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[–] fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The GPU renders the map no matter if there is lighting baked in our not. It's exactly the same operation. And depending on your display tech, brighter pixels might actually use slightly less energy.

[–] fatalicus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago

You can hardly argue that the lamp itself is using energy when "not a lamp" is using exactly as much energy