ALT AMD GPU Patents Signal Hardware-Accelerated Ray Tracing Shift Taken as a whole, the filings suggest AMD is pursuing a coordinated redesign of its ray tracing pipeline rather than isolated experiments. The ideas revolve around reducing data movement, avoiding unnecessary calculations & dynamically balancing workloads across GPU cores. By sharing structures between ray tracing & physics, filtering out unnecessary rays early & making scheduling more intelligent, AMD could improve performance without simply increasing transistor counts. the filings suggest AMD is pursuing a coordinated redesign of its ray tracing pipeline rather than isolated experiments. The ideas revolve around reducing data movement, avoiding unnecessary calculations, & dynamically balancing workloads across GPU cores. By sharing structures between ray tracing & physics, filtering out unnecessary rays early, & making scheduling more intelligent, AMD could improve performance without simply increasing transistor counts