AMD’s new graphics chip with seven features to make games more beautiful – and that would help the PS5 Pro in particular

AMD’s progress on RDNA 4 will also have an impact on the Playstation 5 Pro

A new rumor wants to reveal details about the RDNA4 chip, which is expected to be in the Playstation 5 Pro. It is primarily about features that are useful for calculating ray tracing and promise a more efficient way of working

In detail:The renowned leaker Kepler_L2 published a new table over the weekend that allegedly shows the ray tracing features of AMD’s upcoming RDNA4 generation.

“Most, if not all” of these will also be used in the still unannounced Playstation 5 Pro.

Some of the new RT features coming with gfx12/RDNA4. Most if not all of these should be in the PS5 Pro too pic.twitter.com/AO5HaxJlMK

– Kepler (@Kepler_L2) July 21, 2024

These seven ray tracing features are to come and provide the following improvements (viaVideocardz) to the associated performance on RDNA 4 and PS5 Pro:

• “Double Ray Tracing Intersect Engine“: Saved computing time by calculating two light rays.
• “RT instance node transform“: More efficient handling of geometric structures by grouping similar objects.
• “64B RT node“: Faster calculation due to larger packages.
• “Ray Tracing Tri Pair optimization“: Optimization of the calculation of triangles if they are close to each other.
• “Change flags encoded in barycentrics“: Faster updating of objects when they change their position.
• “BVH Footprint Improvement“: Faster grouping of scene geometry.
• “RT support for OBB and Instance Node Intersection“: Higher precision of theOriented Bounding Box

I don’t want it to stay that way:In the above picture of the leaker, the blackened bars are hard to miss – but what do these lines stand for?

As Kepler_L2 explains in a comment, this refers to a total of nine features that are also planned for RDNA 4, but are not related to ray tracing.

Whether the unknown innovations are also planned for the PS5 Pro, however, is not clear from the commentary.

When will we find out more?As things stand, it will probably be a few months between the release of the new RDNA4 generation (Radeon RX 8000) and the Playstation 5 Pro!

Because while it is currently assumed that AMD will not introduce any new graphics cards this year, the new Sony console is still scheduled for release in 2024.

November 2024 is currently considered the most likely date for the launch of the PS5 Pro, while the GPU manufacturer would probably like to show the first RX-8000 models at CES 2025 in January.