Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldM to Hardware@lemmy.world · 1 month agoNvidia's new tech reduces VRAM usage by up to 96% in beta demo — RTX Neural Texture Compression looks impressivewww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up125arrow-down11
arrow-up124arrow-down1external-linkNvidia's new tech reduces VRAM usage by up to 96% in beta demo — RTX Neural Texture Compression looks impressivewww.tomshardware.comAlphane Moon@lemmy.worldM to Hardware@lemmy.world · 1 month agomessage-square10fedilink
minus-squareCypher@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 month ago revealing a whopping 96% reduction in memory texture size with NTC compared to conventional texture compression techniques From the article.
minus-squareCouldntCareBear@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 month agoYou’re correct. I guess they’re comparing against compressed pngs. Judging from the image at least. But still, I think they’re cherry picking one of the worst formats to make the comparison look good. Not to say that means this is bad. Just the cost/benefit is not nearly as good as it appears. We need comparisons against ETC or DXT.
From the article.
You’re correct. I guess they’re comparing against compressed pngs. Judging from the image at least.
But still, I think they’re cherry picking one of the worst formats to make the comparison look good.
Not to say that means this is bad. Just the cost/benefit is not nearly as good as it appears. We need comparisons against ETC or DXT.