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Nvidia Unveils Neural Texture Compression to Cut VRAM Usage

4/5/2026

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Nvidia introduced Neural Texture Compression (NTC), a technology that reduces VRAM usage and improves texture quality.
NTC enables developers to use small neural networks to unpack textures, achieving up to an 80% reduction in memory requirements.
NTC is still under development and no games currently use it, while Microsoft and Intel are exploring similar techniques.

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Story summary

Nvidia introduced Neural Texture Compression (NTC), a technology that reduces VRAM usage and improves texture quality.
NTC enables developers to use small neural networks to unpack textures, achieving up to an 80% reduction in memory requirements.
NTC is still under development and no games currently use it, while Microsoft and Intel are exploring similar techniques.