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Darren Allan

Got buyer's remorse with your 8GB graphics card? Nvidia's AI texture compression promises huge benefits for GPUs with stingy amounts of memory

A young teenager is playing a PC game and celebrating a victory.
  • Nvidia's Neural Texture Compression feature just became more efficient
  • It got this boost thanks to Microsoft's new Cooperative Vector in DXR 1.2
  • Testing with a demo showed almost a 90% reduction in video RAM footprint for textures, but that won’t apply in all scenarios (by any means)

Worried your Nvidia graphics card may be underpowered in terms of the video RAM (VRAM) it has on board? You may be aware that Team Green is working on tech to mitigate such concerns, and it appears to be taking considerable strides forward in that regard.

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