cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/37885464
And produce real light!?
this post was submitted on 25 Jan 2025
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Well yeah, since that's how you can see them to begin with.
Unless you turn your monitor off, then it's just making sounds.
Especially with ray tracing enabled
Depending on the kind of monitor you have this isn't really true, the screen's backlight will use the same amount of energy whether the rendered scene is all black or all white. Exceptions being technologies like OLED where individual pixels can be turned off/on
I mean theyre still using real electricity. Theyre just not producing light at all times.
While this is true, the meme suggests (to me) that, just as in real life, a lamp that is on consumes more energy than a lamp that is off. In addition, in the case of a monitor with a back light, every pixel in the scene will consume the same amount of energy (assuming all 'pixels' in a monitor panel consume the same energy) regardless of what is rendered.
Taking all that into consideration, not only does the lamp not consume anymore power when on, the lamp itself does not consume any more power than any other object rendered in the scene. I believe this is only true for when: 1) a monitor has an always-om backlight 2) it is not an HDR rated monitor and 3) we are only considering energy consumed during the production of light, not while rendering.
(I know the meme is not serious, but I'm having fun 🙂)
Even if the monitor doesn't use more electricity, they still take up some memory and cpu/gpu resources. Especially if the game has good shadows or reflections.
Showerthoughts are leaking.
Lol. Chris Morroco. I miss Bonne Appetite. Fuck Conde Nast.
So does your face
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It's the shadows that use it