windows central VRAM shortages could be a thing of the past — NVIDIA and DirectX tech drops usage by up to 90%

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The 8GB VRAM drama could soon come to an end, at least if some early tests performed by X user @opinali (via Wccftech) using NVIDIA's new Neural Texture Compression (NTC) and Microsoft's DirectX Raytracing 1.2 Cooperative Vector are true.

 

User opinali got their hands on an early NVIDIA preview driver (version 590.26) and, combined with an RTX NTC SDK beta from Github, performed some rendering tests to see how the new combination of NTC and DXR's Cooperative Vectors performs.

 

These tests are early and rudimentary, but on an NVIDIA RTX 5080 GPU, they're certainly promising.

Not only does the combination of NVIDIA NTC and DXR 1.2 Cooperative Vectors improve performance by nearly 80% while rendering, but it also drops VRAM usage by up to 90%. That's not a typo — I mean 90%.

NVIDIA and DirectX tech drops VRAM usage by 90% in early tests | Windows Central

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Need more VRAM in your GPU? One user is already seeing massive consumption drops with NVIDIA NTC and DXR 1.2.