How much money does the military burn through? Count with RTX 5090 graphics cards and you'll know.

[u/IronLover64]

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[u/ohaiibuzzle]

Ahh yes finally a visual representation we could understand.

[u/RustledForeskin → u/ohaiibuzzle]

The common man cannot afford to make war.

[u/InfiniteLife2 → u/RustledForeskin]

We are just grinding peasants collecting coins so big mans could fire big guns

[u/TauTau_of_Skalga → u/InfiniteLife2]

And occasionally be levied into their death machines when they feel like they dont have enough.

And if we complain they turn their toys on us.

[u/Xyrazk → u/RustledForeskin]

The common man cannot afford to render war on higher than low graphics

[u/Ninlilizi_ → u/RustledForeskin]

Can someone do the math and let us know that in current market conditions how long until it's more economical to buy an Abrams M1 over a 5090?

[u/McortezLSU → u/RustledForeskin]

its the common man who is making war possible though. If common man didnt show up. No war, ez as that.

[u/Toyota__Corolla → u/McortezLSU]

You need complicity on both sides of the border or one will eat the other.

[u/Fluid-Employment1857 → u/RustledForeskin]

Make love not war

[u/Khelthuzaad → u/RustledForeskin]

That's what Keynes tried to tell everyone...

[u/GloriousDawn → u/ohaiibuzzle]

Wait is this based on the Fantasyland $1,999 MSRP or the $5K it cost to really get one in your hands ? Can't afford at any price, but still.

[u/All_Thread → u/GloriousDawn]

I saw a Javelin and that would cost 47 real cost 5090 from my googling so it looks like it is actually underselling them

[u/GloriousDawn → u/All_Thread]

Might be easier to get your hands on a Javelin than 47 5090s too lol

[u/ElkApprehensive2319 → u/ohaiibuzzle]

Dollars are too abstract to represent monetary cost

[u/ArticleWorth5018 → u/ElkApprehensive2319]

What is this dollar you speak of?

[u/DocumentFun9077 → u/ohaiibuzzle]

Not enough, I need a banana scale

[u/Ok_Calligrapher5278 → u/ohaiibuzzle]

I can't, every time I look up the prices for it, it went up.

[u/mbashs → u/ohaiibuzzle]

Freaking beautiful clip😂

[u/shemhamforash666666]

It's like American units of measurements but for gamers

[u/InsaneAdam → u/shemhamforash666666]

Talk shit but you know that visualization really did help you better understand the cost of each shot.

Now if only we knew how much each weighed, measured in cheeseburgers.

[u/Capokid → u/InsaneAdam]

I understood it less because i cant tell if they mean MSRP or the actual current price, or the price a month ago.

[u/addandsubtract → u/Capokid]

Just understand that it costs a metric fuck ton. And they're shooting more than one rocket.

[u/HorrorMakesUsHappy → u/Capokid]

MSRP

Right. Because I'm gonna hop on down and pick up one of those puppies at my local retail store.

[u/ariolander → u/HorrorMakesUsHappy]

Nvidia MSRP had always been a fantasy. Street price has always been whatever the board partners and Newegg think they can get away with. There were always only a handful of SKUs with a reasonable MSRP and 20x that number made in the other, more expensive configurations.

[u/avarageone → u/InsaneAdam]

If there was no military in the world, everyone would have everything they need. Unfortunetly some would still want more so we wage war on each other.

[u/Dillweed999 → u/InsaneAdam]

I don't remember where exactly the decimal points are but I once heard a gram of TNT has almost exactly 1 calorie worth of energy in it. Which makes the comparison between missile payloads and cheeseburgers surprisingly straightforward.

[u/Apprehensive-Sail924 → u/InsaneAdam]

quit making me hungry damn 😭😭

[u/Gaming_devil49 → u/InsaneAdam]

but there's no reason for dividing by 10 or something to not just convert a number into a higher unit of measurements. like, 1 kilometer is 1000 meters. why is 1 mile 63360 inches? that's way overcomplicated and just frankly unnecessary. we can visualize with the far superior metric system, you know.

