minus-squaremorrowind@lemmy.mltoTechnology@lemmy.world•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 electricitylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·15 hours agoThat’s a terrible metric. By this providers that maximize hardware (and energy) use by having a queue of requests would be seen as having more energy use. linkfedilink
minus-squaremorrowind@lemmy.mltoTechnology@lemmy.world•OpenAI will not disclose GPT-5’s energy use. It could be higher than past modelslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 day agoIt’s cheaper though, so very likely it’s more efficient somehow. linkfedilink
That’s a terrible metric. By this providers that maximize hardware (and energy) use by having a queue of requests would be seen as having more energy use.