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[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

because 1) the figure in the headline is only the most extreme value they found. 2) the image generated by your GPU is only one perspective of the entire 3D environment. maybe in order to download the area you're also downloading objects that don't need to be displayed on your screen yet. And 3) cloud streaming videos are also heavily compressed.