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Explore GPU history

Follow the evolution from desktop graphics cards to data-center accelerators. Explore the hardware behind GPU names such as RTX 4090 and H100, then compare measured AI speeds where the model and workload match.

Explore the evolution of GPUs

From desktop cards and integrated Mac systems to data-center accelerators: explore 220 sourced variants and configurations. Choose a point or browse a device to inspect its evidence. Hardware history is available regardless of whether a compatible AI benchmark exists.

Include any selected hardware category

Categories use OR inclusion: a device matching any checked category appears once. Mac systems also count as Personal and Integrated. Personal covers consumer, prosumer, mobile and workstation records; Integrated currently covers reviewed Mac systems and the MI300A APU. Other filters narrow the included devices.

2014–2026

220 devices to explore · 192 plotted · 28 without a verified date

Manufacturer memory capacity (GB) · logarithmic scale (base 2)

Specifications captured October 2026, placed at sourced announcement or catalog launch dates. Mac and MI300A values describe shared CPU/GPU memory; discrete cards use dedicated GPU memory. These are not launch-day snapshots, guaranteed model capacity or measured AI performance. The year axis stays linear. Horizontal marks preserve quarter/year ranges; points sit at their midpoint.

481632641282565122014201620182020202220242026Announcement / manufacturer catalog launch year

Scroll the chart horizontally to explore later years, or use Browse hardware below.

NVIDIA: circles · AMD: squares · Intel: triangles · Apple: diamonds. Device names and actual-unit values are also available below. Missing dates/specifications remain unknown, never zero; they stay browsable but unplotted. Logarithmic scaling uses positive values only.

NVIDIA H100 SXM 80GB

Market / scope
Data center · accelerator. Capacity is per physical device/module, not an eight-GPU server.
Memory capacity
80 GB · dedicated GPU memory. Advertised capacity is not guaranteed model-usable memory.
Peak bandwidth
3,350 GB/s · manufacturer peak physical-memory specification
Announcement
2022-03-22. A manufacturer date is not independent confirmation of first shipping; family announcements need not establish every later configuration.

Single physical GPU/module; power is manufacturer specification, not workload measurement. October is expected initial partner-system rollout, not verified universal availability.

Hardware sources and exact locators

This selected catalog covers reviewed GPU/accelerator variants and Mac system configurations from 2014 onward, with some dates unknown. It is not a complete history, stock list or software compatibility list. Market tags are source-based groupings, not evidence of interchangeable memory or model capability. Data-center specifications do not establish home-system suitability.

From a small computer to a server rack

Explore complete computers, then inspect the assumptions behind larger inference and training scenarios. Prices are US USD, checked 18 October 2026, excluding tax and shipping. Listed hardware, quotes and hypothetical totals keep separate labels.

Configuration 1 of 14: Mac mini M5 Pro ·64 GB

Mac mini M5 Pro ·64 GB

Sourced hardware

Preorder · lead time qualified below

Compact macOS desktop. Exact B&H SKU Z1UD00080 is preorder / coming soon, with no delivery date shown.

Price / basis
$3,199

Complete 18-core CPU / 20-core GPU, 64 GB, 1 TB configuration

B&H · Exact retailer listing

Tax / shipping excluded; listing is not stock confirmation.

Memory scope

64 GB unified system memory · systemShared CPU / GPU / OS memory; usable model capacity is workload-dependent.

Storage
1 TB
CPU / GPU
M5 Pro 18-core CPU;20-core Apple GPU
OS / software
macOS; MLX / Metal runtime support must be checked. CUDA-only workflows need another backend.
Power
155 W manufacturer maximum continuous power; not measured inference draw.
Included / upgrades
Power cord included; display / input devices separate. Memory chosen at purchase; external storage expansion.
Other entry configurations
M6: 16 GB / 256 GB, 12 CPU / 12 GPU from $899; M5 Pro: 24 GB / 512 GB, 15 CPU / 16 GPU from $1,699. Official launch starting prices, not prices for this 64 GB SKU.

Limits and additional costs

  • A standalone desk needs a monitor, keyboard and mouse. Illustrative allowance $300–$700, separate from machine price.
  • One-year Apple US limited warranty; optional coverage, backup storage and electricity extra.
Configuration sources

Compare selected configurations

2 of 3 selected

Choose up to three using each card’s checkbox. This compares purchase/configuration evidence, not measured speed or guaranteed model capability.

Selected complete computers and scenarios, preserving price basis, memory domain, availability and assumptions
EvidenceMac mini M5 Pro ·64 GBAlienware Aurora RTX 5070
Evidence classSourced hardwareSourced hardware
AvailabilityPreorder · lead time qualified belowListed · stock/delivery unverified
Price / basis$3,199

Complete 18-core CPU / 20-core GPU, 64 GB, 1 TB configuration

B&H · Exact retailer listing

Tax / shipping excluded; listing is not stock confirmation.

