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license: apache-2.0
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tags:
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- energy-efficiency
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- green-ai
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- quantization
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- rtx-5090
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- benchmark
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- llm
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# RTX 5090 LLM Energy Benchmark
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First energy efficiency benchmark of 4-bit quantization on NVIDIA RTX 5090 (Blackwell architecture).
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## Key Finding
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**4-bit quantization increases energy consumption by up to 29% for models < 5B parameters.**
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The crossover point where quantization becomes beneficial is ~5B parameters.
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## Results
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| Model | FP16 Energy | 4-bit Energy | Change |
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| TinyLlama 1.1B | 1,659 J/1k | 2,098 J/1k | +26.5% 🔴 |
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| Qwen2 1.5B | 2,411 J/1k | 3,120 J/1k | +29.4% 🔴 |
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| Qwen2.5 3B | 3,383 J/1k | 3,780 J/1k | +11.7% 🔴 |
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| Qwen2 7B | 5,509 J/1k | 4,878 J/1k | -11.4% 🟢 |
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## Figures
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## Hardware
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- GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 (Blackwell, sm_120)
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- VRAM: 32 GB GDDR7
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- PyTorch: 2.10.0+cu128
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## Citation
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@misc{rtx5090benchmark2026,
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title={When Quantization Hurts: Energy Efficiency on RTX 5090},
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author={hongpingzhang},
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year={2026},
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url={https://huggingface.co/datasets/hongpingzhang/rtx5090-energy-benchmark}
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}
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