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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The performance cost is not insignificant.

And comparing it to uncompressed original pngs is disingenuous. No games are using uncompressed textures.

[–] Cypher 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

revealing a whopping 96% reduction in memory texture size with NTC compared to conventional texture compression techniques

From the article.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

You're correct. I guess they're comparing against compressed pngs. Judging from the image at least.

But still, I think they're cherry picking one of the worst formats to make the comparison look good.

Not to say that means this is bad. Just the cost/benefit is not nearly as good as it appears. We need comparisons against ETC or DXT.

[–] Blaster_M 1 points 3 days ago

Call of Duty be like