Arm Releases ASTC Encoder 3.0 With Even Better Performance

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Arm Releases ASTC Encoder 3.0 With Even Better Performance

04 June 2021, 03:00 AM

Phoronix: Arm Releases ASTC Encoder 3.0 With Even Better Performance

Arm has released version 3.0 of its encoder for Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression (ASTC), the lossy compression algorithm popular with OpenGL (ES) and Vulkan that is royalty-free and available through official extensions...

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04 June 2021, 04:27 PM

Very cool. It's too bad even SDR ASTC is not something you can rely on being supported by hardware these days, even after all these years. I guess Adreno and Mali support it at least? I wonder if Intel iRIS Xe MAX supports it like some of their integrated parts do.

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