Insufficient VRAM is a plague, but things haven't gone out of control yet ...

TL;DR: NVIDIA's Neural Texture Compression (NTC) combined with Microsoft's DirectX Raytracing 1.2 significantly reduces VRAM usage by up to 90%, improving game performance and lowering hardware costs.

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The consequence of VRAM starvation is not just an inconvenience; it is a complete and often fatal collapse of frame time consistency, turning what should be a powerful card into a stuttering mess.