80 PLUS stickers can be found across a whole lot of PSUs, including the one you’re running inside your PCs right now. With many tiers denoting what sort of efficiency that it could achieve, the Titanium rating has been the highest tier for many years, but the new Ruby tier is about to take over its spot.
The news was first published by CLEAResult, a company that focuses on energy efficiency and sustainability, where they talked about the increasing power demand by AI data centers has placed the Titanium tier’s 96% efficiency at 50% load “a bit not enough” considering the consumption scale of today’s computing needs.
Here, Ruby steps in with 96.5% at that same load, and even outperforms Titanium across the board—like 91% at 10%, 95% at 20%, and 92% at full load. Even considering the 90% efficiency at 5% load, this can actually compound quickly and lead to a lot of power being saved, or helping servers that aren’t always running at full strength.
At the time being, Delta Electronics is already jumping on the opportunity, launching a massive 5,500W PSU for AI servers that hits an eye-watering 97.5% efficiency. But one thing – This is not for consumers just yet, so yeah, even with all the money in the world, you won’t find one 80 PLUS Ruby PSU for your $15000 monster rig, for now.
In the meantime, you can learn more about it here.