$3,079.99

Complete tower;32 GB DDR5 RAM, 12 GB GDDR7 VRAM, 1 TB SSD

Dell · Manufacturer sale listing

Tax / shipping excluded. Not a lowest-price survey or GPU-only price.

Memory

64 GB unified system memory · systemShared CPU / GPU / OS memory; usable model capacity is workload-dependent.

32 GB host RAM · systemSystem RAM is separate from GPU VRAM.

12 GB dedicated GPU memory · per gpu · 1 devicesOne card; system RAM is not an equally fast extension of VRAM.

Compute / workflow

CPU / GPU: M5 Pro 18-core CPU;20-core Apple GPU

OS / software: macOS; MLX / Metal runtime support must be checked. CUDA-only workflows need another backend.

CPU / GPU: Intel Core Ultra 7 265KF, 20-core; NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

OS / software: Windows 11 Home; CUDA. Verify current Blackwell-compatible drivers / packages.

Power / cooling

Power: 155 W manufacturer maximum continuous power; not measured inference draw.

Power / Cooling: 1000 W included PSU rating;240 mm liquid CPU cooler. PSU rating is not continuous wall draw.

Storage1 TB1 TB
AssumptionsNo hypothetical setup assumedNo hypothetical setup assumed
Limits / other costsA standalone desk needs a monitor, keyboard and mouse. Illustrative allowance $300–$700, separate from machine price. One-year Apple US limited warranty; optional coverage, backup storage and electricity extra.Illustrative monitor / cable allowance $200–$500; separate from listed tower price. VRAM is fixed on the selected card. Multi-GPU support is not assumed; check regional power / cords, ventilation and support.

Unified system memory, host RAM and dedicated GPU memory are different resources. Capacity alone does not establish model fit, speed or quality. Proprietary model services do not establish downloadable weights or self-hosted hardware requirements. Rack power, cooling, networking, facility support and operation costs require their own evidence and quotes.

Choose a comparable workload

These selectors control apples-to-apples benchmark comparisons. Hardware that fits your budget and supports your software comes first when choosing what to buy.

Workload labels show actual input / returned output tokens, then context capacity.

Measured phase

Decode on the tested systems

2 compatible systems

Server decode rate counts the 255 timed intervals between returned tokens. It excludes the first-token interval and client/network time. Mean ± sample SD across three measured repetitions; one warmup is excluded.

Mean server rate · tokens/sShared scale: 0–80

RTX 4070 Ti system

43.64 ± 0.00401 tokens/s

Core i7-14700K host · one GPU

Original run · Aug 16, 2026
Run evidence and matched controls
Model artifact
Qwen3.8-27B-UD-IQ2_XXS.ggufSHA-256 8d1b37297d6cf98303cd396896f35e01089ddcc904053a9c6997f7a1c35b8524
Runtime
llama.cpp b10448 · CUDAad1de39e0708e3ced9c71bb3c82d93a2c046a73f
Workload
84 actual input / 256 returned tokens · 4,096 context capacity
Batch and placement
One request/slot · prompt batch 512 / microbatch 128 · 2 CPU threads · 66/66 GPU layers · Q8_0 K/V cache · flash attention on
Generation
Seed 42 · temperature 0.6 · top-p 0.95 · top-k 20 · min-p 0 · prompt cache, MTP and thinking off
Source locator
/measured_summary/server_generation_tokens_per_second

RTX 4090 system

73.89 ± 0.0722 tokens/s

Ryzen 7800X3D host · 495 W GPU limit reported · one GPU

Original run · Aug 20, 2026
Run evidence and matched controls
Model artifact
Qwen3.8-27B-UD-IQ2_XXS.ggufSHA-256 8d1b37297d6cf98303cd396896f35e01089ddcc904053a9c6997f7a1c35b8524
Runtime
llama.cpp b10448 · CUDAad1de39e0708e3ced9c71bb3c82d93a2c046a73f
Workload
84 actual input / 256 returned tokens · 4,096 context capacity
Batch and placement
One request/slot · prompt batch 512 / microbatch 128 · 2 CPU threads · 66/66 GPU layers · Q8_0 K/V cache · flash attention on
Generation
Seed 42 · temperature 0.6 · top-p 0.95 · top-k 20 · min-p 0 · prompt cache, MTP and thinking off
Source locator
/measured_summary/server_generation_tokens_per_second

Hardware without compatible measurements is omitted. This slice has no measured Apple result. Estimated token rates, sample rates, aggregate serving throughput and latency are separate measurements and are not mixed into these bars.