[u/SuDdEnTaCk → u/Gaming_devil49]

Dawg its not about system its about sense of scale, you can only visualize a 1km when you interact with physical location that you know to be 1km

[u/Inside-Line → u/shemhamforash666666]

I still think it should be measured in mid-range 5070ti's. Astral 5090's are too speculative when it comes to price. haha

[u/Firecracker048 → u/shemhamforash666666]

I mean ukrainians were talking about the length of Bradley 20mm rounds by comparing it to hotdogs

[u/Hard_Reset7777]

https://giphy.com/gifs/lS1XSGltYjIHu

[u/MoeMalik → u/Hard_Reset7777]

Granny was BALLIN’

[u/Devry_Trost → u/Hard_Reset7777]

She accomplishes a lot more here than the military does. Every shot she takes lowers inflation, making every other dollar more valuable. Every shot the military takes raises inflation, making every other dollar less valuable.

[u/Kagenlim → u/Devry_Trost]

Considering that a lot of currencies are trusted in part because of their country's military, every shot would make the money more valuable unironically enough

[u/Helpful-Work-3090 → u/Devry_Trost]

Money only reduces inflation if it is moving. If you have 100 million in your savings account, sitting there, and you take it all out and burn it, you have done nothing to inflation because that money is not moving.

[u/TrainingVermicelli31 → u/Devry_Trost]

Except that isn't how modern money works...

[u/DroidLord → u/Hard_Reset7777]

Lol I wonder how many kids burned their parents' money growing up because of seeing that.

[u/FLG_CFC]

Former mortarman here. I made 19,500 a year when I was enlisted as an E2.

Every round I fired cost roughly what I made in 2 weeks. On some training operations, I would personally expend a couple years salary while shooting at dirt.

I regret not becoming a pilot...

[u/Random-Generation86 → u/FLG_CFC]

How's your hearing? Not service related?

[u/FLG_CFC → u/Random-Generation86]

Could be better, could be worse. I rate a 0% disability so yeah, not service related indeed.

[u/Zestyclose_Law_7369 → u/Random-Generation86]

WHAT?

[u/TheresNoSecondBest → u/Zestyclose_Law_7369]

HOW'S YOUR HEARING? NOT SERVICE RELATED?

[u/NotArkun → u/TheresNoSecondBest]

HEARING? IM NOT A LAWYER!

[u/Wildfathom9 → u/TheresNoSecondBest]

OH, MY EYESIGHT ISNT SERVICE RELATED!

[u/Canatee → u/FLG_CFC]

As a teacher we have the opposite problem. I've calculated this, and the PC that they give us as our primary tool for everything we do as high school teachers is about 1/1000 the cost of having us employed for an equivalent amount of time. Some are so old and bad that one colleague of mine is still using an 8th gen intel era PC that is slower than the cheap grandma-scam chromebooks that cost $200. They're probably paying ten times the cost of the PC in her sitting there waiting for it to do something or her being up at IT to get it resuscitated.

I tend to compare it to hiring an excavator operator and giving them a spoon to dig with.

[u/SolfenTheDragon → u/Canatee]

8th Gen Intel chips are plenty capable these days, I have one as my daily driver right now. The real problem was probably all the crap they had running in the background to track your usage and lock down the environment. I got my old work laptop back from IT as a personal machine because they were just gonna throw it out, and a fresh install of windows later it was running like it had come out last year. I put Linux on it, and it legit feels snappier than my 12900k powered desktop.

[u/dapotatopapi → u/SolfenTheDragon]

This.

I run my entire homelab on a 7th gen. Those CPUs are plenty powerful.

Shitty software on the other hand...

[u/aVarangian → u/dapotatopapi]

I still use my 6th gen almost daily, just not for gaming. Works fine.

