Comparable to a CPU's power? It's higher than most CPU's! Most consumers are running CPU's with 40-60W of power consumption.
Now, considering that they are trying to dump 75W of heat, isn't it amazing that they were able to do it in that constrained form factor? There isn't much space in even two PCI slots compared to the space above and around a CPU. PC's use a huge heatsink, a larger fan, more space around the CPU, and they use a large exhaust channel in the shape of a PSU. Frankly, I'm amazed that nVidia made something work with only air cooling.
The GeForceFX GPU is begging for water and/or peltier cooling to make it run like it wants to. However, the memory speeds probably wouldn't overclock enough to keep a highly overclocked GPU well fed.
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