What these numbers establish

This first slice covers Qwen3.8-27B on two tested Windows systems: five matched workloads, with prompt processing and decode measured separately. Research reviewed Oct 17, 2026.

These are whole tested systems from the original investigator, Hugo Moreira. Their CPUs, Windows builds, Python and harness revisions differ. The 4090 reports a 495 W GPU limit against a 450 W default. The results do not isolate the graphics card as the cause of a difference.

Thirty physical measured trials support twenty phase summaries across five paired workloads. Review checked source metadata and arithmetic; it did not rerun the experiments. Matching published model fingerprints does not prove which bytes were physically loaded.

There is no quality-equivalence result for the quantizations. Prompt/decode timers are not client time to first token or end-to-end response latency. Three repetitions describe within-condition spread, not independent studies or a confidence interval.

Peak power samples are not integrated energy. No tokens/J, exact host purchase cost, performance-per-dollar or payback date is derived here. Historical prices below are separate contextual observations.

More reviewed whole-system comparisons

Choose a model and comparison method. Each view keeps its own workload, measurement boundary and scale. These results describe complete systems.

Qwen3.8-27B IQ2: code/prose and MTP

Source-bound published study of two complete Windows systems

Exact UD-IQ2_XXS artifact; 4,096-token context; source launch audits report 66/66 target layers on CUDA.

Same generated code bytes across both systems and MTP states. Five measured requests per system.

Arithmetic mean of five server decode rates: 255 output token intervals / decode time for 256 completion tokens. Prompt processing and the first output interval are excluded. SD is sample SD (n−1).

2 reviewed whole systems

output intervals/sSelected-view scale: 0–70

RTX 4090 complete system

69.47 ± 0.0674

5 measured requests · mean ± sample SD

Pinned source result
System controls and source evidence
Source artifact
w4090-iq2-mtp-off-code-20260821T062109390273Z-ff7a8fe7 · SHA256 864b31fffa5f6ecd9d41d5ca83a10532d449574366619eb3eea12693f6413213
Observed response fingerprint
b10448-ad1de39e0
Request range
69.403–69.577 output intervals/s (min–max, not a confidence interval)
Executable identity
Source preflight only: 40ce9de7b22fba16f05464df6d67baf970d6ceefd7f83ea255243988e57f924e
Output digest
5106ec441adbb47779beacc5b67b4af87118792ad2ad8bd47ce2de138efcd96c

RTX 4070 Ti complete system

42.41 ± 0.0135

5 measured requests · mean ± sample SD

Pinned source result
System controls and source evidence
Source artifact
phase9-mtp-off-code-20260816T041809117916Z-bdba6559 · SHA256 d6d2619c9917e75c9e32826e23a074f0e869f0de1dba58cca7d2260b5471317e
Observed response fingerprint
b10448-ad1de39e0
Request range
42.391–42.424 output intervals/s (min–max, not a confidence interval)
Executable identity
Direct executable checksum unavailable; archive identity and response fingerprint retained
Output digest
5106ec441adbb47779beacc5b67b4af87118792ad2ad8bd47ce2de138efcd96c

Complete systems differ in CPU, RAM, OS and other host factors; no isolated GPU effect.

Runtime release, commit and archive hashes match. RTX 4090 has a source preflight executable hash; RTX 4070 Ti has no direct executable hash. Identical executed binaries are not attested.

Model identity and 66/66 target-layer placement are source evidence, not independent per-request loaded-artifact checks. Private launch logs were not acquired.

All 20 code requests have the same output digest; this narrow fixture does not establish general quality.

No client latency, energy or general performance claim. Summaries and phase views add no source requests.

Hugo Moreira, Apache-2.0 repository material. Modified for nathanfennel.com: scalar trials and recomputed means/sample SDs; prompts and generated text omitted.

Selected workload and measurement controls
Model
Qwen3.8-27B-UD-IQ2_XXS.gguf · SHA256 8d1b37297d6cf98303cd396896f35e01089ddcc904053a9c6997f7a1c35b8524
Model revision
unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF@1cff334a4a228324d4ee1f76d55d372588f0d556
Runtime
llama.cpp b10448 · ad1de39e0708e3ced9c71bb3c82d93a2c046a73f · CUDA
Runtime archives
56bef9038109ccae82e1c3843d400d6ca51aee406649a69c206769c8cbc7c89c · 1462a050eb4c684921ba51dcc4cc488a036674c3e73e9945ee705b854808d03e
Fixture
phase9-mtp-code-v1 · SHA256 6af6326de2bc56653dbecf7a3630608e1f6dd751fe6681ddb7ba1329d1c86553
Token counts
106 prompt · 256 completion · 255 timed output intervals
Shared launch controls
4,096 context; 1 slot; Q8 K/V; flash attention on; batch 512/128; 2/2 threads; fit off; prompt cache and context shift off
Sampling
temperature 0; top-p 1; top-k/min-p 0; seed 42; thinking/tools/MCP/vision off
MTP
off; draft max/min 0
Repetitions
5 measured requests per system; 1 source warmup excluded per artifact

Mac and consumer source reports

Explore published LLM observations whose counting and timing definitions differ from the comparisons above. Each study keeps its own model, quantization and measurement boundary.

