All articles tagged with #neural texture compression
NVIDIA released the DLSS 4.5 Streamline plugin to simplify integration for games/apps and announced the RTX Neural Texture Compression SDK (v0.9), offering up to 6x faster BC7 encoding, 40% faster inference, and 7x lower memory use, with 6x Multi-Frame Generation coming this spring and DLSS 4.5 rolling out broadly via the NVIDIA App.
PC gaming is facing stuttering issues due to traversal or loading stutter and shader compilation stutter. Consoles have an advantage over PC due to dedicated hardware decompression processors that result in fewer traversal stutters. DirectStorage is available to PC users, but it just improves loading times and doesn't leverage GPU decompression. Nvidia's proposed Neural Texture Compression (NTC) system could solve the stuttering issues and VRAM hikes plaguing PC gamers by handling compression and decompression of textures directly on the GPU. However, it's just a research paper for now, and it's unclear when it will be brought into graphics cards.