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How is there enough space in this world for all these GPUs


Just try calculating how many RTX 5090 GPUs by volume would fit in a rectangular bounding box of a small sedan car, and you will understand how.

Honda Civic (2026) sedan has 184.8” (L) × 70.9” (W) × 55.7” (H) dimensions for an exterior bounding box. Volume of that would be ~12,000 liters.

An RTX 5090 GPU is 304mm × 137mm, with roughly 40mm of thickness for a typical 2-slot reference/FE model. This would make the bounding box of ~1.67 liters.

Do the math, and you will discover that a single Honda Civic would be an equivalent of ~7,180 RTX 5090 GPUs by volume. And that’s a small sedan, which is significantly smaller than an average or a median car on the US roads.


What about what's around the GPU? Motherboard etc.


I didn’t do the napkin math on it earlier, because I don’t believe it really matters for making the point I was making.

I don’t care about looking up real numbers, so I will just overestimate heavily. Let’s say that for a large enough number of GPUs, the overhead of all the surrounding equipment would be around 20% (amortized).

So you can just take the number of GPUs I calculated in my previous comment, multiply by 0.8, and you get your answer.


This is not 20% , it's 100%+.


Now factor in power and cooling...


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