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[cormack12]

Link: https://ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-p...1LTRiMTUtYWZmMi02NzZhMDliNmZiZWMiLCJleHAiOjB9

Rumours that NTC developments could be getting announced at CES 2025 and that's the reason the 50xx relatively low VRAM too.......Nvidia about to pair texture compression with DLSS and use Switch 2 as the playground?

NVIDIA Neural Texture Compression offers 4 times higher resolution than standard compression with 30% less memory - VideoCardz.com

NVIDIA’s Neural Texture Compression for material texture compression NVIDIA researchers have developed a novel compression algorithm for material textures. In a paper titled “Random-Access Neural Compression of Material Textures”, NVIDIA presents a new algorithm for texture compression. The work...

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[winjer]

We already had news for that some time ago, for both Nvidia and AMD's AI texture compression.
The question is if it will require new hardware to implement, or if it's just a software based solution, that can run on current Tensor cores.

 

[cireza]

I sense that picture quality is going to be all over the place.

 

[efyu_lemonardo]

I sense that picture quality is going to be all over the place.

Perhaps texture quality will somewhat suffer but game download sizes will go down and that's a good thing.

Edit: according to the summary this will also positively affect memory requirements (so: hardware cost) and can be computed on existing hardware, possibly fast enough for real time.

Sounds like a big win to me!

 

[Robb]

Sounds like a perfect solution for Nintendo tbh. Curious to see if it’s something they’ll actually utilize.

Would be great to still get all their games on the cartridge without needing any downloads throughout their next generation as well.