>>715752407Anything that adds to this pipeline will increase frametime and lower framerate:
Texture -> Display
e.g.
Texture -> Decompress texture -> Display
Texture -> Decompress texture -> AI optimize -> Display
Texture -> AI optimize -> Display
No matter what, it will always be slower to do something extra on top of fetching the texture and displaying it. Don't know how to simplify that down further for you.
>>715752573Everyone works on textures in lossless formats and then they get converted to lossy formats. Everyone already has lossy compressed textures in their games. I don't think there's anyone who isn't doing this already.
Nvidia already also takes this a step further and does some kind of color compression/degradation in their pipeline to further reduce the vram usage of textures on their hardware. AFAIK AMD doesn't do this. This isn't an AI thing, it's already being done on nvidia hardware going back a decade now.