It is one of the 40 CUs. They used one of the extra compute units and utilized it for the Tempest Engine. Its hardly something secret.
"The
Tempest Engine is a re-purposed GPU
compute unit, inspired by the PS3's SPUs with an SIMD performance and bandwidth comparable to eight PS4 CPU cores combined."
Sony is going big on audio with PS5.
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"The Tempest Engine is effectively a re-engineered AMD GPU compute unit, stripped of its caches and relying solely on DMA transfers - just like a PS3 SPU. In turn, this opens the door to full utilisation of the CU's vector units."
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"The PS5's Tempest Engine actually leverages an entire GPU compute unit for audio processing."
Sony is equipping the PlayStation 5 with a revolutionary Tempest 3D audio engine that focuses a lot on positional audio experiences using HRTF methods. The PS5's Tempest Engine actually leverages an entire GPU compute unit for audio processing. Sony will be further improving audio in the years...
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