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.

VRAM has been quite a contentious issue among PC enthusiasts in recent times. In the early 2010s, the amount of VRAM you'd find on your average consumer-grade graphics card was rapidly increasing with ...

VRAM — video memory — is what your graphics card uses to store textures, lighting data, shadows, reflections, and all the other visual assets that make your PC games look the way they should. That ...