Electricity per AI image on an RTX PRO 6000, RTX 5090 Laptop, RTX 5080, RTX 3090 and more: about 3 to 10 cents per 1,000 images (FLUX.2 klein, 1024×1024)
What one generated image costs in electricity on each GPU we’ve measured, at one dated price: 18.31 cents per kWh, the US residential average for July 2026. Power is the board’s own reading from each card’s driver. The page has two bar charts (cents per 1,000 images and seconds per image) and shows the arithmetic …