These are qualified source descriptions. They do not establish a hardware ranking, output-quality parity or a cross-study speed ratio.

Qwen3-0.6B · MLX on one reported Mac/session

Reported system: Mac16,9 · source label “Mac M4 Max reference”. Physical GPU bin and effective power mode remain unknown.

Source-reported MLX runtime count/rate on one reported Mac/session. Raw native generation time is not serialized; this is not an independently remeasured token timer.

Reported harness context hint: 672. In the retained source, the MLX adapter inherits a no-op prepareContext; effective MLX context capacity and KV allocation are unknown. This is a source-level interpretation, not executed-binary attestation.

The retained harness calls context preparation only before loading a new model. Warm rows do not establish a fresh allocation. The recorded hint is distinct from the reported native prompt count of 19; recipe arithmetic does not attest exact executed input or tokenization.

Reported model: mlx-community/Qwen3-0.6B-4bit · Q4. Reported runtime: mlx-swift. Model and engine revision stamps are source metadata; loaded weights, tokenizer and binary identities remain unverified.

Reported prompt: 19 tokens; output budget: 128; temperature: 0; top-p: 1. Recipe request concurrency: 1; runtime internal batch unknown. Complete outputs, emitted token IDs, EOS/think-token handling and answer quality are unverified.

2 selected warm request records · 1 reported host/session · source order

Warm request · 2026-08-17T08:59:30Z

Reported generation tokens
128
Reported runtime rate · output tokens/s
553.57

Reported finish: length; thermal labels: nominal → nominal → nominal. These short requests do not establish sustained performance.

Full reported rate and metadata
Native reported rate
553.5661915541782 output tokens/s. Display above is rounded only.
Native generation time
Not serialized; no timer inferred from count / rate.
Reported system
Mac16,9; 16 CPU processors; 131,072 MB memory (source label); Version 27.0 (Build 26A5406e). Physical GPU bin and effective power mode unknown.
Model revision stamp
73e3e38d981303bc594367cd910ea6eb48349da8
Engine revision stamp
60bd0d7880c82980f9481f8be78862e9b63c58a3
Harness stamp
2026-07-30-agreed-protocol-r4; executed harness identity unverified.

Warm request · 2026-08-17T08:59:31Z

Reported generation tokens
128
Reported runtime rate · output tokens/s
558.20

Reported finish: length; thermal labels: nominal → nominal → nominal. These short requests do not establish sustained performance.

Full reported rate and metadata
Native reported rate
558.1965313832306 output tokens/s. Display above is rounded only.
Native generation time
Not serialized; no timer inferred from count / rate.
Reported system
Mac16,9; 16 CPU processors; 131,072 MB memory (source label); Version 27.0 (Build 26A5406e). Physical GPU bin and effective power mode unknown.
Model revision stamp
73e3e38d981303bc594367cd910ea6eb48349da8
Engine revision stamp
60bd0d7880c82980f9481f8be78862e9b63c58a3
Harness stamp
2026-07-30-agreed-protocol-r4; executed harness identity unverified.

Two warm source-reported MLX request observations from one reported Mac/session. This is a source-local description, not a hardware or cross-runtime ranking, statistically independent sample, quality score or confidence interval.

The recorded source adapter forwards GenerationInfo token count and generation time; the retained runner forms its native rate from runtime-reported count/time with fallback branches. The exact upstream MLX implementation at the recorded engine revision was unavailable after a stopped HTTP 422 lookup. These are source-reported rates, not independently remeasured token timings.

Raw native generateTime is not serialized. No denominator is reconstructed by dividing count by rate. Total generation-call duration and first-to-last chunk-gap rate use different windows and are excluded from this rate projection.

Model repository revision, Q4 label, engine revision and harness stamp are source-reported metadata, not verified loaded weight/tokenizer/binary/executed-harness hashes. Configured context 672 does not attest actual MLX KV allocation, internal batch, placement or physical GPU core count.

The task label and documented short-chat recipe do not attest the exact executed prompt, chat template or input token vector. Reported prompt count is 19; configured output budget and reported generation count are each 128; reported finish reason is length.

