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With a power consumption of that magnitude, no wonder power grids are buckling everywhere. People's hunger for power is seemingly insatiable.
by Victerius 4y ago
With a power consumption of that magnitude, no wonder power grids are buckling everywhere. People's hunger for power is seemingly insatiable.
- CyberDildonics 4y agoPower grids are not buckling everywhere. Also this card uses less than a third of a single space heater. Finally, this card has not been released yet, so it isn't causing anything.
- db48x 4y agoAccording to the Steam Hardware Survey (which you can view for yourself at <https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...>), the RTX 3090 makes up less than 0.48% of all video cards in use by gamers. The 450W power figure is for the new RTX 4090, which will no doubt take a while to reach even that level. It might be nice to have more information than that, but it honestly doesn’t seem like a huge problem. Your fridge probably costs you more over a year than even a 4090. See also air conditioning.
- Sohcahtoa82 4y agoThe power grid is only crumbling in places where political corruption is blocking fixing the grid. See Texas.