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NVIDIA's RTX 5090 graphics card costs $2,000 (www.engadget.com)
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The first salvo of RTX 50 series GPU will arrive in January, with pricing starting at $549 for the RTX 5070 and topping out at an eye-watering $1,999 for the flagship RTX 5090. In between those are the $749 RTX 5070 Ti and $999 RTX 5080. Laptop variants of the desktop GPUs will follow in March, with pricing there starting at $1,299 for 5070-equipped PCs.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (23 children)

The prices are high, but what really is shocking are the power consumption figures. The 5090 is 575W(!!), while the 5080 is 360W, 5070Ti is 300W, and the 5070 is 250W.

If you are getting one of these, factor in the cost of a better PSU and your electric bill too. We're getting closer and closer to the limit of power from a US electrical socket.

[–] pishadoot 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (16 children)

1000W PSU pulls max 8.3A on a 120v circuit.

Residential circuits in USA are 15-20A, very rarely are they 10 but I've seen some super old ones or split 20A breakers in the wild.

A single duplex outlet must be rated to the same amperage as the breaker in order to be code, so with a 5090 PC you're around half capacity of what you'd normally find, worst case. Nice big monitors take about an amp each, and other peripherals are negligible.

You could easily pop a breaker if you've got a bunch of other stuff on the same circuit, but that's true for anything.

I think the power draw on a 5090 is crazy, crazy high don't get me wrong, but let's be reasonable here - electricity costs yes, but we're not getting close to the limits of a circuit/receptacle (yet).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

How far out are we from gpus that also dry your laundry

[–] pishadoot 1 points 2 weeks ago

I mean, if you could use the GPU exhaust as your dryer heating element that would be dope

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