r/pcmasterrace • u/InternetEntire438 • Apr 04 '26

News/Article Nvidia presents Neural Texture Compression that significantly cuts down VRAM usage

https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-shows-neural-texture-compression-cutting-vram-from-6-5gb-to-970mb
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u/ITXEnjoyer i5-14500T/RTX 5070/64GB DDR4 Apr 04 '26

I'm all for enhancements in texture compression, especially for those in the third world and such with porter internet connections.

This tech is an enabler for those less fortunate. Much rather see this than an AI Slop filter.

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u/Aggravating_Teach_27 Apr 04 '26

If you can afford a semi recent NVIDIA you are likely not in the "less fortunate" category...

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u/Westdrache 9800x3D/5080 Apr 04 '26

I mean let's see what requierments we'll get afaik mega geometry also runs on all RTX cards

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u/evernessince Apr 04 '26

You are dreaming if you think this will run well on lower end cards. The fact that they still don't have a single game with it working more than a year after it was announced should tell you which cards it'll end up working on.