power-consumption

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Hardware

a 5-year-old GPU still beats nvidia's newest budget card for local AI — here's the catch

24GB of old VRAM versus 16GB of new, low-power silicon — I ran the real math on what each one costs, up front and over a year.

Voltage · Aug 4 · 6 min

AI

what does it actually cost to run a local LLM? the electricity bill nobody calculates

Everyone talks about the GPU price, but a local AI rig has a running cost too. It's smaller than you fear — but if you're in Europe, it's not nothing. Here's the real math.

Voltage · Jul 28 · 9 min