HakkerIt actually has better green credentials. Solar parks reflect more light than they absorb those also warming up the planet nor is production of the solar cells green for that regard. The same goes for the amount of birds that die by windmill farms. Nuclear is in fact greener than solar. Hydro is the cleanest of them all, but pretty limited in usage and has it's own environmental impacts.
Then you still have the problem of scaling your energy up or down. which is far more difficult with both options than with a nuclear plant. If you want the world to really go green then nuclear is an unavoidable power source at this time unless fusion power makes a breakthrough.

The problem with nuclear plants is that all people see is Chernobyl. A badly designed nuclear plant from the start and then they forget it happened because of bad management/operational error. At the same time it was somewhat a blessing in disguise because the world learned so enormously much from what not to do and it's implications of when it goes horribly wrong.

TheinsanegamerNWhy is that nonsense? Gaming is a wasteful hobby. Why do you need 150 watt to play bing bing wahoo? Hell why do you need 75 watt? The switch only pulls like 10 at load, that's all you need for video games.

You say it's nonsense because YOU want a GPU with more than 75w of capability. Funny how that works. Once you start down the road of "you dont need this", it WILL be taken to its logical extreme. Remember the UK's potato peeler license debacle?

I'd love to hear what this sensible argument for a NEED of GPUs more than 75 watt to play games with is.

No video card on the consumer side draws more than 1kW of power. Not even close. The highest was the 600w the 3090ti could tickle. If you're talking whole systems, buddy, SLI gaming PCS were pushing 2KW back in 2008. Somehow you all survived.

a 1kW card poses no more of a risk then a 500w card does, or a 300w card. If you have such an old building, you should be upgrading the wiring instead of buying GPUs to waste time gaming on.

Here in "rednek ville" we have modern 25 amp wiring with 20 amp breakers that can run a 5090 without burning the house down. Interesting that this is such a concern in the EU, with all those "very smart people" banning everything. Why are you even allowed to have a building with wiring that cant handle a 1000w load? That's literal knob and tube style wiring.

If you have such widespread problems with wiring, the solution is NOT to ban GPUs, because you're gonna have to ban fridges, microwaves, and vacuum cleaners too. What you SHOULD be doing is banning that old wiring. This is why the EU gets referred to as a "nanny state".

DavenHow do you get a 50% increase in performance between 5090 and 4090 with only a 33% increase in CUDA cores when the 4090 only beat the 4080 by 25% with a 67% increase in cores?

TheinsanegamerNAre we basing this bet on Nvidia's numbers, or on TPUs? If TPUs when does the card actually release?

TheinsanegamerNNo, the 5090 is not a "professional" card. It doenst have fully enabled FP output nor does it have ECC memory or pro driver support. It DOES have 32 GB of memory, because its got a 512 bit bus and the only other option would be 16GB, which would have sent the internet into a hysterical frenzy. As a side benefit, you can tinker with LLM and AI image generation on this. Yay!

If you cant afford or dont want a 5090 that's fine, go buy a 5070 and enjoy your game library. Or a RX 9070. Or a intel B580. I swear, if people whined like this a decade ago we never would have gotten anything larger than a GTX 550ti.

• No, the 4090 already DOES have ECC, just not enabled in the control panel by default...no doubt the 5090 will too :). It most definitely can be a professional card, what you can do, professionally speaking, with a 5090 will be pretty advanced. Just like it is today for the 4090...you will tell me that the ECC on the 4090 was for gaming too ?.
• The GDDR7 speed is very relevant and important here but for me you got it back-ways: it's 512-bits because it has 32GB of memory, just like the 24GB (12 x 2GB/32bits) of the 4090 makes it 384bits. We are really not bandwidth saturated on a 4090 at 4K. Unless MFR is ultra intensive on the bandwidth, I fail to see why...But my main point you kinda missed is that we either have 16GB...And 256bit on the 5080 (but slightly faster memclock to compensate apparently) or 32GB/512 on the 5090, it's really a big shame that there's no in-between here like a 24GB/384bit 5080ti or something. It's the lack of choice, 16GB is not enough for me, it's not future proof for 4K/High, yet, 32GB is too much for gaming and I suspect it's for AI and the stocks will be depleted because of it.