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Nvidia's new tech reduces VRAM usage by up to 96% in beta demo — RTX Neural Texture Compression looks impressive
But there is a performance cost.
At 1440p with DLSS upscaling enabled, the "NTC transcoded to BCn" mode reduced the test application's texture memory footprint by 64%, from 272MB to 98MB. Compusemble's RTX NTC benchmarks reveal that Nvidia's neural compression technology can reduce a colossal amount of a 3D application's memory texture footprint but at the cost of performance, especially in the "inference on sample" mode. The new technology uses the tensor cores in modern Nvidia GPUs to compress 3D applications and video game textures instead of traditional Block Truncation Coding.
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