NVIDIA has released more details about its Neural Texture Compression (NTC) technology, which significantly reduces GPU VRAM usage by up to seven times. In a technology demo presented during one of the GTC 2026 sessions, NVIDIA revealed that its Neural Texture Compression can reduce VRAM usage from ...
While the work is being pushed by Nvidia, it’s based on an API tool that is being implemented into DX and Vulkan called “Cooperative Vectors.” This is just Nvidia’s implementation.
It’ll just be up to each hardware vendor to support it.