PS5 and Xbox Series X could be powered by the same next-gen AMD graphics technology

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AMD just made a series of CPU and GPU reveals during its financial analyst day, and among all the big PC announcements, the firm has suggested that the PS5 could use its next-gen RDNA 2 technology. We already know that the Xbox Series X will use an RDNA 2-based GPU, and as Wccftech saw it on Analyst Day, Radeon Technology Group's David Wang hinted that the technology would also be used in Sony's next-generation console. Wang said: " We have developed a new hardware-accelerated ray tracing architecture as part of RDNA 2. It is a common architecture used in next-generation game consoles."With this, it will greatly simplify content development: developers can develop on one platform and easily port it to the other platform." This will certainly help speed up adoption." Note that the plural of "consoles" is used, suggesting that the next generation of Xbox and PlayStation will use the RDNA 2 architecture of AMD.

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The fact that Wang is talking about porting from one platform to another, which he probably means on both consoles, given the context of the statement, further strengthens the suggestion that the PS5 comes with RDNA 2 in its GPU veins. Although we still have to be very careful here of course, as this is far from confirmed. Unlike Microsoft, Sony has yet to confirm exactly how hardware-accelerated ray tracing will work with the PS5, which has led to a lot of speculation in various corners of the web, as you might imagine. Of course, we know for sure that both consoles will support lightning graphics - it's just a matter of knowing exactly how that support will be provided in the case of PlayStation.