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RTX 3080 draws up to 350 watts max.
Energy cost varies wildly per location.
Looking at: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/cost-of-electricity-by-country
Sidenote 1: Even within the two countries above, there's going to be massive regional differences, but we're just looking at the averages
Sidenote 2: Other places may have cheaper electricity (e.g. Argentina at 0.08USD per kWh) but that's only half the story since the people there make a lot less money so it still takes up a significant cost for them.
Running the card at those costs 24x7 is:
So a little bigger than:
Going further, assuming an average 4 year card lifespan, that's:
Good job on doing the math on those .01% of users pulling actually 350w running a Bitcoin mine. You definitely proved me wrong with this massive edge case that went beyond my napkin math point to demonstrate the absurdity.
Autistic kids missing the forrest for the tree. Name a better pair.
Also note, since we are going off the deep end pedantic nerd shit, 'average user' while you are out there maxing the delta with edge cases.
You're the one who said 24/7
If you were off by even one order of magnitude, I'd say you have a point... But you were off by several orders of magnitude.
Not sure why it makes them autistic for checking your shit math.
One day someone will issue a mea culpa when caught chatting shit on the internet but today is not that day.