Sony Teases New GPU Tech For the PS6 (theverge.com)
(Saturday October 11, 2025 @03:00AM (BeauHD)
from the new-and-shiny dept.)
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- News link: https://games.slashdot.org/story/25/10/11/0050217/sony-teases-new-gpu-tech-for-the-ps6
- Source link: https://www.theverge.com/news/797640/sony-ps6-handheld-gpu-ray-path-tracing-amd-radiance-cores
Sony and AMD are [1]collaborating on new GPU technologies for the next-generation PlayStation (likely the PS6), introducing innovations like Radiance Cores for advanced ray tracing and "Universal Compression" for improved performance and efficiency. The Verge reports:
> Sony's next console (presumably the PS6) is coming in "a few years time," according to someone who I'd believe to make that claim. Mark Cerny, lead architect on the PS5 and PS5 Pro, joined Jack Huynh, SVP and GM of AMD's computing and graphics group, in [2]a YouTube video wherein the pair spend nine minutes going through some very specific, co-developed advancements in graphics technology that will come to the next console. But the pair cautioned that the technologies are still in "every early days" and "only exist in simulation right now."
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> Much of it boils down to how the companies are working to make it easier for future GPUs to handle graphics upscaling, ray tracing, and the super-intensive path tracing techniques used to make game worlds look more realistic. Cerny says "the current approach has reached its limit," so Sony is working with AMD to integrate components of its next-gen RDNA architecture in future consoles. AMD's Huynh introduced Radiance Cores (similar in theory to Nvidia's RT Cores) that are dedicated to handling ray tracing and path tracing. In addition to Sony's new consoles having the new cores, they will almost certainly be built into AMD's future desktop GPUs, too, and likely within whatever it's assisting with in its Xbox partnership.
[1] https://www.theverge.com/news/797640/sony-ps6-handheld-gpu-ray-path-tracing-amd-radiance-cores
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LCMzw-_dMw
> Sony's next console (presumably the PS6) is coming in "a few years time," according to someone who I'd believe to make that claim. Mark Cerny, lead architect on the PS5 and PS5 Pro, joined Jack Huynh, SVP and GM of AMD's computing and graphics group, in [2]a YouTube video wherein the pair spend nine minutes going through some very specific, co-developed advancements in graphics technology that will come to the next console. But the pair cautioned that the technologies are still in "every early days" and "only exist in simulation right now."
>
> Much of it boils down to how the companies are working to make it easier for future GPUs to handle graphics upscaling, ray tracing, and the super-intensive path tracing techniques used to make game worlds look more realistic. Cerny says "the current approach has reached its limit," so Sony is working with AMD to integrate components of its next-gen RDNA architecture in future consoles. AMD's Huynh introduced Radiance Cores (similar in theory to Nvidia's RT Cores) that are dedicated to handling ray tracing and path tracing. In addition to Sony's new consoles having the new cores, they will almost certainly be built into AMD's future desktop GPUs, too, and likely within whatever it's assisting with in its Xbox partnership.
[1] https://www.theverge.com/news/797640/sony-ps6-handheld-gpu-ray-path-tracing-amd-radiance-cores
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LCMzw-_dMw
Early days? Seriously? (Score:2)
by Viol8 ( 599362 )
"the technologies are still in "every early days" and "only exist in simulation right now.""
The PS5 was released 5 years ago and next gen console releases generally happen on a 7 year cycle so wtf has Sony been doing for the last 5 years? If they haven't even got any test dies yet never mind prototypes to send to software houses then this thing has no chance of being released to the public by 2027.
Marketing speak (Score:2)
"Current technology is current and has reached the limit of the cash we can squeeze out of it due to increasing software requirements...but Future Technology is better and has more breathing room for profit margin."
I think the bigger news between the lines is that AMD can both sign mega-scale deals to provide compute to OpenAI and also continue to pursue the consumer graphics+console market. I think this is proving that Intel's monolithic approach (design + fab) is archaic, or too expensive to succ