Sony And AMD Announce Project Amethyst: Advanced Technology For The Future Game Industry

Architect Sony Interactive Entertainment, Mark Cerny (left) with Senior Vice President and General Manager Computing and Graphics Group, AMD, Jack Huynh. (Photo: YouTube PlayStation)

JAKARTA - Sony and AMD announced their latest collaboration called Project Amethyst, an initiative to develop a new generation of graphics technology and artificial intelligence (AI) for the gaming industry in the future.

In a video uploaded by PlayStation, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Computing and Graphics Group, AMD, Jack Huynh and Lead Architect Sony Interactive Entertainment, Mark Cerny revealed in more detail about this project.

One of the main breakthroughs introduced was the Neural Arrays, a new system that allows GPU computing units to work collaboratively such as an integrated AI machine.

This technology is claimed to be able to increase the efficiency and scalability of machine learning (machine learning) in the game, so that it can provide finer graphics, realistic lighting, and more stable performance.

Neural arrays allow us to process most screen displays at once. The resulting efficiency will be a major breakthrough for the new generation of upscaling and denoising technologies we are developing together," Mark said.

In addition, AMD also introduced Radiance Cores, a new hardware block specifically designed to accelerate the ray tracing and path tracing process of two advanced lighting techniques that usually heavily burden the GPU.

Radiance Cores allows for a more natural simulation of light with lower power consumption, paving the way for visually equivalent CGI films in real-time gameplay.

"Radiance Cores is taking full control of the ray traversal process, one of the heaviest parts in computing," Jack explained further.

Not only that, but Project Amethyst also presents Universal Compression, a smart compression system that is expected to be able to significantly reduce bandwidth consumption and increase power efficiency, as well as support higher resolution renderings such as 4K and 8K more smoothly.

Mark menambahkan, teknologi-teknologi di bawah Project Amethyst akan menjadi pilar bagi pengembangan platform PlayStation masa depan.

Meski belum disebutkan secara eksplisit untuk platform mana inovasi ini akan digunakan, AMD dan Sony memastikan seluruh teknologi Project Amethyst saat ini masih dalam tahap simulasi, dengan rencana implementasi dalam beberapa tahun mendatang.

Mark added that the technologies under Project Amethyst will be a pillar for the development of the future PlayStation platform.

Although it has not been explicitly stated for which platform this innovation will be used, AMD and Sony ensure that all Project Amethyst technologies are currently still in the simulation stage, with plans for implementation in the coming years.