Ray tracing is a new technology a lot of people are buzzing about it. It’s a new type of rendering technology that’s set to take our graphics to the next level. A lot of upcoming games are going to support it, such as Cyberpunk and 2077 and Watch Dogs Legion. Next gen consoles are also said to be getting in on it with both Xbox Scarlett and PS5 having confirmed support for the tech. Now we also know that AMD is getting in on the action with their Navi GPUs.

At an E3 2019 presentation, AMD talked about their upcoming tech. In a slide that you can see below, they talked about how their RDNA architecture will support hardware ray tracing effects. That means that newest GPUs (including the ones in the PS5 and Next Xbox) will almost certainly support it.

It also seems to promise full scene ray tracing via the cloud. How that will work, and whether it would have much significance to video games, isn’t clear. What is clear, however, is that things are moving fast, and we’ll be seeing a whole new generation of games soon.

Sony may be skipping E3 this year, but the announcements regarding the technology of the PlayStation 5 continue to pour in. During AMD’s Computex Keynote, it confirmed that Sony’s next-gen PlayStation console would make use of the new AMD Radeon Navi (as noted by Benji-Sales on Twitter). This comes with a new 7nm design called RDNA.

Along with 1.5 times the performance-per-watt and an improvement of 1.25 times to the performance-per-clock over the GCN, RDNA also features a new compute unit design, as per a recent press release. This is meant to improve efficiency and provided increased instructions per cycle (IPC).

Latency and power consumption should be lower, while bandwidth is increased due to the multi-level cache hierarchy. The graphics pipeline has also been optimized for high clock speeds and performance-per-clock. While the PlayStation 5 is still a ways off (don’t expect it until late 2020), the technology driving it already looks insane. Stay tuned for more details in the coming months.

AMD is currently announcing Navi the GPU technology behind the PlayStation 5!

Using a brand new built from scratch design RDNA, 1.25x improvement per clock, and 1.5x inprovement per watt.

Ya'll next gen PS5 is going to be INSANE. More at E3 pic.twitter.com/qQQr09mBRY

— Benji-Sales (@BenjiSales) May 27, 2019