upgrade into DX11 hardware, instead of having to shell out 250+ every year for a new series of card because it has "new features".

It's extremely ignorant to based limitations on power by referencing the memory bandwidth. As technology advances, memory bandwidth will increase and power consumption will decrease. It would make more sense to limit energy consumption in general. NVidia did exceptionally well with the 600 series in regards to power consumption and I have no doubt that they're capable of further reducing power consumption... My issue is what it will cost consumers long term for them to keep pushing for lower power products. R&D isn't cheap to begin with and being forced into power constraints based on memory bandwidth will make it increasingly costly to develop GPUs. Sadly, I see other countries following suit if the EU manages to make this happen....as well as stricter power constraints in the future... Sad day when the EU decides it's more important to hinter innovation than to promote it... I thought the EU was better than that....

It's extremely ignorant to based limitations on power by referencing the memory bandwidth. As technology advances, memory bandwidth will increase and power consumption will decrease. It would make more sense to limit energy consumption in general.

BW is not the only spec used. They are mentioning cores, and RAM, and multi-GPU, and benchmarks, and this and that. It seems to be done by someone who knows the stuff. Besides this a working Regulation. And EU law isn't the Bible. Or the 2nd Amendment for that matter 🙂 Why are we even interested in phases of some EU Regulation on it's way of maybe, becoming a law one day? Because someone wrote that EU wants to stop GPUs going above 320 GB/s. Which is simply not true.