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Lafiel on 08 June 2019
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Barkley said:
DonFerrari said:

Not sure how much data 4k Stadia will eat up, but 1Tb seems acceptable (I'm theoretically uncapped, but most of the time my connection doesn't deliver the promissed speed). In brazil our law allow they do deliver 10% of the contract for long periods without any issue.

4k Stadia will probably be a problem for anyone with a data cap. Depends how much you play.

4k - 15.75gb per hour   (35mbit)
1080p - 9gb per hour    (20mbit)
720p- 4.5gb per hour    (10mbit)

So 4k would use 1TB of data with 65 hours, 1080p with 113 hours and 720p with 226 hours.

So if you played 2 hours a day, 4k would eat almost all the 1TB cap, 1080p would eat half of it so you could probably get away with that depending how much of your cap you normally use for other things. If someone plays more than 45 hours in a month 4k probably isn't viable if you have a 1TB data cap.

In practice the stream will use a bit less data than that, as the video feed you receive won't always use the max bitrate. Due to the way compression works the max bitrate will only be needed in very fast cuts with lots of moving/changing content and full color info (pure black/white pixels need less info).