Another AMD Navi GPU sits at the heart of Microsoft's Project Scarlett console, with real-time ray tracing a go-go

We already know Sony’s PlayStation 5 will support real-time ray tracing courtesy of its new custom AMD Navi GPU, and now Microsoft’s next-gen Project Scarlett console has hitched itself to the ray tracing bandwagon as well thanks to, yep, you guessed it, another custom AMD Navi GPU. Confirmed this evening by Xbox head honcho Phil Spencer during Microsoft’s E3 press conference, Project Scarlett will deliver hardware-accelerated ray tracing to your living room sometime next year in the Holiday 2020 season – so why the heck shouldn’t AMD’s desktop Navi cards follow suit, eh?

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