Sony and AMD tease likely PlayStation 6 GPU upgrades —Radiance Cores and a new interconnect for boosting AI rendering performance

Sony is finally spilling the beans on some of the hardware upgrades it will be bringing to its next-generation console. AMD’s senior VP and general manager of computing and graphics at AMD, Jack Huynh, and Sony’s PS5 Lead Architect, Mark Cerny, published a collaborative video discussing new technologies that are being worked on as part of their collaboration, Project Amethyst. Some of these technologies include massive upgrades to AI rendering and ray tracing performance. The new hardware is likely to…