Sony Interactive Entertainment and AMD dropped a major update to their Project Amethyst collaboration (originally unveiled in December 2024) this past week in a video featuring PlayStation Lead Architect Mark Cerny and AMD SVP and GM of the Computing and Graphics Group Jack Huynh. The duo presented three major new features, Neural Arrays, Radiance Cores, and Universal Compression, which will be coming to future AMD GPUs and consoles like Sony's PlayStation 6. The video was only about nine minutes long, though, and inevitably left viewers with plenty of questions. Thankfully, the folks from Digital Foundry got a few answers from […]

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The next generation of consoles will once again be powered by AMD GPUs and Ars Technica has posted a bit on the thinking that is driving the development of the PlayStation 6. …

Today, in a new video published by Sony and AMD, PlayStation console architect Mark Cerny and AMD's senior vice president and general manager of computing and graphics, Jack Huynh, talked about Project Amethyst and the two companies' "shared vision" for the future of gaming technologies and hardware. While most of the video was focused on what these three technologies will be, Cerny did slide in a slight tease for when we'll be seeing PlayStation 6 and that next generation of hardware. "Overall, it's of course still very early days for these technologies, they only exist in simulation right now, but […]

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It seems like AMD has big plans for its next-gen "UDNA 5" GPUs, as a set of patent filings over the last two years indicate that Team Red plans to upscale its "ray-tracing" game. AMD Speeds Up RT Efforts By Intensifying Patent Activity & Hiring Spree; Plans To Level the Competition With NVIDIA When you look at how rapidly AMD has changed its approach to consumer GPUs, it becomes clear that the firm wants the "lion's share" in the mainstream market. We have already seen a glimpse of it with the company's RDNA 4 GPU architecture, especially with how the […]

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