Surprisingly, despite our recent trip to Computex 2025 in Taipei, we had not seen any power supply with this new 80 PLUS power efficiency standard – as discovered by @RubyRapids on X (via Videocardz), there’s an even higher tier for the 80 PLUS standard called 80 PLUS Ruby.
80 PLUS Ruby Discovered
80 PLUS Ruby is now the highest tier available for the 80 PLUS standard, which starts from 80 PLUS (no suffix), Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Titanium, and now Ruby. The standard requirements seems to indicate that this new standard is pretty much for datacenter use only, as this tier is not applicable to non-redundant power supplies. Aside from that, the power efficiency thresholds have also been increased by 0.5-1% in various metrics over the Titanium standard, along with an additional requirement for 5% load – the first of all 80 PLUS standards.
This is the first new standard from 80 PLUS in 14 years, according to CLEAResult, the organization behind this standard; per its press release dated early March, it is designed to “[provide] the industry with a pathway toward higher energy efficiency, ensuring data centers can meet the evolving demands of cloud storage, commercial institutions and the growing strain on the grid caused by AI-driven computing.”
The first product featuring this power efficiency tier was announced back in late February this year, courtesy of Delta Electronics’ 5,500-watt redundant power supply with a claimed power efficiency of up to 97.5% and a near-perfect power factor of 0.99. Of course, given its redundancy requirements to attain such badge, this explains its absence in the consumer market and managed to flew under the radar for months.
Pokdepinion: Surprised this went largely unnoticed for months.
