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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: tp4tissue on Thu, 20 January 2022, 13:42:35

Title: Is this power efficient?
Post by: tp4tissue on Thu, 20 January 2022, 13:42:35

For steam to use such an intense compression.

They're saving money on bandwidth, sure,  but does this ultimately waste more electricity (in totality) if decompression has to occur on all client machines.

This is on a 4.8ghz 4970k.

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Title: Re: Is this power efficient?
Post by: Leslieann on Thu, 20 January 2022, 20:41:07

The cost on your end varies greatly from low spec machines to ultra high end overclocks so that would be difficult to calculate.

Honestly, the bigger reason for that compression is probably in regards to storage, that much data and backup gets expensive real fast, them saving on bandwidth is just a bonus.