The Advantage Consoles Hold Over PC Gaming.
Originally Published 2 years ago — by Digital Trends
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.