TL;DR: NVIDIA's Neural Texture Compression (NTC) combined with Microsoft's DirectX Raytracing 1.2 significantly reduces VRAM usage by up to 90%, improving game performance and lowering hardware costs.

The VRAM crisis is complicated by a technological counter-force too: AI upscaling and Frame Generation. This introduces a fascinating paradox, a tug-of-war for memory space on the GPU. On the one hand ...

Valve confirms its monthly Steam Hardware & Software Survey results have been reporting some incorrect data relating to GPU ...

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To truly grasp why your powerful new GPU is suddenly choking on VRAM, we must look at the convergence of five powerful technological and economic forces that have created this crisis simultaneously.