Samsung WF50T85…A
Filed with DOE as WF50T85**A*. An asterisk in a model number stands for any character: this one filing covers several variants.
505 kWh a year DOE CCD (opens in a new tab) (the U.S. Department of Energy’s Compliance Certification Database) · 2026-10-25with an electric water heater and an electric dryer
IMEF 2.92 filed efficiency; the yearly figure is computed from it
A front-loading washer of standard size (1.6 cubic feet or more). Drum: 5 cubic feet.
Label numbers this filing covers (1)
The model number on your rating plate may be any of these; each is filed under this one listing.
- WF50T85**A*
Verifying the Samsung WF50T85**A*? At DOE's test use, this front-loading standard-size washer uses 505 kWh a year with an electric water heater and an electric dryer. It uses 4,278 gallons of water a year under the same test use. Its IMEF, the cubic feet of laundry washed per kilowatt-hour, dryer included, is 2.92, above its class median of 2.76.
Energy and water per year
505 kWh a year with an electric water heater and an electric dryer
Computed by this site from the registry's IMEF and drum capacity at DOE's test use of 295 cycles a year. IMEF counts the washer, heating its water electrically, and the electric dryer's work on what the spin leaves wet — so this is the total for that kind of home. How it is calculated
The machine and its hot water alone, dryer not included: 110 kWh a year, as ENERGY STAR files it.
Not published: A home with a gas water heater, a gas dryer or line drying
DOE's rating assumes electric water heating and an electric dryer and files no split between the machine, the water heating and the drying.
Such a home uses less electricity than the total above; how much less, no registry says for this model.
4,278 gallons of water a year
Computed from the registry's IWF and drum capacity at the same 295 cycles a year.
Not published: What the water costs
water and sewer rates are set by thousands of local utilities and no free national source publishes them.
The gallons above are the figure to multiply by your own water and sewer rate.
This model is rated above the federal minimum IMEF for its class.
DOE CCD (opens in a new tab) · 2026-10-25What it costs to run where you live
See what the middle washer of each product class costs to run on your rate.
What the registry files
From DOE CCD · 2026-10-25
- IMEF (Integrated Modified Energy Factor) how many cubic feet of drum a washer cleans for each kilowatt-hour, counting the machine, heating the water and drying what the spin leaves wet
- 2.92 Compared only with other front-loading, standard size washers.
- IWF (Integrated Water Factor) how many gallons of water a washer uses per cycle for each cubic foot of drum
- 2.9
- Clothes container capacity the volume of the drum in cubic feet, as DOE's test measures it
- 5 ft³
- Federal minimum IMEF for this class
- 1.84
From ENERGY STAR · 2026-10-25
- ENERGY STAR
- ENERGY STAR certified.
Installed cost and service life
$1,217–$1,945 installed
Not a quote — a modeled range of what installers have charged for this class of unit; your price will vary with labor rates, access, and local code requirements.
Brought to current prices with Bureau of Labor Statistics indexes: equipment to August 2026, installation labor to April 2026–June 2026.
NLR REMDB (BLS PPI/ECI escalated) · 2026-04-01Service life: DOE’s cost database assumes 11 years for front-loading washers. That is a class assumption, not this model’s rating or a warranty — no registry publishes either.
NLR REMDB v4.0.0 · 2026-09-29Safety record
No CPSC recall names this model.
Checked against the CPSC recall database. CPSC does not publish a model-level match for this product category, so this list is curated by hand from the manufacturer's recall filings.
CPSC · 2026-09-29This model's EnergyGuide label (the manufacturer's PDF) (opens in a new tab)
What these figures mean
Where the hot water in this figure comes from
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Water heaters
The other big user of hot water in a home, with every model on file.
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What a water heater costs to run
Prices a water heater’s efficiency against your own utility’s tariff.
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The yearly gallons and kWh of every residential washer on file, by product class with the full spread, plus the exact per-cycle figures, and the watts no registry files declared as a gap.
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All four product classes, from the DOE registry.
The registry does not print the 505 kWh figure. This site computes it from the 2.92 IMEF and the capacity, the drum's volume in cubic feet, of 5, at DOE's test use. The DOE CCD values were retrieved on 2026-10-25. Because IMEF includes drying, the yearly total covers the washer, its electrically heated water and the electric dryer's share. ENERGY STAR files a separate machine-only figure for this model: 110 kWh a year. That value covers the machine and its electrically heated water alone, with the dryer not included. The difference between 110 kWh and 505 kWh is therefore the dryer's share under the test assumptions. The steps are set out in how this site calculates the yearly energy and water figures.
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This site also computes the 4,278 gallons yearly water figure. It starts from the registry's IWF, the gallons of water used per cycle for each cubic foot of drum, which is 2.9 for this model. That factor is multiplied by the 5 capacity at DOE's test use. A lower IWF means less water per cubic foot of drum per cycle. The page states no water cost for this model. No free national source publishes local water and sewer rates, so any cost would be an estimate, and none is given. A reader who knows the local rate can apply it to 4,278 gallons. The result holds only at DOE's test use, not at a household's own number of loads.
This model is compared with the 360 models registered as front-loading, standard size. Its IMEF of 2.92 ranks 33rd highest of those 360, above the class median of 2.76. It is rated above the federal minimum IMEF for its class, where 37 models in the class sit. A higher IMEF means more laundry washed per kilowatt-hour. The text states no running cost, because that depends on the reader's own utility electricity tariff. Instead, the page computes it from the reader's ZIP and applies it to the 505 kWh test-use figure. The installed-cost range appears in its own block with its source and date, as a modeled range rather than a quote. Other models in this class are listed on the index of all clothes washer pages.