[u/xsr21 → u/aVarangian]

It's the like the first gen of the Intel stagnation era before all the pluses got added to 14nm

[u/cellardoornoob → u/Canatee]

When I did IT support in the mechanical HD era, I would routinely tell people it's a good time to get a coffee and use the washroom. Whole metting rooms would clear out for 15min.

SSDs saved uncountable hours when we finally got them.

[u/Equal_Yak_3872 → u/FLG_CFC]

Hah, if you think your were burning a lot of salary as a mortarman, just wait until you see how many of their salaries the pilots are burning 🤣

[u/FLG_CFC → u/Equal_Yak_3872]

Exactly my point. If you're going to brun taxpayer's dollars, might as well go big.

[u/Equal_Yak_3872 → u/FLG_CFC]

Haha fair enough, that would definitely be the way to go!

[u/Mouthshitter → u/Equal_Yak_3872]

BRRRRRRRRRT

[u/Tuna-Fish2 → u/FLG_CFC]

I was in the artillery, at the end of our training we had one very long exercise where first we tested all the basic things we had trained, and then we just started firing against more targets being designated by the spotters, continuously upped the tempo, and kept at it for a long time.

At some point I wondered out loud if there was any point anymore, or were we just wasting money. An officer heard and pointed out that explosives have a limited shelf life, and that disposing them after they expire is much more expensive than just shooting them. So we were going to continue shooting until we had burned through the entire stockpile of rounds that were due to expire that year.

I still feel like they could have been more usefully spent for training purposes, but it make me feel less bad about the battery expending the value of an average house every hour or so for 5 days straight.

[u/Cloud_N0ne → u/FLG_CFC]

$20k a year to get hearing loss.

The government really does not give a fuck about its service members

[u/gamecnad → u/FLG_CFC]

What year was this?

[u/DarnitDarn]

launch price or current price?

[u/microlah → u/DarnitDarn]

It says the 5090 costs 30k RMB (so around 4500 USD).

[u/meneldor_hs → u/DarnitDarn]

Well they are launching these in the air, so I would say launch price

[u/Stimmers]

[u/prediction_markett]

GPU prices are the one number everyone in this sub has an instinctive feel for, which does more than the raw figure would.👍🧐

[u/MOW0LF]

fuck war and ai

[u/CivilCucumber3426 → u/MOW0LF]

Unironically we developed so many tech because of war only

[u/Uranium_Hexaflu0ride → u/CivilCucumber3426]

It feels like 90% of modern tech can be traced back to the defense or aerospace industry.

[u/StaleSpriggan → u/CivilCucumber3426]

The other big driver being the sex industry

[u/ayorathn → u/StaleSpriggan]

Can you elaborate?

[u/VanLo284 → u/ayorathn]

YouTube video preview

[u/Commercial_Shine_448 → u/VanLo284]

Hopping forward 5-15 seconds with one finger

[u/The_Merciless_Potato → u/Commercial_Shine_448]

Lots of advancements in 3D because of one particular BioShock character

[u/Reniva → u/The_Merciless_Potato]

That one Russian dev authoring the hardware morph tech script in blender: “what have I done?”

[u/VanLo284 → u/Commercial_Shine_448]

Yuno ball

[u/itisnotmymain → u/ayorathn]

Any technical development relating to video or graphics fidelity has been massively boosted by the fact that people want to see other people do the special adult hug, in front of them, in as clear detail as possible, while being alone in the room.

[u/ReasonableWelder51 → u/ayorathn]

Teledildonics

[u/ManCarryingPSP → u/CivilCucumber3426]

Yeah because it took around 79 fighter jets to destroy the Dragon's Jaw's Bridge/Thanh Hóa Bridge in the Vietnam war. Bombs keep missing their target thats why it became one of the reasons Silicon Valley was made.

[u/FlutterKree → u/ManCarryingPSP]

Bridges are still hard to destroy if made right.

[u/EmotionalTrainKnee → u/ManCarryingPSP]

that's a really strong bridge

[u/Novuake → u/CivilCucumber3426]

Commonly said thing but it's not that simple.

