[STEAM] AMD and Sony’s PS6 chipset aims to rethink the current graphics pipeline

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It feels like it was just yesterday that Sony hardware architect Mark Cerny was

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and its "enhanced ray-tracing capabilities" powered by new AMD chips. Now that we're

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, it's time for Sony and AMD to start teasing the new chips that will power what Cerny calls "a future console in a few years' time."

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, Cerny sat down with Jack Huynh, the senior VP and general manager of AMD's Computing and Graphics Group, to talk about "Project Amethyst," a co-engineering effort between both companies that was

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. And while that Project Amethyst hardware currently only exists in the form of a simulation, Cerny said that the "results are quite promising" for a project that's still in the "early days."

Mo’ ML, fewer problems?

Project Amethyst is focused on going beyond traditional rasterization techniques that don't scale well when you try to "brute force that with raw power alone," Huynh said in the video. Instead, the new architecture is focused on more efficient running of the kinds of machine-learning-based neural networks behind

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