How badly does a wider Color Correction Gradient Texture affect Bat., Perf. & Mem. on Phones?

Sosasees

In my current 2D game, I have applied a WorldEnviroment to add 2 Post-Processing effects: Glow and Color Correction.

Because I make my current game for phones, I am concerned with Battery Life, Memory Usage and Performance. This is why I currently think it's a better idea to lower the width of the Gradient Texture of the Color Correction effect of the WorldEnviroment to almost the bare minimum. This trades a little bit of my game's artistic authenticity (because it reduces the Glow effect) for a slightly longer Battery Life, a little bit less of a chance to run out of Memory, and a little bit better Performance. But how much of each do I actually gain for reducing this Single gradient texture's Width? I can't test this on a low-end phone because I only have a mid-end phone.

Before you ask, I can't completely remove the color correction. This'd make the game feel really dull and lifeless compared to how it is right now, even though the difference is only 2 color codes away from #000 and #FFF. I can semi-easily accept removing the glow, but not the color correction.

This is how the game looks like when I adjust the Width of the Color Correction gradient:

20-wide Gradient Texture (Noticable Glow, artistically intended visuals):
5-wide Gradient Texture (Unnoticable Glow, compromised visuals for technical benefits):

TwistedTwigleg

Well, the best way to know for sure would be to do a performance test: Run the game with the larger gradient texture for a decent length of time, and then run the game with the smaller gradient texture for the same length. Since the concern is for battery life, you could change the device to 100%, and run the game for a period of time (like an hour or two?) and record the battery level. After doing this for both gradient textures, you should be able to see how much if impacts the battery life.

You could also, maybe, make it an option, like "battery save mode" or something :smile:

Sosasees

@TwistedTwigleg said: Well, the best way to know for sure would be to do a performance test: Run the game with the larger gradient texture for a decent length of time, and then run the game with the smaller gradient texture for the same length. Since the concern is for battery life, you could change the device to 100%, and run the game for a period of time (like an hour or two?) and record the battery level. After doing this for both gradient textures, you should be able to see how much if impacts the battery life.

On my mid-end phone, this makes no noticable difference. What I'm concerned about is Low-End phones. The problem with this is that I currently don't have a low-end phone at my disposal. I tested with the same mid-end phone I use everyday. It has 4GB RAM in total.

Do you have an estimate or educated guesstimate of how the change in the Gradient Texture's width would impact low-end phones?