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More interestingly, lamps in video games use the same amount of real electricity if they are on or off.
Not necessarily, on OLED displays (which are definitely a thing for desktop computers and TVs) a light that's turned off is using less power because the pixels the lamp is displayed on (and the ones around it too) are dimmer.
YELLS IN GPU VERTEX PIPELINE
that consumes electricity. ever think about the poor gpu? about how your words hurt its feelings?
jokes aside the power to process a few hundred vertices every frame is insignificant