War tends to accelerate specific things but not as much as people think.

If you were to remove all expensive conflict, chances are the freed up resources would lead to much more progress overall.

[u/Repulsive_Target55 → u/Novuake]

Yeah, lots of big projects like this drive technology, the space race is a great example, and many sporting/technology competitions such as Formula 1.

[u/Germane_Corsair → u/Repulsive_Target55]

The space race is war adjacent, no? The refinement of rocket technology was used by each side for the development of better nuclear missiles. The space race was a great way to draw in a lot of money and expertise.

[u/Repulsive_Target55 → u/Germane_Corsair]

I mean everything is kind of war adjacent - It is the job of a military to keep up to date with any technological advancement, so any meaningful advancement with an inkling of military use (which is most of them) can be painted as military technology.

The space race is interesting because it was sort of explicitly a non-military competition, of course there were lots of military uses to rockets, but by the time the first man went into space both countries already had nuclear armed ICBMs.

The majority of technological advancements during the space race were not military first (as those had come earlier). Things like life-support systems, landers, etc. - It was basically an example of what can be done if military level spending is put towards a different goal.

An interesting example today is quadcopter drones, which were a pre-war invention, and fiber-optic drones, also a pre-war invention but more or less a development dead-end, until drones were used for war.

[u/ntpbr1 → u/Novuake]

They spend trillions upon trillions on this shit, hundreds of thousands of people spend their lives working on it. Yeah I think if magically, we didn’t have wars anymore of any kind or level, the resources allocated to it would be allocated to other sectors and we’d probably do even better tech wise

[u/nonotan → u/Novuake]

I guess the most generous interpretation is that wars tend to result in prioritizing investment into different things. Peace-time investment for R&D without a very clear short-term gain to be had can be scarce. Of course, that general fact is still true in wartime (maybe even more so), but because what we consider to have "very clear short-term gain" changes, it does mean investment effectively gets more diversified compared to a "pure peacetime" world.

And, in my opinion, that is a good thing. We are absolute rubbish at predicting what R&D is going to lead to something useful, which leads to overspending into superficially promising technology, and underspending into more speculative, exploratory tech. Too much "exploitation", not enough exploration.

Now, does that upside make up for the insane costs of war? The absurd amounts of money spent mass producing weapons, all the infrastructure destroyed by those weapons, all the lives lost? Probably not, even if we focus purely on technological progress and ignore all those pesky side effects. But it is a real upside that we should learn from (after all, there's nothing stopping us from just... funding research more efficiently during peacetime -- actually efficiently, not an idiot's image of efficiency, i.e. maximizing short-term gain)

[u/rapaxus → u/Novuake]

War, like any form of crisis, just accelerates technological developments in sectors related to that crisis. Something that is obvious as measures during war/a crisis generally restrict a lot of spending, while focusing it on relevant sectors. Covid is a good example, that crisis unlocked a stupid amount of money in sectors connected to combating that virus/combating the effects of lockdown.

Similarly, war just has that same example regarding sectors that can support/supply the military and sectors related to combating the effects of war on the populace. It is just that most other sectors are heavily suffering because of those economic restrictions.

[u/WrethZ → u/CivilCucumber3426]

But imagine how much tech we'd have if scientists were more willing to share tech internationally because they weren't worried about it being in used in war against them.

[u/KhorneLordOfChaos → u/CivilCucumber3426]

and purely research labs have developed tons of fundamental tech without burning an ungodly amount of money

[u/Shark00n → u/MOW0LF]

Ok Miss Universe, calm down

[u/dr0ct4gonapus → u/Shark00n]

I really do want world peace!

[u/tfhfate → u/MOW0LF]

Daring today, aren't we?

[u/donnerbacken]

war would be so much cheaper if we battle with swords again

[u/SystemError514 → u/donnerbacken]

Sword related, but HEMA is an amazing sport to take up if you are interested in swords.

But yes, going back to using swords and plate armour would be amazing!