Only 200-character thinking-tag output prefixes are available privately. Complete output parity, emitted token IDs, EOS handling, filtering of reasoning/special tokens and completed-answer quality remain unknown. No output text or prefix is distributed here.

Cold process-first MLX generation is excluded. Warm flags and nominal initial/peak/final thermal labels are source observations; two sub-second requests do not certify thermal stability, sustained behavior or physical repeat independence. Exact power mode and GPU bin remain unknown.

LiteRT records are excluded: their capped count is an approximate chunk tally, their prompt count is 20, and their model/quant/runtime recipe differs. Their erroneous iOS artifact stamp is retained only in private evidence; a retrospective Mac-platform recipe correction is not loaded-binary proof. No cross-arm ratio is supplied.

No energy, per-GPU, hardware-scaling or correct-answer allocation is supported. This factual selection adds zero ledger or documentation credit and does not activate an application comparison.

Copyright (c) 2026 john-rocky and ios-llm-benchmark contributors. Codex for Nathan Fennel, 18 October 2026: newly authored minimal factual field selection and explanatory qualifications; no source execution or remeasurement.

The root license covers software and associated documentation. This exact attributed factual selection does not assert a separate benchmark-database license or rights to models, generated output, upstream code or assets.

Classification task measurements

MLPerf® Inference: Edge v3.1 Closed ResNet50 SingleStream · NVIDIA · MaxQ

Compare native completed-image counts and source-run latency within this fixed image-classification task. These fields stay separate from LLM token rates and from reconstructed energy.

Unverified editorial selection of source-native secondary fields. This presentation is not an official benchmark metric or newly verified score. Result not verified by MLCommons Association.

Published NVIDIA submission artifacts; original official-entry citation is distinct from this site's unverified secondary-metric presentation. Source mean/p90 latency and completed count remain source-run fields, not a relabeling of the rounded official primary score.

2 compatible source systems · original source order

NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin Developer Kit 64G (MaxQ, TensorRT)

Official entry 3.1-0117; source category available; official table literal: Available Cloud. One reported accelerator per node; 64 GB reported system memory.

Complete submitted Jetson system with shared host/accelerator memory; actual scenario placement is not independently attested.

Declared model: resnet50_v1.onnx · int8 weights / int8 input · quantization, affine fusion.

Reported runtime: Jetpack 5.1.1, TensorRT 8.5.2, CUDA 11.4, cuDNN 8.5.0, DALI 1.19.0.

Completed images in source window
416,879
Source mean latency · ms
1.421479
Source p90 latency · ms
1.635652

Separate accuracy run: 76.096% reported (38,048/50,000). TEST01 separately reports 2,469 matching performance entries. Reported accuracy and the TEST01 consistency report come from separate source runs; neither is an independent replay of all original performance-window predictions.

Source window, declared model and runtime
Native window
08-09-2023 18:15:39.581 to 08-09-2023 18:25:39.582. Native printed SPL and LoadGen clock validated against UTC client testing-phase epochs; server timezone is retained, not added twice
Original latency units
1,421,479 ns mean; 1,635,652 ns p90. Millisecond display is a unit conversion only.

NVIDIA Orin NX 16G (MaxQ, TensorRT)

Official entry 3.1-0115; source category available; official table literal: Available Cloud. One reported accelerator per node; 16 GB reported system memory.

Complete submitted Jetson system with shared host/accelerator memory; actual scenario placement is not independently attested.

Declared model: resnet50_v1.onnx · int8 weights / int8 input · quantization, affine fusion.

Reported runtime: Jetpack 5.1.1, TensorRT 8.5.2, CUDA 11.4, cuDNN 8.5.0, DALI 1.19.0.

Completed images in source window
418,234
Source mean latency · ms
1.419952
Source p90 latency · ms
1.418809

Separate accuracy run: 76.096% reported (38,048/50,000). TEST01 separately reports 3,431 matching performance entries. Reported accuracy and the TEST01 consistency report come from separate source runs; neither is an independent replay of all original performance-window predictions.

Source window, declared model and runtime
Native window
08-11-2023 22:48:03.931 to 08-11-2023 22:58:03.933. Native printed SPL and LoadGen clock validated against UTC client testing-phase epochs; server timezone is retained, not added twice
Original latency units
1,419,952 ns mean; 1,418,809 ns p90. Millisecond display is a unit conversion only.

SingleStream PerformanceOnly source windows: one image per query and maximum one asynchronous query. Hardware-optimized engines may differ; loaded execution and placement are not independently attested.

Native completed-image count, mean latency and p90 latency come from the selected source performance window. Accuracy and TEST01 consistency evidence concern separate source runs; they do not replay every performance-window prediction.

