Mark Cerny

In a Digital Foundry interview Cerny said the new PSSR shares its core algorithm with AMD's FSR Redstone upscaler and that a co-developed frame-generation library would reach PlayStation platforms at some point, but would not say which machine or whether it meant the PS6. Asked directly, he said Sony had no more releases planned for the year.

In a nine-minute video with AMD's Jack Huynh, Cerny unveiled the technologies the partnership had produced: Neural Arrays that let compute units work as one AI engine, Radiance Cores, a dedicated hardware block for ray and path tracing, and Universal Compression to cut GPU memory bandwidth. All exist only in simulation, he said, but he was excited to bring them to a future console in a few years' time, the closest Sony had come to confirming the PS6. Cerny later told Digital Foundry the shift to co-engineering AMD's own roadmap was a step change from building custom PlayStation-only tech.

Cerny told Tom's Guide that the first fruit of the AMD collaboration, an advanced upscaling algorithm co-developed with AMD, would ship to PS5 Pro in 2026 as a drop-in replacement for PSSR, work that he said would otherwise have taken years. He stressed the technology was not proprietary and was meant to move the whole industry, a preview of how the next console's features would be built.

In a 37-minute technical seminar on the PS5 Pro, lead architect Mark Cerny closed by announcing Amethyst, a joint program with AMD to design a more ideal architecture for machine learning and a shared set of neural networks for game graphics, which both companies could use on their own hardware. Cerny said not to expect a hardware announcement soon; it was the first public step toward the next PlayStation's silicon.