Cognata Accelerates AV/ADAS Simulation with AMD Radeon™ PRO V710 and Microsoft Azure

Cognata Accelerates AV/ADAS Simulation with AMD Radeon™ PRO V710 and Microsoft Azure

Cognata, a leading provider of simulation solutions for autonomous vehicles (AV) and advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), has integrated AMD’s high-performance Radeon™ PRO V710 GPUs into its simulation toolchain to significantly enhance simulation realism, scalability, and efficiency. This collaboration fuels Cognata’s next-generation platforms, including OneSim (a dual-engine platform for SimCloud and DriveMatrix), which enables AI-driven validation of perception systems across a wide range of real-world and synthetic scenarios.

DriveMatriX: Supervised AI for Real-World Data Augmentation

DriveMatriX is Cognata’s data augmentation engine that transforms real-world test drives into diverse datasets using supervised generative AI.

Instead of collecting new data repeatedly, DriveMatriX takes existing drive footage and creates multiple realistic variations simulating different weather conditions (rain, fog, snow), lighting changes (night, glare, low sun), or modified lane markings.

This approach allows OEMs and Tier 1s to extend the value of each recorded session while preserving annotation consistency and ensuring minimal domain gap.

DriveMatriX is especially valuable for training and validating perception models under varied edge conditions without needing to reshoot drives. By maintaining alignment with real sensor data, it helps teams achieve high-quality datasets quickly and cost-effectively. This dramatically shortens the data pipeline and increases the pace of model development and testing.

SimCloud: Synthetic Scenario Generation at Scale

SimCloud is Cognata’s cloud-native synthetic rendering engine, built to generate photorealistic 3D simulation environments with complete control over the driving scenario. Leveraging AMD Radeon PRO V710 GPUs, SimCloud produces high-fidelity visuals and multi-sensor outputs supporting camera, LiDAR, radar, and thermal imaging for a wide range of simulated conditions. This includes urban traffic patterns, rural roadways, complex intersections, adverse weather, and extreme edge cases that are difficult or dangerous to capture in the real world.

Unlike DriveMatriX, which enhances real data, SimCloud creates fully synthetic, parameterized environments from scratch. It offers out-of-the-box digital twins of various geographies and is fully customizable to match specific testing needs. Every asset in the environment is annotated automatically bounding boxes, segmentation maps, point clouds making it ideal for training perception models or benchmarking performance with full ground truth visibility.

SimCloud integrates seamlessly with Cognata’s OneSim platform and supports cloud scalability through Microsoft Azure, enabling users to run hundreds of simulations in parallel, adjust sensor configurations, and validate performance across thousands of edge cases efficiently.

AMD Radeon™ PRO V710: Rendering the Future of Simulation

The AMD Radeon™ PRO V710 GPU is engineered for demanding simulation workloads and is a key enabler of Cognata’s performance. It delivers up to 55 TFLOPS of FP16 compute performance, 28 GB of GDDR6 memory for handling large-scale 3D scenes, and supports advanced AI formats like FP16, BF16, INT8, and INT4. Its real-time raytracing and Variable Rate Shading (VRS) capabilities power Cognata’s rich, photorealistic simulations and synthetic environments.

When deployed in Microsoft Azure’s NVads V710 v5-series virtual machines, these GPUs provide elastic, cloud-based computing supporting simulations at scale for companies developing next-generation AV and ADAS technologies.

Microsoft Azure: Scalable Simulation Infrastructure

Cognata’s simulation platforms are fully integrated into Microsoft Azure’s scalable infrastructure. Through Azure Batch and Scale Sets, Cognata can dynamically allocate GPU-powered virtual machines to run simulations, augment datasets, and store vast volumes of data. Azure enables both small-scale development and enterprise-scale validation workflows, with flexible VMs allocation to match workload needs and optimize cost-performance.

Transforming AV Development Through Strategic Collaboration

The collaboration between Cognata, AMD, and Microsoft marks a major advancement in simulation-driven AV development. By combining AI-powered data augmentation (DriveMatriX), photorealistic synthetic rendering (SimCloud), and scalable cloud deployment, Cognata provides a comprehensive, production-grade toolchain that accelerates perception development, validation, and safety assurance for autonomous systems.

From synthetic to real, lab to road Cognata is shaping the future of autonomous driving.

• Drive Matrix: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wrdUzelZ-GLo4SU0Hrs7d0-_HRJykaSH/view?usp=sharing
• Tokyo: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UT0UjJmE28s92or8mryQRPWfax5sRmOP/view?usp=sharing