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Modern consoles provide hardware decompression to transfer compressed assets from the NVME directly to the GPU. Similar functionality is coming to PCs in the fo
by pezezin 1y ago
Modern consoles provide hardware decompression to transfer compressed assets from the NVME directly to the GPU. Similar functionality is coming to PCs in the form of DirectStorage and Vulkan extensions.
- erk__ 1y agoYeah the newest PlayStation have a hardware implementation of Oodle which is really cool. Z/Arch have a inflate/deflate implementation which makes it a bit more general than the texture decompression.
- AtlasBarfed 1y agoHardware decompression can increase overall processing performance over uncompressed data because I/o is slow. Heck even without hardware decompression it is often faster. Considering mainframe sweet spot is I/o processing, not surprising.