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0 pointsneolog5y ago0 comments

Doesn't it depend on the person's network setup?

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No. However fast is your Internet, it is still slower to send data out on the Internet pipes and back again than doing local computation.

5ms ping to your local Stadia server is at least 5ms of additional latency compared to a high end PC. Add virtualisation costs, CPU steal time, packet loss, video compression and decompression etc for another measurable increase.

neologOP5y ago

How long is the rest of the latency chain? For example, keyboard input over usb is gonna be ~15 ms, processing time is gonna be >5ms, and display time like 12ms. Adding those comes to a minimum of around 32ms. [1]

I'm not sure if I can tell the difference between 32 ms and 37 ms.

[1] https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/

1_player5y ago

Your 37ms is based on 5ms roundtrip and 0 CPU time, which is impossible. And add network jitter which might be worse than static latency.

And the Stadia market isn't people with fast monitors, Ethernet connected and ultra stable internet, but high latency TVs, avg tier Wifi, slow hardware to decode video.

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1_player5y ago

No. However fast is your Internet, it is still slower to send data out on the Internet pipes and back again than doing local computation.

neologOP5y ago

I'm not sure if I can tell the difference between 32 ms and 37 ms.

[1] https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/

1_player5y ago

Your 37ms is based on 5ms roundtrip and 0 CPU time, which is impossible. And add network jitter which might be worse than static latency.

And the Stadia market isn't people with fast monitors, Ethernet connected and ultra stable internet, but high latency TVs, avg tier Wifi, slow hardware to decode video.

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