You do realize that cooler GPU means it's less effective to mine with a GPU and thus we practically waste our hardware resources, right...?
We have our relatively expensive hardware (with it's own price amortization over time) which is partially idle during X11 mining.
Of course, it's absolutely not a problem in practice if GPUs are still better than anything else available and every GPU miners have a very similar speed penalty (nobody can utilize the full raw power of his/her GPU better than others). But it's technically still inefficiency which is never good, only neutral at best.
So, instead of a feature, it's more like a bug which doesn't need to be fixed. It's not an improvement but a neutral thing with a possibility to become a negative thing.
Wow I'm amazed at this pure nonsense.
1 - Less GPU intensive != less effective
2 - Less GPU intensive = lower energy consumption, that's a better energy efficiency
3 - Less GPU intensive = "our relatively expensive hardware", like you said, lasts longer
You spend less on your electricity bill and you can keep your hardware longer, even resell it at a good price. What are you complaining about ?
Haters gonna hate.
X11 different perspective. Summertime heat not an issue. Less electric consumed. Less noise. Rig works 24/7 for weeks without a hick-up, prolonged lifespan etc.
Winter. a Truly excellent virtually silent heater, that makes a profit.
Ineffective? Inefficient? Neither. DRK get sent and get received without issue, 2.5 minutes flat. 100% effective and efficient.
Optimised is the word you're looking for.
He's not a hater guys, relax. He just says that, obviously, if the GPU was processing full time it would not be consuming half the energy. CPUs for example don't have this less-heat-issue-at-full-load so, apparently, it's not the algo itself, but rather the GPU implementation of the algo.
Could it be improved? Perhaps, but then we'd all consume more energy. So as far as noone has a much better GPU miner we are all better off. The problems start with FPGAs and ASICs when the pressure for more optimized GPU miners will mount.
We'll have to see what nvidia can do with cuda too... perhaps cuda might be better suited to x11 than amd/opencl.