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[–] amorpheus@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It would just put extra thermal load on the GPU.

Passing power through doesn't have to put noticeable load on the GPU. The main problem I see there is getting even more power to the GPU - Nvidia's top cards are already at the melting point for their power connector.

[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Passing power through doesn’t have to put noticeable load on the GPU.

I specifically said thermal load. Power delivery always causes heat dissipation due to I^2^R losses.

[–] amorpheus@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

That's what I meant. Compared to the power the GPU is actually using, transmission losses for a pass-through should be negligible. If you have a good way to get it to the card in the first place.