The source runs share a published classification task and reported-quality basis; hardware-optimized engines may differ. Exact loaded artifacts, preprocessed inputs and complete output replay remain unverified.

A separate source-channel energy reconstruction has two warning-bearing beginning-bracket readings per integral, including one timestamp outside the work window. Physical wiring/calibration and total timing uncertainty remain unresolved. This native count/latency view supports no causal efficiency ranking or per-GPU/token/correct-image allocation. No aggregate uncertainty interval is inferred.

Original system metadata reports available; the official table display literal Available Cloud is retained separately per entry, not a current commercial/orderability claim.

Citation: MLPerf® Inference: Edge v3.1 Closed ResNet50 SingleStream; NVIDIA; closed; MaxQ; source category available; official entries 3.1-0117, 3.1-0115; retrieved 2026-10-18. Source-native secondary fields in an unverified editorial selection.

Newly authored minimal factual source count/latency selection and separate quality qualifications. Full unchanged license and NVIDIA attributions are supplied; no raw source logs, software expression, prediction data, models, images, code, binaries, screenshots or logos are included.

The MLPerf® name and logo are registered and unregistered trademarks of MLCommons Association in the United States and other countries. All rights reserved. Unauthorized use strictly prohibited. See www.mlcommons.org for more information.

Electricity generation and plant emissions

Explore an annual electricity-accounting example alongside task measurements. It describes plants operated by one company; it does not identify the electricity supplied to an AI request or data center.

Wisconsin Electric Power Co · 2023

Our sum of EPA plant data for the operator identified by EIA: 21.269 TWh of net generation across 39 plants. This is operated-plant context, not a company-reported portfolio, ownership share, purchases or retail supply.

Generation by source · our calculated shares

Annual net generation; only positive components are plotted. Source component rounding is preserved, without forcing the shares to sum to 100%.

coal47.788%
oil0.015%
gas46.500%
hydro1.680%
biomass0.647%
wind3.228%
solar0.142%

Bar scale: 0–48% of the selected operator's plant generation. All eleven components, including source zeros, remain in the JSON export. Stored decimal tails are not physical measurement precision.

Plants with reported emission rates

Nine plants have compatible native EPA-calculated CO₂ and CO₂e rates. The other thirty have blank emissions fields: missing, not zero. No complete operator-wide intensity can be calculated from this slice.

These are annual operational rates per MWh of net generation, with EPA's biomass and combined heat and power (CHP) adjustments. They are not lifecycle factors. CO₂e uses 100-year AR5 warming potentials without climate-carbon feedbacks.

9 of 9 eligible plants shown · alphabetical order

Concord

EPA plant 7159 · WI (source-reported state)

CO₂ · lb/MWh
1629.302
CO₂e · lb/MWh
1630.805
Native values and source cells

CO₂: 1629.3019999999999 (PLCO2RTA, BC12322). CO₂e: 1630.8050000000001 (PLC2ERTA, BF12322). PLNT23 sheet. Display rounding only; original stored values remain in exports.

Elm Road Generating Station

EPA plant 56068 · WI (source-reported state)

CO₂ · lb/MWh
1933.471
CO₂e · lb/MWh
1948.377
Native values and source cells

CO₂: 1933.471 (PLCO2RTA, BC12344). CO₂e: 1948.377 (PLC2ERTA, BF12344). PLNT23 sheet. Display rounding only; original stored values remain in exports.

Germantown Power Plant

EPA plant 6253 · WI (source-reported state)

CO₂ · lb/MWh
2272.689
CO₂e · lb/MWh
2275.700
Native values and source cells

CO₂: 2272.6889999999999 (PLCO2RTA, BC12364). CO₂e: 2275.6999999999998 (PLC2ERTA, BF12364). PLNT23 sheet. Display rounding only; original stored values remain in exports.

Paris

EPA plant 7270 · WI (source-reported state)

CO₂ · lb/MWh
1606.825
CO₂e · lb/MWh
1608.431
Native values and source cells

CO₂: 1606.825 (PLCO2RTA, BC12427). CO₂e: 1608.431 (PLC2ERTA, BF12427). PLNT23 sheet. Display rounding only; original stored values remain in exports.

Port Washington Generating Station

EPA plant 4040 · WI (source-reported state)

CO₂ · lb/MWh
819.841
CO₂e · lb/MWh
820.666
Native values and source cells

CO₂: 819.84100000000001 (PLCO2RTA, BC12435). CO₂e: 820.66600000000005 (PLC2ERTA, BF12435). PLNT23 sheet. Display rounding only; original stored values remain in exports.

Rothschild Biomass Cogeneration Facility

EPA plant 58124 · WI (source-reported state)

CO₂ · lb/MWh
23.268
CO₂e · lb/MWh
48.599

Source flags: CHP and biomass adjustment. Adjusted operational emissions do not represent lifecycle emissions.

