A lot of what makes Nanite possible isn't available 10 years ago and that's how compute is integrated into the 3D pipeline. There were tricks then but now it's

A lot of what makes Nanite possible isn't available 10 years ago and that's how compute is integrated into the 3D pipeline. There were tricks then but now it's supported by design. As you can see in the breakdown a whole lot of the pipeline is done in compute.