Arm Releases ASTC Encoder 3.0 With Even Better Performance

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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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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...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa...TC-Encoder-3.0