• @Darorad
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    183 days ago

    So you can use this and take a performance hit or not use this and take a performance hit because Nvidia doesn’t put enough vtam in their cards

  • LostXOR
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    93 days ago

    Great, soon you’ll be able to play a game in 720p upscaled to 4k with AI, at 60 fps with 144 fps of AI-interpolated frames, with AI-compressed textures. Surely this won’t look like garbage!

  • @[email protected]
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    113 days ago

    The performance cost is not insignificant.

    And comparing it to uncompressed original pngs is disingenuous. No games are using uncompressed textures.

    • @Cypher
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      63 days ago

      revealing a whopping 96% reduction in memory texture size with NTC compared to conventional texture compression techniques

      From the article.

      • @[email protected]
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        63 days ago

        You’re correct. I guess they’re comparing against compressed pngs. Judging from the image at least.

        But still, I think they’re cherry picking one of the worst formats to make the comparison look good.

        Not to say that means this is bad. Just the cost/benefit is not nearly as good as it appears. We need comparisons against ETC or DXT.

    • Blaster M
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      13 days ago

      Call of Duty be like

  • @hark
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    43 days ago

    I would be interested in seeing performance impact in an actual game scenario. It’s hard to tell what the impact would be from a scene with just a single object in it and with FPS in the hundreds or thousands. Other bottlenecks could arise from an actual game scene that may make this negligible or a more significant impact on performance.

  • ThrowawayOnLemmy
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    43 days ago

    And it’ll only be available on the RTX6000 series cards which will start out with 2gb of VRAM and cost $3000

  • @SpaceNoodle
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    23 days ago

    This reminds me of the clever printer compression that would just completely replace numbers on documents