• MonkderDritte@feddit.de
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    6 months ago

    Are you talking about games? There, it’s mostly textures.

    Web, that’s a whole other story, why it uses so much RAM.

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      6 months ago

      WebGL means the browser has access to the GPU. Also, the whole desktop tends to be rendered as a 3D space these days. It makes things like scaling and blur effects easier, among other benefits.