# nVidia's 3000 series cards

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**Created:** [September 2, 2020, 1:01pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/nvidias-3000-series-cards/264423 "2020-09-02T13:01:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![elitatwo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/elitatwo/32/373473_2.png) [@elitatwo](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/elitatwo)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2020, 2:14pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/nvidias-3000-series-cards/264423/24 "2020-10-21T14:14:20Z")

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> [@Ronja\_Green](#):
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> for 7 months a year electronics run at near zero waste.

I take it your electricity also is free of charge and you can use 12 hair dryers and vacuum cleaners all day.

There are countries in Europe where a household does need to pay for electricity.  
Compared to my old machine, a Core2Quad Q9600, running an AMD graphics card, which was a 200-500 Watts light bulp, my current machine, a Core I5 7500 and an AMD Radeon RX 480, running idle and using 50 Watts.  
Running EVE Online pushed that to 130 Watts or 185 Watts with Vulkan™.

In other words, I get much more processing power for a much cheaper electric bill.

How you would put efficiency into that comparison is up to you, I for one call that a fine piece of technology.

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