3. Another confirmation that both PS5 and Xbox next will have ray tracing and both will be using hardware based ray tracing

4. Both company will utilize ray tracing with different methods and different approach (technique), and in Resetera the writer of the article also mentioned that the leaker said PS5 will have fully hardware while Xbox next will emulates ray tracing  using combination of hardware and API like directX ray tracing API , this the quotes :

" Unfortunately, it's too vague. For example, I read the tipster's comment as suggesting the Sony device would do lots of real-time ray tracing from occlusion to shadows to full bounce reflections and the Microsoft device would rely on tricks to emulate ray tracing. But another colleague read the exact same comment and interpreted it as how ray tracing might appear in titles re-released for the new system. Game devs I passed it along too all had opinions that ranged the gamut from mine to my colleagues'. So until we get a little more detail I'm afraid it's all hearsay."

7. If PS5 devkit names is legitimate , Prospero names could indicate PS5 will be using Ray Tracing IP and technologies/method from "Image tech " using Powervr Wizard , PowerVr Wizard GPU will be included inside PS5 costume Navi chip or probably Sony and AMD will try to incorporate their design into Navi RDNA  for Playstation as "Secret Sauce . Prospero in the novel is a wizard and PS5 Devkit named prospero A.K.A Wizard = means there is possibility this the key to ray tracing for PS5 because at the time being,  AMD has no concrete solution for ray tracing.  This is the Secret Sauce that Cerny  and Lisa Sue told us a few month ago for PS5. Also in 2016 Sony Interactive Entertainment hired Carl Vloet who was the lead in charge of the software ray tracing stack at Caustic Graphics and later Powervr when Caustic was bought by Imagination.

8. The insider also said both consoles will have the largest compute jump of any generation (Edit by OP:probably if they included ray tracing factor) 

You can also read the same article by Redgaming tech http://www.redgamingtech.com/playstation-5-gpu-specs-leak-2ghz-backwards-compatibility-mode/

OK lets the discussion begin 

2. Gonzalo supposed to be using RDNA means teraflop equation will be different then GCN , so the jump on compute cannot be compared directly to current gen compute power 

But don't worry the tech is not an exotic technology like the cell on PS3, The PowerVr tech is still a PC GPU based on X86.

Graphics is not the only thing that matters, physics simulations also will improve.

We already know that hardware ray tracing is in for the next Xbox as Microsoft has outright stated it and so has it's developers.
https://www.windowscentral.com/xbox-scarlett-features-dedicated-ray-tracing-cores-says-gears-5-developer
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2019-project-scarlett-spec-analysis

AMD to use PowerVR technology? Doubtful.

Redgaming Tech has a clear confirmation bias, best everyone stays away from that joint.

It's different even when comparing GCN to GCN. It's not real-world performance, it's theoretical and often unachievable.

The GPU is not x86, it uses it's own ISA. Same with the current consoles.
The only GPU that I can recall that was going to use the x86 ISA was Larrabee and that got canned.

No one said Microsoft will not include hardware accelerated or dedicated nodes for raytracing, it's just their method will just be different with Sony. 

Microsoft will utilizing their DirectX Ray Tracing , and Sony will just full metal optimization ( Sony also use this method to emulate compatibility and enhancing PS4 games to PS4 Pro).

This is very logical because Microsoft are making games for PC as well and they are good at Software and has worked with Nvidia for Ray Tracing. But how the API and the solution will be different from PS5 to Scarlet..   

AMD  might not implemented on their normal PC GPU, but could happen on their costume design based on SONY request and SONY own design , and that is up to Sony to decide.

Even Microsoft and AMD has co engineered an CPU APU that using tensor core for AI (like inside Nvidia Turing) for their latest  Surface Notebook. This is the prove that AMD can be asked to design whatever Sony or Microsoft asked as long the tech is there and the money is there. 

Also SONY Checkerboard rendering tech on PS4 pro  also not just software solution they build and customize PS4 Pro GPU to have a dedicated chip and instruction build into the design, So PS4 GPU design is not just pure Polaris .

AMD has no real solution at the moment for Ray Tracing, and Sony has a deep connection with The designer for Imagetech soft and PowerVR, "Wizard" is just an easy guest, also it using Opengl, Vulcan and Linux which is perfect for PS platform which usually run on hardware level optimization. 

Yes ,  But it's not an exotic tech like The Cell, that's my point. 

It will likely be based on the same technology, no point inventing multiple wheels.

Using different methods  doesn't mean inventing new wheels, it means they are use seperate ways to render the " rays " , even PS4 and Xbox has different methods on applying their API for games. Microsoft heavy emphasis on their directX (for PC compatibility support)  while Sony use low level openGL

There is absolutely zero evidence to support such an assertion.

Cerny explaining how PS4 pro enhanced PS4 games: 

"First, we doubled the GPU size by essentially placing it next to a mirrored version of itself, sort of like the wings of a butterfly. That gives us an extremely clean way to support the existing 700 titles," Cerny explains, detailing how the Pro switches into its 'base' compatibility mode. "We just turn off half the GPU and run it at something quite close to the original GPU."

