NVIDIA Neural Texture Compression Slashes VRAM Usage Over 80% In Games

NVIDIA has shown off its Neutral Texture Compression (NTC) technology before, but it is still a work in progress. The technology and its efficiency benefits have since been more clearly detailed and it’s quite impressive. A high-fidelity, path-traced villa scene (pictured above) that originally required 6.5 GB of memory shrinks by about ~80%,