War is Over

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fatslob-:O said:

caffeinade said:

The left is uncompressed data at 2 to 3 GB per gigapixel.
The middle is S3TC (Microsoft's name for it anyway) using 1 GB per gigapixel.
The right is ATSC using 0.64 GB per gigapixel.

So in short ASTC uses less data than S3TC and looks better (less artifacting when comparing the given example).
It will not always be this biased towards ASTC, and there are different quality settings that could be used.

Apologies for anything I have gotten incorrect, and / or oversimplified.

Really ? Their going to use BC3 for comparison when better formats are available ? I bet the guys behind the comparison won't even mention BC7 when the quality argument for ASTC goes out the window ...  

ASTC is only superior when using older formats in comparison but the newer desktop formats are just as good in quality and data compression ... 

ASTC's biggest selling point is that there's more options for lower bit rates across the spectrum of quality ... 

I did say the test was biased and that I was oversimplifying.