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[royal dagger]

Some do. The ATI Rage 128 had RLE compression/decompression support through its driver.

Of course, it crashed the entire computer with a BSOD when it came across an RLE-encoded image it couldn't decode.

[vocal burrow]

They are compressed, both Intel, nvidia and AMD does this to textures with gpu acceleration. Intel, AMD and nvidia all use ATSC (Intel dropped hardware acceleration for it though with arc), while nvidia has some of their own too sometimes.

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/optimizing-data-transfer-using-lossless-compression-with-nvcomp/

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/accelerating-lossless-gpu-compression-with-new-flexible-interfaces-in-nvidia-nvcomp/