Comment on ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity

Melonpoly@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  A standard dryer is more like 2-5kWh for a load… Far more than 40Wh.

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• morto@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Maybe you're mixing Wh with kWh, but still, 40Wh is a lot for a single request

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  • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Roughly the capacity of a laptop battery, a huge amount of energy per request.

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    • macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      A very small laptop battery.

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  • Melonpoly@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah I think I have

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• LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  40 watt-hours? That’s the energy usage of a very small laptop.

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  • Dremor@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Imagine if you had to empty your whole lnaptop battery every time you had to generate a 20 response that may not even be correct… That’ll end up consuming power really fast.

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  • jj4211@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Well over the course of an hot or two, but it’s correct that a dryer run even with heat pump is significantly more than 40wh

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    • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The original commenter said they mixed up wh and Kwh.

      My entire house uses under 40Kwh a day, and it’s winter where I am at the moment.

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