https://ethereum.org/en/energy-consumption/
- Youtube 244 TWh/year
- Gold mining 240 TWh/year
- Bitcoin 200 TWh/year
- Ethereum PoW 112 TWh / year
- Netflix 94 TWh / year
- Gaming 34 TWh / year
- Paypal 0.26 TWh / year
- Ethereum PoS 0.01 TWh / year
The first one was standard pc and the motherboard with gpu looked tiny in it,
I got 3070 recently and it barely fits (with hdd cage still in place), it looks ridiculously big. The card is so big it comes with a special bracket to be mounted below to support its weight.
Those cards are not going down in price any more than they already are.
Also worth mentioning $1,000 in 2000 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $1,719.92 today, it feels like those cards are getting expensive but part of it is cost of inflation.
Nvidia really milked that cash cow.