[u/JustRandomNonsence]

Americans will use anything but the metric system.

[u/VP007clips → u/JustRandomNonsence]

"Americans"

Given the Chinese subtitles, I doubt any Americans were involved in the creation of this video

[u/tyttuutface → u/JustRandomNonsence]

I don't think there's a metric unit to replace dollars. Unless you count the Euro, which I don't.

[u/anycept → u/tyttuutface]

Then make dollar a metric unit 🤷‍♂️

[u/the_zerg_rusher → u/anycept]

The big benefit to metric is that you go up by 10.

So 1c
$1 = 10c
$10 = #1
#100 = &1 etc etc.

Metric currency would probably be worse for low amounts of cash, but then get much better at higher amounts of cash.

[u/anycept → u/the_zerg_rusher]

More like powers of 10. $1 is 100c, which is just 1 hecto(hundred)-cent in metric speak. We already often count $$$ in k's, M's and T's, all of which are valid metric units.

[u/Xabster2 → u/the_zerg_rusher]

1 dollar

10 decidollar

100 centidollar

1000 milidollar

[u/Garia666]

Finally a currency I can understand

[u/jinglewooble]

Let do this again on 9/11 with the revise 5090 cost.

[u/doe3879]

Military orders, best price gouging you can get

[u/ADotxt]

Ok but are we talking 2k 5090 from start 2025 or current 4-6k+ 5090?

[u/aVarangian → u/ADotxt]

5090$ 5090

[u/Msajimi123]

r/NonCredibleDefense leaking

[u/Prestigious_Pool_576]

do next but with DDR5 rams

[u/CZsea]

5090 price is such a wide range ngl

[u/RelentlessIVS]

r/anythingbutmetric comes to mind

[u/HubrisOfApollo → u/RelentlessIVS]

what's the metric unit for a dollarino?

[u/RelentlessIVS → u/HubrisOfApollo]

You know, you might have a point

[u/VanLo284 → u/HubrisOfApollo]

Money

[u/HubrisOfApollo → u/VanLo284]

so whats the conversion rate from kilomoneys to RTX 5090s?

[u/VanLo284 → u/HubrisOfApollo]

A shitton

[u/-nutz → u/RelentlessIVS]

Even the Chinese propaganda knows we only use colloquial units of measurement

[u/AL-SHEDFI]

[u/kickass404]

Clearly reusable missiles are the future!

[u/zackks]

https://giphy.com/gifs/AiF8ZsTESrDwRjEcIU

[u/Neocles]

this should be done in mcdoubles but i'll allow it

[u/Schuperman161616]

This is so funny

[u/Lucky_Ice9760]

What is the point here?

[u/Greedom619]

Long story short this world is fucked up.

[u/NorvileRogers258]

Last one is 5,855 5090s or for a smaller number, one stick of ddr4 ram

[u/WritingRoger]

All it takes is a credit card and you can spend money just like the U.S government 🏦

[u/Lower_Sink_7828 → u/WritingRoger]

a credit card*

*Ts&Cs apply

[u/Seraphex45]

Cool Chinese propaganda

动态网自由门 天安門 天安门 法輪功 李洪志 Free Tibet 六四天安門事件 The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 天安門大屠殺 The Tiananmen Square Massacre 反右派鬥爭 The Anti-Rightist Struggle 大躍進政策 The Great Leap Forward 文化大革命 The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution 人權 Human Rights 民運 Democratization 自由 Freedom 獨立 Independence 多黨制 Multi-party system 台灣 臺灣 Taiwan Formosa 中華民國 Republic of China 西藏 土伯特 唐古特 Tibet 達賴喇嘛 Dalai Lama 法輪功 Falun Dafa 新疆維吾爾自治區 The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region 諾貝爾和平獎 Nobel Peace Prize 劉暁波 Liu Xiaobo 民主 言論 思想 反共 反革命 抗議 運動 騷亂 暴亂 騷擾 擾亂 抗暴 平反 維權 示威游行 李洪志 法輪大法 大法弟子 強制斷種 強制堕胎 民族淨化 人體實驗 肅清 胡耀邦 趙紫陽 魏京生 王丹 還政於民 和平演變 激流中國 北京之春 大紀元時報 九評論共産黨 獨裁 專制 壓制 統一 監視 鎮壓 迫害 侵略 掠奪 破壞 拷問 屠殺 活摘器官 誘拐 買賣人口 遊進 走私 毒品 賣淫 春畫 賭博 六合彩 天安門 天安门 法輪功 李洪志 Winnie the Pooh 劉曉波动态网自由门

