Comment by augment_me
17 hours ago
NTC requires GPU for real-time decoding, but you can use it as an compressor only to have a portable representation. It's actually the common use-case today, you can on-device offline decode directly to BC7 if you feel like it!
Doesn't that defeat most of the benefit though?
Its a smaller binary size, general representation and amortizes the decoding to the consumer hardware