dxtc - DirectX Texture Compressor (DXTC)

Description

High Quality DXT Compression using CUDA. This example shows how to implement an existing computationally-intensive CPU compression algorithm in parallel on the GPU, and obtain an order of magnitude performance improvement.

Key Concepts

Cooperative Groups, Image Processing, Image Compression

Supported SM Architectures

SM 5.0 SM 5.2 SM 5.3 SM 6.0 SM 6.1 SM 7.0 SM 7.2 SM 7.5 SM 8.0 SM 8.6 SM 8.7 SM 8.9 SM 9.0

Supported OSes

Linux, Windows

Supported CPU Architecture

x86_64, armv7l

CUDA APIs involved

CUDA Runtime API

cudaMemcpy, cudaFree, cudaDeviceSynchronize, cudaGetDevice, cudaMalloc, cudaGetDeviceProperties

Prerequisites

Download and install the CUDA Toolkit for your corresponding platform.

References (for more details)

whitepaper