TL;DR: Intel's Texture Set Neural Compression uses AI to drastically reduce texture memory and storage needs by up to 18 times with minimal visual quality loss. Available later this year as an SDK, it ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Texture compression has been used in PC gaming for decades, ever since the first texture was applied to a basic 3D character model or environment. In 2025, ...

Intel has been releasing more details about its Texture Set Neural Compression (TSNC), which uses AI to shrink texture data at install time or during runtime. If it does what it says on the tin, it ...

Nvidia and Intel have unveiled AI-powered texture compression technologies that can dramatically reduce VRAM usage in games while preserving visual quality. Nvidia's latest Neural Texture Compression ...

Intel and Nvidia showed off their respective AI-powered texture-compression technologies over the weekend, demonstrating impressive reductions in VRAM use while maintaining texture quality, or even ...

PCWorld reports that neural texture compression from Intel, Nvidia, and AMD could drastically reduce game file sizes and VRAM usage for PC gamers. Intel’s TSNC technology compresses textures up to 17X ...

Forward-looking: Intel is pitching a new way to pack game textures that leans heavily on neural networks but still nods to traditional block compression. The company's Texture Set Neural Compression, ...

Intel is advancing texture compression techniques with its newly introduced Texture Set Neural Compression (TSNC) technology, a neural network-based approach designed to significantly reduce the size ...

One concern following NVIDIA's introduction of its ultra-efficient Neural Texture Compression (NTC) was that it would remain proprietary to only NVIDIA's GPUs. Intel has since introduced its own ...

PC gamers face an ongoing problem: more powerful games demand more powerful resources, all in the service of games that deliver more realistic experiences and graphics. But can gamers avoid paying out ...