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Electricity per million tokens on our local cards: from ~3.4¢ on a laptop GPU to ~58¢ on a pair of used 3080s

We put the board power and writing speeds measured through one formula to get the electricity cost of a million generated tokens, card by card, at one dated price (18.31¢/kWh, the U.S. residential average for July 2026). With gemma4:26b (a mixture of experts, about 4B parameters active per token):…

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  1. 2026-11-01 04:55 · r/LocalLLM
    Electricity per million tokens on our local cards: from ~3.4¢ on a laptop GPU to ~58¢ on a pair of used 3080s

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