Will AI save us from the memory crunch it helped create?
Neural Texture Compression (NTC) could be a game-changer on par with DLSS if it can reduce the VRAM requirement for textures ...
Intel's Texture Set Neural Compression leverages AI to reduce the footprint of textures in games at install time or during ...
Nvidia researchers have proposed a neural compression method for material textures that, according to results reported in ...
PC gamers face an ongoing problem: more powerful games demand more powerful resources, all in the service of games that ...
TSNC is being positioned as a practical path for developers who already ship BC-compressed assets and want to squeeze more data into the same storage, bandwidth, ...
NVIDIA showcases Neural Texture Compression at GTC 2026, cutting VRAM usage by up to 85% with real-time AI reconstruction.
Intel TSNC brings neural texture compression with up to 18x reduction, faster decoding, and flexible SDK support for modern ...
If you read this site, chances are pretty good that you've probably played around with a neural image upscaler at some point. These programs, like the popular "waifu2x", use a pre-trained neural ...
The GPU maker named after a Roman vengeance daemon, Nvidia has published a paper which details a new algorithm for texture compression which could reduce system requirements for future AAA titles. The ...
In its "Tuscan Wheels" demo, the company showed VRAM usage dropping from roughly 6.5GB with traditional BCN-compressed ...
Ever since texture mapping took off back in the 1990s, texture access has been recognised as one of the most important consumers of memory bandwidth in graphics systems – to the point where the amount ...