AMD Says GPU Efficiency Doesn’t Matter To Most PC Gamers, Will Do Better On Ray Tracing In Future Generations
AMD's Scott Herkelman recently sat down with Club386 for an interview, answering some questions related to the RDNA 3 "Radeon RX 7000" GPUs and the recent Gamescom 2023 announcements.
The interview is very detailed and we would like you to visit Club386 and read the full thing here but some interesting comments were made regarding a few aspects of the RDNA 3 "Radeon RX 7000" GPU family and what we can expect in the coming generation.
Back when AMD was in the process of launching its RDNA 3 GPU architecture, the company promised a monumental +54% increase in power efficiency vs. RDNA 2 GPUs through the use of chiplets and other changes. However, the launch saw little gains in the efficiency department, all the while NVIDIA took their efficiency to a whole new level with the Ada GPU architecture. Scott says that AMD believes in offering good performance per watt across their GPU lineup & that it matters more on the notebook front. So far, AMD has only introduced its non-chiplet Navi 33 to laptops.
On the desktop side of things, it is mentioned that while GPU efficiency still matters, most PC gamers don't care for it as much. The Radeon boss says that they will have to catch up while also trying to fix a slew of issues that plague RDNA 3 GPUs such as the idle power consumption that's yet to be fully resolved on the latest Radeon RX 7000 cards.
We look at perf per watt on every chart when bringing all chips to market. In notebooks, it matters greatly. In desktop, however, it matters, but not to everyone. There are some people who are really concerned about power, others don’t care as much. We definitely want to make a better perf-per-watt chip.
Power is definitely a prime initiative. You’ll see us over time get better and better
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