Even very cheap GPU cards are pumping data at 2 teraflops, trillions of floating point calculations per second, often on about 20 watts of power, while even the 70w RTX 3050 6GB OC does just above 6 teraflops.
A 4060 does about 12 gigaflops of floating point, on a larger power budget of 150 watts, requires a PSU with a GPU power cord able to give the GPU enough energy, noting that a GPU contains VRMs to regulate RAM & GPU power, a mainboard logic, data controller for IO, and other components of a PC motherboard, and in some sense a gaming GPU card a kind of specialized super computer.
The same can be said of the latest updated Sony Play Station 5 game console or the Xbox X game console, which are gaming computers with highly optimized architectures. Even the Intel Arc 580 with 12GB VRAM performs well at the $450 price point to keep up with vastly more expensive NVIDIA chip GPUs
AI boom eating up global RAM production so much that RAM today sells for 4X what it did 1 year ago. I had to pay almost $240 for 4X8GB of DDR4 3200MHz w/ Aluminum Heat Sinks, while the 3050 6GB OC GPU card cost me $180, the MSI PRO B550-VC mainboard was $80, the AMD Ryzen 5-5500 was $86, the Zalman CUBIX-G case for $40, the Rosewill 650W 80+Gold PSU was $47, 22inch Gaming Monitor with speakers was $70, gaming keyboard was $10, all said with a DP braided cable, about $810
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