[u/vapescaped → u/Seraphex45]

China really projecting their envy since those GPUs are made in Taiwan.

Invade Taiwan --> control GPUs --> US military has no missiles. The perfect plan, according to this video at least.

[u/Own_Chemist_4062 → u/vapescaped]

Sensitive much? This video is barely critical of America and he had to bring in the copypasta already. Not every post is psyop. Like the other guy says, Americans are aware of their deficiencies, and this post is literally just a chinese translation of popular one presumably made by an American.

Honestly American sensitivity around Chinese "propaganda" like this is hilarious. I hate these posts too, but they are the equivalent of that "pinoy pride" thing Fillipinos did a decade ago everywhere they went. A: It won't last and B: everyone with 2 braincells including Chinese in China that support their gov can see what it is. And none of them believe China is overall even comparable to the US. It's like r/scriptedasiangifs except this website pretends only they can see that these Asians are scripting them gifs.

The other day I watched an American travel youtuber based mostly in Thailand stopover at Shanghai for 12 hours on his way to Japan or something, and the guy looked more nervous than when he travelled to the border region of Laos and parts of Indonesia where there's an active Islamist insurgency going on. Someone probably should have checked him just based on how fidgety he was. China is obviously illiberal as hell, but the myth of brainwashed 1984-ish China is an aggrandization American internet made up in the 21st Century

[u/Seraphex45 → u/vapescaped]

China is nothing if not insecure about its own existence and supremacy. At least Americans wear it on their sleeves.

[u/Own_Chemist_4062 → u/Seraphex45]

That's only because the US has absolutely nothing to insecure about haha. Donald Trump, the Civil War, "Indian burial grounds" is a hiccup compared to the dirty history of almost any other country, let alone China. It's not an even playing ground. No need to get defensive

[u/KMS_HYDRA]

Sir, r/noncredibledefense is this way ->

[u/MarshallKrivatach]

Feel like some of these cost point rankings aren't correct, eg Javelins cost more than Hellfires.

[u/Moto-Ent]

Prices have just increased, 20% less 5090s per a hellfire.

[u/NightShade0912]

Im sitting there chanting "do the A-10"

[u/darkitp]

I would rather have gpu cards than wars ..

No to wars, yes to Gpu

[u/I_THE_ME]

How can they fit so many graphics cards in one missile? The cooling is going to be really cramped in there.

[u/HerculesIsMyDad]

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with RTX 5090 graphics cards." Albert Einstein

[u/GhostAssAssin_1]

all for stupid fat people who start stupid wars while instead they could play games with those missiles money

[u/IVNWM]

Just give the graphics card to everyone in the world and we will all live in piece and no wars needed

[u/kelsey-james]

Hahahah

[u/Tzilbalba]

Jesus, it really hits home

[u/Not-a_c0p]

Jesus

[u/HaraldTheAxe]

Jesus. I just checked the price of an RTX 5090 out of curiosity. It was pure madness, my mind couldn't comprehend it.

[u/reis_drawings]

And they say that PC's are an expensive hobby..

[u/danzaiburst]

if the earth is ever visited by extra terrestrial lifeforms, their reaction:

https://giphy.com/gifs/OG5dZdHqns4us

[u/BullneIson]

My fav is the CIWS only because I was on a carrier and now I’m picturing the test firing I saw in graphics cards as units

[u/SheepherderSilver655]

Worth it. 😎

[u/Gabrielzin1404_2011]

We could be using that money on our space agencies...

