Intel Launches Arc A580: A $179 Graphics Card for 1080p Gaming
Intel Launches Arc A580: A $179 Graphics Card for 1080p Gaming
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That power consumption though... The price difference against the 3050 will be eaten up by the electricity bill really fast
If my math is right, the 50W difference, at my power rate of $0.15/kWh, will take 2666 hours and 40 minutes to make up the $20 difference in price.
In europe that situation will be wildly different. Here in germany you won't get under 0.50$/kWh (edit: more like .30 now) so it's more like 500 to 800 hours
Edit 2: wow, thanks for the hint! I just halved my prices by switching
wait what? i'm paying ~0.30$/kwh at the moment in germany
Dang! I must have missed the prices dropping. I'll change my subscription then i guess
I'm at about 27ct.
Those were last year's prices during the height of the energy crisis. I was paying 0.60€/kWh last year (new contract). I renegotiated this year and got it lowered to about 0.27€/kWh.
Germany is an outlier though. Most of Europe is around 10 cents. Today's price in Finland is <0.5 cents.
True, but that's still on the order of time that you may never reach the price difference in the lifespan of the GPU.
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I switched to a half hourly tracker earlier this year. So it's like 10-15p/kWh (and sometimes as low as negative so they pay you to use the electricity) and jumping to 30-40p between 4pm and 7pm.
As someone working from home with pretty much constant electricity use all day, it's saved me tons.
Could you give me a name? Which provider?
Octopus. I think the plan is just called Agile Octopus.
I think the price goes up over winter, so might be worth switching in and out of it depending on the time of year.
I live in a rural part of the US (Which is honestly most of it) and electricity runs about $0.12/kWh. Ya'lls prices are mind blowing. Especially since we heat with electric heat pumps. At those rates my electric bill would be about $625/mo instead of $250/mo.
That's only one gaming session!
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Yikes, in Québec we have hydro electricity that's owned by the government, everyone gets the first 40kWh of the day at 0.065$CAD and the rest is like 0.10CAD. I think the energy situation in Europe is too dependent on private companies that decide what price they want between each other and they agree to keep the prices high, kind of like here we have that with internet and cell service..