NVIDIA showcased its RTX Neural Texture Compression (NTC) technique back in 2023, and once again in H1 2026, revealing that VRAM usage can be reduced by an impressive 85 percent. Now, the SDK that was available for developers on Windows 11 has made its way to the ARM64 platform because NVIDIA’s RTX Spark and several notebook families powered by this SoC are expected to arrive later this year. Despite NTC being available to developers, no game is currently supporting this technique, and there is no word on whether RTX Spark could change this Windows 11 ARM64 supporting RTX Neural Texture Compression […]

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AMD presented new research at the I3D Symposium titled "PEPS: Positional Encoding Projected Sampling", introducing a new method for positional encoding that can improve neural texture compression. How Does Neural Texture Compression Work? Neural Texture Compression works by training what are known as INRs, or “Implicit Neural Representations,” to learn coordinate-to-signal functions. By projecting texture coordinates into a higher-dimensional embedding and feeding this information to a multi-layer perceptron, it's possible to represent and compress textures significantly. PEPS: Positional Encoding Projected Sampling PEPS introduces a new method to improve the efficiency of this process by changing how positional encoding is used. […]

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In the world of PC gaming, "badly optimized" is a phrase that gets tossed around more than a grenade in a crowded lobby. Usually, the story goes like this: a shiny new game launches, players crank everything to Ultra, watch their frames per second (FPS) counter like a hawk, and reach a verdict in seconds. If the frame rate isn't high enough to their liking, then the game is deemed "unoptimized". If it runs like butter, then it’s "well optimized". The reality, however, is that PC game optimization is a massive, complicated puzzle. Performance isn't just about how hard a […]

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At GDC 2026, Intel graphics engineer Marissa du Bois took the stage to present Intel's version of neural texture compression, very similar to NVIDIA's NTC in that both technologies are deterministic. The presentation was a follow-up to the original R&D prototype shown at GDC 2025, with the key news being that Intel has now productized that research into a standalone SDK. Texture Set Neural Compression (TSNC) is essentially a smarter way to store game textures. Traditional GPU block compression formats (BC1 through BC7) use fixed mathematical rules to reduce texture size, and while they're fast and universally supported, they leave […]

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During a GTC 2026 session titled "Introduction to Neural Rendering," NVIDIA showcased its Neural Texture Compression (NTC) technique once again. Neural Texture Compression was showcased for the first time nearly three years ago and has been available via an SDK since early 2026, but so far, no game developers have used it. Perhaps that is why NVIDIA has once again taken the chance to explain its potential benefits. Senior DevTech Engineer Alexey Bekin described Neural Texture Compression as a machine learning approach for storing textures more efficiently. Instead of storing every texel directly, NTC compresses the texture into compact learned latent […]

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AMD leaker Kepler_L2 has provided more info on the likely base spec of Sony's PlayStation 6 (PS6) console. The insider has been one of the most prolific sources of information on both the PS6 and its main competitor, Microsoft's next Xbox console codenamed Project Helix, alongside content creator Moore's Law Is Dead. Both consoles will be powered by AMD's RDNA 5 and Zen 6 architectures, after all, and Kepler_L2 has a historically proven track record for AMD leaks. A few days ago, the leaker shared on the NeoGAF board that the bill of materials, essentially the list of how much […]

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