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Testing DirectStorage with GPU decompression

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Testing DirectStorage with GPU decompression — do Blackwell GPUs have the upper hand? Testing GPU decompression on Blackwell. Get Tom's Hardware's best news and in-depth reviews, straight to your inbox. You are now subscribed Your newsletter sign-up was successful Microsoft first announced DirectStorage for PC back in 2020, with Forspoken being the first game to officially support it in early 2023...
The article highlights the issue of DirectStorage GPU decompression affecting Nvidia GPUs, particularly in games like Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart and Marvel's Spider-Man 2. The testing reveals that Blackwell GPUs perform well with DirectStorage enabled, while previous-generation GPUs still struggle. This could be due to improvements in the scheduler of the Blackwell architecture or a dedicated decompression block in data center GPUs. The article also raises questions about the efficiency of GPU ...