Is your GPU's memory holding you back from gaming glory? The truth about VRAM usage and performance may surprise you.

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 — 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 ...

NVIDIA has officially launched its DLSS Transformer model as part of the 310.3.0 SDK, significantly advancing upscaling while reducing video memory requirements. This new approach directly tackles a ...

Something to look forward to: High-resolution textures are a primary factor behind the growing install sizes and VRAM usage in modern blockbuster games. Nvidia proposed a neural-network-based method ...

Rendering trees in 3D has always been a bit of a memory hog, but AMD seems to have chopped down the problem with a new technique called “work graphs”. According to the boffins at AMD, this method cuts ...

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Graphics card memory, or VRAM, has been a hot topic of discussion over the past few years because we're not really getting enough of it. It's crazy to think that 8 years ago, the GeForce GTX 1070 was ...

The modding community is great at finding ways to extend the life expectancy of aging tech, and recently, an optimistic group of Brazilian modders attempted an Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 VRAM upgrade.