Google Stadia’s data use is high

[Demon_Skeith]

Google Stadia is every bit the data hog that everyone was expecting. The service warns that it can use between 4.5GB and 20GB of data per hour. Where you’ll fall within that range depends on the quality of the video feed you get from Stadia. But I didn’t want to just take Google’s word for this, so I set up a quick test. At 4K and 60 frames per second, 20GB per hour seems right in line with my experience.

Red Dead Redemption 2 at 1080p60 on Stadia:

• Duration: 13 minutes
• Data used total: 1.55GB
• Data per minute: 119MB
• Estimated data per hour: 7.14GB

I couldn’t track the use at 4K, but at four times the pixels of 1080p, Stadia should easily hit that 20GB/minute throughput.

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[froggyboy604]

Wow, the data usage for Stadia us high for 4k.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

I'm not surprised, to kill lag they would need a lot of data passing through.

 

[Danielx64]

Well, I am glad that I am not interested in this, I hope that that the servers can keep up.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

Well, I am glad that I am not interested in this, I hope that that the servers can keep up.

service really hasn't hit public yet.

 

[Ash]

Not surprised. This basically makes it useless for a lot of countries and people without unlimited data usages. And the people that tend to have unlimited data plans probably have consoles and high-end gaming PCs so don't have the need to use Stadia