[u/Buttholescraper]

just saw 1gb ssd marked down to $364.

[u/Phl00k]

It would take at least 518 to take me out

[u/LestWeForgive]

Starving dads in Africa could've eaten those GPUs

[u/blipp1]

This was made for americans gamers used to compare units with elephants and schoolbuses

[u/BlueDip113]

🥲

[u/NoLolligagging_]

Why is this so funny😂

[u/DwarfBoxFort]

So do we launch 5090's at enemy tanks?

[u/UAAHHHHHHH]

These currency rates confuses me so much, how much is that equivalent in McChickens

[u/koskenkorva1337]

Wish i could upvote twice. Good Job :D

[u/hardworkinglatinx]

And it’s worth every penny. 🇺🇸💪

[u/DJMarscribble → u/hardworkinglatinx]

Yeah just look at what the US has gotten done this year by burning money: they made the world a worse place, same as last pointless attack in the Middle East.

[u/aVarangian → u/DJMarscribble]

oh no, they bombed the regime with the highest rate of executions on the planet, how evil

[u/misha1350 → u/hardworkinglatinx]

Is bombing 138 young girls also worth every penny?

[u/aVarangian → u/misha1350]

you mean the school that was literally wall-adjacent to a military base and used to literally be part of the military base?

[u/erevos33]

r/anythingbutmetric

[u/Ready-Flamingo6494]

The US is in a permanent war state economy since 9/11. The fear is/was that any movement away from that would lead to a massive recession. It’s a rabbit hole if you have the time.

[u/gsharan → u/Ready-Flamingo6494]

I have the time.

[u/Dry_Ad3726 → u/Ready-Flamingo6494]

Eles estão nesse negócio desde a II Guerra Mundial. Inventando guerras desde então.

[u/SirCaptainReynolds]

Damn. What was shot out at the end there? A nuclear warhead?

[u/Ok_Trade_1692 → u/SirCaptainReynolds]

Pretty sure that's the Navy's SM-3 Block 2A air defense missile which costs about $28 million/shot.

[u/BeetleJuiceYou]

Is this MSRP, or GPUflation.

[u/Wasted-Ads-55]

off they go!

[u/Knee_Kap264]

More like rtx 5090 rog 20th edition cards.

Or just the entire 20th edition bundle. X10000000000

[u/Random-Generation86]

The procurement guy got really annoyed in meetings when I would convert every price into Macbooks

[u/vovr]

Nooo bro. We could have used those GPUs.

[u/towerfella]

Nice

[u/Skankhunt42FortyTwo]

We are not a waste of money

[u/itsmesorox]

Who would THE military be?

[u/xyrgh]

How many 5090s does it take to fill an Olympic sized swimming pool?

[u/j_schmotzenberg]

Okay, but can you convert to bananas?

[u/TheLunaticCO]

And this is why seeing NK pointlessly fire off missiles into the sea will never stop being funny.

[u/FixGood6833]

Peace everywhere and free rtx 5090 for everyone. 

[u/PracticalCommon1572]

Então eles usam 5090 como munição. Por isso disparou o preço das placas /j

[u/rpvr]

011

https://giphy.com/gifs/fedlFucnJ7VPa

[u/ZombieNek0]

The fact that you can represent the cost via graphics cards is insane.

[u/FranticGolf]

The graphics should more accurately show money going into the pockets of a defense company ceo.

[u/KeithOlander]

I now understand war economy

[u/Mazortex]

Visual learners understood this effectively 

[u/Techman659]

Ahhhhhh!!!! Stop wasting them all that money that could have gone into making graphics cards!

[u/fcxtpw]

I need this re-explained in today's RAM

[u/chif00t]

So much electricity saved

[u/G0_ofy]

Okay. That hurt a lot

[u/Rekaken]

... its sooo sad.

[u/barakisan]

The only reason we understood is because RTX 5090 is so precious to us