In the late 2000s there was a push by a lot of businesses to not print emails and people use to add a ‘Please consider this environment before printing this email.’
Considering how bad LLMs/‘ai’ are with power consumption and water usage a new useless tag email footer should be made.
oh you are talking locally I think. I play games on my steamdeck as my laptop could not handle it at all.
Your steam deck at full power (15W TDP per default) equals 5 ChatGPT requests per hour. Do you feel guilty yet? No? And you shouldn’t!
Yup, and the deck can do stuff at an astounding low wattage, like 3W to 15W range. Meanwhile there’s gpus that can run at like 400W-800W, like when people used to use two 1080s SLI. I always found it crazy when I saw a guy running a system burning as much electricity as a weak microwave just to play a game, lol. Kept his house warm, tho.
The rule of thumb from data centers is every watt of compute equals 3 watts of energy consumption, 1 to power the thing and 2 to remove the 1 watt of heat, so high power components are really a ton of power