Native values and source cells

CO₂: 23.268000000000001 (PLCO2RTA, BC12451). CO₂e: 48.598999999999997 (PLC2ERTA, BF12451). PLNT23 sheet. Display rounding only; original stored values remain in exports.

South Oak Creek

EPA plant 4041 · WI (source-reported state)

CO₂ · lb/MWh
2419.600
CO₂e · lb/MWh
2436.503
Native values and source cells

CO₂: 2419.6 (PLCO2RTA, BC12462). CO₂e: 2436.5030000000002 (PLC2ERTA, BF12462). PLNT23 sheet. Display rounding only; original stored values remain in exports.

Valley (WEPCO)

EPA plant 4042 · WI (source-reported state)

CO₂ · lb/MWh
787.077
CO₂e · lb/MWh
787.875

Source flags: CHP. Adjusted operational emissions do not represent lifecycle emissions.

Native values and source cells

CO₂: 787.077 (PLCO2RTA, BC12481). CO₂e: 787.875 (PLC2ERTA, BF12481). PLNT23 sheet. Display rounding only; original stored values remain in exports.

Whitewater Cogeneration Facility

EPA plant 55011 · WI (source-reported state)

CO₂ · lb/MWh
942.756
CO₂e · lb/MWh
943.709
Native values and source cells

CO₂: 942.75599999999997 (PLCO2RTA, BC12500). CO₂e: 943.70899999999995 (PLC2ERTA, BF12500). PLNT23 sheet. Display rounding only; original stored values remain in exports.

JSON includes generation context and selected rates; CSV contains only the selected native plant rates. Both retain source revisions, accounting scope, missing coverage and attribution.

United States Environmental Protection Agency (2025), eGRID 2023 revision 2, 12 June 2025. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (19 August 2025), Form EIA-923 2023 final revised data. Selection, join, sums, shares and display rounding by Codex for Nathan Fennel, 18 October 2026; not EPA/EIA reported operator aggregates or agency endorsement.

Data period 2023; EPA revision 2025-06-12; EIA re-release 2025-08-19; retrieved 2026-10-18. Operator identity comes from EIA Operator Id, not EPA's transmission/distribution-owner or utility fields.

For facility and request-allocation questions, see the AMICE electricity evidence. No supply contract, physical facility mapping or AI emissions allocation is established here.

Why plant operation, company accounts and ownership differ

Wisconsin Electric Power Co (EIA utility 20847) reported 20,243,340 MWh of net generation and 10,463,826 MWh of wholesale purchases in its observed 2023 Wisconsin EIA-861 account. Total sources and total disposition were each 30,707,166 MWh. This company account uses respondent-owned shares and relevant tolling generation; it is a different scope from our EIA-923-operated-plant context.

That account separately reports 22,918,893 MWh of ultimate-customer sales, 6,983,289 MWh of resale, 46,366 MWh consumed by the respondent without charge, and 758,618 MWh of losses. Missing exchange, wheeling, other-transmission-loss and furnished-without-charge cells stay missing. An arithmetic balance does not prove the missing values are zero or identify the electricity delivered to a particular customer.

Generator ownership and plant operation also differ. EIA-860 lists We Power (owner 49861) with a stored ownership fraction of 1 for Port Washington generator 1CT1; EIA-923 reports plant operator 20847. At Weston RICE generator W11, EIA-860 lists Wisconsin Electric Power Co with fraction 0.5; EIA-923 reports operator 20860, Wisconsin Public Service Corp. These generator fractions do not establish equity-weighted annual generation, retail fuel mix or an emissions factor.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, 2023 Forms EIA-860 and EIA-861 data downloaded October 18, 2026; 2023 Form EIA-923 final revision re-released August 19, 2025, retained in the prior R6 snapshot. Selection, role joins, arithmetic checks and explanations are ours. No agency endorsement. EIA-860/861 source revision dates are not established; retrieval dates do not supply them. The JSON export keeps this company account in a separate context, with native cells, missing values, ownership fractions and source pins; it is not reconciled to the operated-plant sum or used to produce an emissions factor.

Provider source references and accounting boundaries

Provider reports use different accounting boundaries. Annual generation, direct carbon-dioxide intensity and lifecycle greenhouse-gas intensity answer different questions. These source references do not identify electricity supplied to an AI request.

EDF: production and accounting references

Our review keeps consolidated-group and mainland-company reporting scopes separate. The available capture does not prove an electricity-supply contract or a facility's supplied mix.

Source references: EDF. Commentary and scope limitations are our own; no publisher endorsement or data-reuse permission is implied.

