Microsoft: Xbox Series S and X only next-gen consoles with full RDNA 2 feature set

[Hynad]

Pemalite said:

Hynad said:

Both the PS5 and Series X rely on their CUs to achieve Ray Tracing. RDNA2 doesn’t have dedicated RT and Tensor cores like Nvidia’s RTX approach.

Not entirely accurate.
AMD has included a dedicated "Ray Accelerator" in every single CU with RDNA2. - It's essentially a fixed function Ray Tracing "core".
AMD may be using FP16 compute (Leveraging Rapid Packed Math) instead of tensor cores considering how much better their GPU designs generally are with general purpose asynchronous compute anyway.

We need to remember what a CU is... It's essentially a grouping of processing cores/functional blocks, some specialized, some general purpose.

I wasn’t aware of that but I am not surprised they did this, since it makes sense.

The point I was making still stands though. Both the PS5 and Series X use their CUs to provide hardware accelerated ray tracing.