Than previous Nvidia cards
We got some thin information on Nvidia Fermi and our sources
have strong reasons to believe that Fermi will probably end up hotter than the previous single chip
generation, including Geforce GTX 285.
Fermi is a big chip, so this doesn't come as much surprise. As
long as it runs stable, people won’t complain about it too much. We’ve seen the
card in person at least twice so far and we can tell that the first one we saw has
a dual-slot air cooler and runs quite hot. However, this might not be the final
revision that should ship later this quarter.
You can only imagine how hot the dual-GPU card will get, and yet
Nvidia still plans to make it.