PlayStation’s Mark Cerny did a deep-dive on the PS5 Professional and Sony’s new partnership with AMD

PlayStation Lead Architect Mark Cerny is again once more to clarify the nitty-gritty particulars of how the PlayStation 5 Professional achieves its varied graphical enhancements. Cerny first launched the PS5 Professional in September and in a brand new 37-minute video, he will get into how the Professional’s improved GPU makes use of tech from AMD and publicizes a “deeper collaboration” between Sony and the chip maker.

The PS5 makes use of AMD’s RDNA 2 GPU structure initially launched in 2020, whereas the PS5 Professional makes use of what Cerny refers to within the video as RDNA 2.X. The brand new GPU is a combination of what was already supplied on the PS5, with some cherry-picked options from the extra superior RDNA 3 structure AMD launched in 2022. That’s paired with ray tracing methods that Cerny says are from future RDNA tech on AMD’s roadmap, and customized machine studying options created for the PS5 Professional. These machine studying parts are additionally apparently a key a part of AMD and Sony’s future work collectively.

“AMD has been a unbelievable associate for SIE for a few years now,” Cerny says. “And I’m honored to announce that we’ve begun a deeper collaboration with a concentrate on machine learning-based expertise for graphics and gameplay.”

“Amethyst,” the identify the businesses selected for his or her new challenge collectively, is primarily involved with creating “a extra best structure for machine studying,” based on Cerny. The brand new {hardware} architectures the businesses are growing may gain advantage future consoles and AMD’s personal GPUs, however they’re only one a part of the plan. Sony and AMD are additionally working in direction of the “democratization of machine studying,” which appears like potential software program instruments to make it simpler for builders to implement AI in gameplay and graphics.

The entire video is jam-packed with info on the pondering and engineering that went into the PS5 Professional and price a watch if you happen to’re on the lookout for extra element on what “Professional” means on this case. It won’t persuade you to improve to the brand new $700 console, however it actually makes the case that Sony didn’t take designing it flippantly.

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