A large majority of users consolehave located it in the living room connected to a large TV, while some users have it in their bedroom, well connected to a medium-sized TV, well connected to this one monitor they are using on the pc. Which of these options uses the most energy and, therefore, contributes to increasing the electricity bill? We will analyze it in detail below.
Many users believe that the larger the screen, the greater its consumption. However, and although this is generally true, there are some exceptions to take into account and when talking about a console connected to a screen, sometimes it is more important for consumption to take into account the resolution rather than its size. . We will see it.
Console on TV or monitor, which spends the most?
Right off the bat we are going to tell you that connecting the console to a small Full HD monitor in your bedroom is going to consume considerably less than having it in the living room connected to a large 4K TV, but this is both due to consumption of the screen itself and the consumption of the console itself, because rendering games at 1080p resolution will always require fewer resources than doing it at 4K resolution, and this implies that the consumption of the console, as well as its temperature, will drop.
However, things can change a bit depending on the TV and monitor we are talking about. We are going to put ourselves in a situation contrary to the example we gave previously, where in the living room you have a television with, for example, Full HD resolution and 42 inches, while in your bedroom you have a 27 inch monitor but, for this example, has a resolution of 1440p and supports 240Hz, the maximum supported by the PS5 and Xbox Series X. In this case, despite being smaller in size, as the resolution is higher and that its refresh rate is also higher, the console will consume much more connected to the monitor than to the TV.
What we want to tell you is that, in short, not because it is a larger screen, the final consumption does not necessarily have to be higher, since it is not only necessary to take into account the consumption of the screen itself (normally yes, a TV consumes more than a PC screen), but also the resolution and the refresh rate at which the console is forced to operate, since in this case its consumption must also be taken into account.
Now to answer the title question, and with a few exceptions with high end devices such as the monitor in the example we gave, playing the console on the TV will normally cost more electricity than playing it on a PC monitor (although normally also the gaming experience will be better). For this reason, if you want to save on your electric bill, you might want to bring the console to the office where you have your PC and play using its monitor.
