- Lead architect of the PS5 and PS5 Professional, Mark Cerny, has introduced a brand new collaboration between Sony and AMD codenamed ‘Amethyst’
- The primary objective is to create “a extra excellent structure for machine studying”, in addition to develop a top quality set of CNNs for recreation graphics
- Cerny mentioned this collaboration is “multi-year” however we should not “anticipate a large {hardware} announcement instantly popping out of this”
PlayStation console architect Mark Cerny has introduced a brand new collaboration between Sony and AMD codenamed ‘Amethyst’ to develop machine studying expertise throughout varied units.
Mark Cerny, lead architect of the PS5 and PS5 Professional, introduced a technical seminar yesterday, providing a deep dive into the mid-generation console and its new PSSR (PlayStation Spectral Tremendous Decision) expertise.
Throughout the presentation, Cerny additionally revealed that Sony is furthering its present partnership with AMD – which already collaborates on the PS5 and PS5 Professional’s GPUs – to develop machine studying in video games in a brand new venture referred to as ‘Amethyst’.
“With Amethyst, we’ve began on one other lengthy journey and are combining our experience with two targets in thoughts,” Mark Cerny mentioned.
“The primary objective is a extra excellent structure for machine studying. One thing able to generalized processing of neural networks however significantly good on the light-weight CNNs wanted for recreation graphics and one thing targeted round reaching that Holy Grail of fully-fused networks.”
Cerny defined that the second objective is to develop “in parallel, a set of top quality CNNs for recreation graphics” to will assist additional graphical functionality.
“Each SIE and AMD will independently have the flexibility to attract from this assortment of community architectures and coaching methods, and these elements must be key in rising the richness of recreation graphics in addition to enabling extra in depth use of ray tracing and path tracing,” he mentioned.
Cerny additionally spoke to Digital Foundry in a Q&A following the presentation to debate extra concerning the AMD collaboration. The developer mentioned that it is a “deep collaboration” that is “multi-year”, however that we should not “anticipate a large {hardware} announcement instantly popping out of this”.