• SunDevil@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    “Capable of drawing 28,000,000 watts of power” doesn’t tell us anything. As was noted, it should’ve been given in megawatts (28 mW) or kilowatts (28,000 kW). Clickbait aside, how many kilowatt-hours (kWh) does it actually use?

    28 mW isn’t that much energy, relatively speaking. As of 2015, Forbes estimated LV uses 8000 mW on an average summer day.

    The potential is impressive. I doubt it pulls anywhere near that. Unless I did my math wrong, this seems sensationalist.

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      4 months ago

      I don’t get it, are they implying that each GPU can draw 200kW? a home is like 10 max. Wtf is a gpu that can consume more power than 20 homes? Mine at home draws peak 300W…

      Each of those GPUs feature over 10,752 cores, 48 GB of memory and have a 300 W TDP, for a grand total of 1,612,800 cores, 7,200 GB of GDDR6 memory, and a potential maximum power draw of 45,000 W at full tilt (via Wccftech).

      ok, monster gpus, got it.

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      4 months ago

      Just Fyi, mW is milliwatts, and MW is megawatts. Agreed though, I doubt it draws that much day to day.