NVIDIA's AI Texture Compression is what PC gaming needs right now

TweakTown | 15.01.2026 10:28
TL;DR: The current DRAM crisis and rising DDR5 and GPU prices challenge PC upgrades, especially for gamers. NVIDIA's RTX Neural Texture Compression, now available to developers, uses AI to drastically reduce texture sizes by up to 90%, freeing VRAM on 8GB GPUs like the RTX 5060, improving gaming performance, and reducing installation sizes.