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Tech Focus: Portal Prelude + RTX IO - The Future of SSD Performance?

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This week, Nvidia released Portal Prelude, a path-traced RTX Remix overhaul of one of the greatest Portal mods ever made. However, on top of that, the game also saw the arrival of RTX IO, which combines a new texture compression format with GPU-accelerated decompression - and more - which more fully taps into the latent performance of all solid-state drives. Alex Battaglia explains all.

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