In Pro mode, the full GPU is active, and running at 911MHz - a 14 per cent bump in frequency, turning a 2x boost in GPU power to a 2.24x increase. However, CPU doesn't receive the same increase in raw capabilities - and Sony believes that interoperability with the existing PS4 is the primary reason for sticking with the same, relatively modest Jaguar CPU clusters.

"For variable frame-rate games, we were looking to boost the frame-rate. But we also wanted interoperability. We want the 700 existing titles to work flawlessly," Mark Cerny explains. "That meant staying with eight Jaguar cores for the CPU and pushing the frequency as high as it would go on the new process technology, which turned out to be 2.1GHz. It's about 30 per cent higher than the 1.6GHz in the existing model."

Also previous PS5 APU benchmarked leak (Oberon) also indicates that PS5 apu will run with multiple clock speeds based on which's games is running inside the system, 

800 Mhz for PS4, 911 Mhz for PS4 pro, and 2 Ghz for PS5 games, As we know Sony does not have the benefit of API and software expertise unlike Microsoft on emulating . 

Worked with nVidia? No more or less than with AMD.
Microsoft works with all Graphics chip design companies in order to build and ratify standards, nVidia and AMD then go off and build their chipsets in order to adhere to said standards.

I am talking about gaming PC GPU that available on market for consumer product rightnow, (as of rightnow PowerVR does not available for PC gaming and AMD are not yet has Raytracing). Microsoft are using their expertise on DirectX ray tracing with Nvidia to run on Scarlet, this what might be inside Scarlet 

For example, AMD had Tessellation on it's GPU's back even when the Playstation 2 was on the market (Something that wouldn't become defacto standard until the Playstation 4 in consoles.) however it wasn't Direct X compatible as it relied on n-patches.
Microsoft then worked with AMD and nVidia in order to build out the Tessellation specification for Direct X 11, AMD then rebuilt it's geometry units in order to meet those specifications and be Direct X compatible.

That's why I mentioned above, they are using their "Their directX API"  for raytarcing support, because they have been working with Nvidia and AMD has not yet has the tech, Sony dont have direct X , they can use Opengl tho  support or modified version of Opengl and Vulcan 

Then Sony and Microsoft contracted AMD to build GPU's for the Playstation 4 and Xbox One, both companies then opted to use AMD's already established Tessellators rather than reinvent the wheel or go with AMD's prior approach to Tessellation... That is despite the fact that the Playstation 4 doesn't use Direct X even in the slightest, it still has a fully Direct X 11 compliant Tessellator.

They choose using AMD Tessellation because AMD has the tech already, this time around AMD don't have the tech ready available for 2020, RDNA or even RDNA 2 (probably are not going inside PS5 or Scarlet) are not even confirmed to have ray tracing solution 

So the API differences are thus ultimately irrelevant.

The API is super relevant because  every consoles has their own API even Dreamcast and PS2 running on different API, hell even PS4 and Xbox running with different API, maybe some instruction  has Directx Tessellator like you mentioned but that doesn't mean all code and instruction running with the same API.

RDNA 2.0 is set to have hardware Ray Tracing, it is likely to be the same approach to Ray Tracing that will be in next-gen consoles as RDNA is modular just like GCN. (Which makes sense as RDNA is built on top of GCN's design principles.)

We still don't have any confirmation about RDNA 2 to have ray tracing solution. If they have, then PS5 and Scarlet  might have the same solution , but like i said if they have one there should have been some major leak and many forum dweller wouldn't have to arguing either PS5 have software based ray tracing or hardware solution (back then they were arguing Microsoft will have Hardware and Sony will not have hardware support for ray tracing for nextgen consoles) 

Sony is using a semi-custom design, they aren't going to deviate significantly from AMD's already established, tried-and-tested design rules, the Playstation 4 didn't, the Playstation 4 Pro didn't either and neither did the Playstation 4 Slim.

We don't know how far the contract between Sony and AMD is and  also we don't know how much money and times both company willing to invest on engineered their APU, We have a long history from PS3 and Xbox 360 where they even made a special chip for their consoles, and it has become less costume on PS4 and Xbox One era (due to cost ) etc. It's possible to have another IP inside other IP, Hell even inside AMD Navi alone it has different type of IP that patented by AMD for their tech.

Tensor cores are a patented nVidia technology and thus AMD is not allowed to use it unless nVidia gives the approval.

We have the proves and it existed on Surface that has just launching today 

Checkerboard rendering is an AMD technology, not a Sony one.

Can you give prove to this , because if they has one, it should have been available on RX 480, or RX 580 GPU back then 

We have no evidence to support or discredit such a hypothesis.
OpenGL/Vulkan/Linux is no more or less optimized than Microsofts Direct X 11/12/Windows Kernel approach.
Not to mention... The Playstation 4 and Xbox One actually both have more API's than that, you didn't list the low-level API's.

Is more of the implementation, Microsoft kernel can be used for optimization code to metal but due to Microsoft policy (future backcompatibility, the games also should be coming to Windows and Steam)  it's impossible for them to run the games close to metal.  

If it's not a ratified standard that is exposed via OpenGL/Direct X and is thus hardware that is mainstream and supported by all vendors, then it's exotic.

For this you may be correct , but for what i have read , PowerVr ray tracing method is not that different than Nvidia path tracing methods. So developer will not have difficulty to implement it on their games.