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Compared to past cards, these behemoths aren't the equivalent of a top-end car. They are the equivalent of an oil tanker: slow, wasteful, and while yes, you mig

Compared to past cards, these behemoths aren't the equivalent of a top-end car. They are the equivalent of an oil tanker: slow, wasteful, and while yes, you might sometimes need to harness the power offered by one of these, as a private individual you definitely want something whose fuel efficiency is not measured in hundreds of tons of fuel per day. Besides all that, releasing "consumer" cards with such overly inefficient power consumption is just being tone-deaf at a time where half of the Western world is facing rapidly rising electricity bills.

paulmd 4y ago
where are people getting this idea that the cards are "inefficient fuel tankers"? https://tpucdn.com/review/nvidia-geforce-rtx-4090-founders-edition/images/power-gaming.png https://tpucdn.com/review/nvidia-geforce-rtx-4090-founders-e... https://tpucdn.com/review/nvidia-geforce-rtx-4090-founders-edition/images/energy-efficiency.png https://tpucdn.com/review/nvidia-geforce-rtx-4090-founders-e... in contrast to the breathless rumors, those power numbers look incredibly reasonable... it's less than the 3090 pulled last gen, and it's 1.7x the perf/w of a 3080 or 2x the efficiency of a 3090. 3090 was always known to be pushed a little far, but, there is an easy 70% uplift in efficiency here, and none of the power-creep stuff ended up actually happening. 4090 Ti will eventually happen, and will pull about the same as 3090 Ti. Which, if it gets 1.7-2x the perf/w, sounds fine.