Patent document shows AMD started researching the use of neural networks in ray-traced rendering at least two years ago

GPU companies, like AMD and Nvidia, spend huge sums of money every year on researching rendering techniques, either to improve the performance of their chips or as part of a future architecture design. One recently approved patent shows that AMD began exploring the use of neural networks in ray tracing at least two years ago, just when the Radeon RX 7000-series was just about to be announced.

Under the inauspicious name of 'United States Patent Application 20250005842', AMD submitted a patent...