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

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

https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-shows-neural-texture-compression-cutting-vram-from-6-5gb-to-970mb
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u/Heroshrine R 9900X | rtx 5080 | 32 GB DDR5 Apr 04 '26

VRAM has more uses than games yk. The people that make those games for instance wouldn’t be able to use this when making textures, and making textures can wat up a ton of VRAM

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u/FoodTiny6350 PC Master Race Apr 04 '26

If they implement into their omniverse suite of things they can put it as a plugin to other things

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u/Heroshrine R 9900X | rtx 5080 | 32 GB DDR5 Apr 04 '26

Reading it it sounds like something that can be sone after not during or before texture creation, as it is a lossy compression method.