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AMD examines if your PC gaming rig can be energy efficient

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Traditional gaming PCs have run hot and heavy. But Advanced Micro Devices is studying how to make its current and future graphics processing units (the GPUs that are at the heart of PC gaming machines) run in a more energy-efficient way.

In a white paper, AMD said today that its newest GPUs — the Polaris architecture-based Radeon RX 400 Series — achieve up to 2.8 times the energy efficiency from the latest discrete GPU products when compared to AMD graphics chips of only two years ago.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.