“There is a significant speed boost that comes from putting the traversal logic in hardware.”
Mark Cerny and AMD previewed Radiance Cores for ray tracing, Neural Arrays for AI rendering, and Universal Compression for memory bandwidth. It’s all in simulation. “Future console in a few years.” Sony is telegraphing that brute-force GPU scaling is dead. The next generation leans on specialized silicon and AI upscaling. Whether that’s innovation or just cost-cutting dressed up as progress is the question.