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Steam features never fail to amaze me (programming.dev)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Maybe it's the read or write speed of the drives.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I don't have two great devices to test with but my bet is on the CPU being the bottleneck. I have only used the feature between my desktop (5900x, 2,5 gigabit connection) and a steam deck (a comparably bad CPU, 1 gigabit ethernet or WiFi)

The steam deck also caps at around the same speed when downloading from the internet while the desktop can download at near 2,5 Gigabit speeds.

Oh and both devices used NVME drives.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

The CPU on the source used for compression is definitely the bottleneck for me. Internet is faster.