zarx on 26 February 2014
| JazzB1987 said: Little question for dummies. Every file can be compressed. (even so it looks/sounds/feels lossless) Cant they just come up with a super algorithm and decrease filesize by 50%? I know it will take a hit on the CPU/GPU performance but still. Can this be the reason for the 64 fits into 32? |
Cutting the framebuffer size in half would be easy even with lossless compression, hell the lossless LZW algorithm used in PNGs can reduce a RAW image by 75-90%. But you still need the source data before you can compress it. At least you do if you are going to do efficient compression. And you have to decompress the data again before you can minipulate it. GPUs actually already use compression schemes for z-buffer and textures.
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