AMD NTBC Technology To Reduce Weight Of Games By 70%
AMD has announced the development of a new texture compression method called NTBC (Neural Texture Block Compression), which uses artificial intelligence.
AMD NTBC technology solves the problem through compression using neural networks - it is partially compatible with texture compression algorithms used today (Block Compression, BC).
“It has been designed to be compatible with existing BC formats, namely BC1 and BC4, with a reduced footprint and can be used as a replacement for existing graphics processes. <..> We have shown that NTBC can achieve better compression ratios than standard BC for both approaches, while still generating textures of reasonable quality. However, there is a trade-off between quality and compression ratio for the aggressive and conservative approaches -...