{"id":289654,"date":"2025-10-09T16:24:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T16:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/289654\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T16:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T16:24:11","slug":"sony-teases-new-gpu-tech-coming-to-its-next-playstation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/289654\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony teases new GPU tech coming to its next PlayStation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sony\u2019s next console (presumably the PS6) is coming in \u201ca few years time,\u201d according to someone who I\u2019d believe to make that claim. Mark Cerny, lead architect on the PS5 and PS5 Pro, joined Jack Huynh, SVP and GM of AMD\u2019s computing and graphics group, in a YouTube video<\/a> 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 \u201cvery early days\u201d and \u201conly exist in simulation right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

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 \u201cthe current approach has reached its limit,\u201d so Sony is working with AMD to integrate components of its next-gen RDNA architecture in future consoles. AMD\u2019s Huynh introduced Radiance Cores (similar in theory to Nvidia\u2019s RT Cores) that are dedicated to handling ray tracing and path tracing. In addition to Sony\u2019s new consoles having the new cores, they will almost certainly be built into AMD\u2019s future desktop GPUs, too, and likely within whatever it\u2019s assisting with in its Xbox partnership<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Radiance Cores supposedly deliver a speed boost to performance, freeing up other components to quickly process shaders and textures instead of having to spin so many plates, so to speak. This new GPU tech will also benefit from advancements in AMD\u2019s FSR Redstone<\/a>, its latest AI-assisted upscaling technology, such as Neural Radiance Caching, as well as likely whatever upscaling tech comes after.<\/p>\n

Another key area of improvement is compression, which will free up more bandwidth for GPUs to run future games at peak performance and fidelity. Sony\u2019s improving on the Delta Color Compression technique (used on the PS5 and PS5 Pro) that compress textures and render targets. Its next hardware will utilize the new, more efficient technique called Universal Compression that compresses everything in the pipeline. Huynh says this will let the GPU deliver \u201cmore detail, higher frame rates, and greater efficiency.\u201d More compression could raise the performance ceiling of a GPU, so it should also let it run more efficiently in a low-power mode, should the need arise.<\/p>\n

Speaking of, it\u2019s easy to see how these improvements could benefit the rumored PlayStation handheld<\/a> that\u2019s allegedly in development. Sony and AMD\u2019s work to reduce the stress on GPUs could theoretically be applied to any form factor, such as a handheld. Sony has already made strides in efficiency on the PS5, with a new Power Saver mode<\/a> that can scale back game performance in favor of lower power consumption. In a nutshell, those are the key ingredients necessary to run games on a handheld.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s encouraging to see Sony being proactive about showing how it\u2019s working to make the GPUs in its upcoming devices (be it the PS6 or a handheld) as capable as possible. For now, we\u2019ll pretend that this news doesn\u2019t cast a shadow over the aging PS5 and the not-as-powerful-as-we\u2019d-hoped PS5 Pro<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sony\u2019s next console (presumably the PS6) is coming in \u201ca few years time,\u201d according to someone who I\u2019d…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":289655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[393,50,9597,3767,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-289654","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-gaming","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-pc-gaming","11":"tag-playstation","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115345142560360024","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}