Although announced in 2020 alongside the RTX 30 Series graphics cards, the RTX IO technology was recently launched a few days ago with the release of Portal: Prelude RTX and now with Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart on PC. Currently, there aren’t many more games that incorporate this tool, but NVIDIA has stated that it will significantly enhance the performance of these games, as reported by WCCFTech.
Over time, game developers are expected to embrace this technology to improve players’ gaming experience. Not only will this enhance performance, but they also claim that RTX IO will be crucial in eliminating stuttering effects on our screens.
New NVIDIA RTX IO promises to enhance the PC gaming experience
Both performance and stuttering effects will be improved thanks to RTX IO, as it enables games to rely less on the CPU in PC and utilize the GPU cores to perform certain necessary tasks for gaming. This method significantly changes the way video games are currently executed on our computers.
Currently, game data travels from the hard disk to the CPU and is then decompressed using the system’s RAM. After this, the data is sent to the GPU for processing. With increasingly high specifications in modern video games, the data sizes have become much larger, and the bottlenecks between the processor and RAM lead to more performance losses during gameplay. This situation changes with NVIDIA’s new addition.
With RTX IO, the input/output bandwidth increases, and the compressed data is directly sent from the SSD to the GPU, loading only the indices into the PC’s RAM. Considering that the graphics card directly decompresses the data using GDeflate, the CPU is freed from this workload, resulting in a significant overall performance boost.
Indeed, this new technology also achieves faster texture loading times in games and reduces the disk space occupied by game data. Currently, you can experience all of these benefits through Portal: Prelude RTX, which serves as an excellent technical demo for this occasion. In fact, this Portal allows us to closely observe the capabilities of this technology in addressing stuttering issues in games.
The stuttering effects on our screens while gaming will be reduced with this RTX IO, as it frees the processor from the burden of decompressing and processing the mentioned data, giving it a clear path to perform other necessary tasks to enjoy games on PC. Therefore, this new addition from NVIDIA improves overall performance, as potential bottlenecks will not occur as frequently.
