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Jeremy Laird

Intel has joined Nvidia with its own neural texture compression tech but it probably won't rescue your VRAM-starved 8 GB GPU any time soon

We can surely all agree it's a great pity that some otherwise decent modern GPUs are hobbled by a shortage of VRAM. I'm looking at you, Nvidia RTX 5060. So, what if there was a way to squeeze games into a much smaller memory footprint, without impacting image quality?

Actually, there is, at least in part, and it's called neural texture compression (NTC). Indeed, the basic idea is nothing new, as we've been posting about NTC since the dark days of 2023.

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