Fortum: production-boundary references

Power production and total energy production use different output boundaries. Our review keeps those measures separate rather than treating either as a request-level factor.

Source references: Fortum. This is our newly written accounting note, with no source table, image or provider value reproduced.

Vattenfall: lifecycle-method reference

A technology-specific lifecycle assessment differs from direct operational emissions. The functional unit, geography and exclusions must accompany any eventual reported result; a technology result cannot stand in for an annual provider-wide factor.

Source reference: Vattenfall AB. The methodological distinction is our own explanation; no lifecycle value, chart or report excerpt is reproduced.

Environmental declaration registry references

These external references identify publisher-hosted declarations. No declaration data, validity claim, verification seal or registry logo is reproduced here.

External source references: the International EPD System. No affiliation, endorsement or data license is implied.

Model and price context

A selected history for these two product families and the tested model artifact. Manufacturer starting prices and retail asking snapshots keep their own labels. Neither is a verified purchase or the cost of the tested system. Months remain months; gaps are not interpolated.

  1. GeForce RTX 4090: announced

    Dated manufacturer announcement.

    SourceSource dated Sep 20, 2022
    Source locator

    Dated announcement header

  2. GeForce RTX 4090: manufacturer starting price $1,599

    US product/model starting price; not an observed retail transaction or all partner SKUs; taxes and shipping unknown.

    SourceSource dated Sep 20, 2022
    Source locator

    Manufacturer pricing / availability statement

  3. GeForce RTX 4090: announced availability target

    Manufacturer-stated date; the availability target is not independently established first retail shipping.

    SourceSource dated Sep 20, 2022
    Source locator

    Pricing / Availability or launch-day publication

  4. GeForce RTX 4070 Ti: announced

    Dated manufacturer announcement.

    SourceSource dated Jan 3, 2023
    Source locator

    Dated announcement header

  5. GeForce RTX 4070 Ti: manufacturer starting price $799

    US product/model starting price; not an observed retail transaction or all partner SKUs; taxes and shipping unknown.

    SourceSource dated Jan 3, 2023
    Source locator

    Manufacturer pricing / availability statement

  6. GeForce RTX 4070 Ti: announced availability target

    Manufacturer-stated date; the availability target is not independently established first retail shipping.

    SourceSource dated Jan 3, 2023
    Source locator

    Pricing / Availability or launch-day publication

  7. GeForce RTX 4090: retail asking snapshot $1,770

    TechSpot lowest retail asking snapshot. Exact day, retailer set, taxes and shipping unknown. Source percentage/discount columns have inconsistencies; only reviewed dollar cells are used. No exact tested-board or purchase-price join.

    SourceSource dated Jun 22, 2024
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    table 0, row 1, column 3 (Lowest Price April)

  8. GeForce RTX 4070 Ti: retail asking snapshot $680

    TechSpot lowest retail asking snapshot. Exact day, retailer set, taxes and shipping unknown. Source percentage/discount columns have inconsistencies; only reviewed dollar cells are used. No exact tested-board or purchase-price join.

    SourceSource dated Jun 22, 2024
    Source locator

    table 0, row 5, column 3 (Lowest Price April)

  9. GeForce RTX 4090: retail asking snapshot $1,900

    TechSpot lowest retail asking snapshot. Exact day, retailer set, taxes and shipping unknown. Source percentage/discount columns have inconsistencies; only reviewed dollar cells are used. No exact tested-board or purchase-price join.

    SourceSource dated Jun 22, 2024
    Source locator

    table 0, row 1, column 4 (Lowest Price May)

  10. GeForce RTX 4070 Ti: retail asking snapshot $750

    TechSpot lowest retail asking snapshot. Exact day, retailer set, taxes and shipping unknown. Source percentage/discount columns have inconsistencies; only reviewed dollar cells are used. No exact tested-board or purchase-price join.

    SourceSource dated Jun 22, 2024
    Source locator

    table 0, row 5, column 5 (Lowest Price June)

  11. GeForce RTX 4090: retail asking snapshot $1,740

    TechSpot lowest retail asking snapshot. Exact day, retailer set, taxes and shipping unknown. Source percentage/discount columns have inconsistencies; only reviewed dollar cells are used. No exact tested-board or purchase-price join.

    SourceSource dated Jun 22, 2024
    Source locator

    table 0, row 1, column 5 (Lowest Price June)

  12. Qwen3.8-27B GGUF artifact revision

    Published model metadata dates the pinned revision to this day. This is an artifact metadata date, not proof of the model family launch or which weight bytes were loaded in a physical run.

    SourceSource dated Aug 14, 2026
    Source locator

    Pinned revision; independently matched published filenames, byte sizes and SHA-256 metadata in the reviewed cohort